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 the

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, including

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

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 17,000

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-05 Thread Paulo Colaco Dias
, 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 Thank you for demolishing the myth Mario created regarding

Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-05-05 Thread cornel
, and not the other way round! Cornel - Original Message - From: Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@goanet.org Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 5:02 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans From: Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED

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) There is

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
, 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

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

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 been

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

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 for NRI

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 Indian

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
their 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

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 other

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

RE: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans

2006-04-27 Thread Nasci Caldeira
Elisabeth, NRI is a Non Resident Indian, that is a person holding an Indian Passport and Citizenship, residing outside India. And in case of NRIs in gulf and other like countries these NRIs are not even PR that is they are not permanent Residents in the countries where they are working as

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! goanet@goanet.org Sent: Thursday, 27 April, 2006 12:49:58 AM Subject: [Goanet] Voting rights for NRI Goans As a second