[Goanet-News] First Christian art museum in Mumbai...
There's no doubt, Mumbai is a busy city. At least 15 million people live here, in what's know as India's commercial capital. Catholics make up a small percentage, but despite being a minority, the religious heritage is strong. In fact, the city recently opened its first Christian art museum with relics that date back to the 16th century. http://www.romereports.com/palio/unique-christian-museum-opens-in-mumbai-india-english-5222.html --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] [JudeSundayReflections] Good Friday
30-Mar-2012 Dear Friend, Why do people have to suffer and die? If God is a God of love can't he prevent the suffering of innocent people? People have always asked these questions and to date have not found a meaningful answer to the problem of suffering. Suffering and Death remain a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved! The Cross of Christ provides not an answer but points to a way to make suffering life-giving. From being an instrument of death, Jesus made it a means of love and life! Have a cross-fertilized life! May today be a 'Good' Friday for us! Fr. Jude Sunday Reflections: Good Friday Having loved his own to the very end, He died for us! 6-Apr-2012 Readings: Isaiah 52: 13-53: 12Hebrews 4: 14-16, 5: 7-9John 18: 1-19: 42 In todays first reading Isaiah paints a startling portrait of the suffering servant of Yahweh. This suffering servant has a dignity about himself and his spirit is intact and unbroken in the midst of all that he suffers. Physically he was abused and reduced to a subhuman condition: There was in him no stately bearing to make us look at him, nor appearance that would attract us to him. He was spurned and avoided by people, a man of suffering, accustomed to infirmity, one of those from whom people hide their faces... In the face of all that he suffered there is no bitterness, no anger, no resentment, no complaint. Though he was harshly treated he submitted and opened not his mouth. Isaiah is describing not only the suffering servant but in fact he gives us a pen portrait of Jesus himself as he goes to his passion and he also gives us a model of how the Christian is called to respond to suffering. If God knows I am worth it, that's all that matters to me. I have told you of Olwen Davies, the middle-aged district nurse who for more than twenty years, with fortitude and patience, calmness and cheerfulness, served the people of Tregenny. This unconscious selflessness, which above all seemed the keynote of her character, was so poorly rewarded, it worried me. Although she was much beloved by the people, her salary was most inadequate. And late one night after a particularly strenuous case, I ventured a protest to her as we drank a cup of tea together. Nurse I said, Why don't you make them pay you more? It's ridiculous that you should work for so little. She raised her eyebrows slightly. But she smiled. I have enough to get along. No, really, I persisted, you ought to have an extra pound a week at least. God knows you are worth it. There was a pause. Her smile remained, but her gaze held a gravity, an intensity which startled me. Doctor, she said, If God knows I am worth it, that's all that matters to me. A. J. Cronin in 'Adventures in Two Worlds' In the Gospel there are several facets of the passion we could successfully reflect upon: The agony in the garden and the fearless confrontation of Jesus with those who came to arrest him. The triple denial of Peter in the presence of a maid servant. The trial before Caiphas in the Pretorium and then his confrontation with Pilate and the lingering unanswered question: What is truth? We could meditate on the Way of the Cross and his final moments on the cross itself leading to his painful cry, echoed by all who suffer: My God my God why have you forsaken me. We could ask the questions: Why did the Father permit the Son to suffer? Why does God seem to abandon Jesus? Does God abandon his people, his beloved when they suffer? For that matter is the Father oblivious to the passion of his Son and to all his sons and daughters who even now suffer in the world today? The Father was not an executioner but a fellow sufferer. This idea of the Father suffering gives us a glimpse into the mystery of human suffering, which confronts us on all sides. Suffering that is man-made like wars and terrorism and man's inhumanity to man as well as that which results from earthquakes, storms, tidal waves, viruses and so many other unexplained causes of suffering and death. The Father continues to suffer with his suffering children here on earth as he suffered with His Son Jesus Christ. While God does not always reveal his power, he always gives us the assurance of his comforting presence. We want God to be a powerful God, one who does away with all suffering. In Jesus' suffering and dying on the cross, we see as it were, an impotent God, a God who is made vulnerable precisely because he loves us is ready to suffer with us and for us. Why Death? Why death now? Why death ever? What is in store for our loved one now? What of the bereaved? Even in the presence of vibrant faith, there is often a sense of finality, of completion of an era. This atmosphere of finality pervaded Calvary on Good Friday. The great hopes of a promising life were dashed. His closest friend, John was shattered as he undertook to care for the mother who was desolate at the death of her one and
[Goanet] Earth Hour 2012: Please Switch Off, Goa!
Dear Manoharbhav, Every year, on the last Saturday of March, from 8:30-9:30 pm, millions of the planet's inhabitants, unite to protect the planet. They switch off lights and gather in small communities to celebrate Earth Hourhttp://www.earthhour.org/at the same time, everywhere. Governments around the world and in India http://www.earthhour.in/ switch of government buildings and public monuments. Manoharbav, please lead by example! On Saturday, 31st March 2012, 8:30-9:30 pm, kindly switch off lights in your Chief Minister's bungalow at Althinho, Panjim, houses of all MLAs, and famous office buildings. Please send out notices to ensure that all important landmarks switch off lights for Earth Hour. Please see examples: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwfindia/5345296429/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwfindia/5345296415/ In solidarity with everyone who pledges to protect the planet. Muriel, Mario, Suahil, Tarika and other Saligaokars pledged to protect Goa and the earth. -- *We did not inherit Abreu Vaddo/Saligao/Goa/the Earth from our ancestors, we merely borrowed it from our children. - *Indigenous Wisdom there *is* anOTHERgoa at http://www.anothergoa.blogspot.in http://www.youtube.com/anothergoa ''' muriel mario, c/o FULKAR, 6/22, sonarbhatt, saligao. bardez. goa. 403511. tel: 0832-2278276 / 240 anothergoa AT 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] Desmond Monteiro's Wish List for Goa.
Dear Desmond, Yes, my wish list for Goa is the same. Unfortunately, dear friend, this list will remain just that...a wish list!! The politicians, scum that they are, will ensure that very little on our wish list will come to fruition. Where is all that money going? The Goans can rant and rave, but it will fall on deaf ears, and we will wallow in the filth that Goa is today. Sad.but thats the reality! Con --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Parrikar's parikrama
Parrikar's parikrama Eugene Correia Manohar Parrikar has done his parikrama around Goa's financial state in a calculated way. He has circumambulated the thorny issues of the day delicately with a commitment of a man bent on bringing the desired results. He has dipped into the goodwill of the people for having elected the BJP in the hope that his government will adhere to the party's manifesto in toto. He sought to placate Goans by extending his merciful hand and doling out more money or gratuities and subsidies while keeping the growth rate to an achievable target. Some taxes and levies may hurt some groups of people. But then someone has to pay some price. That there were cheers all-round and not many jeers for the budget says a lot for his reading of the Goan pulse. A feel-good fiscal outlay with subsidies, social benefits and special concessions to those who matter most -- the lower middle-class, the poor, the backward classes, the women, the unemployed, the students -- is what the budget delivers. The common man has been given little room to complain. The one part that raised the ire of the socially-conscious Goans and some social activists was the chief minister's handling of the casino affair. He seems to have double-faulted on this one; speaking in one language as Opposition leader and another as chief minister. Those who feel that lowering the entrance fee to the casinos would increase the number of Goans at these temples of doom are speaking of a impending social catastrophe, though that may not be the case. However, it would be prudent on Parrikar's part to consider the many viewpoints. Raising the fee to at least to Rs 2,500, half of the amount charged earlier, may go down well with some of the protesters. No doubt Parrikar will honour his word to keep Goans under 21 years of age at bay through implementation of some sort of a system. Whatever measures or security arrangements are put in place, it would be very important to see that these security agencies personnel don't succumb to bribes. Undercover vigilance officers would have to be deputed at the casinos to prevent abuse of the security system. He should make those suffering from budget blues feel reassured that this new exercise will have in-built defensive system. Parrikar has addressed the pressing issues with the tacit understanding that the people longed to see Goa painted in a rosy picture. The recent past of frayed tempers, tempestuous wrangling, financial skullduggery and political Machiavellism had to be put behind and a progressive path laid out in front. The budget is the meat-and-bones version of the BJP manifesto that may or may have not influenced those who voted for the party. All indicators show that the voters targeted the Congress for its playing the fool with the people's sentiments and the public finances. The two-week period between the time the new government got in and the time to present the budget was, as Parrikar admitted, too short to put more details regarding some of the plans. Nevertheless, Parrikar had lot of time to do his homework by sitting on the Opposition bench. If the BJP manifesto was a crafty tool that worked wonders, the budget will be its reality test. No sphere of public activity has been left untouched. To provide subsidy of 80 per cent for religious pilgrimages is an act of providence that would surely stand in good stead for the chief minister and his government. Religious pampering apart, Parrikar has also focussed great attention on the scheduled tribes. Marginalised people long to be welcomed into the embrace of an ambivalent society. Parrikar has taken these people into account in his effort to cut across social and economic borders. As for the infrastructure development, some of those outlined were long overdue. Parrikar has gone a step forward in setting up a timeframe for a new bridge over River Zuari. This one, along with other proposed bridges and the proposed exhibition-cum-convention centre, will help in fulfilling the government's dream of creating a top-class (mind you, not world-class) tourist destination, though the thrust would be on eco- and heritage tourism. However hard the government may try to sell the above-mentioned brands, the staple sun-and-sand tourism will continue to be the big earner. At least for another decade, Goa's fancied coastline will sustain the hospitality industry and with it the vast labour force it employs. Parrikar has also dribbled well into the hearts of the football-crazy populace by making the beautiful game the state's official sport. He didn't miss the spot-kick to give his government the match-winner in a political game against his opponents. Winning support of football fans is a fine feather in Parrikar's topi. The budget chart should serve as good wallpaper for Goans to plaster on the walls of their homes and offices. It will create the necessary ambience for Goans to live in hope ushered in by a benign chief minister.
[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Windows to the City’s Soul – 10
Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Windows to the City’s Soul – 10' The next stop in the Panjim saga. All the earlier posts on the city's heritage are here. You may view the latest post at http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2012/03/30/windows-to-the-citys-soul-10/ 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] UK Goan Oral Histories Project - Observations
Dear Gabe (and open letter to the project organisers), I read with interest your goanet post dated 26 March 2012 (Issue 317). As a Goan fella now living in the United Kingdom, I lived in Nairobi, Kenya with the opportunity of travelling to other parts of the country from the Highlands and the Rift Valley to the coast places like Eldoret, Narok, Kitale, Kisumu, Thika, Mombasa and Malindi through the postings of my parents with the Kenya Police. Therefore, my memories of childhood and others are fascinating. So when I heard that the criteria for the Goan Oral Histories project was only for people over 80 years old, my first thought was of the soft MacDonalds burger being designed for people with or without their own teeth and the huge amounts of unused money deposited in UK trust funds on advance funeral plans, all indicators that our people are living longer with no gratitude to the management of our National Health Service. For this reason I took no interest as you and me and many within our age group are yet to go gaga and will have no hope of ever participating in this public funded research project undertaken in our “Goan” name. Thanks to the social media and everyone participating through the valued work of goanet volunteers in its 17th year on the super highway, we are all aware of what is going on. I understand the age limit is now reduced and may be reduced further, only time will tell. Not many months to go before the completion date just like in our Goa where the legal cases now have to be completed within two years and not go on and on. As this project is in the name Goan reflecting our experiences in East Africa and is in the public domain, viewed by a wider audience, it is correct that we all take part whether invited or uninvited. I can recall an incident in primary school when the teacher quoting from the history book written by others stated that Livingstone and Speke, explorers from the Royal Geographical Society, discovered Lake Victoria. I put my hand up and asked what about the people who already lived there? The discussion that followed was quite illuminating. I never became teacher's pet even though my school reports came first and second in class. The top table of the current project, we are told, is made up of very learned people. I beg to differ as their total intelligence on our community can be viewed on the video clips of the project to date. We have musicians that excel in string and wind instruments. The sound of a string instrument on its own sounds like a funeral setting. The organisers may wish to view on U-Tube Bugs Bunny Conducting the Marriage of Figaro to get some ideas on how to bring our historical and colourful past to life. Instead of video clips so far presented giving the visual impression of Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin stencils when sound and vision was in its infancy. Come on, this is London, England, the home of creativity, pull your finger out. Under the Freedom of Information Act we have in the United Kingdom, an opportunity is there for those interviewed to make any corrections before the final publication is tabled at the British Library and I am sure a copy would be welcome for our main library in Panjim, Goa. When announcements are made on Goan Voice UK on events relating to this project, it is noteworthy that very soon afterwards there is a footnote saying House Full. Is it because there are copyright issues or expenses prearranged for chosen participants to be in the public eye by the handlers of this small grant? I sometimes wonder whether the buzz menfolk from Goa got who went to Portuguese East Africa before the British was similar to that Indian men get today who travel from the rest of India to Goa to chill out and view white women wearing very little. Our ancestors who travelled from Goa during candlelight days and hurricane lamps to Portuguese East Africa will have had their first unarranged encounter with African women with little or no clothes on. Did they cover their eyes? What was the dress code at the time and foo was the first tailor as they stayed on. Was ellow the favourite colour during Easter? On visiting the Kenya High Commission in London in 1975 to look up the telephone directory for the phone number of the Nairobi Institute I was surprised to find there were more than five clubs, it would be interesting to know the current status as to whether our people in Kenya are still harmonious or like London, UK where we have over fifty organisations each with their own Presidents that appear to have no clear direction, easily manipulated by the learned members of our community. History is important for development. In 1972/73 as an office bearer of the Legion of Mary at St Theresa in Eastleigh Nairobi we had to change the title of President to Chair to keep in line with a directive from the Government of Jomo Kenyatta that there is only one
[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day
The Shirelleshttp://www.youtube.com/artist/The_Shirelles?feature=watch_video_title - Will You Love Me Tomorrow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2khQJGdnFEfeature=related g -- 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 ---
Re: [Goanet] Interview with Mervyn Maciel
Dear Selma, Unless the interviewees themselves have placed an embargo on the publication date, I would urge you to publish the interviews in full. It is time that some of the more controversial aspects of our social life were debated in public, so that public and private awareness is raised. Very best personal regards, Victor From: Gabe Menezes gabe.mene...@gmail.com To: Carvalho elisabeth_...@yahoo.com; Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 8:48 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Interview with Mervyn Maciel On 25 March 2012 21:01, Carvalho elisabeth_...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Roland, Thank you for your encouraging words. We have collected hours and hours of oral history covering every sort of topic from discrimination at work to segregated living to caste in East Africa. Unfortunately I will not be making any of that public right now. It will come into the public domain when it is lodged with the British Library. The reason being, as you may have noticed, our Goans are incapable of handling the least amount of introspection of their historical past. It is an unwritten rule almost that we must all believe our lives have been fantastical, ethical and almost mythical and any threat to that notion of ourselves comes under assault. So for now, only the most benign aspects of the interview will be made public. Take care, selma RESPONSE: I don't quite get what you are trying to impart here. That I/some others have questioned the veracity of a story? If so your best, so far interviewee, was of the same opinion! Wings clipped by the handlers, maybe? No more tit bits to whet our appetite? if so this is draconian, don't you think so? When time comes, we shall be given the whole caboodle, many will not bother. P.S. Tullow Oil, has just discovered oil in Turkana land and Moi is going gaga! In 1963, did someone in the House of Lords, push for the Northern Half to be given away to Somalia...a link that I had posted here! P.S. Just back from Catalunya, brought the Sunshine backhopefully song for a day will resume tom. -- 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 --- --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] UK Goan Oral Histories Project - Observations
From: Melvyn Fernandes mel...@orange.net As a Goan fella now living in the United Kingdom, I lived in Nairobi, Kenya with the opportunity of travelling to other parts of the country from the Highlands and the Rift Valley to the coast places like Eldoret, Narok, Kitale, Kisumu, Thika, Mombasa and Malindi through the postings of my parents with the Kenya Police. Therefore, my memories of childhood and others are fascinating. Coast places like Eldoret, Narok, Kitale, Kisumu, Thika? http://maps.google.co.in/maps?hl=enbav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf .,cf.osbbiw=1400bih=706q=Kenyaum=1ie=UTF-8hq=hnear=0x182780d08350900f:0x403b0eb0a1976dd9,Kenyagl=inei=EM91T_6RE4PqrQerjJWSDQsa=Xoi=geocode_resultct=imageresnum=8ved=0CHoQ8gEwBw -- ** 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] UK Goan Oral Histories Project - Observations by Melvyn Fernandes
Don't think I'm qualified to comment on your lengthy post, Melvyn, but just wanted to correct the following: from the Highlands and the Rift Valley to the coast places like Eldoret, Narok, Kitale, Kisumu, Thika, Eldoret, Narok,Kitale, Kisumu, Thika are certainly NOT in the Coast. Eldoret Kitale are in what was then the White Highlands and in the Rift Valley Narok was in what was then Southern Province, Kisumu in Nyanza, and Thika in Central Province. Mervyn Maciel --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Matanhy Saldanha
I follow the news in Goa from Goanet and from other sources. I was completely flummoxed by the glowing tributes paid to MS after his death. Why, I asked myself, did I not read even one percent of the praise showered on him after his death, while he was still living. If he was really the man he is made out to be, why did not the people who came out of the woodwork with glowing paens, even people who had never written on Goanet before singing his alleluias on the site, not whistle a single note about his work when he was a living, breathing human being. What I mostly remember reading about MS over the years was how he had turned into an opportunist once he entered politics and how he was a major disappointment to people who had high hopes for him after the Ramponkar struggle and the Metastrips agitation. I have no problem with the good they say about him now. I do have one with why they didn't say it before. One day Eugene too will be singing Floriano's hit parade of road maps for Goa, instead of writing him off as a party chief who never won any seat or had a shot at winning one. Contingent of course on Eugene outlasting Floriano. Roland. Roland Francis 416-453-3371 --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] Dr. Leo Rebello plans to contest the Indian presidential elections.
THANKS FOR CIRCULATING THIS NEWS. -- From: Goanet News Service n...@goanet.org Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 8:45 AM To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: Dr. Leo Rebello plans to contest the Indian presidential elections. An India sans corruption, communalism, casteism, criminalisation of politics and runaway capitalism is Dr Leo Rebello's vision. And if elected as President, this is what he will strive to achieve. http://epaper.jagrancityplus.com/31054/Navi-Mumbai-Kandivali/ Kandivali-Vol-3Issue-26Date-30-March-to-05-April#page/1/1 Goanet News Service www.goanet.org --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] Shantaram Naik.... laughable
On 28 March 2012 10:48, Amy Amelia da Cunha amidacu...@gmail.com wrote: [1] We had a long discussion on this and WE CONCLUDED that there CANNOT BE RULES, LAWS for every thing, [2] there is something known as moral responsibility specially when Shantaram Naik all of a sudden started raising his voice everyday for the last one month against the BJP. [3] Now the Goan legislature who elected him is BJP. . He has to resign and go. [4] They forget the morals, this suckers with thick skin need people like you and me to remind them of morals. COMMENT: re#1: Wow! re#2: In a Westminster style of Government, that is what oppositions are for i.e. opposing. Vide Parrikar v Casino 'antes y ahora'or Parrikar v Min of Works. re#3: Isn't this sort of thing there IN THE CONSTITUTION for a reason? or is it that the WE in #1 (supra) are expected to make up the rules - in LONG DISCUSSIONS .(any minutes available?) or Are those minutes ...secret? re#4: Not one to preach about the Morals to another, BUT I believe that any MORAL person would normally look and see IF there are any RULES and LAWS to govern this issue already in the Constitution. Engine Room, where is my drink? What? It is LENT and I am MORALLY obligated to conserve Cazunchem for my friends from jc --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] Dr. Leo Rebello plans to contest the Indian presidential elections.
Good to see Prof. Dr. Dir. Ambdr. Leo Rebello run for President of India again. Cheers, Santosh - Original Message - From: Goanet News Service n...@goanet.org To: goa...@goanet.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:15 PM Subject: [Goanet] Dr. Leo Rebello plans to contest the Indian presidential elections. An India sans corruption, communalism, casteism, criminalisation of politics and runaway capitalism is Dr Leo Rebello's vision. And if elected as President, this is what he will strive to achieve. http://epaper.jagrancityplus.com/31054/Navi-Mumbai-Kandivali/Kandivali-Vol-3Issue-26Date-30-March-to-05-April#page/1/1 Goanet News Service www.goanet.org --- 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] Fw: MAVERICK V/s MAVERICK
MAVERICK V/s MAVERICK By: Floriano Lobo Reading novels was my forte. Alas! Not anymore, since the onset of this idiotic internet. I had such a large collection that a time came when I did not know what to do with it. And not wanting to feed the white ants, I took Augusto Pinto's (our very own books-loving Moidekar) suggestion and delivered a load to the then newly assembled Moira Club Library. And have never regretted that decision. Now, now, what has the word 'Maverick' (or should I say a name) got to do with all this books and library thing? In deed, everything. The word 'maverick' used to crop up whilst reading, especially the wild western stories. It was rightly assumed that it had something to do with a stubborn four legged. But then, I had never gotten to leaf through the pages of the dictionary to find out what exactly was a 'maverick'. And since, of late, I had decided to do a piece on this astounding word, I did take the trouble to hit 'Googles'. See what I got, a treasure of a lifetime. 1. Someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action 2. An unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it independent in behavior or thought 3.Hypernyms (maverick is a kind of...): nonconformist; recusant (someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct) 4. As according to Judith Germain: 'Being willfully independent'. And she goes much forward in explaining what is being willfully independent, such as this: Quote a) Mavericks have a willful sense of independence and can be found working within a company or owning one. It is their acute sense of independence that is common between the maverick at work and the maverick business owner. The symptoms that they display is very different which is why the approach that is used to harness their talent will differ. The definition of a maverick is important because it is by being sure of your definition will be the key to the solution. b) A maverick personality is one where they are willfully independent all the time and in all circumstances. They are keen to make their mark and do things their way and often blaze innovation and lateral thinking to the projects and problems that they are working on. They often exasperate the people around them and peers can feel that they can't keep up or hurt if an objective comment from a maverick is delivered in their usual blunt and brutally honest way. c) A maverick trait or tendency is when the maverick or 'Troublesome Talent' is willfully independent in their workplace. They may challenge the status quo and insist that the company works from a strong sense of integrity. They take risks that conformist employees shirk at, and push harder and seek challenges that others feel are 'insane'. d) Mavericks are easily bored and need to be given constant challenges to ensure that they are as productive and engaged as they could be. They tend to come up with innovative solutions and their way of working didn't fit the established corporate norms. The Maverick is unafraid to question authority, buck trends or do what is 'expected' and understands that they are a square peg in a round hole. They have realized that they are under utilized, bored in their roles and that they often act inappropriately in the circumstances that they find themselves in. e) The Maverick hires us directly to work with them. They are keen to keep the fact that they are working with us confidential from their employers. The Maverick comes from all types of professions from professional partnerships like accountancy or law, corporate life or individuals running their own business. f) The Maverick at work: This is the type of person who is recognized as being Troublesome Talent® - definition of a maverick at work hugely talented but difficult to manage. They often complete targets and objectives with ease but cause enormous problems with colleagues and peers in the process. Troublesome Talent® are sometimes said to have a bullying approach and careless attitude to those around them. They tend to be mono focused on the task in hand and have the unerring habit of increasing staff turnover and lowering staff morale because they are unaware or indifferent to the effect that they have on the people around them. Invariably they are loved by the customer, which causes the dilemma of whether they should be sacked or developed. Usually the company hires us to work directly with their Troublesome Talent® or their managers. g) The maverick business owner: These mavericks are accidental business owners who left a secure corporate job because they were unhappy trying to successfully navigate their way in corporations that could no longer contain them. Mavericks are easily bored and need to be given constant challenges to ensure that they are as productive and engaged as they could be. They tend to come up with innovative
[Goanet] Goan Oral History Project(my reply to Rose Fernandes)
Dear Rose, I'd passed your comments to my friend who feels that his earlier statement is quite clear and needs no further clarification. I too have no wish to prolong this subject as there were points you brought up which bore no relevance to the topic under discussion, i.e. Oral History of East African Goans. Where, for example, was there need to bring in your dietary preferences, or your charity giving etc? I think we are going off the subject and I prefer not to make any further comment. Mervyn Maciel --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Bicholim Facebook group, locals assist destitute
-- Samir Umarye *BICHOLIM: *The social website ‘Facebook’ may be used for chatting or for fun, but a group from Bicholim used it in a different way -- to help a needy widow who had lost all her belongings. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JEmlw2qy18M/T3IiUTTrAHI/Ad8/xOoRub9ywe0/s1600/27march-bicholim-members.jpg The 850-member Bicholim group on Facebook, which was created a year ago, came together for a special cause to 75-year-old woman, Satyawati Gaonkar, from Naiginim. Satyawati’s hut along with all her belongings was gutted in the fire on March 9. She was saved by locals, but had sustained minor injuries when she tried to retrieve money hidden in a rice sack. When this news was flashed on the Bicholim Facebook group, several volunteered and came forward to help. Not only those residing in Bicholim, but some working abroad also sent money to help the poor woman. As the woman was homeless, villagers constructed a small house with the help of the amount received from the MLA. On Sunday, some group members led by Ramakant Shetye, a businessman and social worker from Bicholim, went to the site and donated her basic necessities. Satyawati earns a paltry Rs 200 per month sweeping in a school. A donor has now agreed to pay her Rs 1000 per month till she is alive. As the temporary structure built by locals might not be withstand the monsoons, the Bicholim Facebook group has also expressed its support to build a small room for the woman. The group along with the help of locals will make efforts to provide her electricity supply and water connection. http://heraldingoa.blogspot.in/2012/03/bicholim-facebook-group-locals-assist.html --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] UK Goan Oral Histories Project - Observations
-Original Message- From: Melvyn Fernandes Sent: 30 March 2012 09:52 Subject: [Goanet] UK Goan Oral Histories Project - Observations Dear Melvyn, Being the PR Officer of the Histories of British-Goans Project, I am replying to a few of the observations you have made. The team put in considerable effort even before applying for the grant and were commended for our efforts in the face of stiff competition. Unfortunately a few members of the Community instead of congratulating us and volunteering for the Project have been lining up to throw stones. Coincidentally, it is the very same people doing so that have been the spokes in the wheels of other Community projects! To clarify a few of your misapprehensions: 1. You write: I heard that the criteria for the Goan Oral Histories project was only for people over 80 years old Response: Where did you hear this and did you make any attempts to check the facts? When the Project was announced we invited ANY East African Goan to volunteer to conduct interviews or be interviewed. Most of the respondents heard about the appeal through the Internet, were male and from Kenya. It was important to reach out to the others so in fresh appeals we announced that priority would be given to females, those from other parts of East Africa and, in order to get people not on the internet, those aged over 80. Even today if you go to http://www.britishgoanproject.com/register-to-be-interviewed/ you will find that there is no age restriction on applications. 2. You write: video clips so far presented giving the visual impression of … when sound and vision was in its infancy Response: We are using professional equipment as recommended by Heritage Lottery Fund. Moreover, the British Library has viewed the output and on the basis of it has agreed to archive the resource, the first time it has ever for a Community Oral History Archive. 3. You write When announcements are made on Goan Voice UK on events relating to this project, it is noteworthy that very soon afterwards there is a footnote saying House Full. Is it because there are copyright issues or expenses prearranged for chosen participants to be in the public eye by the handlers of this small grant? Response: The latest workshop for the 21st April as with the previous one for 13 April was also fully booked today, within 24 hours of being announced. Could it be because of the popularity of the project and the high standards of the presentations? Does not the fact that there have been on average 1000 views per video clip have some bearing? When the project was launched, we had announced: “The project will involve interviewing Goans and some non-Goans from colonial East Africa … But it is not the team that will be responsible for making it a success. As usual, it will be your support that will make it a success. So write to us to volunteer, or if you wish to be interviewed. Get your children involved. They will learn much about their own past and about their family histories. Free training will be made available for those who volunteer and their work will be viewed across the world. Register your interest by sending an email to britishgoansproj...@yahoo.co.uk Did you register your interest? Before spouting on in public forums, may I suggest you approach any member of the team with your questions, attempt to get your facts right and then by all means go public after that should you feel the need to. You are only destroying your own credibility! Eddie Fernandes --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Oral History project and workshops
Dear Victor and Pandu, Thank you for your emails. Will respond in detail at some time. I have not been keeping well for sometime now but plodding along. 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] Dr. Leo Rebello plans to contest the Indianpresidential elections.
Definition of Success: It is not when you reach the top of the ladder It is how many time you fell off missing the top. Chrs floriano goasuraj - Original Message - From: Dr. Leo Rebello prof.leorebe...@gmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 7:14 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Dr. Leo Rebello plans to contest the Indianpresidential elections. THANKS FOR CIRCULATING THIS NEWS. -- From: Goanet News Service n...@goanet.org Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 8:45 AM To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: Dr. Leo Rebello plans to contest the Indian presidential elections. An India sans corruption, communalism, casteism, criminalisation of politics and runaway capitalism is Dr Leo Rebello's vision. And if elected as President, this is what he will strive to achieve. http://epaper.jagrancityplus.com/31054/Navi-Mumbai-Kandivali/ Kandivali-Vol-3Issue-26Date-30-March-to-05-April#page/1/1 --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Matanhy’s successor at Cortalim
Matanhy’s successor at Cortalim If his wife Alina is the people’s choice and that’s what she really wants to do, then I feel she be inducted in the forthcoming cabinet expansion. She can then get herself elected within 6 months. I tell you, she could even win unopposed. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukextra3/7011193855/ Although, I don’t know much of her (First time I saw her during Matanhy’s 60th Birthday in 2008 see pic), some people including priests described her as a courageous woman. Some villagers say she has already accepted the challenge but could not confirm on this. The ball is now in Parrikar’s court Meet Alina here.. http://youtu.be/k2QWcd9qazQ?t=43m40s another file pic – Alina with Matanhy, Parrikar, Fr. Eremito etc http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk15/2970152570/ 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] Goa's Urrack season sets the tipsy tone
I had purchased Cashew Urrack, from SVD Seminary at Raia last saturday @ Rs130/- per litre (1000 ml, and not a bottle) , and freshly extracted cashew juice @ Rs 30/- a litre. The delivery counter opens at 3 pm and there is a great demand for both, and I am told that stocks are not available after 3.30 pm on some days. Joseph Fernandes Mumbai Visit www.fatherspeaks.net Click: Father speaks,on LHS, below home, then click: Messages to Mother Eugenia ABBA FATHERS Feast on 07th August --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] Matanhy Saldanha
Dear Roland,
My response to your post is not because you have mentioned my name.
It is because of the sincerity in which it is written.
Matanhy Saldanha and I were colleagues, though I started much much later
than he, he being a year younger to me.
And I have criticized him more than I have appreciated him while he was
living. This was never because I was jealous of him. It was because he
didn't do more and what was actually required to be done by personalities
like him being in the lime-light.
It is there on the net for everyone to see.
However, let me quote the famous Goan adage:
'Melele Mosik Bara Xher dud
Having said that, I have prepared for my eventual death much much in advance
and my dear 'wife' and/or my son/daughter have been instructed accordingly
thus:
To allow each and every one who would want to say a few words (eulogize)
over my dead body to say them without let or hindrance.
To offer flowers to those criticizing my work or me openly. ( worst
criticism to get more flowers). Because what they will have said would be
absolutely true and coming directly from their hearts.
To write off those who praised me in death, or my work after I was dead.
Because these will have been utter hypocrites. Because those who would want
to praise me would have done so when I was living and facing me, eye to eye.
{for I have always culled a hypocrite from and friend]
To refuse state funeral for husband/dad even if he was the CM of Goa. [No
such illusions, though. The way I am going, it will be a wonder if I get
past 1000 votes forget about winning and election. Because winning elections
one has to lick arses. And floriano has never done that] In fact to instruct
the State authorities to use the money on things worthwhile, especially
catering to SENIOR CITIZENS IN OLD AGED HOMES.
Thank you for being straight forward, aka, not being a hypocrite.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
www.gragoa.com
- Original Message -
From: roland.fran...@gmail.com
To: goa...@goanet.org
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 7:51 PM
Subject: [Goanet] Matanhy Saldanha
I follow the news in Goa from Goanet and from other sources.
I was completely flummoxed by the glowing tributes paid to MS after his
death. Why, I asked myself, did I not read even one percent of the praise
showered on him after his death, while he was still living.
If he was really the man he is made out to be, why did not the people who
came out of the woodwork with glowing paens, even people who had never
written on Goanet before singing his alleluias on the site, not whistle a
single note about his work when he was a living, breathing human being.
What I mostly remember reading about MS over the years was how he had
turned into an opportunist once he entered politics and how he was a major
disappointment to people who had high hopes for him after the Ramponkar
struggle and the Metastrips agitation.
I have no problem with the good they say about him now. I do have one with
why they didn't say it before.
One day Eugene too will be singing Floriano's hit parade of road maps for
Goa, instead of writing him off as a party chief who never won any seat or
had a shot at winning one. Contingent of course on Eugene outlasting
Floriano.
Roland.
Roland Francis
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Re: [Goanet] Matanhy Saldanha
On 30 March 2012 18:42, floriano floriano.l...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Roland,
My response to your post is not because you have mentioned my name.
It is because of the sincerity in which it is written.
Matanhy Saldanha and I were colleagues, though I started much much later
than he, he being a year younger to me.
And I have criticized him more than I have appreciated him while he was
living. This was never because I was jealous of him. It was because he
didn't do more and what was actually required to be done by personalities
like him being in the lime-light.
It is there on the net for everyone to see.
However, let me quote the famous Goan adage:
'Melele Mosik Bara Xher dud
Having said that, I have prepared for my eventual death much much in
advance and my dear 'wife' and/or my son/daughter have been instructed
accordingly thus:
To allow each and every one who would want to say a few words (eulogize)
over my dead body to say them without let or hindrance.
To offer flowers to those criticizing my work or me openly. ( worst
criticism to get more flowers). Because what they will have said would be
absolutely true and coming directly from their hearts.
To write off those who praised me in death, or my work after I was dead.
Because these will have been utter hypocrites. Because those who would want
to praise me would have done so when I was living and facing me, eye to
eye. {for I have always culled a hypocrite from and friend]
To refuse state funeral for husband/dad even if he was the CM of Goa. [No
such illusions, though. The way I am going, it will be a wonder if I get
past 1000 votes forget about winning and election. Because winning
elections one has to lick arses. And floriano has never done that] In fact
to instruct the State authorities to use the money on things worthwhile,
especially catering to SENIOR CITIZENS IN OLD AGED HOMES.
Thank you for being straight forward, aka, not being a hypocrite.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
www.gragoa.com
Roland, you are not alone, here is a link to a blog site, a person who
used to post on this forum in bygone times. Telling it as it is w.r.t. his
own experience.
http://goa-kranti.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/mathanay-saldanha-that-i-know.html
--
DEV BOREM KORUM
Gabe Menezes.
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Re: [Goanet] Dr. Leo Rebello plans to contest the Indianpresidential elections.
On 30 March 2012 17:58, floriano floriano.l...@gmail.com wrote: Definition of Success: It is not when you reach the top of the ladder It is how many time you fell off missing the top. Chrs floriano goasuraj RESPONSE: I do admire immensely, your resilience! -- 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 ---
