[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day....

2012-07-16 Thread Gabe Menezes
Engelbert Humperdinckhttp://www.youtube.com/artist/Engelbert_Humperdinck?feature=watch_video_title - Love is a many splendored thing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6G3L3jOSpUfeature=related g -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] NoMoZo .3 with Goa Governnor

2012-07-16 Thread JoeGoaUk
NoMoZo 3 With Goa Governor Bharat Vir Wanchoo http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk55/7580941186/in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk55/7580937132/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk55/7580939132/in/photostream/  also seen in ths clip at 3.20

[Goanet] Portuguese-ruled East Africa -- another view

2012-07-16 Thread manuel tavares
Venantius and Roland have given us fairly reasoned accounts of Goans in the Colonial era in Africa mainly East Africa (Both Portuguese and British). It would be pertinent to mention that Goans were respected and liked, more, by the African than other Members of the Indian communities. Perhaps

[Goanet] Industrial blackmail - or Marlon's hypocricy?

2012-07-16 Thread SOTER
Marlon wrote: Talk about having your cake and wanting to eat it hypocrisy. Soter claims to be against the mining interests, but yet, wants employment to be created by the very same industry. If we want Goa to be less dependent on mining, then, let them layoff their staff and let us see what

[Goanet] Soccer awards

2012-07-16 Thread Nelson Lopes
P.C.Trust The Trust announces two new SOCCER awards for the students of High schools of Chinchinim. It endeavours to recognise talents and encourage excellence CRCC is credited for being cradle and nursery for the footballers of Chinchinim and for contributing renowned footballers to the soccer

[Goanet] Parivartan: Will the rule of the stick also come to Goa?

2012-07-16 Thread SOTER
Gujarat students caned for complaining against mid-day meal delay Vadodara: As many as 47 students of a government primary school at Brahmanvasi village in Gujarat were allegedly beaten up by their woman teacher for raising voice against delay in getting mid-day meals, police said on Sunday.

Re: [Goanet] Konkani's first free audio novelette ... Khand by Willy Goes

2012-07-16 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Dear Seby, Thanks for your feedback and comments. For those who might not know, CIIL at Mysore is the Central Institute of Indian Languages [ http://www.ciil.org/] and Seby is one of Goa's young men doing useful work there in the field of Konkani. Seby, please share more on Konkani and CIIL via

Re: [Goanet] Konkani's first free audio novelette ... Khand by Willy Goes

2012-07-16 Thread jose fernandes
Manadik Seby-bab, ( It uses a vocabulary close to the spoken tongue that Romi-script users are familiar with) him utramni vachun tumi kiteak itle voir-sokol zale? hantum voir-sokol zavpachem kaim nam. Ami jednam there is no difference between the various communities of Konkani oxem mhonntanv

[Goanet] Up north

2012-07-16 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - A post by my friend Thomas Pindelski - http://pindelski.org/Photography/2012/07/14/up-north/ r

[Goanet] Beaten stripped and burned with cigarettes...could this be coming to Goa soon?

2012-07-16 Thread Gabe Menezes
Beaten, stripped and burned with cigarettes for 45 minutes: Horrific video of attack on young woman by mob of TWENTY sparks outrage after it was posted on YouTube - Incident captured on video by passing journalist and film has caused outrage - Attack shows mob of at least 20 men pouncing

Re: [Goanet] the Loud Silencio of the Chaddiwallas in the brutal Mass Molestation of the young Assamese girl

2012-07-16 Thread J. Colaco jc
I note that the Women's NGO in Goa (Baillancho Saad) has rightly condemned the senseless and brutal assault by the so called Moral Police on the defenceless young Assamese girl. This - in addition to the Loud Silencio on the forcing of a young student to drink urine. What kind of madness is

Re: [Goanet] Indian campaign confronts prevalence of female foeticide | World news | guardian.co.uk

2012-07-16 Thread Nascy Caldeira
Aree Baba! With all this infant female foeticide gathering momentum; there will be no more females left to serve or to be 'made to serve' as Devdasis! OMG! What will the Brahmin males then do? Be Brahmachari? Societal Change for the Better or Worse?   Nascy Caldeira

[Goanet] Amitabh Bachchan meets Valanka Alemao

2012-07-16 Thread Mayabhushan
Reportage? WTF is this? http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/ENT-amitabh-bachchan-meets-valanka-alemao-3520739.html Advocate Valanka Alemao is nowadays in news for her philanthropic work. In a short span she has made immense contribution with her CSR activities, She has been a part of many social

[Goanet] Tisrio

2012-07-16 Thread JoeGoaUk
a clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KN_hAi7xKk

[Goanet] Bailancho Saad condemns molestation

2012-07-16 Thread Sabina Martins
15th July 2012 PRESS RELEASE Bailancho Saad strongly condemns the molestation of a minor girl by a mob outside a pub in Guwahati and lends its voice to the nationwide demand to arrest the culprits and give exemplary punishment The increasing trend across the country to attack women is a

[Goanet] Portuguese-ruled East Africa -- another view

2012-07-16 Thread Bernado Colaco
The text below kind of relates to what the mundas are upto in Goa since the invasion of 1961.   BC. Many Goans employed Africans as servants and most treated them well paying them at least the Minimum Wage (Kanuni ya sirikali). Other Indian communities almost always tried to circumvent the

Re: [Goanet] Portuguese-ruled East Africa -- another view

2012-07-16 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
The following is a summary of astory told to me ...   A young public prosecutor (procurador), newly-appointed to Guiné-Bissau after earning his degree in Lisbon, successfully prosecuted a white Portuguese man for having kicked a local man and broken his spine. The young prosecutor was later

[Goanet] Goan Catholic nun from Aldona made member of Rajasthan minorities panel

2012-07-16 Thread Cecil Pinto
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article3430795.ece Catholic nun made member of Rajasthan minorities panel In a first perhaps in the whole of North India, Rajasthan Government has nominated a Catholic nun as a member of the State's Minority Commission. Sister Mariola Sequeira, of

[Goanet] GOA SUDHAROP: Goan Youth convention - air ticket and visa

2012-07-16 Thread George Pinto
Hi everyone Many of you are planning on attending the “International Goan Youth Convention this year in Goa from Dec 26 – January 1. If your plans are not firm or you are not sure if your visa application to India will be approved (assuming you need one), then consider purchasing a fully

[Goanet] Mapusa, the failed city

2012-07-16 Thread Tony de Sa
** Mapusa is a failed city. Sad that the taluka town of Bardez which once had the best organized market in Goa has been allowed to become a shambles by the powers that be. More so when the present Chief Minister and his Deputy are both from Mapusa. The bus stand is in a terrible state. There is

Re: [Goanet] Portuguese-ruled East Africa -- another view

2012-07-16 Thread J. Colaco jc
manuel tavares duk...@bell.net wrote: [1] Venantius and Roland have given us fairly reasoned accounts of Goans in the Colonial era in Africa mainly East Africa (Both Portuguese and British). jc1: Dear Mr. Tavares, I thank you, Venantius and Roland for your contributions. It does help individuals

[Goanet] The poor showing by the LoO and the opposition

2012-07-16 Thread Tony de Sa
One of my favourite pastimes is to watch the live telecast of the Goa Legislative Assembly Sessions. On Thursday or Friday, Vijay Sardessai was arguing about the arbitrary interpretation of a Supreme Court order by a Deputy Collector. It seemed that a certain party in Fatorda had erected a cross

[Goanet] Damn The Portuguese

2012-07-16 Thread roland . francis
Very interesting to have noted JC asking Manuel Tavares in the context of the latter saying that the Portuguese were a dictatorial and cruel power under whom the Goans suffered, what would be the fate even today in Goa, part of a supposedly democratic country, if roles were reversed. Good

Re: [Goanet] Portuguese-ruled East Africa -- another view

2012-07-16 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Dear Manuel, I have not lived in Africa. My comments as usual came out based on experience, and the nature of our station among Goans in Mumbai. It was also looking at the labels, and signifiers which we assign to ourselves. I appreciate and agree with your assessment that Goans were respected in

Re: [Goanet] Portuguese-ruled East Africa -- another view

2012-07-16 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Folks, 1) I guess Goanet easily shows the generation gaps of its contributors.  2) I did not witness colonialism and my generation has no baggage from it. 3) As with all Goanet discussions, this E. Africa one has all the potential to dwell in pre-1961 and spin in the same spot. 4) When I was

[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (16Jul12)

2012-07-16 Thread alexyz fernandes
~ At an Art Exhibition ~ Black Gold ~ Black Money ~ Black Beauty The Exhibition is Titled 'Black'. It's Symbolic of Indian Money in Swiss Banks To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org

[Goanet] COLUMN: Responsible government should not support a bandh

2012-07-16 Thread Nisser Dias
Responsible government should not support a bandh By Nisser Dias nisserdias at gmail.com SMS to 9422437029 This week we seem to be reading the on-going tug-of-war between chief minister Manohar Parrikar and Union Home minister P. Chidambaram over appointments of IAS, IPS, IRS officers, in

Re: [Goanet] Portuguese-ruled East Africa -- another view

2012-07-16 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Dear JC, I have not lived in Africa as I believe those who have lived in East Africa would know. My comments as usual came out based on experience, and the nature of our station among Goans in Mumbai. My interest in things and people have to do with consciousness, religion and sexuality. It was

[Goanet] Goa news for July 17, 2012

2012-07-16 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** No illegal mines in Goa: CM - Times of India chemes-to-burden-goas-economy-congress/1023609.htmlPopulist schemes to burden Goa's economy: Congress

Re: [Goanet] Mapusa, the failed city - NOT

2012-07-16 Thread marlon menezes
Tony, As a Mapusacar, I find your post extremely upsetting.  The Mapusa Friday market is, if I can quote Cecil, world famous, all over Goa. I find it extremely humorous that you, a resident of Vasco would dare comment about Mapusa. Vasco is so quaint, it makes a remote village in Bihar look

[Goanet] Fish Curry Rice, Vindaloo, Fried Rice etc at Hotel Avanti

2012-07-16 Thread JoeGoaUk
Hotel Avanti – Restaurant Rua de Ourem, Panjim Goa (Near Old Patto Bridge) Until early 90’s, I was a regular here (not daily but say weekly) Looks like Avanti existed since 1973, so says the boad. This road was the only road for us (via Calapur, 4 pilars) as there was no Panjim-Bambolim bypass

[Goanet] Goa Table Tennis Association functioning illegally: Panjim Table Tennis Club

2012-07-16 Thread Sandeep Heble
Goa Table Tennis Association functioning illegally: Panjim Table Tennis Club The Panjim Table Tennis Club(PTTC) yesterday claimed that the Goa Table Tennis Association(GTTA) was collecting registration fees from players and clubs though it (the GTTA) ceased to be a recognised unit as it has been

Re: [Goanet] The poor showing by the LoO and the opposition

2012-07-16 Thread SOTER
Not having an effective opposition in Assembly is just a reflection of the absence of an effective opposition in Goa's civil society. When Goan luminaries and ideologues waiver depending on who is in power, should we be shocked by such stance adopted by cunning politicians? -soter

[Goanet] Portuguese-ruled East Africa -- another view

2012-07-16 Thread Bernado Colaco
In his unconceited post Sr. GF does not reveal the name of the chief judge who is none other than Justice Salvador Figueiredo. Intresting enough the judge also once challenged some upper echelons of the society for their wrong doings in the place he currently resides.   BC The following is a

[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (17Jul12)

2012-07-16 Thread alexyz fernandes
~ Baga Beach - No Smoking ~ I'm not smoking a Cigarette, just 'Grass' Sorry to have Disturbed you To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org