[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 4, 2012
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** ANALYSIS: Goa iron ore miners to stay resilient in face of Indian tax hike - Platts attsIndia's raising of the export tax for iron ore fines and lump to 30% from 20% may sound the death knell for more miners selling the steelmaking ingredient to China, but those in the southwestern state of Goa may still be able to scrape by this measure, ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNE__W4tqNevAAF4C6ssm1CsqS2Bwwurl=http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/Metals/8750039 *** Cong. plays down Trinamool plans to contest Goa, Manipur polls - The Hindu ong-offers-Willy-state-chiefs-post/articleshow/11345775.cmsTrinamool Cong offers Willy state chief's post http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNFLdZ2emZZkrzXr2S03KS4_pJIexAurl=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2771966.ece *** British tourist found dead in Goa soon after trip to celebrate New Year - Daily Mail ational-found-dead-in-goa/945531.htmlBritish national found dead in Goa http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNEMfw4HHO3ogTWElClwQy2fUhBF2gurl=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2081853/John-David-Tagg-British-holidaymaker-dead-apartment-Goa.html *** Beware of Sesa Goa, autos; bullish on CIL: SMC Global - Moneycontrol.com wxKcYH0lug98NlwhzA http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNGLkmeuOGEmDlJ582YC5HQMOSbHAAurl=http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/market-outlook/bewaresesa-goa-autos-bullishcil-smc-global_644038.html *** A night at the Opera - Times of India orn Rozario, who holds an Order of the British Empire for services to music, is a prominent London-based soprano and a teacher at the Royal College of Music. She has a running project in India that teaches young opera singers the finer nuances of ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNHmgTcqU6OeNNm0LrJ1ollx1tNsLAurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/A-night-at-the-Opera/articleshow/11357438.cms *** Goa Dairy facing shortage of 6k litres per day - Times of India 5000 litres per ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNHkNP3i7uNdlk96NKrcckFMB7V3xQurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goa-Dairy-facing-shortage-of-6k-litres-per-day/articleshow/11357405.cms *** Group demands Congress ticket for Saifulla Khan - Times of India mes of IndiaPANAJI: Stepping up the demand for four Congress tickets for the community in the upcoming assembly polls, the All Goa Muslim Councillors on Tuesday demanded a ticket for Mormugao councillor Saifulla Khan. The organization has set January 15 as the ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNGGXPa2J3zplphV0jUzHwouRhnAYAurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Group-demands-Congress-ticket-for-Saifulla-Khan/articleshow/11357264.cms *** Lokayukta bill to be sent for President's assent - Times of India mes of IndiaPANAJI: The Goa government has decided to refer the Goa Lokayukta Bill, 2011, to the President of India for assent. The government had to take this decision after the governor on Monday, for the second time, referred the bill back to the government ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNG9UlET7STMHsQ_YlT0w2GFLsWouwurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Lokayukta-bill-to-be-sent-for-Presidents-assent/articleshow/11357166.cms *** 4 years on, education roadmap stuck in MoI mire - Times of India eady for the last one-and-a-half years-is not going to come into force any time soon. The final draft of the policy recommends education in ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNF7fqA0-MX4UhdPjtqSXdX_ZxYS4Qurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/4-years-on-education-roadmap-stuck-in-MoI-mire/articleshow/11357128.cms *** Archbishop calls for wholesome liberation of state - Times of India C9G3-0Mand more » http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNE7DPWAFAGpRC25dfCP3Qlpvd37Qwurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Archbishop-calls-for-wholesome-liberation-of-state/articleshow/11357364.cms Compiled by Goanet News Service http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php
[Goanet] Talking Photos: Dona Paula, Jet Skiing, Miramar Beach etc
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Dona Paula O Pescador with Star http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625672223/in/photostream Pollution http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625674659/in/photostream/ Readymade Garments sale exclusively by Locals http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625677137/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625679239/in/photostream/ Dangerous or corroded railings http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625682645/in/photostream/ How many dogs you can see? http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625685687/in/photostream/ Ramp for Jet Skiing or Water Scooting http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625688689/in/photostream/ Jet Ski ride Rs.200 per round of 1 minute http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625689639/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625690793/in/photostream/ Jet skiing etc – Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQCGJUSKVkQ Hilly development http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625693337/sizes/l/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625696027/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Miramar Beach http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625699751/sizes/l/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625702715/sizes/l/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625706323/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Circle , Amity torch bearers, Shrine, star http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625709391/sizes/l/in/photostream/ at dawn http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625712409/sizes/l/in/photostream/ sunset http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk47/6607025549/ Footpath completely blocked http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625715619/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk46/6625718221/in/photostream/ joego...@yahoo.co.uk for Goa NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For Goan Video Clips http://youtube.com/joeukgoa In Goa, Dial 1 0 8 For Hospital, Police, Fire etc --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Wake up to the smell of India
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- I think Selma has struck the nail. Imagine a chap drawing a smilarity between New York Times Square and Sunburn! What is the level of the brain. BC I quote from the Times of India: And as the first day of the New Year dawned, locals along the beach belt were met with repulsive scenes. Plastics, empty liquor bottles and all kinds of thrash including human excreta littered the beaches. Drunken tourists slept on the beaches, near their cars on roadsides and, in Calangute some even in the fields. --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] Moda Goa
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- BC, Whatever makes you think it's not mentioned? The lungi and its role in Jap-occupied 1942 in Burma (Myanmar now) is also included! FN On 3 January 2012 06:30, Bernado Colaco ole_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: It is strange that the stylist forgot to mention the lungi after 1961. BC --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] MISUSE OF GOVERNMENT VEHICLES
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Some may have felt that the issue of former DGP Aditya Arya’s picnic to Gokarna, using his official vehicle, was too trivial a matter to be raised. We need to see this in the context of the bigger picture of gross misuse of official vehicles. The misuse of these vehicles imposes a very heavy financial burden on the State exchequer. Government vehicles should be strictly used for only official work. Many government vehicles can be spotted at Belgaum, Karwar, Amboli and Sawantwadi, particularly over the week-ends. Government vehicles also cannot be used to ferry children to school, for shopping by spouses and others, and for attending private functions. Ministers and Officials should realize that they are committing a sin when illegally using the official vehicle to even visit churches, mosques and temples. It has to be noted also that Government vehicles are not insured. In case of an accident the entire liability has to be borne by the tax payer. We had the case of that former IGP Mr. K.D.Singh’s son who crashed his father’s official vehicle, for which the government incurred an expenditure of Rs 4, 33, 200. The government very arbitrarily misused its discretion by not recovering that amount from the former IGP. That money would have brought a lot of solace to Senior Citizens who have been waiting in the queue for their Dayanand Social Security Old age pension. Aires Rodrigues T1 - B30, Ribandar Retreat Ribandar - Goa - 403006 Mobile: 9822684372 --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] Wake up to the smell of India
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-Original Message-
From: Frederick FN Noronha
This is STRANGE! I somehow agree more with Eugene than with Selma
here. Well put, Eugene. Apart from being a patriarchal society, ours
is a very class-biased one too! FN
On 2 January 2012 12:45, Eugene Correia wrote:
The showte, the bebbe, the sungtam and the biktan will make
merry during the yuletide season. They have as much right to enjoy
the spirit of Christmas wherever they want and how they want to as
long as they don't break the law and enjoy within the permissible
limits of decency.
RESPONSE: Absurd commentary and comes across as insensitive to
Calangutekars !! Especially from those that do not reside in Calangute,
for example. Seems to justify scoring a brownie point is more important
than the affected people at Ground Zero!!
By all means, bring a million tourists to Goa for a weekend; put them on
a strip of beach but do provide appropriate facilities to accommodate
the needs of the million. Must the tourists introduce more coliform into
the groundwater??
Do the citizens of Calangute have any rights?
-Original Message-
From: Melvyn Fernandes
Sent: December-31-11 5:31 PM
An example is the reported death of the Salmona spring and the
pollution of water tables created by unchecked garbage.
RESPONSE: Why would the rest of Goa give a crap (pun intended) about the
Salmona spring when nobody gives a shit (pun intended) about Calangute???
- B
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Re: [Goanet] bombaim-tan vetago Lira
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- The name of the song is LILA ANI ZILA - Sung by M.Boyer Sophia Lyrics M.Boyer Music Chris Perry The songs begins asBombaim voson yetam gho Lila...lyrics of this song are available on my blog. Edward Verdes -Original Message- From: goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org [mailto:goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org] On Behalf Of Carvalho Sent: 02 January 2012 22:53 To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] bombaim-tan vetago Lira Can Konkani song afficiandos confirm to me if this song was sung by M Boyer? Take care, selma --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] Wake up to the smell of India
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- The issue of defecation in open spaces is not new to Goa. I doubt if Selma has read Naipaul's Continent of Circe (I will leave the reply to Naipaul by Robert de Souza aside). I have always wondered why the Goa government has not installed lot of public toilets in the vicinity of the beaches. A few does not meet the demand, especially when the expected rush comes in during the Christmas season. What do you do when you have to answer nature's call and there's are no public toilets? It's a Catch-22 situation. Goa's beaches have been rendered ugly for the past so many years. The tourism department must do than just promote them in their advertising campaigns. I hope the department takes note of what the media said and come up with a plan to minimize these sort of ugliness. Outsiders are also drawn by the easily available liquor at our tavernas. Do you think these taverna owners mind if the patrons are outsiders? Money makes the world go round. I have seen the outsiders come to my village during the New Year's eve and left our beach in a mess. The people from the Dabolim and Vasco slums descend on Bogmallo, more than they do on the nearby Hollant or the infamous Baina. There's nothing the villagers could do. Could they put up barricades on the road leading to the village? Goa made rave parties on the beaches a speciality, till it dawn on the wise men in the government to ban them. These wise men also put a curb on music in public places so that Goans, particularly those living in beachside villages, could have their sleep. Fred, please turn your gaze Selma's way and do what you were doing in the past, kissing her cyber-cheeks. Your one-time goody, goody friend is feeling cheated or rather abandoned. As for me, once is enough. Selma, you needn't declare your I-don't-care-attitude because goanetters are familiar with your didactic Who the bleeps cares. columns. The very use of bleep said enough of what's on your mind. Frankly, we must all care for what is happening to Goa and I have expressed my views in the piece, What's in store for Goa? As I said earlier, Goans cannot prevent outsiders from coming to Goa to enjoy the festivities. Tourism officials have complained before that Goa should get high-quality tourists instead of the charter class and backpackers. Goa must improve its tourism infrastructure, including providing rest houses on beaches. But again the problem would be, the better the facilities at Goa's beaches the more the people will come. As they say, the more attractive a place it acts powerful magnet. As I said, it's a Catch-22 situation. We had a discussion on tourism here in the past. We are like returning tourists, coming to the issue once again. Check the tourism department ad which has a photo of a beach with GOA written in the sands and with the message, Goa... the jewel of India. the former Portuguese colony famed for its natural beauty, culture, hospitality and secular nature of its people is ranked amongst the top holiday destinations of the world. .. Goa will leave itself etched in your heart and mind. Sandy beaches, swaying palms, mesmerizing landscapes. Time in Goa is just never enough! GoaThe Joy de Vivre...!! At the top of the ad is the Indian tourism department's tagline, Incredib!e India. If Selma was staying in a place like Pune with no shoreline would she not be drawn to Goa by such an invitation? As Selma, it's becoming a case of konno ghela paichem kitem ghelam. Wake up and smell the shit! That's more to the point. Eugene --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] Nariman Point of Goa
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On 2 January 2012 22:40, Tony de Sa wrote:
The Goa Government agencies are pleased to call the Patto
reclamation in Panjim the Nariman Point of Goa. But just take a
walk down towards Ginger Hotel and the State Central Library and
you will feel that it is more like Gas Chembur!
On Jan 2 13:45:32 PST 2012 Frederick FN Noronha wrote:
Indeed well put! The situation is clearly unacceptable. To make it
worse, these are not even GDP-spewing industrial gasses, but just the
stink of uncontrolled wastes and rampant overconsumption.
RESPONSE: More absurd commentary!! How is the stink justified in
Calangute and not in Panaji?? More NIMBYism??
Patto deserves just as many aromas, if not more, than Calangute, no??
- B
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[Goanet] Goans still hope to preserve identity | The CSF
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[Goanet] Nariman Point of Goa
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Bosco wrote: More absurd commentary!! How is the stink justified in Calangute and not in Panaji?? More NIMBYism?? Patto deserves just as many aromas, if not more, than Calangute, no?? Response: What is absurd is not the Frederick finds the stink near Patto offensive but that on the beach acceptable but that a few lines down he has to bring in his pet peeve the expat and blame him for the stink. This is what Frederick wrotes: Quite a few politicians have gained from created mega projects, only after buying off land in the surroundings areas, to then make a killing (including in airport areas). A few expats who I knew have lambasted such politicians online, only then to prefer to sell their own land to them...It's time everyone, specially expat Goans, took a keen interest in understanding this, and taking a stand on it, as it has strong implications for all here. So let's understand economics from Frederick's point of view. Expats (who if they hang on to their properties have all sorts of problems which include encroachment and squatting, must not sell their properties to the highest bidder.) Say, even if all expats were altruistic and sold only to those acceptable according to a list drawn out by Frederick, who is to stop the second owner from selling to politicians. Why blame the expat for everything? Frederick even wrote a whole newspaper article on how the middle-class expats are to blame for the situation in Goa (Ironies of the Middleclass). Well, Frederick here is a challenge for you. Let's bring all the expats back to Goa and then see how the economy does. Let's stop the remittances from the Gulf, the UK pensioners spending six months of UK government pensions in Goa, Swindon Goans and Canadian Goans sending money to their family and we'll see how well Goa fares. I am so sick and tired of Frederick blaming this mythical expat for destroying Goa, while he continuosly makes excuses for everyone else, especially for the merde others create both literally and figuratively. This creation of the expat Boogeyman by Frederick is frankly very harmful because if I recall correctly, he had a few Goans nodding their sage heads in Goa and saying, yes, yes Frederick is so wise. Next thing you know, we will have yet another rule that somehow makes life even more difficult for NRIs because afterall they deserve it. Frederick what we write bears responsibility and you as a journalist must think carefully about the implications before you write such an article. I know writing columns is a difficult task and columnists wake up the night before the deadline to rummage through their heads and write something but that is no excuse to write without any sense of reference to reality and facts. Happy New Year by the way :-) Best, selma --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] GRA [Goemchea Rakhondarancho Awaz] announces it's WEBSITE - www.gragoa.com
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Dears,
GRA announces the opening of it's website www.gragoa.com .
Presently, it is still under construction. It shall be fully functional
within the week.
Until then, please be informed.
Needless to say that GRA is serious about the Signature Campaign for the
Demand of Special Status for Goa.
The Memorandum displayed on the website is just a draft. It is being
finalized as it will have quite some attachments.
In the meantime, please download and use the Signature sheets.
The E-Petition shall be on as soon as Menino of Niz Goemkar is ready to
register it on the website.
Thank you
Floriano Lobo
GS-GRA
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[Goanet] Wake up to the reality of Goa (by Rose Fernandes)
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Dear goanet readers The U-Tube uploads of the recent Sunburn Festival 2011 held in Goa brought back memories to me of scenes in the film Dum Maro Dum. If you can recall, this was a fictional film which nearly lost its heart beat, music beat and dance beat when war cries came out in full force from our community in Goa all the way to the High Court to drop this film to the bottom of the Mandovi river. Now that reality in Goa resembled this fictional film, have there been similar war cries? Or were these drowned perchance by the louder sounds of tingling rupees being dropped in a clay pot? Rose Fernandes Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom 3 December 2012 --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Snake
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Snake' A tortuous mountain pass wends into the farm of Njarðvík near Borgarfjörður Eystri in the East Fjords of Iceland. You may view the latest post at http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2012/01/03/snake/ Best regards, Rajan P. Parrikar parri...@yahoo.com --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Food for thought
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- FOOD FOR THOUGHT If the so called Freedom Fighters had the right vision, we, today could have gone the East Timor way. But let’s not dwell on the past. Today’s reality is that the Constitution of India guarantees every bona-fide national, the freedom to move to any part of India to reside and/or to work, and swell the vote bank of some Political Party or the other in the concerned State. Let’s then, not grudge those that come to spoil our own party. Remember, we too did the same many, many years ago. Only we got converted in the process, so as to talk now as we do. (More on this in my book: “SIMPLY MY WAY”) www.crossword.in/books/spartan/p-books-9789381205235.html Bennet Paes --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] Wake up to the smell of India
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- To be fair, the comparison was between the garbage generated at either place! FN On 3 January 2012 11:59, Bernado Colaco ole_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I think Selma has struck the nail. Imagine a chap drawing a smilarity between New York Times Square and Sunburn! What is the level of the brain. --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Bicholim Hill Cutting: 3 trucks, 1 JCB seized
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- -- Samir Umarye BICHOLIM: The Bicholim police today seized four vehicles including three trucks and a JCB involved in illegal hill cutting at Dhabdaba Bicholim even as the personnel from Bicholim town country planning expressed their inability to survey the area. The police acted following the direction from the Deputy collector, Levinson J Maritins asking the police and the Mamletdar to inspect the site and submit its report on the mining work being undertaken on the hill at Dhabdabo Bicholim. It may be recalled that the component of Communidade of Bicholim, Amrut Gaonkar on 11/10/11 had filed a complaint with the the Director of Mines and had asked to stop the hill cutting going on at Dhabdaba Bicholim by a mining company which is a 'no development slope.' Later, the deputy collector had asked the company to stop all the work in the area. But, the complainant brought to the notice of the deputy collector that the work of hill cutting is still going on and so the deputy collector taking serious note of the same passed an interim order asking the police and the Mamletdar to immediately check if any hill cutting work was undertaken and to submit report within a weeks time. Today, the Bicholim police led by PSI, Ditendra Naik inspected the site and it was found that three trucks and one earth moving vehicle (JCB) was operating in the area. The police immediately seized the vehicles and stopped the work in the area. The report of the same was also sent to the Deputy collector. As per the highly placed sources the police also taken the personnel from the Bicholim town and country planning department to specify if the hill cutting was going on in Survey Number -78 but to their surprise the TPC personnel expressed their helplessness in surveying the land and claimed that they would need the assistance of personnel from Panjim. --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Third Anniversary of Saligao Serenade
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Saligao Serenade (www.saligaoserenade.com) -- Fr Nascimento Mascarenhas' website focusing on the history, traditions, heritage, culture, folklore and people of Saligao -- celebrated its Third Anniversary a few days ago. Into the fourth year now, Saligao Serenade sports a new look, with layout and design revamped for better visual appeal and readability. Fr Nascimento has written so much on Saligao and Goa over the last few years, and his essays are timeless treasures that can be read again and again without losing any of their sheen. The new design of the website endeavours to regularly pull out these gems from the archives and periodically highlight the best essays featured over the years. All content is being further enhanced with pictures and graphics, and will also be embellished with video clips whenever appropriate and possible. Mel D'Souza's delightful sketches already adorn many of the essays. To partially defray the expenses incurred in hosting and maintenance, Saligao Serenade now features syndicated advertisements and affiliate marketing promotions. Please do support the site by checking out the offerings of sponsors. *And please do also subscribe to the site by clicking on the Join this Site link at the right of the Saligao Serenade home page (it's free!)* As Saligao Serenade continues to evolve, we will be broadening the scope and range of content to include articles on Goa of interest to Goans, Goa buffs, visitors and others. Do write in with your comments and suggestions on what you’d like to see more of on Saligao Serenade. Best wishes for a Happy New Year and much warmth, love and laughter throughout 2012! *Val Souza* *Editor - Saligao Serenade* *www.saligaoserenade.com* --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] Independent Candidates
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Soters idea of INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES seems INTERESTING. REGIONAL PARTIES IN GOA ARE LIKE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES AS THE GOAN ELECTORATE ARE UP ON THEIR GOOSE. ( YES I DARE SAY PARTIES LIKE G SU.., GV. UG.. AND OTHERS OF THEIR ILK* YES CAPITAL ILK ARE EXTORTIONISTS AT WORSE AND MEWING CATS AT BEST). LET THE DANCE OF DEMOCRACY GO ON. PERSONALLY, I DEFY ANY OF THESE PARTIES TO FILE A DEFAMATION SUIT RELATING TO THIS CITIZEN COMMENT. I AM FULLY AWARE THAT TRUTH IS A COMPLETE DEFENCE TO DEFAMATION, EXCEPT AGAINST THE JUDICIARY. LONG LIVE THE STATE OF GOA. LONG LIVE THE REPUBLIC OF INDIA THAT IS BHARAT!! Regards, Gerry --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Shee bhaiye hem ani kitem tumchem Goenkaranchem? Trinamool to fight Goa polls under Willy
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- GULF-GOANS e-NEWSLETTER (since 1994)® www.yahoogroups.com/group/gulf-goans/ www.goa-world.com http://www.goa-world.com/goa/credit%5Ccredit.htm Tumcam Maie-mogacho ieukar. Enjoy Life - This is not a rehearsal! Konkani uloi, boroi, vach ani samball - sodankal. Hich Goenchi osmitai ani amchem khalxelponn. Goenchi amchi Konkani bhas! Ekvottachem saddon Goenkaranchem. QUEM QUER ANDA E QUEM NAO QUER MANDA! Stay tuned to Gulf Goans e-Newsletter - everyday someone, somewhere learns a little. Trinamool to fight Goa polls under Willy More in: Goa News Story Summary: An interesting development that could have some bearing on the state politics ahead of the March 3 elections to the state assembly PANAJI: In an interesting development that could have some bearing on the state politics ahead of the March 3 elections to the state assembly, the All India Trinamool Congress has decided to contest the elections as a separate entity in Goa. The decision to contest elections in Goa was announced by the Trinamool general secretary, Mr Mukul Roy in Kolkata, who also said that Dr Wilfred de Souza, a former chief minister of Goa, has joined the second largest party in the United Progressive Alliance, which is currently ruling in West Bengal. The All India Trinamool Congress chairperson, Ms Mamata Banerjee, has accordingly appointed Dr de Souza on Sunday to head the Goa unit of her party. Dr de Souza told The Navhind Times that he has been asked by the Trinamool central leader, to form the state unit in Goa and that he would accordingly start enlisting the members of the party. As regards to a question on whether TMC would contest the forthcoming elections, he said that Trinamool party could contest in some of the constituencies and that people of Goa would have an alternative to the ruling Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. He said that he has got a forum to work for the interest of the Goans. Dr de Souza, who off late has not been associated with any political party after he quit the Nationalist Congress Party, said that he would have to begin from the scratch and build Trinamool into a strong force and provide the people of Goa an alternative to corrupt Congress and communal Bharatiya Janata Party. http://www.navhindtimes.in/goa-news/trinamool-fight-goa-polls-under-willy Goa-World.com Team's Favourite article as written and published in GOAN OBSERVER IN 2004 http://www.goanobserver.com/archive/20-11-2004/anniversary.htm [As just imagine, whoever were active in 2004, are still around - courtesy to the Goenkars who adore them.. ] Name:-Economic Survey Goa Price:-Rs.300/- Subscriber Price:- Rs.250/- View Detailshttp://goanobserver.com/online_shop/documents/ The First Online Konkani Music Station - Started on March 14, 2000 http://www.live365.com/stations/61664 Konkani Video on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/uly334 http://www.myspace.com/Palaciano Response Media | Response Events Exhibitions | Tel: 00965 - 24810109/24814404 | Fax: 24834815 | www.responsekuwait.com http://www.goanobserver.com/archive/20-11-2004/archive.htm LAST GASP: Politics is the second oldest profession on earth and it has a striking resemblance to the first. --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] The Lost Potty Trained Generation
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Dear fellow Goykars Sunburn is not a Goan music festival. I noted no element of our wonderful Konkani music such as that brought to life by the film Nirmon or our folk songs. It is a successful brand name held in Goa enriching the local economy just like other beach and mountain parties around the world. As you are aware, empty vessels make the most sound. However, sound can be divided into either noise or music. The clips from the Sunburn festival show visitors moving around just like in the 1960s to Goa Trance music, to my ears a non-musical electronic noise with no notes connected causing movements in the liquid around the brain and reflex actions, a bit like throwing a stone into the water, creating ripples. The amplification of sound will indicate the distance to which people are affected depending on age groups and deafness levels. This has no comparison to the sound of the grand piano or a proper dance band that is representative of our talented local community musicians. It has therefore pleased me to inform you, by kind favour of Dolcy D'Cruz writing in OHeraldo, of a Charity Event in aid of Childs Play India Foundation by the stunning stratosperic sopranos performed by Patricio Rozario, Susanne Hurrell and Joanne D'Mello celebrating the female voice tomorrow the 4th January at the Kala Academy, Panjim, Goa at 7pm. I am sure that those attending will appreciate the sound in the form of music. I take this opportunity to wish them a successful and enjoyable evening. The excitement of Sunburn created the human excrement on the beach in Candolim awaiting to be cleared by the tide of the Arabian Sea. There is also evidence in photographs of this filthy practice at Salmona Springs and the Panjim Ferry Boat Ramp amongst other places. This can only indicate an illiterate section of Goa human inhabitants and its visitors who can be called the Lost Potty Trained Generation. I do not mean clay pots where we store mole, parra that is harvested from the sea. Perhaps the litter lying around is used to wipe their bottoms, do these people ever wash their hands before meeting and greeting each other by shaking hands, handling food and drink and counting money. Bank and restaurant workers need to take note and ask to be protected by wearing gloves avoiding potential health hazards for them. This, however, is not unique to Goa. I have been to Goykar events in the London, United Kingdom, where parents waiting in line for a toilet provided by organisers prompt their children to pee on the floor. In Goa where jewellery and cazars are more important than health care and job creation, I would be interested if there are any statistics as to what our people are dying off and what age group. In the United Kingdom we have a saying that when the population is healthy the economy of the country follows likewise. The civil authorities in Candolim must have made arrangements with the clear up bill to the organisers or did they? Melvyn Fernandes Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom 3 January 2012 melvynfernan...@virginmedia.com --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] Nariman Point of Goa
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- On 3 January 2012 10:32, Carvalho elisabeth_...@yahoo.com wrote: Response: What is absurd is not the Frederick finds the stink near Patto offensive but that on the beach acceptable but that a few lines down he has to bring in his pet peeve the expat and blame him for the stink. This is what Frederick wrotes: Quite a few politicians have gained from created mega projects, only after buying off land in the surroundings areas, to then make a killing (including in airport areas). A few expats who I knew have lambasted such politicians online, only then to prefer to sell their own land to them...It's time everyone, specially expat Goans, took a keen interest in understanding this, and taking a stand on it, as it has strong implications for all here. So let's understand economics from Frederick's point of view. Expats (who if they hang on to their properties have all sorts of problems which include encroachment and squatting, must not sell their properties to the highest bidder.) Say, even if all expats were altruistic and sold only to those acceptable according to a list drawn out by Frederick, who is to stop the second owner from selling to politicians... Happy New Year by the way :-) Best, selma COMMENT: What you write is true; in fact a Real Estate Developer, who is resident in Goa and from time to time writes on Goanet, had informed me of his own experiences. He sold at a cheaper rate to a Goan, only for the Goan to on-sell it and make a quick buck at his expense! He quickly learnt the error of his ways and goes by the dictum - let the market rate prevail! -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Gospel of Mark for our Times
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Gospel of Mark for our Times Pedro Arrupe Spirituality Centre, Raia is organizing a Seminar on “How to Read the Gospel of Mark “ for today. This seminar will enable the participants to begin to understand the Gospel of Mark and to make sense of the Gospel passages one will read in this coming liturgical year. The seminar will also focus on how to read the Gospel of Mark for our times and is open to anyone. It will begin on the 14th of Jan (4:30 pm) and end on the 15th of Jan (3:30 pm). Participants are welcome to commute up and down or to stay at the institute. Last date for registration is 11th January, 2011. For further details contact 8805570108 / 285 83 23 / 277 69 17 or write to deepenyourfa...@gmail.com. --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Thanks for the lovely event...
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Just to say a thank you to everyone who showed up at today's Goanet get-together at the Panjim Residency (former Tourist Hotel), which was both well-attended and lively. Thanks to Tony de Sa for his idea of having a lunch-time meeting (instead of a tea-time one, as we usually do) and for suggesting a more-central Panjim venue. This was perhaps one of our best-attended meetings ever. I think everyone met (almost) everyone else, and despite the lack of a formal agenda we did enjoy getting to meet one another. (My complaint: I already know almost everyone!) A special surprise was having Tony Correia-Afonso, one of our very earliest members (he's been there before me) at the meet. We will miss the kind, generous and knowledgeable Dan Driscoll if he keeps to his threat of quitting Goa this year! We did miss some of those who already left Goa (including Victor Carneiro of the US, Menin Rodrigues the amazing networker of Karachi and others), but this was in part made up for by the lesser pressures on everyone with the festivities now behind us. If 2010 was a Pakistani Goanetters special, this year it was an ex-Kenya and Portugal Goanetters meet up! Waiting for the others present to send in their comments and reports... FN -- FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org Books from Goa,1556 http://scr.bi/Goa1556Books Audio recordings (mostly from Goa): http://bit.ly/GoaRecordings --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] bombaim-tan vetago Lira
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Further to my below mail additional details as requested: This song (Lila Ani Zila..a typical hindu konkani song) was released on HMV LP titled CONCANIM HIT PARADE in the year 1969. This Lp had songs like Sorg tujea dolleanim by Lorna, Kalliz boom bang zata by Tony Carr Delphine, Mhoje Put by M Boyer etc. Edward Verdes The name of the song is LILA ANI ZILA - Sung by M.Boyer Sophia Lyrics M.Boyer Music Chris Perry The songs begins asBombaim voson yetam gho Lila...lyrics of this song are available on my blog. Edward Verdes -Original Message- From: goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org [mailto:goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org] On Behalf Of Carvalho Sent: 02 January 2012 22:53 To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] bombaim-tan vetago Lira Can Konkani song afficiandos confirm to me if this song was sung by M Boyer? Take care, selma --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] clamour and glamour for power
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Clamour and glamour for power Just about the time for the elections, every aspirant feels he is eligible .The old and reigning MLA`s seem to have not done enough and they deserve to be changed, replaced and dumped .What exactly was the desired and expected change, one is not able to be exact and specify ?.Why did we vote in the first place, those people against whom, we are now spitting poison and gall. We voted them with full knowledge,hesitation about the credentials and our our faculties fully intact. We did not weigh their educational qualifications, their social commitment, character or prior contribution to the society. We were helpless as our votes did not make any difference or blinded by personal reasons to see their merits or worthiness It is very true true, that in a Democracy the majority has their way, ignoring the minorities right to say .During their tenure, we are despondent , at best to secure for ourselves our personal agenda. Once that is obtained , then are no complains about the larger good. If we are rubbed in the wrong way, then we nurse a grudge , waiting for the opportune moment to strike and only time is the election perhaps.It is only during the election time, we seem to see everything red with tinted glasses. There are hardly any loud protests during the period of the MLA`s in office. Any personal attacks can be met with fierce and calculated offensive. With the Govt arms,police administration doing at their bidding, such attempts are conveniently neutralised .People rarely in a group or individually are able to take on the might of those in power and hence the stoic silence about their promises and nonperformance Every one feels himself or herself to be a better alternative and to be thousands time better to the candidates in comparison , who are presently in the office The official memorandums are more than often filed in political parties archives, once the election are over and are not binding. The best thing the aspirants often do is to release, mostly surrogate adds to project their popularity. Nobody is against constant change in the system, as that alone will assure desired results. Have we not seen even new entrants feathering their own nests right from day one? UGDP and Save Goa.MGP representatives have ignored the party affiliations and even deserted the party, once elected. The propaganda generated against the opponents during elections is no holes barred, down right mean and all this will be forgotten soon,, when it comes to number game to be in power. The simplest rule that those changing parties must face reelection and resign will never be enforced .There is always a better chance of winning on party tickets and hence the mad rush The party considers the win ability as the sole criteria and those who can fill their coffers.All threats will be ignored and overruled. The financial help extended by the parties is negligible, in fact the aspirants have to contribute to the so called party funds, Hence win ability is totally depended upon muscle power and financial clout. Independents, who were elected have either merged with the party in power or extended outside support , sharing the spoils of the office. Elected representatives main concern is how to get reelected as many times as possible until death and how to generate illegal resources at every inch Some one has aptly called it pinch by inch. Any development is geared to that effect, to keep the opposition at bay and win enemies by sops and friendliness What exactly are the hidden motives of those aspiring to enter the politics? Is it not power, fame, position and accumulation of illegal wealth that attracts our attention , the standards set by the predecessors ? Is the ability to legislate, dissect and take part in debates the priority ?.When we look at the many of the elected representatives to day, it is but natural to feel, we are definitely a better alternative. But the road to that success is paved with money, chicanery,muscle power. No honest , intellectual, citizen can hope for the ascent to the seat of power, without these requisites and with the .electorate politically ignorant. In Goa we should be better placed to exercise our franchise weighing pros and cons .It is not happening and and will not happen, if even that is negative or pessimistic, myopic view There is no harm in trying in vain against the system that is entrenched and is becoming worst with each passing election. Round the year the
Re: [Goanet] Thanks for the lovely event...
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Yes, good time had by all. Just goes to show that one does not have to gravitate to the five-star resorts for good fun. Correia-Afonso is a gem. Dear Germana so often referred to his S.J. brothers. How interesting the genetic system is; he looks for all the world like his renowned Architect cousin. It was great fun, but just a little hectic. Poor overworked staff couldn't get my food order straight; I would have been starving if not for fact that Tony Correia Afonso got through to them for his platter of good fish chips---so I ate up half his stuff. Next time it is done I recommend *Horseshoe* (near Avanti on Ourem Creek road. We get that genial Angolan chef-proprietor to open up at noon and do a simple buffet of greens/soups/cheese, etc. @ abt 200 'rip-offs' (my slang translation for 'rupee') per person. It might be a titch 'old colonial', but we must not stand on conventions of nationalist patriotic sentiment---when there's really good food to be had! On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoron...@gmail.com wrote: --- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Just to say a thank you to everyone who showed up at today's Goanet get-together at the Panjim Residency (former Tourist Hotel), which was both well-attended and lively. Thanks to Tony de Sa for his idea of having a lunch-time meeting (instead of a tea-time one, as we usually do) and for suggesting a more-central Panjim venue. This was perhaps one of our best-attended meetings ever. I think everyone met (almost) everyone else, and despite the lack of a formal agenda we did enjoy getting to meet one another. (My complaint: I already know almost everyone!) A special surprise was having Tony Correia-Afonso, one of our very earliest members (he's been there before me) at the meet. We will miss the kind, generous and knowledgeable Dan Driscoll if he keeps to his threat of quitting Goa this year! We did miss some of those who already left Goa (including Victor Carneiro of the US, Menin Rodrigues the amazing networker of Karachi and others), but this was in part made up for by the lesser pressures on everyone with the festivities now behind us. If 2010 was a Pakistani Goanetters special, this year it was an ex-Kenya and Portugal Goanetters meet up! Waiting for the others present to send in their comments and reports... FN -- FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org Books from Goa,1556 http://scr.bi/Goa1556Books Audio recordings (mostly from Goa): http://bit.ly/GoaRecordings --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php --- --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] DEATH: MASCARENHAS Anne Melwyn (Ana Praxedes) 1926-2011 (Hamilton)
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Anne Mascarenhas (Hamilton, Canada) MASCARENHAS Anne Melwyn (Ana Praxedes) July 21, 1926 – December 29, 2011 http://www.pxdermodyfuneral.com/component/funeral/obituary/1744 -- FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Goa news for January 4, 2012
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** ANALYSIS: Goa iron ore miners to stay resilient in face of Indian tax hike - Platts attsIndia's raising of the export tax for iron ore fines and lump to 30% from 20% may sound the death knell for more miners selling the steelmaking ingredient to China, but those in the southwestern state of Goa may still be able to scrape by this measure, ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNE__W4tqNevAAF4C6ssm1CsqS2Bwwurl=http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/Metals/8750039 *** Cong. plays down Trinamool plans to contest Goa, Manipur polls - The Hindu ong-offers-Willy-state-chiefs-post/articleshow/11345775.cmsTrinamool Cong offers Willy state chief's post http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNFLdZ2emZZkrzXr2S03KS4_pJIexAurl=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2771966.ece *** British tourist found dead in Goa soon after trip to celebrate New Year - Daily Mail ational-found-dead-in-goa/945531.htmlBritish national found dead in Goa http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNEMfw4HHO3ogTWElClwQy2fUhBF2gurl=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2081853/John-David-Tagg-British-holidaymaker-dead-apartment-Goa.html *** Beware of Sesa Goa, autos; bullish on CIL: SMC Global - Moneycontrol.com wxKcYH0lug98NlwhzA http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNGLkmeuOGEmDlJ582YC5HQMOSbHAAurl=http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/market-outlook/bewaresesa-goa-autos-bullishcil-smc-global_644038.html *** A night at the Opera - Times of India orn Rozario, who holds an Order of the British Empire for services to music, is a prominent London-based soprano and a teacher at the Royal College of Music. She has a running project in India that teaches young opera singers the finer nuances of ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNHmgTcqU6OeNNm0LrJ1ollx1tNsLAurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/A-night-at-the-Opera/articleshow/11357438.cms *** Goa Dairy facing shortage of 6k litres per day - Times of India 5000 litres per ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNHkNP3i7uNdlk96NKrcckFMB7V3xQurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goa-Dairy-facing-shortage-of-6k-litres-per-day/articleshow/11357405.cms *** Group demands Congress ticket for Saifulla Khan - Times of India mes of IndiaPANAJI: Stepping up the demand for four Congress tickets for the community in the upcoming assembly polls, the All Goa Muslim Councillors on Tuesday demanded a ticket for Mormugao councillor Saifulla Khan. The organization has set January 15 as the ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNGGXPa2J3zplphV0jUzHwouRhnAYAurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Group-demands-Congress-ticket-for-Saifulla-Khan/articleshow/11357264.cms *** Lokayukta bill to be sent for President's assent - Times of India mes of IndiaPANAJI: The Goa government has decided to refer the Goa Lokayukta Bill, 2011, to the President of India for assent. The government had to take this decision after the governor on Monday, for the second time, referred the bill back to the government ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNG9UlET7STMHsQ_YlT0w2GFLsWouwurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Lokayukta-bill-to-be-sent-for-Presidents-assent/articleshow/11357166.cms *** 4 years on, education roadmap stuck in MoI mire - Times of India eady for the last one-and-a-half years-is not going to come into force any time soon. The final draft of the policy recommends education in ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNF7fqA0-MX4UhdPjtqSXdX_ZxYS4Qurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/4-years-on-education-roadmap-stuck-in-MoI-mire/articleshow/11357128.cms *** Archbishop calls for wholesome liberation of state - Times of India C9G3-0Mand more » http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNE7DPWAFAGpRC25dfCP3Qlpvd37Qwurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Archbishop-calls-for-wholesome-liberation-of-state/articleshow/11357364.cms Compiled by Goanet News Service http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php
[Goanet] Seminar on mobile tower radiation on Jan 6
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Seminar on mobile tower radiation on Jan 6
TEAM HERALD
PANJIM: The Government Polytechnic, Bicholim along with the Goa Chamber
of Commerce and Industry is organising a one- day seminar on “ Mobile/
Phone Tower Radiation - Risks and Remedies” on January 6 at GCCI Hall,
Panjim from 10 am.
Introducing the concept, GCCI Chairman Manguirish Pai Raikar said that
it was to help people form education opinions on issues.
“We are not opposed to mobile towers, but rather how to control the use
of both mobiles and the towers. Today we find people opposing anything
without properly studying it,” he said.
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St.Mary’s Goan Community General Body Meeting anouncement - 6th Jan (Friday)
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[Goanet] Konknni Book Release: Kallzache Kholayek Thaun (Epifanio Valadares)
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Konknni Book Release: Kallzache Kholayek Thaun
Kallzache Kholayek Thaun a novel written in Konknni Romi by a young and
budding writer Epifanio Valadares will be released on January 5, 2012 at
Tiatr Akademi's Conference Hall at 4:30pm.
The book release function is organised by Happyfun Publications,
Penha-de-Franca. President of Tiatr Akademi, Goa Tomazinho Cardozo, will
be the Chief Guest, while Fr Mario Pereira, Parish Priest of
Penha-de-Franca will be the Guest of Honour. Premanand a Lotlikar,
President of Dalgado Konknni Akademi will preside over the function.
Well known Konknni writer and vicepresident of Goa Konkani akademi Vincy
Quadros will review the book, and Konknni writer Jose Salvador Fernandes
will compere the function.
Source: Herald, January 4, 2012
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[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (04Jan12)
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*** NEWS: Kamat to teach villagers find Gold ***
Nandkumar some villagers come to form a Gold Miners Co-operative
Look closely they're politicians
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Re: [Goanet] bombaim-tan vetago Lira
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[Goanet] St. Estevam Cribs etc
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[Goanet] COLUMN: Accidental Activist: The end of the world is nigh!
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The end of the world is nigh!
By Venita Coelho
Repent ye! The Mayan calendar tells us that the end of the world is
nigh. 2012 is the year in which it is all supposed to go Boom, and we
already have the film to prove it. I hate to be disloyal to my species,
but for some time now I have been wondering if the world would not be
better off if we were suddenly and mysteriously wiped off the face of
the earth.
We are witnessing the largest mass extinction since the time of the
dinosaurs. We lose 137 plant, animal and insect species every day thanks
to the destruction of the Rainforests.
Dolphins in the Ganga are now blind from the pollution. Sharks are dying
in thousands because their fins are cut off for shark fin soup and they
are flung back in the ocean to die. Huge beasts like the Rhinoceros are
killed for nothing but their horns. We have mined, choked and devastated
everything around us.
Take a look at our own State.
If every human being vanished off the face off Goa, it would take a
couple of decades to wipe out the mess they have left behind.
There’s garbage everywhere; mines that have ripped open mountains and
poisoned river systems. Our beautiful beaches are now filthy with raw
sewage and mountains of plastic.
It would take decades to reverse the damage if we stopped right now. And
we show no signs of stopping. I have already begun to speak of beautiful
Goa in the past tense and I have been here only eleven years. I find
myself mournfully saying 'oh it used to be so wonderful.' Drive down
NH17 and look at the mountains of garbage dumped there in the night.
Walk down to Baga beach and breathe in the stench of decaying food, and
take in the sight of mountains of plastic bottles hidden behind the shacks.
Travel further south and look at the huge red gashes gouged out of
forest land by mining. Drive to Margao and just look at the huge
concrete blocks that are coming up at the edges of the city. Just one
decade and look what we have done to our land.
The Archbishop reminded us in his Christmas sermon that we are stewards
of this land. It is not ours to devastate, but ours to protect and
preserve. Another great man recently said 'Do not judge a people by
their past. Judge them by the future that they are trying to create.'
The future that a people choose to build for themselves is embodied in
documents like the RP2021. It is not just a plan – it is the template on
which the next 20 years of development in Goa will be built. Right now a
debate rages over whether it is a decent future for our State or not,
whether it does enough to preserve of protect. Look around you. The
state of Goa that you see right now has been built on the foundation of
one decade of RP2001.
For all those who are baying for RP2021 to be scrapped and the RP2001 to
come back - Do you really want to see that monster plan get an
extension? You won’t have to worry about the destruction of the world.
You yourself would have called it down upon your heads.(ENDS)
First published in the Herald, Goa - January 4, 2012
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[Goanet] OPINION: Put Timmayya On Trial!
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[Goanet] COLUMN: Debating the Goa Lit Fest: Size and the architecture of happiness
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Debating the Goa Lit Fest: Size and the architecture of happiness
Jason Keith Fernandes
Some days ago, starting with the voice of one Mr. Avinash Pednekar,
there was a string of complaints in the Navhind Times over the
organization of the II Goa Arts and Literary Festival. These complaints
suggested that the Festival had been a failure because the sessions had
been poorly attended, because sessions failed to start on time, because
many of the big names who had promised to come simply failed to show up,
and finally, these complaints alleged that the principal organizers of
the Festival, Ms. Sahai of the International Centre and Mr. Vivek
Menezes, were both arrogant and rude. This column will suggest that such
opinions while being valid opinions of the complainants are merely one
way in which the facts experienced by these complainants can be
understood, and set forward another perspective on these same facts.
The first complaint was over that of size, this complaint emerging
because the Goa Art Lit Fest was compared to the huge crowds that
throng the Jaipur Lit Fest. This comparison may have been effected not
only because of the similarity in the names and concepts of the
festivals, but also because the organizers of the Goa Lit Fest, perhaps
expecting Jaipur Lit Fest like audiences, had erected a huge marquee
that dwarfed the audience that did assemble for events held in that
space. The question that we need to ask however, and this question is
being posed to the organizers of the Lit Fest as well, is whether the
Jaipur Lit Fest must necessarily be a positive reference point for the
Goa Lit Fest. The Jaipur Lit Fest, that is said to have begun in 2006 as
a ‘civil society’ initiative has in addition to allowing space for
audiences to encounter authors, today grown into a media-house and
corporate extravaganza that raises hordes of ethical issues and
attracted trenchant criticism. Complaints abound of how the size of the
event has prevented intimate encounters between author and reader, or
indeed among readers, and how a literary event has descended into just
another carnival.
Given that Goa is often presented as the location of carnival, we should
not be surprised if the carnival becomes the goal of our cultural
events. Yet, there is more that Goa is capable of producing. One of
Goa’s most eminent offerings is that of scale; it offers an option for
the small and intimate. Perhaps nowhere was this benefit of scale
demonstrated as in the film festivals that used to be organized by the
Moving Images Film Club in the International Centre Goa and the Kala
Academy. Almost every screening would be followed by the most
stimulating of discussions, made possible essentially because of the
intimate nature of the gatherings; a fact commented upon by one of the
national organizers of the Tricontinental Film Festival, highlighting
this occurrence as something unique to Goa. When held in the more
confined spaces of the International Centre’s permanent halls, the
sessions of the II Goa Lit Fest shared in this magic of intimate and
sparkling conversations. Indeed, it was precisely because the event
turned out to be so small, that new bonds were forged between authors,
and between authors and those who did attend, something that is not
often possible in larger events, when much is lost in the crowd. Indeed,
one of the more prominent authors who participated in the Goa Lit Fest
indicated that it was precisely the scale of the event that encouraged
them to privilege Goa over Jaipur. It was when events took place in the
big marquee that one was left with a sense of a small audience marooned
in a sea of empty chairs, unable to communicate with the discussants
thanks to the technical failings often associated with sound systems,
and the distance between audience and the discussants on the stage. It
was these effects of the scale of this marquee that also stripped these
gatherings of any sense of intimacy, and perhaps left persons with the
feeling that the event was under-attended, and lacking in intellectual
stimulation.
If there is a lesson that the organizers of the Lit Fest must take
seriously, then it is one of architecture. Lose the stage, and engineer
more intimate settings for the sessions; sessions that allow the
chemistry between the discussants to be communicated to the audience,
for the audience to get a sense of proximity to the discussants being
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[Goanet] School Assignments
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Today, whilst going home from the Goanetters meet, I ran into one of 'apro' Goan Catholic businessmen. This guy was huffing and puffing in the vicinity of Ruchik restaurant in Mapusa, which has of late become my favourite chai joint on account of its fine alumichi bhaji (Mushroom bhaji). This guy heaved a sigh of relief when he met me. Tony, you're just the guy I wanted to meet. He said. To cut a long story short, he wanted to know the English name for the local medicinal herb Kiraitem. I told him that to my knowledge, there was no English name for the herb, though there might be a botanical name which I was not aware of. So I asked him why he wanted the name, and his reply was that his daughter had a school assignment and she required a picture fo the kiraitem herb for the next day. This set me of on one of my pet peeves, the irrational assignments given by school teachers and how parents have to struggle to do the assignments for children. The objective of a school assignment is to enhance the learning experience, to evaluate knowledge, to encourage creativity, to encourage heuristic or self discovery principles in the student. So assignments should be well thought out and should be done by the students themselves and not by their parents or others. During my tenure of service, I was flabbergasted to find the staffroom of our school bursting at the seams with thermocole cutouts of various types of fishes. There were aharks and mackrels and sardines and lady fish and seer fish - you name them and they were present in the staffroom. So I asked one of the teachers in the staffroom what this was all about and she told me that x had given the children an assignment of making a thermocole fish and they were kept in the staffroom for evaluation. I then decided to take a fresh look at the assignment policy of the school and other schools. In course of my investigations, I came across some pretty ridiculous assignments. I also discovered a lot of the library books had been vandalized to provide pictures for assignments. So a new policy was collectively formulated: No thermocole assignments, no picture cutouts, no downloaded pictures. If pictures/ diagrams were required for an assignment, then they were to be drawn by the students and not assessed for drawing skills but for the factual information. In the case of my friend who was concerned with his daughters assignment, I suggested that since he was so close to the market where medicinal herbs are sold (Near the old cafe C D'Souza - opposite Dangui Opticians) he could actually buy a bunch of the dried herb and have his daughter mount it on a sheet of card paper - so much more valuable since the child would actually have better sensory perception of the plant - see, touch, smell then a mere picture. Now a days there is a new trend in assignments. Get information from the net. Teachers think it is a great idea to ask children to find information from the net whether the children have the ability to find things for themselves or not. As a result, children commission their parents or the cyber cafe operative to do their assignments. I know of several cyber cafes where you only have to tell the operative the class the subject and the topic and within a few minutes you have the assignment done. But then does this promote learning or does it merely help the cyber cafe owners make a better living? Should parents be so stressed out as to consider the assignment their child gets to be the be all and end all of their parental duties? A neighbour of mine is barely computer literate and she dotes over her son. So when the son who is in the seventh standard has an assignment on garbage in Goa and the children were supposed to get pictures, she came to me to ask me to help her get the pictures. Fine for the mother's learning. But what did it do for the son? Some book and chart publishers have prepared charts that deal with various assignments of various classes. Another silly trend is decorative assignments with ribbons, tassels, buttons and beads. Come on are we evaluating the ability of the child to decorate an assignment or are we evaluating the students knowledge? I suppose this is one of the dirty habits started by the 'city' and 'convent' schools and has spread like a cancer in the entire school community. Certain notions in Goa are hard to get rid of. Every parent in Goa is anxious of the child learning to read and write as soon as the child starts school. This is unmindful of
[Goanet] Indo German Confluence - II begins January 11, 2012
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GET READY FOR 'INDO GERMAN CONFLUENCE - II'
HERALD FEATURES
The Indo German Educational and Cultural Society Goa and Guitar Guild
Goa (GGG) in collaboration with Kala Academy Goa and Music University of
Nuremberg, Germany are hosting a festival of Western Classical music
titled Indo German Confluence - II.
This 12 day festival will specially commemorate the 60 years of
friendship between Germany and India as well as the Golden Jubilee of
Goa's liberation
From January 11 to 15, 2012 there will be public and private
masterclasses, lectures and workshops for violin, cello and piano. These
will be offered by Professor Ulf Klausenitzer, Hartmut Krause, Rudiger
Clauss and Lin Lin Fan. Klausenitzer and Fan are both from the Music
University of Nuremberg; while Krause and Clauss are from the Frankfurt
Opera Orchestra.
The Festival will also see rehearsals and instruction for 2012 Festival
String Orchestra comprising musicians from Goa State Symphony Orchestra,
guest musicians from India and the team from Germany. It will be
conducted by Prof. Klausenitzer and have Hartmut Krause as concertmaster.
The concert series of this Festival will start from January 16, 2012.
Jan 16 - Opening concert of violin duets by Klausenitzer and Krause
accompanied by Lin Lin Fan on piano, at Kala Academy.
Jan 17 - Violin and Piano concert by Sanya Cotta and Lin Lin Fan, at
Kala Academy
Jan 18 - 2012 Festival String Orchestra performance at Goa Institute of
Management Auditorium with soloists Pheroze Mistri, Ash-ley Rego and
Sanya Cotta.
Jan 19 - Public Performance of the Finalists of the 3rd David Menezes
National Violin Competition 2012, at Kala Academy.
Jan 20 - 2012 Festival String Orchestra performance at Kala Academy with
soloists Pheroze Mistri, Ashley Rego and Sanya Cotta.
Jan 21 - Top Dog Brass Band from Dresden, Germany.
Jan 22 - Closing concert by members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from
Berlin, Germany.
The third David Menezes National Violin Competition 2012 is an event
that is organized by GGG about every three years, since it began in
2005. The first prize for the competition is Rs 50,000, the second prize
is Rs 30,000 and third prize is Rs 20,000. Consolation prizes of Rs
5,000 each will be awarded to the remaining finalists. It is sponsored
by the CMM Group of which late David Menezes was a director; he was well
known for his philanthropy and work for musical causes, being passionate
about violin playing himself.
Entry forms and details can be got from Rui Lobo at Garden Central Music
Studio, near Panjim Municipal Garden or the website
http://cmmgroup.in/davidmenezes for online registration.
The last date for entries has been extended to January 7, 2012.
Source: Herald, January 4, 2012
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[Goanet] Wake up to the smell of India
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- I thought you were clever. But these puerile lines makes me think otherwise. NY has the facility to clear large amounts of waste in hours. That is because they have a system, a country which is governed etc, and contrary to our motherland Goa which is now firmly placed as a concrete third world, the imperialists have their Sunburn's but there is no system in place to later do the needful. It is time to feck the post 61 regime. BC To be fair, the comparison was between the garbage generated at either place! FN On 3 January 2012 11:59, Bernado Colaco ole_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I think Selma has struck the nail. Imagine a chap drawing a smilarity between New York Times Square and Sunburn! What is the level of the brain --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Cyclone Hits Southern India - Photo Essays - TIME
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Re: [Goanet] Nariman Point of Goa
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Typical knee-jerk arguments, based on a misrepresentation of my position! On 3 January 2012 16:02, Carvalho elisabeth_...@yahoo.com wrote: Bosco wrote: More absurd commentary!! How is the stink justified in Calangute and not in Panaji?? More NIMBYism?? Wherever have I said that Calangute is acceptable? I agreed with Eugene because he points out that the situation is far more complex than what one would like to conclude after reading an emotive newspaper article or two. NIMBYism? If anything, Calangute is my backyard. Also, anyone having a nodding acquaintance with the issue would realise that the Pato problem is a persistent one. As for Calangute, the stink is temporary at best, or at worst detected by the Selmas a few thousand kilometres away. SELMA WROTE: So let's understand economics from Frederick's point of view. Expats (who if they hang on to their properties have all sorts of problems which include encroachment and squatting, must not sell their properties to the highest bidder.) No, what I'm saying is: you don't have the right to sell to the biggest crooks, and then blast those very crooks for doing Goa in! This is sheer hypocrisy, though it might give higher returns. Why blame the expat for everything? Frederick even wrote a whole newspaper article on how the middle-class expats are to blame for the situation in Goa (Ironies of the Middleclass). The comment-piece *Ironies of the middle-class* mentions *expats* once and is about vistors who want to buy homes in Goa, the aspirations of journalism school students, the kids of jobs youth here want, general societal selfishness, the collapse of public transportation in Goa, the tendency to pin all the blame on the politician alone (as if we are not part of the very system), Goa being unable to keep greed and selfishness in check, and why we the middle-class are part of the problem ourselves. I wonder why Selma can only see expats there! FN --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Goanetters meet - a side benefit.
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Present at the meeting, large as life, was Mr. Eduardo Falleiro who attended the meet as any other Goanetter, bought his own food and drink. As soon as he came, Frederick Noronha lost no time to bring to his notice the problems of Goans born abroad in getting passports issued to them. Mr. Falleiro assured me personally that he would be taking up the matter in the corridors of power at New Delhi since he is intending to go there on the 10th with Mr. U. D. Kamat. Anyone who has the same problem would be advised to contact Mr. U. D. Kamat before then at commissionernri_...@rediffmail.com -- ** Tony de Sa tonydesa at gmail dot com ** --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] [JudeSundayReflections] Feast of Epiphany
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- 3-Jan-2012 Dear Friend, Christmas has come and gone! But is Christmas really over? Today's feast of the Epiphany has the same message of Christmas and is considered the Christmas of the gentile world. God came into the world not only for the Israelites but for all peoples. We also know from our faith experience that God reveals himself to all peoples irrespective of the diverse paths they follow. Our God is for all peoples! Search in faith and treat people with care and love and you will find Him! Wishing you a happy search! Fr. Jude Sunday Reflections: Feast of Epiphany-A Radiant Jerusalem revealing the Lord! 8-Jan-2012 Readings: Isaiah 80: 1-6;Ephesians 3: 2-3a; 5-6;Matthew 2: 1-12; In today's first reading Isaiah reminds the people that the time has come for their liberation for the Lord is coming with his light to enlighten all nations. He also tells the people that God has come not only for them but for all those who live in darkness. For though darkness covers the earth, the Lord will arise upon you and his glory will appear over you. The point of the reading is clear: When the Lord comes we can no more remain in darkness, we have to live as enlightened people, people who have seen the light; people who have experienced God; people whose lives are no more the same. How are we looking for Jesus? Are we like Gracie Allen, who played the scatterbrained wife in a comedy team with George Burns? Once, Gracie called in a repairman to fix her electric clock. The repairman fiddled with it for a while and then said, There's nothing wrong with the clock; you didn't have it plugged in. Gracie replied, I don't want to waste electricity, so I only plug it in when I want to know what time it is -Application: In what ways do we search for Jesus? Gerard Fuller in 'Stories for all Seasons' In today's gospel Matthew reminds us that besides the shepherds, wise men from the East journeyed to Jerusalem in search of the new-born king. They mistakenly went to the palace of King Herod to find out the whereabouts of Jesus. But Herod, when he heard the news, was greatly perturbed at the prospect of an infant king and he desired to find out where the new king is born so that he might destroy the infant king. Like the shepherds and the wise men everyone has to embark on a faith journey. We too are invited to leave familiar and safe surroundings and journey into the unknown, depending totally on our faith to guide us. Like the wise men we may sometimes be searching for God in the wrong places and so we do not find him. Instead of a royal palace they had to search for Jesus in Bethlehem of Judah, least of all the cities. Having received instructions the wise men again set out and rediscovered the star that lead them to the place where Jesus was. On entering the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they knelt down and paid homage offering him the gifts they had brought along with them. Having seen the Lord they made plans to return but being warned about Herod's evil scheme to eliminate Jesus, they returned home by a different way. This last part of today's Gospel has much to teach us about our own faith journey. The journey to God is never clear and we have to persevere in our journey in faith. Secondly, we cannot come empty handed into the presence of God. The wise men offered what they had brought along: gold, frankincense and myrrh. What have we to offer to the Lord when he comes? Christmas is after all a season of gift-giving, God offering his son as a gift to us. Have we offered ourselves to God? Lastly, after meeting the new born king the wise men were told to return home by a new way. If we have met the Lord we will be changed people, our lives will no longer be the same. We have to live life in a new way. Every God-encounter should be a conversion experience. Revealing Jesus to the World The first Christmas was an almost hidden event. God became human but nobody knew except Mary and Joseph and a few shepherds. Even they did not realize the full meaning of what had happened. Then the wise men came from the East to acknowledge that this infant was a special one sent by God. The coming of Magi was to show that God took on human nature not just for the chosen people but to save all people. The enterprising trio followed God's inspiration, found Christ and brought the good news back to their own people. They were not distracted from
Re: [Goanet] bombaim-tan vetago Lira
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[Goanet] GN meet
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- I think prop and chef is Mozambique -ex commando. Son i-l of a great dentist late dr. Abel Souza. But I do not know how Anglo Saxons got away with titch colonial in North America and Australia. BC Next time it is done I recommend *Horseshoe* (near Avanti on Ourem Creek road. We get that genial Angolan chef-proprietor to open up at noon and do a simple buffet of greens/soups/cheese, etc. @ abt 200 'rip-offs' (my slang translation for 'rupee') per person. It might be a titch 'old colonial', but we must not stand on conventions of nationalist patriotic sentiment---when there's really good food to be had! --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
