[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Beauties on Lava

[Rajan Parrikar]

Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Beauties on Lava'

Out for a stroll.

An encounter with these beauties the other day on the volcanic Reykjanes
peninsula in southwest Iceland.


You may view the latest post at

http://blog.parrikar.com/2017/10/04/beauties-on-lava/


Warm regards,


Rajan Parrikar
ra...@parrikar.com

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] At 92, it cannot but be a very happy birthday

[Rochelle Pinto]

Many good wishes to Victor Rangel Ribeiro. Enjoyed *Tivolem* when I first
read it many years ago. Thanks, Frederick, for the bibliography.

best wishes,
Rochelle

On 3 October 2017 at 21:01, Frederick Noronha 
wrote:

> Here's wishing a very happy birthday indeed to Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, who
> turns a grand (and very productive) 92 years old today. When we last spoke,
> he was simultaneously working on three books, and was making suggestions
> for another!
>
> Thanks to Goanet, I first met VRR (as I call him) some two decades ago. At
> that stage, he was 70+ and just embarking on the launch of his novel
> Tivolem, in Goa. It was a function at the Mandovi's.
>
> Since then, he has helped mentor the GoaWriters group, and build a lot of
> useful bridges with Goa. Here's wishing him many more productive times
> ahead.
>
> FN
> 9822122436
>
> Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> 
> 
>
> *Victor Rangel-Ribeiro* (born Goa 
> 1925)
> is a writer.
>
> His is most noted as the author of *Tivolem* (1998), whose writing was
> funded by a New York Foundation for the Arts
>  Fiction
> Fellowship (awarded 1991), and which was awarded the Milkweed National
> Fiction Prize
>  and
> shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award
> .
>
> Contents  [hide]
>
>- 1Biography
>
>- 2Works 
>   - 2.1Novels
>   
>   - 2.2Short Stories
>   
>   - 2.3Music  Music>
>- 3References
>
>
> Biography[edit source
>  Ribeiro=edit=1=Template:BLP_editintro>
> ]
>
> Born in Goa, counting Konkani, Portuguese, and English as his three mother
> tongues,[1]
>  he moved
> to Mumbai  in 1939 and took his BA
> from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
>  in 1945.
> After a short spell teaching at high school, he moved into journalism. The
> 1940s already saw a number of his English-language short stories appearing
> in British Indian publications. After independence, he became assistant
> editor and music critic of the *National Standard*, Sunday editor for the
> Calcutta edition of the *Times of India* (1953), and a literary editor for
> the *Illustrated Weekly*. In 1956 emigrated to the United States, along
> with his wife, Lea, and worked part-time as a music critic for the *New
> York Times* and as the first Indian copy chief for the advertising agency
> J.
> Walter Thompson . From
> 1964-73 he ran a music antiquariat, became director of the New York
> Beethoven Society (overseeing its entry into the Lincoln Center for the
> Performing Arts
>  >).[2]
> 
>
> In 1983 he took an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University
> ,
> taught for a time in private and public schools, and then became involved
> in co-ordinating adult literacy teaching.[3]
> 
>
> He and Lea have two children.[4]
> 
> Works[edit source
>  Ribeiro=edit=2=Template:BLP_editintro>
> ]
>
> This is a partial bibliography.
> Novels[edit source
>  Ribeiro=edit=3=Template:BLP_editintro>
> ]
>
>- *Tivolem* (Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1998)
>
> Short Stories[edit source
>  Ribeiro=edit=4=Template:BLP_editintro>
> ]
>
>- 'The Miscreant', *The Iowa Review* 20.2 (1990): 52-65,
>http://ir.uiowa.edu/iowareview/vol20/iss2/19
>- 'Madonna of the Raindrops' and 'Day of the Baptist', *Literary
> Review*,
>39.4 (1998)
>- 'Senhor Eusebio Builds his Dream House' and 'Angel Wings', in *Ferry
>Crossing: Short Stories from Goa*, ed. by Manohar Shetty (New Delhi:
>Penguin, 1998)
>- *Loving Ayesha and Other Tales from Near and 

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] At 92, it cannot but be a very happy birthday

[colin d'cruz]

Victor is related to me from my mum's side of the family, my aunt a Rangel 
married and lived in Malawi before Idi Amin drove them off to the uk- happy 
birthday victor!

Sent from my iPhone

> On 04-Oct-2017, at 9:41 PM, Frederick Noronha  
> wrote:
> 
> Here's wishing a very happy birthday indeed to Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, who
> turns a grand (and very productive) 92 years old today. When we last spoke,
> he was simultaneously working on three books, and was making suggestions
> for another!
> 
> Thanks to Goanet, I first met VRR (as I call him) some two decades ago. At
> that stage, he was 70+ and just embarking on the launch of his novel
> Tivolem, in Goa. It was a function at the Mandovi's.
> 
> Since then, he has helped mentor the GoaWriters group, and build a lot of
> useful bridges with Goa. Here's wishing him many more productive times
> ahead.
> 
> FN
> 9822122436
> 
> Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> 
> 
> 
> *Victor Rangel-Ribeiro* (born Goa  1925)
> is a writer.
> 
> His is most noted as the author of *Tivolem* (1998), whose writing was
> funded by a New York Foundation for the Arts
>  Fiction
> Fellowship (awarded 1991), and which was awarded the Milkweed National
> Fiction Prize
>  and
> shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award
> .
> 
> Contents  [hide]
> 
>   - 1Biography
>   
>   - 2Works 
>  - 2.1Novels
>  
>  - 2.2Short Stories
>  
>  - 2.3Music 
>   - 3References
>   
> 
> Biography[edit source
> 
> ]
> 
> Born in Goa, counting Konkani, Portuguese, and English as his three mother
> tongues,[1]
>  he moved
> to Mumbai  in 1939 and took his BA
> from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
>  in 1945.
> After a short spell teaching at high school, he moved into journalism. The
> 1940s already saw a number of his English-language short stories appearing
> in British Indian publications. After independence, he became assistant
> editor and music critic of the *National Standard*, Sunday editor for the
> Calcutta edition of the *Times of India* (1953), and a literary editor for
> the *Illustrated Weekly*. In 1956 emigrated to the United States, along
> with his wife, Lea, and worked part-time as a music critic for the *New
> York Times* and as the first Indian copy chief for the advertising agency J.
> Walter Thompson . From
> 1964-73 he ran a music antiquariat, became director of the New York
> Beethoven Society (overseeing its entry into the Lincoln Center for the
> Performing Arts
> ).[2]
> 
> 
> In 1983 he took an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University
> ,
> taught for a time in private and public schools, and then became involved
> in co-ordinating adult literacy teaching.[3]
> 
> 
> He and Lea have two children.[4]
> 
> Works[edit source
> 
> ]
> 
> This is a partial bibliography.
> Novels[edit source
> 
> ]
> 
>   - *Tivolem* (Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1998)
> 
> Short Stories[edit source
> 
> ]
> 
>   - 'The Miscreant', *The Iowa Review* 20.2 (1990): 52-65,
>   http://ir.uiowa.edu/iowareview/vol20/iss2/19
>   - 'Madonna of the Raindrops' and 'Day of the Baptist', *Literary Review*,
>   39.4 (1998)
>   - 'Senhor Eusebio Builds his Dream House' and 'Angel Wings', in *Ferry
>   Crossing: Short Stories from Goa*, ed. by Manohar Shetty (New Delhi:
>   Penguin, 1998)
>   - *Loving Ayesha and Other Tales from 

[Goanet] The missed opportunity to reimagine Mumbai

[eric pinto]

 


The missed opportunity to reimagine Mumbai  If Charles Correa’s vision for 
Mumbai had been implemented inthe 1990s, the Elphinstone Road stampede could 
have been avoided Livemint, 04.10.2017
  For all the success he achieved internationally, CharlesCorrea was unable to 
truly leave his imprint on the city he made his home. Thatis to Mumbai’s 
lasting detriment. It has paid a heavy price for the politicalapathy and 
corruption that scuttled the architect and urban planner’s work. Thestampede at 
the Elphinstone Road railway bridge last week is a reminder of thatprice. 
Through the post-independence decades, Mumbai’s industrialstrength had been 
built on the back of its textile mill heartland. This endedin 1982 with the 
year-long mill workers’ strike led by Datta Samant. Of the 58mills in the city, 
26 were deemed sick and taken over by the government.Unsurprisingly, what 
should be done with this vast swathe of centrally locatedhigh-value land proved 
to be a contentious question. In 1996, Maharashtra’sBharatiya Janata Party-Shiv 
Sena government set up a study group, headed by Correa,to come up with an 
integrated development plan. The group submitted the so-called Charles Correa 
committeereport by the end of the year. It proposed a three-way split: 
one-third of theland to be used for public spaces that could accommodate 
gardens, schools andhospitals, one-third to be developed by the government for 
affordable housing,and one-third to be given to the erstwhile owners for 
residential or commercialpurposes. The plan, incidentally, included the 
redevelopment of the ElphinstoneRoad station, with a broader overbridge 
allowing exit into a largeplaza—measures that would have left it far better 
situated to deal with therush of commuters that ended in tragedy last week. 
Nothing came of this. “Open land” was redefined so that theland reserved for 
public use shrank from 166 acres to 32 acres. The bulk of theland was used for 
private development without any semblance of planning. Thisresulted in the 
absence of, as Correa put it in his essay, The Tragedy Of TulsiPipe Road, “the 
enabling sub-structure of roads, of engineering services, of arational 
decision-making system”. This was Correa’s second great disappointment. The 
firstcame decades earlier in the 1960s when his plan for the creation 
anddevelopment of New Bombay was implemented half-heartedly by the government. 
Ifvenality was to be the cause of his mill land plan’s downfall, it was 
apathythat did the job this time. Instead of a well-connected sister city built 
aroundcommercial districts, relieving the strain of Mumbai’s exploding 
population,New Bombay remained a dormitory town for decades. The suburban 
railway wasextended to it only in the 1990s. None of this is likely to come as 
a revelation to anyone whoresides in Mumbai—or indeed, in urban India. Delhi 
apart—its being the nationalcapital affords it certain advantages in this 
respect—no metropolis in Indiahas been well served by its administrators and 
state governments. Corruption isan easy answer to the question of why this is 
so. So is the failure to fulfilthe directives of the Constitution (74th 
Amendment) Act, 1992, and adequatelydevolve authority and autonomy to urban 
local bodies—and with it, bring aboutmore accountability. These are not wrong 
answers. But they are incomplete. At the heart of India’s urban planning 
failure is a failureto understand what urban planning truly is. Correa held 
that “market forces donot make a city, they destroy them”. He was wrong in 
this. While regulation andplanning are necessary, the inhabitants of a city 
will naturally organizethemselves in a manner that allows them to best 
participate in economicactivity. This dictates the urban space around them. At 
the other end of the spectrum, Jane Jacobs, who deconstructedurban planning in 
1961 with The Death And Life Of Great American Cities,believed that urban 
growth should be organic and central planning, broadly, wasan evil. She was 
vastly overstating the case as well. But where both schools ofthought converged 
was in their concern for the inhabitants of a city—the beliefthat cities should 
be organized in a manner that enhances the well-being andeconomic participation 
of all strata of urban society. Indian urban planners have rarely observed 
this, defaulting insteadto a largely mechanistic vision focused more on 
infrastructure than theinteraction of citizens and infrastructure. Inevitably, 
this has resulted instatic, non-participative master plans that are outdated 
even as they are made,or just plain don’t work. Witness the endless attempts to 
redevelop slum landin Mumbai and resettle its inhabitants. Or the crores of 
public funds pouredinto cleaning Mumbai’s Mithi river—a Sisyphean task when the 
slums and shantiesalong stretches of the river and its numerous feeder drains 
don’t have accessto sewage or garbage disposal systems. Or the fact that it 
took until the Metrorail 

[Goanet] News Junkies should be on guard

[Gilbert Lawrence]

News Junkies should be on guard
http://nypost.com/2017/09/26/fake-news-writer-who-thinks-he-got-trump-elected-found-dead-in-bed/

Despite my poor grades for Trump administration, I have to commend it for its 
handling of Pakistan.   Finally we have a US administration that has stopped 
coddling the Pakistan Govt and its ISI.   
None of the tall-tales about the nukes falling in terrorist hands is now going 
to stop the US govt from cutting funding to Pakistan's  military and ISI if it 
does not end its support for its home-grown and domestic terrorist networks.

Regards,  GL

[Goanet-News] At 92, it cannot but be a very happy birthday

[Frederick Noronha]

Here's wishing a very happy birthday indeed to Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, who
turns a grand (and very productive) 92 years old today. When we last spoke,
he was simultaneously working on three books, and was making suggestions
for another!

Thanks to Goanet, I first met VRR (as I call him) some two decades ago. At
that stage, he was 70+ and just embarking on the launch of his novel
Tivolem, in Goa. It was a function at the Mandovi's.

Since then, he has helped mentor the GoaWriters group, and build a lot of
useful bridges with Goa. Here's wishing him many more productive times
ahead.

FN
9822122436

Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



*Victor Rangel-Ribeiro* (born Goa  1925)
is a writer.

His is most noted as the author of *Tivolem* (1998), whose writing was
funded by a New York Foundation for the Arts
 Fiction
Fellowship (awarded 1991), and which was awarded the Milkweed National
Fiction Prize
 and
shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award
.

Contents  [hide]

   - 1Biography
   
   - 2Works 
  - 2.1Novels
  
  - 2.2Short Stories
  
  - 2.3Music 
   - 3References
   

Biography[edit source

]

Born in Goa, counting Konkani, Portuguese, and English as his three mother
tongues,[1]
 he moved
to Mumbai  in 1939 and took his BA
from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
 in 1945.
After a short spell teaching at high school, he moved into journalism. The
1940s already saw a number of his English-language short stories appearing
in British Indian publications. After independence, he became assistant
editor and music critic of the *National Standard*, Sunday editor for the
Calcutta edition of the *Times of India* (1953), and a literary editor for
the *Illustrated Weekly*. In 1956 emigrated to the United States, along
with his wife, Lea, and worked part-time as a music critic for the *New
York Times* and as the first Indian copy chief for the advertising agency J.
Walter Thompson . From
1964-73 he ran a music antiquariat, became director of the New York
Beethoven Society (overseeing its entry into the Lincoln Center for the
Performing Arts
).[2]


In 1983 he took an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University
,
taught for a time in private and public schools, and then became involved
in co-ordinating adult literacy teaching.[3]


He and Lea have two children.[4]

Works[edit source

]

This is a partial bibliography.
Novels[edit source

]

   - *Tivolem* (Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1998)

Short Stories[edit source

]

   - 'The Miscreant', *The Iowa Review* 20.2 (1990): 52-65,
   http://ir.uiowa.edu/iowareview/vol20/iss2/19
   - 'Madonna of the Raindrops' and 'Day of the Baptist', *Literary Review*,
   39.4 (1998)
   - 'Senhor Eusebio Builds his Dream House' and 'Angel Wings', in *Ferry
   Crossing: Short Stories from Goa*, ed. by Manohar Shetty (New Delhi:
   Penguin, 1998)
   - *Loving Ayesha and Other Tales from Near and Far* (2002)
   - 'Keeping in Touch', *The Little Magazine*, 2.4,
   http://www.littlemag.com/jul-aug01/victor.html

Music[edit source

]

   - *Baroque Music, a Practical Guide for the Performer* (New York:
   Schirmer, 1981)
   - Victor Rangel-Ribeiro and Robert Markel. *Chamber Music: An
   International Guide to Works and Their Instrumentation* (New York: 

[Goanet] COURTESY NGT THE GOA GOVERNMENT WANTS TO GIFT ATMARAM NADKARNI & HIS PIMPS AN EARLY XMAS BONANZA

[Aires Rodrigues]

The Goa Government's very skewed justification before the High Court on
affidavit that the  shifting of NGT cases from Pune to Delhi was because in
Delhi there are more competent and effective lawyers in environment law is
ludicrous to say the least.

At least finally the Government has admitted what we all knew, that the
Advocate General Dattaprasad Lawande is very incompetent and a “bondo”,
alike  a Cocunut, the Goa Forward's official symbol.

[Goanet] AIFF MEDIA ADVISORY: PRE MATCH PRESS CONFERENCE + TRAINING SCHEDULE

[AIFF Media]

*Dear Colleagues,*



*Please find below the media advisory for the Pre-Match Press Conference
for the India vs USA - FIFA U-17 World Cup match:*


--


MEDIA ADVISORY

*Press Conference details:*


*India U-17 World Cup Team Head Coach Luis Norton de Matos and India U-17
Captain Amarjit Singh will be present to address the media.*


*VENUE *- *Media Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi*

*TIME & DATE - 6.00 pm - 6.20 pm, October 5, 2017*


*---*


*Training Schedule:*


*VENUE - Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium*

*TIME& DATE - 6.30 pm, October 5, 2017 *


*First 15 minutes is open to the media.*




*For inquiries please contact the Team Media Officer :- Mr. Joseph Solomon
- +91-8700296440*


Media Department, AIFF.
Alternate: me...@the-aiff.com
Website: www.the-aiff.com

[Goanet] Who remember this? My school time Konkani Poem

[JoeGoaUk]

 Who is the poet?

It had atleast 10 verses and we had to make it by heart (all poems, oral test 
etc)

Here are 5

  I
Doxnni fula kiteak tuji jibli  itli lamb?
(Hibiscus flower, how come your tongue so long?)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukflowers/37154720040/
II
Dudi mama itlen kiteak tujem fuglam pott?
Pumpkin,  why your belly so big
https://flic.kr/p/8S6kwb
III
Kelli pana, konne kelio tujio tisnorio ?
Banana leaf, who tore you into strips?
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/36761969054/
 https://flic.kr/p/fS1BPY
 IV
Kavllea kaka, Aitaracho moddonneger voch ani dovo ful zaun yo
Crow uncle, one Sunday go to a laundry and come back fully cleaned (White)
https://flic.kr/p/dRUUFT
V
Gottonnege, matxe tamb, meztam tuje paim
Millipede,  please stop, like to count your legs
https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/9460690642/
https://flic.kr/p/otquCu

[Goanet] goa...@goanet.org Subject: Re: At 92, it cannot but be a very happy birthday

[Mervyn Maciel]

Dear Victor,

May I join Fredrick and others in wishing you Many Happy Returns of the day.
  You've had a great innings and certainly been a role model to many.
Wishing you many more fruitful years.
With all good wishes.



Mervyn Maciel

[Goanet] Small minor corrections.

[FC Bardez]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below a match preview of Goa Professional League match between
FC Bardez Goa  vs Corps of Signals  .  Please print this match report in
your respective newspapers.

*FC Bardez Goa is all set to face Corps of Signals in their season opener
of the Goa Professional League match **at Duler Football Stadium on October
5, 2017 at 4 pm.*

FC Bardez Goa come into this match with a loss against Sporting Clube De
Goa in the Life Cup Charity Match, and will be looking to start their
season with a win. FC Bardez Goa and Corps of Signals have met three times
before with FC Bardez winning two matches while  ending the third match  in
a draw.

Last season FC Bardez Goa finished in fourth place behind Sporting Clube De
Goa while Corps of Signals finished  in eight place behind Churchill
Brothers in the Goa Professional League.

FC Bardez will be coming with their guns loaded , as Armando Colcao has the
full squad at his disposal and will want to get all three points into the
bag. Corps of Signals who have not won a single match against the Pink
Brigade will be out for revenge and try their level best to spoil the
opening game for FC Bardez.

FC Bardez Goa possible starting XI

*Santosh Pujar (GK) Denzil Franco, * Jessel Carneiro , Stanley D'silva,
Dadapeer Patil, Kritikesh Gadekar, Jesman Soares, Floyed Fernandes, Ronil
Azavedo ,  Viraj Naik and Shubham Rao Dessai.

[Goanet] Press Release- Preview of FC Bardez Goa vs Corps of Signals

[FC Bardez]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below a match preview of Goa Professional League match between
FC Bardez Goa  vs Corps of Signals  .  Please print this match report in
your respective newspapers.

*FC Bardez Goa is all set to face Corps of Signals in their season opener
of the Goa Professional League match **at Duler Football Stadium on October
5, 2017 at 4 pm.*

FC Bardez Goa come into this match with a loss against Sporting Clube De
Goa in the Life Cup Charity Match, and will be looking to start their
season with a win. FC Bardez Goa and Corps of Signals have met three times
before with FC Bardez winning two matches while  ending the third match  in
a draw.

Last season FC Bardez Goa finished in fourth place behind Sporting Clube De
Goa while Corps of Signals finished  in eight place behind Churchill
Brothers in the Goa Professional League.

FC Bardez will be coming with their guns loaded , as Armando Colcao has the
full squad at his disposal and will want to get all three points into the
bag. Corps of Signals who have not one a single match against the Pink
Brigade will be out for revenge and try their level best to spoil the
opening game for FC Bardez.

FC Bardez Goa possible starting XI

*Santosh Pujar (GK) Denzil Franco, * Jessel Carneiro , Stanley D'silva,
Dadapeer Patil, Kritikesh Gadekar, Jesman Soares, Floyed Fernandes, Ronil
Azavedo ,  Viraj Naik and Shubham Rao Dessai.

[Goanet] Koompahr/Kumahn

[Bernado Colaco]

 Shehmai, shehpai, posko, poskem.
BC

In Goan folklore i.e. in Catholic Konkni to be more precise, there are some
terms which , perhaps, have gone out of circulation. e.g. koompahr/kumahn
are most probable derived from Portuguese language Compadre (Padrinho)//
/Comadre ( Madrinha)  i.e. godfather/godmother. But in Konkni language these
terms may have different meanings.
The other Konkni words are Ticlo /Ticlem i.e. the fourth child,a son after
three
daughters and vice versa. These terms are usually associated with luck , bad
or otherwise.
For the benefit of our young Goan readers, may be some Goanetters will
come with additional information .
By the way, has there ever been a marriage between ticlo and ticlem ?



  

[Goanet] British in India

[Gabe Menezes]

Watch this video





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Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Animal movements on the Maps

[Fidibus]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/explore-secret-lives-animals-these-marvelous-maps-180965070/

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Re: [Goanet] Dr. Kranti's talk at Active Goan Adults group

[Gilbert Lawrence]

From: Eugene Correia Subject: Re: [Goanet] Dr. Kranti's talk at Active Goan 
Adults group

One of the interesting point in her talk was when she said that Goans could 
have a DNA of the Jews. Dr. Kranti presently explores and researches this 
notion, as the theory was conveyed to her by a foreign researcher.

Why does Goan history need conjectures rather than definitive information?   Is 
it too difficult to accept that Goans in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries 
behaved the same way and for the same reasons as Goans in the 19th, 20th and 
21st century?

Very likely after native Goans were displaced by the colonists who wanted their 
land and resources in the early 16th century,  there was an in-migration as Goa 
was approaching it economic golden era. This was mid-16th to mid-17th century.  
Even during this shinning century there was periods of economic downturns as 
for the years when the Dutch blockaded Goa; bringing economic activity and 
trade to a standstill.  During Goa's golden era, the city of Velha Goa was 
comparable in population and wealth (economic activity) to the largest cities 
in Europe - Lisbon, Madrid, Florence, Venice;  and much lager than London or 
Paris.  

Once the Golden Age of Goa ended in the mid-seventeenth century, (and Goans 
tasted middle-class living standards), Goa's residents of all (ethnic and mixed 
ethnic) backgrounds left Goa in droves - back to live with relatives in India 
and Portugal; and many to settle and start a new life in Brazil and other 
Portuguese and English colonies in Africa and Asia.  Goans migrated to many 
other parts of India and other parts of Asian subcontinent including 
current-day Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, South East Asia.

Naturally, there were from time to time other factors that also forced Goan 
out-migration - wars, droughts, floods, famines and epidemics.  


Regarding one or two Goans with Jewish DNA or one cross found by the Pilar 
fathers does not make history.  These are interesting anecdotal cases that gets 
repeated again and again.  Goa was a major port on the west coast of India. 
Certainly there were plenty of objects (destined for elsewhere) that fell in 
the river while loading and unloading cargo at Goa Velha.  And of course the 
Christian Malayalese of Kerala were also migrating and some could have settled 
down in Goa.  We still have to see an archaeological discovery their place of 
worship.
Regards, GL

[Goanet] Easy listening selection....Kiss of Fire....Hugh Laurie and Gaby Moreno.

[Con Menezes]

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

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[Goanet] Portrait of a Goan Village Calangute.

[Con Menezes]

  
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=Portrait+of+a+Goan+Village+Calangute=X=isch=u=univ=0ahUKEwiqrNSkqtPWAhXJTrwKHYMwBrkQ7AkIQA=1242=579

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[Goanet] LEGALISING MATKA MAY BE THE WAY FORWARD

[Aires Rodrigues]

The Goa Government has got its priorities totally skewed. Instead of
setting up a Special Investigative Team (SIT) to combat the flourishing
drug trade in the state, the Government wants to set up a SIT on Matka and
that too by roping a retired High Court Judge in the arena to crack down on
Matka.


Matka has its wings long drawn across India and even in many countries
overseas. It is definitely a lesser evil than the lethal drug menace or
even the illegalities that the government has been merrily watching in the
Casinos. Gambling cannot be the privilege of only the rich and affluent.



Why is there a need for an SIT on Matka? Every police station in Goa knows
the names of all Matka bookies operating in its jurisdiction. We are now
seeing that in the police farcical strike against Matka those linked to the
BJP are being selectively spared when all need to be treated equally before
the law.



While there are some people who believe that gambling in any form shouldn’t
be encouraged, there are others who think that Matka should be legalised.
In Goa it has become a widespread industry across every nook and corner of
the State while it is the only source of income for thousands of Matka
agents.



In fact after the Supreme Court directed the Law Commission and the
government to consider the suggestion of legalising betting, the Law
Commission of India earlier this year issued a public notice inviting
suggestions from stakeholders and members of the general public on whether
gambling and betting should be legalised.



The Commission noted that since the issue of gambling and betting is
linked, it would study the possibility of legalizing both betting and
gambling by making a comprehensive study of the existing laws.  It opined
that that there was a strong case for legalizing gambling and betting since
it will earn tax revenues to the State coffers.

Aires Rodrigues

Advocate High Court

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

Ribandar Retreat,

Ribandar – Goa – 403006

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[Goanet] Mourning the victims in Las Vegas.

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[Goanet] Easy listening selection....Amor Amor Amor...Julio Iglesias.

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[Goanet] America's gun culture in charts.

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[Goanet] Has Mumbai become an unliveable city?

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-41464636

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[Goanet] Koompahr/Kumahn

[Antonio Menezes]

In Goan folklore i.e. in Catholic Konkni to be more precise, there are some
terms which , perhaps, have gone out of circulation. e.g. koompahr/kumahn
are most probable derived from Portuguese language Compadre (Padrinho)//
/Comadre ( Madrinha)  i.e. godfather/godmother. But in Konkni language these
terms may have different meanings.
The other Konkni words are Ticlo /Ticlem i.e. the fourth child,a son after
three
daughters and vice versa. These terms are usually associated with luck , bad
or otherwise.
For the benefit of our young Goan readers, may be some Goanetters will
come with additional information .
By the way, has there ever been a marriage between ticlo and ticlem ?