DON'T FEAR DAN BROWN OR DA VINCI. BE AFRAID OF OUR OWN IGNORANCE
By Chhotebhai Noronha
Dan Brown's fictional work, The Da Vinci Code has sold
millions of copies worldwide. The movie is now due for
release. Wonder how much money Brown made out of the book,
and how much more he will get out of the
Dear Sir,
The article, No Return to Inquisition, by Maria Aurora Couto (Outlook, May
29), is well written and makes several good points. It nicely highlights as to
how, many of us, Christians, while reacting to that tissue of specious
arguments, i.e., the Da Vinci Code, we, unwittingly, might
Goa passes ordinance on office of profit issue
Our Regional Bureau / Mumbai/ Panaji May 23, 2006
The ordinance has exempted the offices of the vice-chairman of the Kala
Academy, chairman, vice-chairman and members of the Entertainment
Society of Goa, chairman of the State Urban Development Agency
Monserratte to stake claim to GPCC chief's post=20
Zee News
Panaji, May 23: Goa's Town and Country Planning Minister Atanasio
Monserratte in Delhi to discuss with Sonia Gandhi the issue of
strengthening of Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) and stake a claim
to its chief's post.=20
My Delhi
Goa to get India's 2nd floating casino
ROUHAN SHARMA
MUMBAI, MAY 22: Hospitality major Hotel Leelaventure Ltd is launching
India's second floating casino in Goa. Current government guidelines do
not allow casinos on land. Hence, the idea for a casino at sea.
'The Caravela' in Goa is the only
I have not seen this movie nor heard about it. Does anyone know who made it
and when?
I also find it most incongruous that the film should be shown in a programme
entitled Positive Images of India. From the brief synopsis that Anthony
has given, clearly the film seems to be projecting a
As far as I know, Nelly Furtado is from Portugal
(Azores) who was brought up in Vancouver, and later
moved to Toronto.
I have watched her live performance once in Toronto
when she had just made big news with her first album.
I remember reading that she wants to visit India,
particularly Goa, as
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Aristo
Changing the subject a little, perhaps you can throw some light on
Christian evangelism in India today to which I am totally opposed. Why on
earth should any religious group try to evangelise any other group anywhere,
even though it is rampant in
Since someone brought up this topic - thought I should share something which I
read recently:
Good news or bad news?
(Michael Gonsalves reports Fr Dr Rui de Menezes SJ views - The Week, April 23,
2006. page 33)
The intellectual and the religious world should welcome the astonishing
Dear Goans,
After acting in many Tiatrs in Goa (including a few in the Gulf and just
returned back from the U.K.) - Mark de Araujo, the young and dynamic Writer
and Director has realeased and presented a hit comedy film titled SANGXI
KHOBORDAR with comedy supremo Humberto
VARCA DEFEAT LOUTOLIM IN EXPAT LEAGUE
SIOLIM UNITED BACK ON TOP
Varca Football Club defeated a strong Phoenix Loutolim by two goals to nil in
the first UAE Indian Expat Football League played at the Dubai Club for
Special Sports. The League is organized by Gulf International Promotions and
Aristo
Changing the subject a little, perhaps you can throw some light on
Christian evangelism in India today to which I am totally opposed. Why on
earth should any religious group try to evangelise any other group anywhere,
even though it is rampant in the USA as a means towards substantial
Very interesting, very informative and very piercing article Mr. Valmiki
Faleiro. Journos like you are the need of the hour in Goa. Becuase of your
high calibre readers like me are hungry for your articles. Carry on with
your campaign against all chors and bamttes who are ruling and robbing
Fred,
I can't believe you are allowing Goanet to serve as a mouthpiece for
this drivel. We count on this medium (Goanet) for news of amchim Gaon -
not for some blathering idiot to get a megaphone. I enjoy the pieces on
our history and the debates on Roman script vs Devnagari, Goans in the
Goa News from Yahoo! News and Goanet.org
Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories.
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Microsoft has launched a
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emerging markets, who will be able to buy
We Goans should congratulate Montenegro, with a population of less than
600,000, for
having the courage to vote for independence. By so doing, Montenegro joins
other
ministates like Fiji, the Solomon Islands, PNG, Vanuvatu and, of course, Timor
Leste.
This proves that all ministates are
No Return To Inquisition
Brown isn't exactly Nabokov. Yet, faith must trust its own resilience.
MARIA AURORA COUTO
The spectacle on TV and in print, over the last few days, of protesters
calling for a ban on the film The Da Vinci Code harks back to the days of the
Black List and the horrors
Folks,
A bestselling book: Tony D'Souza's: 'Whiteman'
21 May: Arizona Republic. Excerpts of book review: The chapters in this
wonderfully written first novel easily stand alone as stories. Some have
been published in the New Yorker, Playboy and elsewhere. Their narrator
is Jack Diaz, an
Maybe you can forward this message to C. Noronha. I think we all have to
remember that this is a page-turning novel, a detective story. It is fiction;
it is entertainment and never meant to be truth.. What is important are not
the inaccuracies in the book, whatever they may be. The fact that
Elisabeth Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If he lived, married and had children. That too is
irrelevant but perhaps more beneficial to mankind.
Only a man (or God) who has experienced the nagging
of a good wife can truly understand the concept of
hell!
:))
Elisabeth,
A person who has
Archbishop Gracias Flays Amnesty International's Move To Review Policy
On Abortion
By Henry D'Souza, SAR NEWS
NEW DELHI (SAR NEWS) -- I'm indeed surprised at the Amnesty
International's move to review policy on abortion. Amnesty
International has been a credible organisation which was always
Frankie Pinto( ex Nairobi) from Brisbane, Australia passed away this
weekend. Leaves behind wife Fatima (Griffith University) and 2 lovely
daughters Rosalind and Tanya.
Funeral friday 26th May at 1 pm at St Bernards Church, Corner Klumpp and
Logan Road, Mt Gravatt.
Joy de Souza
President
DON'T FEAR DAN BROWN OR DA VINCI. BE AFRAID OF OUR OWN IGNORANCE
By Chhotebhai Noronha
Dan Brown's fictional work, The Da Vinci Code has sold
millions of copies worldwide. The movie is now due for
release. Wonder how much money Brown made out of the book,
and how much more he will get out of the
The University of Chicago will be screening the movie Goa Under
Siege (Gargi Sen, 1999) this Wednesday (May 24), as part of the
series Positive Images of India organized by the South Asian
Students Organization.
I was invited to lead the discussion that follows Goa Under
Siege, and will
Forever Dream is true,
God bless you'll
stephen fernandes
Muscat/Divar
--- joseph fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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Hi thereNelly is certainly not Bombay Goan; her parents originally
came from the Azores and moved to Victoria...therefore her very multi
cultural outlook and influence on her music.
She is very Portuguese at heart and if I am not mistaken lives off
Little Italy (mix of Portuguese/Italian
On 22/05/06, Michael Ali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nelly Furtado's third album 'Loose' will be released on June 20, 2006. The
follow up to 2003's 'Folklore', 'Loose' includes the single 'Man-eaters as
well as a duet with Latin pop superstar Juanes, and the song 'All Good
Things' which features
When the 75 year old internationally acclaimed
Hyderabad born architect Charles Correa, completed his
38 minutes power point presentation to a select
elitist audience comprising architects, students of
architecture and the socialites of Goa, at the Hotel
Mandovi auditorium, this evening, little
In Abbe's memory
If Ramchandra Kamat's stunning piece of sculpture of Abbe Faria had not
been installed sixty years ago during the Portuguese regime in the public
square next to the old Secretariat, chances are that Jose Custodio de Faria
may not have lived in the people's memory as much as
Chasing Down Dan Brown
A lot of people are grousing about the soon-to-be released, The Da
Vinci Code. Canadian priest, Father Bernard F. Heffernan, will be right
on site when the film is released at the Cannes Film Festival on
Tuesday, where he will launch The First Religious Music Festival
Thanks to the fortnightly program Contacto Goa we now
have the truth as to how the Portuguese langauge was
desecrated by bharat post 61.
If one remembers: 'yours truly Imelda'.
BC
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My idea is: why not plan for the non-aeronautical part of Mopa as a
proto-city for general purposes --- subject to a quick change for specific
aeronautical purposes at some point in the future. I dont know if there are
any international precedents for this.
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P.S. In the normal
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Authorities clamp down on illegal kiosk at Navelim
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The South Goa district administration in a surprise raid this evening
clamped down on a kiosk accepting matka bets at Navelim and
'Undrak loknnacho vavr kiteak?...Konkani Proverb
Why should the rat go on nibbling iron?
Do not undertake jobs beyond your own capacity.
Edward Verdes
Chinchinim/Mumbai/Jeddah
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Gabe, I have no idea if white port was available in Goa before 1961. My
guess is yes, but that is only a guess. Lots of other red and white wines
were available.
About Vinicola Port (Goan), I am sorry to say but it is an insult to even
call it Port wine. It is far from it and it cannot be called
It looks like the author was only recently Enlightened that Fundamentalism
applies to Christians also. Too bad he didn't even bother to
Wiki Fundamentalism (at the very least) to find out that it originated with
Christianity, in various forms right from subtle evangelisation (that
continues
What happened to Herculano Dourado and company
of the NRI Felicitation Centre after their 'touristic'
visit to the Gulf countries? Whatever happened to the
notes taken at the Dubai and Kuwait meetings of the
Goan NRIs with the above delegations?
Were the issues raised filed or handed over to the
Sod is a research bulletin produced, edited and published as part of the
research efforts of Thomas Stephens Konknni Kendr (TSKK), Alto Porvorim,
Goa, devoted to the promtion of education and research in Konknni language,
literature, and culture.
So far TSKK has published 9 issues of Sod.
No this is not the controversial topic I promised but
in the interests of science and philosophy, this is
far more important. As a disclaimer, I admit that this
theory isn't based on a large population survey, nor
is it validated by any other specific statistical
tool. It is just based on
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The Da Vinci Code some thoughts
Every now and then there comes a fortuitous opportunity to engage in a
public discourse which can be illuminative, informative and simply educative.
Unfortunately, we squander these opportunities because we are fearful that
prevailing order, both social
Nelly Furtado's third album 'Loose' will be released on June 20, 2006. The
follow up to 2003's 'Folklore', 'Loose' includes the single 'Man-eaters as
well as a duet with Latin pop superstar Juanes, and the song 'All Good
Things' which features Coldplay's frontman, Chris Martin.
Nelly Furtado, a
Hi Gilbert,
How are you? How is the grandchild?
Much has been said and written about Dan Brown and far
more eloquently than I ever could. The only thing I
would like to add is that Dan Brown is neither a
historian nor a theologian. He's a novelist. Far more
damning books have been written about
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNewsstoryid=2006-05-22T141055Z_01_BOM112049_RTRUKOC_0_US-INDIA-GLOOM.xmlsrc=rssrpc=22
An excerpt:
India's Bombay Stock Exchange Ltd., which had a
market value of $657 billion last week after falling
10 percent in the previous two
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Welcome to the FRIDAY BALCAO
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Dear Cybergaonkars on Goanet,
Friday Balcao the fortnightly discussion event to be held
on 26th May will feature a presentation by Dr.Marie D'Souza
on her
This is a publication of the TSKK. But the 10th issue
has a gist of what has gone into the revival of the
demand for Konknni in Roman script since June 2005. A
must read publication for those interested in ensuring
recognition to Konknni in Roman script.
GODFREY J I GONSALVES
BORDA MARGAO GOA
Hi Eddie,
Thanks for keeping us posted on Edna Fernandes' book Holy Warriors. I along
with many Goans are delighted her book has made it on to the best seller's
list. Hopefully many people are reading her three-year research material and
are gaining much wisdom. Do you think the controversy
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Yes Gabe, White Port was available in Goa.
I remember receiving a 'calice' in some of the houses,
in Loutulim, Aldona, Uccassaim and Cansaulim.
I also remember my mother being presented with small
sample bottles by her cousin, prima Agatha, who married to
one of the 5 do Outubro brothers
How
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Goa office of profit Ordinance, an afterthought
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