Re: [Goanet] CM: Nehru would have given special status

2010-08-15 Thread Santosh Helekar
Does GoaSuraj Party believe that Goan Indians should not celebrate Indian Independence day? Is this part of its platform? Cheers, Santosh --- On Sun, 8/15/10, floriano floriano.l...@gmail.com wrote: Absolutely well said that, Agnelo Cheers floriano goasuraj 9890470896

[Goanet] A request to all active contributors to Goanet

2010-08-14 Thread Santosh Helekar
I am preparing to conclude an interesting sociological research study on Goanet and similar Goan mailing lists. I will tell you all the details about it as soon as it is completed. But in order to begin the next critical phase of the study I need to ask all the active Goanet contributors for a

Re: [Goanet] Some anti-plagiarism software

2010-08-12 Thread Santosh Helekar
and intellectual honesty to kindly answer these questions of mine, and defend your wild slanderous accusations against me. Cheers, Santosh --- On Wed, 8/11/10, Gilbert Lawrence gilbert2...@yahoo.com wrote: - Santosh Helekar wrote: I am indeed an expert on plagiarism because

Re: [Goanet] OBAMA's GOVT JULIA ROBERT's HINDU CASTE NAME.......

2010-08-11 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 8/10/10, M D markj...@gmail.com wrote: Julia Roberts converting to Hinduism is not a threat to Christianity but Julia Roberts should be gracious enough to change her Christian name to Hindu name. I disagree with the assertion that Julia Roberts is not a threat to Christianity.

Re: [Goanet] Some anti-plagiarism software

2010-08-09 Thread Santosh Helekar
Hi Gilbert, I am indeed an expert on plagiarism because as a scientific laborer I have a professional need to know and teach students, fellows and researchers who work with me what is it that constitutes plagiarism. This is because they and I have to write full length peer-reviewed original

Re: [Goanet] Jose Pereira at XCHR: A Recounting of Events

2010-08-09 Thread Santosh Helekar
Mr. Furtado, Please read this slowly, noting all the correct spellings of words. Please also note that I, Santosh Helekar is posting this on a public Goan cyberforum called Goanet. Here are the meanings of the words apology and regret. apology - a written or spoken expression of one's regret

Re: [Goanet] Some anti-plagiarism software

2010-08-08 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 8/6/10, Gilbert Lawrence gilbert2...@yahoo.com wrote: I am sure most on the spam list were victims like me; but my special empathy goes to the Goanet moderators on the spam list. Gilbert appears to be trying to insult other Goans and members of other Goan mailing lists once

Re: [Goanet] OBAMA FEAR's HINDU FUNDAMENTALIST's..

2010-08-08 Thread Santosh Helekar
Dear Vasant, Thanks for giving me evidence that Obama is a Hindu fundamentalist. I don't think he will go to Tirupati because the evidence you have provided proves that he is a Hindi/Gujarati speaking north Indian Hindu extremist. I have also found out that many of his European, Hispanic,

Re: [Goanet] OBAMA FEAR's HINDU FUNDAMENTALIST's..

2010-08-07 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sat, 8/7/10, CORNEL DACOSTA cor...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi Santosh  Obama has always claimed that he is a Christian. Do you have evidence that undermines his claim? Just curious that's all! Cornel Cornel, There are people who are trying to find evidence that Obama is a

Re: [Goanet] OBAMA FEAR's HINDU FUNDAMENTALIST's..

2010-08-06 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 8/6/10, M D markj...@gmail.com wrote: Inspite of many Christian groups in America writing to Obama about the random attacks on Christians and vandalization of churches in India Obama has so far not spoken out against the Hindu fundamentalist’s or maybe Obama is not a Christian.

Re: [Goanet] Jose Pereira at XCHR: A Recounting of Events

2010-08-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
reputation? I don't think so. This campaign, like all ideological campaigns, is driven more by hate than love. Cheers, Santosh --- On Mon, 8/2/10, augusto pinto pinto...@gmail.com wrote: Dr Santosh Helekar continues his efforts to divert attention from the death threats which the Sanathan

Re: [Goanet] HINDU AMERICA and POOR CHRISTIANS.........

2010-08-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 8/3/10, M D markj...@gmail.com wrote: In America there are no anti-conversion laws and there are no christian fundamentalist who will go around bashing hindu missionaries or vandalizing hindu temples. Here in India there are anti-conversion laws and the hindu fundamentalist go around

Re: [Goanet] Fwd: Jose Pereira at XCHR: A Recounting of Events

2010-08-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
and for no second reason whatsoever. So, you please don't worry, you' re reputation and dignity is fully intact and safe, only follow good principles and rules of life, then all things will be good. Sam On 8/3/10, Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com wrote:    Mr. Furtado, I do not want

Re: [Goanet] Jose Pereira at XCHR: A Recounting of Events

2010-08-02 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 8/1/10, Rajan P. Parrikar parri...@yahoo.com wrote: Criticism of Hinduism, Hindus, Hindu Right, Hindu Anything in itself does not make anyone anti-Hindu.  To cite an extreme case, I have never thought of Nascy as anti-Hindu.  Semi-literate clown, yes.  Anti-Hindu, no.  I am

Re: [Goanet] All Religions for Human Integral Development

2010-08-02 Thread Santosh Helekar
had cancer. UNQUOTE ..Santosh Helekar Please see: http://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg51546.html Cheers, Santosh --- On Sun, 8/1/10, Gilbert Lawrence gilbert2...@yahoo.com wrote: Responding to my last post on Goanet, the following was spammed to me and few Goans

Re: [Goanet] Jose Pereira at XCHR: A Recounting of Events

2010-08-02 Thread Santosh Helekar
take this to the bank. Unquote: It is people like Dr. Santosh Helekar who are communal biased and cannot mesticate the facts of life or reality. Every person in his own right have freedom of expression; Be it in writing, painting or voicing, irrespective of the nature of the subject

Re: [Goanet] Jose Pereira at XCHR: A Recounting of Events

2010-08-02 Thread Santosh Helekar
of and more - twisting of words, spin-doctoring, verbal abuse and insults: QUOTE I am sure the Sanatanists will be very grateful to Santosh Helekar for diverting attention away from this terrorist organisation and the irony of it is that he has accused FN - who was instrumental in pointing out

Re: [Goanet] UID for Goan Residents

2010-08-01 Thread Santosh Helekar
One of the things that reason and science teach us is that generalization of the type quoted below is invariably wrong. If objectivity was a myth airplanes would not have flown. We would not have landed on the moon. And there would not have been an internet. Kevin Dunbar himself would not have

Re: [Goanet] All Religions for Human Integral Development

2010-08-01 Thread Santosh Helekar
The post quoted below reveals a confusion between providing references, as in technical or scholarly writing, and the simple requirement to enclose copied and pasted material from the internet in quotes, with a link to the website from where it is lifted. Those who place pilfered text verbatim

Re: [Goanet] All Religions for Human Integral Development

2010-08-01 Thread Santosh Helekar
The post quoted below reveals a confusion between providing references, as in technical or scholarly writing, and the simple requirement to enclose copied and pasted material from the internet in quotes, with a link to the website from where it is lifted. Those who place pilfered text verbatim

Re: [Goanet] All Religions for Human Integral Development

2010-08-01 Thread Santosh Helekar
This outburst from Gilbert is understandable considering the obvious fact that what he had written had nothing to do with the issue at hand, as referred to by Bosco and Venantius. Please note the following response by Bosco, for instance, to the irrelevant post by Gilbert in this thread:

Re: [Goanet] All Religions for Human Integral Development

2010-08-01 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 8/1/10, Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com wrote: Please note the following response by Bosco, for instance, to the irrelevant post by Gilbert in the thread in question: http://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg45880.html The above link is not the correct one

Re: [Goanet] Jose Pereira at XCHR: A Recounting of Events

2010-08-01 Thread Santosh Helekar
I do not agree with Rajan that Admin Noronha is anti-Hindu. But it is clear to me that he is not a secular pluralist either. The grounds for this belief are quite obvious. Admin Noronha is driven by an entrenched ideology. As with all ideologies, it has outlived its purpose, if it had any

Re: [Goanet] Jose Pereira at XCHR: A Recounting of Events

2010-07-31 Thread Santosh Helekar
At variance with what is posted below, I was pleasantly surprised to see that there was a polite and respectful discussion between the lady representative of the extremist Hindu organization, Dr. Jose Pereira and the organizers of the exhibition. The only provocation for confrontation that I

Re: [Goanet] All Religions for Human Integral Development

2010-07-31 Thread Santosh Helekar
There is literally nothing in common between what Bosco and Venantius have written, and what Gilbert has written in two posts now. These authors are not on the same planet, leave alone being on the same wavelength. The problem is so simple, and yet so important, that it is addressed in

Re: [Goanet] Celibacy Today

2010-07-30 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Wed, 7/28/10, Ivo icso...@bsnl.in wrote: There is free will, it is the outcome of several factors. See the website: http://www.narth.com/docs/hom101.html Homosexuality 101: What Every Therapist, Parent, And Homosexual Should Know Julie Harren, Ph.D., LMFT The above website

Re: [Goanet] All Religions for Human Integral Development (Final response to U. G. Barad)

2010-07-27 Thread Santosh Helekar
Most of the post quoted below and the earlier one in this thread (http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-July/196539.html) appear to have been lifted verbatim from some websites. They have been copied and pasted without naming the sources, and without placing them in quotes. I

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-26 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 7/25/10, Jim Fernandes amigo...@att.net wrote: This is my last email to you on this thread - unless circumstances change that would warrant me to write back again. Shri Fernandes, Sorry to see you take your marbles and go home. It looks like you could not achieve what you

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 7/23/10, Jim Fernandes amigo...@att.net wrote: Let me repeat this once again, I have set you in my cross-wires as the next target. You are messing with the wrong guy. So what else is new? Instead of logic and reason, we have another instance of the same senseless verbal exercise

Re: [Goanet] No beef on menu during Commonwealth Games:

2010-07-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
.Santosh Helekar To back up my own statement, let me list below some issues that I have tackled before as examples of differences in views being due to ignorance and misinformation, rather that difference in perspective: 1. AIDS is not caused by the HIV virus. 2. Cancer in general

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
After Gilbert and Marshall, now another member with personal issues is discharging his puerile potshots at me again. Speaking of backing up, it appears that all the backing up is being done by the now defunct FCA Rodriquez and Company. Most of these characters who have never shown any ability

Re: [Goanet] SH - stop this last word...story

2010-07-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 7/25/10, Jose Da Gama Pais dagamap...@gmail.com wrote: we all go six feet deep don't we..?? I am sorry, but I am never going to go six feet deep. In addition to not knowing this fact, JDGP appears to be confused about how discussions end on Goanet. It is also unusual to see

Re: [Goanet] No beef on menu during Commonwealth Games: Kalmadi

2010-07-24 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sat, 7/24/10, Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org wrote: We have also seen another doctor, Santosh, take off persistently on persons like Nascy or earlier on Fr Ivo, in trying to prove them wrong. Differences in views can stem from legitimate differences in perspective, so why rub it

Re: [Goanet] Cross Polination

2010-07-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Thu, 7/22/10, Gilbert Lawrence gilbert2...@yahoo.com wrote: Please STOP YOUR SPAM MAIL. Which part to this do you not understand? It is not clear why Gilbert is now shouting on Goanet, after having voluntarily insinuated himself in this thread while paradoxically denying his intention

Re: [Goanet] All Religions for Human Integral Development

2010-07-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 7/23/10, U. G. Barad dr.udayba...@gmail.com wrote: Under the circumstances, I wonder if there is any need for the Vatican to continue with a programme of conversion that they are undertaking. Peaceful persuasion and conversion of minds is a freedom that every human being and

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Thu, 7/22/10, Jim Fernandes amigo...@att.net wrote: Since I am not able to make you understand simple logic, let me make take this to the REAL next level. Shri Fernandes, Sorry to break this to you, but the fact that you are becoming increasingly desperate to take things to what

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
, Santosh --- On Thu, 7/22/10, Marshall Mendonza mmendonz...@gmail.com wrote: Jim Fernandes: The reason I am writing about this on GoaNet is because, a fellow GoaNetter named Santosh Helekar included me in this non-GoaNet related group, when I responded to a thread on GoaNet. He had

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
and etiquettes of yours are a figment of your imagination. Goanet has no such rules. Santosh Helekar referring to the specific fictitious rules and etiquettes that Shri Fernandes was fantasizing about. Please note the phrases bogus rules and etiquettes of yours and no such rules. Please see

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
Since Gilbert has now gotten into this debate, while simultaneously denying that he has no intention of doing it, I would like to ask him the following questions to be able to provide appropriate answers because of my longstanding membership of several Goan internet forums: 1. To which Goan

Re: [Goanet] Rupee signs and Indians

2010-07-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
Is Rajan Portuguese? Cheers, Santosh --- On Sun, 7/18/10, Rajan P. Parrikar parri...@yahoo.com wrote: Gee, I guess after the invention of zero the next great invention of Indians is the rupee sign.  Great work, Indians.  We are all so proud of you. r

Re: [Goanet] Rupee signs and Indians

2010-07-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
Is Admin Noronha fabricating as usual again? Nobody said being Portuguese equals anti-India. The question was asked because some Goans are or consider themselves Portuguese. The question was prompted by the following remark of Rajan: Great work, Indians. We are all so proud of you. One who

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 7/19/10, Jim Fernandes amigo...@att.net wrote: It is not the figment of my imagination, but a click on the below URL might help Mr Helekar to refresh his neurons with GoaNet rules: http://goanet.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=9 Once again, Shri Fernandes

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-19 Thread Santosh Helekar
Shri Fernandes, It is clear that you are not able to quote a single Goanet rule which explicitly states that I cannot post my Goanet post anywhere else, nor that I have to ask your permission to do it, as you claimed. So now you are resorting to this kabuki dance of asking me to search for key

[Goanet] Other Goan forums

2010-07-12 Thread Santosh Helekar
Admin Noronha wrote: While nobody seems to how to get off the lists, I'm willing to bet that nobody knows either of how one can get ON these lists! As of now, it is a priviledge of only a select few. Either you are born into it, or... For those who are curious, check out:

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-12 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 7/11/10, Gilbert Lawrence gilbert2...@yahoo.com wrote: It is so easy to bad-mouth others. Goans make a virtue to those crab-like traits with convoluted arguments and sophistry.   Why is Gilbert badmounthing and abusing other Goans and other Goan forums on Goanet. Is he afflicted

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-12 Thread Santosh Helekar
Bosco wrote: Rico, Eddie, Jim, etc are only expressing themselves too simply. Does Goanet consider personal attacks against fellow Goans by individuals such as Francis, Gilbert, etc. expressing themselves too simply? Cheers, Santosh

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-11 Thread Santosh Helekar
Francis (FCA) Rodriguez wrote: Only a threat to inform his employer stopped the dysfunctional Helekar from spamming me too. He does not believe in a Do Not Spam policy. Helekar is not a don't - just a can't! Please note that FCA Rodriguez has found this an opportunity to abuse me because of

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-11 Thread Santosh Helekar
Edward Verdes eddiever...@hotmail.com wrote: Pls tell goanetters what falsehoods I have spread here? Eddie, The falsehoods you have spread and are spreading now are the following: 1. That your email ID is flashed on GX and AGD. 2. That someone can get your email ID by simply signing onto a

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-11 Thread Santosh Helekar
Eddie, Here are answers to your questions. --- On Sun, 7/11/10, Edward Verdes eddiever...@hotmail.com wrote: You have still not answered my question why even part of my email address which can be replied by the group members is appearing in GX and AGD of which I am not a member? The

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-10 Thread Santosh Helekar
to get off this 'spammers list' and he's dragged back kicking and squealing everytime. I think this is as unfair as laughing at the pig we're going to slice up for the feast, as he keeps protesting! FN On 10 July 2010 00:56, Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com wrote: Shri Fernandes

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-10 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sat, 7/10/10, Edward Verdes eddiever...@hotmail.com wrote: I had asked to be off this list but still I am there..my email ID is being flashed on goemchim xapotom and also another recently formed group...though am no longer subscribed to these groups. Like Admin Noronha, Eddie is

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-10 Thread Santosh Helekar
The Wikipedia definitions of email harvesting and email spam below make it crystal clear how Admin Noronha is distorting these meanings to badmouth those who like being subscribed to alternative Goan mailing lists, such as Goenchim Xapotam, or be on a cc list consisting of Goans who have quit

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-09 Thread Santosh Helekar
and criminal action. Cheers, Santosh --- On Fri, 7/9/10, Jim Fernandes amigo...@att.net wrote: The reason I am writing about this on GoaNet is because, a fellow GoaNetter named Santosh Helekar included me in this non-GoaNet related group, when I responded to a thread on GoaNet. He had

Re: [Goanet] Cross Pollination

2010-07-09 Thread Santosh Helekar
Shri Fernandes, These bogus rules and etiquettes of yours are a figment of your imagination. Goanet has no such rules. It is a public forum. Discussions on it can be continued in any other forum or mailing list. What a private free citizen does in this regard is his/her own business. Nobody

Re: [Goanet] chauvanism versus patriotism

2010-07-08 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Wed, 7/7/10, radharao gracias graciasradha...@gmail.com wrote: I fail to understand whether Santosh Helekar is deliberately misinterpreting the contents of my article or he lacks knowledge of the English language. In my article, I have stated: Our contribution to civilization

Re: [Goanet] Goa in the gutter (addendum) and chauvanism versus patriotism debate on Goanet

2010-07-08 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Thu, 7/8/10, pinheiro gift.pinhe...@gmail.com wrote: Two observation on these debates: Are we Goans Pseudointellectual? Goanet is the only place wherein you can even strip and slap (with words) the  Moderator/Admin and you are still not thrown out of the forum. My two

Re: [Goanet] chauvanism versus patriotism

2010-07-07 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 7/6/10, radharao gracias graciasradha...@gmail.com wrote: I must compliment Santosh Helekar, at the outset, for proving me right. He has taken over the leadership of the chauvanists. I feel vindicated by the response that has come from fellow Indians settled abroad. Vindicated

Re: [Goanet] Who dunnit? A Eureka moment (part 2)

2010-07-06 Thread Santosh Helekar
I read and re-read this part 2 of eureka moment. I still do not know what the eureka moment is. I also do not know why Gilbert keeps copying and pasting verbatim some of the same stuff he had posted on Goanet not very long ago. Please see his earlier post entitled Recapping Goa's History in

Re: [Goanet] India the hype...

2010-07-05 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 7/5/10, Bernado Colaco ole_...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Like Santosh remarks to Nasci - I am ashamed of being an indian. What I said was that it was people like Nascy who bring shame to India. Like Jose, I did not know that Bernado considered himself an Indian. I thought that he was

Re: [Goanet] India, the hype and the reality... (Radharao Gracias)

2010-07-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
Nascy, What you have written below and in an accompanying post is utter rubbish. You are fixated on what people eat, and how they dress. If they eat and dress like you, you call them civilized. Talk about mono-cultural, this is mono-maniacal stupidity. I am quite certain that the Australian

Re: [Goanet] India, the hype and the reality... (Radharao Gracias)

2010-07-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
Nascy, Here is why it is you, in addition to the corrupt politicians and some irresponsible Indians, who bring shame to India. 1. You are completely clueless about the great stalwarts of 20th century India, who were mathematical and scientific geniuses, and whose work contributed to the

Re: [Goanet] Who dunnit? A Eureka moment.

2010-07-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
The purpose and meaning of the following post are a mystery. Even after reading it twice, I do not have answers to following questions: 1. What is the eureka moment? 2. Where was the temple? 3. What structure stands in its place now? 4. What are the names of the respected Goanetters mentioned

Re: [Goanet] India, the hype and the reality... (Radharao Gracias)

2010-07-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
As I have said before, criticism has to be legitimate and substantive. It has to result from a genuine appraisal of facts. Criticism borne out of ignorance, prejudice or political bias is worthless. It misdirects our efforts at finding remedies, and contributes to the perpetuation of ignorance

Re: [Goanet] India, the hype and the reality... (Radharao Gracias)

2010-07-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
Good to know that, unlike Nascy, Jim has heard of two Indian scientists mentioned by me. But from the earlier claim of zero contributions by Indians we now have the goal post being moved to lack of proportional contribution. Is this supposed to be contribution per capita or contribution per

Re: [Goanet] A new leaf in Goa's prehistory Linear cupules of BambolimHistory of human colonization of Tiswadi now goes back to mesolithic (10000 years BCE) period

2010-07-03 Thread Santosh Helekar
Nandakumar, A couple of questions. First, are you preparing to send these findings for publication in a peer-reviewed archeological journal? That would be the appropriate thing to do to validate your findings. Second, I had read that the land of Goa was under the sea until about 1 B.C.E.

Re: [Goanet] India, the hype and the reality... (Radharao Gracias)

2010-07-02 Thread Santosh Helekar
One of the misfortunes of India is Indians like Nascy who have never had any attachment to their motherland or their fellow countrymen, let alone any sense of pride, responsibility or duty towards them. In my opinion, along with corruption and other ills, the disgraceful attitude displayed,

Re: [Goanet] India, the hype and the reality... (Radharao Gracias)

2010-06-30 Thread Santosh Helekar
Thoughtful valid self-criticism is always welcome. Indeed it is essential for any kind of progress to occur. It is a hallmark of rational thought and scientific inquiry. But the article in question has very little to offer in this vein. On the contrary, as Amita Kanekar so nicely pointed out,

Re: [Goanet] India, the hype and the reality... (Radharao Gracias)

2010-06-29 Thread Santosh Helekar
I am always amazed why people counter hyperbolic nonsense on one fringe with something even worse from the opposite fringe. In this article it looks like chauvinism is countered by self-loathing, using a rather constricted definition of greatness and progress. If, as the silly line of argument

Re: [Goanet] Chauvinism V/s Patriotism - Adv. Radharao Gracias - Herald - June 25, 2010 - Comments

2010-06-26 Thread Santosh Helekar
I am always amazed why people counter hyperbolic nonsense on one fringe with something even worse from the opposite fringe. In this ridiculous article it looks like chauvinism is countered by self-loathing, using a rather constricted definition of greatness and progress. If, as the silly line

Re: [Goanet] HINDUISATION of USA - UK - CANADA - EUROPE - AUSTRALIA - NEWZEALAND.

2010-06-20 Thread Santosh Helekar
What is the purpose of this propaganda piece? Does he want to propagate his own brand of religion, denigrate India, malign Hindus and Catholics who are not like him, stereotype and ridicule people from different Indian states? What? Why does he deny the fact that India is a secular country?

Re: [Goanet] Knocks On The Door: It’s The Newspap er Boy

2010-06-17 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Marshall Mendonza mmendonz...@gmail.com wrote: The recording of the meeting is up on YouTubehttp://blogs.outlookindia.com/default.aspx?ddm=10pid=2243eid=31 The speakers in the above recording entitled India's War on People quite brazenly introduce us to a version of

Re: [Goanet] Ratol poisoning

2010-06-16 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Tue, 6/15/10, Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org wrote: PS: It's not fair to take the crank elements out of alternative forms of medicine, and compare these with the more trustworthy ones of allopathy. How would you detect the crank elements of alternative medicine? What

Re: [Goanet] Ratol poisoning

2010-06-15 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 6/14/10, soter so...@bsnl.in wrote: Conventional medicine (Allopathy) claims there is little chance of survival from Ratol poisoning. It claims that liver transplant is the only option. Is this true? Where and by whom were these claims made? Is there no alternative medicine

Re: [Goanet] Is XXX an Agent of Mine Owners trying to buy Mineral Resources cheaply?

2010-06-12 Thread Santosh Helekar
I have no idea what the purpose of the post appended below is. It appears that in it new allegations have been leveled against Nandakumar, along with modest praise of him. I also noticed the gratuitous inclusion of baseless taunts against unrelated individuals, including one against a

Re: [Goanet] Is XXX an Agent of Mine Owners and the Politicians Who Want to Sell Minerals for a Song to Multinationals for their Personal Benefit?

2010-06-09 Thread Santosh Helekar
I strongly object to this smearing and denigration of Nandakumar Kamat by Augusto Pinto for selfish person political reasons. Arundhati Roy has been rightly and rightfully criticized for her advocacy of violent Naxalite extremists by Nandakumar, Selma and others because they pose as grave a

Re: [Goanet] these f****g overseas Goans from the cozy comfort of their luxury..

2010-05-26 Thread Santosh Helekar
To what extent are resident Goans who do not consider themselves Indians and view Indian heroes with contempt, a problem for Goa? Cheers, Santosh --- On Wed, 5/26/10, Pandu Lampiao pan...@gmail.com wrote: One should have been angry for a variety of reasons: the Gandi statue in Old Goa

Re: [Goanet] ENDLESS VIOLENCE AGAINST CHRISTIAN WOMEN..

2010-05-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
The post appended below indicates that its author has either overlooked the evidence I have provided in this thread, or does not know what is meant by proof or evidence. Please see my previous post in this thread for evidence of selective religious bias in the original propaganda piece posted

Re: [Goanet] When life begins

2010-05-24 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 5/23/10, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote: Dear Goannetters, Dr.Jerome Lejeune teaches us when human life begins scientifically. The above falsehood and the accompanying political testimonies were posted here a few months ago. At that time I had posted a thorough refutation

Re: [Goanet] ENDLESS VIOLENCE AGAINST CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF KANDHAMAL

2010-05-24 Thread Santosh Helekar
The post appended below reveals a lack of understanding of the problem of politicization of sociological research, and an attempt to inject further a baseless speculation along religious lines. Santosh Digal is a journalist based in the Philippines. Social research driven by narrow selfish

Re: [Goanet] ENDLESS VIOLENCE AGAINST CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF KANDHAMAL

2010-05-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
Why are these researchers and activists ignoring violence against women of other religions? Why this selective religious propaganda? Cheers, Santosh --- On Sun, 5/23/10, Marshall Mendonza mmendonz...@gmail.com wrote: ENDLESS VIOLENCE AGAINST CHRISTIAN WOMEN OF KANDHAMAL by Santosh Digal

Re: [Goanet] BMC's 'Hindutva' diktat upsets schools

2010-05-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 5/21/10, Marshall Mendonza mmendonz...@gmail.com quoted: While reviewing proposals from BMC-aided schools, we came across many missionary schools who had written to us in English. And many corporators observed that while these schools approach the BMC for aid, they do not

Re: [Goanet] Deccan Herald Interview

2010-05-08 Thread Santosh Helekar
Hi Gilbert, You have responded to my concern regarding the Inquisition Museum, but you have not responded to my request to provide real factual data to back up your wild accusations against a Goan historian and unsupported speculations about Goan history. Could you please do that? Not doing so

Re: [Goanet] Deccan Herald Interview

2010-05-07 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Thu, 5/6/10, Gilbert Lawrence gilbert2...@yahoo.com wrote: It appears you quote what others parrot without the authors providing specific references and cross-checks. Isn't this exactly what Gilbert is doing here? Has he provided specific quotes to back up his own wild speculations

Re: [Goanet] Deccan Herald Interview

2010-05-05 Thread Santosh Helekar
Because of the wild accusations that the non-historian Gilbert has made against the Goan historian Teotonio De Souza concerning the latter's Deccan Herald Interview I had asked Gilbert to provide us with specific evidence for the following: 1. That Teotonio R. De Souza misrepresented

Re: [Goanet] Deccan Herald interview

2010-05-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
The post appended below is not very intellectually honest. There is nothing in the answers provided by Teotoniobab in the interview that can be considered a misrepresentation. The only thing that is wrong with the interview as published is its inappropriate title. The burden of justifying the

Re: [Goanet] ''superior'' Indians

2010-05-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
I am not quite sure if the original post in this thread was meant to criticize the abominable caste system or the people of India, by implying that they were inferior to Jews. But if the latter is the case, I suggest that Antonio familiarize himself with the creative artistes and thinkers that

Re: [Goanet] Deccan Herald interview

2010-05-02 Thread Santosh Helekar
Gilbert wrote: Not too long ago, I thought there was progress on the truth about the Inquisition, when Teo headlined one of his original post / thread as Inquisition for Colonial Disciplining.? This is a strange assertion. How can one claim progress is being made on the truth about the

Re: [Goanet] 500 years of the Portuguese in Goa

2010-04-30 Thread Santosh Helekar
It is good that Vasant used an sober and appropriate subject line for his post. Deccan Herald, on the other hand, quite predictably decided to sensationalize the interview. When will these journalists stop provoking people? Cheers, Santosh --- On Thu, 4/29/10, Vasant Baliga vabal...@yahoo.com

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-25 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 4/25/10, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote: Can Dr.Santosh write books on homeopathy? Yes, any person who has passed 7th standard can write a book on homeopathy because it does not require any kind of deeper understanding or even an elementary knowledge of physics, chemistry

Re: [Goanet] You don't really care do you?!

2010-04-24 Thread Santosh Helekar
I am surprised Ms. Miranda did not challenge the following statement of Mr. Colaco: Nuttin will happen for the good of Goa if Goans do not challenge the current regime imposed upon Goans since 61. Mr. B. Colaco Mr. Colaco wants us to believe that there was no mining in Goa before 1961. He

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-24 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sat, 4/24/10, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote: **I did not refer to money scams of (Dr.) Dana Ullman, but to his knowledge of homeopathy, since he has books on homeopathic medicine. --- On Sat, 4/24/10, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote:

Re: [Goanet] HINDUTVAVADIS - JIHADIS - MAOISTS - NAXALITIES - CLERGY - MISSIONARIES - POLITICIANS..

2010-04-24 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sat, 4/24/10, marcus dmello marcus...@gmail.com wrote: But unlike the Maoists and Naxalities who are brave enough to fight with the heavily armed security forces Maoists and Naxalites have killed thousands of unarmed civilians in India over the last five years. They have killed at

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote: This sounds better argued, though I'm not willing to buy into the science/medicine-can-do-no-wrong logic. The argument by adjective [1] continues though (false statements, warped logic, falsely claims, besides tarnish). Gilbert, I appreciate

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Ivo da C.Souza icso...@bsnl.in wrote: Dana Ullman, with his experience in the homeopathic field, shows his expertise and could be called Dr.Ullman; he is helping humanity with his products. Everybody, including Dr. Gilbert, Admin Noronha and Fr. Ivo should be concerned

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Fri, 4/23/10, Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org wrote: You're shifting the debate from one on the failures of so-called modern medicine, to Dana Ullman and  his political website. FN The original diatribe in Huffington Post was about the implication that modern medicine is not

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
It looks like Huffington Post has become a full-fledged dishonest pseudoscientific operation. How embarrassing that a silly diatribe from a publicist and salesman for homeopathy is posted as a serious article questioning the scientific nature of modern medicine? Cheers, Santosh --- On Tue,

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
Noronha has mischaracterized my post in his response appended below. So in making false statements about what I have written in it, by his own warped logic, Noronha has attempted to tarnish me, the author of my post. My comments were directed at Huffington Post and the article published in it.

Re: [Goanet] How Scientific is Medicine?

2010-04-21 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Wed, 4/21/10, Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com wrote: Please see the following website owned by the author Dana Ullman on which he publicizes homeopathy and sells homeopathic books, pamphlets, CD-ROMs, etc. I cannot call him a homeopath because he has no degree in homeopathy

Re: [Goanet] Nascimento's community

2010-04-11 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Sign the Petition requesting The Honble Minister of State for Environment and Forests (I/C) to maintain the moratorium on issuing further environmental clearances for mining activities in Goa

Re: [Goanet] Responsible for Terrorism

2010-04-09 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Sign the Petition requesting The Honble Minister of State for Environment and Forests (I/C) to maintain the moratorium on issuing further environmental clearances for mining activities in Goa

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