Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:41:30 -0400
From: MD\Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Since Mario Goveia is the only point of contact and has declared has
ancestry, may I caution Mario not to visit his family in the
zoo or try to befriend them by feeding them peanuts while they at at it.
They have the keen
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:12:03 -0400
From: oscar lobo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is all history now and the most important thing
the Portuguese did for Goa is to save the race of
Goans and whatever they built in Goa helped India
to showcase tourism and help the politicians after
1961 to reap the
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:22:49 +0530
From: U P Kamath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I find Manglorean Catholic girls and women quite
attractive, whereas I find Goan catholics
distinctively ugly in general. I feel It is due to 450
years of Portuguese slavery. Now one may be
politically correct and accuse me
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 07:35:28 +0530
From: U P Kamath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am not religious, unlike you, so the slur about ape
passes me by.
Mario writes:
Mr. Kamath may have misunderstood whom the slur was
against:-)) There is another side to this.
I just got a phone call from the local zoo.
--- On Sun, 8/31/08, U P Kamath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am not religious, unlike you, so the slur about ape passes
me by.
---
The slur is in your own mind. The only point I was trying to make is that there
is no DNA difference between two human beings
Hi Mello
I think you mis-read my post. Please read it again.
Yet I am glad my post led you to write an excellent review of early Portuguese
history in Goa.
Surely Mangloreans are a Goan diaspora; contrary to what Kamath would have us
believe.
Regards, GL
-- MD\Mello,
I was in
I had many remarks from many Goan
I will try to answer some.
First as the debate borders on racism and religion, I should first state
what I am in the eyes of those who judge by birth: I am a Canara Hindu GSB,
so I trace my ancestry to Goa.
I am an agnostic. One is free to comment on my bias, for
--- On Sat, 8/30/08, U P Kamath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is also survival of fittest in evolution. I was
pointing this had
negative effect on the racial stock of Goa, due to
oppressive slavery of the
Portuguese - free spirited people could not survive their
oppression - they
I am not religious, unlike you, so the slur about ape passes me by. As I do
not see much genetic distance from me to the ape. As for the Jamaican, the
genetic distance between two extreme branch of humans - with a head count of
over 6 billion is much less than between two extreme individuals of
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:35:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gabriel de Figueiredo
I am not here to give you a history lesson, but please
do yourselves a favour and get your facts right.
Mario observes:
Gabriel,
Far from giving us a history lesson, you are revising
history while looking at it through
of enslavement as has been seen
often in modernity.
Again, splendid points UP.
venantius j pinto
From: U P Kamath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Goanet] GHANTII
I find Manglorean Catholic girls and women quite
attractive, whereas I find Goan catholics distinctively ugly
WHO HAS MORE FREEDOM
Regards
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Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:22:49 +0530
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U P Kamath wrote:
I find Manglorean Catholic girls and women
quite
attractive, whereas I find Goan catholics distinctively
ugly in general. I
feel It is due to 450 years of Portuguese slavery. Now one
may be
politically correct and accuse me of bias. But I feel the
Mangalorean
catholics
To begin with, I wish we ended the title of this thread as it is no longer and
in no way connected to the contents of the posts.
In keeping with my other series of posts, that I am writing, with all due
respects to Kamath, I have to repeat the by-line You told us the fiction, now
lets see the
U P Kamath wrote:
It is true that Goa was crime free during Portuguese rule.But racism under them
was much more severe than the British! The state was much more oppressive.
Comment:
Whether racism was more or less severe than the British, only someone who has
made a comparative study can
UP,
What does beauty have to do with religion or colonial rule ?
Mangalorean girls generally look beautiful both catholic and hindus. e.g
is Aishwarya Rai, Shilpa Shetty, Genelia D'Souza and Rita Lobo (from a
well known Konkani movie) This might be a genetic thing and has nothing
to do with
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:17:45 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL
PROTECTED]; goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] GHANTII - BEAUTIFUL
AND CONSTITUTIONALLY FREE GOANS Dear goanetters and U.P. Kamath, A very
famous sayingBeauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Your statement
Sure, Mario (and Cornel and others), I will keep on harping on the good side of
sossegado life. After all, life today in Portugal is still sossegado compared
to the rat race of the rest of Europe.
Why did I come to Australia? Oh! before I came to Australia, I lived in London.
Why didn't I go
Hi Gabriel
Nice to hear from you after a seemingly long absence.
I am however rather bemused by your long list of
Portuguese contributions over 451 years in Goa but
regret to say that they were of negligible help to Goa
economically and in terms of developing a modern
infrastructure. Had they
Dear Gabriel,
It is true that Goa was crime free during Portuguese rule.
But racism under them was much more severe than the British! The state was
much more oppressive.
I find that centuries of Portuguese repression, or rather
slavery, should i list:
de souza-Goswami [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Ana Maria de souza-Goswami [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Goanet] GHANTII
To: goanet@lists.goanet.org
Received: Wednesday, 27 August, 2008, 12:42 AM
Hi Dominic,
There was no electricity in the
villages, no running
water, wait endless for public
Ana Maria wrote:
Goans, do not criticise what the Indians and fellow
Goans have done to Goa, but criticise what the
Portuguese did not do for Goa.
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:21:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gabriel de Figueiredo
Electricity. Water. Phones. They would have come to
the villages in
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