[Goanet] STT: Letting death take away someone just like that?

2009-10-23 Thread JoeGoaUk
STT: Letting death take away someone just like that?   The funeral I attended recently, disturbed my peace of mind. Why him? Why so young? Was it avoidable? Didn’t get right medical help at right time? Did we take things for granted? Over worked or over stretched? Our parents  are also to busy to

[Goanet] Hi!

2009-10-23 Thread lian desousa
Hi! Can anyone who knows, please tell me if there is any Mexican Restaurant here in North Goa? Thanks. Lian

[Goanet] PIG'S DELIGHT

2009-10-23 Thread manuel tavares
The short poem by Dadaji gives me an idea. I hear that the Gattis are poluting the fields with their blatent ignorance of basic sanitary procedures. Graham Green the famous author had travelled through India and had landed in Goa and of course observed first hand the sanitary and recycling meth

[Goanet] Is the BJP losing the Plot?

2009-10-23 Thread Sandeep Heble
Gabe Menezes writes: "RESPONSE: I have read Sabdeep Heble's article, I believe both of you have misread the article. Sandeep is crying out loud that the BJP are no longer a credible oppositionnot that he is against the BJP." --- My Response: Gabe, Dif

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 4, Issue 1121

2009-10-23 Thread pcheryl
My Dear Mr. Mario Goveia, I have been observing for the last few days that there are many of our fellow Christians who are in the habit shouting their lungs horse of the great Christian virtues left to them as inheritance by the Portuguese . The so called self appointed guardians of Christi

[Goanet] STOP MANIPULATING THE POLICE

2009-10-23 Thread Aires Rodrigues
At a time when Goa’s crime barometer is on a steep ascending mode it is even more important to have an independent police force. But with political interference in their selection, promotion and transfer, the Goa police are obviously unable to deliver. We have a lot of good and smart police officer

[Goanet] Land-holding Britons being harassed, says top British official

2009-10-23 Thread Eddie Fernandes
Would George Pinto care to comment? Title: Land-holding Britons being harassed, says top British official Source: Times of India 24 October 2009 By Alexandre Moniz Barbosa. Excerpts: Britons holding property in Goa are facing harassment said British deputy high commissioner Vicki Treadell .

[Goanet] Is the BJP losing the Plot?

2009-10-23 Thread Marshall Mendonza
Selma Carvalho: I think a definition of who exactly is an alarmist depends entirely on which end of the stick one is on. Response: Selma, you have put it very aptly. 'He who wears the shoes knows where it pinches' I am reminded time and again of the words of the Rev Martin Niemoller about the inac

[Goanet] Subject: BOMBAY - UNION TERRITORY - NOT MARATHA-MAHARASHTRA

2009-10-23 Thread manuel tavares
Daniel F lays out a comprehensive and thoughtful system of representation and reform of the Indian Political system. It is indeed one which if adopted could lead to progress and prosperity in India. I would add that persons elected to any office should declare their wealth with proof of its orig

Re: [Goanet] Motorbikes, two-wheelers...

2009-10-23 Thread marlon menezes
Fred, I'm not too sure how you can say that pubic transportation in Goa is bad. I can pretty much travel to any location in Goa without having to rely on personal transportation. If you want bad public transportation, come to America! On the other hand, public transportation may not necessarily

[Goanet] Goa news for October 24, 2009

2009-10-23 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Couple receives compensation for death of their baby - Baby Chums ospital-pays-NRG-160-lakh/articleshow/5125884.cms&usg=AFQjCNH4oHrz_p5YEbjlDmjjL5gGqrNnzg">UK hospital pays NRG 1.60 lakh ht

[Goanet] Religious make-up of Goa Was: BRITISH UNITED INDIA AND HINDUS.

2009-10-23 Thread Frederick Noronha
Okay, here goes... but knowing Mario, he would probably rake up some other debate when faced with the figures! António de Noronha, who incidentally was a Free Mason, writing in Os Indús de Goa e a República Portuguesa (1922) says:          Of its 500 thousand inhabitants (according to the        

Re: [Goanet] BRITISH UNITED INDIA AND HINDUS.

2009-10-23 Thread Mario Goveia
2009/10/21 Mario Goveia : > As far as I can tell, Christians never exceeded 50% of the population in > Goa. Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:44:04 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha I think you have your facts grossly wrong on this. Mario responds: You "think"???  Since when does your "thinking" make me

[Goanet] MARGAO-NEWS: Ban Sanatan Sanstha, citizens' panel tells govt (long)

2009-10-23 Thread Goanet News
Ban Sanatan Sanstha, citizens' panel tells govt TNN 23 October 2009, 02:16am IST MARGAO: `Citizens for secularism and communal harmony', at its meeting held in Margao on Thursday, unanimously demanded that the government impose a ban on the Sanatan Sanstha, and that its premises be sealed and asse

[Goanet] Epsom Salt

2009-10-23 Thread Cajetan Alvares
PLEASE GOANS do not use it on children, Doctors in UK say - are you mad to use it? there are other alternatives, fig syrup does a better job, Ayurveda practice is to use enema.

Re: [Goanet] ...smell the coffee

2009-10-23 Thread Nascy Caldeira
Dear Anthony, In your last line quote, U repeat exactly what I said. MM is the first one I heard and read, using the phrase on GT and then on Goanet. So I give credit to her, one of our own. Nothing wrong in that. I liked this idiom/phrase so much that at the UNI where I was working, I made goo

[Goanet] It takes a Moidekar

2009-10-23 Thread Cecil Pinto
to tell the truth about Goans who migrate and Goans who stay back! http://groups.google.co.in/group/moira-net/browse_thread/thread/f14c8562568b67d4 --- Dear Fred I have used the word ‘forced’ deliberately. Of course I wasn’t physically exiled. I could have stayed in Goem and earned a

Re: [Goanet] Is the BJP losing the Plot?

2009-10-23 Thread Carvalho
--- On Thu, 10/22/09, Santosh Helekar wrote: Those who want to ignore this reality and continue > with an alarmist political agenda or a sectarian campaign > based on their own fantasy ought to be rejected as well. > > Cheers, > > Santosh -- I think a defi

Re: [Goanet] Is the BJP losing the Plot?

2009-10-23 Thread Gabe Menezes
2009/10/23 Carvalho > Dear Sandeep, > I wouldn't break out the champagne bottle yet if I were you. > > 2009/10/23 Nascy Caldeira Well said and well written, Mr Heble! We need more people like U to talk about the truth. 2009/10/23 floriano The very fact that I reply to this post says that I ag

Re: [Goanet] Comrade's Migration Theory

2009-10-23 Thread Mario Goveia
Rajan P. Parrikar wrote: > > Finally, the douchebag's ejaculate is always topped off > > by a squeaky bout of foul wind-breaking about Hindutva/BJP/RSS and > > Shiv Sena.? --- On Thu, 10/15/09, Mervyn Lobo wrote: > r, > The language above is not that of a Goan. > I don't know how you have su

[Goanet] Is the BJP losing the Plot?

2009-10-23 Thread Sandeep Heble
Santosh helekar wrote: “Why should anybody care about the growth or re-invention of any political party? An ideology that espouses extremism and intolerance deserves to die. The good news is that the Indian people have now rejected this ideology yet another time. Those who want to ignore this reali

[Goanet] Is the BJP losing the plot ?

2009-10-23 Thread Vivian A. DSouza
Me thinks this is wishful thinking.  The party may be in a deep funk right now, but there are enough smart people within the organization to cut the deadwood and re-invent the party. The party needs to get rid of some of its discredited ideological baggage though.   For democracy in India to thr

[Goanet] Security guard arrested for molesting boy

2009-10-23 Thread Tony de Sa
It is a matter of shame and regret that the security guard of quote a T.V. and film actress unquote, R. M. Sharma, enticed a young 13 year old boy by giving him sweets and a kite and later had sexual intercourse with the boy. The boy reportedly complained of a "pain" and investigations proved sexu

Re: [Goanet] Is the BJP losing the Plot?

2009-10-23 Thread Carvalho
Dear Sandeep, I wouldn't break out the champagne bottle yet if I were you. The BJP will swing back because there is no other front in India that acts as an opposition and every party suffers from an incumbency factor after a while. Congress has had a good run at the electoral ballot but that too

Re: [Goanet] Is the BJP losing the Plot?

2009-10-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Thu, 10/22/09, Sandeep Heble wrote: > > The choice before the Party is therefore pretty clear.  Either it can >grow > by re-inventing itself on modern secular liberal principles or it >must > perish. There is no third alternative! > Why should anybody care about the growth or re-invent

[Goanet] ...smell the coffee

2009-10-23 Thread Anthony M Barreto
So India, "wake up and smell the coffee'!! (borrowing the phrase from and credit to Margaret Mascarenhas.) Nascy Caldeira Melbourne, Down Under. Dear Nascy Your credit is misplaced. 'Wake Up and Smell the Coffee' was the fifth album by 'The Cranberries'. 'wake up and smell the coffee' is an idio

[Goanet] Saligao: Back to School Nite

2009-10-23 Thread Frederick Noronha
A note from the Saligao Institute (SI): Back to School Nite: Social evening at the S.I. (Saligao Institute) on Saturday, October 31, 2009 from 7 pm onwards. Entrance free. -- Frederick Noronha :: +91-832-2409490 Writing, editing, alt.publishing, photography, journalism Goa,1556: http://goa1556.goa

[Goanet] Greatest Konkani Song Hits

2009-10-23 Thread Francis Rodrigues
=== Greatest Konkani Song Hits - SongBook & DVD === It's just become the fastest-selling Konkani Book ever! Sold out in the UK and Europe, fast-disappearing off the shelves in Goa, a surprising smash-hit for our cult

[Goanet] Subject: Is the BJP losing the Plot?

2009-10-23 Thread MD
Sandeep, Excellent Analysis of BJP; its leadership and Idology. I am only awaiting for the "Obituaty" Thanks MD. Message: 9 Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:08:54 +0530 From: Sandeep Heble To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Is the BJP losing the Plot? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plai

[Goanet] "Pig's Delight"

2009-10-23 Thread Francis Rodrigues
Poetry: === "Pig's Delight" === It's not just a rumour or idle talk, That pigs re-cycle the sh*t into pork; So where would be Goa's disposal rights If the pigs did not have good appetites? They gobble with relish and pray for more, And patiently wait at the sh*t-house doo

[Goanet] Is the BJP losing the Plot?

2009-10-23 Thread Cecil Pinto
Nascy Caldeira wrote: So India, "wake up and smell the coffee'!! (borrowing the phrase from and credit to Margaret Mascarenhas.) -- The idiom has been around much longer than Margaret. http://dictionary.babylon.com/wake_up_and_smell_the_coffee Cheers! Cecil =

Re: [Goanet] Is the BJP losing the Plot?

2009-10-23 Thread floriano
The very fact that I reply to this post says that I agree with both, Sandeep and Nasci. And I have nothing more to add, for I have said it all in good time. They say one must come out of fire to prove oneself. The fire for the BJP is the Tihar Jail for Advani. Will this happen? Sandeep has