[Goanet]Online Konkani classes

After the grand success of our Cecil Pinto On-line English to Konkani Translation Services we are now planning Cecil Pinto On-line Konkani Classes. Trans: Amchi Translation Service ietle successful zali ki ami chintlem kiteak ami anik poishe korche nhui? - Please note: Our rates for

[Goanet]It's my life - from Gomantak Times

Transcript of one side of a phone conversation between Cecil Pinto from Panjim and his lawyer friend Noel D'Cruz from Margao. - "Hello Noel. Good morning! How's married life treating you? Any good news for us?" "What? Not even on weekends? Throughout Lent? How

[Goanet]A concerned parent speaks - by Ethel Da Costa

HEART 2 HEART - March 20 (Herald) By Ethel Da Costa We don't need another brick in the wall --- Respected Governor, Please treat this as an SOS. But firstly, compliments for a sanctity of peace that hangs in the air. Government servants are actually looking up from their desks at citizens as file

[Goanet]Vidyadhar's libel

Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: "Cecil, I give up! Hereby humbly accepting my inaccuracy. Nevertheless, I will persist in using the same (non)quote as my signature, since it expresses so well what one of the greatest thinkers of all time showed through his writings -- one should not take things at face va

[Goanet]Mario Mascarenhas

George Pinto wrote: "By instinct I support anything Mario Mascarenhas does and what he stands for. He has fought the good fight for Goa and Goans and helped Goa Sudharop too. I now see my first cousin, Maurice Britto, involved in the Salmona spring issue. I wish to express my solidarity with all

[Goanet]Worms

Dear Victor, It is always a pleasure to read your rare but relevant postings on GoaNet. I have often replied privately but have never got a response and thought of you as being rude. Only recently Margaret Mascarenhas informed me that your service provider, AOL, does not accept messages from San

[Goanet]Last word - hopefully!

Mario Goveia wrote: In response to your comments shown below, it is amazing to me that you seem bent on continuing this line of personal invective, in a discussion in which you added nothing, and after the main protagonists have stopped. Cecil: If the 'main protagonists' decide to call it off does

[Goanet]Misplaced Morality - Wendell Rodricks in Goa Today

Stylespeak By Wendell Rodricks MISPLACED MORALITY The nation is in a grip of voyeurism. Thanks to a little known, hardly viewed television channel that should ideally be banned, by not only the film frat but the public at large. It all began with the very public airing of a teenager who "mobile

[Goanet]Cursing in Konkani

Santosh Helekar wrote: "I can say with confidence that there are domains of human experience in which Konkani is much richer than English." -- Dear Santosh, I agree with you. For example calling someone an illegitimate child in Konkani is so much more explicit and satisfying in Konkani than th

[Goanet]Britto v/s St. Thomas nicknames

From Goa-Net: UK-based Sun Microsystems engineer Benny "Screw" Faria of the Class of 1977 writes: "I was reminiscing about Britto nicknames, and there is a lot of history here. I mean, who'd own up to pandu, zoddo, tantiyakar, rebec, somplo, doctor fart, gauns, datta, rajesh (khanna), bobby, disht

[Goanet]Swearing in Konkani

In a private e-mail a Cyber Goan wrote to me... "There are two words - swearing and cursing - mean entirely different - choose your phrase correctly. cursing is 'shirap' swearing is 'gaLi sounchen? Pozdem uloup? " - I wish to thank this individual for the correction. I intend conducting an

[Goanet]The RSS way - by Ethel Da Costa

HEART 2 HEART - APRIL 10 (Herald) By Ethel Da Costa On a head roll at Mala Tut, tut, Naguesh Karmali. I simply can't figure out - having met and partaken of an informal discussion with you, where you came across as a sensible man - how you could endorse the violence committed on Mala with your r

[Goanet]Wendell Rodricks' interview to be aired on 16th April

Goan designer Wendell Rodricks features in a special programme on ZooM TV to be aired this week. The shown named "Just Pooja" has model and TV host Pooja Bedi interviewing Wendell Rodricks on the aspects of homosexuality and society's reaction to the same. The aim of the programme is to get the

[Goanet]English Admission - from Goa Today

Tongue-in-Cheek by Cecil Pinto Two weeks back I read about some parents who camped overnight in a queue on the streets of Margao just to get school Admission Forms for their wards. Mind you these were just forms to be filled out with no guarantee that the child would actually get admission

[Goanet]A public archive of old Goan photographs

Frederick Noronha (FN) Would there be an interest in building up a public archive of old Goan photographs? I think pictures tell a story well, and we need to collate and put out in cyberspace photographs that tell the story of Goa. If this suggestion makes sense to you, send me a note. We could wor

[Goanet]Goa's Stealth Transformation - by VM in Herald

Below is the full text of the article by V.M. in Herald. it has been posted here with his permission. Any comments? Cecil Goa's Stealth Transformation by V. M. de Malar Our state is really hot right now, and we're not talking about the oppressively humid weather. Every second person you meet

[Goanet]Konkani - independent language, not a dialect

Navhind Times report: >Another myth that was broken by Fr Naik was the >belief that Konkani is a daughter of Sanskrit. Santosh Helekar wrote: It would be interesting to know what exactly is meant by the above statement. I thought Konkani was derived from one of the Prakrits (early spoken dialects o

[Goanet]VAT me worry?

The bundh call given in protest against the implementation of Value Added Tax (VAT) in Goa has met with a near total success. I toured Panjim this morning and found almost every shop, restaurant, petrol pump, showroom and gaddo closed. Friends calling in from Margao and Mapusa and villages also

[Goanet]The Grape Escape - Ethel da Costa's upcoming event

Come May 6, 7,8 and the INOX courtyard will buzz with excitement. No, it's not a movie launch we are talking about. It is an extravagant three-day, wine, haute cuisine, rock blues, jazz and art festival, 'The Grape Escape' organised by the Goa Tourism Development Corporation (GTDC) at the INOX

[Goanet]Acid Attacks from Page 3 - Ethel Da Costa

HEART 2 HEART - APRIL 17 (Herald) BY ETHEL DA COSTA Who needs high society! This is not a Saturday night hangover. This is not about getting out an axe and chopping off a few heads (after years of knowing the Page 3, I certify there is no cerebral activity in the upper compartment to engage even

[Goanet]New rules for GoaNet poster identification - Unofficial

t is not required as from your surname and village he can calculate one's caste. Viviana's comment was "Huh? Really?". Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ NP-H =

[Goanet]Single?

Halur Rasho wrote: In the US most personals have a race preference, for example a woman may describe herself as SWF (single white female) seeking a SWM(single white male). Are such people racists? -- Dear Halur, These people are not racist. Just plain stupid. Unless one is advertising for

[Goanet]Goans, GoaNet and caste

riage. --- Dear Viviana, Just as an example how all Goans don't think alike. On reading your statement above... What Cecil Pinto thinks Aha! So Ariosto and Viviana have lots of close relatives in Goa. Perhaps I should make a sales pitch for EXPRESSIONS flower delivery service. What C

[Goanet]People like ourselves?

A paisi unni chi vai, comu vidi fari fai. Sigreti a tò mugghieri 'un cunfidari, casi cu prèguli 'un adduari, cumpari sbirri nun pigghiari. A locu unni 'un si' conusciutu, comu si' vistu si' raffiguratu. Scusa nun richiesta è accusa manifesta. Ovvero: Cui si scusa senz'esseri accusatu, manifestu fa lu sò piccatu. Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ H

[Goanet]Caste and other stuff on GoaNet

eving in, and forwarding, hoax mails. GoaNet I think has a different purpose than being a reservoir for inspirational mails and hoaxes. But I do agree with you that USA politics discussions do get quite sickening. But for all you know some people might be finding them much more interesting than my re-written Goan jokes? It takes all types of Goans to make GoaNet. --- Mog Assum di Edwardo Verdes Chinchinim/Jeddah/KSA.. Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ H ==

[Goanet]Death Announcements in Goa

Tongue-in-cheek By Cecil Pinto Cecil Pinto educates Gabe Menezes, a UK based Goan, on the finer points of Goan Catholic Death Advertisements in local newspapers. Gabe Menezes: Are obituary notices published in your local dailies? Cecil Pinto: We don't have obituaries.

[Goanet]Mars attacks

I have been receiving 'forwards' from people telling me that Mars is going to be spectacularly close to Earth in August 2005. This is untrue. http://www.snopes.com/science/mars.asp "Mars will have another close encounter with Earth in in 2005, but that occurrence will take place in October (not

[Goanet]Honest Matrimonial Ads

(originally posted some two years back) Goan for the Jocular by Cecil Pinto If you read the matrimonial adverts in the The Navhind Times every Sunday I can't blame you for thinking that there's an ample choice of good spouses, here in Goa, for anyone planning

[Goanet]Complex Complexions

(originally posted some years back) Goan for the Jocular by Cecil Pinto Back to one of my favourite hunting grounds - Matrimonial Advertisements. Recently I read that a young man from Uttar Pradesh has approached the court claiming penalty and damages. The main thrust of

[Goanet]Damaneses and Diuenses? Linguistically correct?

Cam across this para at: http://goaday.goamog.com/ The World Goa Day is definitely about our uniqueness, which urges for a fortified identity, only possible with a strong union. The present site is yet another effort in the global aim of reminding and preserving our symbols, marking our cultur

[Goanet]Law For All, Bar Nun - from Outlook magazine

http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20050711&fname=Kerala+%28F%29&sid=1 KERALA Law For All, Bar Nun The state bar council's bizarre decision to deny enrolment to a nun upsets the clergy JOHN MARY Can a nun who has taken the vow to serve Christ till the end of her life enrol as a la

[Goanet]Gaunkari and Caste are equally bad?

Nasci Caldeira wrote: This system of 'Caste' as well as the 'Gauncaree' system in Goa is detrimental to progress and therefore must be fought as a challenge with determination and in a revolutionary way! Why not?? These facts make India 'the most Racist Country' in the world. Caste and Gauncaree s

[Goanet]18th June Road flooded

visible. Fortunately there's not much pedestrian or vehicular traffic. 8.30 p.m. 11th July 2005 Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ NP-H ==

[Goanet]Single?

ating personals. 2) In the West you simplify everything into White, Black or Coloured. How limited. Here in India we have various shades of brown. These complexions I have described separately. Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ NP-H

[Goanet]Halur's gender

'? This is not part of a man's vocabulary. Men flirt with women. Men entice women. Men seduce women. We don't need to 'hit on' women. Earth girls are easy! Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ NP-H ==

[Goanet]Matchmaking assistance

' is not part of services we offer. We grade applicants on face value. Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ NP-H

[Goanet]90% of how many voters?

Bernado Colaco: I guess there are a couple of Aldoncars who have no interest in Goa and its future. Recently one wrote that everthing is fine in Goa (no problems). - Dear Bernado, There probably are. Cecil =

[Goanet]Typical Goan 'XIRAP' - gender bias?

ur society that a woman is considered 'complete' only after she is married and has given birth to children? Whereas a man can remain a bachelor forever and have no stigma attached to this. Shame on us all! Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ NP-H

[Goanet]Economic migration, personal experience...

wish more overseas Goans would relate their personal experience while, and reasons for, migrating so we can truly understand the process and teh underlying motives - rather than just depend on vague generalisations and anonymous statistics. Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ NP-H

[Goanet]Goans, GoaNet and Caste

s among ex-East African Goans and at the time of marriage. Fortunately, I have seen and experienced none of that nonsense. I have heard about it from those who went through 'technical family' problems at the time of their marriage. But that would be hearsay." ---- I totally agree wi

[Goanet]Goans, GoaNet and Caste

to tell me, "You're nothing and you'll end up a nobody!" Just kidding. I have wonderfully supportive parents. - Best regards, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, Porvorim and New Jersey Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ NP-H

[Goanet]New rules for GoaNet poster identification - Unofficial

nk all subscribers for their patience and understanding during this time of changing Identification Protocol. Please understand that we have to somehow raise some funds to get some software developed that will solve this 'plain text' problem once and for all. And we want to know Halur's gender. Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ NP-H

[Goanet]'Re' - suffix

ist cyber correspondent that I have no problem with following the rules and did not wish to offend anyone's customs. But since I don't know which woman is 'brahmin' and which one is not I will only use 're' when speaking to women who have the word 'BRAHMIN"

[Goanet]Goans, GoaNet and caste

e that some people are so obsessed. Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ NP-H ==

[Goanet]No mini skirts and spaghettii straps in Church

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1167737.cms Now, dress code for churchgoers ASHLEY D'MELLO TIMES NEWS NETWORK MONDAY, JULY 11, 2005 11:40:43 PM MUMBAI: After the Mumbai University vice chancellor's pronouncements on student attire, make way for another dress code. Upset at the

[Goanet]Wallflowers at a party

t happens. Thanks Louise UAE Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ NP-H

[Goanet]Knock! Knock! Who's there? Sicily! Sicily who? Sicily question!

I certainly would not go on some France-centric discussion group and make statements without first getting my facts right. At most I would ask a few polite questions on the group to clear my doubts. On the other hand if I had lived with my French wife in France itself for many years and had absorbed the French way I would confidently move into discussion knowing I have now an insiders' experience and authority. Go figure. Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ NP-H =

[Goanet]Understanding Goa's population puzzle

Gabriel de Figueiredo wrote: > India's smallest state (population approx 1.35 > million, area 3700 sq.km) > is seeing very few births. Could this be the result of the males being too long away from their wives, in the Gulf or on board ships? Are there any stats on the ratio of married men being

[Goanet]My replies to the poll

* Santosh's suggestions look interesting, specially this one: 2. Any posts containing serious personal attacks or accusations against private individuals will be rejected. Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ H =

[Goanet]Death Anniversaries

, a specific cash amount to be used only for this purpose. I know this from hearsay and cannot verify it. Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ NP-H ===

[Goanet]Sicilian vendetta

t on this forum. Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ NP-H

[Goanet]Re: Postal Codes for anywhere in India

/pinsearch1.asp Type just the first few letters of the City/Village Eg. "pan" for Panjim Viola! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ NP-H

[Goanet]A love letter to your wife

the house. --- Get the point? Now I'm going home. Just before retiring to bed I will tell Beatrice to check her e-mail and when she gets her GoaNet Digest tan tan dan!!! Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ H =

[Goanet]What type of IFFI Mr. Rane? - by Ethel da Costa

HEART 2 HEART - JULY 17, Herald BY ETHEL DA COSTA 100 crores, or no show? Dear Mr Pratapsing Rane, Good to see you crack the whip, though I understand the hot plate is heating up with too many trying to short fuse your circuits. But shrewd as you are, its time to hold to your horses, keep the

[Goanet]Re: A love letter to your wife

on in matrimonial format" uniquely for your wife, and your relationship, while still making it interesting enough for the rest of the world to read. I never said it was going to be easy. But the payoff is worth the effort. Cheers! Cecil Pinto, Panjim - Aldona M/ 38/ NP-CC/ H ===

[Goanet]The Kashmir Effect : Why Good Things happen to Bad People

n-Biblical views on Science and Religion, he would compromise by always making it very clear where his allegiance was. The collar served that purpose. "Basil! Basilo! Baz! Bazullea!". Fr. Basilio looked back to see Cecil Pinto approaching on his rickety motorcyle. "Oh No!", he

[Goanet] Church attendance drops in Mumbai

More than a month has passed since Cardinal Ivan Dias issued a dress code for Mumbai Catholic churchgoers. Statistics are just coming in and it is obvious that there has been a massive drop in church attendance figures. Roving reporter Cecil Pinto sending in this almost-live report for Cyber

[Goanet] What is planned for tourism in Goa? asks Ethel da Costa

HEART TO HEART (SEPT 4) BY ETHEL DA COSTA The Tourism Gospel According to Dr Willy? Dear Dotor, Goody! Now that we've broken ice at our recent World Goa Day celebrations at Assagao and you've proved to me that you're a jolly good sport as well -- despite our not so long ago acid spewing print

[Goanet] Two song suggestions for Isabel Vas' drama on Abbe Faria

songs and re-writing the lyrics to suit the theme. Please let me know if the lyrics below are suitable for your play. If not I will try dismantling some other classic songs. Cecil Pinto (Songwriter) ---Song # 1 - My first song is a modification of the song 'Maria' from th

[Goanet] Singles Again Club - by Ethel Da Costa

HEART TO HEART (SEPT 11) BY ETHEL DA COSTA To my 'Single Again' girlfriends, live life full! "The pain which you sometimes feel in your soul is the birth of a new insight. When your subconscious has born the new insight to term, you will be wiser than you were before." - The Beholder by Ken L

[Goanet] Do kids still have autograph books? - from Goa Today

Tongue in cheek By Cecil Pinto The last time I encountered an autograph book was when my good friend Gordon Lobo married his long time sweetheart Flavia Ferrao some four years back. A group of us male friends were quite enjoying ourselves at our table at the wedding reception, where the

[Goanet] Frame One: Festival of First-Time Film Makers

ry and fiction forms. 'Joseph and Flavia' is directed by architect Priya Kamat Next to be screened is 'In Search of Abbe Faria'. This film is directed by Isabel Vaz and Cecil Pinto. The year 2006 marks the 250th Birth Anniversary of Jose Custodio de Faria, a son of Goa, widel

[Goanet] Wanting more - By Ethel da Costa

HEART TO HEART (Herald, SEPT 25) BY ETHEL DA COSTA Stories of people who want more Of all the root causes for people feeling drained, the most widespread is probably selfishness, whether within themselves, in their relationships with others or in the world at large. It may also be the hardest

[Goanet] The tragic legend of Dona Paula

The column below, by me appeared in Goa Plus some time in January 2003 or thereabouts. I can't recall if I have posted it here before but Borg Costa did recently query about the legend of Dona Paula. Cecil Pinto Gather around me children, and hear this story of long ago times

[Goanet] Is Goa underselling itself?

Some weeks back V M de Malar wrote in Herald about Goa going the Bali way where the locals are outnumbered by the outsiders who own the hotels and a lot of the prime land. I sent the article to, among others, my friend Justine Andrews, from the Isle of Wight, who has been holidaying in Goa ever

[Goanet] Singles Night Out - Tonite!!!

From Ethel Da Costa -- Calling all 'Singles Again' Make a date to 'Meet, Connect and Bond' in a celebration of singlehood at the `Singles Again' Club launch party on Oct 7. THINK GEEK Media and Productions introduces the niche 'SINGLES AGAIN CLUB ' at Club on the Rocks, Villa Sol, Dona P

[Goanet] Please sign the appeal: IFFI garbage problem

tar Singh, novelist, Goa Alexyz, cartoonist, Goa Prava Rai, writer, Goa Jerry Pinto, poet and journalist, Goa Sudeep Chakravarti, novelist, Goa Dean D'Cruz, architect, Goa Norma Alvares, environmental lawyer, Goa Vinni Timblo, hotelier, Goa etc, etc, etc. Foo

[Goanet] Apathy action plan / Melinda Coutinho Powell

Melinda Powell described a GOACAN meeting she attended and urged others to involve themselves in such consumer movements. To this Floriano Lobo reacted thus: -- quote - You say it is fultile yet you say this is the only thing to be done. More meetings, more workshops, more ang

[Goanet] Join the Clean Goa Initiative

The Clean Goa Initiative-began with a petition written by two Goans seeking to draw attention at the Central Government level to the waste management crisis in Goa and requesting intervention, beginning with a rational and responsible waste management strategy for IFFI in Panjim this year. The

[Goanet] Review of Arun Sinha's book on Post-Colonial Goa

Carving a Goan identity in the postcolonial period Ervell E. Menezes GOA INDICA : A CRITICAL PORTRAIT OF POSTCOLONIAL GOA by Arun Sinha. Bibliophile South Asia in association with Promilla & Co. Rs 495 BOOKS on Goa are being churned out at regular intervals these days with varying degrees of s

[Goanet] More Sting Operations needed and vigilance

Dear Floriano, The narration of how you collaborated with the cops to get a conman, posing as a loan agent, arrested was heartwarming. Power to you and your party on this initiative. So many Goans have been conned over the years by smooth fly-by-night operators that it is a crying shame. The E

[Goanet] Clean Goa Initiative - exact schedule for today's meet

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[Goanet] Let's be pro-active for a Clean Goa - Ethel da Costa

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[Goanet] Clean Goa Initiative meet - Report by Margaret Mascarenhas

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[Goanet] Clean Goa Initiative meet - Report by Margaret Mascarenhas

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[Goanet] Rich Russians and Sardinia - Could be Goa?

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[Goanet] For our children, and their children - Aldona Children's Park

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[Goanet] One stroke solution for Mopa and Garbage

| || | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -- Tongue in Cheek By Cecil Pinto With the Mopa airport and the garbage

[Goanet] Silly Season and the Selfish South

| || | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -- Silly Season and the Selfish South By Cecil Pinto Silly Season, as a

[Goanet] No Wedding Mass for mixed marriages in Mumbai

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[Goanet] All you wanted to know about ZeeBras - FAQ

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[Goanet] Tomazinho Cardozo's Play and Konglish

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[Goanet] The last of the faceless, placeless GoaNetters

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[Goanet] Laundries, Laundromats and the Goan Dhobi

| || | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -- Laundries, Laundromats and the Goan Dhobi By Cecil Pinto Bumped into

[Goanet] Police Academy - Part XVII

| || | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -- Police Academy - Part XVII By Cecil Pinto More than twenty years back

[Goanet] Real Estate: Brokers and Decisions

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[Goanet] Sprinkling Holy Water on 'The Da Vinci Code'

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[Goanet] Well come to Aldona, Ingo!

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[Goanet] Kator re Bhaji - Support the Arts!

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[Goanet] One evening at the Two Festivals

By Cecil Pinto Being a resident of Panjim has many advantages, specially these few days. Non-Ponjekar friends who have never bothered to phone or visit, nor even forward risque SMS jokes or hoax virus warnings by e-mail, throughout the year suddenly become very communicative. Non-Ponjekars

[Goanet] Expatriate Goan returns home and...................

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[Goanet] ROMAN KONKANI IS NOT GREEK OR LATIN

e kombye-mas for chicken with kombi being a hen and kombo being a rooster and peel being a chicken. Also you have bokdya-mas with bokdo being a goat, bokdi a she-goat and bokuddlem for a kid goat. And of course padkulem is a calf, gai is a cow and pado is a bull, so gai-mas is beef. Beatrice: Tha

[Goanet] Confessions of an Ex-Expatriate

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[Goanet] Researchers and laymen

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[Goanet] A Goan Christmas Story

"Missing you, John" A short story by Pundalik Asnodkar Translated from the original Konkani by Cecil Pinto -- The phone rang. Just as Gracy was about to pick it up the doorbell sounded. Gracy hesitated. "Maammy, somebody's come!" shouted little

[Goanet] Appreciation of Art Installations

Appreciation of Art Installations Footprints in the sands of ignorance By Cecil Pinto Last Sunday, like most Panjim residents, my wife and I had enough of the IFFI festivities and so we decided to check our Subodh Kerkar's Beach Installations at Candolim. My awareness about the natur

[Goanet] Contemporary Goan Acronyms

Tongue in Cheek By Cecil Pinto As a teenager I often used to get confused by acronyms like WASP and JAP that often appeared in American humour publications. Much later in life I realized what they stood for, and it took me a lot of reading before I could fully comprehend the stereotypes

[Goanet] Gifted and Gifting Godparents

Gifted and Gifting Godparents A tedious, painstaking and irreversible process By Cecil Pinto A popular saying of Confucius translates this way, "Have no friends not equal to yourself". More recently Yassir Arafat said, "Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose

[Goanet] Let's play Weeweechu

One beautiful December evening Pedru and his girlfriend Rosita were sitting on the sand at Benaulim Beach There was a romantic, full moon, when Pedru said, "Moga mhojea, Weeweechu khyovya?." "Atam naka. Kai boro chondrim asa. Ami chondrimak polovya", said Rosita. "C'mon baby, let's you and m

[Goanet] Appreciation of Art Installations

Appreciation of Art Installations Footprints in the sands of ignorance By Cecil Pinto Last Sunday, like most Panjim residents, my wife and I had enough of the IFFI festivities and so we decided to check our Subodh Kerkar's Beach Installations at Candolim. My awareness about the natur

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