[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (13-02-2006)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira ONE FOR THE ROAD Death on the Roads was the evocative title of an essay oft demanded from students answering the Board examinations in standard Tenth or Twelfth. So repetitive was the question in the Board's

[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (06-02-2006)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira DISCUSSING GOANS Questions are often raised: Who is a Goan? What is the defining characteristic of a Goan? What is the Goan identity? And the answers, if at all they can be called answers, are passionately given and

[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (30-01-2006)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira A MESSAGE FOR THE MAHATMA Gandhiji would have surely gone on a day's Protest Fast. Persons who were elected to serve as the people's representatives are now caught with their palms open on the spy-cameras of

[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (09-01-2006)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira SORROWING LIES LAMBERT Mr. Lambert Mascarenhas, well known freedom fighter, novelist, music critic and a former editor of The Navhind Times and the Goa Today, has written a two-part article entitled Goa's

[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (02-01-2006)

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[Goanet] Re: HERALD: Christmas spirit hits Vasco policemen

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[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (26-12-2005)

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[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (12-12-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira RIGHTS AND WRONGS 10th December 2005, marked the 57th Anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly. The topic of

[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (05-12-2005)

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[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (28-11-2005)

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[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (21-11-2005)

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[Goanet] *View From the Outer Harbour (31-10-2005)

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[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (17-10-2005)

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[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (10-10-2005)

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[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (03-10-2005)

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[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (26-09-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira IT'S CHAPPELL OR CHAPPALS ! Indian Cricket is at a crossroads. It may be more appropriate to say that it is like a batsman stuck in the middle of the pitch while trying to sneak a run that was never there in the first place, even

[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (19-09-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira MOPA OR OPA ? ? ? A real BIG FIGHT is going on. Does Goa require another airport? Should it be constructed at Mopa? Or, should the Dabolim airport be further developed to suit Goa's needs? South Goa

[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (12-09-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira JAI E-GANESHA …. ! Ganapati Bappa comes every year…. and goes. He is revered as the Lord of Wisdom. But how much wiser are we getting every year? The Gana was originally the collective of persons in a

[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (05-09-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira NO MORE EKALAVYAS ! 5th September is observed as Teachers' Day, in honour of the Birth Anniversary of India's second President Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan who was himself a teacher. Ancient Indian educational tradition was

[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (29-08-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira 'COKE' RANE … OR … 'PEPSI' PARRIKAR ? The Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, which is India's highest award to a sportsperson, has this year been awarded to Lt. Col. Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore who brought glory to the

[Goanet] *View From The Outer Harbour (22-08-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira IFFI BLUES . . . AND REDS Pratap Singh Rane does not get tired of squeaking that very soon a major police probe will be launched against Manohar Parrikar and other BJP bigwigs, in respect of alleged financial

[Goanet]*View From The Outer Harbour (15-8-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira RETIRED HURT AT 58 ! Imagine a person, who was born on 15th August, 1947. Then he would be retiring from service on 15th August, 2005, on attaining the age of 58. And pray, what does he have to show for his active,

[Goanet]*View From The Outer Harbour (08-8-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira MAMATA AND TARA Mamata Bannerjee suddenly made it to the national headlines after a long gap of one year, by throwing papers at the Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Back home, a few days ago, Mormugao Councillor Tara

[Goanet]*View From The Outer Harbour (25-7-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE Nostalgia seems to be the current disease of top politicians. First we had Advani going to Karachi and getting all emotional, to the extent of eulogising Jinnah as a secular

[Goanet]*View From The Outer Harbour (18-7-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira YATHA PRAJA … TATHA RAJA ! ! Air can neither be seen nor heard nor smelt nor tasted nor felt. It defies all our five senses. Yet it is all pervasive and is the sine- qua-non of our very existence.

[Goanet]View From The Outer Harbour (11-7-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira KRAMER VERSUS KRAMER It appears to be a civil war in the saffron ranks. First Advani went to Pakistan and praised Jinnah as being secular. He also acknowledged Pakistan as a separate country with a right to exist for

[Goanet]View From The Outer Harbour (04-7-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira SONIA AND IMRANA The Chinese revolutionary Mao Ze Dong had said that women must hold up half the sky. No wonder China is rapidly progressing. In India, Parliament is continuously postponing the Constitutional

[Goanet]View From The Outer Harbour (27-6-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira RAINS AND DRAINS The monsoons have literally lashed Goa with a furious onslaught. The havoc created, though, is entirely due to human agency or rather the lack of its intervention. Our Meteorological Dept. seems to be failing in

[Goanet]View From The Outer Harbour (13-6-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira HELLO MR. JINNAH ! Barrister Mohammed Ali Jinnah must be laughing in his grave. Parrikar's Big Boss Advani could not make up his mind whether Jinnah was a good Sindhi or a bad Pakistani. The BJP's official resolution ended up calling

[Goanet]View From The Outer Harbour (06-06-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour By: Thalmann Pradeep Pereira LIGHT UP THE LAMPS ! ! So the by-elections are over and the results are also out. No doubt, much newsprint will be utilised to analyse the results and much public time will be spent in discussing the outcome. The main political

[Goanet]* View From The Outer Harbour * (30-5-2005)

View From The Outer Harbour by : Thalmann Pradeep Pereira OF MAJORITY AND MATURITY ! 30th May is the Goa Statehood Day. The 25th State in the Sovereign, Socialist, Secular, Democratic Republic of India is now 18 “full” years old! In the early 1980’s, as we, in the Students’ Federation,

[Goanet]Goa Under Saffron Government - Part II

People's Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vol. XXIX No. 07 February 13, 2005 Goa Under Saffron Government Nalini Taneja FLEXING ITS MUSCLES The Panaji Nagrik Kruti Samiti, an RSS linked organisation, has been flexing its muscles at the Corporation of the

[Goanet]Goa Under Saffron Government - Part I

People's Democracy (Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Vol. XXIX No. 07 February 13, 2005 Goa Under Saffron Government Nalini Taneja THE BJP just cannot hide its methods of staying in government. It has to buy up some people and it has to divide most others along lines of

[Goanet]CPI(M) Goa State Committee Press Statement 16-5-2005

Press Statement 16-5-2005 CPI(M) CALL TO DEFEAT COMMUNALISM The Communist Party of India ( Marxist ) , Goa State Committee , has called upon the electorate in the 5 Assembly Constituencies going to the polls on 2-6-2005, to exercise their franchise to resoundingly defeat the

[Goanet]Goa CPI(M) deplores maniulative politics

Communist Party of India (Marxist) ( Goa State Committee) Phone: (0832) 25130281 P. O. B. - 90, Vasco-da-Gama, Goa (INDIA) 403 802. Gram : LALBAVTTA (Vasco) Date: 30-1-2005 PRESS STATEMENT The Communist Party of India (Marxist), Goa State Committee, has deplored the

[Goanet]Minority education bill, who will benefit?

MINORITY EDUCATION BILL Who Will Benefit: Minorities Or Elite In Minorities? K K Ragesh (National President of the Students Federation of India.) THE National Minority Education Commission Bill, which allows direct affiliation of minority educational institutes to central universities, was

[Goanet]To all Cybergoemkars - A Slice of the Portuguese cake

XVII PCP CONGRESS ASSERTS It Is A Time Of Revolutionary Potential Sitaram Yechury THE 17th Congress of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) has made a rich analysis of the current international situation. Noting that the Congress is being held at a time of fierce all out imperialist

[Goanet]A Critique of the Mashelkar Paradigm

Scientific Capability And The Wealth Of Nations Prabir Purkayastha EVERY school of thought accepts that if a country wants to become a global player, Research and Development (RD) is vital. Copying, body shopping, selling other peoples products and technology can work for some time.

[Goanet]bjp a reactionary response ( an article from 1992 archives )

bjp: a reactionary response The Marxist Volume: 10, No. 3 Issue: July-September, 1992 BJP : A REACTIONARY RESPONSE TO PRESENT CRISIS Prakash Karat Any discussion on the Bharatiya Janata Party must begin with the question: how is the BJP to be characterised? From 1986 what stands out about this

Re: [Goanet]Any one can be a SAINT (Sant Tukaram)

know/remember some thing about hindu Saints/poets. btw, r u that Thalmann Pereira from MES College Vasco-joshi building? just curious. Regardd/ joe ## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Goanet]Open Letter to Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar (by MayabhushanNagvenkar)

Let us all make telephone calls to Dr. Claude Alvares' phone and let us all get looped on to the police recorder. The Govt. will get data more than it can chew , and poor ASI Yeram may at least be able to get his suspension revoked by being instrumental in getting a flood of data for the

[Goanet]Re: [marxistindia] scam in sale of ONGC, GAIL

Subject: scam in sale of ONGC, GAIL March 23, 2004 Press Release The CPI (M) asserts that, it is the money of the people of India which has created Navratna PSUs like ONGC and GAIL and the Govt. of the day is only a caretaker and proxy shareholder of the national wealth. NDA Govt. has

[Goanet]A State-wise Analysis of BJP-NDA's Election Prospects

Media Favours BJP: Hype And Reality Harkishan Singh Surjeet THESE days the media are at their game again --- the game of projecting as if the BJP led NDA is sure to come back to power. One of the papers has even dubbed the coming Lok Sabha polls as unnecessary, on the presumption that

[Goanet]Election Manifesto of the CPI(M)

http://www.cpim.org/elections/2004ls/03162004_14ls_manifesto.pdf http://www.cpim.org/elections/2004ls/03162004_manifesto_14ls.doc Communist Party of India (Marxist) Manifesto for the 14th Lok Sabha Elections, 2004 Part I The Indian people have to vote once again to elect a new

[Goanet]RE: DIASPORA : Searching for a Konknni equivalent

we have to necessarily be slaves to existing English vocabulary? Teotonio. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/1503/teo_publ.html which was in reply to: From: Thalmann Pereira Date: 01/25/04 21:06:54 To: Goanet; Gilbert Lawrence; Teotonio R. De Souza

Re: [Goanet]Konkani language - *vortota* *zaun asa*?!

:13 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet]Konkani language - *vortota* *zaun asa*?! The use of vortota (similarly zavn asa) is faulty. It was in vogue in the pulpits in my childhood. The verb vortota means it becomes. It may be used only in this sense. - Original Message - From: Thalmann Pereira [EMAIL

Re: [Goanet]Unrevising the actions of the Konkani revisionists - 1

Hello, 1 ) baim in Konknni means well in English . e.g. ami tinga baim marpak gel'le = we had gone there to dig a well . so a bath seems inappropriate. to my (limited) knowledge the action of having a bath has no noun

Re: [Goanet]RE: Searching for a name

Hello, What about EMIGRE GOANS Or, NON-RESIDENT GOANS ? Regards, Thalmann Pradeep Pereira, Vasco-da-Gama, Goa.. - Original Message - From: Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 7:21 AM Subject: [Goanet]RE: Searching

Re: [Goanet]RE: Searching for a name

Hello, What about EMIGRE GOANS ? Regards, Thalmann Pradeep Pereira, Vasco-da-Gama. - Original Message - From: Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 7:21 AM Subject: [Goanet]RE: Searching for a name -Original

[Goanet]Third Front ?

Hi, What are the implications of Congress Party's defeat in the recent Assembly polls in M.P., Rajasthan and Chattisgarh ? What are the prospects of a Third Front in this context ? What lessons should the Congress Party in Goa draw , especially regarding their infighting, exclusive focus on

Re: [Goanet]Colonial Goa and Portugal

Dear Mr Gilbert Lawrence, 1} Portugal had an Anglo-Portuguese Friendship Treaty signed somewhere in 1955-56. Also Portugal was a member of NATO. Both these facts strongly dissuaded Nehru from leaning too hard on Salazar. Also Soviet approval for an Indian military adventure in Goa was not

Re: [Goanet]Gavaskar

Goanet meets in Goa: December 27, 12 noon and January 7, 4 pm (meeting point: Kala Academy canteen). See you there! -- Mr. Tony Martin seems to have misunderstood the meaning of the British usage of the word steward. In Goa, perhaps, like in the airlines, the term

[Goanet]International Film Festival in Goa ?

Goanet meets in Goa: December 27, 12 noon and January 7, 4 pm (meeting point: Kala Academy canteen). See you there! -- Hello Goanetters, Should Goa host the IFFI ? Please read this article by Mr. Bhaskar Ghose, who was formerly Secretary in the Information

Re: [Goanet]Ayodhya not integral to hindutva...for now.

In the BJP's don-tond'ache malund world you can only be sure about one thing : --- The next time the BJP does decide that the Ayodhya issue IS central to their political fortune, they will field some Hindu spokesman to announce it to the press --- not poor little Mr. M. A.Naqvi. Incidentally ,

[Goanet]Fw: Unhygienic Beef ?

- Original Message - From: Thalmann Pereira To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 12:34 AM Subject: Unhygienic Beef ? Dear Goacan, I read anxiously your documented clipping about Transportation of Unhygienic Beef as published in the daily The Navhind Times of 29-10

Re: [Goanet]Konkani language - *vortota* *zaun asa*?!

Sample the following: I English translation: Konkani (a) very difficult language. Konkani original : Konknni bhas bhou avgodd. II English translation: Konkani is (a) very difficult language. Konkani original : Konknni bhas bhou

Re: [Goanet]Looking for a friend, Costancio Cardoz

hi Mr. Jerry, i suggest you look through the Election Commission's electoral rolls for the concerned assembly constituencies of Cortalim (for Cansaulim area), Benaulim (for Carmona area) and Margao and Fatorda ( for Mugul / Margao areas) to locate your friend. The rolls are available with the