The GoaMAP (Goa Mining Affected People) and GXE (Goenche Xettkaranche
Ekvott) along with other concerned citizens and youth will conduct the
5th free bus tour along Goa's Mining Belt in the hinterland of
Goa. This is approximately a 100 Km tour.
Just seeing is believing! In the name of
Man goes ... Goa goes ... mangoes
Tips to take care of a tree yielding delightful fruit
By Miguel Braganza
braganza.mig...@gmail.com
THE FLAVOUR of the season is mango. Even the Amul
ice-cream we ate to celebrate my father's birthday
was of fresh 'Alphonso Mango' pulp.
My friends,
The Benefits of eating Avocado.
From HSI
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http://hsibaltimore.com/2006/06/19/benefits-of-eating-avacado/
DAILY GROOK #703
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at a soup shower
everybody pants,
'cause they are
stirring events!
*GREAT ALL-OCCASION GIFT* http://www.KonkaniSongBook.com
sheet-music,tab,lyrics,chords of great
Dear Readers
The Goanese Fusion Flavours - ISBN 0951901931
Recently, I have received several telephone requests for the above cookery book
published in 2005. Anyone interested in purchasing it can contact Waterstone
bookshop in your vicinity. Most of the Waterstone branches in the UK do
I appeal to you after reading an article in Goanet to divulge the
possibility of Portuguese speaking scholars and researchers meeting a high
level delegation of academics, next year around April 18, when the Colóquios
da Lusofonia going to its XV Colloquium (this time to be held in Macao)
make a
*Refer: Churchill backs Raheja’s projecturchill backs Raheja’s project*
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http://www.oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Churchill-backs-Raheja-rsquo-s-project/37006.html
*http://www.oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Churchill-backs-Raheja-rsquo-s-project/37006.html
-- Forwarded message --
Ever since the scrapping of the contentious RP 2011, the hopes of ordinary
Goans have been kept alive on a diet of empty promises and assurances by the
Digambar Kamat government, even as they painstakingly sat together and came up
with suggestions for each of their villages for the proposed RP
On the subject of Godfrey's piece, the issue went from East Indians to
Anglo-Indians. i happen to come across a piece by a Toronto-based scholar Megan
Mills who got her Ph.D with her these on the Anglo-Indian community in Bengal
in my collection. It is in a journal edited by an old friend under
Attempted suicide: Hem ‘Girlfriend’ konnachem? (Which high profile Politician
from South Goa?)
Whose girlfriend is she?
I mean, who the high ranking politician?
If the name of the girlfriend can be disclosed, why not
the politician’s?
Apna Khas aadmi hai kya?
17.5.10 - TOI
I think I
Around 80 people with empty buckets in hand, mostly residents of Porvorim,
Socorro and Guirim, gathered outside the PWD office at Altinho, Panaji on
Thursday protesting the shortage of water in their villages.
The protesters sought to meet principal chief engineer A M Wachasundar, but in
his
Once again Soter, Rajan and their group have been accused of slander by a
celebrity architect. An editorial in one of the local corporate mouthpieces
mentions campaigner disunity. Why is Soter attacking the poor architect (before
this it was the poor doctor) has been the question asked to
We have verbs that arose from place names--as in Sodomized, Shanghaied
and also Bangalored. The latter is expressed in a neat piece by
Michael Quinion on his World Wide Words
sitehttp://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-ban1.htm.
(http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-ban1.htm)
Please add more if you know any
Zuari nagar – Birla/Sancoale
Ulhas/upas Nagar – Birla/Sancoale
Jairam Nagar – Panjim- Bhatulem/Mala
Funkat Nagar –Mapusa/Sancoale
Azad Nagar - Margao
Ram Nagar –Betim
Shanti Nagar –Porvorim
Indra Nagar –Chimbel
Amruth Nagar – Margao-Fatorda
Dear Goanetters
What should the marginal farmers, peasants and tribals do when inspite of
peaceful demonstrations the government is hell bent on taking over their
lands and pass on the lands to the corporate lobby – builders lobby – mining
lobby ?
What should the environmentalist do who daily
Another article in the Mid-day Newspaper
http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/may/210510-viola-fernandes-goan-businesswoman-suicide-accident-critical-state-mumbai-news-bigamy.htm
--- On Fri, 21/5/10, JoeGoaUk wrote:
Attempted suicide: Hem ‘Girlfriend’ konnachem? (Which high profile
Politician
-Original Message-
Attempted suicide: Hem Girlfriend konnachem? (Which high profile
Politician from South Goa?) Whose girlfriend is she?
I mean, who the high ranking politician? If the name of the girlfriend can
be disclosed, why not the politicians?
Ref: Konkani in Devnagiri script will kill Konkani
Message-ID: snt108-w281377aa27893ad855d664c4...@phx.gbl
Mr Camilo,
Learning Konkani in Devanagri is not for you and Me, but it is for future
generation.
If we want our children and grand children just to talk Konkani then its ok.
If you and me
Humble Apple.a super fruit??
Keep reading.
'Healthier Talk'
Con
http://www.healthiertalk.com/ignore-super-fruit-your-own-peril-1721
Workshop for Tiatr Artistes
Tiatr Academy Goa has organized a workshop for writers of scripts of
tiatr lyrics of songs on Monday, 07th June 2010 from 10:00 am onwards
at TAG’s Conference Hall, Campal Trade Centre, Campal, Panaji Goa.
The workshop will deal with the correct method of writing
lokmat grafiti ‘aajacha buzz’ has disclosed the name bice way
it reads like this.
Pahili sodun dusari asataana,
tisarine ‘rattol’ pilyachi batami ahe
disney cha undarache an ;hyanche’
naav mhane ekach ahe.
Vishal Pai Kakode.
When there is second after leaving first
the news is the third has
Goan-American author and researcher will be among 60 invited specialists
on science and spirituality who will present at the 35th Conference of
the Int'l Institute of Integral Human Sciences in Montreal in July 2010.
Photo:
VOLUNTARY HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF GOA
(Registered under the Societies Act, Reg. No. 223/Goa/2001)
Models Residency, Bldg. No. 3, Flat No. T – 1, Opp. St. Inez Church,
St. Inez, Panaji – Goa 403 001 INDIA.Tel. No.: +91 0832 2221012,
Email: *vha...@gmail.com* vha...@gmail.com Website:
Dear cyber-friends,
The governmenent of Pakistan on the behest of the mullahs have banned Facebook,
You tube, Flickr, Wikipedia and many other websites that use the same port.
Could any cyber expert tell me how to bypass the filters.
Many thanks,
Mike
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Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your
family members, relatives, neighbours and friends.
Help other CONSUMERS to be better informed.
Hi Eugene,
I very much appreciate your post on Anglo-Indians. We Indians, to include
we Goans--have a lot of internal conflicts that we have not managed to
resolve and perhaps never will as a collective. But I like it that you
applying your acumen to present informative material that also helps
The issues raised by villagers as on 17 May 2010 are definitely genuine and
extremely important just like the concerns of November 2006 when the RP 2011
got notified. The picture of that supper with the judases, scribes and
pharisees sitted at that table are still fresh in some of our minds.
The reason is very simple. Because Soter has no credibility at all. The women
who sell stale fish at the Margao bus stop have more credibility. After
maligning the GBA, then Oscar Rebello, he starts on Dean D'Cruz.
It is good to see Zarina D'Cunha in the news on the front-lines. Where was
It is a fact that the architects go by the rules of the road, a hand-book of
do's and don't.
As far as I am concerned, this is the Bible for the profession.
There was an instance reported to me [ during the RP2011 ongoing
agitations]. A certain Delhi Party had acquired the approval of plans to
Anil Desai :
I have every sympathy with residents of Carmona in particular and Goans in
general but the Mantra is:
*Corruption is better than communalism.*
Congressmen and women can recite this at every election and get Churchillbab
and his brother and now even his daughter elected.
We will wake
Corretions:
In the first line, ...Ph.D with her these on the Anglo-Indian community in
Bengal in my collectionthese on the Anglo-Indian community in Bengal
The word these should be thesis.
Eugene
On 21 May 2010 04:36, Eugene Correia gene_corr...@yahoo.com wrote:
On the subject of Godfrey's piece, the issue went from East Indians to
Anglo-Indians. i happen to come across a piece by a Toronto-based scholar
Megan Mills who got her Ph.D with her these on the Anglo-Indian community in
The missing link of Goa’s drug trade chain
By Nisser Dias
nisserdias at gmail.com
SMS to 9422437029
From the beginning of this year, the police displayed some spine in
going after some of the big drug dealers in the state, whatever their
intention may have been either to clear the field for
** Goa's 1st MisChief Minister **
Goans I don't need your Votes
I have enough Migrant Voters
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Dear Floriano,
We also are in the know of a professional who rejected a tempting offer
for consultancy from a prominent architect for a mega project in one of
South Goa's villages as his principles do not permit him to undertake such
development in the Goa's villages.
In konkani there is a
MUMBAI: In what appears to be a medieval fatwa, the Sena-BJP-ruled BMC has
sought to make it mandatory for the 150-odd missionary-run schools in the
city to promote 'Hindutva traditions'. The municipal corporation's education
committee will now write to the state education department seeking
If I may apply a little shine on Selma's quote:
For these people we have a word in Xatti. Woosh inga'che. Ghar vos.
[For these people we have a word in Xhasti - Voss inga'che' -
Vaxim-bhor]
Cheers
floriano.l...@gmail.com
from PPS to PPS
9890470896
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM
Yes, Marshall,
You have said what needs to be said.
But then we at ground zero know that the choice is not a simple one.
To galvanize into motion from scratch is a difficult proposition. And we
goans have been used to ready-made options/solutions. But we will not work
towards making that
Read this article with interest. It takes an American historian to report
these accounts. This report appears while English speaking European, especially
British, historians are busy reporting and writing about Black Legend history.
This latter history is obviously not too politically
--- On Fri, 5/21/10, Marshall Mendonza mmendonz...@gmail.com quoted:
While reviewing proposals from BMC-aided schools, we came across many
missionary schools who had written to us in English. And many corporators
observed that while these schools approach the BMC for aid, they do not
Dear Borges,
Thanks for your response. Although I was surprised to find that you did not
understand my message, Anyway, what I meant was that I was curious to find
out how different the devanagri Konkani and Romi Konkani is. Who better to
show the difference than professor borges ( earlier I
The GoaMAP (Goa Mining Affected People) and GXE (Goenche Xettkaranche
Ekvott) along with other concerned citizens and youth will conduct the
5th free bus tour along Goa's Mining Belt in the hinterland of
Goa. This is approximately a 100 Km tour.
Just seeing is believing! In the name of
On 22 May 2010 00:23, Jerry Fernandes jerry...@gmail.com wrote:
Hope to read your Konkani or Konkni as is said in devanagri, in devanagri
language, where by I want to see if I can really understand it at all. J
Dialect is different from script, though they do get intertwined in
the Goa of
First person account of events at Porvorim Secretariat on Monday, May 17th
thanks.
“I felt was a very crude and insulting manner, PI Gad grabbed the front of
my blouse and flung me against the wall behind”
THAT REALLY CONDEMNABLE
“The manner in which he (PI) allegedly touched her she said,
Dear Victor
This is a very good initiative will help the artists. Saying that I also
feel that TAG must also look at reaching out to people not only physically
located in Goa but to also those who are outside Goa. With the modern age of
video conferencing, video training and online education
Campaigning, in style
Campaigner and former student leader Aires Rodrigues won a
round in another of his public battles, with prosecutor
Winnie Coutinho's resignation on the weekend. Coutinho was
apparently in line for a high court judge's post, which makes
the case a serious one.
Aires and a
Dear Netters
Atleast I think more people read Soter thoughts on Goanet than Selmas heart
bleeps on goan voice
Regds
Beny Pereira
Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from du
Subject: [Goanet] Workshop for Tiatr Artistes
Message-ID: 4bf68636.3050...@gmail.com
Zan'tteano toxem Nen'tteano,
It is not enough if parents provided us books and we can graduate.
It is necessary for us to attend school and college in order to complete
graduation.
Same way any body can compose
Xabas Selma! It is definitely good news you give all of us about
your new found prodigy Zarina who is an authority on Panchayati Raj. We
require more and more of Zarina's in Goa. I hope you have kept her informed
about your latest public comparison about me and her.
Could you please make her
“I’m used to delivering on promise. I’m used to working with civilized
people. Unfortunately, in public life in India, these are not attributes
that you see.”
N R Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor, Infosys
Attempted suicide: Hem ‘Girlfriend’ konnachem? (Which high
profile Politician from South Goa?)
Thanks.
I am even more confused now..
Looks like there is a third one... (?)
2 years ago...
“Mickky has now married Viola Fernandes and has three children
with her,”
Sara said in her
To Goanet -
Let me get one thing out of the way - why did the village delegation
think that Digambar Kamat is the guy to approach to address their
problems?
I mean, here is a guy WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MESS,
who has given the keys to Goa away to the miners and the builders
and the
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org
Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories.
*** Sushmita Sen at 'I AM She 2010' event in Goa - Sawf News
et-sen-speak-693usg=AFQjCNFJC1gtMC1yfYe0vXkHYdclgnoRZwSush!
Let Sen speak
Jerry, a small correction: Reginaldo Fernandes was 'Romansincho Patxai' (King
of Konkani novels) and not 'Romansincho Kunvor' (Prince of Konkani novels), as
you wrote.
Dev borem korum.
Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna, Goa
Mob: 9420979201
And that’s
when I started hunting high and low
This is a really very positive step taken by GoaMAP. Seeing is believing.
People living in towns and on the periphery are often ignorant about what goes
on in the hinterland. That is why we get comments like, Development is
needed, someone has to sacrifice and so on. The Government tours will
But how some one will justify this?
Could not see any mention of this incident in the report
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukextras/4618646874/
Sorry, I am not taking sides, although it may appear that way
I feel, a person of this type of temperament should not be a part of any future
Many Feared Dead in India Plane Crash
NEW DELHI - An Air India Express plane crashed at Mangalore airport
Saturday morning, with major loss of life feared among the more than 160
on board, according to reports.
The plane, arriving from Dubai, overshot the runway at the southern
Indian airport at
I am one of those Goans who lived through the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya. I
lived in the Capital ,Nairobi. These were very scary times and I distinctly
remember people going to sleep with Police whistles under their pillows.Many
people were attacked by gangs of Mau Mau terrorists who robbed
It seems to me that the Goa Police in particular have little comprehension
as to how to handle a grievance. The GP asked the protesters to disperse.
Once cannot simply do that, and I do not care if your are an IGP, an SP,
some IPS freak, or the State Secretary. In a situation such as this it is
*Air India Express flight Crashed
Check ICARE Live for Exclusive photos and Report
http://icarelive.com/news/news.php?cat_id=2article_id=1035*
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