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[Sep 29, 2008] He also said the recovered motorcycle was
intended to be used to carry out the blasts in Karnataka and
Goa. The press release
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India is the biggest user of Roman Script
Seeing the futile attempt of some sadists, who are trying their level best, to
stop the use of the Roman Script, for Konkani , in Goa , I am forced to remind
them, of a few
DAILY GROOK #234
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RING STING
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by Francis Rodrigues
muhammed ali did cuss
all his ex-wives three,
for after each divorce,
they all got ali'money!
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puns word-play of all kinds,
if you read between the lines!
Dear Goanetters,
There have been emails from a handful of people seeking to cast aspersions
on Goanet moderation. As chair of Goanet I would like to address the
specific issues that have been raised.
First off, Id like to remind you that Goanet's Rules are published on
Goanet's website at
--
DEV BOREM KORUM.
Gabe Menezes.
London.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/sep/28/keithvaz.gordonbrown
Vaz under pressure over 28-day query
Emails suggest Prime Minister was approached in advance of publication
of independent report
* Rajeev Syal, Investigations Editor
* The Observer,
* Sunday September 28 2008
*
A Goan addressing Churchill Alemao:
Football Fans? No Churchill Bab...But Farmers whose stomachs you'll
KICK...if you convert their fields...into Football Fields!
To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com
Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org
2008/9/30 Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080930/ap_on_re_as/as_india_temple_stampede
This is tragic. The terror in India from the government's
failure to protect them has reached a point where the
jihadis don't even have to plant a bomb any more to kill
CORNEL DACOSTA wrote:
Six of my posts to Goanet and one to a private group including
Frederick and Bosco, since Jan/Feb 2008, received nil responses
with regard to my concern about the failure of moderation and
excessive rejection of posts without explanation.
RESPONSE: Have you found the
2008/9/30 Venantius Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
To all,
If my translations are not spot on and can be improved upon, please feel
free to say so. Quite often the translations are done within a very short
frame of time. There can be different translations of the same piece. as say
the Genji no
My absence was because because I was in Goa. I felt relatively safe
even though there were numerous attacks taking place in parts of India
against Christians. South Goa has a large minority of Goan Catholics
and Navelim even more so.
Parrikar the opposition leader had stated (I read this in the
Dear Selma,
This is the first I've heard of Goans in East Africa being referred to as
Black Europeans.Haven't come across Robert Gregory's book either.
It is quite possible that the Goans aligned themselves more to the
Europeans than other Asians, the latter often being referred to as
Banyanis
Dear All,
The Moira Parish bulletin, which is bi-lingual in English and Romi-Konkani
is at the printers. Here's a sneak preview of the copy in PDF format. Please
click on the link:
http://www.divshare.com/download/5489168-9bf
Its just a 400 kb down load.
Best wishes,
Tony
--
Tony de Sa
Ph:
Please wish me today on ‘World Elders Day’
For those of you who are not aware… exactly 10 days from today I will be 61.
Yes, it is World Elders Day today.
I wish all elders a happy, long, peaceful decent life.
On this occasion, I would like to remind all sons/daughters or relatives (
COPA GOA 2008
ALL GOA INTER VILLAGE FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT
LAST WEEKENED MATCHES PLAYED IN IRANIAN SPORTS CLUB DUBAI WERE THE FIRST MSTCH
WAS PLAYED BETWEEN GOAN YOUNGESTERS DUBAI v/s GOAN VETERANS U.A.E.
YOUNGESTERS DOMINATED THE MATCH BUT THE OLDIES WERE WITH TOP GOA AND INDIA
PLAYERS
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=id=08525f4b-2b24-4bf0-a50f-ab683b25cc45Headline=Goa+smokers+take+their+last+puffs
It's evening and a haze of bluish smoke hovers sluggishly over a few
tables at Café Prakash, a watering hole near the Mandovi river that
fringes
Dear Goa Net Members,
Damage to our Education System is already done...No cure possible..for our
education pipe line is chocked..with??
Goa Net Members, please don't get carried away by 1 to 1 fight (although I
personally suffered a lot in Goa Net). The present situation is
--- On Wed, 10/1/08, Mervyn Elsie Maciel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is the first I've heard of Goans in East Africa
being referred to as
Black Europeans.Haven't come across Robert
Gregory's book either.
It is quite possible that the Goans aligned themselves
more to the
Europeans
--- On Tue, 9/30/08, Mervyn Lobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
selma,
I think you are following Eugune's type of journalism
which, if I remember properly, is to provoke.
It is real easy to pick up on name calling and try
and disguise it as a question.
-
First of
And the make up of taxis, as far as I can make out, left to right:
Possibly a Ford
Peugeot 304
Mercedes
Vauxhaul Cresta PA
Ambassador
Peugeot 404
Ford Consul (1957-58)
possibly an Ambassador
--- On Wed, 1/10/08, Francis Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Francis Rodrigues [EMAIL
Ah rumours!
Countries have been invaded based on rumours.
Why, even Goa was invaded based on rumours spread by the Indian press and
Indian intelligence fed to the armed forces. Read excerpts from Bharat
Rakshak relating to Goa. Even one ex-Navy gentleman on another network claimed
that Goa
Hi
Here is a video I found on the net about south GOA
a href=
http://edwardlopes7.multiply.com/video/item/217/India_South_Goa_2007_Betalbatim_Temple_Palolem_WaterfallsIndia,
South Goa 2007 (Betalbatim Temple Palolem Waterfalls)/a
To see more videos on GOA
Visit my website on MULTIPLY
My wife was born in Ocean Road hospital, in Tanzania, and her nationality is
stated, on the birth certificate issued in Tanzania, as Portuguese.
Obviously her parents were Portuguese citizens.
So I'm not sure whether Goans claimed to be of Portuguese descent or or of
Portuguese nationality.
Hi all,
It's time we put an end to acrimony and made Goanet a fun place again.
Here's my humble contribution to turn over a new leaf:
Commandment 1. Marriages are made in heaven. But, so again, are
thunder and lightning.
Commandment 2. If you want your wife to listen and pay strict
attention
Smoking has been banned from all public places in Melbourne for over 6 years
now, including at railway stations. And it was banned in restaurants for way
longer than that. So much so, that when we flew over to London via Frankfurt in
mid 2004, we got sort of nauseated in the transit lounge at
My dear friend Miguel,
I am honored to be the subject of your emails in Goan cyberspace in recent
days. I am even more honored and delighted that you have selected me this
week - to
stand on my shoulders so that you can rise higher and higher in Goan
cyberspace and in the eyes of Goans around
OnTue, 30 Sep 2008 07:47:07 + (GMT, JANE ALPHONSO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Subject: [Goanet] SONG WITH MOG
HI This song is taken from the book called GOENCHEM GIT
Pustok - 1
Manddo Dulpod
utr: LOURDINO BARRETO
SOBIT UDENTECH POLONGAR
1. Sobitudentech polongar
Kedo dhobazo ani banddar
here is the song..
http://ishare.rediff.com/filemusic-Noman-tuka-Goa-id-56543.php
quote:
Sincerely,
Agnelo Fernandes
PS: Could someone kindly send the lyrics for the song - Noman Tuka Goa
by Alfred Rose / Mahendra Kapoor... Thanks a million..
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for Goa NRI related
Mario Goveia wrote:
This is tragic. The terror in India from the government's failure to protect
them has reached a point where the jihadis don't even have to plant a bomb any
more to kill hundreds of innocent Indians; all they have to do is plant a rumor.
Comment:
Please refer to the article
Dears (to plagiarise shamelessly from Miguel Braganza)
Unless he recently got married (without inviting us), I wonder if RKN
is a Catholic priest. For, he is giving advice on a matter he has not
experienced.
As Velim based Fee-law-zopher, Xri kon-few-xius noted recently, He
who talk only from
Selma,
Since you are repeating for the second time and that too in short
sucession the following:
I grew up in a country that derisively called me Hindi (a reference
to your life in the Persian Gulf), I must clear the air on this
particular remark.
Unlike you, I was not born in that region but I
While Arizona is credited with being the first place where smoking was
banned in public places since 1973, Ireland is the first nation to
stop smoking country-wide from 2004.
Although nationally, Canada stopped smoking in public places from
2006, Toronto city was much more pro-active, having
Roland Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I breathed a sigh of
relief when aircraft travel banned smoking completely. Sitting in an
aircraft for 20 hours with a smoker next to you was unwarranted
torture.
jc: Well said Roland. Well said indeed. My views are ditto. It was
unwarranted torture
Mohandis in Arabic means Engineer, usually technical personnel are addressed
this way. Even 'Mohallem' is quite respecteble form of addressing in
Arabic. As for Banyanis, I deduce there must have been plenty of
Gujarathi/Rajasthani traders, some of the from 'Baniya' community. Was this
a fact?
Hi JoeGoaUk,
Your videos — make you a griot in my mind — in your case a visual
historian. And as a good griot you also entertain as well as provoke.
Keep it up 61 yr young Asian man.
Remember the song Secret Asian Man. So heres wishing all the other quiet
Elders on Goanet and in the physical
It is found as a surname in Palestine and Iran.
One thousand five hundred billion dollars of 'hindi' repose in Zurich, alone.
The Swiss fee on nameless deposits is 2 percent a year. If interest was paid,
instead, at the India rate of 9 %, half our Union budget would be covered
every year :
That was too funny !! Perhaps the Europeans referred to Goans as Black
Europeans, but to stir the pot a little, here is some information from my
perspective.
I was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. My birth certificate states that I was
born at
the European Hospital and my nationality was
Dr Samir Heble is a practicing Psychiatrist. The following is an
excerpt from one of his sessions at the hospital in a Mindfulness
group that he conducts.
The Guesthouse
Our mind is the guesthouse.
We are the host or the hostess.
Our thoughts, feelings, emotions, joys, beliefs, disappointments,
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/147_dead_in_Jodhpur_temple_stampede/articleshow/3543100.cms
147 dead in temple stampede in Jodhpur
1 Oct 2008, 0009 hrs IST, Anindo Dey Ajay Parmar,TNN
audio
JODHPUR: One hundred and forty-seven dead, over 60 injured and hardly
a drop of blood. All it took
Dears
There's a book entitled, From Jhelum to Tana by Neera Kapur-Dromson,
Penguin Books, New Delhi, 2007, that might interest those who are on
this thread. I have only read a review but apparently, it's a very
interesting book about an Indian family from Punjab's experiences in
Kenya, told by
We at South Goa Public Interest Action Group (SGPIAG) a regd NGO based in
Margao, complement the Union Minister for Health, Government of India on the
ban on smoking in public places made effective from 2nd October, 2008.
We hope that in Goa this should not end up as an opportunity for the
Albert writes:- The word was made flesh and dwelt among us. The word was with
God and the word was God. So beautiful are these lines for any reader. If we
all had to read the Bible and get inspiration from it we would have changed our
lives. But there are some elements who have purposely kept
Dear Selma,
The Goans were also known as
Watu Ya Mungu by the Africans
people of God.
_
Make a mini you and download it into Windows Live Messenger
http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354029/direct/01/
Wow, seems like a flurry of posts from otherwise quiet Goanetters :-))
Dear Roland, let me reply to your questions, in no particular order, but
hopefully with as much honesty as any Goan can muster about these things.
Goans called Arabs, boduus. The word, which I believe became part of the Goan
Mario Goveia wrote:
This is tragic. The terror in India from the government's
failure to protect them has reached a point where the
jihadis don't even have to plant a bomb any more to kill
hundreds of innocent Indians; all they have to do is plant a rumor.
--- On Tue, 9/30/08, Frederick
This is another song taken from GOENCHEM GIT manddo Dulpod Dekhni utr;
LOURDINO BARRETO
UGDDAS IETA MHAKA
1.Ugddas ieta mhaka Natalanche raticho
To dis amchea amizadicho
Niall kor re moga chondrimacho
Tacher somplo soglo mog(u) amcho
ch. Sintid na moga, lisanvacher bhogor tujer Dekun
The book Augusto mentions is here:
http://firstandsecond.com/store/books/info/search.asp?styp=tletle=from+Jhelum+to+Tana
Firstandsecond.com seems to have a large selection of books, at Indian
prices. I've not used this service though, apart from searching while trying
to locate book. FN
From: Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In a book by Robert Gregory, documenting the role played in
Asians in African politics, he writes,
Many Goans claimed to be fully of Portuguese rather
than Indian descent. Many Goans were quick to learn English,
adopt European dress even for women, and live
Dears
I notice that on the East African Goans called Black Europeans
thread, some of the letter - writers seem to be full of guilt and
almost seem to be accusing themselves of racial bias. That was there
no doubt. And I wrote about this in a slightly different context when
reviewing a book
http://in.news.yahoo.com/48/20080930/814/tnl-i-have-a-soft-corner-for-christians.html
I have a soft corner for Christians, says Advani
Tue, Sep 30 04:14 AM
Allaying fears of Christians regarding the security of the community
in BJP-ruled states, the party's prime ministerial candidate, L K
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*** Kotak Securities reiterates a #152;buy rating on Sesa Goa
- Economic Times
[Sep 28, 2008] Kotak Securities reiterates a #152;buy rating
on Sesa Goa with a target price of Rs 300 per share
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:00:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Herman Carneiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We endeavor to provide an explanation for every message we reject and we
save a copy of the rejected post for a period of time. Those of you who
state that your messages are being rejected without an explanation
What do you feel about ministerial qualifications in Goa?
[ ] Ministers lie about their qualifications
[ ] Education qualifications do not matter
[ ] Honesty matters, they shouldn't lie
[ ] This is symptomatic of a wider malaise
VOTE at:
2008/10/1 Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Can you just imagine the carnage that would have befallen on the
Christian community all over India? This Hindu mindset scares the shit
out of me.
Gabe, what exactly is the Hindu mindset? Isn't this as stereotypical
a view as what the Hindu far right
Hi Victor and Fred,
Thanks for your help in deciphering the word obnubliating. Likely Augusto's
descriptors said more about Fred, than Fred knew about himself.:=))
Till your clarification arrived, I was doing my own 'research' on
obnubliating. My spell-check displayed obnubliating as an
I have a soft corner for Christians, says Advani
Tue, Sep 30 04:14 AM
Allaying fears of Christians regarding the security of the community
in BJP-ruled states, the party's prime ministerial candidate, L K
Advani, on his visit to the city assured the Christian leaders that
the minority community
Dear Selma,
I read your mail with some interest...
This is my take. I am less interested in whether the Goan was or was not
half-breed this and that. I am more interested in why they were so upset
with being called Black Europeans, or wished to clear the air that they had
no mixed blood.
Is it
East Africa's Black Europeans
Hi Selma et al !
During my 37 years in Tanzania, East Africa, which included 14 years
(ten fulltime and four part-time) as a journalist, I never heard of goans
being labelled Black Europeans let alone Brown Europeans.
Am I surprised ?. No, with all the
Excerpt from:
Risque Goan Jokes (pp 170, Rs. 290/- softcover)
Compiled and translated by Cecil Pinto
-
Actual Events Section
-
The Velim Colacos from all over the world had gathered for the grand
family reunion to
From: Herman Carneiro
Those of you who state that your messages are being rejected without an
explanation are habitual violators of Goanet's Rules and the moderators
have afforded you more than you fair share of explanations, which you
have chosen to ignore.
Mario responds:
I'm not sure
Greetings and Best Wishes on the occasion of 9th Birthday
to Peter Norbert Fernandes (Nuvem) - son of Lino Gabriel and Nisha.
God bless!
Nuvem Kuwait Parishioners
1st October 2008
http://nuvemparishionersofkuwait.blogspot.com/
--- On Wed, 10/1/08, Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Santosh Helekar had a message rejected recently (as he disclosed) and he has
concluded who the moderator was. However he fails to mention that he was
provided an explanation in the rejection note but did not follow through on
the
Jason Keith Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reference Mario's statement aboveit should be established by now, that
operation on the basis of rumour is really the Hindu right wing's modus
operandi.
Mario observes:
Jason,
Is it really the Hindu right wing's modus operandi.?
I think everyone
Folks,
Since I have been asked to wind down on this particular topic, let me post
one last item.
I mentioned before that the US financial crises started because of cheap credit
available to un-creditworthy people in California. To remind you, cleaners in
California were given $400,000 loans to
Power and intrigue in personal relations in Goa
A review of Ben Antao's The Tailor's Daughter by Cornel DaCosta
Because of a substantial academic background in sociology and education, I
have inevitably been drawn to issues relating to macro and micro power
relations in societies. One aspect
Hi Gilbert
Apologies for being well behind in responding to hundreds of posts over several
weeks but herewith a quick reply to make a few observations re your post. I
hope you have not injured yourself falling off your chair, yet again! I also
hope that you do not mind the numbering below for
Dear Herman,
Perhaps, your post will bring down the curtain on this discussion ... and put
many a active poster on call.
I do not believe that anyone who states a fact should be said to be casting
aspersions. there may be a disagreement in the perspective as in the classic
example of a
Bosco - Goanet Volunteer wrote:
In essence, there should be no need to moderate Goanet. Goanet's Rules are
clear and concise. They are published on Goanet's website at www.goanet.org
and are regularly published here. They have been tweaked to their current
status over years of experience.
Herman Carneiro wrote:
Conducting witch-hunts to identify moderators who reject posts and
lambasting them publicly is unfair and uncalled for. While moderators are
encouraged to add their names to rejection notices, it is not a
requirement, and it is not surprising that some of our moderators
Hi Antonetta,
Forgot another chappie?
There are BJP people trying to manipulate and advertise how good BJP is in Goa,
through Goanet.
You forgot Virgincar, who Selma very graciously welcomed on Goanet.
Why did Virgincar come on Goanet? Because he gave up his Cardiology practise?
Virgincar
DAILY GROOK #235
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SAMBA NUMBER
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by Francis Rodrigues
our math professor
jived hot numbers,
not tango or salsa
just..rhombus!
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puns word-play of all kinds,
if you read between the lines!
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