[Goanet] Roland Francis: Curse or Consequence? Stray Thoughts of a Toronto Goan

2013-07-15 Thread Eddie Fernandes
Source: Goan Voice UK 14 July 2013 at www.goanvoice.org.uk Curse or Consequence? Stray Thoughts of a Toronto Goan. By Roland Francis The patriarch of this Salcette family was a feared man even among his wife and children. Imposing in stature, well educated, influential in the administrative

[Goanet] AN UNDER THE WEATHER CHIEF MINISTER AND A PLUMMETING GOA

2013-07-15 Thread aura melisa
http://www.targetgoa.com/goabuzzdet.php?bzid=4949id=3   Check the link above. Birds of the same feather these! And all the Goans who voted Parrikar all the way to the crest of authority and pseudo intellects who vouched for him are in the same band wagon. John Collaco

Re: [Goanet] Subject: There were no Hindus in Goa before Portuguese

2013-07-15 Thread Edwin/Diana Pinto
It really baffles me why all of us spend so much time and energy debating what happened in the distant past, when this can never be 100% confirmed as the last word in accuracy. These issues only serve to polarise our society even further. What does it matter anyway unless there is some lesson

[Goanet] Goa news for July 15, 2013

2013-07-15 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Goa set to achieve 100 per cent Aadhar card registration - Economic Times onomic TimesPANAJI: Goa is all set to become the first state to cover all people under the Aadhar card registry,

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

2013-07-15 Thread Gabe Menezes
Billy Vaughn - Among My Souvenirs 1957 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJyxHAdH8ww -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

Re: [Goanet] Press Note from Goans for Dabolim Only

2013-07-15 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 14 July 2013 15:58, Edwin/Diana Pinto eddipi...@gmail.com wrote: GOANS FOR DABOLIM ONLY July 13, 2013 PRESS STATEMENT The facts in our possession, contradict the Chief Minister's claim that the Airports Authority of India (AAI) had failed to respond to the government's requests to

[Goanet] Aleixinho De Candolim - Video

2013-07-15 Thread JoeGoaUk
 Special program - Aleixinho De Candolim with son Rosario Fernandes, John Claro etc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdRbPYwI388 For pics etc http://joegoauk-konkani-tiatr-vcds-films.blogspot.in/2013/07/aleixinho-de-candolim-birth-centenary.html joego...@yahoo.co.uk

[Goanet] Constantino Crasto says education alone is not the answer

2013-07-15 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] [JudeSundayReflections] 16th Sunday of the Year

2013-07-15 Thread Jude Botelho
10-Jul-2013 Dear Friend, We often complain that we have no time for ourselves because we have so many things to do. Yet when we do have free time on our hands we fill that time with all kinds of activities. Somehow we cannot sit still doing nothing! Even in our relationships with others, we

Re: [Goanet] Subject: There were no Hindus in Goa before Portuguese

2013-07-15 Thread Eustaquio Santimano
I LIKE this (Thumbs-up) !!! On 15 July 2013 11:16, Edwin/Diana Pinto eddipi...@gmail.com wrote: It really baffles me why all of us spend so much time and energy debating what happened in the distant past, when this can never be 100% confirmed as the last word in accuracy. These issues only

Re: [Goanet] There were no Hindus in Goa before Portuguese landed: Church thinker

2013-07-15 Thread augusto pinto
Dear Santosh, I notice that you have abandoned your usual knee jerk reaction of asking for evidence when confronted with something you are uncomfortable with. Instead, you choose to question the motives of Rev. Dr. Victor Ferrao. I think that recent scholarship of history proves that the

Re: [Goanet] There were no Hindus in Goa before Portuguese landed: Church thinker

2013-07-15 Thread augusto pinto
Mervyn Lobo wrote in response to Mayabhushan: Mayabhushan wrote: Fr. Victor Ferrao, a dean at the state?s most renowned Rachol Roman Catholic seminary, which trains and grooms budding priests has also said in his research paper that the scores of temples demolished by the Portuguese

Re: [Goanet] There were no Hindus in Goa before Portuguese landed: Church thinker

2013-07-15 Thread Tim de Mello
I’ve always been non-reader in history and still am . . . Then I suggest that you start reading, Doctor! Tim de Mello From: drferdina...@hotmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:15:19 +0530 Subject: [Goanet] There were no Hindus

Re: [Goanet] There were no Hindus in Goa before Portuguese landed: Church thinker

2013-07-15 Thread Santosh Helekar
Dear Augusto, As usual, you have missed the point. It is clear from my post that I am not sure what Fr. Rev. Dr. Prof. Ferrao's motives are. He makes one of his motives clear in his statements, but not the other. It would be obvious to most people other than you why I did not ask him to

[Goanet] Why are Middle East airlines flocking to India?

2013-07-15 Thread U. G. Barad
The manner in which Abu Dhabi seems to be getting away with a sharp increase in seat sharing arrangement has got other countries in the Middle East interested. Despite an outcry on the way Abu Dhabi managed to increase its seat sharing arrangement with India using Etihad’s investment in Jet

[Goanet] Bofors not the only controversy Quattrocchi courted

2013-07-15 Thread U. G. Barad
To know how powerful or influential was Ottavio Quattrocchi, who died in Milan last Friday? Click the web-link provided herein below: http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/bofors-not-the-only -controversy-quattrocchi-courted-113071500015_1.html

Re: [Goanet] There were no Hindus before the arrival of Portuguese

2013-07-15 Thread Eugene Correia
As for Fr. Ferrao's new thesis, I am not sure if it needs approbiation or needs to be seen as some have opined as an exercise in historical revision. It could also be said an exercise in dialectical reasoning or didacticism. Rock carvings and idols of worships said to belong to pre-historic times

[Goanet] Writing about tiatrs in Bombay

2013-07-15 Thread Joanna Lobo
Hello I am journalist working with a newspaper called DNA in Bombay. I wanted to pursue a story on tiatrs (it's amazing that most people in Bombay don't know what they are) in the city, and was wondering if anyone could help me with contacts. Am looking to speak to people who attend tiatrs

[Goanet] Latest on goanspirit.com

2013-07-15 Thread Lionel Messias
-- NEW *Runaway failures: a tale of failed airport projects -7* *July 15-21, 2013* *Federa airport grounded?* *Confusing aviation policy* …..In January 2010 the Airports Authority of India (AAI) did a feasibility study of the proposed airport, 130 km from Ahmedabad, after meeting top

Re: [Goanet] There were no Hindus in Goa before Portuguese landed

2013-07-15 Thread Eugene Correia
I was about to make a request to Mayabhusan to post the research paper, and I must thnak Fred for doing so. It would help in getting the 'whole story'. Eugene

[Goanet] EVEN A TANKER OF DETHOL WILL NOT SANITIZE THE ADVOCATE GENERAL’S OFFICE

2013-07-15 Thread Aires Rodrigues
Over the last decade and a half, the office of the high constitutional post of Advocate General in Goa has lowered and sunk in stature. It has gone from bad to worse. It cannot get any shoddier. It is ironical that before filing a petition against the government the litigant would be better off

Re: [Goanet] Latest on goanspirit.com

2013-07-15 Thread J. Colaco jc
Just a quick note, Lionel for your delightful site. Am enjoying it best jc On 15 July 2013 07:31, Lionel Messias lionroars@gmail.com wrote: -- NEW *Runaway failures: a tale of failed airport projects -7* *July 15-21, 2013* *Federa airport grounded?* *Confusing aviation

[Goanet] There were no Hindus in Goa before Portuguese landed: Church thinker

2013-07-15 Thread U. G. Barad
Dr. Ferdinando, first, please read about 'Hindu and Hinduism' before venturing in posing historical questions and that too when you admit that you are 'nonreader in history'! Secondly, you must make up your mind as to whether you profess church thinker(s) philosophy or that of self-acclaimed,

Re: [Goanet] Sooner Parrikar goes, the better for Goa - COMMENTS

2013-07-15 Thread floriano lobo
Re: Sooner Parrikar goes, the better for Goa - COMMENTS http://www.goasu-raj.org/gen/news/3117.asp PPS: PEOPLE FOR POLITICAL SANITY PS: If the people refuse to become politically 'SANE', politics will remain dirty + more.

Re: [Goanet] There were no Hindus in Goa before Portuguese

2013-07-15 Thread Edwin/Diana Pinto
Thank you Eustaquio Santimano Diana

Re: [Goanet] Roland Francis: Curse or Consequence? Stray Thoughts of a Toronto Goan

2013-07-15 Thread Tim de Mello
Roland: An interesting piece. Enjoyed reading it. Why did you find it necessary to refer to the Old Testament of the Bible for guidance? It is one of the most contradictory books written. Only the Church's interpretation is supposed to be used. I tend to feel that as you say . . Goan history

[Goanet] Fr.Victor Ferrao's There were no Hindus in Goa before Portuguese landed I have been following the debate and an article on the same by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati may help throw light on the

2013-07-15 Thread radharao gracias
*Yoga and** the Words Hindu and Hinduism** by Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati *SwamiJ.com http://www.swamij.com/index.htm* * http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.swamij.com/hindu-word.htm Index of sections below: Yoga, Hinduism and Physical Fitnesshttp://www.swamij.com/hindu-word.htm#yoga

[Goanet] There were no Hindus in Goa before Portuguese

2013-07-15 Thread U. G. Barad
I agree to the first part of your message. In fact, this message/advise should have come from church thinkers! Instead they are up to something unwanted, unwarranted, unfounded, nonrealistic zealotry! Diana, you say '...We are framing our doctors' pictures and prescriptions on the wall, but are

[Goanet] Scapular

2013-07-15 Thread Nelson Lopes
On July 16, 1251, in the town of Aylesford, as he was praying to Mary, Our Lady appeared with the scapular in hand, and told him: Take, beloved son, this scapular of thy order as a badge of my confraternity and for thee and all Carmelites a special sign of grace; whoever dies in this garment will

Re: [Goanet] There were no Hindus in Goa.......

2013-07-15 Thread Eugene Correia
Radharao's longish post, which I glanced over, mentions Dr. S. Radhakrishnan whose book, the Hindu View of Life, is a must reading. Though there are other books on Hinduism, including many published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, founded by Dr. KM Munshi, Dr. Radhakrishnan's book gives a broad

[Goanet] Xit-Koddi - e-Newsletter of Bahrain Goans - July 2013

2013-07-15 Thread Bahrain Goans
Former Tourism Minister of Goa Francisco Mickey Pacheco and Agnelo Fernandes Ex-MLA of Congress Party are both past residents of Bahrain. This time around, is possibly the closest we will ever get to chasing the dream of a former Goan resident of Bahrain becoming first lady of a nation. Marissa

Re: [Goanet] There were no Hindus in Goa before Portuguese landed

2013-07-15 Thread George Pinto
As almost everyone knows the word HINDU is originally derived from letters in the phrase Delirious Portuguese Goan  Catholics.  Since we have wanna-be MENSA candidates in cyber-Goa, I do not have to highlight the letters, besides plain text email has its limitations. Second-class Goan Catholics

[Goanet] Goa news for July 16, 2013

2013-07-15 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** AP youngster drowns after falling from Goa casino ship - Oneindia 8Ptz7kKbR15C5YOTNQ