[Goanet] Press note

2009-10-04 Thread clpicgoa icamoesgoa
Dear Sir, I would be obliged if you would kindly publish the following press note in your esteemed newspaper as a news item:   CAPLE - Certification of Portuguese as a Foreign Language   Centro de Lingua Portuguesa-Instituto Camões, Goa, anounces the examinations of International Certification

Re: [Goanet] Ram Rajya

2009-10-04 Thread floriano
The most appropriate person to give us Goans Christ Raj is Fr. Conceicao Silva ! :-)) Cheers floriano goasuraj - Original Message - From: Albert Desouza alizadeso...@hotmail.com To: Major domo goanet goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 10:24 AM Subject: [Goanet]

[Goanet] Gulf Times - Qatar's top-selling English daily newspaper - Qatar

2009-10-04 Thread Ruby Goes
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2item_no=317951ver sion=1template_id=36parent_id=16 Goanetters, Drum roll please! Good on you GWA Qatar! ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS! Best wishes, rubygoes

[Goanet] China - India war : a simplistic view

2009-10-04 Thread Antonio Menezes
There are rumblings in the Indian media that China is flexing its muscles for a possible incursion in the Indian territory. They have their internal problems in Tibet and Xinjiang. India is no longer the same nation that was so weak militarily in 60's so it is possible that China will make

[Goanet] Why blame Charles Darwin?

2009-10-04 Thread Sandeep Heble
On 13th September, the Herald in its ‘Mirror’ segment carried an Opinion Piece by Bernard Simoes titled “Did Charles Darwin mislead us?’. The same is available for viewing at http://tinyurl.com/npzrus In the said Opinion piece, the author pins the blame for all the evils that have afflicted

[Goanet] Discourse on Homosexuality

2009-10-04 Thread TABP
DISCOURSE ON HOMOSEXUALITY   By: Bennet Paes, Assolna   As long as people copulate, sodomite or masturbate in private, what does it matter whether it is legal or not? However, whether it is ethical or not, only their conscience can dictate. None others,

[Goanet] The Forgotten Tribe - MHAR - Part 6

2009-10-04 Thread Domnic Fernandes
THE FORGOTTEN TRIBE - MHAR - PART 6 http://www.goanet.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1181 KHANDDIEM Until the Fifties and the Sixties, most Goans in the villages lived in the 'Stone Age'. I say so because I witnessed people starting a fire by rubbing two stones

[Goanet] AITARACHEO KATKUTLEO: MAHANAND serial killer AZAD ZATOLO?

2009-10-04 Thread Goa's Pride www.goa-world.com
GULF-GOANS e-NEWSLETTER (since 1994) http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/gulf-goans/http://www.goa-world.com PRESENTS AITARACHEO KATKUTLEO Lapitt MAHANAND serial killer AZAD ZATOLO? Vidio kassetti vinkpi lojar, Eloy Films, hannim toyar kell'lem ek Konknni vidio film

[Goanet] Talking Photo: We call it Katt-Konngam

2009-10-04 Thread JoeGoaUk
Talking Photo: We call it Katt-Konngam We call this Konngyo or Katt-Konngam (I hope I am right). http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk20/3980107610/sizes/l/   Usually, it’s season in Dec/January We used to buy at 3 kings Feast   It looks like potatoes but its not. Inside of it is white and taste

[Goanet] Talkling Photos: Saw these creatures after long time

2009-10-04 Thread JoeGoaUk
Saw these creatures after long time   Male? http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk20/3980265384/sizes/l/   Female? http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk20/3979505603/sizes/l/   Both seen together       Previous correct link Cabbhage Cauliflower

[Goanet] Cotigao sounds our own.

2009-10-04 Thread Anthony M Barreto
The Goa govt officially uses Cotigao in all matters including website. The vernacular writers when they mention it in English writing generally spell it as Khotigao. I personally find Khotigao a bit twisted sort of and somehow find it difficult to identify the word with the Cotigao we have

[Goanet] Daily Grook #533

2009-10-04 Thread Francis Rodrigues
DAILY GROOK #533 === SCISSOR TEASER === by Francis Rodrigues italian barbers lacked tweezers, roman soldiers used caesar's! http://www.KonkaniSongBook.com Going to GOA? GREATEST KONKANI

[Goanet] Selma Carvalho: Who the bleep cares about loving couples?

2009-10-04 Thread Eddie Fernandes
Title: Who the bleep cares about loving couples? By: Selma Carvalho Source: Goan Voice Daily Newsletter of 5 Oct. 2009 at www.goanvoice.org.uk Full text: In all the time I've known them, I've never seen my parents kiss each other. Nor peck each other playfully on the cheek or nuzzle each

Re: [Goanet] Cotigao sounds our own.

2009-10-04 Thread floriano
The Road Map for Goa by the Goa Su-Raj Party: Chapter II [General Policies: Pg. 26(7) - STANDARDIZATION OF NAMES OF PLACES. Available for download at: www.goasu-raj.org Cheers floriano goasuraj 9890470896 - Original Message - From: Anthony M Barreto tonymarti...@yahoo.com To:

[Goanet] God and You

2009-10-04 Thread Albert Desouza
Albert writes:- People from Canacona and other similar places in the south and also Bicholim, Assonora and other similar places need your prayers and support. It is at this time that the so called called caritas should step in and bring Jesus into the homes of these lonely people. Its easy to

[Goanet] Congress slumber party with Dalits

2009-10-04 Thread Dr. U. G. Barad
Re: Rahul Gandhi's surprise sleepovers at Dalit houses have been adopted as party strategy to prove that the Congress stands for the poorest of the poor. The Congress party has been around since our independence, and has ruled the country at the centre for 47 of the first 50 years, and in most

[Goanet] 'COLLECTIVE OWNERSHIP OF THE ECONOMY?'

2009-10-04 Thread Dr. U. G. Barad
'md' brought to our notice the following: http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/59469/ At the beginning the article says: In his new film, Michael Moore declares that he wishes to eliminate capitalism and replace it with collective ownership of the economy. I wonder whether Moore himself has

[Goanet] Talking Photos: Some seasonal Roadside beauties

2009-10-04 Thread JoeGoaUk
Talking Photos: Some seasonal  Roadside beauties   Roadside beauties: 1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk3/3907167821/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk3/3907174643/sizes/l/   2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk3/3907173447/sizes/l/

[Goanet] Goa news for October 5, 2009

2009-10-04 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Goa: Bus trapped in deep flood waters - NDTV.com arnataka border in a place called Kudal, which is about 100 km from Goa. ...

[Goanet] Sounds... from Goa

2009-10-04 Thread Frederick Noronha
Colin and team's Jazz and Latino sounds from Goa: http://www.soundclick.com/members/default.cfm?member=jazzgoacontent=stationid=542543

[Goanet] Goa... and urbanism

2009-10-04 Thread FN
*Goa... and urbanism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVg0VV6Cr2Q* What has Goa got to do with urbanism? Wasn't this place just a colonial backwater decades ago? Not so, says Rahul Srivastava. Rahul Srivastava lives in Goa where he writes and does research on urban issues. He has studied

[Goanet] Mario Goveia, about Jubbulpore

2009-10-04 Thread Frederick Noronha
Mario, do you happen to know the author of this book or his family? A Santos, who was also at Jabalpore at some stage in past decades... FN Folk Tales of Goa Meurin BombayPp 61. Rs 2 (n.d.) Stories like that of Kolo-Koli (the foxy couple), Kolo-Manghem, Attulem Bittulem, Siumami, and two Goan

[Goanet] Re. Indian Colonoliasm

2009-10-04 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario wrote: Treaties are not passed by citizens. Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 23:17:59 +0400 From: Arwin Mesquita arwinmesqu...@gmail.com Are you based in a country run by a dictatorship or a democratic country to make such a illogical statement?? Citizens are the final authority on the future of

Re: [Goanet] Congress slumber party with Dalits

2009-10-04 Thread Alfred de Tavares
Indeed not, Dr Barad. They are indulging in a pathetic exercise in applied hypocrisy. They must assume that all our mothers, in a collective tantrum, dropped us, muling puking, on our heads. BTW, I wonder, if during the sleepovers, they hold pyjama orgies and pillow-fights , how much

[Goanet] Morning in Mauxi

2009-10-04 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2009/10/04/morning-in-mauxi/ r

Re: [Goanet] Re. Indian Colonoliasm

2009-10-04 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:20:18 +0200 From: Alfred de Tavares alfredtava...@hotmail.com Treaties not 'passed' by citizens, Mario? Mario responds: That's right, Uncle Alfred. In a representative democracy, treaties are generally not subject to referendums. Has it occurred to you Portuguese

[Goanet] [Goanet} Air India flight crew in mid-air brawl

2009-10-04 Thread Mario Goveia
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6860927.ece Excerpt: The pilots and cabin crew of an Air India flight brawled at 30,000ft after a stewardess accused a co-pilot of sexual harassment. The cockpit of the Airbus A320 was reportedly left unmanned during the scuffle and at

Re: [Goanet] China - India war : a simplistic view

2009-10-04 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Antonio Menezes wrote:And what will the U.S. do ? They don't even have to enter in the fray to help their allies Japan and South Korea. They can do enormous damage to the Chinese economy by simply freezing Chinese assets of over 4 trillion  dollars now lying in the American banks.     

[Goanet] Muslim cleric to take Kumbh dip to wash away religious differences

2009-10-04 Thread Dr. U. G. Barad
2 October 2009, Indian Muslim, By IANS Lucknow: A dip in the sacred river during the Maha Kumbh Mela is said to wash away all sins. A senior Muslim cleric who will perform the Hindu rite hopes it will also wash away differences between the two religions. Kalbe Sadiq, a noted Shia cleric and

Re: [Goanet] Mario Goveia, about Jubbulpore

2009-10-04 Thread joelds
Hi Fred, I don't know Arthur Francis, but his daughter's family is there in Calangute (Pousada Tauma)/Assagao (Virginia Woods). I happened to come across the two little books Meurin had written, and subsequently picked them up from Calangute for Norma's bookstore. Regards. Joel. On 10/5/09,

[Goanet] An irony

2009-10-04 Thread Dr. U. G. Barad
On the front page of The Times of India (Oct 2, 2009) Mumbai edition, one of the top stories says: Center's job plan falls prey to corruption - 40% of funds siphoned off.  This is about the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.  A box in the story says: NREGA may now be named after Gandhi.

[Goanet] Why blame Charles Darwin?

2009-10-04 Thread Cajetan Alvares
Exactly, Why blame him? For all the ills in this world? For a start Muslims say Adam and Eve were Muslims, and Darwin's monkey theory is BS. Darwin kept silent for 20 years and had kept his book with his daughter for safe keeping in case he died. Yet, after 20 years they called him and us

Re: [Goanet] Discourse on Homosexuality

2009-10-04 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Bennet Paes of Assolna wrote: However, if, in the light of Delhi’s H.C’s dubious de-criminalisation verdict on homosexuality, gays and lesbians also claim the right to be married, and if their human rights need to be recognized under the law, there could still be a way out by calling

Re: [Goanet] Why blame Charles Darwin?

2009-10-04 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Thanks for this one, Sandeep. There used to be a time when I could save one of every twenty posts on Goanet. Then it turned to the point where I could only save one in a hundred. Nowadays, I get to read only one or two good posts a month. This one from Patrick Ferdinand is a gem. A real Gem!

[Goanet] Goa's liberation

2009-10-04 Thread Bernado Colaco
With reference to the statement below, Alemao now says that Goa is finished. These remarks were uttered to someone who landed in Goa recently. It is believed that Alemao was behind the approval of building the Concan railway which passes through Goa. This has infrastructure has been and is a

[Goanet] Re. Indian Colonolism

2009-10-04 Thread Arwin Mesquita
Arwin : Pls see my response below. Mario: Goans HAVE BEEN the final authority regarding whom they elect to run Goa for several years now.I'm not sure what more you want, other than, perhaps, to be made Maharajah of Goa:-)) I think I would vote for Floriano to be the Maharajah:-))It seems you

[Goanet] Evaporated Meanings

2009-10-04 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Hi all, Working on loose ends -- Evaporated Meanings, Drawings (abstracted emotive realities) prints/Japanese woodblock. Hirji Gallery at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. Oct 7-12. Letting chance take over. Details later today. venantius j pinto

[Goanet] Who rules Bombay-Mumbai??

2009-10-04 Thread Bonefacio Lopes
Ha Ha Ha , the recent tamasha by Raj Thackrey and Karan Johar is very strange and funny. Who rules Bombay , do we have a democratically elected Govt in Bombay, or the Govt. runs with the help of goons and muscle power of Raj. NDTV which claims to be a very constructive media source , instead

[Goanet] lion roars

2009-10-04 Thread Lionel Messias
Sound and furyhttp://freebirdingoa.blogspot.com/2009/10/sound-and-fury.html *Finger pointing* If you have been reading the Herald, you would have read of the allegations, finger pointing etcetera etcetera leveled by Sheila Gracias and Dr. Marconi Correia at the Cansaulim-Arrosim-Cuelim-Village