[Goanet-News] DEBATE: Common sense and Hindu nationalism (Albertina Almeida Others kafila.org)
Common sense and Hindu nationalism Why the Catholics in Goa are not Hindu: Albertina Almeida Others SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 This Guest Post by ALBERTINA ALMEIDA, AMITA KANEKAR, DALE LUIS MENEZES, JASON KEITH FERNANDES AND R. BENEDITO FERRaO is a response to a statement by Chief Minister of Goa, Manohar Parrikar. [Kafila.org] Can a Goan Catholic be Hindu? Can Catholics professing a tradition of Catholicism that is over five centuries old be considered Hindu in culture? This is what the Chief Minister of Goa, Manohar Parrikar, sought to suggest in a recent interview with Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi of the New York Times India blog India Ink, where he said: I am a perfect Hindu, but that is my personal faith, it has nothing to do with government. India is a Hindu nation in the cultural sense. A Catholic in Goa is also Hindu culturally, because his practices don't match with Catholics in Brazil [a former Portuguese outpost like Goa]; except in the religious aspect, a Goan Catholic's way of thinking and practice matches a Hindu's. So Hindu for me is not a religious term, it is cultural. I am not the Hindu nationalist as understood by some TV media -- not one who will take out a sword and kill a Muslim. According to me that is not Hindu behavior at all. Hindus don't attack anyone, they only do so for self-defense -- that is our history. But in the right sense of the term, I am a Hindu nationalist. Parrikar's bizarre statement was in response to the question of whether he saw himself as a Hindu nationalist. Of course, a quick and easy response to his statement would be to summarily dismiss it as expected rhetoric flowing from his saffron affiliations; yet, questions persist, not least because of the peculiar and oft-misrepresented Goan scenario. More than meets the eye Goan Catholics today find themselves in a strange situation. On the one hand they are summoned to maintain a distinct Goan identity which rests in large part on the Portuguese past of the territory. This distinct identity is called upon not merely by an officially approved tourism policy and practice, but also by local elites who use the claim of a distinct identity to cyclically generate local mass movements that help them maintain their dominance. On the other hand, as Victor Ferrao argues in his recent book *Being a Goan Christian: The Politics of Identity, Rift and Synthesis* (2011), there is a simultaneous suggestion that this Catholic 'cultural' element is not compatible with a Goan and Indian identity; this is precisely what Parrikar is proposing here. What he further does is to paint the community as a monolithic entity, despite a situation where large segments of the Catholics are being delegitimized by dominant-caste members of their own faith who participate in a Hindu nationalist reading of Goan history. Parrikar's statement also distorts history through a saffron lens, contributing to the further marginalization of not only Goan Catholics, but also Goan Muslims, Dalits, and Adivasis. Finally, when Parrikar says that his Hindu faith has nothing to do with governance, he is cleverly skirting the intimate connection that religion and caste ideologies, including the right-wing one he professes, have with state apparatuses in post-1947 India. In the political mobilizations of the dominant as well as the subaltern sections in India, religion has emerged as a potent and important factor. Our contention, not necessarily a new one, is this: that religion in post-1947 India is not a personal affair; it is deeply public and profoundly political, and has now become even more overtly so with the rise of the BJP. Goa's encounter with Christianity This background of political machinations and mobilizations makes it even more necessary to unpack Parrikar's statement against the actual historical context in which Goa and Goans encountered Christianity. As has been pointed out by the historian R. E. Frykenberg in his book *Christianity in India: From the Beginning to the Present* (2008), despite appearances to the contrary, the transmission of Christianity from the proselytizer to the converted always involved shifts in practice. These shifts resulted in new and unique forms of Catholicism or Christianity as the converted took in the message of the faith and made it their own. Thus, when Parrikar views a Goan Catholic as different from Catholics in Brazil, he is right only to the extent that there would be some ethno-local differences, because the local culture of Goan Catholics is Goan culture in its multiple variations, including, but not limited to, Hindu culture. Further, just as there are many shades in
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[Goanet] A direct letter to the Supreme court of India by Rupert Countinho - www.nizgoenkar.org
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[Goanet] Cleanliness and tidyness
Seb, you have a point. Being a resident in Dubai you are the best person to know the reality. I agree with you that even in London the posh places of tourist interest are awesome and very clean viz. Buckingham palace, London bridge, etc. while places inhabitated by immigrants like Southall etc. are just like being in some of the filthy places in Mumbai and not better places like Nariman Point, Churchgate, Ballard Estate etc. However the fact cannot be denied that the same Indians abroad and back home are a different breed altogether. At home they would consider their right to dispose garbage/litter and just piss and shit wherever they feel like. I feel as a first step there there should be more importance to cleanliness and education given in schools and publicity in general given to it so that with awareness a small beginning in whatever way could be made by all. Tale care. You too have a nice week. Deu borem korum. Camilo Fernandes Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 12:21:44 +0400 From: Seb dc s...@upcdubai.com To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Cleanliness and tidiness Message-ID: 20130915081910.c1d7a984...@zapata.dreamhost.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii While you all are just guests in Dubai, I have lived my life for a decade here. Both are right... Should know, from a tourist point of view.. the places will be clean, only those area a tourist visits. Other than that it is what Dr Ferdinando says... Advertising the world won't help here.. Pick the broom and clean GOA:-) hAVE a nICE dAY!! Seb
Re: [Goanet] Syria crisis: US welcomes 'significant' Russian proposal on chemical weapons
-Original Message- From: Mervyn Lobo 2) George Bush (43) came pretty close to being arrested when he visited Canada a few years ago. He only escaped because the right wing was running the govt then. RESPONSE: KoolAid!!! Lots of it!!! Almost daily attempts to convert bakwas into facts noted. - B
[Goanet] FW: We always claim to be old - You are as old as you think Watch this video clip
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[Goanet] What You Don't Know About Sunglasses Could Hurt You
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[Goanet] Praise for Manohar Parrikar.
Earlier, there was a reference to the following article on this discussion group: http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/04/a-conversation-with-goa-chief-mini ster-manohar-parrikar/ In it, the interviewer Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi, said the following in the introduction: The B.J.P.s de-facto prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is controversial and unacceptable to many of Indias regional parties, whose support will be crucial to the B.J.P. in forming the next government. Even within the B.J.P. several leaders have been harboring the ambition to replace Mr. Modi as the partys prime ministerial candidate. Among them is Manohar Parrikar, the B.J.P. chief minister of the coastal state of Goa. Mr. Parrikar is an affable face of the Hindu right and leader of Indias most prosperous state by per capita income, which is also home to an influential Catholic minority and their distinct history. This is quite a generous praise of our very own Manohar-bab. The interviewer has followed it up with an article in The Economic Times, which is at: http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-09-10/news/41937955_1_goa- cm-manohar-parrikar-bjp-care In this article, the praise is even more profuse. Let me give some extensive quotes from the article: QUOTE As it dawns on the media that a Modi-less BJP-led government is an eminently possible outcome of the 2014 elections, naturally the focus will shift to a suitable BJP replacement. In Manohar Parrikar, the party may have the ace of spades: but have they even noticed it? Parrikar's great asset is that he broadens the BJP's voter range. Writer Shobha De, by no means a natural votary of the Hindu right, urged the BJP to nominate Parrikar as their prime ministerial candidate. It will find countless takers across India, she tweeted, He's 57. Global. Smart. Why should the BJP care for De's opinion? Because democratic politics is the art of persuasion, not of anger and revisionism, as most Modi fans think it is. It's also maths: every persuaded swing voter counts for two votes (Congress loses one, BJP gains one). That the proud RSS man Parrikar appeals to India's biggest vote bank liberal Hindus also makes him a potential successor to AB Vajpayee's legacy (though Parrikar demurs at the comparison). Since Vajpayee in 1999, the BJP has struggled to get support from these crucial voters, who also make up a large section of the intelligentsia. .. His biggest achievement has been rescuing Goa's economy from a potentially crippling crisis: the Supreme Court's mining ban last year has hit a quarter of the state's revenues and population. .. That BJP cadres worship the polariser Modi over the persuader Parrikar, shows how the Hindu nationalists are still struggling to evolve as a 21st century conservative party. ... If the medieval ruler of Hindu hearts is replaced by a modern leader of Indian conservatives to form a government in 2014, that can only be good for the evolution of the BJP and the conservative movement in India. It will also be in the national interest. UNQUOTE The tweet by Shobha De is VERY interesting. So, in our very own chief minister destined for higher things? But then that will depend on how much of the assessment made by Sambuddha is correct? Going by various statements of various political and economic analysts in Goa, and what some on this discussion group have written, it would seem to me that the assessment is not fully to the mark! I also read somewhere that Sambuddha has made Goa his home! And in New York Times article, he is said to be a media entrepreneur and freelance journalist!! There are some people on this discussion group who are in a similar profession like Sambuddha. Saying so I am thinking in particular of Fredrick Noronha and Mayabhushan Nagvenkar. Perhaps they can enlighten us more about Sambuddha and his source of information.
[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day....
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[Goanet] Little Stars of Goa in Bahrain: DAPHNE ANGELINA D'MELLO
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Re: [Goanet] Syria crisis: US welcomes 'significant' Russian proposal on chemical weapons
Excerpt The president sought congressional approval for a military strike against Syria for a suspected poison gas attack against rebels, only to meet resistance from within his own Democratic ranks as well as from Republican lawmakers. He averted the possibility of a humiliating defeat in Congress by embracing a Russia http://uk.reuters.com/places/russian proposal for destroying Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons. Ends Full read @ http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/09/16/uk-usa-fed-summers-idUKBRE98E0FU20130916 COMMENT: The above article is w.r.t. Larry Summers pulling out of the race for Fed Chairman. Having chosen the path of seeking approval from Congress, Obama could not then ignore the outcome, if negative. P.M. David Cameron too had to bend to the will of Parliament.
[Goanet] 16th September is International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
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[Goanet] Olo lo lo re babu kellunk gela, re Babu fellunk gela (Baroque Ensemble)
Olo lo lo re babu kellunk gela, re Babu fellunk gela (Baroque Ensemble) Baroque Ensemble (Young violinists) Re babu fellunk gela http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF1t9B-MEYs Choral Ensemble, Goa and Music Lovers' Society (MLS) in association with Kala Academy of Goa Presented a Classical Music Program 15th Sept 2013 at KA, Panaji - Goa Performed by STUTI Choral Ensemble and MLS' Baroque Ensemble Pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/9768565226/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/9768574056/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/9768557584/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/9768576396/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/9768577354/in/photostream/ Part II Stuti Choral Ensemble 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
[Goanet] kinni – Kinni (A Goan Dulpod) by STUTI Choral Ensemble
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[Goanet] Trip To UK Turns Bad
Hello, This message may be coming to you as a surprise but I need your help. Few days back I made an unannounced vacation trip to United Kingdom. Everything was going fine until last night when I got mugged on my way back to the hotel. They stole all my cash, credit cards and cell phone but thank God I still have my life and passport.Another shocking thing is that the hotel manager has been unhelpful to me for reasons I don't know. I'm writing you from a local library..I reported to the police and after writing down some statements that was the last I heard from them. I also contacted the consulate and all I keep hearing are they will get back to me. I need your help.I need you to help me out with a loan to settle my bills here so I can get back home tomorrow. I'll refund the money as soon as I get back. All I need is $1,800.You can also try to call the hotel manager's line on +447035997143 his name is James Williams. You can wire me the money through Western Union to my name and location below Name: Nascy Caldeira Location: London United Kingdom E28AS Thanks.
[Goanet] Featured this week: New Single “Waiting For The Day” By Jazz Vocalist Carolyn Leonhart.
(http://www.waitingfortheday.us) Featured this week On The Jazz Network Worldwide: New Single “Waiting For The Day” By Jazz Vocalist Carolyn Leonhart. (http://www.waitingfortheday.us)Barry Strutt and Clyde Bullard of the band Mystic Merlin from back in the ‘80‘s are making a big splash in the recording world with a new single for jazz singer Carolyn Leonhart. On the Strutt-penned “Waiting for the Day” Leonhart walks on the track with her original vocal style of grace embroidered with the tapestry of the Quiet Storm. In today’s climate of opinion, a song with a theme of hope is one that many would give a solid nod. Like a soldier on his watch, waiting for the day, half-asleep and half-awake, the day when there might be no more use for him to be on a “war watch.” (http://www.waitingfortheday.us)Composer Barry Strutt’s thought was to pen a song describing the feeling of being half-asleep, half-awake—hope but not naïve hope. A world aligned in peace is unlikely, it might not ever come, but we can wait, dream and hope it will come to pass. The good thing about the song is that its lyrics are applicable to any situation. (http://www.waitingfortheday.us)Carolyn Leonhart, daughter of jazz bassist Jay Leonhart and sister of the trumpeter Michael Leonhart, is perhaps best known as a jazz singer, but is equally at home singing RB, Soul, and Funk. She has performed as a back-up vocalist for Steely Dan on several tours and recordings. On ‘Waiting for the Day’ she is smooth, vulnerable and achingly soulful, cooing as if she’s sending a love letter via Western Union giving a masterful performance. (http://www.waitingfortheday.us)The video produced by Helen LaLousis and Barry R. Strutt has brilliant hues, dreamy imagery and romantic undertones that decorate the landscape as the backdrop to the somewhat elliptical and haunting lyrics. The theme hints on the issues of what fatigued spouses have to endure while waiting for their military-working mates to come home. “Half asleep, half awake/waiting for the day,” guiding the viewer through the dreamscape of the little girl capturing her past, waiting for her childhood crush to comeback from the war. “Barry Strutt’s latest music video, “Waiting for the Day,” is a triumph. The song and lyrics are haunting and timely, and powerfully convey a universal message of hope and loss. Carolyn Leonhart delivers a stirring performance, her voice and natural beauty always a joy to behold.” by Randy Sandke (Author of Harmony for the New Millenium) “The goal of this tune is to get it to the ears of Jill Biden so that it can be filtered into the work she does with military families as well as garner attention from NARAS for a nomination for a Grammy” says Strutt. The Jazz Network Worldwide is happy to feature a song that captures the sacrifice, courage and dedication of the military families that allows us our freedom, it gives us the insight as to the hope for peace and a safe journey home” says Jaijai Jackson, creator of The Jazz Network Worldwide. To learn more and to purchase go to the official website (http://www.waitingfortheday.us.) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgf2Cqbfwa0) Click the image to watch the Waiting For The Day video. (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/carolynleonhart) (https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/waiting-for-the-day-single/id688610731) Visit THE JAZZ NETWORK WORLDWIDE A GREAT PLACE TO HANG at: http://www.thejazznetworkworldwide.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network To control which emails you receive on THE JAZZ NETWORK WORLDWIDE A GREAT PLACE TO HANG, or to opt-out, go to: http://www.thejazznetworkworldwide.com/profiles/profile/emailSettings?xg_source=msg_mes_network
[Goanet] Key points made by Shantaram Naik M.P at his Press Conference held in Congress House, Panaji
*SHANTARAM NAIK M.P*** *2137, Near Swami Math,*** *Gogol, Margao*** *GOA*** *0832-2759555*** *09868181344*** *16th September, 2013*** * * * Key points made by Shantaram Naik M.P at his Press Conference held in Congress House, Panaji*** * * * * * *Mr Shantaram Naik M.P. said that his Private Members resolution is a beginning and not end of his demand to achieve the demand of Special Provisions made which he is trying to seek for Goa. Briefing the media Mr Naik said that he was surprised to learn about the criticism made against him by very persons who once appreciated his efforts and he even took the trouble of attending one of their meetings to explain the meaning and implications of special provision popularly called 'special status' During the days fixed for Private Members business, a member can either give a notice of Private Member's Bill or of a Private Member's Resolution but, it is only those, whose name comes in lot are those who get the opportunity of getting a bill or resolution ,as the case may be, discussed. If an MP gets such an opportunity even once during his entire term ,he should be considered lucky. Mr Naik said he had been giving notices of bills and also resolutions from time to time on the subject and, to his luck on 30 thAugust, 2013 his resolution secured number one in the ballot and ,luckily, House was running that day. Mr Naik said that such resolutions are meant to bring about a discussion on the subject, which happened. Mr Naik said no one expects the House to pass such resolutions, and, that too , a Private Member's resolution suggesting a Constitutional amendment. They are to be withdrawn as per Parliamentary convention ; even members of opposition parties do it, Mr Naik added. If the subject matter of a bill or resolution is one which can be easily fulfilled , government gives assurance to that effect but irrespective of assurances bills/resolutions are withdrawn. If those interested in getting special provisions for Goa had understood the procedural aspect and limited scope of private members business, He would not have been misunderstood, Mr Naik said. As to why BJP members in the Rajya Sabha did not participate in the debate despite the fact that List of Business was sent to the houses of MPs in the morning as per practice, and, despite the fact that the same was available on the net previous day, only BJP can answer, Mr Naik said. If somebody expected that he should have gone begging with BJP MPs to speak, that would be too much to expect from him, Mr Naik said. *WHAT IS 'SPECIAL STATUS' ?*** Let me make it clear , at the outset, that there is nothing called 'special status ' in the constitution of India. There is article 371, under which, special provisions can be made with respect to a State or States. Since every one has been referring to non existence status of special status, he had to fall in line, Mr Naik said. He has now developed a new expression, Special provisions under article 371 of the constitution popularly called as special status, Mr Naik added. He has been demanding special provisions for Goa for the last more than three years. I submitted my Memorandum to PM in 2010 but a case has to be built up by State Government, Mr Naik said. He has been contending that Land is becoming a scarce commodity more particularly in smaller States. Land mafia from foreign countries are landing in States like Goa with tons of money buying huge areas creating social and economic chaos. Some of the parties are potential enough to buy a whole village in a smaller State like Goa. Persons in real estate in the country too, are resorting to similar purchases disturbing the social fabric in the State. States have to be empowered to enact appropriate legislations to bring in restrictions on transfer of land and other immoveable properties on grounds of duration of residential requirement in the State, social and economic needs of the State, environment and public interest, as may be specified by the law. Similarly, the State of Goa consist of hardly 3,702 sq meters of land with a population of roughly 14 lakhs, increasing number of migrant population has reached to an unmanageable proportions. While it is the fundamental right of every citizen under Article 19 of the Constitution to move freely throughout the territory of India , it is also the fundamental right of others to live a decent life with basic amenities provided by the State. In order to safeguard the basic rights of those Goans as also non-Goans who are settled in Goa for a number of years, further inflow has to be regulated to avoid a virtual stampede in near future, Mr Naik said. Article 371 of the constitution ,therefore, needs to be amended by adding article 371-I as follows:- In the Article 371-I after the words, “not less
[Goanet] History Hour on 19th September 2013 at XCHR
Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Alto-Porvorim is organizing a History Hour on “*Dynamics of a Sound Ssacred Experience in Old Churches” *by* Dr. Menino Allan S.M. Peter Tavares sfx, *on September 19th 5.30 pm, at Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Porvorim. All are cordially invited. -- *Xavier Centre of Historical Research* B B Borkar Road, Alto Porvorim, Goa 403521, India. Tel: *+91-832-2417772* (Office), *2414971* (Director) *www.xchr.in* http://www.xchr.in/ *facebook.com/xchr.goa* == You have received this email because you have either contacted us in the past or have shown interest in the activities of the Xavier Centre of Historical Research as well as topics like Goa, India, history, heritage, culture, society, etc. This email is an effort to keep you informed on topics of your interest as well as events at Xaiver Centre that you might like to attend. If however, you do not wish to receive such emails you can unsubscribe yourself by emailing us at unsubscr...@xchr.in. However, we will miss you. Xavier Vaz *Administrator, XCHR*
[Goanet] GOAN SHOULD ENDORSE GOA - Press note for kind favour of publication
Th Goa Su-Raj Party congratulates NINIO CORREIA of Chicalim for his GOAN SHOULD ENDORSE GOA views [FROM THE NT INBOX- GOAN SHOULD ENDORSE GOA] - September 16, 2013. Goa's successive governments since 1963 have been devoid of the genes called GOA, starting with the Merger of Goa into Maharashtra and thereafter the rampant loot and plunder to enrich it's players at the cost of Goa and Goans. It is time for Goans to be sensitive to the reality that their 'pants' are been hocked off to make more money through UN-GOAN mindset. floriano lobo General Secretary GSRP 9890470896 www.goasu-raj.org PPS: PEOPLE FOR POLITICAL SANITY PS: If the people refuse to become politically 'SANE', politics will remain dirty + more. ONLY DABOLIM - NAVY GET OUT WITH MOPA - SPECIAL STATUS FOR GOA IS ONLY A SHOUT VIVA GOA - VIVA GOEMKARS Amchem Goem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PHvEkxLCmc
Re: [Goanet] Trip To UK Turns Bad
Not you, Nascy! How could you fall for the guiles of this trickster? FN On 16 September 2013 12:27, Nascy Caldeira nascy...@yahoo.com.au wrote: This message may be coming to you as a surprise but I need your help. Few days back I made an unannounced vacation trip to United Kingdom. Everything was going fine until last night when I got mugged on my way back to the hotel. They stole all my cash, credit cards and cell phone but thank God I still have my life and passport. FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org
Re: [Goanet] Trip To UK Turns Bad
Tongue in cheek surely, Fred. This is a well known scam. Tim From: fredericknoro...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:42:59 +0530 To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Trip To UK Turns Bad Not you, Nascy! How could you fall for the guiles of this trickster? FN On 16 September 2013 12:27, Nascy Caldeira nascy...@yahoo.com.au wrote: This message may be coming to you as a surprise but I need your help. Few days back I made an unannounced vacation trip to United Kingdom. Everything was going fine until last night when I got mugged on my way back to the hotel. They stole all my cash, credit cards and cell phone but thank God I still have my life and passport. FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org
[Goanet] Common Sense and Hindu Nationalism: Why Catholics in Goa are not Hindus
http://kafila.org/2013/09/16/common-sense-and-hindu-nationalism-why-the-catholics-in-goa-are-not-hindu-albertina-almeida-others/ Dale Find my writings @ www.daleluismenezes.blogspot.com --- Push thought to extremes -Louis Althusser ---
Re: [Goanet] Syria crisis: US welcomes 'significant' Russian proposal on chemical weapons
Mervyn, You sound like the US is about to go around with a begging bowl for alms. If the country is about to go bust, please explain why millions of people from around the world would want to drop everything behind at the blink of any eye, just to get a foot in the door to America. Every year, the US takes in 65,000 people on H-1B work visa's alone. This year, they are expected to take in 85,000 (the extra 20K claim to be under non H1-cap situations). Are these people coming into the US because there are no jobs? Demand to get a job in the US is so high, that this year alone, the US received double the number of 65K annual quote for H1-B visas - which means these foreigners are going to be subjected to the lottery system! In the meantime, please enjoy your near-free vacation in the remote rat hole you happened to be in! Jim F New York. Note: I don't want to deviate from the subject line - the fact of the matter is that the US is the only country in the world that has balls to do something worthwhile. But they will do so, only if there is American skin in the game. In the Syrian crises, I see three main reasons for Obama to get involved: 1. He wants a back door entry to attack Iran's nuclear plants 2. Israel is next door and the US would not want their friend to get hurt if these chemicals get into wrong hands. 3. It makes reasonably good PR to go after a dictator who kills his own using banned weapons of mass destruction. - Original Message - From: Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, September 15, 2013 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Syria crisis: US welcomes 'significant' Russian proposal on chemical weapons Jim Fernandes wrote: I perfectly understand some folks may be upset with the Americans for involving themselves in other countries' internal affairs. On the other hand, do you have any idea how may Goans and Indians should be thankful to the Americans for freeing up Kuwait from Iraqi clutches? If it hadn't been for the Americans (the rest of the coalition was just a small puppy show), Kuwait would still be under Iraqi control. My gut says, if left unchecked, Saddam would have gobbled up Saudi Arabia as well. Can you imagine how many Goans / Indians would have been uprooted from those countries along with their lively hood? That's not all - Saddam would have exerted control over a significant amount of world oil - forcing the rest of the world to pay through their noses after the annexation of Kuwait / Saudi ! Jim F, I am in one of the remote parts of the US where I can only get an internet connection for a few minutes a day. A few years ago, I had to book way in advance to get to this area. Today, business is so bad that they offer off-season rates during peak season. The locals have no money and are hurting. Their government, however, behaves as though they have money to waste. Taxes are er, blown up in the Middle East. To make this even more bitter, the US borrows money from the Chinese to make ends meet. In a short time (had I the internet I would have provided the exact year) the interest the US pays to service its debt will be more than the amount it currently spends on its military adventures. Until that happens, have fun being Mr Nice Guy to all Goans and Indians. I am glad there are people who benefit from the taxes trusted on US citizens. Mervyn
[Goanet] UK a haven for all - no one all want to come here - dailymail.co.uk
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2421756/Single-Latvian-mother-34-000-year-benefits-wins-fight-bigger-council-house.html
Re: [Goanet] Trip To UK Turns Bad
Fred, Isnt't this someone hacking into Nascy's e-mail, rather than his really getting mugged?...I am sure he would find some friend to call in England and not send us an e-mail on Goanet I have received similar mails from friends, whose e-mails were hacked!! Naguesh Bhatcar From: fredericknoro...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:42:59 +0530 To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Trip To UK Turns Bad Not you, Nascy! How could you fall for the guiles of this trickster? FN On 16 September 2013 12:27, Nascy Caldeira nascy...@yahoo.com.au wrote: This message may be coming to you as a surprise but I need your help. Few days back I made an unannounced vacation trip to United Kingdom. Everything was going fine until last night when I got mugged on my way back to the hotel. They stole all my cash, credit cards and cell phone but thank God I still have my life and passport. FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org
Re: [Goanet] Trip To UK Turns Bad
This is not the first time! Nascy is falling for it time and again! I have reported this to the Met as there is a contact phone number, hope they can do something to bring the culprits to book! On 16 September 2013 13:12, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote: Not you, Nascy! How could you fall for the guiles of this trickster? FN On 16 September 2013 12:27, Nascy Caldeira nascy...@yahoo.com.au wrote: This message may be coming to you as a surprise but I need your help. Few days back I made an unannounced vacation trip to United Kingdom. Everything was going fine until last night when I got mugged on my way back to the hotel. They stole all my cash, credit cards and cell phone but thank God I still have my life and passport. FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
[Goanet] History of Bandra
Pre-script: Portgal had gifted Bandra to a soldier, Homem. He had agreed to manage of battery of cannons to defend against Omani pirates. Homem in turn willed the town to the Carmelites who used all revenues to support St. Paul's College in Old Goa. --- Subject : History of Bandra *History of Bandra* Bandra was a tiny fishing village inhabited farmers and fishermen. It was acquired by the British East India Company while the rest of Bombay belonged to the Portuguese. There was an 18 hole golf course in Bandra called Danda Green with an English style Club House on the top of the hill, surrounded by trees. Membership was only for the British who lived in Pali Hill.. Each cottage had a stable for horses. Bandra consisted of the villages Sherly, Malla, Rajan, Kantwady, Waroda,Ranwar, Boran, Pali and Chuim. Ranwar also had a tennis court and the famous Ranwar Club famous for its Christmas and New Year eve dances. Most adults in Bandra worked for the East India Company... and hence were called East Indians. In the Bandra of the forties and earlier, large cottages with large gardens were available for rent at Rs 30 a month. Marriages were celebrated for 8 days from Thursday to Thursday for a Sunday wedding and the whole village was invited. Thursday was pig slaughter day and Friday was to make pappads for drinks, Saturday to make fugias and bring water from the village well to bathe the bride or groom. Sunday was the wedding ceremony and long reception.. Monday was day of rest and to finish remaining food and on Tuesday the feet of guests were washed in exchange for cash. Then farewell dinner on Wed and guests left on Thursday by which time honeymoon was over. Tradition has it that the suburb was originally known as Vandra or Ape as it was the home of monkeys, then Bandor as the Portuguese called it in 1505, then called Bandera, Bandura, Bandore, Pandara, Bandorah, Bandara and finally Bandra till a railway sign board finalized it at the end of the last century. Salsette was originally separated by a tidal creek which Portuguese called Bandora creek. English changed it to Mahim creek. Bandra had 2 hills, Mount Mary hill and Pali hill. On 12th Apr 1867 the first railway service was inaugurated with one train per day between Virar and Bombay. Bandra at one time was peopled mainly by East Indians (original residents of Bombay Salsette, Bassein, and Thana), a few Goans and Manglorian immigrants, Parsis, Muslims, Europeans and Hindu Kolis. Till as late as the 30's Bandra had only one bus service from Pali Naka, Hill road to the Rly station. Other people just walked to the nearest Rly station. After World War II the building boom started to accommodate immigrants. The five oldest roads in Bandra are as follows: Godbunder Road, which originally ran from Mahim causeway, then skirted Bazaar Road, went past the Bandra talab (lake) and continued to Godbunder. The Road was later made straight by cutting through the talab. Bazaar Road began at Godbunder Road opposite the mosque and ran through the market keeping close to the coast which is now the reclamation. Hill Road starting from the station went through middle of Bandra town, past St. Andrews to terminate at the foot of the Mount near Mehboob studio. Pali Road began at St. Peter's and cut through Pali village till it reached Danda. BJ Road runs from St. Andrews to Lands End, was built by Byramjee Jeejeebhoy and opened to public in 1878. There are over 150 crosses at various places. Many crosses were built to ward off the plague epidemic (1896-1906). The oldest is the one relocated in St. Andrew's church compound. Stands 17ft high and made of a single stone. It was originally in the Jesuit seminary of St Anne built in 1610. The bldg was destroyed in 1739 and the cross was relocated to St. Andrew's church. The surface is carved all over with 39 emblems of the passion of Christ. Bazaar Road is only 2 km long but houses a Jain temple, Ram Mandir, Hanuman temple, Khoja mosque, Christian chapel and a Sikh gurduwara. Main roads in Bandra, Perry, Carter, Bullock, Kane, and Bates were named after British collectors and magistrates. Mr. Carter was collector in 1924 and Mr. Bullock was the Chief Magistrate. Christians in Bandra are mostly of the Koli, Bhandari and Kunbi castes. The architect of Mount Mary's church was a Bombay architect Shahpoorjee Chandabhoy. The basilica was built in 1904 at a cost of 1 lakh. Also the first time a non-Catholic was asked to build the church. It was built to serve the garrison posted at Castella de Aguada - the fort at Land's End road. It was destroyed in a fire in 1739 and rebuilt in 1761, the year marking beginning of Bandra feast as it is celebrated today. The walls enclosing the compound of St. Andrew's church were built by a Parsi, Manockjee Sorabjee Ashburner in 1862. It is
[Goanet] September 2013 Issue of Xit-Koddi e-newsletter of Bahrain Goans
Xit-Koddi E-newsletter of Bahrain GoansSeptember 2013 Issue Is Now Available Online.Click on the link below, bookmark and read at your leisure https://sites.google.com/site/bahraingoans/xit-koddi---sep-2013
[Goanet] Fwd: Re floating of the Concordia.. Telegraph blog
*16.45* *Tom Witherow* has been finding out more about the families of the two victims whose bodies are tragically still yet to be found. It is likely that the bodies of Russel Rebello, an Indian waiter, and Maria Grazia Trecarichi, a passenger from Sicily, are either inside the hull of the ship or trapped between the hull and the seabed. [image: Quote]*The families last gathered at the scene in a commemorative ceremony on 13th January - a year after Captain Schettino's ship struck the Giglio reef leaving 32 dead.* *Kevin Rebello, brother of Russel, set up a Facebook group in remembrance of his brother. After the memorial service he said:* *I've not lost hope. I know the official search stopped a long time ago but I will continue to look for my brother's body.* *Those 30 people who lost loved ones on the Concordia have some closure as they have a body that they have buried and maybe a gravestone to pray at, but we don't have anything.* *More than anything we would just like to find Russel's body so we can bury him and draw a line on what happened.''* *Kevin paid tribute to the islanders on Giglio and said: ''They have been so welcoming and friendly towards me. They have made me feel welcome and at home each time I go to Giglio - the mayor above all has been very friendly and warm. Giglio has become my second home.* -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
[Goanet] Indian origin Miss America...
'She looks like a terrorist': newly crowned Miss America faces torrent of vile Twitter abuse over Indian roots 'So happy': Nina Davuluri wins the 2014 Miss America Competition at Boardwalk Hall Arena, Atlantic City 50 6 MAXINE FRITHhttp://www.standard.co.uk/search/simple.do?destinationSectionUniqueName=searchpublicationName=espageLength=5startDay=1startMonth=1startYear=2010useSectionFilter=trueuseHideArticle=truesearchString=byline_text:(%22Maxine%20Frith%22)displaySearchString=Maxine%20Frith Published: 16 September 2013 Updated: 12:39, 16 September 2013 The first woman of Indian descent to be crowned Miss America has become the victim of intense racist abuse on Twitter. Users of the social networking site accused Nina Davuluri of being an “Arab” and “terrorist” and told her to get out of the country — despite the fact she was born in the US. Miss Davuluri, 24, said she intended to ignore the attacks, saying: “I have to rise above that. I’ve always viewed myself as first and foremost American.” She was born in Syracuse, New York, after her parents moved to the US from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in 1981. She was crowned Miss New York before taking the US crown. But within hours of her victory she was being targeted by Twitter users who accused her of not being American. One said: “I’m literally soo mad right now an Arab won” while another posted: “How the does a foreigner win Miss America? She is a Arab!” A third user said: “Well they just picked a Muslim for Miss America” and another added: “It’s called Miss America, Get outta here New York you look like a terrorist.” Miss Davuluri’s father is a doctor and she intends to use her prize money from the competition to study at medical school in the US. The Miss America competition had been praised this year for celebrating diversity, with contestants including an Army officer with tattoos and a woman missing the lower part of one arm. At a press conference, the new Miss America said: “I’m so happy that this organisation has embraced diversity. “I am thankful there are children watching at home who can finally relate to a new Miss America.” She performed a Bollywood style dance as part of the talent segment of the contest, held in Atlantic City, and said she wanted to use her role to “celebrate diversity through cultural competency”. *http://tinyurl.com/psp79m4* -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
[Goanet] Gladwyn D’Souza, Belmont City Council
Goa Sudharop supporter, Gladwyn D’Souza, is running for a Belmont, California, city council seat (election on November 5, 2013). Please let your contacts in Belmont know so that they can find out more about his campaign at www.gladwyndsouza.com and at his Facebook campaign page at www.facebook.com/votegladwyn
[Goanet] In bad Sao Paolo !
At gun point: my brother's car, wallet, phone and glasses off his nose. Relieved he was permitted to keep his trousers. eric. This is not the first time! Nascy is falling for it time and again! I have reported this to the Met as there is a contact phone number, hope they can do something to bring the culprits to book! On 16 September 2013 13:12, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote: Not you, Nascy! How could you fall for the guiles of this trickster? FN On 16 September 2013 12:27, Nascy Caldeira nascy...@yahoo.com.au wrote: This message may be coming to you as a surprise but I need your help. Few days back I made an unannounced vacation trip to United Kingdom. Everything was going fine until last night when I got mugged on my way back to the hotel. They stole all my cash, credit cards and cell phone but thank God I still have my life and passport. FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
[Goanet] Let’s march to destroy blackmailing through Aadhaar card
http://www.bharatmukti.blogspot.in/2013/09/lets-march-to-destroy-blackmailing_3547.html Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is going against Parliament. The law (National Identification Authority Bill) for Aadhaar card is not passed in the Parliament and he being the Prime Minister of India is dictating terms against the Parliament of India. Aadhaar card is totally and completely illegal and people are made slaves in doing the Aadhaar Card. As a Prime Minister he has to work for the good of the people. Parliamentary standing committee on finance in fact has recommended the scrapping of the Aadhaar card project citing the reason of absence of direction and clarity of the project, waste of public resources and grave threat to national security. Cylinders should be sold at the rate of Rs. 435/- as it was sold before and the public at large should not be troubled by the Prime Minister the way he is doing so. Aadhaar cards must be scrapped completely and totally giving due respect to the Parliament of India. How can Prime Minister legitimize Aadhaar cards as he has done in his press release of September 2nd 2013. The web link of the Prime Minister’s press release is as follows: http://pmindia.nic.in/content_print.php?nodeid=1685nodetype=1 As a member of the house who earns about a Rs.4,000/- per month wherein he has to support his wife and children plus pay the electricity bill, telephone bill, water bill; how much money will he have left with him after all these payments? Plus he has to pay Rs.950/- for the gas cylinder. This is only going to chock up his throat and give him sleepless nights endlessly. It is disgusting and highly miserable act of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh even to think on such a misery by going against the Parliament of India. Such people are showing their true selves that they are really pursuing the agenda of the Eurasians Bamons who don’t care about the mulnivasis. Goa Chief Minister Bamon Manohar Parrikar made Rs.10/- less on Petrol after coming to Power as per promise in his manifesto in 2012. Immediately after that his government completely stopped Kerosene available at the fair price shop through the ration card and mulnivasis at large are suffering today as Kerosene is stopped by Parrikar. The house maids, the sweepers, the peons, private sector working people are suffering tremendously on account of the Chief Minister bamon Parrikar and the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. With all this suffering in mind they also have to cater to their children’s education and future. This is only strangling and suffocating what this Bamon Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is doing to Goa. Only MLA’s and Ministers and Chief Minister and Prime Minister can afford to in this high cost life style. Others will have to struggle. The MLAs are paid Rs. One lakh five thousand monthly, MPs, Ministers, Prime Minister are getting even more. Bharat Mukti Morcha condemns Bamon Manohar Parrikar and the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for going against the Parliament of India. Scrapping of Aadhaar card pamphlets are distributed in all the 12 talukas of Goa. Total awareness is made about Aadhaar card scandal in all 12 talukas of Goa.
Re: [Goanet] Indian origin Miss America...her dance performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=Eh_0PzIsv5g Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:11:17 +0100 From: gabe.mene...@gmail.com To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Indian origin Miss America... 'She looks like a terrorist': newly crowned Miss America faces torrent of vile Twitter abuse over Indian roots 'So happy': Nina Davuluri wins the 2014 Miss America Competition at Boardwalk Hall Arena, Atlantic City 50 6 MAXINE FRITHhttp://www.standard.co.uk/search/simple.do?destinationSectionUniqueName=searchpublicationName=espageLength=5startDay=1startMonth=1startYear=2010useSectionFilter=trueuseHideArticle=truesearchString=byline_text:(%22Maxine%20Frith%22)displaySearchString=Maxine%20Frith Published: 16 September 2013 Updated: 12:39, 16 September 2013 The first woman of Indian descent to be crowned Miss America has become the victim of intense racist abuse on Twitter. Users of the social networking site accused Nina Davuluri of being an “Arab” and “terrorist” and told her to get out of the country — despite the fact she was born in the US. Miss Davuluri, 24, said she intended to ignore the attacks, saying: “I have to rise above that. I’ve always viewed myself as first and foremost American.” She was born in Syracuse, New York, after her parents moved to the US from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in 1981. She was crowned Miss New York before taking the US crown. But within hours of her victory she was being targeted by Twitter users who accused her of not being American. One said: “I’m literally soo mad right now an Arab won” while another posted: “How the does a foreigner win Miss America? She is a Arab!” A third user said: “Well they just picked a Muslim for Miss America” and another added: “It’s called Miss America, Get outta here New York you look like a terrorist.” Miss Davuluri’s father is a doctor and she intends to use her prize money from the competition to study at medical school in the US. The Miss America competition had been praised this year for celebrating diversity, with contestants including an Army officer with tattoos and a woman missing the lower part of one arm. At a press conference, the new Miss America said: “I’m so happy that this organisation has embraced diversity. “I am thankful there are children watching at home who can finally relate to a new Miss America.” She performed a Bollywood style dance as part of the talent segment of the contest, held in Atlantic City, and said she wanted to use her role to “celebrate diversity through cultural competency”. *http://tinyurl.com/psp79m4* -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
[Goanet] Just an Indian - the Man who Will not Bribe
Dear Friends Well-wishers Just an Indian - the Man who Will not Bribe is an eBook authored by Veeresh Malik, a highly respected senior journalist who has been a close friend for around a decade and who writes columns regularly in The Times of India, MoneyLife and other leading publications. The eBook is now available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F6P20IOhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F6P20IO. Please do find time to visit the above link. Thanks and best regards Varun Arya --- Founder Director Aravali Institute of Management Aravali Nagar National Highway - 112 Village Kaparda, Tehsil Bilara Distt. Jodhpur 342 605 Rajasthan, India Mobile : 0-94141-36500, 96940-36500 Fax : 0291-2707700 E-mail : ar...@sancharnet.in, direc...@aravali.org Web : http://www.aravali.org/http://www.aravali.org --- Formerly President, IIT Delhi Alumni Association Secretary, IIM Ahmedabad Alumni Association
[Goanet] NARENDRA MODI: A RECIPE FOR DISASTER
L.K.Advani was very right in flagging the red card to Narendra Modi leading the BJP at the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The people of India will never accept Narendra Modi due to his Gujarat carnage taint, for which no sensible Indian would also ever forgive him. Narendra Modi’s hindtuva agenda and his fanatic dream of making India a Hindu nation is out of place. Having all traits of spreading the communal venom he would definitely not be acceptable across the country. Today our Hindu brethren have a broader outlook and would definitely at all cost strive to maintain our country secular. The recent revelations of DIG Vanzara are some of the hidden methods by which the Modi administration is maladministered. Can India afford such kind of administration? Power in the hands of the wrong people can be disastrous. Over the last 18 months we have been witness to the total reckless abuse of that power and authority by Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar who has a lot in common with Narendra Modi. They are both a one man show. A lot of hollow talk and no substance. Both have publicly declared that they are Hindu nationalists. No doubt they have now ganged together. In Goa we were promised a Parivartan. Rampant corruption and maladministration beefed with a vicious communal agenda has been there for all to see. We cannot afford another experiment which will take India the Goa way. The current wave of Opposition to Narendra Modi is obvious. Even some of the NDA partners themselves have put their foot down while opposing him tooth and nail. Courtesy Narendra Modi the BJP will see the Lotus wilt to the hilt. It will be a NO to Modi and a YES for a very secular India. Aires Rodrigues T1 - B30, Ribandar Retreat Ribandar - Goa - 403006 Mobile: 9822684372
[Goanet] DEBATE: Common sense and Hindu nationalism (Albertina Almeida Others kafila.org)
Common sense and Hindu nationalism Why the Catholics in Goa are not Hindu: Albertina Almeida Others SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 This Guest Post by ALBERTINA ALMEIDA, AMITA KANEKAR, DALE LUIS MENEZES, JASON KEITH FERNANDES AND R. BENEDITO FERRaO is a response to a statement by Chief Minister of Goa, Manohar Parrikar. [Kafila.org] Can a Goan Catholic be Hindu? Can Catholics professing a tradition of Catholicism that is over five centuries old be considered Hindu in culture? This is what the Chief Minister of Goa, Manohar Parrikar, sought to suggest in a recent interview with Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi of the New York Times India blog India Ink, where he said: I am a perfect Hindu, but that is my personal faith, it has nothing to do with government. India is a Hindu nation in the cultural sense. A Catholic in Goa is also Hindu culturally, because his practices don't match with Catholics in Brazil [a former Portuguese outpost like Goa]; except in the religious aspect, a Goan Catholic's way of thinking and practice matches a Hindu's. So Hindu for me is not a religious term, it is cultural. I am not the Hindu nationalist as understood by some TV media -- not one who will take out a sword and kill a Muslim. According to me that is not Hindu behavior at all. Hindus don't attack anyone, they only do so for self-defense -- that is our history. But in the right sense of the term, I am a Hindu nationalist. Parrikar's bizarre statement was in response to the question of whether he saw himself as a Hindu nationalist. Of course, a quick and easy response to his statement would be to summarily dismiss it as expected rhetoric flowing from his saffron affiliations; yet, questions persist, not least because of the peculiar and oft-misrepresented Goan scenario. More than meets the eye Goan Catholics today find themselves in a strange situation. On the one hand they are summoned to maintain a distinct Goan identity which rests in large part on the Portuguese past of the territory. This distinct identity is called upon not merely by an officially approved tourism policy and practice, but also by local elites who use the claim of a distinct identity to cyclically generate local mass movements that help them maintain their dominance. On the other hand, as Victor Ferrao argues in his recent book *Being a Goan Christian: The Politics of Identity, Rift and Synthesis* (2011), there is a simultaneous suggestion that this Catholic 'cultural' element is not compatible with a Goan and Indian identity; this is precisely what Parrikar is proposing here. What he further does is to paint the community as a monolithic entity, despite a situation where large segments of the Catholics are being delegitimized by dominant-caste members of their own faith who participate in a Hindu nationalist reading of Goan history. Parrikar's statement also distorts history through a saffron lens, contributing to the further marginalization of not only Goan Catholics, but also Goan Muslims, Dalits, and Adivasis. Finally, when Parrikar says that his Hindu faith has nothing to do with governance, he is cleverly skirting the intimate connection that religion and caste ideologies, including the right-wing one he professes, have with state apparatuses in post-1947 India. In the political mobilizations of the dominant as well as the subaltern sections in India, religion has emerged as a potent and important factor. Our contention, not necessarily a new one, is this: that religion in post-1947 India is not a personal affair; it is deeply public and profoundly political, and has now become even more overtly so with the rise of the BJP. Goa's encounter with Christianity This background of political machinations and mobilizations makes it even more necessary to unpack Parrikar's statement against the actual historical context in which Goa and Goans encountered Christianity. As has been pointed out by the historian R. E. Frykenberg in his book *Christianity in India: From the Beginning to the Present* (2008), despite appearances to the contrary, the transmission of Christianity from the proselytizer to the converted always involved shifts in practice. These shifts resulted in new and unique forms of Catholicism or Christianity as the converted took in the message of the faith and made it their own. Thus, when Parrikar views a Goan Catholic as different from Catholics in Brazil, he is right only to the extent that there would be some ethno-local differences, because the local culture of Goan Catholics is Goan culture in its multiple variations, including, but not limited to, Hindu culture. Further, just as there are many shades in
[Goanet] Goa news for September 17, 2013
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Bosco D wrote: : KoolAid!!! Lots of it!!! Almost daily attempts to convert bakwas into facts noted. - B, I am glad you agree. Ever so often someone on GOAnet shouts, USA! USA! USA! and ends the sentence with we have the power to vaporize you. Any opinion different from the shouter starts a downward spiral where the winner is the first person to hurl abuse. It makes him feel good. I like to gently point out that the taxes I pay provides for one of the best health care systems in the world. I feel the power of my taxes when I see a sick person walk out of a hospital, healthy. Others feel more powerful when they put people into hospital, or for ease, just vaporize them. The accuser, the judge, the jury AND the executioner, all rolled into one person. Mervyn.
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Jim Fernandes wrote: You sound like the US is about to go around with a begging bowl for alms. Jim F, Clearly you have no idea what the credit rating of the US is or how it has not been able to balance its budget this century. In the meantime, please enjoy your near-free vacation in the remote rat hole you happened to be in! I find it almost unbelievable that you would call Washington, D.C. a rat hole. Despite your sour opinion, it is the nations capital and very righteous people live here. Regardless of the dozen+ people killed here today, it is a much, much safer place than New York City. Mervyn
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Came across this interesting blog. Thought of sharing with you. http://thepristinecanvas.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/ the-report-card-of-namo.html?m=1 Regards, Marshall
