[Goanet-News] NEWS: 'No more Eng primaries in Goa' (Times of India)

2011-04-07 Thread Goanet News
'No more Eng primaries in Goa' TNN | Apr 7, 2011, 02.37am IST Tags:Regional Language Primary Schools|Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch PANAJI: Supporters of Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch (BBSM) filled Azad Maidan and clung onto the ground's iron railings on Wednesday afternoon as they pledged

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Forked Tongues, Mother Tongue and 1991 (FN, in Herald)

2011-04-07 Thread Goanet Reader
Forked Tongues, Mother Tongue and 1991 By Frederick Noronha | Devil's Advocate Two decades after the medium of instruction controversy errupted on us, we are still struggling to find a solution. While discredited politicians use this to effectively divide the people, we need to remind

[Goanet] WHEN HISTORY GOT FORGOTTEN BY KONKNNI MERGERISTS

2011-04-07 Thread SOTER
Tuesday the 6th of April 2011 is a Black Day for the Konkani World when certain disguised communal konknni mergerists decided to marry the well known communal marathiwadis at the Azad Maidan to entertain themselves in an orgy of christian bashing. The then Convenor of Konkni Porjecho Avaz Shri

[Goanet] Daily Grook #925

2011-04-07 Thread Francis Rodrigues
DAILY GROOK #925 = EXTREME MAXIM = by Francis Rodrigues it seems so strange despite skinny dots, lepers don't change ...their spots! *GREAT ALL-OCCASION GIFT* http://www.KonkaniSongBook.com

[Goanet] Pictures: When the saints go marching out

2011-04-07 Thread Edgar Silveira
Pictures from last year, http://www.flickr.com/photos/projectedgar

[Goanet] Bollywood Should Stop Insulting Goans

2011-04-07 Thread E DeSousa
Response to Selma's response to Freddys comment: Hope Selma is not suggesting that in a  democracy  the only recourse available to the aggrieved and misrepresented is to roll over and die, or perform the proverbial turn the other cheek... Subject: [Goanet] Bollywood Should Stop Insulting Goans

[Goanet] Song for the Day

2011-04-07 Thread Gabe Menezes
James Last - Barcarole (1966) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1I7mEiAR3g -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

Re: [Goanet] Is it Chor Machaye Shor!!!

2011-04-07 Thread Bosco D
-Original Message- From: U. G. Barad Yesterday, speaker while pronouncing his ruling over adjournment motion said, 'the issue of custom related matter that took place in Mumbai, as per constitution of India, comes under central government as such the issue can be discussed only in

[Goanet] R: kONKANI moi

2011-04-07 Thread Tony de Sa
@ Freddy Fernandes: Sorry Freddy, I somehow missed your post as I am busy with other concerns than Goanet. It only came to my notice thanks to Albert. I have only one question to ask you : how long have you spent in a class room in these last few years? Specially after Konkani became the MOI in

[Goanet] Consumer and Public Health Awareness Fortnight to be observed by GOACAN

2011-04-07 Thread Goa Desc
- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help other CONSUMERS to be better informed -

[Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-07 Thread U. G. Barad
On medium of instruction I have already given my opinion and stand by it. But still, I could not resist responding to Albert's message. Albert wrote: .That is the reason the board is afraid to give to the students a xerox copy of their answer sheet to be taken at home for fear that the

[Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-07 Thread Freddy Fernandes
In response to : Message: 1 Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:31:26 + From: Albert Desouza alizadeso...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI Dear Albert, What you say is appreciated, it the system that needs cleaning and not the people who passed through that system. We those, that

Re: [Goanet] Bollywood Should Stop Insulting Goans

2011-04-07 Thread Carvalho
Bernado Colaco wrote: -The post below makes funni reading. Because one has democracy one can fire any crap. I have not seen the movie but I wonder how much art form is being portrayed besides being insulting and derogatory to Goans.   BC - Response: Why does that

[Goanet] Lending substance to dreams: Anant Pai (1929-2011)

2011-04-07 Thread Venantius J Pinto
My piece on Anant Pai in Himal Southasian. Lending substance to dreams http://himalmag.com/component/content/article/4357-lending-substance-to-dreams.html venantius j pinto

[Goanet] AGENTE MONTEIRO foxed migrant businessman.

2011-04-07 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
So the story goes that soon after Goa was invaded by the Indian troops in December 1961, a renowned Indian soft drink businessmen rushed his marketing manager to Goa to capture the market. The marketing manager being a migrant himself and not knowing Portuguese or the local language, befriended

[Goanet] Bollywood Should Stop Insulting Goans

2011-04-07 Thread pinheiro
Selma Wrote: In a democracy, freedom of speech is sacrosanct.? No government has the right to meddle in an art form or an artistic interpretation of life. If we don't understand that basic principle, we don't deserve democracies. We need more thought and less jingoism in India. Response:

[Goanet] The Doyen of the right in U.S. has been kicked out!

2011-04-07 Thread Gabe Menezes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/06/glenn-beck-fox-news -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] kONKANI moi

2011-04-07 Thread Freddy Fernandes
In response to: Message: 11 Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 05:44:20 +0100 From: Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com Subject: [Goanet] R: kONKANI moi Dear Tony, I assume you are confused with my argument, let me put it plain, I am not against the MOI issue which ever way, I have stated it before and

Re: [Goanet] Only special status can protect Goa - NIZ GOENKAR

2011-04-07 Thread floriano
There was a time when GOOD GOVERNANCE slogan was taken up by the BJP and had it rubbed into the ground. Goa Su-Raj Party which had actually named the Party as 'GOOD GOVERNANCE PARTY' SU-Raj being Good Governance, had to change the slogan to 'Good Effective Governance' Now everyone seems to

[Goanet] ELECTIONS AND MONEY POWER

2011-04-07 Thread Mario Vicente Santos Pereira
Beware of sniffing dogs are around the luggage section at the Mumbai Airport. Message: 3 Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 09:13:34 +0530 From: Aires Rodrigues airesrodrigu...@gmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] ELECTIONS AND MONEY POWER So the final outcome was a free flow of money as a

[Goanet] Is it Chor Machaye Shor!!!

2011-04-07 Thread U. G. Barad
My response: Mr. Bosco, Goanet has a news agency which airs the Goan related news to Goanet since many years. For accuracy of answers, please get in touch with Goanet news agency with all the questions you have posed me. Importantly Mr. Bosco, I don't write to Goanet as a member of any

[Goanet] Mr Shantaram Naik M.P. paying homage to late Shri Rajiv Gandhi at his samadhi in Sriperumbadur, Tamil Nadu

2011-04-07 Thread SHANTARAM NAIK
* CAPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPH:* ** * Mr Shantaram Naik M.P. and Secretary AICC paying homage to late Shri Rajiv Gandhi at his samadhi in Sriperumbadur, Tamil Nadu. Mr Naik is camping in Chenai since 27th March in connection with Assembly elections in the

Re: [Goanet] Only special status can protect Goa - NIZ GOENKAR

2011-04-07 Thread Albert Desouza
Dear Goanetters If corruption is born in Goa we the goans are to be blamed and no one else. When one goes to the government offices one finds the staff missing. What do we do ? go again. Sometimes we want the work fast and so pour out notes in his pocket. So many times people without licence

Re: [Goanet] I is heavy, I is heavy...demand for XXX is passed...house adjourned!

2011-04-07 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 7 April 2011 00:25, U. G. Barad dr.udayba...@gmail.com wrote: FN wrote: Dear Dr Barad, It isn't I is heavy, but the ayes have it It's an old colonial tradition, now in play at Porvorim, though we've had little direct rule by the British Commonwealth! FN My reply: If what you say is

[Goanet] Too hard to believe..too less a time to think!!!

2011-04-07 Thread U. G. Barad
At 4.10 pm today, Thursday, April, 2011, Time Now - a TV channel, showed live telecast of what is happening at the place where Anna Hazare is on fast-unto-death. Today he received special letter from government inviting him for discussion and also proposed him to be the chairman of the committee

Re: [Goanet] I is heavy, I is heavy...demand for XXX is passed...house adjourned!

2011-04-07 Thread Seb dc
Its useless to correct someone on goanet, as they will always try to justify their point, in the process remain ignorent. Ego problem u see.. Is it so difficult as to say and forget, what one writes just a day earlier...i don't think so! Read the below posts, will know what I mean... Viz on 6th

[Goanet] Bollywood Should Stop Insulting Goans

2011-04-07 Thread Bernado Colaco
More tosh in our way. BC - Response: Why does that not surprise me? BC afterall has made it his national pastime to comment on books without reading them and films without viewing them. ? Insulting and derogatory to Goans??Says who? If I were to make a list of

[Goanet] Song for the Day.

2011-04-07 Thread Gabe Menezes
James Lasthttp://www.youtube.com/artist?a=GxdCwVVULXeO68UAP-oSzhTqsiKQov_nfeature=watch_video_title- Havah Nagila http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1j6-uxkCVw -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Breaking News: JoeGoaUk detained at Dabolim Airport with ‘Marijuana’

2011-04-07 Thread JoeGoaUk
  JoeGoaUk detained at Dabolim Airport with ‘Marijuana’   ref: 01042011 News spread like wildfire, some National TV/Press even quoted the Quaintly as 900g and value worth several lakhs. Some quoted several hundred grams where as some say it was seven hundred.. However, he claims the actual qty

[Goanet] Talking Photos / Video: Princess all set to go after 11 years

2011-04-07 Thread JoeGoaUk
Talking Photos / Video: Princess all set to go after 11 years   Next destination is Britona (??)   Video Hd http://youtu.be/Fr2Hqp-3aSg?hd=1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk37/5598075000/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk37/5597499795/sizes/l/

Re: [Goanet] Xik Pora Xik

2011-04-07 Thread icsouza
lino dourado libado23...@yahoo.com wrote: Xik Pora Xik ://groups.yahoo.com/group/gulf-goanshttp/message/34000 **Konknnyantlyan amchya bhurgyank odik borem som'zota. Inglez prartomik modhyamachi bhas zaunche khatir chollvoll kortastona, fuddari Konknnintlyan uloytat. Kityak zayt? Inglez

Re: [Goanet] Konkani MOI

2011-04-07 Thread Tony de Sa
@ Freddy You write: I assume you are confused with my argument, let me put it plain, I am not against the MOI issue which ever way, I have stated it before and I state it again, I am only asking you not imply that all the Konkanni medium passed are jackasses and the English medium passed are

[Goanet] Next Marriage Encounter Weekend in Goa

2011-04-07 Thread Valentine Anna Coelho
Dear friends, Please recruit for our next Marriage Encounter Weekend in Goa from 15 to 17 April 2011*. This weekend is open to married couples of all faiths married for at least 2 years and more. Every married couple deserves a Marriage encounter weekend so please tell them about it.

Re: [Goanet] WHEN HISTORY GOT FORGOTTEN BY KONKNNI MERGERISTS

2011-04-07 Thread Valmiki Faleiro
A brilliant analysis. Well done, Soter! v - Original Message - From: SOTER so...@bsnl.in To: goa...@goanet.org Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:07 AM Subject: [Goanet] WHEN HISTORY GOT FORGOTTEN BY KONKNNI MERGERISTS Tuesday the 6th of April 2011 is a Black Day for the Konkani

[Goanet] (Goanet) Bollywood should stop insulting Goans

2011-04-07 Thread Ignatius Fernandes
In India do they have a Board of Film censors like in U.K? Any offending material either on T. V. or film is censored if it contains depiction of racism,nudism or foul language. and any other offending material. The way I see it in India any thing goes. Regards Ignatius Fernandes

Re: [Goanet] Bollywood Should Stop Insulting Goans

2011-04-07 Thread marlon menezes
So how ironic then, that, in this unfolding drama, Angelo wishes to take the role of a male hero who swoops in and rescues weak and powerless women who are stuck in their kitchens (or bedrooms) and unable to act on their own. This issue is not about the right of groups to protest a movie, but

[Goanet] 'Dum Maro Dum' - Is the Opposition to the movie justified?

2011-04-07 Thread Sandeep Heble
In the last few days, there have been attempts from various quarters – from Micky Pacheco to the Goa Government to some misguided groups - to ban the Bollywood Movie ‘Dum Maro Dum’. Some have even petitioned the Bombay High Court to meet their demands. The grounds for seeking such a ban are

[Goanet] Make new friends

2011-04-07 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Folks, Those who have been here long enough will remember that when gold broke thru$460 an ounce, I wrote giving the reasons why, and where the price of gold was heading. Today, just seven years later, gold hit $1,460 an ounce. Lets see, gold has been appreciating approximatively 17% a

[Goanet] NEWS: Consul pays tribute to freedom fighters' role in reforming Portugal too

2011-04-07 Thread Goanet News
CONSUL PAYS TRIBUTE TO FREEDOM FIGHTERS' ROLE IN REFORMING PORTUGAL TOO PANJIM: In a touching tribute coming in the 50th year of the end of Portuguese colonial rule in Goa, the Consul-General of Portugal has praised freedom fighters whom, he said, helped

Re: [Goanet] Tsunami - the seas off Goa coast

2011-04-07 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Bosco D wrote: #1) The issue was about the HTL being breached on some of Goa's beaches. . #4) Mervyn and JC are probably unaware of some beach shacks being water-logged on Goa's beaches post-tsunami. But hey!!! They have to contradict the individual in Goa, who walks the beaches.

[Goanet] Goa news for April 8, 2011

2011-04-07 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: Reversing fortunes - Business Standard Atilde; -vis the broader markets since April last year is set to change for the better. Even as there is uncertainty regarding the

[Goanet] NEWS: 'No more Eng primaries in Goa' (Times of India)

2011-04-07 Thread Goanet News
'No more Eng primaries in Goa' TNN | Apr 7, 2011, 02.37am IST Tags:Regional Language Primary Schools|Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch PANAJI: Supporters of Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch (BBSM) filled Azad Maidan and clung onto the ground's iron railings on Wednesday afternoon as they pledged

[Goanet] Nutrients To Boost Your Liver Function

2011-04-07 Thread Con Menezes
http://www.healthiertalk.com/nutrients-boost-your-liver-function-3711

[Goanet] Don't play with our children's future

2011-04-07 Thread Joel Moraes
Don't Play with our Children's future The rally by Shashikala Kakodkar and company at Azad Maidan,Panaji to protect the mother tongue was massive but did Shashikala supported konkani during the Konkani agitation?It's the right of the parents to educate their children as per their wishes.We

[Goanet] I is heavy, I is heavy...demand for XXX is passed...house adjourned!

2011-04-07 Thread U. G. Barad
Gabe wrote: What the heck; the ayes have it or the nays have it; could be bad hearing or bad pronounciation. In any case the writer of so many books, not versed in Parliamentary proceedings? Heard the saying 'barking dogs seldom bite'? DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. My answer: Yes Gabe, it's

Re: [Goanet] When History got Forgotten by Konknni Mergerists

2011-04-07 Thread Gerald Fernandes
Please permit us to congratulate Mr Soter Dsouza for his inteprid writing on this issue, and also may we point out that in India, that is Bharat the Constitution of India is the SUPREME DOCUMENT on which the POLITY of India is based, supported and sustained.   The Form of Oath taken by Officers

Re: [Goanet] Breaking News: JoeGoaUk detained at Dabolim Airport with ‘Marijuana’

2011-04-07 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:57:07 -0700 JoeGoaUk wrote : JoeGoaUk detained at Dabolim Airport with ‘Marijuana’ ref: 01042011 News spread like wildfire, some National TV/Press even quoted the Quaintly as 900g and value worth several lakhs. Some quoted several hundred grams where as some say it was

[Goanet] GOA SUDHAROP: Spring party, Sunday, April 24 (San Fran Bay Area)

2011-04-07 Thread George Pinto
Less than three weeks to the big Spring party to benefit a good cause. Hurry and get your tickets now before it sells out. GOA SUDHAROP's fun SPRING event on Sunday, April 24, is for the entire family and is open to all, a family-friendly event. All invited, no membership required. Net proceeds

[Goanet] Fwd: Customs now on lookout for Rohit

2011-04-07 Thread Arwin Mesquita
Customs now on lookout for Rohit http://www.oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Customs-now-on-lookout-for-Rohit/47100.html HERALD REPORTER Customs now on lookout for Rohit Claims he carried more forex to Dubai HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, APRIL 5 Education Minister Atanasio alias Babush Monseratte

[Goanet] Is coalition dharma preventing Kangress not to finalize Lokpal Bill?

2011-04-07 Thread U. G. Barad
In my last message on above subject, I had written, let's wait and watch what comes out of government bag for congress is known not to give up very easily on any issue!! And in this case, if congress accepts Anna's terms it will be like total transfusion of congress blood!! In first place,

[Goanet] IFRA 30 Years Celebrations Tournament: Goa Boys to play DHL Express in final, commemorative souvenir to be released

2011-04-07 Thread Goa World
Battle lines have been drawn as favorites DHL Express take on strong contenders Goa Boys in the grand final of the I.F.R.A ‘eleven a side’ open soccer tournament at the Salmiya Municipal (Baladyia) grounds on Friday, 8th April 2011 at 4:00pm (sharp). This unique tournament organized by the

[Goanet] I is heavy, ....I is heavy...demand for XXX is passed...house adjourned!

2011-04-07 Thread U. G. Barad
Seb wrote: Its useless to correct someone on goanet, as they will always try to justify their point, in the process remain ignorent. Ego problem u see.. My response: U see Seb, one good mango in a basketful of rotten mangos always tend to get moldy. So who is to be blamed - already spoiled

[Goanet] Skin test can evaluate a healthy or unhealthy lifestyle

2011-04-07 Thread Con Menezes
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110210122446.htm

[Goanet] Goanet Reader: Forked Tongues, Mother Tongue and 1991 (FN, in Herald)

2011-04-07 Thread Goanet Reader
Forked Tongues, Mother Tongue and 1991 By Frederick Noronha | Devil's Advocate Two decades after the medium of instruction controversy errupted on us, we are still struggling to find a solution. While discredited politicians use this to effectively divide the people, we need to remind ourselves