[Goanet] Happy Birthday Namdev - Goa's best cricketer turns 60

Another good player in my opinion was Colin Rodrigues, not to sure if he played in the Ranji.The standard of cricket was very poor than in comparison to other states. until they brought in some bailhe to prop up the game in Goa. BC My friend Parag Hede put up an interesting piece of trivia on

Re: [Goanet] The Culture Of Death and The Price Of Scandal

Roland & all, The Pope has at last acknowledged the scale of CHILD SEX abuse by the clergy. The 'Holy' Church tried to cover it up for decades. And don't forget the massive abuse of NATIVE CHILDREN (forcibly taken by white clerics & other officials from their parents into boarding schools)

[Goanet] Catholics consider withholding donations amid scandals

Church-going Catholics in North America are now fatigued with hearing constant and never-ending stories of abuses followed by cover-ups by Church officials and are reflecting their disgust with stopping their regular donations and in worse cases stopping their regular church attendance leading

[Goanet] WE NEED TO WAGE A WAR TO ROOT OUT CORRUPTION IN GOA

The prevailing very rampant corruption is Goa’s biggest obstacle to its overall development and prosperity. In the crusade against corruption the first priority has to be to eradicate political corruption amongst the Ministers, MPs, MLAs and the Sarpanches. Today we tend to nab the small fry in

[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day.....I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door/Eddie Hodges

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRIhld4O68c=TLGGlMIBTEBpdTUyMDA4MjAxOA G -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] For the First Time, Modi’s Popularity Rating Slips Below 50%

https://www.thequint.com/news/politics/india-today-mood-of-nation-poll-narendra-modi-declining-popularity

[Goanet] BJP Falling Short of Majority, If Elections Held Today: Survey

https://www.thequint.com/amp/story/news%2Findia%2Findia-todays-mood-of-the-nation-poll-upa-rahul-gandhi-modi

[Goanet] Redevelopment of St Inez cemetery is election gimnicks?

Guirishbab My impression on so called renovation of these cemeteries ( Christians, Hindus, Muslims kabrastans) by spending 6.1 crores by BJP are stunt to gain publicity for the election purpose. Catholics have boycotted the redoing work for touching upon niches and graves as they are of

[Goanet] Goan achievers: Coelho siblings raise Goenkar flag at the Asian Games in Indonesia

“I have an earnest desire to leave something in this world and a profound desire to rub it in the face of anyone who doubted me,” says Indian sailing team member at the ongoing Asian Games Dayne Coelho in a facebook post with a picture of his draped in the Indian tri-colour after winning a

[Goanet] The Culture Of Death and The Price Of Scandal

From the CBC National; It is an unprecedented letter in the face of an unprecedented scandal. Pope Francis has written to all of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics to condemn sex abuse by priests and ask for the faithful's help in "uprooting this culture of death." The letter was spurred by

[Goanet] Happy Birthday Namdev - Goa's best cricketer turns 60

My friend Parag Hede put up an interesting piece of trivia on his Facebook wall, that Namdev Fadte, Goa's former ace cricketer had turned 60. Revived a few nostalgic memories of one of my childhood heroes. I remember those years when Goa had just made its debut in the Ranji trophy and Namdev was

[Goanet] The Buck Stops Nowhere

Is there no gateway in India where it says “Corruption Stops Here”. God in heaven, do they want to make money even out of drug victims? Punjab’s Drug Crisis: The investigation into Punjab’s government officials revealed corruption in the licensing process of Private Rehab Centres

[Goanet] Vajpayee Shares Modi’s RSS DNA – Let’s Not Whitewash His Failures

KUMAR KETKAR UPDATED: 03H 12M AGO They all have the same DNA. Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Subramanian Swamy. Lal Krishna Advani and Narendra Modi. Now forgotten, but founder of the Jan Sangh, Balraj Madhok and Nanaji Deshmukh. Now sidelined, but

[Goanet] Short story writing - Chowgule college

Dear all,  If anyone has been thinking about taking a fiction writing course, I'm running this 5-week short story writing course in collaboration with Chowgule College starting Friday 31st August- mostly online but requires 5 Friday afternoon sessions in class too.  It's open to students as

[Goanet] India's rape culture: 2 minors call for help, 11 men turn up and rape them in turn

India rape culture is thriving. Consider this incident on 16th August in Jharkhand (a state in central India). Two underage girls were travelling on a motorbike with an adult neighbour. The bike broke down near a bridge and one of the girls phoned a friend for help. Instead 11 men turned up, beat

[Goanet] Robot waiters will serve you food at this restaurant in Coimbatore.

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[Goanet] Easy listening selection....Let me go, let me go lover...Patti Page.

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[Goanet] Want to win the war on drugs? Portugal might have the answer.

[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day....Bobby Vinton - Halfway to Paradise (1968)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C79KOHkNLIg G -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Re- Development of St Inez Cemetery

Panjim has lost a great opportunity in redevelopment of our CEMETRY . Tender has already been floated for Hindu n Muslim ours is a crab mentality says Ex Mayor Surendra Furtado [20/08, 09:07] Stephen (E. Dias) replies him: Not yet fully lost but a committee formed by parishioners will organize

[Goanet] Pity the City: Another Nail in Panjim's Coffin (Times of India, 20/8/2018)

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/another-nail-in-state-capitals-coffin/articleshow/65465019.cms Some black humour derives from Panjim’s ranking of 90th out of 111 cities across the country in the Ease of Living index released last week by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs