[Goanet] Tracing Pandora’s Finger of Scorn (Dhaka Tribune, 8/10/2021)

2021-10-07 Thread V M
https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2021/10/08/op-ed-tracing-pandora-s-finger-of-scorn More than 2000 years ago, the first authorial poet of the western world, Hesiod wrote about the even more ancient myth of Pandora. Driven by curiosity, this first-ever woman, the mother of all humanity,

[Goanet] Abdulrazak Gurnah z Nobelist from Zanzibar

2021-10-07 Thread Mel de Quadros
For those of you who are interested in this distinguished Zanzibari, and whom some of you may have known, here is a rather good old review of his wonderful novels: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2006/04/27/zanzibar-love-and-exile/ Antonio

[Goanet] BESIDES BOUQUETS POLITICIANS SHOULD BE READY FOR BRICKBATS TOO

2021-10-07 Thread Aires Rodrigues
Regardless of which political party is in Power, we should commend the good things done by the government but never ever hesitate to severely rap them for their acts of omission and commission. There should be no room for political sycophancy as we need to fearlessly and bluntly point out and

Re: [Goanet] Toronto Notes - spring & fall seasons

2021-10-07 Thread Ivan Pereira
Roland, a bit early, leaves not falling yet, but I always enjoyed introducing this poem to my students re. Fall! Gerard Manley Hopkins is a British Jesuit poet, mid-1850s.  https://youtu.be/BrqZMuTiqi4 If u check below the poem, u will see a couple of detailed analyses of the poem, the

[Goanet] Whispering Hope Roland Francis

2021-10-07 Thread Linken Fernandes
Hi Roland. Was away in Bombay for a couple of days and missed your reference to Whispering Hope. This was a song in boarding in Parel that, perhaps, only one boy in the whole school knew, Sebastian Pinto, and he was called on to deliver it, tonelessly as ever, whenever there was scope to squeeze a

[Goanet] Depois (Later)

2021-10-07 Thread Roland Francis
Pretty Marisa Monte is one of Brazil’s celebrated chanteuses. She sings of a break up that must take place because the good times in the relationship have soured and both involved must be liberated to move on with their lives. Depois https://youtu.be/vJWkWyJPFew Roland. Toronto.

[Goanet] Batuka

2021-10-07 Thread Roland Francis
Spiritual, sensitive, ancestral and magical, Madonna has curated this music of beating drums and swaying hips from the cultural traditions of Cabo Verde to take it mainstream. She gyrates and blends with the dance movements of the ‘batukeiras’ whose instruments the Catholic Church once

[Goanet] Toronto Notes

2021-10-07 Thread Roland Francis
Autumn or Fall is upon us and with temperatures a little above normal for this time of year, we are still having end-of-summer excellent weather. Winter is forecasted to be more severe than recent years but that’s not saying much because recent winters were nothing like normal winters at all.

[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Víti Crater at Krafla

2021-10-07 Thread Rajan Parrikar
Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Víti Crater at Krafla' Volcanoscape. The water in the crater at Krafla assumes a variety of cyan hues from teal to turquoise depending on the season and conditions. The first image below was taken last year in the middle of the Covid pandemic

[Goanet] Subject: Shortage of workers

2021-10-07 Thread Mervyn Maciel
While our government won't admit it, the shortage of workers here in Britain is the direct result of Brexit. Following Brexit many of the European 'foreign' workers left Britain to return to their own countries. Now, with the shortage of these very workers, especially in the agricultural field

[Goanet] Schedule for Friday 8th October 2021

2021-10-07 Thread CCR TV
CCR TV GOA Channel of God's love✝ You can also watch CCR TV live on your smartphone via the CCR TV App Available on Google PlayStore for Android Platform. Click the link below. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccr.tv4 Email ID: ccrgoame...@gmail.com Schedule for Friday 8th

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 16, Issue 541

2021-10-07 Thread Bernado Colaco
Habari  yako Datuk Makongo Juu, you traded the impeccable caju for the rain drops, what a traitor. I guess the pothole filled bharat made roads in Goa must have done damage to the humble prostate. BC 04:50:58 + (UTC) it could be a spam  or somebody posing as OLE the Mexican  replete with

[Goanet-News] OCT 7/8: Webinar on Goan migration -- Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes, Menin Rodrigues, Roland D'Souza

2021-10-07 Thread Frederick Noronha
St Xavier's College, Mapusa Goa is hosting a two-day webinar, titled Window to the World: Understanding Goa's Out-Migration. A Historical, Sociological and Philosophical Perspective. Organised by its Departments of History, Philosophy and Sociology on October 7 and 8, 2021. Day 1 (OCT 7) :: 1730

[Goanet-News] Superman Modi

2021-10-07 Thread Frederick Noronha
https://youtu.be/37kMf0VeQuI [Check out who's the person making this presentation.] ᐧ *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Join a discussion on Goa-related issues by posting your comments on this or other issues via email to goa...@goanet.org See archives at

[Goanet] OCT 7/8: Webinar on Goan migration -- Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes, Menin Rodrigues, Roland D'Souza

2021-10-07 Thread Frederick Noronha
St Xavier's College, Mapusa Goa is hosting a two-day webinar, titled Window to the World: Understanding Goa's Out-Migration. A Historical, Sociological and Philosophical Perspective. Organised by its Departments of History, Philosophy and Sociology on October 7 and 8, 2021. Day 1 (OCT 7) :: 1730

[Goanet] PANAJI’S TWIN WHITE ELEPHANTS

2021-10-07 Thread Aires Rodrigues
Panaji’s first multi-level car park at the entrance of the city which was inaugurated amidst much fanfare in November 2016 and has been hardly utilized even during the peak tourist season is a glaring example of slanted planning of so called developmental works. We were told two years ago that