Re: [Goanet] a/c hacked ? distress call from Spain

2011-01-25 Thread Frederick Noronha
Thanks for your kind words, Ignatius! Just to clarify... I'm a volunteer on Goanet. The credit of founding it goes to Dr. Herman Carneiro. FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 25 January 2011 14:59, Ignatius Fernandes wrote: > I was not getting any of Goa-net posts and tha

[Goanet] The Conversion factor - Fr Dominic Emmanuel

2011-01-25 Thread Marshall Mendonza
The Supreme Court on January 21 upheld the verdict of the Orissa high court and gave a life sentence to Bajrang Dal activist Dara Singh, who burnt alive Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons, Philip and Timothy, aged 10 and six respectively, on the night of January 22, 1999, as they

[Goanet] Indian Muslims Must Move Forward (Navhind Times)

2011-01-25 Thread Krishna Gaokar
http://www.navhindtimes.in/opinion/indian-muslims-must-move-forward Published on: January 24, 2011 *BY FIROZ BAKHT AHMED *WHEN Maulana Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi, the newly elected VC of the renowned Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband, stated that the minorities are flourishing under Mr Narendra

[Goanet] Ethel Da Costa awarded 'The Pillar of Hindustani Society'

2011-01-25 Thread Goanet News Service
Ethel Da Costa has been awarded 'The Pillar of Hindustani Society' Award for 2010 by the Trans Asian Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Mumbai. Photo: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/ey8GKLJZolcrPJ0QgfNR4A?feat=directlink The Award is in recognition for Ethel's "dedicated hard work and con

[Goanet] Christian Unity Week

2011-01-25 Thread Ivo
Search for Christian unity is 'moral imperative,' Pope Benedict XVI says: By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) -- Giving in to the temptation of thinking the Christian churches will never be fully united is a sign of weak faith, Pope Benedict XVI said. "One must resist the temptat

[Goanet] Goa news for January 26, 2011

2011-01-25 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Sesa Goa: Sharp iron ore price rise augurs well for company - Economic Times onomic TimesSesa Goa, a dominant player in the iron ore and allied commodities segment, benefited from a sharp r

[Goanet] ONLINE EXHIBITION: THE WAIT (Yolanda Sousa)

2011-01-25 Thread Goanet A-C-E!
Art Chamber-Galeria de Belas Artes Hosts ONLINE EXHIBITION THE WAIT...Sketches @ Random by Yolanda Sousa January 24 - February 24, 2011 Follow the link to view the exhibition: www.Goa-art.com Works can be physically viewed at : Art Chamber-Galeria de Belas Artes, Castelo Ver

[Goanet] Goa's Hope

2011-01-25 Thread Arwin Mesquita
With recent series of actions undertaken taken by the Village Groups and the Pilerne Citizens Forum, I can see hope for Goa and Goans. The latest action of filing the FIR against the Anti-Goan Conspiracy on the Regional Plan, was a step in the right direction. Whilst many overseas like myself are

Re: [Goanet] Defensive Hindu Prabhudesai

2011-01-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 1/24/11, Charudatt Prabhudesai wrote: > > You seem to have a myopic view of the religion you were > born into. Perhaps you are scientifically > prejudiced against it. Or may be you are just fashionable > modernist doctor preaching 'objectivism', > knowing quite fully well that it is

[Goanet] Portuguese Ghantis and Maharashtrian Pankles

2011-01-25 Thread Marshall Mendonza
Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão: Because we all Goans relish Pork meat & pork sausages. Response: Pork and pork products are very popular in the North-east as well as in Nepal. In fact, I was surprised to find the Hindus in Khatmandu, Nepal relishing pork while I, a goan, was avoiding it for

[Goanet] a/c hacked ? distress call from Spain

2011-01-25 Thread Ignatius Fernandes
I too was a victim of e-mail hacking in early December 2010 I could not enter my domain someone in West Africa hacked into my e-mail address iggy.fernan...@hotmail.co.uk. I quickly wrote an e-mail to Goa-net which they did not publish all I wanted was to inform my Goa-net contacts that if they we

[Goanet] Omar Abdulla pounces on an opportunity for electoral gains offered by BJP

2011-01-25 Thread rajendra kakodkar
BJP’s flag march to J&K is nothing but electoral gimmick. Omar sensed that he can use this march to usurp Congress vote bank by aiding polarization.   He is intentionally arresting BJP leaders and giving them prominence. BJP is earning the sympathies of the so called Nationalists and gullible pe

[Goanet] England's Churchill on Varca Churchill

2011-01-25 Thread Roland Francis
Churchill wrote this 64 years ago: "Power will go to rascals, rogues, freebooters.. All leaders will be of low caliber and men of straw. They'll have sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight among themselves for power.. " He is proved right. Roland. Roland Francis Toronto

[Goanet] The Chaka Chak Campaign

2011-01-25 Thread Freddy Agnelo Fernandes
The Chaka Chak Campaign My hearty congratulations to the NGO’s and the village Panchayats for initiating the “chaka chak” campaign in Goa. A lot of us forget our civic sense more often than not and contribute to the decay and the degeneration around, which finally spews micro organisms that infect

Re: [Goanet] Racial discrimination ???- 1 million accountant who blames racism for limiting his pay

2011-01-25 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 24 January 2011 19:26, George Pinto wrote: > None of the 4 comments posted (I have excerpted portions below) are > sensible and do not deal with the central claim: was he compensated less > than his colleagues because of his race? Yes or no? It is a fact-based claim > and none of the invective

[Goanet] Song for the day.

2011-01-25 Thread Gabe Menezes
Ray Conniff - AQUELLOS OJOS VERDES (Green Eyes) This is for Selma's Augiars - with green eyes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjfHPvxW78k -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] A Malaria mosquito solution?

2011-01-25 Thread Gabe Menezes
http://uk.reuters.com/news/video/story?videoId=180032855&videoChannel=76 -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Fwd: Illegal sand extraction and dumping at Orlim Bridge , River Sal

2011-01-25 Thread Ganv Ghor
-- For Immediate Press Release Members of OGRM -Orlim Gaum Rakhon Manch and the Ex Sarpanch of Orlim have been noticing for the past few days sand being extracted and dumped below the Orlim bridge which is then taken away candlistinely by trucks that come at odd hours so that the same may

[Goanet] Goa Book Club, images from Jan 20, 2011 meeting

2011-01-25 Thread Frederick Noronha
Some pics of the Jan 20 meet... thanks to everyone who came and added value! Both speakers and listeners (and discussants): Joel's contribution http://www.flickr.com/photos/52243088@N00/5374647838/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/52243088@N00/5374047691/ >From my camera http://www.flickr.com/photos/

[Goanet] Goanet Reader: Nationalistic historiographies, in Portugal and Goa, have come in the way of understanding our past -- Angela Barreto Xavier

2011-01-25 Thread Goanet Reader
Nationalistic historiographies, in Portugal and Goa, have come in the way of understanding our past -- Angela Barreto Xavier >From Margao to Lisbon. Goa-born Angela Barreto Xavier's academic journey has taken her to being a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of

[Goanet] Good News For The Goans in Qatar

2011-01-25 Thread Doha Goans Sports Club
*Good News For The Goans in Qatar* Doha Goans Sports Club organizing a seminar in collobration with Mr. Pedro Antonio Rodrigues a Goan origin settled in Portugal and who is Advocate by profession and specialised in processing Portuguese papers for obtaining Portuguese Passport/Citizenship. Doha

[Goanet] Goa ke log ajeeb hai

2011-01-25 Thread Tony de Sa
Pundit Nehru is reported to have said the famous words that characterize us Goans, " Goa ke log ajeeb hai" We have numerous examples to illustrate PN's belief. Take the latest chumming up of Churchill Alemao and his bete noir Ravi Naik. Ravi was the guy who sent Churchill on a holiday to Fort Agu

[Goanet] Racial discrimination

2011-01-25 Thread Camillo Fernandes
Coments in response to George's post : If Dimstam felt discriminated as he claims they why did it take him so long to voice it? or is it just a case of claiming compensation. When he got promotion did his other colleagues ie Whites not feel discriminated in their own counttry? Dimstan sh

[Goanet] Regional literary historiographies of Western India (Feb 4-5, 2011) MS University, Baroda

2011-01-25 Thread Frederick Noronha
UGC SAP DRS-I DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FACULTY OF ARTS THE MAHARAJA SAYAJIRAO UNIVERSITY OF BARODA VADODARA-390002 UGC NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON REGIONAL LITERARY HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF WESTERN INDIA 4-5 February 2011 The organization of Indian states on the Hegelian logic of nation that is premised

[Goanet] Emboldened migrants assault locals

2011-01-25 Thread Freddy Fernandes
In support of: Message: 4 Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:05:32 + (GMT) From: Bernado Colaco Subject: [Goanet] Emboldened migrants assault locals You are partly right Bernad bab, we Goans will not react to any anomaly until and unless, each one's very existence in threatened to the point of

Re: [Goanet] Clergy Home at Porvorim

2011-01-25 Thread Albert Desouza
Dear Goanettersi cannot understand why the Bishop house is not looking after the priests . First of all they are not paid properly and now in their last journey of life they do not get enough. Every one wants us to do this and do that as if we are multimillonaires. Repairs of the church donatio

[Goanet] INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION CENTRE

2011-01-25 Thread Aires Rodrigues
At the inaugural of the so called International arbitration centre Union Law Minister Dr Veerappa Moily assured those present that Parliament will soon enact a new law to facilitate this centre. Is this not putting the horse before the cart? That the entire state administration stayed away from t