Re: [Goanet] Re: Posts on Goa

2006-01-24 Thread Bernado Colaco
Lest we forget the richness of our Goan hindu bros via mines etc. The ore was carried via bullock carts to Japan? BC - Goa's radio-transmissions could be heard as far as East Africa and the Gulf then, its Indian replacement could not be heard a little beyond Goa's borders. Colonial

Re: [Goanet] Re: Posts on Goa

2006-01-23 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Radhakrishnan Nair wrote: Goa might look like shambles to you from Melbourne, but to people like us (resident Goans and other Indians familiar with the place), it's a far more progressive, prosperous and democratic State than the colonial backwater that it was when taken from the

Re: [Goanet] Re: Posts on Goa

2006-01-22 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
--- Radhakrishnan Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gabriel, Goa might look like shambles to you from Melbourne, but to people like us (resident Goans and other Indians familiar with the place), it's a far more progressive, prosperous and democratic State than the colonial backwater that

Re: [Goanet] Re: Posts on Goa

2006-01-21 Thread cornel
:26 AM Subject: [Goanet] Re: Posts on Goa Hello all Have read a lot on this subject but no where anyone mentions of the involvement of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the then Egyptian President and a very good friend of Pandit Jawharlal Nehru. I have heard that on Nehru's instructions, Gamal Nasser had

Re: [Goanet] Re: Posts on Goa

2006-01-21 Thread Mario Goveia
Jerry, Yes, Nasser closed the canal to the Portuguese. --- Jerry Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all Have read a lot on this subject but no where anyone mentions of the involvement of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the then Egyptian President and a very good friend of Pandit Jawharlal

[Goanet] Re: Posts on Goa

2006-01-20 Thread Radhakrishnan Nair
(Gabriel de Figueiredo wrote: So 44 years on, Goa has deteriorated from being a neat and civilized society to the shambles it is today.) Gabriel, Goa might look like shambles to you from Melbourne, but to people like us (resident Goans and other Indians familiar with the place), it's a far

[Goanet] Re: Posts on Goa

2006-01-20 Thread Jerry Fernandes
Hello all Have read a lot on this subject but no where anyone mentions of the involvement of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the then Egyptian President and a very good friend of Pandit Jawharlal Nehru. I have heard that on Nehru's instructions, Gamal Nasser had closed the Suez Canal, so that no