[Goanet-News] The Hindu : Cracking the Konkani code

2012-01-17 Thread Goanet News
The Hindu : Cracking the Konkani code http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/article2783403.ece The Konkani language is curious in many ways. Although interesting from a cultural perspective as it is spoken by a cross-section of people, creating online content in the language is

[Goanet-News] Goa elections: BJP bids to reach out to Goan Christians (Economic Times, New Delhi)

2012-01-17 Thread Goanet News
Goa elections: BJP bids to reach out to Goan Christians NEW DELHI: BJP may be a stridently pro-Hindu party, but not in Goa. Even its opposition to the anti-minority job quota is missing here. While the party aggressively campaigns against Congress' promise to raise minority quota in Uttar

[Goanet-News] Goa news for January 18, 2012

2012-01-17 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Goa BJP hits poll gear without main candidate - Northern Voices Online JP-flag-off-Jan-Sampark-Abhiyan/articleshow/11518152.cmsGoa BJP flag-off Jan Sampark Abhiyan

Re: [Goanet] Issues for the upcoming election

2012-01-17 Thread floriano
Rajan, Goa Su-Raj has been designed from the designing table itself (before it got out in the open to take GOA BY THE FEET- if she still has them) and shake it so hard that all the INDIANS including the influence that DIRTY HANDOO has left is jerked off from the roots that it has taken.

[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Ensconced

2012-01-17 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Ensconced' You may view the latest post at http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2012/01/17/ensconced/ Best regards, Rajan P. Parrikar parri...@yahoo.com ---

[Goanet] Child Art Competition on Republic Day

2012-01-17 Thread Sandeep Heble
On the occasion of Republic Day and to commemorate 50 years of Goa’s Liberation, JCI St. Inez will organize a Child Art competition at Children’s Park, Campal-Panaji, from 9 am to 12.30 pm. The Child Art Competition will be held in the following Categories with topics as mentioned below:

[Goanet] Mums the kitchen

2012-01-17 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Roland,  To your observations I will add a brief note:  Malvani cuisine may be  considered part of Goa's culinary culture - even a cursory look reveals so much overlap.  True, it has today developed its own brand, but  Malvan and the areas of southern Sindhudurg have for long been 

[Goanet] Mineral Foundation initiates solid waste management in Virdi with SMC.

2012-01-17 Thread samir umarye
-- Samir Umarye *BICHOLIM* The Mineral Foundation of Goa (MFG) in coordination with Sanquelim Municipal Council (SMC) has initiated the ‘Nirmal Gram’ project on solid waste management at the community level in Virdi. As part of the project, awareness programme was organized in Virdi during the

[Goanet] Goa Police nab mother-daughter jewellery thieves in Mumbai

2012-01-17 Thread samir umarye
-- Samir Umarye *BICHOLIM* Bicholim Police on Monday arrested a woman and her daughter from Aldona in connection with jewellery theft at Bicholim. According to Bicholim Police, the duo, Anju V Paul and her daughter, Preeti, allegedly decamped with a gold chain worth Rs 70,000 from a jewellery

[Goanet] Mulgao locals besiege Sesa mining officials

2012-01-17 Thread samir umarye
-- Samir Umarye BICHOLIM: On Monday morning, while the transportation of mineral ore was in progress at the Sesa Goa mine, a group of Mulgao locals besieged the mining officials and forced them to stop work for failing to compensate them for a landslide that occurred on July 16, 2011. The

Re: [Goanet] Issues for the upcoming election - Response no. 2

2012-01-17 Thread floriano
The following has been sent to the editor of a vernacular newspaper who asked for it This is only for your kind information GOA SU-RAJ PARTY AT A QUICK GLANCE When elected to power with 21 MLAs the following will happen as per it's Constitution and it's ROAD MAP FOR GOA ( which is it's

[Goanet] GOA GOVT. FLAYED IN LONDON FOR SIDELINING DR.SEQUEIRA FOR 45 YEARS

2012-01-17 Thread Francisco floriano Fernandes
INTERNATIONAL VOICE FOR ROMI KONKNNI-UK HOUNSLOW MIDDLESEX, UNITED KINGDOM FOUNDED ON : 17-10-2009 GOA GOVT.FLAYED IN LONDON FOR SIDELINING DR.SEQUEIRA FOR 45 YEARS. The International Voice For Romi Konknni-UK has commemorated the 45th year of the historic Opinion Poll on 16th of January

[Goanet] Suggestion to the Goa Election Commission

2012-01-17 Thread Desmond Monteiro
If anyone has shifted residence to a different city, the present procedure for changing of names in the electoral rolls is so tedious and time consuming, that it is easier to just register afresh in the new location. In order to avoid such double registration and consequent possibility of bogus

Re: [Goanet] GOA GOVT. FLAYED IN LONDON FOR SIDELINING DR.SEQUEIRA FOR45 YEARS

2012-01-17 Thread floriano
Here is another incident that Dr. Jack Sequeira's right to be honoured for the success of the Historic Opinion Poll was sidelined in Goa itself. If the another historic 15 March-2011- Azad Maidan - GRA [Goemchea Rakhondararancho Awaz] where thousands took a standing pledge for Goa lead by

Re: [Goanet] Mums the kitchen

2012-01-17 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Our friend Ashok Row Kavi has a very different take on this, and suggests some of Goa's recent history was also shaped by such competition within the same caste. The note below is written in typical Row Kavi style, of the 1980s vintage: QUOTE ...Only two institutions kept the fact in mind that

Re: [Goanet] Sarcasm and the like... British awards for Goans in East Africa Message

2012-01-17 Thread J. Colaco jc
Possibly related to this You tube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHmFMVGJs4s Frederick FN Noronha asked: Doctor, were you talking to the plants? RESPONSE: Dearesht (only) Administrador, Patracar, Publisher, Photo-take-outer and Chaavi-Master FN, To the best of my limited knowledge,

[Goanet] Evaluating the leaders of our past. Was: Re: GOA GOVT. FLAYED IN LONDON FOR SIDELINING DR.SEQUEIRA FOR45 YEARS

2012-01-17 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
On 17 January 2012 16:16, floriano floriano.l...@gmail.com wrote: Here is another incident that Dr. Jack Sequeira's right to be honoured for the success of the Historic Opinion Poll was sidelined in Goa itself. Dear Floriano and others: The trend has been to unquestionably lionise the leaders

Re: [Goanet] Mums the Kitchen

2012-01-17 Thread J. Colaco jc
 Frederick FN Noronha wrote: While giving JC the right to take all the necessary potshots at his favourite bugbears, I'd like to add the following: * Caste, being a social construct, is all in the mind. We can be part of some group, fall out of it, or imagine ourselves to be superior -- whatever

Re: [Goanet] Suggestion to the Goa Election Commission

2012-01-17 Thread floriano
It is pointless to give such suggestions to the idiots sitting in the elections commission, here in Goa as well as in New Delhi. Why I say this is because, yesterday I called EC to say that I wanted the 10-Aldona Constituency Electoral Roll and that I was the Gen. Secretary of Goa Su-Raj

Re: [Goanet] Suggestion to the Goa Election Commission

2012-01-17 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Floriano, couldn't you just go online and get it at http://www.ceogoa.nic.in/aldona/AC010/Part_15.pdf On 17 January 2012 18:08, floriano floriano.l...@gmail.com wrote: Why I say this is because,  yesterday I called EC to say that I wanted the 10-Aldona Constituency Electoral Roll and that I was

Re: [Goanet] Issues for the upcoming election

2012-01-17 Thread Nascy Caldeira
Rajan, Your perception and deliberate confusion in your systematic pointers only shows your TRUE COLOURS! The Saffron shitty Colour! The colours of Fascim and Communalism of the lowest order compared to any in the world, I say! Have U not read on what is happenning in Madhya Pradesh? Or do U

Re: [Goanet] Mums the Kitchen

2012-01-17 Thread Cecil Pinto
1) Does that mean that only a Mumbaikar can cook a Bombay Duck properly? 2) Does 'bombil' come from 'Bom-bay' and 'Duck-bill'? 3) The best Hyderabadi Biryani I ever tasted was in a restaurant where the cook was a Keralite. How come? 4) What do we know about the caste or ethnicity or religion of

Re: [Goanet] Suggestion to the Goa Election Commission

2012-01-17 Thread floriano
I am talking of the Photo electoral rolls. floriano - Original Message - From: Frederick FN Noronha ? *??? ??? fredericknoro...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 6:34 PM Subject:

[Goanet] Indian babus and Goa

2012-01-17 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The whole world knows that Goa is a whorehouse for the rest of India. Indians have absolutely zero shame. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/goa-the-gig-all-male-poll-officials-want-but-cant-have-6290577.html r

[Goanet] Floriano's experience in dealing with the Goa Election Commission

2012-01-17 Thread Vivian A. DSouza
I had a hearty laugh at Floriano's vivid description of his interaction with the staff at the Goa Election Commission.  This  appears to be par for the course at all government offices in India. Unless one is aggresive, you cannot get anything done.  The Concerned officer is always away from

[Goanet] Today's news in Pics - from road to footpath, Santa Monica, Bokem, united colours etc

2012-01-17 Thread JoeGoaUk
  Today's news in Pics - from road to footpath, Santa Monica, Bokem etc From Road to footpath Vehicles on election duty Code of conduct etc -Yesteday, the lined up on main DB Road see yesterday's pic (last pic below) http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk49/6715336421/sizes/l/in/photostream/

[Goanet] Concord Music Group Presents: Chick Corea, Eddie Gomez, Paul Motian ~ Further Explorations

2012-01-17 Thread THE JAZZ NETWORK WORLDWIDE
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Re: [Goanet] Mums the Kitchen

2012-01-17 Thread roland . francis
1) Bombay Duck is not cooked, just fried. It doesn't matter, who does it as long as with the right spices. 2) We are mixing languages here. Bombil is Marathi or Konkani. Bombay and Duck-bill are English. 3) If the best Hyderabadi Biryani you tasted was prepared by a Keralite, could you

Re: [Goanet] Mums the Kitchen

2012-01-17 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Let me try and answer, despite being gloriously unqualified in this field also On 17 January 2012 22:46, Cecil Pinto cecilpi...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Does that mean that only a Mumbaikar can cook a Bombay Duck properly? Definitely not. The Bombayite/Bambaiwala lost that ability ever since

Re: [Goanet] Issues for the upcoming election

2012-01-17 Thread J. Colaco jc
On 17 January 2012 08:20, Nascy Caldeira nascy...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Rajan, Your perception and deliberate confusion in your systematic pointers only shows your TRUE COLOURS! The Saffron shitty Colour! The colours of Fascim and Communalism of the lowest order compared to any in the world, I say!

[Goanet] Goa elections: BJP bids to reach out to Goan Christians (Economic Times, New Delhi)

2012-01-17 Thread Goanet News
Goa elections: BJP bids to reach out to Goan Christians NEW DELHI: BJP may be a stridently pro-Hindu party, but not in Goa. Even its opposition to the anti-minority job quota is missing here. While the party aggressively campaigns against Congress' promise to raise minority quota in Uttar

[Goanet] Goa news for January 18, 2012

2012-01-17 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Goa BJP hits poll gear without main candidate - Northern Voices Online JP-flag-off-Jan-Sampark-Abhiyan/articleshow/11518152.cmsGoa BJP flag-off Jan Sampark Abhiyan

[Goanet] Release of Directory of Tiatr Artistes

2012-01-17 Thread Tiatr Academy Goa
Release of Directory of Tiatr Artistes Tiatr Academy of Goa will release the revised edition of ‘Directory of Tiatr Artistes 2012’ on 19th January 2012 at 4:45 pm at the Conference Hall of Tiatr Academy Goa, Campal Trade Centre, Campal, Panjim. The Directory of Tiatr Artistes includes over

[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (18Jan12)

2012-01-17 Thread alexyz fernandes
How come you being on the Black List of the Law...Get a ticket? In Black!!! To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org --- Protect Goa's

[Goanet] The Hindu : Cracking the Konkani code

2012-01-17 Thread Goanet News
The Hindu : Cracking the Konkani code http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/article2783403.ece The Konkani language is curious in many ways. Although interesting from a cultural perspective as it is spoken by a cross-section of people, creating online content in the language is

Re: [Goanet] Mum Kitchen

2012-01-17 Thread Mervyn Lobo
roland.francis wrote: 1) Bombay Duck is not cooked, just fried.  --- Roland, This sounds er, fishy to me. Your experience is fried but not cooked bombil? The true Goan bombli hurts at the very idea of uncooked bombil. Mervyn120121