Re: [Goanet] An Open Letter to Wendell Rodricks/ to Roland

2007-09-09 Thread Sunith D Velho
that you are referring to and claiming to represent. All Canadians? Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://www.GOANET.org

[Goanet] Parking problems in Panaji/repl to Selma

2007-09-01 Thread Sunith D Velho
. With approximately a thousand new vehicles being bought every month, these measures are barely sufficient, and I don't know if similar steps are being taken in other urban centres. Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Knights to Columbus/to Selma

2007-06-24 Thread Sunith D Velho
-millionaire persona of mine that you a perpetrating. Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Goanet] A hypocrisy test for Roland Francis

2007-06-18 Thread Sunith D Velho
and you know precious little about) was a great businessman under Portuguese rule, just like many in my family are as good businessmen under Goan(Indian) rule. Sunith Velho -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] No list yet

2007-06-18 Thread Sunith D Velho
does Jose pretend not understand? Sunith Velho -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jose writes: f: I can jot down several rights that Goans now REALLY enjoy. 1. The right NOT to have their name removed from the electoral register by a person who allegedly forges the signature of another

Re: [Goanet] No list yet.. Roland Francis

2007-06-18 Thread Sunith D Velho
D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Jose struggling with a simple list

2007-06-18 Thread Sunith D Velho
brand of kingdergarten humour. The continued absence of a simple list of Constitutional Rights I had requested is baffling, especially since a few posters have been continuously lauding themsleves as people of exceptional maturity and intelligence. Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Knighthood for Salman Rushdie..

2007-06-18 Thread Sunith D Velho
once again to the former firebrand who was never afraid to tell it like it is(was), though he openly conceeded that he was spared the worst of the indignities inflicted on his brothers. Sunith Velho -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Jose struggles but raises one Right

2007-06-18 Thread Sunith D Velho
posts on a Canadian forum. Especially since it is filled with some vague generalities on the joys of living in Canada. Bravo Sunith ..You are the 'besht'! And here is JC's peculiar brand of KG humour again. Exceptional intelligence and maturity, I admit. Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL

[Goanet] Of Constitutions, Dogmas and Roland Francis

2007-06-17 Thread Sunith D Velho
, and thus one of doubtful foundation.(end of quote) Sunith Velho -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Flags, Colonialism and Sleeping in a History

2007-06-13 Thread Sunith D Velho
was from a bourgeoisie family or Nehru should have kept his mouth shut. This a sad, pathetic and sorry substitute for logical argument, but I doubt you can do better. Sunith Velho -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Goanet recommends

Re: [Goanet] Can we use a DVD from US [ NTSC] in Goa [ PAL]?

2007-06-08 Thread Sunith D Velho
. London, England -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Goanet recommends, and is proud to be associated with, 'Domnic's Goa' - A nostalgic romp through a bygone era. This book is the perfect gift for any Goan, or anyone wanting to understand

Re: [Goanet] Creationism versus Evolution

2007-05-22 Thread Sunith D Velho
to be selectively applied? Sunith Velho Orlando writes: There are others too like Michael Behe, William A. Dembski, James M Kushiner, Lee Strobel etc. I urge those on this list who are interested in the debate to look these authors up. -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Goanet] All the hots about a stupid Richard Gere hug

2007-05-02 Thread Sunith D Velho
our culture. Soli Sorabjee is right, we are becoming the laughing stock of the world. Sunith Velho -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- CONVENTION OF THE GOAN DIASPORA FROM GOA INTO THE WORLD Lisbon, Portugal June 15-17, 2007 Details

Re: [Goanet] review of Jerry Pinto's Reflected in water

2007-04-19 Thread Sunith D Velho
a boost as well, and no one will be inconvenienced. -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] More bad news for Goan secularists

2007-04-12 Thread Sunith D Velho
Foundation. Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Debating opinions instead of grammar

2007-04-11 Thread Sunith D Velho
http://www.GOANET.org This month's Goanet operations sponsored by an Anonymous Donor

Re: [Goanet] The mall at the GMC

2007-04-06 Thread Sunith D Velho
the shifting of the GMC to Bambolim) and rat infested. I'm not sure what Jose is trying to say here. Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Plagiarism

2007-04-02 Thread Sunith D Velho
in Stanford and UCL and all the academic research that has followed since, the Internet would be a far cry from what it is today. Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Plagiarism and Goa

2007-04-01 Thread Sunith D Velho
the tempation to respond to your personal potshots. Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Plagiarism and Goa

2007-03-30 Thread Sunith D Velho
in place. If I'm not mistaken, the ex(?) HOD of the Electronics department of Goa Engineering College was accused of it and of misrepresenting his educational qualifications a while ago, and the students went on strike to have him removed. Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Plagiarism

2007-03-29 Thread Sunith D Velho
that you have taken my cheer-leader jibe a tad too seriously. Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Plagiarism

2007-03-27 Thread Sunith D Velho
for themselves is entirely irrelevant to the debate. Regards -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Forks and Knives

2007-02-24 Thread Sunith D Velho
Mandovi where they ordered the placement of forks on the right side and the knife on the left of the plate. Has any body heard of this story, especially from Tivolem? Also do the bhayyas eat with forks and knives in UP? -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Goan Educational System

2007-02-22 Thread Sunith D Velho
. Regards Sunith Albert writes: Take the degree of Goa universtity and go abroad for further studies and you cannot get admission why? Joe writes: Surely, Bosco would have a different perception of the situation if he were living (and studying/studied) in Goa these past years. -- Sunith D Velho

Re: [Goanet] Origins of the world Carnival

2007-02-21 Thread Sunith D Velho
. Regards Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joao Cota writes: I was stunned and shocked to read the above article. The first paragraph on the origin of the word carnival is abosolute bull to say the least.The author's ignorance should have been checked by the publishers... who

Re: [Goanet] The Australian-Goan's overwhelmingly anti-India

2007-02-10 Thread Sunith D Velho
to tell Goans in Goa how to run their lives and businesses. Neither seemed particularly qualified to dole out such advice and definitely created a pathetic impression of themselves, and Australian Goans in general. -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 2, Issue 141

2007-02-09 Thread Sunith D Velho
? Shameful especially to the chap who passed this information. BC -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] First Polls rigged!

2007-02-01 Thread Sunith D Velho
and Portuguese colonial rule alive without resorting to untruths about events that led to and followed their ouster. -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Goanet] Re: Are the atheists right?

2007-01-26 Thread Sunith D Velho
- are likely to confront the minute they die. -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Goanet] Re:A cheap shot

2007-01-25 Thread Sunith D Velho
, forced conversions and the razing of Hindu temples. What according to you was in the interest of the common Goan? Why don't you just say it instead of confusing everyone including yourself. Is this the GL version of the Fuggdi you so often refer to? -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 2, Issue 75

2007-01-20 Thread Sunith D Velho
all know that even movement(in terms of moving from one place to another) is heavily restricted in Macau and China. Sunith BC writes: I wonder if the FREE is to corrupt, kill, despot, loan shark, banditiry, rape, toilet. Why are we having The Save Goa movmeent? -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL

Re: [Goanet] Bad taste in the mouth of Sunito

2007-01-20 Thread Sunith D Velho
have a gut feeling that this anti Portuguese rethoric by young Sunito is because of some namoradinha problem. Maybe some 'short Portuguese' fugiu com ela. Or I hope it is not because of not getting Portuguese Nationality? BTW how is Bibloh and your mum (Loretta)? BC -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL

Re: [Goanet] A cheap shot by Roland Francis

2007-01-17 Thread Sunith D Velho
. Cheers, Roland. -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Climate Change

2007-01-17 Thread Sunith D Velho
yours. Please feel free to contact him in your personal capacity, and convince him of the error in his ways. Regards Sunith Velho -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] VOTE FOR MANOHAR PARRIKAR in May

2007-01-13 Thread Sunith D Velho
and imposing it on the schools ! -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Carmo's insulting posts

2007-01-11 Thread Sunith D Velho
graduate with a doctorate in the hot field of engineering management -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW.GOANET.ORG ** C O M M U N I T Y ** A N N O U N C E M E N T

Re: [Goanet] Pota Retreats

2007-01-09 Thread Sunith D Velho
ways, but like many of my generation and most of my friends find these of no use personally. Regards Sunith Velho -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW.GOANET.ORG ** C O M M U N I T Y ** A N N O U N C E M E N T

Re: [Goanet] Must you come to Goa this time?

2007-01-07 Thread Sunith D Velho
the crusading Joan of Arc takes up cudgels uninvited, this is not an attack on Ana Maria, but just seeking for clarification of a publicly stated viewpoint that is contradictory. -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Recognising people of Goan origin

2007-01-02 Thread Sunith D Velho
can be taken in ways other than the one Sunith Velho suggests. Perhaps their context in the interview in The Week makes their meaning absolutely clear. Andre -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] Recognising people of Goan origin

2007-01-01 Thread Sunith D Velho
Fernandes, Ontario, artist. brendanfernandes.ca * Ignatius Camillo, supermodel cum deejay. -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Goanet] Cult (Was: Goanet Should be ............)

2006-12-31 Thread Sunith D Velho
Dear Santosh, How about making this your New Year's resolution. Avoid arguing with a man whose main debating point is essentially, There was this guy on T.V. who said.. Best Wishes for 2007! Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Goanet] Slaves to Portuguese Rule

2006-12-20 Thread Sunith D Velho
took Goans. So don't look forward just yet to any enduring return of overseas Goans back to Goa or India or the current trickle turning into a flood. -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Goanet] Re:Liberation of Goa

2006-12-19 Thread Sunith D Velho
-- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Goanet] lifeguards

2006-12-18 Thread Sunith D Velho
of lifeguards. On a cynical note of my own, its quite likely that certified lifeguards have moved on and out of Goa..or..nobody wants to be a lifeguard as the job is not as glamourous as Baywatch makes it out to be. - Bosco Toronto, CA -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Goanet] The Goan crab mentality other Goan expressions

2006-12-15 Thread Sunith D Velho
, ask any man. Regards Sunith Selma writes: She is a homely girl. This phrase used anywhere else in the world will earn you (to use another Goan expression), one tight slap or fattak. The word homely in general parlance means unattractive and shorn of embellishment. -- Sunith D Velho

Re: [Goanet] Panjim.. Post IFFI/ reply to Phillip

2006-12-13 Thread Sunith D Velho
-- Sunith D Velho Phillip writes: I was intrigued by your ascribing the improvement in the electricity situation to, initially, the transformer and underground cabling. Susbequently you have overlooked the underground cabling. I am sure there is a link between the electricity situation

[Goanet] Goans can survive without too much of overseas

2006-12-13 Thread Sunith D Velho
please excuse me for making myself clear on how much I expect beisdes travelling expenses. Best regards Tony Martin -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St Mary's and Xavier's

[Goanet] Origins of Crab Mentality /Reply to Cornel

2006-12-12 Thread Sunith D Velho
it is supposed to mean please? Is it a translation of a Konkani term? -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St Mary's and Xavier's -- three prominent institutions in Mapusa, Goa

Re: [Goanet] Gulab Jaam (Was: Goa is............)

2006-12-12 Thread Sunith D Velho
to refer to the origins of food. It is only used by the misguided elites as an adjective to describe people. I'm sure you can come up with something better if you are trying to describe how 'Goan' a person is. Regards Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Goanet] Panjim... post IFFI

2006-12-11 Thread Sunith D Velho
are going to drop this thread. -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St Mary's and Xavier's -- three prominent institutions in Mapusa, Goa. Events scheduled from Dec 16 to 21

Re: [Goanet] The mess that is Goa/ Reply to Bosco

2006-12-09 Thread Sunith D Velho
India no such nexus exists because the biggest criminals and extortionists are all politicians themselves. Best Regards Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St

[Goanet] Intolerance and tolerance (France, Britain)..

2006-12-09 Thread Sunith D Velho
the world with this simple tactic, except Tamil Nadu, where random people will lecture me for hours that an NRI Tamil should learn his mother tongue! Continuously protesting Tamil Illa or that I'm from Goa seem to have no effect on the length of the lecture. Best Regards Sunith D Velho [EMAIL

Re: [Goanet] Panjim.. post IFFI/reply to Roland

2006-12-09 Thread Sunith D Velho
century New York, you are now comparing it to modern day Barcelona, London and Munich. Any explanation for this? Regards, Roland. -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St

Re: [Goanet] When Goa's media goes on a name-calling..

2006-12-08 Thread Sunith D Velho
it money well spent, though the quality of work could have been better. Large events like the Olympics or World Cup are used all over the world to rejuvinate cities(Barcelona, London, Munich,etc), the same thing has happened in a much smaller way with Panjim and IFFI. -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL

Re: [Goanet] The Mess that is Goa

2006-12-06 Thread Sunith D Velho
alive) just across the border. Best Regards -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bosco writes: I found Sunith's comparisons of NewYork of the 1900s with present day Goa amusing. Instead of moving forward he seems to be acknowledging that Goa is going backward. Never mind crime and corruption

Re: [Goanet] The mess that is a Goan argument

2006-12-05 Thread Sunith D Velho
Roland Quotes: Wherever You Are Home Is Where The Heart Is Sunith responds: Didn't this thread start with how you had finally achieved closure and were now happy that you chose to settle in Canada? Don't think this quote is particulalrly appropriate and you are kind of trampling over your

Re: [Goanet] Holland considers Saree ban..

2006-12-03 Thread Sunith D Velho
itself. Its high time we admit that, without fear of being politically incorrect in todays religiously charged atmosphere. It is not for nothing that Edward Said's brilliantly written book is considered one of the most important books of our age. Best Regards Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Goanet] (no subject)

2006-12-01 Thread Sunith D Velho
and are very self assured. At the NIO where I spent two weeks there were women everywhere (apparently they cant find any guys to do fieldwork!!) and they are working toward their doctorates in very interesting fields like paleoclimate, molecular biology and biotechnology. -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL

Re: [Goanet] Bleeding Labour Dry

2006-11-30 Thread Sunith D Velho
on this forum is going to convince either one of us. I respect your views, just as you respect mine, I'm sure ... so let's leave it at that, eh? I am anti-privatization and you are pro-privatization, and the world has plenty of space for both our views :-) -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Goanet] The Mess that is Goa/ reply to Selma

2006-11-29 Thread Sunith D Velho
Dear Selma and Roland, I don't judge the choices people make nor the reasons for them. If economic circumstance or career development has forced a Goan to seek employment anywhere in the world, it doesn't make them any less Goan than someone living or working in Goa. However if they express

Re: [Goanet] Bleeding labour dry/reply to (Vidyadhar Gadgil)

2006-11-28 Thread Sunith D Velho
Dear Vidhyadhar, To further nationalise essential services in a country where there is no political or bureaucratic accountabilty will spell disaster for India. To cite an example, until a few years ago telecommuncations was nationalised and the the scenario in this sector in India was

[Goanet] The Mess that is Goa/ reply to Roland

2006-11-27 Thread Sunith D Velho
Dear Roland, Sometime ago Selma expressed a similar sentiment to yours by saying she was happy not to be born and brought up in Goa, which got me quite bewildered as to how a person who is happy not to have been born, brought up and lived in Goa could proudly claim to be a Goan. A fellow Goa

Re: [Goanet] The Emerging Superior HYBRID CASTE of Goa !

2006-11-23 Thread Sunith D Velho
the above with monotonous regularity in weak attempts to garner respect, but are more successful in attracting ridicule. My cutting edge research has shown that anyone propagating such a theory is a MUTANT rather than a hybrid of any race. Regards Sunith -- Sunith D Velho [EMAIL PROTECTED