[Goanet] Travel: the taluka of Quepem GOA.

[Con Menezes]

   
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[Goanet] Out of Africa.

[Con Menezes]

  
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/4545616.htm

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[Goanet] Easy listening selection......You dont bring me flowers anymore......Barbra Streisand, , , , & Neil Diamond.

[Con Menezes]

   
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[Goanet] Mapusa Post Forum organizes awareness program for postmen on World Rabies Day.

[Goa Desc]

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[Goanet] Hail surgical strikes by India

[Nelson Lopes]

HAIL SURGICAL  STRIKES  BY INDIA

The news that India has taken action is heartening to assuage the feelings
of itching citizens in avenging URI massacre in the place and time of our
choosing.. It is a dangerous action in response to deep anger and
tolerating for long time a maximum restraint. Surgical strike was limited
to elimination of terrorist alone and not on destructions  of structures etc

What is perhaps astonishing is the need of displaying graphic details and
video footages.  It is undesirable to assert the truth. No  Indian
causality   in a precise strike on 8  launch pad, 2 to 15  Kms between 12
a.m to 4,30.am by Special Forces inside LOC, in POK is not crossing border,
being anti terror operation is a redeeming grace. Causalities, if any were
not be left behind. About 10 Special Forces in two teams of eight
succeeded, effectively with backup plan and alert on all fronts of India to
secure counter actions.  Nine soldiers, unfortunately, who came on their
way and sheltering,protecting terrorists  had to be  eliminated, clearly
showing complicity of Pakistan army in co operating, thus exposing the myth
of presence of non state actors.   A heavy , massive   damage on
terrorist’s camps and  terrorist on different locations in multiple
locations but the figure is put at 70 on estimate. Our sentiment were hurt
to stop infiltrations .A dangerous risk to avoid ambush  ,mine fields,
retaliation by Pakistan army. Pakistan was taken by surprise and
maintaining low key and also do not want to escalate further and ferment
internal pressures and provide opportunity to Pakistan army. Between
denials the Pakistan defense minister has warned of repeat misadventure.
India has crossed a psychological barrier of crossing LOC. ,a  water shed
moment . Pakistan cannot possibly admit that infiltrators and terrorists
waiting are eliminated because Pakistan are always in total denial of
existence of militant camps.  If they admit or otherwise Pakistan is damned
and doomed .The National capitals are being kept in touch and informed
about action undertaken to secure our interests. A maximum vigilance is
essential to deal with unpredictable neighbor sponsor of terror world
around.   India cannot let the guard down and to be complacent. Political
resolve and directions by P,M with complete backing of whole .Nation
equivocally Pakistan army  must resort  theatrical actions to  please their
Nation  and their  people.

Nelson Lopes Chinchinim

[Goanet] time for Lady to head USA

[Nelson Lopes]

TIME FOR A WORTHY CHANGE IN USA



  World is talking about women liberation  equal rights, non discrimination
on sex. U,S.A is the  most advanced Nation in the world and highly literate
and it  must just show  that it believes sincerely  what it preaches. It is
high time that USA changes its mould and ushers in a lady at the helm of
affairs of the Country for once.  All other options have been explored in
USA in electing President of different shades of professions and calling in
life. Now it is the right and high  time for USA to make the  suitable,
experienced  choice available



 Countries like Germany, Israel, Brazil, Venezuela, Philiphines,

 Britain,India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, England  developing nations among
others have reposed their faith  in ladies  a very long time ago, thus
showing equality and liberation among sexes all things being equal. It is
first opportunity, when USA must show that it believes in these principles
too by electing a lady as the President for the first time in its history,
considering all her  other assets as an experienced politician combined
with administrative, diplomatic skills in her interactions the world leaders

For the very first time in the  political history of USA election a moment
and opportunity  has opened up and  USA  is at the  crucial moment  to
demonstrate that there is no discriminatory attitude per se ever towards
sexes. The lady seeking election to the highest  office is  well
 experienced in administration, diplomatic parleys ,familiar with world
leaders and built personal relations as a Secretary of State and has all
 qualities to Head as the worthy President of USA  with wealth of
experience politically in comparison with to her immediate competitor  to
continue the high ideals of the great American Nation and take it to newer
 heights

 Nelson Lopes Chinchinim

[Goanet] Cavelossim hold FC Bardez Goa to goalless draw

[FC Bardez]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below a match report of GFA Goa Professional League match
played between FC Bardez vs SCC Cavelossim .  Please print this match
report in your respective newspapers .

*Both sides failed to make the most of their opportunities...*

FC Bardez Goa drew 0-0 with Santa Cruz Club of Cavelossim in a Goa
Professiona League match played at Duler Stadium earlier today .

Both teams played fantastic football. SCC Cavelossim dominated in the first
10 minutes of the game with two shots on goal, but later FC Bardez took
control of the game.

Read Full match Report:-
https://khelnow.com/news/article/cavelossim_hold_fc_bardez_goa_to_goalless_draw

Picture and Report Courtesy :  FC Bardez Digital Media and Mobile App
Partner – Khel Now

Regards,

Clive Alvares,
Media Manager – FC Bardez

Mobile - +919146306757
https://khelnow.com/team/FC_Bardez_Goa

[Goanet] GHRC SUMMONS CS AND DGP OVER COPS BEING MADE TO WORK LONG HOURS AND UNDER INHUMAN CONDITIONS

[Aires Rodrigues]

The Goa Human Rights Commission (GHRC) comprising of Retired District Judge
A.D.Salkar and Mr.J.A Keny has today issued notices to the Chief Secretary
and Director General of Police directing them to appear on 9th November in
connection with the complaint that policemen in the State were being
made to work very long hours amidst pathetic and very appalling working
conditions.

Most policemen get a break only after many days of work and this has been
taking a toll on their personal lives with a spate of incidents that has
exposed the stress related fragility affecting the police force.

Alike all other government employees the police should also get an eight
hour shift which will infact increase their efficiency.

On account of the long hours of work related stress, a lot of the policemen
are grappling with serious health problems like hypertension, diabetes and
depression. The working and living conditions of the police at some of the
police stations and barracks is also very inhuman.

The Government cannot be allowed to be a cause for ruining the health and
lives of the policemen by making them work long hours. The authorities seem
to have lost sight that a policeman too has a personal life.

The policemen are also not being paid uniform, washing, rifle and ration
allowance in time. This uncaring treatment meted out to the police force is a
clear and blatant Human Rights violation.

The genuine grievances and pathetic working conditions confronting the
police force must be looked into by the Government in right earnest. The Chief
Secretary and Director General of Police need to explain as to how they
have been mere spectators to this grave and gross Human Rights violations
of the Policemen in the State.
Aires Rodrigues

Advocate High Court

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

Ribandar Retreat,

Ribandar – Goa – 403006

Mobile No: 9822684372

Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012

Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com

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   airesrodrig...@yahoo.com

You can also reach me on

Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues

Twitter@rodrigues_aires


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[Goanet] A 'dying' community? (Frederick Noronha)

[Bernado Colaco]

After 1961 there were no assurances for Goans. For a couple of decades Goans 
have been crying hoarse - give us special status -. All these calls have fallen 
on deaf years. What is left is mati and gobor.
BC



* * *

          Three challenges face the community now, that in
          some ways justify the 'dying' tag of Karan Kapoor.
          The first stems from a crisis of its own ambitions.
          The second is its struggle to legitimise its
          aspirations. Third, but not necessarily in that
          order, is the role it builds for itself in its home
          State and the wider world.

Goans worldwide are, in some ways, victims of their own
ambitious. The growing trend towards seeking foreign
passports -- not just Portuguese -- has been widely commented
upon. We all have our own stories of our own friends and
colleagues, who, despite enjoying a perfectly comfortable
lifestyle in Goa, one fine day just pack their bags and
leave. If asked, they will justify it saying they are doing
this "for the children's sake".

          Unlike other Indian migratory communities, the Goan
          Catholic is seldom known to return home once (s)he
          migrates. The Goan ability to merge into almost any
          setting is a doubled-edged sword. It makes
          migration easy, but lowers the desire to return. In
          contrast, highly education expats from the rest of
          India are ready to return back and contribute to
          that place called home, sometimes while they are in
          their 30s itself. Goa has a few exceptions of this
          kind, like the festival-organising Marius
          Fernandes. But most stay away, only to find their
          children too deeply entrenced in their new homes to
          ever be able to return.

Then too, with all its wealth and its talent, the Goan
Catholic appears rather headless as a community. Because it
has got caught up in low-intensity communal conflict or caste
disputes for some time now, it finds it hard to define its
own priorities.

For a variety of reasons, it finds it cultural space
shrinking. Portuguese, the preferred language of the elite
till the middle of the last century, died (or was phased out,
understandably) with the demise of colonialism. Then, for
unconnected reasons, the widely used Romi Konkani got
step-motherly treatment while English was pushed out of
primary education for over a decade.

At another level, nobody seems to know how politicians who
pose as community leaders get selected for, or manoeuvre
themselves into, the job. In the first place, it's a myth to
believe that an entire community shares a common, unified
interest. But those in the political class who claim
community leadership should at least be held accountable in
some ways.

 
   

[Goanet] Uri Avenged: India hits Pakistan terror launchpads in surgical strikes along LoC

[Gabe Menezes]

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/india-conducted-surgical-strikes-last-night-in-pok-to-safeguard-our-nation-defence-ministry-3055715/?ie_share=fb#_=_

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[Goanet] ABC 4 corners...24 hour surveillance.

[Con Menezes]

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2013/09/09/3842009.htm

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[Goanet] ABC...Compass.

[Con Menezes]

 
http://www.abc.net.au/compass/s4528744.htm

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[Goanet] Easy listening selection......The Coffee Song......Frank Sinatra.

[Con Menezes]

another of those ‘coffee’ songs

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3MqmV47Lq8

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[Goanet] Easy listening selection.....You're the cream in my coffee......Nat King Cole.

[Con Menezes]

  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL1Sr7wxqag

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[Goanet] Fwd: A 'dying' community? (Frederick Noronha)

[Gabe Menezes]

I Enjoyed reading this.

By Frederick Noronha

Nobody would like to be told they're dying; not even an
elderly patient on a deathbed. So, one reads with rather
mixed feelings the BBC.com story titled 'In pictures: India's
dying Christian communities'.

  This feature was actually about a forthcoming book
  by the London-based photographer Karan Kapoor, the
  son of actors Shashi Kapoor and Jennifer (Kendal)
  Kapoor. Initially, the article focuses on the
  Anglo-Indian community, but latter on throws in the
  line that "Kapoor also took portraits of Goa's
  Catholic community".

Karan Kapoor's parents were part of an early generation which
owned a holiday home in Goa. This was at Baga, if one is not
wrong. The Kapoors came in to Goa some time before it became
the fashionable thing to do, for anyone  and their uncle from
Urban India.

Given how the mainstream-periphery divide works here, one
that Independent India has inherited from British India, this
is not the first, nor the last depiction of Quaint Goa. Many
many decades later perhaps, visiting photographers will
continue to locate the 21st century equivalent of what Kapoor
found here in the 1990s.

Tiny boys striking a pose behind a violin at Loutolim. A
blind musician being led to the church feast. Suit-clad
teenagers consciously posing while seated on a parked
scooter. A boys dressed as an angel for church service in
Loutolim. A scene at the centuries-old seminary at Rachol.

  But despite the somewhat cliched depiction, Karan
  Kapoor's work pushes us to think of wider issues
  concerning Goa. Once again, in the 2010s, the
  Catholic in Goa feels a sense of uncertainity and
  disenchantment as he (often she, this is in some
  ways a women-empowered society, thanks to migration
  and education) looks to the future.

For Goa's Catholics, history has been like a roller coaster
ride. It's important not to get unduly pessimistic over it,
but the facts have to be faced up to. Good and challenging
trends have come its way, not just in the past five or six
decades of tumultous political change. But this has been the
case through centuries of migration, changing fortunes,
shrinking and expanding opportunity, new El Dorados and
unexpected threats.

* * *

In the 1960s, as ours was one of the families heading  back
to Goa, the local Catholic elite was largely caught up amidst
fears, doom and gloom. Those brought up amidst a Portuguese
worldview saw little hope. But, for the English-speaking
Catholic, opportunity was just opening up back home.

  By the late 1960s and early 1970s, the traumatic
  developments in former British East Africa,
  specially Uganda, ended up ironically in bringing
  in so much talent back here. I have argued
  elsewhere that this was a time when many
  emigration-oriented (read: Catholic) coastal
  villages flowered like never before.

But, barely a decade or so later, by the 1980s, many of the
children of those who had returned were finishing their
education, and readying to once again migrate themselves.
Today, many are settled in Australia, Canada, UK, the US and
other parts of the Anglo-Saxon English-speaking world.
Meanwhile, in the 1990s, quite a few Bombay Goans opted to
resettle here, for reasons of real estate costs, and safety
issues in the big city, among others.

* * *

  Three challenges face the community now, that in
  some ways justify the 'dying' tag of Karan Kapoor.
  The first stems from a crisis of its own ambitions.
  The second is its struggle to legitimise its
  aspirations. Third, but not necessarily in that
  order, is the role it builds for itself in its home
  State and the wider world.

Goans worldwide are, in some ways, victims of their own
ambitious. The growing trend towards seeking foreign
passports -- not just Portuguese -- has been widely commented
upon. We all have our own stories of our own friends and
colleagues, who, despite enjoying a perfectly comfortable
lifestyle in Goa, one fine day just pack their bags and
leave. If asked, they will justify it saying they are doing
this "for the children's sake".

  Unlike other Indian migratory communities, the Goan
  Catholic is seldom known to return home once (s)he
  migrates. The Goan ability to merge into almost any
  setting is a doubled-edged sword. It makes
  migration easy, but lowers the desire to return. In
  contrast, highly education expats from the rest of
  India are ready to return back and contribute to
  that place called home, sometimes while they are in
  their 30s itself. Goa has a few exceptions of this
  kind, like the festival-organising Marius
  Fernandes. But most stay away, only to find their
  children too deeply 

Re: [Goanet] DoYouRemember: Polson butter?

[Cecil Pinto]

Dear Roland,

Thanks for the very interesting post on classic brands below.

I Googled each of them and now am better informed.

Look forward to more such nostagia/information posts by you.

Cheers!

Cecil


Message: 2
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 18:42:00 -0400
From: Roland 
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!"

Subject: Re: [Goanet] DoYouRemember: Polson butter?
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There were some iconic brands in the consumables category in Bombay during
Nehru's socialist era. Not all of them were indigenous, but even despite
foreign goods being banned, a very few because of their popularity,
continued to be imported in limited quantities.

Polson's butter, Waterbury's compound, Eno's Fruit Salts, Cadbury's
chocolates, and Rose's Lime Juice Cordial (a great mix for gin) were a few
of these popular brands.

Some like Polson fell by the wayside to local competition, others set up
Indian plants allowed to use the parent name and still others like Rose's
Syrups managed to retain their import license due to a very select market.

Butter in those days was a middle-class urban luxury. Most Christian homes
had butter on the table for the obligatory toast and the butter in most
cases was Polson. Amul, an Indian brand from a Gujarat cooperative had
entered the market but had not made inroads. Amul was the superior butter
but Polsons was the tastier. Amul poured in big money to advertise but
Polson gave out their dinky coupons as part of the wrapper and every
housewife collected them. Coupons would take a few pice, later paise off
the next purchase and that had the lady of the house hooked with the new
concept.

It's funny how taste can override goodness in a consumable product. Tinned
Kraft cheese for example is not real cheese, just a salty processed
product, but even today diehards used to it will opt to buy it over the
more natural and healthy cheddar slabs.

Polson did not make cheese, it just made butter unlike its rival Amul whose
cheese was an excellent product considering it was made by an Indian
company in rural Gujarat.

Ignorance, in this case due to non-availability, is generally bliss. It was
not until my relatives from Africa came to Bombay on long leave and brought
Kenya Creamery churned butter tins did we realize that Polsons was really a
very poor cousin.

In the end whether it was Amul's superior product or just their big budget
advertising or political heft that did Polson in, we shall never know. Like
an old soldier, Polsons after ruling Bombay's roost for decades, didn't
die. It just faded away.

Roland Francis
Toronto.

[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day....Andy Williams - Can't Get Used To Losing You

[Gabe Menezes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO_vKrVxGJM

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