Re: [Goanet] Dr. Filomena Giese re Goan heritage/response to Nasci

2006-09-18 Thread Carvalho
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May

Re: [Goanet] Dr. Filomena Giese re Goa/response to Dr Giese

2006-09-18 Thread Filomena Giese
Dear Selma, Right now, we have perhaps a ratio of 5-10% Goans, expat or other, who care about saving something of Goa and our heritage, beauty, environment etc. and 90% or so who could care less. We can work to reverse this ratio and we will eventually succeed. It takes work and effort to harnes

Re: [Goanet] Dr. Filomena Giese re Goa/response to Dr Giese

2006-09-18 Thread Nasci Caldeira
-- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Dr Giese, > Being of an artistic bent of mind, I mourn the loss > of our architectural and art heritage, due to lack >>of funds and ignorance. I wish there was a way to >>form an organisation that would channel NRI/expat >>money into the conservation an

Re: [Goanet] Dr. Filomena Giese

2006-09-18 Thread Filomena Giese
Dear Alick, I'm spending some time today, responding to those who have written their comments on "Inconvenient Truths..." My son-in-law, a nice young American guy who had seen a lot of India, finally made it to Goa in 2004. He was totally won over. His comment was that if he had to be born anywhe

Re: [Goanet] Dr. Filomena Giese re Goa/response to Dr Giese

2006-09-18 Thread Carvalho
Dear Dr Giese, I fear more and more that my generation of expat Goans grows less and less concerned about Goa and certainly our progeny grows-up blissfully ignorant about Goa. I have so many friends and family in the US, UK and Canada and I feel totally disillusioned when I hear them talk. I hear

Re: [Goanet] Dr. Filomena Giese re Goa/response to Alick

2006-09-17 Thread Filomena Giese
Dear Selma, >From your post, I see that you are obviously aware of the changes, many but not all, detrimental in Goa. You identify the need for us overseas Goans to fund some programs for education, Job creation, heritage etc. But this lack of action on the part of immigrant Goans is not unique

Re: [Goanet] Dr. Filomena Giese re Goa/response to Alick

2006-09-15 Thread Carvalho
Dear Alick, Was reading Dr Giese's article your first encounter with what Goa has become? In which case I am saddened, for obviously you left your home in Baga some years ago, perhaps many years ago, and hope to return to it exactly as you left it. Goa and Goans in Goa in the meantime have had to

[Goanet] Dr. Filomena Giese

2006-09-15 Thread Alick Carvalho
Dear Sir/Madam, I am really saddened and disturbed to learn about the state of Goan scenario narreted by Dr. Filomena. This shoud be brought to the notice of the all autorities concerned to stop such negative developments in and around Goa. Actually, I was planning to retire in a few years in B