[Goanet] Easy listening selection...........Babyface..........Lena Zavaroni.

[Con Menezes]

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ccs0JXUd8

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[Goanet] Behind the closed doors of the Vatican.

[Con Menezes]

   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urLxLj_UU8w

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[Goanet] India: A Whiter shade of Pale.

[Con Menezes]

   
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whkIW3vNltQ

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[Goanet] The most promising route to 'mental superpowers'?

[Con Menezes]

   
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170507-the-most-promising-route-to-mental-superpowers?ocid=global_future_rss=global_bbccom_email_08052017_future

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Re: [Goanet] TURPITUDE ON VIEW, REJECTED - 2

[Jim Fernandes]

Oops - forgot to answer the question in the original post.

The movie happens to be one of my all time favorites (besides The Godfather) 
and it also happens to be the name of my house in Goa. Try translating 'White 
House'.

And ahh ... one more thing ... if nobody's already mentioned ... 'When it comes 
to women, you're a true democrat'. 

Poor Hill !!! She's tending to her tomato patch ...

Jim.

On Mon, 08 May 2017 09:34:16 -0400 (EDT), "Jim Fernandes"  
wrote:

> 
> Take heart that the extreme Leftist were the first to get kicked out of 
> France in the first round.
> 
> That left the extreme Rightist and the Centrist in the second round - with 
> the Centrist winning the presidency.
> 
> Nobody is going to fall for this spin - This is by no means a win for the 
> Lefties.
> 
> Jim.
> 
> On Mon, 8 May 2017 02:48:50 + (UTC), eric pinto  
> wrote:
> 
> >    The French saw it displayed in Washington and they decided they would 
> > not have any of it in Paris.    " There will always be a Paris "   name the 
> > movie !

Re: [Goanet] TURPITUDE ON VIEW, REJECTED

[Jim Fernandes]

Take heart that the extreme Leftist were the first to get kicked out of France 
in the first round.

That left the extreme Rightist and the Centrist in the second round - with the 
Centrist winning the presidency.

Nobody is going to fall for this spin - This is by no means a win for the 
Lefties.

Jim.

On Mon, 8 May 2017 02:48:50 + (UTC), eric pinto  
wrote:

>    The French saw it displayed in Washington and they decided they would not 
> have any of it in Paris.    " There will always be a Paris "   name the movie 
> !

Re: [Goanet] VIJAY FOTINGPON CONTINUES

[Venantius J Pinto]

Marshall makes a splendid point. We have to try to move away from notions
of feeling hemmed in. Not easy! Engage in processes (first the realization
has to come, or be sought) unto ourselves to move away from seeing the
other in perpetuum** as the cause of our misery. **OK, OK, in perpetuity!

And more than ever get away, and also help others move / flee away from
that acute sense of victimization. Even many Hindus expect us to be strong,
as in live the Christian life, and while at it show them a whole lot of
LOVE. True.

Many things being true, including outright bamteaponn—one must still
attempt to rise above wonton pettiness, and abject cruelty; stay aloft in
mind and spirit.

"Khelltam khelltam sando boll, konnui soddun diyat re.
Macam mojem burgeaponn konnui soddun diyat re."

Blessings to all,
—Venantius J Pinto




> On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Marshall Mendonza 
> wrote:
>
>> Stephen, at the outset a disclaimer that I am not fully aware of this
>> scheme.
>>
>> However, theoretically, it sound good. The govt should provide incentives
>> to goans to maintain their old houses. The house should be upgraded with
>> modern amenities. One or two rooms should be set aside for homestays. This
>> will provide an income to the owner while at the same time help him to
>> maintain his house. This is very common in Europe and one will find many
>> such homestays which are cheaper than hotels. The visitor gets an
>> opportunity to live with a goan family and observe their culture. Such
>> homestays can set off other services like taxi, laundry, mess, tourist
>> guide etc. It is worth giving it a chance. It is better to light a candle
>> rather than curse the darkness.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Marshall
>>
>>
>>
>> *Just today ( 7th May 2017) we read in Herald that " STAY IN AN OLD
>> HOUSEGET INCENTIVES"My answer to Vijay is why not first he stays in his
>> old
>> house. His lectureto Goans to stay in old  houses is to keep them always
>> in
>> such badconditions and never allowing them to come up whereas the Non
>> Goans
>> arestaying in new houses and on high rise buildings with all
>> thefacilities/amenities like swimming pool, recreation club and what not
>> andGoans are put to suffer by dictating them to  remain in old
>> houses?Vijay
>> promises them some incentives is just to fool them, again he showsthat he
>> is a "fotkiro"*
>> *Stephen Dias*
>
>

Re: [Goanet] VIJAY FOTINGPON CONTINUES

[Venantius J Pinto]

Marshall makes a splendid point. We have to try to move away from notions
of feeling hemmed in. Not easy! Engage in processes (first the realization
has to come, or be sought) unto ourselves to move away from seeing the
other in perpetuum** as the cause of our misery. **OK, OK, in perpetuity!

And more than ever get away, and also help others move / flee away from
that acute sense of victimization. Even many Hindus expect us to be strong,
as in live the Christian live, and while at it show them a whole lot of
LOVE. True.

Many things being true, including outright bamteaponn—one must still
attempt to rise above wonton pettiness, and abject cruelty; stay aloft in
mind and spirit.

"Khelltam khelltam sando boll, konnui soddun diyat re.
Macam mojem burgeaponn konnui soddun diyat re."

Blessings to all,
—Venantius J Pinto


On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 8:40 AM, Marshall Mendonza 
wrote:

> Stephen, at the outset a disclaimer that I am not fully aware of this
> scheme.
>
> However, theoretically, it sound good. The govt should provide incentives
> to goans to maintain their old houses. The house should be upgraded with
> modern amenities. One or two rooms should be set aside for homestays. This
> will provide an income to the owner while at the same time help him to
> maintain his house. This is very common in Europe and one will find many
> such homestays which are cheaper than hotels. The visitor gets an
> opportunity to live with a goan family and observe their culture. Such
> homestays can set off other services like taxi, laundry, mess, tourist
> guide etc. It is worth giving it a chance. It is better to light a candle
> rather than curse the darkness.
>
> Regards,
>
> Marshall
>
>
>
> *Just today ( 7th May 2017) we read in Herald that " STAY IN AN OLD
> HOUSEGET INCENTIVES"My answer to Vijay is why not first he stays in his old
> house. His lectureto Goans to stay in old  houses is to keep them always in
> such badconditions and never allowing them to come up whereas the Non Goans
> arestaying in new houses and on high rise buildings with all
> thefacilities/amenities like swimming pool, recreation club and what not
> andGoans are put to suffer by dictating them to  remain in old houses?Vijay
> promises them some incentives is just to fool them, again he showsthat he
> is a "fotkiro"*
> *Stephen Dias*

[Goanet] Graft bomb on Arvind Kejriwal - Comments

[Floriano Lobo]

Sacked AAP minister drops graft bomb on Kejriwal-H



COMMENTS:



That Kejriwal should be rocked  by the GRAFT BOMB  is heartbreaking for
those who believed or do believe in Kejriwal as a 'phenomenon' in Indian
politics, yours faithfully included.

And for those who want to see the end of Kejriwal as a phenomena, this
shall be gratifying.



However, a window to Kejriwal is necessary to understand if he is the man
of his own mind and  could be influenced.



We met him personally when he came to Goa's Hotel Manoshanti [Panjim] to
deliver a talk on RTI, some year ago. This was before his joining with Anna
Hazare's INDIA AGAINST CORRUPTION movement which rattled India's politics,
more so the communal politics of the BJP in Delhi, to be precise. At this
meet, we were there to evaluate him and to see if he had what it takes to
lead India's politic to a saner path of good effective governance, and, if
he could respect and enforce the SECULAR Constitution of the Country,
having heard much about this IRS trained prodigy. And, we had gone
prepared. We took our chances of handing him our life-time work, the hard
copy of our ROADMAP FOR GOA, along with a copy of the Party's Constitution
with an advice " IF YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING TOWARDS CHANGING THE PRESENT
AND PAST POLITICS OF THIS COUNTRY, YOU MUST FORGET ABOUT ACTIVISM AND GET
INTO ACTIVE POLITICS"  To our euphoria, he did just that by not only
getting into the bedrock of  politics but also to smash the Communal BJP to
smithereens in Delhi on his second try. This is what the world of Indian
politics was waiting for, notwithstanding what his guru Anna Hazare thought
of him, himself being a sympathizer of the RSS-BJP and their mole to see
the ouster of the CONGRESS.



The first indication that came through that he might be influenced by
others or having a Hitlerist trait in him was when he unceremoniously
sacked the three founding pillars of his nascent  AAP, namely the Bushans
and Yogendra Yadhav, the universally considered as moderate conservatives.
It is said that this was done so that he could freely dish out tickets to
unscrupulous elements which exercise was opposed by the trio. Next, he
removed the pollution norms for the industries in Delhi, apparently as a
give and take gesture to appease the industrialists,  to bring the
pollution levels in Delhi so high that school kids  had to wear face masks.
There was no reason for him to declare that he will never contest elections
while in the IAC. Later, he had declared that he will not avail of
ministerial housing  etc, etc., all of which he forgot after being in power
and took U-turns, so much so that he refused to let go of his official
accommodation when his first govt was dissolved.   This has’t gone well
with the people who aspired to have a change for the better.



And now,  scams after scams, this bomb shell,  that he received 2 crores
 and refused to justify to his own MLA n Minister its receipt. We are not
bothered about his receiving the amount. It could be the promised
commission on the sale of certain property that Mr. Satyendra Jain had
brokered. It could be anything. But it  needed to be explained,  at least
within the inner circles. Hopefully, he has the right answers to all these
questions and hopefully he will survive the effect of this bomb shell
thereby not to give victory to his detractors, especially the BJP which has
been gunning for him.



Vis a vis his Goa escapade, we did have a sitting with AAP [ through our
mutual friends]  when it showed its intentions of contesting in Goa. Though
we are against aligning with national parties, AAP was a party that has
arisen from the bed-rock of social activism, just like GSRP in Goa. And
Goa’s in charge, Mr. Pankaj Gupta was told in no uncertain terms that if at
all GSRP & AAP could come together, it would be on a strict common minimum
programme, where GSRP’s constitutional provisions at Art. 38 [ no govt
corporations to MLAs] would never be diluted. This, for reasons of bringing
in belt-tightening exercises so that the huge burden ofGoa’s public debts
is addressed,  while Art. 34 [ Only 5 member Cabinet] could be stretched to
maximum 9, in order to show that GSRP was still relevant vis a vis its
promises to the people on stopping profligate attitude towards Goa’s
tax-payer’s money.



Mr. Pankaj Gupta had indicated that the decision shall be taken by Kejriwal
himself and that a meeting with him shall be set when he arrived In Goa.
This never happened because Kejriwal was adamant of going solo and thought
that Goans can be influenced by a blitz of a campaign where hundreds of
crores of rupees spent over it would dazzle Goans into giving him absolute
majority. Sadly, his Goan associates failed to warn him that Goans are a
hard breed and are not likely to fall for cheap political gimmicks. He
culminated his foolish thrust in Goa even further by declaring a
‘bureaucrat’ as the Chief Ministerial Candidate. Goans very well know that
bureaucrats are 

Re: [Goanet] Clare Road, Street that brought home Paris

[Roland Francis]

Paris, it was not. Only a Parsi could dream up that comparison.

Meher Marfatia does justice to the description of the ambience of Clare Road 
but even being a woman is no excuse to miss out "The Shelter", meant as an 
orphanage for Anglo Indian girls, but which turned out to be a hostel for 
'waywards' from the upcountry railway towns.

If you needed a date, that was the place, provided you could convince the 
stern-faced 'warden' (yes she was called warden and was a retired nurse-matron) 
that you were a third cousin.

A fair pretty Anglo-Indian girl by your side at a hop or dance, from there was 
guaranteed to drive any lesser Goan girl to distraction.

Roland Francis
Toronto.

> On May 8, 2017, at 10:59 AM, eric pinto  wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Clare Road, Street that brought home Paris
> WOW!!  This really takes me back to the 50s, 60s and part of the 70s. The 
> splendor that was once Clare Road. Lucky Moon restaurant owned by the Bahai 
> brothers Shapoor and Aman was very much around in the 70s when we came off 
> our ships and were our main source for exchanging foreign currency for Indian 
> rupees. They were honest and gave us a great exchange rate.  Vali Mohamed 
> Patel must be the new owner of "Mohsin Bookstall". We rented our comics from 
> him, the short booklet version of "Commando Comics" and "westerns", which 
> rented for 25 paise reach with a Rs. 3.0 deposit. Those very same comics are 
> now hard to get and can go from $25 to $1000 plus on ebay.  I got to know 
> Mohsin very well, and  he waived the deposit.  This was also the source of my 
> first pin-up magazines from Jayne Mansfield to Marilyn Monroe with some 
> Brigitte Bardot thrown in for good measure!!  All this and more while the 
> good "Katlick Boys" were wondering why they were stuck reading the lives of 
> Saints!!  The St. Mary Padres (no names mentioned) were growing frantic with 
> worry wondering why the "noon communion" student crowd had dwindled down to a 
> handful!!  HeHeHe!!  Now you know!! 
>  
> Great article and if you lived on Clare Road and in the vicinity this really 
> takes you back to a once great city, then called Bombay!! As for the "Paris", 
> I'm wondering if Meher is mixing up "Sukhlaji Street (Kamatipura aka The Red 
> Light District). If you were wondering, Sukhlaji Street was once called 
> "Sufed Ghalli" where the "White Prostitutes" lived and sold their "Parisian 
> Wares"!!   There are few more landmarks she has missed. She probably did not 
> eat Ice-cream from the Bhaya at the steps of Habib Park, he was there 
> forever, and she also left out the Rogers Bottling plant and the famous Sarvi 
> Restaurant which sold a cow a day in "Seekh Kababs" and many a Sheep lost its 
> feet there to a delicious "sheeps feet soup" aka Paya!!   Enjoy...
>  
> By Meher Marfatia | Posted 16-Apr-2017
> 
> Those who walked down Byculla's Clare Road, once known as the Paris of 
> Bombay, recall the charms that made it come alive.
> 
> Brothers Emil and Yvan Carvalho, the successful fourth generation proprietor 
> of American Express Bakery, in the bakery of their Clare Road headquarters, 
> which opened in 1939.
>  
> They never tired of hearing her. My kids would say "Perin Mamma, tell us a 
> 'real' story" and my ace raconteur mother-in-law flowed forth. Some were 
> boarding school tales, others about the Convent of Jesus and Mary on 
> Byculla's bustling Clare Road. Last week, at 80 and 81, Perin Marfatia and 
> her sister Meher Master posed for a picture outside their alma mater. Green 
> uniforms replaced with walking sticks, the visit rekindled all the excitement 
> of being back. A fresh flood of stories was our dinner table treat.
> The scene probably plays out with millions of mums and grandmums who attended 
> the 1912-established convent. The campus sprawls mid-point on a street 
> spilling with character, far from the genteel last-century spell it cast. 
> European carriages or "gharries", purring Plymouths and stately Studebakers 
> rolled past Cassi fistula trees—the Indian laburnum or "bhaya" naming 
> Byculla—suffixed with "khala", a threshing floor. Currently called Mirza 
> Ghalib Marg, it honours the 19th-century poet lodging here at 17A Adelphi 
> Chambers. Urdu writer Sadat Hassan Manto also stayed in that block in the 
> 1940s.
> 
> Ex-students Havovi Turel-Doodhwala and Bilkis Varawalla-Reshamvala (Class of 
> ’73) flank Perin Kuka-Marfatia and Meher Kuka-Master (Class of ’52) at the 
> Convent of Jesus and Mary gate. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar
>  
> A prestigious address, Clare Road was pronounced the Paris of Bombay. It used 
> to be an Anglo-Indian hub before their 1960s emigration to the West. Baghdadi 
> Jews, Protestant Christians and Cantonese Chinese were other important 
> settlers, contributing the locality's hairdressers, milliners and 
> confectioners.
> Sharing the frame with Class of 52's Perin and Meher Kuka are Hutoxi Turel 
> and Bilkis Varawalla from Class 

[Goanet] Clare Road, Street that brought home Paris

[eric pinto]

Clare Road, Street that brought home Paris 

WOW!!  This really takes me back to the 50s, 60s and part of the 70s. The 
splendor that was once Clare Road. Lucky Moon restaurant owned by the Bahai 
brothers Shapoor and Aman was very much around in the 70s when we came off our 
ships and were our main source for exchanging foreign currency for Indian 
rupees. They were honest and gave us a great exchange rate.  Vali Mohamed Patel 
must be the new owner of "Mohsin Bookstall". We rented our comics from him, the 
short booklet version of "Commando Comics" and "westerns", which rented for 25 
paise reach with a Rs. 3.0 deposit. Those very same comics are now hard to get 
and can go from $25 to $1000 plus on ebay.  I got to know Mohsin very well, and 
 he waived the deposit.  This was also the source of my first pin-up magazines 
from Jayne Mansfield to Marilyn Monroe with some Brigitte Bardot thrown in for 
good measure!!  All this and more while the good "Katlick Boys" were wondering 
why they were stuck reading the lives of Saints!!  The St. Mary Padres (no 
names mentioned) were growing frantic with worry wondering why the "noon 
communion" student crowd had dwindled down to a handful!!  HeHeHe!!  Now you 
know!!     Great article and if you lived on Clare Road and in the vicinity 
this really takes you back to a once great city, then called Bombay!! As for 
the "Paris", I'm wondering if Meher is mixing up "Sukhlaji Street (Kamatipura 
aka The Red Light District). If you were wondering, Sukhlaji Street was once 
called "Sufed Ghalli" where the "White Prostitutes" lived and sold their 
"Parisian Wares"!!   There are few more landmarks she has missed. She probably 
did not eat Ice-cream from the Bhaya at the steps of Habib Park, he was there 
forever, and she also left out the Rogers Bottling plant and the famous Sarvi 
Restaurant which sold a cow a day in "Seekh Kababs" and many a Sheep lost its 
feet there to a delicious "sheeps feet soup" aka Paya!!   Enjoy... 
   

By Meher Marfatia | Posted 16-Apr-2017  Those who walked down Byculla's Clare 
Road, once known as the Paris of Bombay, recall the charms that made it come 
alive. 
Brothers Emil and Yvan Carvalho, the successful fourth generation proprietor of 
American Express Bakery, in the bakery of their Clare Road headquarters, which 
opened in 1939.    They never tired of hearing her. My kids would say "Perin 
Mamma, tell us a 'real' story" and my ace raconteur mother-in-law flowed forth. 
Some were boarding school tales, others about the Convent of Jesus and Mary on 
Byculla's bustling Clare Road. Last week, at 80 and 81, Perin Marfatia and her 
sister Meher Master posed for a picture outside their alma mater. Green 
uniforms replaced with walking sticks, the visit rekindled all the excitement 
of being back. A fresh flood of stories was our dinner table treat. The scene 
probably plays out with millions of mums and grandmums who attended the 
1912-established convent. The campus sprawls mid-point on a street spilling 
with character, far from the genteel last-century spell it cast. European 
carriages or "gharries", purring Plymouths and stately Studebakers rolled past 
Cassi fistula trees—the Indian laburnum or "bhaya" naming Byculla—suffixed with 
"khala", a threshing floor. Currently called Mirza Ghalib Marg, it honours the 
19th-century poet lodging here at 17A Adelphi Chambers. Urdu writer Sadat 
Hassan Manto also stayed in that block in the 1940s. 
Ex-students Havovi Turel-Doodhwala and Bilkis Varawalla-Reshamvala (Class of 
’73) flank Perin Kuka-Marfatia and Meher Kuka-Master (Class of ’52) at the 
Convent of Jesus and Mary gate. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar   A prestigious address, 
Clare Road was pronounced the Paris of Bombay. It used to be an Anglo-Indian 
hub before their 1960s emigration to the West. Baghdadi Jews, Protestant 
Christians and Cantonese Chinese were other important settlers, contributing 
the locality's hairdressers, milliners and confectioners. Sharing the frame 
with Class of 52's Perin and Meher Kuka are Hutoxi Turel and Bilkis Varawalla 
from Class of '73. April afternoon heat doesn't deter them from showing off the 
road they roamed daily. Christened after John Fitzgibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare and 
Governor of Bombay from 1831 to 1835, this street was constructed in 1867. It 
is flanked north by Byculla Fire Station and the Khada Parsi statue of 
Cursetjee Manockjee (he offered Indian girls the first English school in 1859 
from his home, Villa Byculla) at the Y-flyover junction. Southside it has Light 
of India and Rolex Restaurant face the Dawoodi Bohra community hall where the 
Barodawalas set up the Zenith Tins packaging company in a garage in 1938. 
Wali Mohamed has watched Clare Road change over the years since 1971 when he 
started selling publications at Patel Newspaper Stall here. Pic/Suresh Karkera  
 I chat with Vali Mohamed Patel, ensconced in Patel Newspaper Stall opposite 
the Bata showroom since 1971. "Print 

[Goanet] VIJAY FOTINGPON CONTINUES

[Marshall Mendonza]

Stephen, at the outset a disclaimer that I am not fully aware of this
scheme.

However, theoretically, it sound good. The govt should provide incentives
to goans to maintain their old houses. The house should be upgraded with
modern amenities. One or two rooms should be set aside for homestays. This
will provide an income to the owner while at the same time help him to
maintain his house. This is very common in Europe and one will find many
such homestays which are cheaper than hotels. The visitor gets an
opportunity to live with a goan family and observe their culture. Such
homestays can set off other services like taxi, laundry, mess, tourist
guide etc. It is worth giving it a chance. It is better to light a candle
rather than curse the darkness.

Regards,

Marshall










*Just today ( 7th May 2017) we read in Herald that " STAY IN AN OLD
HOUSEGET INCENTIVES"My answer to Vijay is why not first he stays in his old
house. His lectureto Goans to stay in old  houses is to keep them always in
such badconditions and never allowing them to come up whereas the Non Goans
arestaying in new houses and on high rise buildings with all
thefacilities/amenities like swimming pool, recreation club and what not
andGoans are put to suffer by dictating them to  remain in old houses?Vijay
promises them some incentives is just to fool them, again he showsthat he
is a "fotkiro"*
*Stephen Dias*

[Goanet] Sir J D Cuuz science award presented

[Nelson Lopes]

Sir J D Cruz Science award
The scheme of the award is presented to Fr Jerry Vaz. Headmaster ,Guardian
Angel H S Sanvordem . in the presence Mr Nelson Lopes, Mr Wilfred
Mascarenhas. Eng Kennedy Pereira. E. M of P.C.Trust .The yearly cash award
of Rs 3000= minimum with citation is instituted under P.C.Trust in Honour
of Sir J.D`Cruz by past students, colleagues, friends for the first student
in SCIENCE and will be effective from March/April, 2017, SSCE of GBSHSE
Nelson Lopes
Chairman
P.C.Trust

[Goanet] Suspend mining

[Stephen Dias]

 SUSPEND MINING

  AROUND SONSHI



STEPHEN DIAS

DONA  PAULA





It would be in the fitness of things to suspend mining activities around
Sonshi village until appropriate mining guidelines under the Supreme Court
directives are being implemented to curb, air, water and noise pollution in
the area.

The special investigation team (SIT) is in the process of quizzing former
CM Digamber Kamat for his involvement in the illegal mining activities to
the tune of Rs.35,000 crore mining scam and it should not happen that an
alleged mining scam is in the making during the pendency of the SIT
investigation. The 350 villager of Sonshi should hence be given immediate
relief as far as restoring their clean air, water and noise levels are
covered. Only after implementation of strict Supreme Court guidelines, can
mining be resumed in a step-by-step and orderly manner that will not affect
the air, water and noise pollution in the Sonshi village. Securing of
loaded trucks with tarpaulin to prevent particularly air pollution,
removing the possibility of run-off during the monsoons, thus eradicating
pollution of the Sonshi water bodies as well as reducing the number of
trips to reduce noise pollution are some of the measures that may be then
implanted.



Just as due process is being followed in the case of Kamat, due process
must be followed for everyone. The BJP’s call for Delhi Chief Minister
Arvind Kejriwal to resign is uncalled for. The Dy Chief Minister of Delhi
Manish Sisodia has already clarified that the allegation against Kejriwal
is false and fabricated for having accepted a bribe.

It may be recalled that the then Chief Minister of Gujarat, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi was suspected to be involved in the aftermath of the Godhra
carnage, a high profile case that led to Narendra Modi at that time being
denied a visa to travel to the U.S.A  by the US Government. In the light of
this it is absolutely unacceptable that the BJP should demand for
resignation of Kejriwal. Let the law take its own course and thus Arvind
Kejriwal is innocent unless proved guilty.

 Stephen dias

DATE: 8.5.2017

[Goanet] A Loving Invitation : FUSION FIESTA

[Mandd Sobhann]

You are cordially invited to Fusion Fiesta - A Musical Extravaganza , on Sun., 
May 14th, 2017, at Kalaangann.



Invitation attached. 
 
MANDD SOBHANNKalaangann, Makale,Shaktinagar, Mangalore - 575 016Ph: 
0824-2230489/2232239website : www.manddsobhann.org
   

[Goanet] TURPITUDE ON VIEW, REJECTED

[eric pinto]

   The French saw it displayed in Washington and they decided they would not 
have any of it in Paris.    " There will always be a Paris "   name the movie !

[Goanet] Calcutta Remount - Police cavalry.

[eric pinto]

According to a senior officer, who has spent 20 years in the department,
mounted police's training has always been different from other departments.
It is said a police horse is trained in such a way that it won't hurt a
human even in the tensest of situations. "The horse will only push men away
with its buttocks, and being such a tall animal, people feel scared of it
naturally," the veterinary doctor of the department told us.

Earlier, most horses used to be bought from England or Australia. Now, in order 
to make
the department more cost effective, the horses are bought from farms of
Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Haryana and Punjab. "The average price for a
single horse is `2 lakh. We also get huge support from trainers and
managers of the Royal Calcutta Turf Club. They
gift us a lot of horses after their racing careers are over. I think the
last time we bought horses from outside was 10 years ago," said an officer,
adding, 

Supratim Sarkar, Joint Commissioner of Police, Headquarters, told us, "The
mounted police is a heritage department of KP. We are very proud of it as
they has always done very well in managing even the most crowded
processions, ceremonies or gatherings. During British rule, the mounted
police used to maintain law and order across the city and also regulate
traffic. Now that we have become more organised, mounted police has its own
set of duties — which they perform very efficiently."


*Did you know?*
It is a common perception that horses do not sleep. However, we were told
that horses sleep and even snore if you set a straw bed for them



*Hi Gautam,*
*This newspaper article was sent to me from a friend in Kolkata.  Both my
father and my uncle served in the Calcutta Mounted Police a long time ago.
It is an interesting article the only correction needed is that no
CMP horse replacements (called 'remounts') ever came from England.  British
Army cavalry remounts usually came from Ireland.  In the early to middle
19th. century cavalry regiments coming out to India used to be moved to
Hounslow Cavalry Barracks in Middlesex (not far from today's Heathrow
Airport).  They used the large open space of Hounslow Heath (on which the
airport now stands) for cavalry manouvres and exercises.  When the regiment
was brought up to strength (no regiment went overseas under-strength) it
trooped by road down to Southampton where they embarked for the nine month
voyage to India.  They landed in Madras from where they were immediately
stationed at Trimulgherry.  The cooler climate of an elevated post allowed
the animals to acclimatise before being transferred onwards to other posts
in India.  Towards the end of the 19th. century it was realised that
Australian 'Walers' - wild horses from New South Wales - made good reliable
cavalry chargers.  They were 16 hands and larger, inured to a hot dry
climate and immune to a host of insect bites and infections.  Imported
'Walers' used to be landed at the Calcutta docks where they were housed in
cavalry stable in the nearby suburb of Hastings. In fact the road on which
they stood is stilled called Remount Road.  I was serving in the Calcutta
Police in 1965 when the last shipment of Australian Walers was received by
the Calcutta Mounted Police.  I have attached a picture of Inspector Robert
Alan Houston, the last Anglo-Indian officer in charge of the Calcutta
Mounted Police on Australian Waler "Battle", a 17-hand chestnut.*








   

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[Gabe Menezes]

This is an oldie...parts of California suffer severe droughts. People blame
the water shortage on the Almond growers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pyC7WnvLT4

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