[Goanet] Infant Jesus (Joao Barros)
The post has created a Goanet 25 year record by having 154 words in the subject-title. One way of celebrating Goanet’s 25 years. Roland. Toronto.
[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: SIX NEWLY-CAPPED BLUE TIGERS RECALL 'UNFORGETTABLE AND EMOTIONAL' DEBUT
Dear Colleagues, Please find the report below. -- *SIX NEWLY-CAPPED BLUE TIGERS RECALL 'UNFORGETTABLE AND EMOTIONAL' DEBUT* *BURIRAM (THAILAND): *There are some moments in life that stay with you till the end of your life. And for an athlete, after years of toil and unwavering perseverance, one such moment is representing your country at the senior level for the very first time. *READ MORE:* https://www.the-aiff.com/news-center-details.htm?id=9737 -- Request you to follow our OFFICIAL accounts: Twitter: https://twitter.com/IndianFootball Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheIndianFootballTeam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/IndianFootball *---* Best Regards, Media Department, AIFF. Alternate: me...@the-aiff.com Website: www.the-aiff.com
[Goanet] Civet cat menace
I believe the katandors have proliferated One chewed off a chunk of my cat's jaw. My man Vijay promptly cornered it in the rafters and feasted on it. A young kit dropped from my high roof and was killed. An adult had killed a kitten a little earlier, so we were even. The civet is only found in Asia. On Thu, Jun 6, 2019, 3:22 PM Gabe Menezes wrote: > Planning to go to *Goa* if you are doing this in the summer vacation, you > must read the *news* before taking a taxi there. > > > https://english.newstracklive.com/news/goa-government-has-taken-the-major-decision-on-the-safety-of-taxi-users-1013786-1.html > -- > DEV BOREM KORUM > > Gabe Menezes. >
[Goanet] MY APOLOGIES FOR MY MISTAKE!
Dear Goanetters, My apologies for my mistake. I must have inserted the body of the article into where only the title was intended to go! Once again my deepest apologies. No intention to offend, whatsoever.
[Goanet] AIFF REPORT: BHAICHUNG CONGRATULATES SUNIL CHHETRI ON BECOMING INDIA’S HIGHEST-CAPPED PLAYER
Dear Colleagues, Please find the report below. -- *BHAICHUNG CONGRATULATES SUNIL CHHETRI ON BECOMING INDIA'S HIGHEST-CAPPED PLAYER * *NEW DELHI: *Legendary National Team striker Bhaichung Bhutia congratulated Sunil Chhetri on overtaking his record, and becoming India’s most capped International player at 108 matches. Chhetri on Wednesday (June 5, 2019) overtook his mentor Bhutia’s record of 107 matches when he captained India in the King’s Cup opener against Curacao. *READ MORE:* https://www.the-aiff.com/news-center-details.htm?id=9736 -- Pictures: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zjjrvr4p0ovzv0l/AADObEx8OsO1_vk9DiZPYGada?dl=0 Request you to follow our OFFICIAL accounts: Twitter: https://twitter.com/IndianFootball Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheIndianFootballTeam Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/IndianFootball *---* Best Regards, Media Department, AIFF. Alternate: me...@the-aiff.com Website: www.the-aiff.com
[Goanet] Goa Government has taken the major decision on the safety of taxi users
Planning to go to *Goa* if you are doing this in the summer vacation, you must read the *news* before taking a taxi there. https://english.newstracklive.com/news/goa-government-has-taken-the-major-decision-on-the-safety-of-taxi-users-1013786-1.html -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
[Goanet] ILLEGAL HIGH RISE APPROVALS BY NGPDA IN FULL SWING
ILLEGAL HIGH RISE BUILDING SHAM APPROVALS Stephen Dias Dona Paula 6.6.2019 I refer to the letter of Rui Ferreira in the local various newspapers dated 5th instant, wherein he rightfully says that high rise buildings in Conservation Zones are blatantly illegal and yet have been permitted by NGPDA by merely redrawing the boundaries demarcated earlier for conservation zones. Areas with narrow roads will now have high rise buildings without any regard for traffic, parking, accidents and basic infrastructure required to sustain the sudden increase in residential population. Similar instances of such violations are been observed in Dona Paula and now at Bay View colony where an eight floor building is being constructed on a narrow frontal road of less than six metres. The approval for this building construction have been unscrupulously obtained by CCP & NGPDA when the area falls in the Taleigao Panchayat area. Thus, the approvals should have been sought from TCP Department and the Taleigao panchayat. But the ruling party bows down to the corrupt builders by allowing sham approvals, with little concern for traffic mess, noise and air pollution. Governance has been reduced to a sham. Quality of life is deteriorating and with public spirited citizens unable to nail corrupt officers because of an obnoxious laws which requires permission to prosecute officials, corruption is having a field day. Our laws and Indian mentality permits corruption. And thats why we are in a rotten state. Time to target the Indian laws. We need to demand change in laws which the public is empowered to pull up medicore officers. Unless this is done, nothing will change and we will go deep in a botomless pit. ent from my Samsung device
[Goanet] Instant Jesus: An Iconic Attraction For Falling Tourists Footfalls? A while ago I read the news of the proposal to build a huge statue of Jesus Christ on the lines of the one in Rio de Janeir
A while ago I read the news of the proposal to build a huge statue of Jesus Christ on the lines of the one in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. I was puzzled at the time, and still am. Is the building of statues the pinnacle of a politician's creativity? Imagine if every politician had a statue of his favorite religious leader or hero built to enhance the politician's ego, what will be the condition of the economy of India. The statue of Jesus Christ The Redeemer in Rio was built by an organization which held the belief there was too much Godlessness in Brazil at the time. And, it was almost a hundred years ago. Only a Goan politician can be inspired by it. Is the proposed statue in Baga along the lines of Jesus Christ The Redeemer going to become a tourist attraction? What exactly is the point? During the century since the completion of the statue in Rio it has proved to be expensive to maintain because of its height. Also because of strong winds there has been severe damage to the structure, and even a lighting attack. There was a proposal to build a statue in Cansaulim where the Three Kings Festival is held annually but the idea thankfully did not take off. During the previous five decades the office of the US president has been packaged and sold to the United States voters as it continues to this day. Is Jesus Christ next in line? Is this the vision of a large number of Roman Catholics in Goa or simply one wayward MLA and his followers? Is this religion or political cynicism at its peak? Calangute, as is well known, is a festering wound of drugs and prostitution. Thousands of illegal structures have been built and used for doing business. It is an embarrassment for law-abiding people who live there, and who espouse an upright way of life. We celebrated World Environment Day this week and the people missed a great opportunity to show their displeasure. They should have all dressed in black to mourn the death of their so-called village. But, then, there is always next year. Who is responsible for allowing and promoting illegal activities on this gigantic a scale? We know how through the decades the locals have built an enormous number of illegal structures including in CRZ causing massive environmental damage. Today, even the water from the wells is no longer drinkable! Is this what we want for the whole of Goa? Are we going to regularize these illegal structures with pride? Is this our religion? Do wrong and regularize! Is this the way to go? Is this intelligent planning? Almost every politician wants to go down in history and secure a place in the history books. He or she wants to be the person who has built a unique monument, statue, road, building, bridge or whatever. A kind of political syndrome, no doubt a very unhealthy one! A great number of complaints are heard from Roman Catholics in Baga regarding the famous Retreat House which was built in 1952. Now it has become a victim of noise pollution by tourists who visit the shacks. This is nothing less than an attack on a famous Roman Catholic meditation and prayer center. The Retreat House has been in Baga since 1952. It is, no doubt, a landmark in Baga. The shacks make a lot of money and bring in wealth for the shack owners and their supporters and so they have a right to make a lot of noise? Do the people who go to the Retreat House to meditate, pray, and seek solitude have no rights at all? Finally, with the proposed statue, is Jesus Christ no more than another ingredient in the tourist pie in Goa? Aren't the old and historical churches in Goa enough of history for the tourists? Do we really need an instant Jesus tourists attraction?
Re: [Goanet] MERIT ALONE AND NOT RESERVATIONS SHOULD BE THE WAY AHEAD
See below. This is only one of the reasons why reservations are needed. George -- Public statement on the suicide of Dr Payal Tadvi in a Mumbai hospital (People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism) Press Release 05.06.2019 Dr PayalTadvi, an Adivasi Muslim from one of the most backward tribes of India committed suicide on 22 May in her hostel room in a Mumbai hospital. She was a post-graduate resident doctor in the hospital. Many times before her suicide her mother and husband had given written representations to the hospital authorities about the harassment she had been facing from three of her seniors. According to these complaints her harassers were using casteist abuses and publicly humiliating her. However, the hospital took no administrative actions. After her death the hospital’s anti-ragging committee has reportedly found evidence of harassment, and according to some newspaper report the police have found evidence of derogatory casteist remarks. Dr PayalTadvi’s suicide immediately brings to mind the suicide by Rohith Vemula in 2015, a PhD scholar at the Hyderabad Central University. Rohith was a student activist.His organisation had been protesting against the HCU administration for months before his suicide. Even ministers of the BJP central government had enquiredif his organisation had been adequately punished by the university administration after it was involved in a physical brawl with activists of the ABVP, the student organisation allied with the ruling party. If the context of Rohith’s suicide was institutional victimisation of radical dalit youth, Payal’s suicide throws open a window to the intimate cruelties suffered by the people of deprived backgrounds every day. According to her mother when Payal moved in the hospital hostel, the only cot in the room was already taken by one of her alleged harassers. Her room-mate, also a doctor would wipe her feet on the mattress on which Payal slept.Payal was a trained doctor. She had worked in a primary health center for a year. Yet her modern professional status could not shield her from what she had to go through.She narrated incidences of her humiliation only to her immediate family members. They complained to authorities when they felt she was under serious stress. She died alone, without leaving any suicide note. Even seventy years after independence, and a constitution that promises a life of dignity to every citizen, Dalits, adivasis, and minorities in India continue to suffer multiple humiliations in their everyday lives. Appropriate legal provisions are in place. Institutional motivation to implement these provisions is woefully lacking, as shown in Payal’s case. However, even if institutional mechanisms were in place, these can play a role only after a dalit or an Adivasi has been humiliated, or suffered an assault. Indians need to identify and root out the conditions which make many of them abusers and haters of people from deprived backgrounds. Indian society remains a deeply hierarchical and divided society. Its public sphere, in which people are supposed to be able to interact with each other without distinctions, is also stamped with hierarchy, so that there is little respect for a human being for just being a person. The normalcy of this public is dominated by people from privileged backgrounds. People from deprived backgrounds always feel marked in this sphere. Numerous writings by Dalit and Adivasi authors bring it out in painful detail. In educational institutions and work environments they are permanently stamped with the ‘reservation’ category tag. Most of them are first generation learners from poor families. They get to join these institutions and places of work after numerous hurdles, but their individual talents are little recognised. Increasingly, Muslims of our country are also being made to feel the same way. Institutions of higher learning and government offices reek of a nefarious discourse on ‘merit’ of the ‘general’ category. This ‘merit’ is supposed to be measured by marks in entrance exams. But how does one compare the abilities of a dalit young woman from a rural landless family, who spent half her time on family chores, went to a dilapidated village school, and still got admission to an institution of higher learning, with another person whose upper middle class urban parents gave him/her education in expensive private schools, provided comfortable learning environment at home, and paid for extra tuitions and coaching? Why should only one of them be considered ‘meritorious’? Why cannot they interact freely in an environment of mutual respect? The policy of reservation in jobs and educational institutions is often cited as the chief culprit, as if without this policy these places will be republics of merit.The drafting committee of India’s constitution under the leadership of Dr Ambedkar adopted reservations as a
[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day.....Jim Reeves - Just Out Of Reach 2000 From; The Unreleased Hits Of
This was a very popular number in NBI! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYk_EJVr3qo G -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
