[Goanet] This Happened In Bangalore

2009-02-22 Thread edward desilva
They gun straight for the women, and everyone – a fewwell-meaning bystanders, acquaintances who know us from therestaurant, basically everyone who tries to help the women – startsgetting thoroughly beaten up. Women are kicked in the groin, punched in the stomach, slapped acrossthe face, grabbed

[Goanet] This Happened In Bangalore

2009-02-21 Thread edward desilva
Guirimboy said: " At this rate any progress made will soon vanish the way of Zimbabwe."Wonderful! Wonder who will make it to the finish line first - the UK or India?Tim Hi, That's right Tim, that is all you can do - keep wondering. But you don't have to wonder for long, it is said that,

[Goanet] This Happened In Bangalore

2009-02-21 Thread edward desilva
Hi All, Some people learn a new word via Goanet but do not know how, where and when to use it. Take HUBRIS for example, it  means: 'is a term used in modern English to indicate overweening pride, self-confidence'. Ed said: At that time there was this Shiv Sena movement - if I am not mistaken it

Re: [Goanet] This Happened In Bangalore

2009-02-20 Thread Tim de Mello
Guirimboy said: " At this rate any progress made will soon vanish the way of Zimbabwe." Wonderful! Wonder who will make it to the finish line first - the UK or India? Tim > It was then that I decided I should quit India. > Watered milk, stones in rice, wheat and dall, milk

[Goanet] This happened in Bangalore

2009-02-20 Thread Samir Kelekar
Edward writes: >I figured when I was in Mahya Pradesh in the 50s that my destiny was to be >away from Goa. So I decided what the heck, away from Goa away from India - same difference. At that time there was this Shiv Sena movement - if I am not mistaken it was the birth place of Shiv Sena in MP/U

[Goanet] This Happened In Bangalore

2009-02-20 Thread edward desilva
Inside the police station at Cubbon Park it becomes clear that thesegoons and the police know each other by their first names. Thepoliceman in charge (Thimmappa) initially refuses to even register anycomplaint from me, on the purported grounds that I am not fluent inKannada and I have taken a fe

[Goanet] This Happened In Bangalore

2009-02-20 Thread Roland Francis
"So, in brief, this is how the drama unfolded: A few of my friends and I were just paying our bills and coming out of our regular Friday night watering hole and dinner place in Rest House Road, just off Brigade Road, and most of the women in the company were already standing outside. Some of us ou