Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-08 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Bernado Colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MG, > > Try telling that (invasion) to Ivo Morales. > Mario replies: > BC, Ivo Morales can read my well known views about who invaded whom, and who was finally pushed out by whom, in the Goanet archives. > MG > __

Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-08 Thread Bernado Colaco
MG, Try telling that (invasion) to Ivo Morales. BC > Bernardo, I define pucca as one who can vote. BTW, I think you are all confused as to what "invaders" means. One cannot "invade" one's own country or territory. _ Do not post admin requests to

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-06 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Cornel writes: > > > Jorge > > Thank you for demolishing the myth Mario created > regarding his surname > > contributing to the name of a village in Portugal. > Any Johnny- come-lately would know that Portuguese > sourced Goan surnames were a consequence of > > Portuguese sourced activity, inc

[Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-05 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Bernardo Colaco writes: > > How do you define the 'pucca' and 'kuccha' syntax? > Or should I ask to be a 'pucca' NRI Goan, does one > have to go about with a 'lota' on the banks of the > Mandovi? > > Remember the Non Resident Goan has fed the coffers > of the invaders with 17,000 crores.

Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-05 Thread Mario Goveia
Cornel, You are obviously confused as to how the Portuguese got their surnames, probably by swallowing Portuguese colonial propaganda hook, line and sinker :-)) > All Jorge has done is to bring us up-to-date on the fact that Gouveia is now a thriving city in Portugal whereas it was a village when n

Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-05 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha wrote: > > (1) There is no village with that name in Portugal, > but a city which has > about 4,000 inhabitants and is the headquarters of a > "concelho" (= "taluka") > and of a "comarca" (= judicial district) having 22 > "freguesias" ("firgozo" > in Konkani) and 1

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-05 Thread Paulo Colaco Dias
enses, etc. Best, Paulo. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of cornel > Sent: 05 May 2006 08:48 > To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans > > Jorge >

Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-05 Thread cornel
other way round! Cornel - Original Message - From: "Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans From: Mario Govei

Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-04 Thread Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha
From: Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks. Perhaps you know that they named a village in > Portugal after my name:-)) (in a reply to Bernado Colaco). > > Mario has made the above assertion (with a smiley) more than once on this list. On a serious vein, however, the truth is that: (1) The

Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-03 Thread Bernado Colaco
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May

Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-03 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May

Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-03 Thread Bernado Colaco
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May

Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-02 Thread Mario Goveia
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May

Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-02 Thread Bernado Colaco
30 April, 2006 12:27:24 PM Subject: RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans Dear Paulo, I am sorry to blow a hole in your theory but I have infact always been and still am an NRI in the truest sense of the word. I may reside in the USA but I am an Indian citizen who pays my taxes every year and wi

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-30 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Elisabeth Carvalho wrote: > > Secondly I don't know if anyone read my original > post but I stated very clearly that the term NRIs > has lost its original and true meaning and has been > loosely interpreted to mean every Indian or Person > of Indian Origin, who now resides outside of India.

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-30 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
There seems to be confusion not just on this forum but in general in India as well, as to what NRI voting rights entails. The following link may shed some light on the matter. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060122/world.htm#2 One of the extracts from this article is as follows: The governme

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-30 Thread Paulo Colaco Dias
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Elisabeth Carvalho Sent: 30 April 2006 05:27 To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! Subject: RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans Dear Paulo, I am sorry to blow a hole in your theory but I have infact always bee

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-29 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
Dear Paulo, I am sorry to blow a hole in your theory but I have infact always been and still am an NRI in the truest sense of the word. I may reside in the USA but I am an Indian citizen who pays my taxes every year and will return to India in the near future. There has never been any question abou

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-29 Thread Paulo Colaco Dias
so I do not have anything else to add. Well done Nasci. Best regards Paulo -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mario Goveia Sent: 28 April 2006 20:42 To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! Subject: RE: [Goanet] Voting rights fo

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-29 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Paulo Colaco Dias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The term NRI might be sometimes informally used to > represent non-Indian nationals, but everyone knows > that in order to be a true NRI one needs to be > an Indian National. > Mario adds: > Paulo, "Everyone" does not know that. I am not an In

Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-29 Thread Edward Verdes
The recentreverse brain drainNRI is also used as 'Newly Returned Indian':) Edward Verdes Jeddah From: "Nasci Caldeira" > > NRI is a Non Resident Indian, that is a person holding an Indian Passport > and Citizenship, residing outside India. ___

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-29 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
Dear Nasci, I think you are mixing the issue of absentee voting ballots and that of NRI voting rights. Or perhaps I am getting it wrong? Maybe someone in India/Goa can illuminate us. >From what I understand of the situation, what the government wants to do is to bring into the electoral fold, all

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-29 Thread Nasci Caldeira
Mario, (Elisabeth and all others), I do know, what is right here! An NRI is an Indian who is residing abroad and stiil holds on to his/her Indian Passport and Indian Citizenship, and not interested in changing their Staus Quo, and may or may not be liable for taxation in India. (this taxation

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-29 Thread Paulo Colaco Dias
countries' diplomatic representations. Best regards, Paulo Colaco Dias. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Elisabeth Carvalho > Sent: 28 April 2006 17:28 > To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! > Subject

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-28 Thread Mario Goveia
Elisabeth is right. I am a US citizen but am considered an NRI in India. > --- Elisabeth Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, a minor correction on the term NRI. > > The term now encompasses all Indians residing > outside of India, including Indians who have > acquired citizenship of

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-28 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
Dear Nasci, Thank you for the example of the Italian Govt. Whenever we come across information like this it expands the scope of our debate and allows us to take decisions with wider perception. However, a minor correction on the term NRI. You are right, it does mean Non-Resident Indian, in the pu

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-27 Thread Nasci Caldeira
Nasci Caldeira Melbourne. Elisabeth Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Subject: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:49:58 -0700 (PDT) I have no qualms about NRIs being given voting rights but to what end? NRIs, PIOs, expats are an apathetic lot. I should know.

Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-26 Thread Bernado Colaco
Nice one Leah. How is the baby? Regards Xac === - Original Message From: Elisabeth Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Sent: Thursday, 27 April, 2006 12:49:58 AM Subject: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans A

[Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-26 Thread Elisabeth Carvalho
As a second generation NRI, the concept of NRI voting rights is of great interest to me. Firstly, the term NRI has been generally misused. NRI, is not a group of people. The term was primarily a banking concept, first introduced to accommodate those intrepid souls that made their way to the Arabian