Re: [Goanet] The breaking up of India, by China

2012-05-23 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
I wonder how well India is prepared to defend its borders, given all the scandals relating to things military. China already appears to have something akin to stealth fighters - might be old technology, as this article says - http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/thinking-tech/chinas-stealth-fighter-g

Re: [Goanet] Goan weddings and sound restrictions!

2012-05-23 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Only if we have "Johnson and his Jolly Boys" instead of the loud cacophony that calls itself "music" ...  :-) > >From: "anesim...@aim.com" >To: goa...@goanet.org >Sent: Saturday, 12 May 2012 5:39 AM >Subject: [Goanet] Goan weddings and sound restrictions! > >De

Re: [Goanet] DEATH: Prof Noel Flores, Austria, who made history abroad in the field of music....

2012-05-23 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Hi Alfred,   Thank you for that little piece of information. I know that our ancestors came from someplace near Sancoale. But I heard that they had to run away as an ancestor had the audacity to ride his horse through a Catholic procession - how far this is true, I have no idea, but a plague see

Re: [Goanet] DEATH: Prof Noel Flores, Austria, who made history abroad in the field of music....

2012-05-23 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
A search of the 'net shows:   Obituary: Noel do Carmo Flores (1935-2012) « Luis Dias luisdias.wordpress.com/.../obituary-noel-do-carmo-flores-1935-2012... 10 hours ago –   Goan-origin pianist-pedagogue Noel do Carmo Flores, whose masterclasses attracted piano students from all over the world, di

Re: [Goanet] DEATH: Prof Noel Flores, Austria, who made history abroad in the field of music....

2012-05-22 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Hi Joel,   I am sorry I don't have all the information you require.  I know that the family used to stay near Don Bosco's school in Panjim, but now I have no idea as that area has changed a lot since my time.   Cheers,   Gabriel. > >From: "joe...@gmail.com" >To

Re: [Goanet] Stray Thoughts and Distant Memories

2012-05-22 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
After reading about Aksai Chin, Nehru behaved the same way with Chou en Lai as Salazar behaved with Nehru: refused a compromise. China then not only invaded the disputed area of Kashmir, but also areas of Assam. However, China then returned the areas of Assam to India on its own terms (apparentl

Re: [Goanet] DEATH: Prof Noel Flores, Austria, who made history abroad in the field of music....

2012-05-22 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Another great Goan pianist has left us. His rendition of Manuel de Falla's Fire Dance at the Academia de Musica, in Fontainhas, way back in early 70s when he visited Goa, left me with my mouth open in amazement. That was the occasion when the Academia held a gathering of all students to honour

Re: [Goanet] Coconut Oil

2012-05-09 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
I sometimes do wonder if the ACE inhibitors, statins and aspirins routinely prescribed to people over a certain age, do more harm than good  Are we following the trend of the once-fashionable practice of being administered penicillin for a simple cold? > >F

Re: [Goanet] JAMMU & KASHMIR

2012-05-08 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
... and a quarter is taken over by China since 1962, i.e. 50 years   NOTE: The area taken over by China is over 10 times bigger than Goa. Go figure!   > >From: PAES >To: Goa Net ; GoaNet >Sent: Tuesday, 8 May 2012 2:57 PM >Subject: [Goanet] JAMMU & KASHMIR > >  >

Re: [Goanet] Only 27% of Agricultural Land in the UK is used for crops

2012-05-08 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
And the rest is grassland, part of which is fallow, then there is woodland for fruit trees and then there is grazing land for cattle and sheep, etc All this is part of agriculture. (AFAIK, it is good practice to allow a portion of the agricultural land to lie fallow for a year, to allow fo

Re: [Goanet] We worship the crucified Lord...

2012-05-07 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Hi folks, This discussion about CSF and the issues pertaining to the “weeping cross” seems a bit tired. But nevertheless, I would like to put my tuppence 'orth. CSF claims to be “secular”. But what is secular? Non-religious?  Non-denominational?  Not belonging to the Church, but to the laity? S

Re: [Goanet] Some pictures: plum cake

2012-05-07 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Is that Jila Bakery the one in Ambora? > >From: Edgar Silveira >To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" >Sent: Monday, 7 May 2012 8:53 PM >Subject: [Goanet] Some pictures: plum cake > >Rich plum cake, Jila bakery (rich, mix of bitter and sweet, >crumbly.

Re: [Goanet] Hitting the RESET button

2012-05-07 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Hi Merwyn,   Precisely what I was talking about :-)   Why manual labour? Why not progress to mechanised methods? Nowadays there are right tools for the job to make work easier. That (mechanisation) can be brought about by education. There is little need to climb trees, nowadays, to prune them -

Re: [Goanet] Hitting the RESET button

2012-05-06 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
I wonder where the food will come from. IT might give jobs and money.  You cannot eat money. Someone will have to provide the materials that put food on the table.  It is high time that the "traditional occupations of the people" are brought up to date and given due respect that they deserve.   

Re: [Goanet] NoMoZo(Non Motorized Zone) at Aamchi Panaji

2012-05-04 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
I'd have welcomed a No Mozquito Zone anytime :-) . But why use a Marathi word? Why not Aamchi Ponje? > > From: Tallulah D'Silva >To: Tallulah D'Silva >Sent: Friday, 4 May 2012 6:23 AM >Subject: [Goanet] NoMoZo(Non Motorized Zone) at Aamchi Panaji > >Dear Fri

Re: [Goanet] HITLER's FREEDOM for INDIA

2012-05-04 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Dear Jorge,   I am not even sure if you know what you are talking about.   Re birth control & population control via artificial means, there is as very good reason why the Church is against it, just as in abortion and euthanisa. Please read more about it when you have the time. I have understood

Re: [Goanet] Who said: "a second airport at Mopa will open in 2014 ..."

2012-05-04 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
That will finally be the end of Goa as we knew it. More influx of non-Goans to service these "facilities" ... > > From: Eddie Fernandes >To: goa...@goanet.org >Sent: Friday, 4 May 2012 8:40 PM >Subject: [Goanet] Who said: "a second airport at Mopa will open in 2

Re: [Goanet] Time to include Goa in our National Anthem JANA GANA MANA - Pañjāba Sindhu GOA Gujarā

2012-04-22 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
I do not agree, unless they revamp the whole national anthem. States have been reorganised, and if I am not mistaken, the Sindhu as well as parts of Punjab referred to in the anthem, now belong to Pakistan. Precisely going back to the point that Goa was never Indian in the sense it never belon

Re: [Goanet] Scooterist crushed to death at Bicholim

2012-04-21 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
To me, it appears that the scooterist was at fault. Why should the driver of the pickup be arrested?

Re: [Goanet] Are We Better Than Animals ?

2012-04-18 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
I wonder if the people who only want a "boy" child ever think who that boy will get married to, to carry on the "genes"? It appears that there is a serious imbalance here. Should this form of thinking continue and consequent infanticide of females, there will come a time when polyandry will be t

Re: [Goanet] Goans not allowed on casinos?

2012-03-29 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Hmmm I wonder how will they differentiate between a Goan and a non-Goan ... > >From: Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا > >To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" >Sent: Friday, 30 March 2012 5:24 AM >Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goan

Re: [Goanet] Global Warming Presents Historic Disaster Risk, Report Says

2012-03-29 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
We've had these types of storms before, global warming or no global warming. Climate is variable, and always has been so, and will always be.    What have made "climate change" affect people's thinking are:   1. there is a greater population now than there ever was   2. Communications are greater

Re: [Goanet] THE ESSENCE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE

2012-03-28 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
In India, do they differentiate between capital works and maintenance works? All I see is "build it" and "forget it". --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Re

Re: [Goanet] Goa budget

2012-03-27 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Correct me if I err ... Erasmo Sequeira was the son of Jack de Sequeira. He was an MP for Goa at one time, and also sported a beard, a shorter one gthan the father. --- Protect Goa's natural beauty

Re: [Goanet] Matanhy - some more memories

2012-03-27 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Yes I remember that programme. Some "learned" person on that documentary kept referring to present-day Catholics as "these Portuguese people" ... --- Protect Goa's natural beauty S

Re: [Goanet] URGENT- TODAY - Saturday, 24 March , 2012, 5.00pm - Seminar on Portuguese Citizenship/Nationalit

2012-03-24 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Wonder what the bomboimcars like Lambert Mascarenhas who strived to get the Portuguese out of Goa have to say about this. Why should bomboimcars be interested in Portuguese nationality? Is their land now sorrowing as well? --

Re: [Goanet] Talking of toilets (by Rose Fernandes)

2012-03-18 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
See also a recent op-ed by Amrit Dhillon...   http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/why-india-is-not-a-superpower-20120314-1v3b1.html   ...  The poor still do not have homes, basic sanitation, decent schools or nutritious food. As a young girl in American author Katherine Boo's much-acclaimed

Re: [Goanet] NEWS: CBI finally gets Lucky Farmhouse's statement

2012-03-05 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Maybe you didn't include a kick-back in your quote... :-) > >From: Alfred de Tavares >To: GOANET Lists >Sent: Tuesday, 6 March 2012 8:18 AM >Subject: Re: [Goanet] NEWS: CBI finally gets Lucky Farmhouse's statement > > >I can translate the document for a half o

Re: [Goanet] GOA IS LUCKY THAT PORTUGAL RETURNED TS PAWNED GOLD

2012-03-05 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Gerald,   I don't know if you really what you're talking about.   1. Goa's gold was held at Banco Nacional Ultramarino as surety against loans. Would the gold have survived if it was left as is, when Goa was overrun by the Indian Army? Have you not observed that the gold, when returned, was repo

Re: [Goanet] A thought on Triumph of Secularism

2012-03-04 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Hi Eugene,   I, for one, don't ever believe that Dr. JdeS was a man who would sell Goa, especially after following him around as a kid with the "don panna" slogan, in Panjim and in Loutolim. Having listened to his passionate speech in Loutolim, in front of the Church, I understood then, as I und

Re: [Goanet] COMMUNITY AUDIO: "Post-modern travel notes"...

2012-03-04 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
My copy of "Nehru Seizes Goa" was obtained via www.Alibris.com.  Another book, "What about Goa" By Roldaum, published in the 50s, was obtained from a New Zealand publisher, being an ex-New Zealand National Library copy,  Amazon does not carry everything. Takes a while to search, as these books c

Re: [Goanet] THE BJP IS NOT AN ALTERNATIVE TO CONGRESS @ Floriano

2012-03-03 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Baratas, talvez :-) ? (trans: coc*roaches) > >From: "J. Colaco < jc>" >To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" >Sent: Wednesday, 29 February 2012 9:01 AM >Subject: Re: [Goanet] THE BJP IS NOT AN ALTERNATIVE TO CONGRESS @ Floriano > > >They did not realiz

Re: [Goanet] How Dilli (and Tai) understands MoI

2012-03-01 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Why not Portuguese? After all its one way of maintaining "identity" in an otherwise sea of English-speaking Indians. It would be of immense assistance to those seeking a Portuguese nationality. Colonial language you say? What the heck is English then?  > >From:

Re: [Goanet] Racism, Britain, Goan expat workers....

2012-02-29 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
And they are ... ? > >From: Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا > >To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" >Sent: Wednesday, 29 February 2012 9:25 PM >Subject: Re: [Goanet] Racism, Britain, Goan expat workers > >Sir Alfred, The de

Re: [Goanet] Cop's night investigation at Velim Church

2012-02-28 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
PIDE seems to live on, fifty years after the event ... > >From: Tony de Sa >To: "Goa's Premiere Mailing List, Estd 1994" >Sent: Tuesday, 28 February 2012 2:23 AM >Subject: [Goanet] Cop's night investigation at Velim Church > >Finding out at around 9.00 p.m. wh

Re: [Goanet] Racism, Britain, Goan expat workers....

2012-02-28 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Do you mean that Goans create slums in Britain? That they spit/defecate/sleep on park-benches/demolish old structures to build concrete jungles? > > From: Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا > >To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 19

Re: [Goanet] Fwd: Fw: HOW LONG IT TAKES TO DECOMPOSE !!!!!

2012-02-27 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
I am not sure about all plastic bags - I had a few books stored in the garage in a plastic bag; a few months later when I picked the bag up, the bag had disintegrated into tiny flakes ... > > From: Bernice Pereira >To: Goanet >Sent: Saturday, 25 February 2012

Re: [Goanet] DOCUMENT: Goa elections 2012, manifesto Congress Party

2012-02-22 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
From what I understand, in India, a local can never be a Governor of the state they were born in Something to do with prevention of secession as I was told. > >From: Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا > >To: goa...@goanet.org >Sent:

Re: [Goanet] Goanet] No intruz celebrations in Goa more than 3 decades ago.

2012-02-20 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
The word "intruz" comes from a Portuguese word "entrudo", which according to my Collins dictionary, translates to Shrovetide or Carnival. > >From: MD >To: goa...@goanet.org >Sent: Tuesday, 21 February 2012 10:31 AM >Subject: [Goanet] Goanet] No intruz celebrat

Re: [Goanet] CALVIM TRAGEDY: Serendipity to the rescue for some villagers ... When the going got tough... To inspect bus.... (Andrew Pereira, TNN)

2012-02-20 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
A question needs be asked of witnesses before finer "analysis" is undertaken:   Did the bus suddenly belch thick black smoke before it raced and plunged into the river?   If yes, this (the uncontrollable speed) could be the result of diesel overrun (or runaway). "In many vehicles, a crankcase br

[Goanet] Spam using my email id

2012-02-17 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Dear Goanetters, There is currently spam email being spewed on the internet, using my email id as the display name, with the subject VACANCY ... It has not been sent by me. Please delete it if you have received it. Cheers, Gabriel de Figueiredo

Re: [Goanet] Don't miss this!

2012-02-11 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Happiness, like crappiness, is relative. What is crap for the Goan, is normality for the Delhiite. --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the pe

Re: [Goanet] Singapore 1942 - End of Empire

2012-02-10 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
nd public resentment it germinated were an important factor in the complete withdrawal of the Raj from India." - Wikipedia "Royal Indian Navy mutiny".   Regards,   Gabriel >____________ > From: "J. Colaco < jc>" >To: Gabriel de

Re: [Goanet] GOA-OLDPHOTO: Colvale carreira, first Kadamba, Luso consulate, bund at Pernem, unusual Carnival placards...

2012-02-10 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
If interested ... ErmelindaParrasFigueiredo: My grandmother (date unknown). A story has been told to me recently... Torcato and Gabriel Figueiredo were courting this elegant lady, and Torcato lost out. For my grandparents' wedding, Torcato then composed the now-famous Mando de Despedida (Adeus

[Goanet] Singapore 1942 - End of Empire

2012-02-10 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Some eons ago, there was a discussion on this forum re Indian Independence etc.   At that time, my personal belief was that the Brits gave independence to India not because of Gandhi or Nehru, but because they could no longer trust the loyalty of the British Indian Army. The following program (p

[Goanet] More historic photos of TAIP ...

2012-02-10 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Os Transportes Aéreos da Índia Portuguesa foram criados em 1955 como uma empresa pública ligada ao Governo-Geral do Estado Português da Índia, sob o nome inicial de “STAIP - Serviços de Transportes Aéreos da Índia Portuguesa”, designação logo simplificada para “TAIP - Transportes Aéreos da Índia

Re: [Goanet] CONTROVERSY: The MOCA replies...

2012-02-09 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
: The MOCA replies... > >Aaah! Do you mean to say that the "loot of Goa" didn't start after 1961, as >some  on this list try to keep suggesting? FN > >On 9 February 2012 08:28, Gabriel de Figueiredo >wrote: > >> I understand there was an attempt to remov

Re: [Goanet] Sex scandals and Porn

2012-02-09 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Salazar lives ... visado pela censura :-)   > > Sandeep Heble wrote: >That's right UNTIL I read >this article (of INTERFERENCE with the electrical supply and TV) in >the Times of India >http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Porngate-BJP-MLA-blacks-out

Re: [Goanet] CONTROVERSY: The MOCA replies...

2012-02-08 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
I understand there was an attempt to remove the jewels off the casket of St Francis Xavier in the 40s/50s - having read of the episode in Memorias do meu passaado (Fernando Noronha). The culprit, IIRC, was an Englishman, and was caught red-handed ... So there were issues in those times, but it

Re: [Goanet] CONTROVERSY: The MOCA replies...

2012-02-08 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
I am not sure if this has been discussed, or whether it is a good idea to publish the photos of the stolen artifacts, if available, in all papers locally, and nationally. More importantly, supply the photos to old gold dealers, antique dealers esp in Cochin, local and national police (might not

Re: [Goanet] Goa, Goan, Hansard's

2012-02-02 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Hmmm ... interesting. 1)  "Is the noble Baroness aware that Goa sent representatives for many years to the Portuguese Parliament, so it was closely allied with Portugal and Goans spoke Portuguese?" (Lord Orr-Ewing)    I should add, as early as 1834 (Bernardo Peres da Silva of Neura). Francisco

[Goanet] RTP on iPad and the 'net

2012-01-31 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Perhaps you folks already know it  ... if so I apologise for the repeat.    For those interested in Portuguese television programs (recorded and direct), you can watch now them on your iPad by downloading the RTP app for free, The programs are free too, with the exception of programs which have

Re: [Goanet] In public interest- Is the Christian Art Museum an abandoned child?

2012-01-31 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Quite possible - quite a collection in those shops, some strangely familiar, last time I was there circa 2008. - Original Message - > From: Edgar Silveira > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, 29 January 2012 3:20 PM > Subject: Re: [Goanet] In public i

Re: [Goanet] BOOK REVIEW: Moda Goa: History and Style by Wendell

2012-01-26 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
In addition, a number of shops have changed their names / reverted to their Portuguese names, Ducló Bobó had become Dukle Bhobe and is now back to its original Ducló Bobó; Zubeida Bakery is now Padaría Zubeida, but it appears to have changed its vocation in the bargain, that of selling sun-glass

Re: [Goanet] Dol Mhojea Bai - Pipitt, Kemkem, Biskutt, Bol, Boll, Mama, tata etc - What it all means?

2012-01-24 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Hi Venantius,   This discussion has taken a new twist :-) However, comparing languages, the Portuguese pronounce each and every letter in a word (well almost), so that psicología is pronounced as 'pisikogía'. "Lazy" adoptions of Portuguese words into Konkani have left out the last vowels of mos

Re: [Goanet] Dol Mhojea Bai - Pipitt, Kemkem, Biskutt, Bol, Boll, Mama, tata etc - What it all means?

2012-01-23 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Venantius, I am not sure about the konkani spelling for molho. Note that cozinheiro became cuzner in konkani, like many other Portuguese-derived words, so this one could have suffered a similar transition, especially after being influenced by anglicised speakers (considered by some as being mor

Re: [Goanet] Dol Mhojea Bai - Pipitt, Kemkem, Biskutt, Bol, Boll, Mama, tata etc - What it all means?

2012-01-22 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
That is really spelt as molho, as used in fish, meat and prawn preserved in sauces. Other spellings as used by commercial vendors and English writers are corruptions, as English-educated people cannot prounce lho properly and ends up as llo, as in carvalho pronounced as carvallo. Right Selma :-)

Re: [Goanet] A Cry in the dark - this day, 50 years ago (Eugene Correia)

2012-01-19 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Remember the church bell tolling in Loutolim, and uncle Dr. Jocu Melo describing an event to my Mum, exclaiming 'ele nao parou, e os miltares abriram fogo'. This was sometime between Xmas and New year (1961). Probably related to the event in Cansaulim as described by Leo Lawrence in his book 'N

Re: [Goanet] Dol Mhojea Bai - Pipitt, Kemkem, Biskutt, Bol, Boll, Mama, tata etc - What it all means?

2012-01-19 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
If I am not mistaken, moll=bud (as in flower ... fulola fullancho mollo, amguela zonela sokollo ...).  Therefore,  dakoi mogachem moll = show (your) budding love? Cheers, Gabriel.   - Original Message - > From: JoeGoaUk > To: "goa...@goanet.org" > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, 19 January 201

[Goanet] Yeta another Goa Hippy documentary

2012-01-19 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Australia's SBS television has compiled a set of interviews with the old hippies ...   http://www.sbs.com.au/goahippytribe/#/get-your-passport-ready   Cheers,   Gabriel --- Protect Goa's natural beauty

Re: [Goanet] GOODBYE 2011 & WELCOME 2012.

2012-01-01 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm Tourist Hostel,

[Goanet] A light-hearted history of Portugal ...

2011-11-17 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
--- Goanet Classifieds --- Enescil, a Brazilian engineering firm requires Engineers, Architects and Draftsmen, p

Re: [Goanet] Deepest Condolences extended to goanetter Gabriel Figueredo

2011-07-12 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
rty's Executive Committee extends deepest sympathies and >condolences to Gabriel de Figueiredo  and his family on the sad demise of his >beloved mother Mrs. Antonieta de Costa e Figueiredo who passed away on >04/07/11. > > May her dear soul rest in eternal peace. > > Sd/- > floriano lobo > Gen. Secretary > >

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 6, Issue 630

2011-07-12 Thread Gabriel De Figueiredo
e Salesian director, Fr Ian Figueiredo. PS My regular email account seems to have been hacked into recently, hence this new id. Gabriel de Figueiredo Count appear On 05/07/2011, at 3:11 PM, "francis d' souza" wrote: > > > > 8. Madame is no more (gde...@optusnet.com.au

Re: [Goanet] A king called Byculla?

2011-03-09 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Seems to me to be a figment of someone's imagination. A search for "reis de Portugal" does not reveal this name, or anything phoentically close to it. - Original Message > From: Frederick Noronha > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" > Sent: Wed, 9 March, 2011 5:16:00 AM >

Re: [Goanet] Goan novel,“The Sixth Night” now available online on Kindle, Amazon in digital format!

2011-03-09 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
That's fantastic.  I have been an e-reader fan for quite a while now, as texts are now available almost immediately for reading in pdf format on purchase over the 'net. My previous e-reader was mono-chrome, kinda slow and rather incovenient due to its small screen size, until iPad came along.

Re: [Goanet] Guilty until proven innocent?That

2011-03-04 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Santosh, Apologies for the delay in replying to your submission. Impartial or not I cannot comment, as I have not read the treatise. I was commenting after my experiences in reading other documents on Goa written by Indian authors years after the Portuguese had gone. There is always the situat

Re: [Goanet] Political Lessons for Goa from Assam...

2011-03-03 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Maybe that's the main reason for the large Army / Naval presence in Goa ... Anyone took notice of the prohibitory signs in Bambolim? - Original Message > From: Jason Keith Fernandes > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" > Sent: Wed, 2 March, 2011 2:01:49 AM > Subject: [Go

Re: [Goanet] Migrant Integration

2011-03-03 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Always was :-)) - Original Message > From: Roland Francis > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" > Sent: Tue, 1 March, 2011 7:28:52 AM > Subject: [Goanet] Migrant Integration > > I would have thought that Canada would be the world leader in immigrant > integration, but a re

Re: [Goanet] StyleSpeak: The Curse of Colvale

2011-02-27 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Ah! The price of progress. And everyone wants that "progress" somewhere else. This attitude of "Not in my backyard (NIMBY)" is similar to throwing out the rubbish out the window, let someone else worry about the dirt outside. If one wants progress one needs to sacrifice something. If done prop

Re: [Goanet] Guilty until proven innocent?That

2011-02-18 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Given that the series was written in 2002, the author would have had little, if any, experience of Goan justice system pre-1962. I would treat the statement the same way as I would treat Arun Sinha's statement that the portuguese did absolutely nothing regarding agriculture, in his book "Goa In

[Goanet] OPA & ELA

2011-02-18 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
I would like to ask Goa netters whether OPA and ELA are in fact places, or are these acronyms for works installed at Ponda and Old Goa respectively? The last two letters of OPA appear to me like "Processamento de Agua" and the last two of of ELA to be "Laboratorios Agriculturais" . I could be

Re: [Goanet] Guilty until proven innocent?

2011-02-17 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Santosh, Neither do I have a judicial beckground, nor training. What I do know is that the Portuguese follow a Civil Code and Criminal code and the British have a system of Acts of Parliament and precedents. That the two are radically different is the extent of my knowledge in these matters

Re: [Goanet] Guilty until proven innocent?

2011-02-17 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list > Sent: Thu, 17 February, 2011 8:33:09 PM > Subject: [Goanet] Guilty until proven innocent? > > Gabriel de Figueiredo gdefigueiredo at yahoo.com.au wrote: > > > >And yet, India follows the British colonial system of rule (guilty unl

Re: [Goanet] Cancel Portuguese street names: Panel

2011-02-16 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Thanks for saying that - I still question the word "Torture". Do the self-styled FFs know what torture is? Have they read about the recent happenings in Northern India? About what the Britis did (Jallianwala Bagh, retaliation to sepoy mutiny, the treatment meted out to famine victims) in a sh

Re: [Goanet] Cancel Portuguese street names: Panel

2011-02-16 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Before they get rid of anything, they have to get rid of the stench of what Goa has become, first.  Changing names and roads will not beautify Goa, nor will it become "chaka chak". They have to change their mind-set, and put law and order in place first.  The rest follows.  Ah! The so-called

Re: [Goanet] India: Hostage to a Demented Culture

2011-02-14 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
That "Me first" attitude seems to be growing in other parts of the world as well. My gut feeling is that we've become so engrossed in the rat-race to get to the unattainable "cheese" regardless of all else that we tend to forget that there's other people around. Why were the previous gene

Re: [Goanet] Salcete Portuguese passport holders under radar of poll officials

2011-02-13 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Goans were always Portuguese citizens, until Indian citizenship was foisted upon them by force by virtue of the invasion. The only Goan brave enough to defy the orders to change his citizenship was Pe. Chico Monteiro. Now Goans are quietly reinstating their citizenship, even in places such as A

Re: [Goanet] Scramble for Africa, Berlin Conference, Pink Map, British Ultimatum, and the demise of the Portuguese monarchy... could Goa's history have been different?

2011-02-13 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Hence the lines on the current Portuguese national anthem (A Portuguesa), which originally went, I believe: "Contra os Bretões marchar, marchar" (now goes "Contra os canhões marchar, marchar").   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Portuguesa - Original Message > From: Frederick Noronha

Re: [Goanet] The Curious Case Of Water Shortage In Goa

2011-02-10 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
...and its only February. Imagine the situation in May. And all this, is "progress", according to a Goanetter who appears now to have left this forum.  - Original Message > From: Freddy Fernandes > To: goanet@lists.goanet.org > Sent: Thu, 10 February, 2011 4:17:41 PM > Subject: [Goa

Re: [Goanet] It is official! Mobile phones, towers and base stations hazardous!

2011-02-05 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
It appears from the comment by the scientist that India may have become the dumping ground of other countries' mobile handsets that have failed to satisfy radiation standards in their own countries ...  - Original Message > From: Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão > To: goa...@goanet.org;

Re: [Goanet] Defence sites indicate Dabolim as ?war booty?

2011-02-03 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
ing > letters by people who are aware helps a lot--in fact more than only (if so) > putting it on Goanet. > > > venantius j pinto > > Message: 11 > Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 23:52:21 -0800 (PST) > From: Gabriel de Figueiredo > To: "Goa's premi

Re: [Goanet] Animal welfare groups oppose cow slaughter in Goa

2011-02-02 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
>From what I can gather, this is relating to ILLEGAL slaughter. In any case, I wonder if even in the legal slaughter, the animals are checked by Animal Husbandry for health of the animals with respect to being suitable for human consumption. Naturally, the right wing Hindu activists have ju

Re: [Goanet] Defence sites indicate Dabolim as ‘war booty’

2011-02-02 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
That is a lie. There was no Admiral in Goa. CMG (Capitão-de-Mar-e-Guerra) is a couple of positions below Admiral. CMG António da Cunha Aragão was badly wounded and rushed to Hospital Escolar in Panjim (the Goa Medical College hospital as it was known then, now the IFFI place), and the telegra

Re: [Goanet] Goa in migrant hands

2011-02-02 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Monte means hill. It was probably called Monte de Margão, shortened to Monte for convenience. Calling Monte de Margão as Monte Hill and Monti Dongor really doesn't make sense, if you get my meaning. PS For a diversion, note the names Aquém de Margão (literally "This side of Margão") and A

Re: [Goanet] Defence sites indicate Dabolim as ‘war booty’

2011-02-02 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
This was what I had said years ago on the Goa-Goans site. Check my article at http://www.colaco.net/1/GdeFdabolim3.htm  ... I think I also discussed this topic on this forum with the late Philip Thomas a few years ago. AFAIK, the airport was given to the Navy in caretaker mode by the then milit

Re: [Goanet] Custodial death: Panjim police in more trouble now?

2011-01-24 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Dear Joe, This police attitude towards ordinary people has been going for quite a long, long, time. Caught a pick-pocket? Nothing like hitting him with a chappal across the face till his nose and mouth bleed in front of a crowd of people "as a lesson to the others", before taking him to the st

Re: [Goanet] Portuguese Ghantis and Maharashtrian Pankles

2011-01-24 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Fernando de Noronha mentions "os de alem gates", meaning "those from beyond the Ghats", in his book "Memorias do meu passado". Don't know if this terminolgy appeared on the Goa scene before or after the events of Dec 1961... - Original Message > From: Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão

Re: [Goanet] There has been a lack of clarity in the application procedure for OCI....

2011-01-11 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
In my experience, it took exactly two months (almost to the day) and three visits to the VFS from the time I completed the online application to the day I got my passport stamped with the OCI stamps.   The two initial visits on two consecutive days were necessary to ensure I got the documentati

Re: [Goanet] NEWS: Over 11,000 attend VHP Ponda meet (ToI)

2011-01-10 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
I would really like to know what cruelties the Portuguese really inflicted on Goans.  Were they more cruel than the British, who blew up all the mutineeers of 1857 tied in front of cannons? or the time when the British allowed people to die of hunger in Bengal? Or more cruel than the Parti

[Goanet] Queensland floods

2011-01-10 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
I am not sure if any one of you are following the tragedies unfolding in Queensland due to tremendous flooding after weeks of heavy rainfall. My son spent a year a couple of years ago in one of the houses now totally under water in Rockhampton, given that all one can see of the airport is the

Re: [Goanet] Imagine there's a Heaven

2011-01-10 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Really? :-) - Original Message > From: Comma Consulting > To: goa...@goanet.org > Sent: Sat, 8 January, 2011 1:38:59 PM > Subject: [Goanet] Imagine there's a Heaven >  > Indian tourists are known worldwide to be big spenders.

Re: [Goanet] Photo journalists summoned over snapping president on Goa beach

2011-01-07 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
"sunning" herself ?  She was fully clothed and all one can see is a bit of the face! Call that sunning? Why bother? She'd have been better off in the balcony of her hotel. Or used the secluded "Navy's beach". - Original Message > From: Eddie Fernandes > To: "Goa's premiere mailing

Re: [Goanet] FRI, Jan 7, 2011: Master cello player Alexander Mascarenhas's homecoming

2011-01-07 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
AFAIK, Alexandre Mascarenhas went to Germany on a Gulbenkian Scholarship (Portuguese, not German - http://www.gulbenkian.pt/ ), which was handed over to him at an Academia de Musica's annual concert by D. Maria Aurora Couto. Can't remember what year it was, but it was definitely soon after India

Re: [Goanet] Woman 'beaten up' at Bicholim police station at night

2011-01-04 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Goa Sudharop Annual Awards January 5, 2011 - 3:45 -

Re: [Goanet] FACTOID: Attempting to buy Goa, 1947

2011-01-03 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Goa Sudharop Annual Awards January 5, 2011 - 3:45 -

Re: [Goanet] India (or Goa)... and dirt / SC on India (or Goa) ...anddirt

2011-01-03 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Goa Sudharop Annual Awards January 5, 2011 - 3:45 -

Re: [Goanet] India (or Goa)... and dirt / SC on India (or Goa) ...and dirt

2011-01-03 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Goa Sudharop Annual Awards January 5, 2011 - 3:45 -

Re: [Goanet] Dirt... and us. Was: The Ugly Indian

2010-12-30 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- NEW BOOK: 'PATRIOTISM IN ACTION: Goans in Indias Defence Services' With Foreword

Re: [Goanet] The Ugly Indian

2010-12-30 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- NEW BOOK: 'PATRIOTISM IN ACTION: Goans in Indias Defence Services' With Foreword

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