[Goanet] AN INDISCIPLINED CHIEF SECRETARY

2013-06-01 Thread Aires Rodrigues
Discipline is vital to the success of any administration but Chief Secretary Mr. B. Vijayan who is heading the bureaucracy in Goa is not leading by example. Mr. Vijayan who came to Goa in Nov 2010 completed his two year tenure way back but has just refused to move out of Goa despite his transfer

[Goanet] Alexander's Ragtime Band - Dixieland Crackerjacks - YouTube

2013-06-01 Thread Con Menezes
Your weekend musical entertainment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvXQ6MBh_2s

[Goanet] Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, three other Indians on Forbes’ philanthropy list - Mumbai Mirror

2013-06-01 Thread Con Menezes
http://www.mumbaimirror.com/news/india/Kiran-Mazumdar-Shaw-three-other-Indians-on-Forbes-philanthropy-list/articleshow/20358088.cms

[Goanet] Mumbai's Dharavi slum industries thrive - Channel NewsAsia

2013-06-01 Thread Con Menezes
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/mumbai-s-dharavi-slum-industries-thrive/684002.html

[Goanet] Kuwait Tiatristanchem Bhirem Toair zalea dakhounk |Tiatristanchi Moladik Kala 2

2013-06-01 Thread Goa World
www.goa-world. comGULF-GOANS e-NEWSLETTER (since 1994) http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/gulf-goans/ http://www.colaco.net/ http://www.live365.com/index.live Tumcam Maie-mogacho ieukar. Stay tuned to Gulf Goans e-Newsletter - everyday someone, somewhere learns a

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

2013-06-01 Thread Gabe Menezes
Xavier Cugat - Always In My Heart my Mom's fav. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOt_c-J_BdQ -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Kishwar Desai on Lancelot Ribeiro

2013-06-01 Thread Eugene Correia
Eugene Correiahttps://www.facebook.com/eugene.correia.3?hc_location=stream Given below is the last two paras of a column by Kishwar Desai, author of Sea of Innocence, based on the Scarlett murder case in Goa, in an Indian newspaper today. She touches on Lancelot Rebeiro's work. Lancelot was

[Goanet] Son'varachim Sungttam: Sorkar ani Porza

2013-06-01 Thread Goa World
 SON’VARACHIM SUNGTTAM: SORKAR ANI PORZA - Jose Salvador Fernandes Gõy Vidhan Sobhechi fattli vinchnnuk 2012 vorsa zali. Motdaramni, Kongres Pokxa kodde Gõy rajya khatir vavrunk ani raj cholounk favo te tankiche ani kopxieche monis nam te polleun, tea pokxak panch vorsancho visov dilo.

Re: [Goanet] Tradition of Mhar or Zudev celebration on 23rd June every year

2013-06-01 Thread radharao gracias
Kill the Jew is part of the historical anti Jewish tirade of Christianity. The practice was observed in Goa on 23rd of June, i.e. on the eve of the Feast of St.John the Baptist. The date is significant and relates to the imprisonment and beheading of St.John the Baptist by King Herod of the Jews.

Re: [Goanet] Coconut

2013-06-01 Thread joe lobo
Hey Mervyn, Your description of Barbados sounds like a mixture of old Zanzibar, Goa and heaven.my question :--is it an expensive tourist trap like any of the other Carribean islands or is it affordable to a middle class person like

[Goanet] Some Panjim City news in Pics

2013-06-01 Thread JoeGoaUk
  This time of the year, waves are behaving badly http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/8865932188/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/8865927706/in/photostream/ We will not stay off the shore, not even a day during the fishing ban period Says the fishing canoe owners

[Goanet] Of trees, plants, fruits..

2013-06-01 Thread JoeGoaUk
  Who cut this city tree? http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/8904060943/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/8891122138/in/photostream Figs, anjir, Rumddam http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk73/8891106258/in/photostream/

[Goanet] Educational complex at Navelim

2013-06-01 Thread Nelson Lopes
Birth of Higher secondary school at Navelim The little known genesis of Higher Secondary school at Navelim has to be said . A ;private party had applied for opening of Higher secondary school at Navelim The party had no administrative expertise , educational background or infrastructural

Re: [Goanet] [GOAN-NRI] Tradition of Mhar or Zudev celebration on 23rd June every year

2013-06-01 Thread lino dourado
Hey Joe, Amge mhar Dabolincho Tumge mhar Mopacho Ku re ku   Atta-kitti zata Petti chavi katta Amkam kitem potta Ku ku ku

[Goanet] Was there any tea plantation in Goa during colonial times?

2013-06-01 Thread eric pinto
- Forwarded Message - From: alan machado    Tea needs an elevated and cool region and so is grown in some places on the inland slopes of the western ghats- Kelagur and a few other estates- very limited unlike coffee. Goa does not have this climate though I read some where of

Re: [Goanet] Unrest Eternally !

2013-06-01 Thread joe lobo
Venantius, I have often seemed puzzled in my mind as to how cremation of an entire body with the solid wooden casket only amounts to a small canister (urn) of ashes. I phoned a couple of funeral parlours in my area who directed me to

[Goanet] How will this affect Goa?

2013-06-01 Thread J. Colaco jc
One notices the tangential but very shifty machinations of the political hacks and hacktivists Some who were very active when the BJP was in minority in Goa and CCP, had numerous political posts which suddenly stopped and converted to sports when BJP majority was obtained in both. Now that the

[Goanet] Ghee – A Little Known Superfood | The Holistic Truth

2013-06-01 Thread Con Menezes
http://theholistictruth.com/high-vitamin-butter-oil-a-little-known-superfood/

[Goanet] SUNDAY SPECIAL: Konkani music... from two other continents

2013-06-01 Thread Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
I DON'T QUITE recall when this reached me, but the date on the cassette cover says 18.11.[20]10. That must have been the time when Mervyn Maciel spoke at the Goa Book Club in Panjim. After lying around on my paper-cluttered desk for a long while, Ricky gave a clue when he mentioned that the

Re: [Goanet] Coconut

2013-06-01 Thread Jose Colaco
On May 30, 2013, at 6:29 PM, joe lobo jl...@rogers.com wrote: :--is it an expensive tourist trap like any of the other Carribean islands or is it affordable to a middle class person like myself? For one thing it is closer than the rather long 20 hour air

Re: [Goanet] Unrest Eternally !

2013-06-01 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Dear Joe, Its jadugiri at least in the West. Things vanish, and are tied to the kind of service one pays for. There are more ashes than the bhik they give back to family. The UTakers will dodge this question. But nothing should stop them from saying that since the urns are normally small that is

Re: [Goanet] Tradition of Mhar or Zudev celebration on 23rd June every year

2013-06-01 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Dear Radharao, Very interesting. Would you know whether or not this ritual was brought on from the time of the Inquisition. Or originated perhaps by an over zealous prelate/ a zealot. Is Judeo/v also also employed to disambiguate (at least in the past) to suggest something else. : ) And yet Goan

Re: [Goanet] Tradition of Mhar or Zudev celebration on 23rd June every year

2013-06-01 Thread Eddie Fernandes
From: radharao gracias Kill the Jew is part of the historical anti Jewish tirade of Christianity. The practice was observed in Goa on 23rd of June, i.e. on the eve of the Feast of St. John the Baptist. Response: Headline: India cancels 'antisemitic' festival Source: The Jerusalem Post. 12 July

Re: [Goanet] Tradition of Mhar or Zudev celebration on 23rd June every year

2013-06-01 Thread lino dourado
Amgem mhar Dabolecho Tumgem mhar Mopacho Ku re ku From: radharao gracias graciasradha...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Saturday, June 1, 2013 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Tradition of Mhar or Zudev

Re: [Goanet] Tradition of Mhar or Zudev celebration on 23rd June every year

2013-06-01 Thread Venantius J Pinto
The strong possibility to consider is that fallen apostle Judas Iscariot (Jud), who was a Jew (Judeo Dhormacho). Jude, Judah, Judas all come from the same root). Now if Mar Judeo came before the Inquisition in Goa (1560/61-1774) then in all probability the ritual Mar Judev(o) got compounded with

[Goanet] Goa news for June 2, 2013

2013-06-01 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** 120 jail inmates suffer food poisoning in Goa - Times of India Probe-ordered-into-Goa-prison-food-poisoning-.htmlProbe ordered into Goa prison food poisoning

Re: [Goanet] Coconut

2013-06-01 Thread Mervyn Lobo
joe lobo wrote: Your  description  of  Barbados  sounds  like  a  mixture  of  old  Zanzibar, Goa  and heaven.my  question  :--is  it an  expensive  tourist  trap  like  any  of  the  other  Carribean  islands or  is  it  affordable to  a middle  class  person  like 

[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: Priest, Author, Scholar, Scold (obituary, Andrew M Greeley, 85) (NYT)

2013-06-01 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Andrew M. Greeley, 1928-2013 Priest, Author, Scholar, Scold By PETER STEINFELS Andrew M. Greeley, the Roman Catholic priest and writer whose outpouring of sociological research, contemporary theology, sexually frank novels and newspaper columns challenged reigning assumptions about American