Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Tony de Sa...

2021-09-27 Thread Victor Rangel-ribeiro
That is truly troubling news. Am praying his situation changes for the better.Mog asundi,Victor -Original Message- From: Frederick Noronha To: Goanet Sent: Mon, Sep 27, 2021 11:49 am Subject: [Goanet-News] Tony de Sa... Tony de Sa's daughter Anna Marie de Sa responded to say: "My dad

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Leonard Fernandes talks on stamp-collecting...

2021-07-19 Thread Victor Rangel-ribeiro
Dear Frederick and Leonard,    I would very much like t attend the webinar because I've been a stamp collector for most of my life. But I was unable to register.    HELP Mog assundi,Victor -Original Message- From: Frederick Noronha To: Goanet Sent: Sun, Jul 18, 2021 5:03 pm

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] DEATH: Lambert Mascarenhas, 106, founder-editor, Goa Today

2021-06-28 Thread Victor Rangel-ribeiro
in the 1950s, was a source of inspiration to many in my generation. If it is no longer in print; it deserves to be reprinted. May he rest in peace.    Victor Rangel-Ribeiro -Original Message- From: Frederick Noronha To: Goanet Sent: Sun, Jun 27, 2021 5:42 pm Subject: [Goanet-News] DEATH

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] DELHI: A Godin & Co, the piano shop of Connaught Place, is gone (2016)

2021-01-23 Thread Victor Rangel-ribeiro
My dear Frederick,    The Godin Piano store may have vanished from Delhi, but the Bombay store, located barely 50 yards from my apartment in Byculla when I lived there in the 1950s and whose owner was a friend of mine, continues to exist in Panaji under a different name and perhaps a different

Re: [Goanet] [goawriters2] World Book Day Celebrations

2019-04-05 Thread Victor Rangel-ribeiro
And I'll be there as well, Leonard, God willing.Victor -Original Message- From: V M vmin...@gmail.com [goawriters2] To: goawriters2 Cc: Goa Book Club ; goanet Sent: Fri, Apr 5, 2019 10:58 am Subject: Re: [goawriters2] World Book Day Celebrations #yiv7923761900 #yiv7923761900 --

Re: [Goanet] India's Gerson da Cunha: Renaissance Man

2014-05-20 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
A well-deserved and overdue tribute to an extraordinarily gifted humanist. His wife Uma's talents and contribution to our culture, too, need to be recognized. Victor Rangel-Ribeiro On Friday, May 9, 2014 1:51 AM, Luis Vas luissr...@gmail.com wrote: Pranay Gupte Bestselling author

Re: [Goanet] Subject: Re: Goanet Reader: Butcher, baker, minstrel, hunter, frontiersman

2014-04-29 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
that at last we have a reference work on hand. Perhaps those who find something lacking in it should direct their efforts now at providing whatever additional information they are privy to, so that it can be accessed and archived, making her finished book even better. Victor Rangel-Ribeiro

Re: [Goanet] 'You are my son's discovery'

2014-03-28 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dominique was white, a Frenchwoman. What might  Raman's response have been had she been Indian, dark, and a non-Brahmin? We will never know. And you are my son's discovery, I will respect you for that is not really very welcoming. Victor On Thursday, March 20, 2014 2:53 AM, Jose Colaco

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] In Goa, a Goa Strings Orchestra in a concert of international classical music

2014-03-16 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
to mention the time ; ) W Sent from my iPad Wendell Rodricks, Campal, Panjim. GOA 403001. INDIA Off tel: +91-832-2420604, Shop tel: +91-832-2238177 Off email: rns.wend...@gmail.com On 13-Mar-2014, at 11:22 PM, Goanet News news.goa...@gmail.com wrote: From Victor Rangel-Ribeiro Friends

Re: [Goanet] Etê Etê Morhà

2013-12-16 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Frederick, My very loving mother-in-law Cecilia Vaz, born in Oxel, used to sing it to my children and grandchildren: Ite Ite morha Morh na gara Pani pila dudu pila Uron ghela! To me it sounded like Marathi. Her father had been a planner with Kolhapur palace in the 1910s, when she was a

Re: [Goanet] Margaret Mascrenhas on Jerry Pinto

2013-12-16 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Gabe, I take it that you were in full possession of your faculties, and also in full possession of all the facts, when you wrote that all the men involved need to be castrated? Very best regards, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 1:38 PM, Eugene Correia eugene.corr

Re: [Goanet] Query about: Victor Parajoti

2013-10-01 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Frederick, I'll certainly be able to help here. Victor Paranjoti was a good friend of mine from 1949 until 1956, when I left for the US. As music critic first for the National and Sunday Standards and then for the Times of India, I supported all his music-making activities, and covered

Re: [Goanet] Request: Help to buy and send two books from the US

2013-09-30 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Frederick, What are the two books you are looking for? I'll gladly do this for you! Regards, Victor From: Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoron...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!

Re: [Goanet] Goa: sunsets mystics. By Frederick Noronha

2013-07-27 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
This is the best machine translation I have seen to date. The machine is almost human! But debauchery on a Goan beach? I must have my head in the sand. Victor From: Eddie Fernandes eddie.fernan...@gmail.com To: 'Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!'

Re: [Goanet] Fwd:

2013-07-09 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Thanks, Augusto, for keeping me informed. Very interesting development. Musicians from six foreign countries have been brought in, probably at great expense. Fascinating. Victor From: augusto pinto pinto...@gmail.com To: Augusto Pinto pinto...@gmail.com Sent:

Re: [Goanet] Two short story writers in Portuguese

2013-03-30 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Very sorry to hear about your illness, Alfred!Best wishes for a quick recovery,Victor --- On Wed, 3/27/13, Alfred de Tavares alfredtava...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Alfred de Tavares alfredtava...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [Goanet] Two short story writers in Portuguese To: GOANET Lists

Re: [Goanet] Parsi Surnames

2013-03-29 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Luis,    Where did you come across the Parsi surname, Sodawaterbottleopenerwallah? I believe that that surname does not exist. .     Regards,    Victor --- On Thu, 3/28/13, Luis Vas luissr...@gmail.com wrote: From: Luis Vas luissr...@gmail.com Subject: [Goanet] Parsi Surnames To: Date:

Re: [Goanet] freedom fighters

2013-03-07 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Gabe, You write: We had to help our parents as well as our children. The next generation are not obliged. And that is indeed a shame, but not all members of the next generation behave in such an uncaring manner. Regards, Victor --- On Wed, 3/6/13, Gabe Menezes

Re: [Goanet] Two Goan Poets

2013-03-02 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
appreciation for what you are doing,     Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (author of the novel 'Tivolem' and other works) --- On Fri, 3/1/13, Fred Williams frederick_willi...@byu.edu wrote: From: Fred Williams frederick_willi...@byu.edu Subject: [Goanet] Two Goan Poets To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Cc: Fred

Re: [Goanet] Goans forced to be bharatis

2013-01-14 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcao, Was it not unjustified when we were forced to become Portuguese, in an overseas province no less, through Salazar's fiat? Regards, Victor --- On Thu, 1/10/13, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão drferdina...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Dr. Ferdinando

Re: [Goanet] Goans forced to be bharatis

2013-01-13 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
did neither. Why just pin blame on the Indian Union, and exonerate our Portuguese masters? Regards, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro (Victor Rangel is/was my cousin)   --- On Wed, 1/9/13, floriano lobo floriano.l...@gmail.com wrote: From: floriano lobo floriano.l...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Goanet

Re: [Goanet] Goans forced to be bharatis

2013-01-09 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Bernado, Once again, another example of your brilliant logic! A plebiscite was not held in 1962; that would have given us Goans a chance to decide our own future. You say this was obviously the work of crooks and criminals who came into Goa by force in 1961. Then you

Re: [Goanet] Does this document prove my nationality?

2013-01-08 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Bernado, If it is by an accident of history that Goans are now Indian (or bharatis, as you prefer to call us, rather contemptuously), by the same logic it was also an accident of history that made some of us think we were Portuguese. Since the accident of 1961 came after the

Re: [Goanet] PIDE- Portugal's secret Police

2013-01-08 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Bernado, I am learning so much from you today! Forced decolonization---that is such a lovely phrase! It implies that the colonies should not have been decolonized, would not have been decolonized, could not have been decolonized, unless some stupid fool idiot people had forced

Re: [Goanet] Uncouth Indian hordes

2013-01-06 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
.   From: Victor Rangel-Ribeiro vrangel...@yahoo.com To: Bernice Pereira bernicepere...@yahoo.com; estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Sunday, 6 January 2013 5:53 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Uncouth Indian hordes Dear Bernice and Gabriel, In my village

Re: [Goanet] Uncouth Indian hordes

2013-01-06 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Vivian, The answer is to show them the toilet and to show them how to use it, if they don't know how to use it. But what I see in many of the posts is just mass prejudice, blaming the sins of some on a billion other people. Regards, Victor --- On Sat, 1/5/13, Vivian A.

Re: [Goanet] Uncouth Indian hordes

2013-01-05 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Bernice and Gabriel, In my village, which is no different from most other villages, some of my neighbours take in extra boarders, in direct violation of panchayat regulations. Panchayat rules also decree that people who do this should provide ex number of toilet inside their house in

Re: [Goanet] GOA LIBERATION RETROSPECT Adv. Antonio Lobo

2013-01-05 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
heroes. With my very best personal regards, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro --- On Sat, 1/5/13, Jean Marcos Catao cata...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Jean Marcos Catao cata...@yahoo.com Subject: [Goanet] GOA LIBERATION RETROSPECT Adv. Antonio Lobo To: goanet@lists.goanet.org goanet

Re: [Goanet] Goa is all beached up?

2012-12-22 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Frederick, That was quite an impressive list. Please add my name as one who keeps coming back and trying to make improvements on limited time, with perhaps insignificant results, but I will keep on trying until Yama says time's up! Warm regards, Victor --- On Sat, 12/22/12,

Re: [Goanet] Are you in Goa this year-end?

2012-12-22 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Frederick, Do keep me informed of the Dec. 27 plans, but by email, please. Regards, Victor --- On Sat, 12/22/12, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoron...@gmail.com wrote: From: Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا

Re: [Goanet] Greeting:

2012-12-22 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Dan Driscoll, It felt good to hear from you. Your friends here in Goa miss you. Warm regards to warm you in a cold clime, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro --- On Sat, 12/22/12, DAN DRISCOLL driscoll@gmail.com wrote: From: DAN DRISCOLL driscoll@gmail.com Subject: [Goanet

Re: [Goanet] Goa is all beached up?

2012-12-18 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Bernado, I'm a bit confused by your note. You say Goa is no longer a paradise because something terribly bad happened in Delhi? Instead of whining endlessly, why don't you come back to Goa and help us improve things, Bernado? Obviously we need people of your historical insights

Re: [Goanet] the fascinating Portuguese study

2012-10-27 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Jose,     I agree totally with your elegant analysis, and accept Gabriel's explanation. Of course, if IAF fighters took off from Pune at 3.30 in the morning, the planes from Goa were long gone by then.     Warm regards to you both,     Victor --- On Sat, 10/27/12, J. Colaco jc

Re: [Goanet] Why India Invaded Goa

2012-10-25 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Gabriel, others,     There's a fascinating Portuguese study, just become public, that throws an incredible light on that episode and others connected with the events of December 18, 19, 1961. Contrary to what you say about Indian fighter jets being scrambled to shoot down the fleeing

Re: [Goanet] Olimpio Coleto Rodrigues

2012-09-24 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
In a way, Fr. Henry Heras certainly had a strong influence on me and on others who were in close contact with him at St. Xavier's College in the 1930s, '40s and the beginning '50s, but the ones he actually mentored were budding historians such as John Correia Afonso. Was Frank Moraes a history

Re: [Goanet] Journalist jobs in Canada

2012-08-17 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Well said, Jose. That is the reality. Regards, Victor From: J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Journalist jobs in Canada Frederick

Re: [Goanet] Lisbon Tram Ride (Part 1) - YouTube

2012-05-26 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Gabriel,      Unfortunately for you, but imagine how delighted certain groups from Pakistan would be if they could have a virtual tour of Bombay's streets, if they were armed to the teeth and looking for targets! What seems like paranoia to you might seem like plain common sense to others.

Re: [Goanet] Portuguese Wines for export with prices

2012-05-17 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Joe Pereira,      I  found no catalogue had been attached. Please resend.      Regards,      V. Rangel-Ribeiro From: Joe Pereira winesofportu...@fatimasales.com To: goanet goa...@goanet.org Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:29 PM Subject: [Goanet] Portuguese

Re: [Goanet] Interview with Mervyn Maciel

2012-03-30 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Selma, Unless the interviewees themselves have placed an embargo on the publication date, I would urge you to publish the interviews in full. It is time that some of the more controversial aspects of our social life were debated in public, so that public and private awareness is raised.

Re: [Goanet] My Father's trace

2012-03-19 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
John, you could also try posting your request on Africa-Orientalia. Regards, Victor From: Mervyn Elsie Maciel mervynels.watuwasha...@gmail.com To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 1:44 PM Subject: [Goanet] My Father's trace Dear  John,

Re: [Goanet] Who is going to come?

2012-03-03 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Augusto,      I have been urging Cecil to collect his columns into a book for years, but he does not listen.      Perhaps we should start a petition? Nah!!!      Regards,      Victor From: augusto pinto pinto...@gmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org Sent:

Re: [Goanet] Dr Pedro Alexandre award to cartoonist Alexyz

2012-01-25 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Wonderful news, Alexyz! A well-deserved honour. My heartiest congratulations. Warm personal regards, Victor From: Goanet A-C-E! goa...@goanet.org To: goa...@goanet.org Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:15 AM Subject: [Goanet] Dr Pedro Alexandre award to

Re: [Goanet] Goan Association (UK): President's Award for Services to the Goan Community

2012-01-09 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Congratulations, Selma, on your award! Warm personal regards, Victor From: Eddie Fernandes eddie.fernan...@gmail.com To: 'Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!' goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 6:39 AM Subject: [Goanet] Goan

Re: [Goanet] Tomazinho Cardozo declared 'Goan of the Year'

2012-01-01 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim) Planning to attend? Send an email to eve...@goanet.org with contact details --- Congratulations to Tomazinho on a well-deserved award. Warm personal regards, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro

Re: [Goanet] Wendell's Mother Expires

2011-12-26 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
--- Annual Goanetters Meet --- The annual Goanetters Meet is scheduled for the first week

Re: [Goanet] The Happy Couple that. . . Cecil Pinto---Comment by Driscoll.

2011-12-01 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Dan, Violet was Bemvinda`s sister, not her cousin, and either my classmate or a year behind at St. Xavier`s College in Bombay in the 1940s. Regards, Victor. From: DAN DRISCOLL driscoll@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent:

Re: [Goanet] WACI of Bombay (Calling Bombay gurus)

2011-11-23 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Probably a World War II acronym, Selma. WACs was used to describe those who belonged to the Women's Auxiliary Corps. The I might have stood for India. Just a wild guess; Eric might be better informed. REgards, Victor From: Carvalho elisabeth_...@yahoo.com To:

Re: [Goanet] Dr Ruth DeSouza

2011-10-26 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's

Re: [Goanet] VRR - a short note

2011-10-23 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
... a short note I wishes Victor Rangel-Ribeiro a very happy 86th birthday on the GoaWriters network, but forgot to do so here on Goanet! Better (almost) late than never. Thank goodness for the time difference between India and the US! VRR is an inspiration to quite a few of us -- surely to me. When I

Re: [Goanet] Ad Multos Annos, VRR

2011-10-04 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Jose and Ema, Lea too remembered our meetings with pleasure. Thanks for remembering. Love, Victor From: J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org Sent: Monday, October 3, 2011 4:10 PM Subject: [Goanet] Ad Multos Annos, VRR My dear VRR, I write

Re: [Goanet] VRR ... a short note

2011-10-04 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Rangel-Ribeiro a very happy 86th birthday on the GoaWriters network, but forgot to do so here on Goanet! Better (almost) late than never. Thank goodness for the time difference between India and the US! VRR is an inspiration to quite a few of us -- surely to me. When I see him working so hard

Re: [Goanet] VRR ... a short note

2011-10-03 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
From: Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoron...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Monday, October 3, 2011 1:47 PM Subject: [Goanet] VRR ... a short note I wishes Victor Rangel-Ribeiro a very happy

Re: [Goanet] Death: Lea Vaz Rangel-Ribeiro

2011-09-12 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Venantius and Cecilia, I like the image of two walking alongside me. But Lea enriched my life so much and for so many years that I doubt that Time can do much more. Warm personal regards to you both, Victor From: Venantius J Pinto venantius.pi...@gmail.com

Re: [Goanet] re DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT LEA VAZ RANGEL-RIBEIRO

2011-09-04 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Thank you, dear Eugene! Regards, Victor From: Eugene Correia eugene.corr...@gmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org Sent: Friday, September 2, 2011 8:13 PM Subject: [Goanet] re DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT LEA VAZ RANGEL-RIBEIRO My heartfelt sympathies to Victor and his family on

Re: [Goanet] Death: Lea Vaz Rangel-Ribeiro

2011-09-04 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
@lists.goanet.org Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2011 9:42 PM Subject: [Goanet] Death: Lea Vaz Rangel-Ribeiro Our condolences to long-time Goanetter writer, editor and novelist Victor Rangel-Ribeiro on the death of his wife Lea, who passed away last evening at Monroe, US. May Victor have strength to bear

Re: [Goanet] DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT Lea Vaz Rangel-Ribeiro

2011-09-04 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Rangel-Ribeiro Lea Vaz Rangel-Ribeiro, beloved wife of Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, daughter of the late Sebastian and Cecilia Vaz of Assagao and New York; mother/mother-in-law of Eva Ribeiro Wickoff/Christopher Wickoff and Eric/Liz Rangel-Ribeiro; grandmother of Dana, Ria, and Morgan Murray

Re: [Goanet] Condolences on the death of Lea Vaz Rangel-Rebeiro

2011-09-04 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Ana Maria, As the saying goes in Konkani, ghor maka khaung yeta. The empty house is ready to swallow me. But that is part of life, isn't it? The house is empty, and yet Lea's presence fills the house. Warm regards, Victor From: Ana Maria de souza-Goswami

Re: [Goanet] Demise of Lea Vaz Rangel Ribeiro

2011-09-04 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
10:58 PM Subject: [Goanet] Demise of Lea Vaz Rangel Ribeiro  It is indeed very sad to hear the news of the demise of Lea, wife of GoaNettter Victor Rangel Ribeiro.  My Condolences to Victor and to his extended family. Lea was a very charming lady and a highly accomplished musician and educator

Re: [Goanet] DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT LEA VAZ RANGEL-RIBEIRO

2011-09-04 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Mervyn and Elsie,  Although we had never met, Lea and I had heard of you even as you had heard of us. The world has shrunk and our lives are now intertwined. I thank you for your message and wish that God grant your family peace as well. Warm regards, Victor

Re: [Goanet] Heartfelt Condolences

2011-09-04 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Joel, And recently Lea remembered you taking us to the ruined house of the Visconde de Bardez, and also to the mound of stones marking the spot where Raoji Rane was slain in the 1890s. Best of all, she remembered the cantam that you picked for her from the shrubs that grew alongside the

Re: [Goanet] DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT Lea Vaz Rangel-Ribeiro

2011-09-04 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
] DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT Lea Vaz Rangel-Ribeiro The Goa Su-Raj Party  condoles the death of  Lea Vaz Rangel-Ribeiro, the dear wife of  long standing goanetter Victor Rangel-Ribeiro with deep sympathies. May her good soul rest in eternal peace. floriano goasuraj - Original Message - From

Re: [Goanet] Lea Rangel-Ribeiro

2011-09-04 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Indeed we had years of happiness, dear Roland, fifty-seven of them! We took the rough with the smooth, but the good times outweighed the bad. I too look forward to meeting you, and we should make that happen. Warm regards, Victor From: Roland Francis

Re: [Goanet] Remembering Lea...

2011-09-04 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Frederick and Edgar, I am quite overwhelmed, and so will the children be when I share these images with them. A million thanks, Victor From: Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoro...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list,

Re: [Goanet] DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT Lea Vaz Rangel-Ribeiro

2011-09-04 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Thank you, Bernado. Gratefully accepted! Very best regards, Victor From: Bernado Colaco ole_...@yahoo.co.uk To: goanet@lists.goanet.org goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Friday, September 2, 2011 10:24 PM Subject: [Goanet] DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT Lea Vaz Rangel-Ribeiro

Re: [Goanet] Lea Rangel Ribeiro.

2011-09-04 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
We have a cache of fond memories of you as well, dear Eric, years spent together building up the Goan Association of New York, that we were involved in founding, and also years spent in building up Xavierites in North America, which we also helped to found. The soft strains of Chopin melodies

Re: [Goanet] If by Caju Feni...

2011-08-14 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Wonderful piece, Cecil. Bravo! Regards, Victor From: Cecil Pinto cecilpi...@gmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 1:51 AM Subject: [Goanet] If by Caju Feni... Cecil Pinto has decided to stand for election to the Goa Vidhyan Sabha in 2012.

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

2011-07-14 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
My dear Gabriel, Lea and I had no idea that your dear mother had passed away. We had met her for the first and last time some years ago in Astoria, Queens, New York, and been quite struck by her personality and her quiet dignity. Please accept our deepest condolences. Very best regards, Victor

Re: [Goanet] Query: Renovating a house...

2011-07-04 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
My dear Frederick and Pandu Lampiao, The old-style Goan houses did not have red Mangalore tiles. Well into 1961, they had the old curved tiles, that were placed in special rows, one row inverted over the other, forming hundreds of channels, so that even the heaviest rain found its way off the

Re: [Goanet] Mayem Lake, Swans, ducks etc - Pics Video

2011-06-12 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Joe, Swans have very long necks and elegant bodies. These are ducks! Thanks for the pics anyway. I enjoy looking at all the photographs you share with us. Warm regards, Victor From: JoeGoaUk joego...@yahoo.co.uk To: goa...@goanet.org Sent: Sat, June 11,

Re: [Goanet] Obituary.. .Germana Driscoll

2011-03-22 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Dan, I don't believe we've met, and I live very far away, but I know of the work you are doing in Goa and my heart goes out to you in your bereavement. I have said a prayer for Germana. May she rest in Paradise. Warm regards, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro

Re: [Goanet] Old Goa.

2011-03-22 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Eric, Truly fascinating. But what is the source of this piece? If you tell us, or give us the link, we could then see the photographs as well. Warm regards, Victor From: eric pinto ericpin...@yahoo.com To: goa...@goanet.org Sent: Fri,

Re: [Goanet] I Am Questioned By The Dreaded Agente Monteiro

2010-12-11 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Bernado,     I see, from your repeated use of Bombaim, that you are now preparing a one-man expedition to reclaim Mumbai on behalf of Portugal, even though it was ceded to the British hundreds of years ago, before passing back into Indian hands.     You say that in the 1950s Goans were

Re: [Goanet] I Am Questioned By The Dreaded Agente Monteiro

2010-12-10 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Paulo,     I do not know how much you really know about India pre-1961, or about conditions in Goa during that period. I was born in Goa in 1925, and grew up in Goa, leaving for Goa in mid-1939. Goa was not the paradise some people claim it was. I was a student at Mater Dei at the time and

Re: [Goanet] Winemaking, anyone?

2010-11-23 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Since this thread is ostensibly about winemaking, and has been derailed by the adherents and opponents of various isms (kosehrism, halalism, urineism), I suspect that FN threw in the word Goanese to start another controversy and further delay respondents from supplying the knowledge about

Re: [Goanet] F.N. Souza's house

2010-11-07 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Frederick,     The photographs do not give us a clear picture of the location because they do not give us a view of the houses on either side.     As a four-year-old I lived in Saligao just two houses east of the crossroads formed by the main road that ran north  from the Pilerne Seminary

Re: [Goanet] Goa: The Cruellest Inquisition

2010-10-24 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Gilbert,     Are you now claiming that one of the purposes of the Inquisition in Goa was to stamp out medical malpractice by non-Catholic doctors?     If you can document such cases in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, you will have a sure best-selling treatise on your hands.    

Re: [Goanet] Police Porjek

2010-10-23 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Bernado, dear Bernado!     You have outdone yourself, your imagination is being hyperactive once again! You say the Bharat govt is selling drugs in Goa to get foreign exchange? Wouldn't they get more foreign exchange if they sold drugs in Macau?     Very best regards, and do continue to keep us

Re: [Goanet] Horror of Dual Citizenship With India (OCI)

2010-09-16 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
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Re: [Goanet] Violet Dias-Lannoy...

2010-09-06 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Frederick,     When I joined St. Xavier's College in Bombay in 1941, I found a bright group there that included John Correia Afonso and others with whom I shared a common interest in literature and writing. Several of us got together and founded the ChesterBelloc club, named after G. K.

Re: [Goanet] Konkani adages...

2010-06-16 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Joel, That is the equivalent of the proverb that goes The mountain laboured and produced a mouse. Regards, Victor From: joe...@gmail.com joe...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Wed, June

Re: [Goanet] Courage Compassion-stories of Goan military valour: HERALD(Goa), May 30, 2010

2010-05-31 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
I found your stories very moving, Valmiki. Thanks for sharing. Warm regards, Victor

Re: [Goanet] While researching Kenya, she found shocking truths about the British empire

2010-05-22 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
The Mau Mau rebellion was the subject of a book by the American scholar Robert B. Edgerton that I copy edited and was published in New York in1989. Pio Gama Pinto is the only Goan mentioned in it, but there must have been others. Frederic, why don't you pose your question on the

[Goanet] Fwd: [A-O] Australian police - again!

2010-03-26 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
--- On Fri, 3/26/10, vrangel...@aol.com vrangel...@aol.com wrote: From: vrangel...@aol.com vrangel...@aol.com Subject: Fwd: [A-O] Australian police - again! To: vrangel...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 2:41 PM    Dear fellow Goanetters, Apparently the problems of racism are

Re: [Goanet] Portuguese-to-English translation

2010-03-20 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
My dear Frederick, One important detail: what kind of material needs to be translated? Literary? Journalistic? Scientific? Mathematical? etc.! Warm regards, Victor --- On Thu, 3/18/10, Frederick Noronha fredericknoron...@gmail.com wrote: From: Frederick Noronha

Re: [Goanet] Loot of Goan Artefacts

2010-03-18 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Ignatius, Which Governor's palace in Altinho? Regards, Victor --- On Wed, 3/17/10, ignatius fernandes iggy.fernan...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: From: ignatius fernandes iggy.fernan...@hotmail.co.uk Subject: [Goanet] Loot of Goan Artefacts To: goanet@lists.goanet.org

Re: [Goanet] Dev Borem Korum

2010-03-09 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Selma, Thank you for that bit of digging into the etymology of good, which, as far as I can recall, neither I nor anybody else in this discussion claimed was derived from God. Still, the Oxford English Dictionary, in its various manifestations, is certainly a great resource. It

Re: [Goanet] Dev borem korum

2010-03-09 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Selma, The original phrase, in 895 A.D*. and thereafter, was Godd gibb thee a gode morwene, which was eventually shortened through lip laziness to gode morwene. How do I know this? I was there... Regards, Victor *Or it might even have been in 896 A.D. Or 897. My memory is

Re: [Goanet] Dev Borem Korum

2010-03-08 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
May I also point to two other expressions that we oldsters used to routinely exchange, whether as adults or as children, whenever we passed another person in the street, even total strangers: Deo boro dis dium. Deo bori rat dium. And the immediate answer naturally was, Tukai dium!

Re: [Goanet] Dev borem korun

2010-03-07 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
But indeed it does have a quid pro quo. The quo is the favour you have done the other person; the quid is the other person interceding with the Almighty on your behalf. That could be the best quid of all, if sincerely meant! Regards, Victor --- On Sun, 3/7/10, Antonio Menezes

Re: [Goanet] Colonial East Africa... in maps

2010-02-20 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
February 2010 17:45, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro vrangel...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear Frederick, I have East African colonial maps from around 1899. Check this out, a 1959 Caltex map of East African cities: eastafrica-caltex-colonialmap1 http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/4368808016/sizes/l

Re: [Goanet] Colonial East Africa... in maps

2010-02-19 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
--- *** Follow Goanet on Twitter *** http://twitter.com/goanet --- Dear Frederick, I have East

Re: [Goanet] Two Indian students die in money fight

2010-02-15 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
On the other hand, Gabriel, the news was reported in the Indian press. Warm personal regards, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro --- On Fri, 2/12/10, Gabriel de Figueiredo gdefigueir...@yahoo.com.au wrote: From: Gabriel de Figueiredo gdefigueir...@yahoo.com.au Subject: [Goanet] Two Indian students die

Re: [Goanet] Coconut tree climbing device...

2010-01-02 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

Re: [Goanet] NY institute selects GIM for India programme

2009-12-14 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Could this be the very prestigious and internationally known Aspen Institute in Aspen, Colorado? Regards, Victor From: Goanet News Service Goa Institute of Management (GIM) has been selected by the prestigious Aspen Institute, New York, as part of its Teaching Innovation Programme India

Re: [Goanet] Technical analysis of mixing Virgin coconut oil with Holy water

2009-12-13 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
, 8:52 AM Dear Victor, Had I been some scientist, I would have lambasted you for promoting unscientific illiteracy about the world of traditional knowledge :-) 2009/12/12 Victor Rangel-Ribeiro vrangel...@yahoo.com: into the mix raises interesting possibilities. The feni should obviously

Re: [Goanet] Fw: John Hopkin's Update on cancer.

2009-12-12 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
! Regards, Victor --- On Fri, 12/11/09, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro vrangel...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Victor Rangel-Ribeiro vrangel...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Goanet] Fw: John Hopkin's Update on cancer. To: estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list goanet@lists.goanet.org Date: Friday, December 11, 2009

Re: [Goanet] Technical analysis of mixing Virgin coconut oil with Holy water

2009-12-12 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Santosh, Your suggestion that feni should also be introduced into the mix raises interesting possibilities. The feni should obviously be made from coconut palms, preferably from the very same trees whose nuts are turned into the coconut oil being used. Of course, since caju/cashew

Re: [Goanet] A new dawn... optimism over football emerging from Goa (Viv...

2009-12-11 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Photos from Goa's 2009 mando festival: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/sets/72157622843319441/ Event on Wed, Thurs evening from 5 pm onwards, Kala Academy, Panaji-Goa

Re: [Goanet] Fw: John Hopkin's Update on cancer.

2009-12-11 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
. To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 1:53 PM Dear Victor, Regardless of the prank behind the earlier John Hopkins mail, I'm curious to know more of your views on the following: 2009/12/8 Victor Rangel-Ribeiro vrangel...@yahoo.com

Re: [Goanet] Fw: John Hopkin's Update on cancer.

2009-12-08 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Frederick, Johns Hopkins is one of the most prestigious and highly respected medical institutions in the United States. I thank Eric Pinto for bringing this update to our attention, because it will help protect thousands of families from developing cancer if they follow the advice

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