[Goanet] Daily Haiku #22

2008-02-22 Thread Francis Rodrigues
DAILY HAIKU #22: FISHING river boat stormy sea, fish 'n float on the zuari. http://2008goanconvention.com/blog/index.php __ Aunty, Famous Indians, Haiku, Churchill cartoons, etc.

[Goanet] Aldona Civic and Consumer Forum meeting on Saturday

2008-02-22 Thread Goa Desc
- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help others be BETTER INFORMED ---

Re: [Goanet] Is Congress Party Secular?

2008-02-22 Thread J. Colaco jc
On 19/02/2008, Dr. U. G. Barad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Dotor Jose Colaco, 1: Yes, dotor, English is a difficult language to understand and correlate. 2: I wonder how Mountbatten intruded in this discussion! 3: But Dotor you preferred to taking up your condensed version of Vinay's post and

[Goanet] LIMERICK FOR THE DAY 15

2008-02-22 Thread Shanti Dhoot
nbsp;In Goa, the tiatr continues in the same old tradition - A medley of moralising and down-to-earth fiction. It is indeed most enjoyable, More than the soaps on cable. I hope they never lose their sense of mission.

[Goanet] Talk to a Goonda? - B. Lopes

2008-02-22 Thread Bernado Colaco
Mr. Lopes is suggesting that Goan people dialogue with a goonda who has brought misery via loan sharking? Goans must think better! BC __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Inbox. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

[Goanet] Pipal - A King Among Trees

2008-02-22 Thread Goanet AE
Pipal - A King Among Trees By Rajendra P Kerkar Indian folk cultures respect and consider trees like the Pipal sacred. Innumerable Indians and is looked upon as an incarnation of Lord Vishnu. It is also considered to be an embodiment of goddess Laxmi. This tree has held a conspicuous

Re: [Goanet] Anarchy in Goa

2008-02-22 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 21/02/2008, anand virgincar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I commented : Manohar Parrikar is the only politician who seems to have come out of these sad events with any degree of credibility . Bab Gabe responded : Do you think, that perhaps you jumped the

Re: [Goanet] BABUSH / WIFE/ PANJIM POLICE STATION

2008-02-22 Thread Nigel Britto
I agree too, It maybe recalled, a couple of months ago, Babush's 17-year old son, Amit, was driving a Toyota Camry and met with a minor accident when a motorcyclist scraped his car. A few scratches on the car, that's all. Amit, the underaged driver called up goons from Taleigao and they beat the

Re: [Goanet] Of Goans and non Goans

2008-02-22 Thread Flower2
Unfortunately, I have not been receiving my goanet messages regularly and on time, so I am at a bit of a disadvantage and may sound a bit disjointed. However, the lawlessness that I refer to is the lawlessness of the administration itself. In the SEZ case, they have broken every rule in the

[Goanet] Press Statement as forwarded to all Goan Newspapers

2008-02-22 Thread Goasuraj
February 22, 2008 Sir, Attached please find the Party's stand on the happenings vis a vis the attack by citizens on the Panjim Police Station. We are hopeful that you, as the responsible arm of the 'Fourth Estate' will discharged your obligations so that the people of Goa at large know how

Re: [Goanet] Navy in a bind?

2008-02-22 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 21/02/2008, Philip Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Admiral Gorshkov: Gone with the wind?Josy Joseph RESPONSE: Throw in the towel and walk away; doing biz with the Russians is playing Russian roulette. The Russians have suddenly realised that they need the war ship and hence their stance. How

Re: [Goanet] Questioning everything

2008-02-22 Thread anand virgincar
Mervyn-bab's comments and my responses : ML : There never has been any confusion over the spelling of Chinmay Bhandare / Chinmay Bhandari. AV : My faultand apologies to all goanetters. I have checked and agree that Bab Mervyn is spot on and Mr C Bhandare

Re: [Goanet] All in a Day - This is politics

2008-02-22 Thread anand virgincar
Bab Seb said : See how are elected representatives change, in a day!! My comments : As this is at least the third posting saying that Manohar Parrikar's statements ( regarding the current events in Goa ) are contradictory , it may be useful to listen to

[Goanet] Police:Victims of their own doing

2008-02-22 Thread Miguel Braganza
Dears, The Goa Police that Dr.Falcao is writing about is the old model. In the new model, SP Neeraj in a knee-jerk operation sent his Boys to raid the two residences of Babush Monserrate. They allegedly went on a rampage in a Bollywood version of Rambo where in the Boys thought they were men

Re: [Goanet] Tracing roots in Goa

2008-02-22 Thread JOHN MONTEIRO
Since Navinchandra Ramgoolam, the Prime Minister of Mauritius his party have been in power, they have travelled the world persuading countries they visited, to invest in Mauritius. The Republic of Mauritius came about in 1968, the first President was his father Sir Seewoosegur Ramgoolam

[Goanet] Goan archetypes, stereotypes and caricatures

2008-02-22 Thread Cecil Pinto
Goan archetypes, stereotypes and caricatures They don't get it, they never will. By Cecil Pinto Last week NDTV featured an interesting documentary Where's Sandra? This 18 minute film, I quote, 'takes a playful look at the figure of Sandra from Bandra - part covetous fantasy of the racy Christian

[Goanet] LETS GO TO GOA - GOA , Pearl of the Orient - See this short documentay of GOA I found on YOU TUBE

2008-02-22 Thread edward lopes
Hi I hope you will enjoy this video. I enjoyed It http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aNhFsgQyyg EDU

[Goanet] Goa MLA gets bail, out of jail

2008-02-22 Thread Gabe Menezes
Goa MLA gets bail, out of jail 22 Feb, 2008, 0121 hrs IST, TNN PANAJI: Goa MLA Atanasio (Babush) Monserrate, who spent nearly two days in police custody for allegedly leading a mob attack on Panjim police station, was granted bail by the session court. The police had charged the controversial MLA

[Goanet] Cacumordi villagers serves ultimatum to the Collector

2008-02-22 Thread JOAO FERNANDES
John Fernandes Quepem The villagers of Cacumordi under the banner of Cacumordi Bacheao Samiti has given an ultimatum to the Collector of South Goa, Dy-Collector of Quepem and the Xeldem Panchayat to stop the work of proposed Petrol Pump set up Indian Oil Corporation at Cacormordi

Re: [Goanet] Talk to a Goonda? - B. Lopes

2008-02-22 Thread Nigel Britto
Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. - Jewish Proverb. -- Truth Liberates, Nigel Britto http://amicusnaturae.blogspot.com

Re: [Goanet] Goan archetypes, stereotypes and caricatures

2008-02-22 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Cecil Pinto wrote: We Goans forward Sardaji jokes by the dozen. We stereotype them as dim witted and loud mouthed. Does that make our Prime Minister Manmohan Singh any less respected an economist and statesman? Thank you for this, Cecil. I read somewhere that a politician makes decisions

[Goanet] Goa's Most Popular Classic Film Song

2008-02-22 Thread edward lopes
*Goa's Most Popular Classic Film Song* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzH-BUVRzig

[Goanet] National Seminar-St.Xavier's College 22nd-23rd

2008-02-22 Thread jayada patnekar
  Nanomaterials and Drug Delivery “As a citizen of the 21st century I am fascinated with this new science that has given us nanomaterials”- said Dr. S.R. Shetye, Director, National Institute of Oceanography while inaugurating the two day National Seminar on “Advances in Nanomaterials

[Goanet] Breakdoiwn of the Rule of Law.

2008-02-22 Thread Averthan D'Souza
Dear Editor, All the hullabaloo about the beating up of Atanasio (aka Babush) Monserratte by the Panjim Police, which has been hogging the newspaper headlines for the last few days, is a clear indication of the first fruits of the interference by politicians in the functioning of

[Goanet] GOA SONG (SOBIT GOY) - AKonkani Classic

2008-02-22 Thread edward lopes
*GOA SONG (SOBIT GOY)* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-6J1ObYUUg

[Goanet] Fwd: walter menezes-achem novem konknni pustok uzvaddak yeta...

2008-02-22 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया
-- Forwarded message -- From: walter menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22 Feb 2008 23:56 Subject: walter menezes-achem novem konknni pustok uzvaddak yeta... To: Frederick [FN] Noronha * [EMAIL PROTECTED] mogall frederick-bab, my book of konknni poems will be released on 25.02.2008.

Re: [Goanet] Goan archetypes, stereotypes and caricatures

2008-02-22 Thread Venantius Pinto
From: Cecil Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Goan archetypes, stereotypes and caricatures Goan archetypes, stereotypes and caricatures They don't get it, they never will. By Cecil Pinto _--- Cecil-bab, A thoroughly well

[Goanet] Dot.Asia domain sunrise *alert for Goan organisations*

2008-02-22 Thread Edgar Silveira
Hi there, trust some of the organisations that missed out on the dot-COM and other tol level domains have made arrangements to reserve their names during the sunrise period. Organisations like the Feni distillers association etcfeni.asia is reserved by some government-sponsored organisation-

[Goanet] LIMERICK FOR THE DAY 16

2008-02-22 Thread Shanti Dhoot
nbsp;nbsp; nbsp; I often think of my heritage and those who went before me - But I have been unable to trace very far back my family tree. If only there was some way to access the church archive It would not be difficult for many Catholics to derive More information of great nostalgic value,

[Goanet] Goa news for February 23, 2008

2008-02-22 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Goa: MLA sent to judicial custody - NDTV.com [22 hours ago] Goa MLA Babush Monserrate charged with attempt to murder, was sent to seven-day police custody on Wednesday. Meanwhile, a

[Goanet] Digamber Kamat Has History of Using Goa Police To Haress Minorities

2008-02-22 Thread cedrico dacosta
Digamber Kamat Has History of Using Goa Police to Haress Minorities Dear Peace Loving Goans The recent happenings where alleged government sponsored attrocities committed through the corrupt Goa Police against the minorities in Goa and also against innocent citizens who dare to raise

Re: [Goanet] Anarchy in Goa

2008-02-22 Thread anand virgincar
Jose-bab Colaco said ( regarding comments made by Manohar Parrikar to date on the Babush and co v/s Police and co episode ) : Now let's examine Mr. Parrikar's two (contested) and apparently conflicting comments I fully support both of the statements of Mr. Parrikar. He

[Goanet] Is Congress Party Secular? + Facts v/s hearsay

2008-02-22 Thread Miguel Braganza
Dear Dr. Anand, Inspite of your name, you do not seem to be a happy man! May be you should stop meddling with APOLITICAL and SECULAR groups and individuals ...or you may have SLIME on your hands ;-) Slime is a physical state of matter and NOT at all abusive, I believe, specially when used in the

Re: [Goanet] Questioning everything

2008-02-22 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
anand virgincar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] Questioning everything 2 ) Thanks for the precise explanation. I wish such direct answers were availaible more often to reasonable queries raised. ( You have also done the same with respect to the Broken peace thread ,

Re: [Goanet] TOI in Goa/ at a 'price' ...

2008-02-22 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया
DR ANAND VIRGINCAR WROTE: I am almost certainly being silly from here on and inviting a barrage of justified ridicule. I am not aware of the finances required and the figures are purely for illustration . Is there any possiblity of say Rs 10 /- per household being levied per month(

Re: [Goanet] Of Goans and non Goans

2008-02-22 Thread anand virgincar
Bai Diana Pinto said : Whether a Congress or BJP Government commands the ship,it will make no difference to the common man, unless the administration itself is law abiding and sets the tone. My brief comment : That is a very astute comment . I

Re: [Goanet] Questioning everything

2008-02-22 Thread Mervyn Lobo
anand virgincar wrote: AV : I think you have made a start by clarifying one doubt. However , several more serious issues remain unexplained ( and I reappend the thread so that those involved in these unsavoury occurences can have another look ). As all will agree , if ( and I

Re: [Goanet] Talk to a Goonda? - B. Lopes

2008-02-22 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 22/02/2008, Nigel Britto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. - Jewish Proverb. -- Truth Liberates, Nigel Britto QUESTION: So who is the fool ? please come clean and call a spade a spade. -- DEV BOREM

Re: [Goanet] Breakdoiwn of the Rule of Law.

2008-02-22 Thread J. Colaco jc
On 22/02/2008, Averthan D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1: All the hullabaloo about the beating up of Atanasio (aka Babush) Monserratte by the Panjim Police... 2: The Goa Police may have over-reacted, but the fact remains that they were provoked by the mob which had gathered outside the Police

[Goanet] Navy in a bind?

2008-02-22 Thread Philip Thomas
Throw in the towel and walk away; doing biz with the Russians is playing Russian roulette. The Navy seems to have been royally blindsided. Russians are a horse of a different colour from the Goa government. It will be interesting to see how they get out of it. It wont be easy or cheap. We can

Re: [Goanet] Breakdoiwn of the Rule of Law.

2008-02-22 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 22/02/2008, Averthan D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Editor, All the hullabaloo about the beating up of Atanasio (aka Babush) Monserratte by the Panjim Police, which has been hogging the newspaper headlines for the last few days, is a clear indication of the first

[Goanet] Why was immediate action demanded!!

2008-02-22 Thread Dr. U. G. Barad
After Babush released on bail he had a press conference for reporters. One of the striking things that he revealed is - when Digamber Kamat was power minister in Manohar Parrikar regime, his brother-in-law (Mr. Pinky Lawande, as reported by local papers) was slapped by one senior police officer in

Re: [Goanet] Navy in a bind?

2008-02-22 Thread Bosco D'Mello
We can only hope that Dabolim will somehow be able to get off the hook in the process (no aircraft carrier means no new fighters and no new fighters means no new fighter pilot training plus old fighter pilot training is restricted due to dwindling numbers of old aircraft). Keep your fingers

[Goanet] SON'VARACHIM SUNGTTAM: Matso Paper Dita ?

2008-02-22 Thread Goa's Pride www.goa-world.com
Son'varachim Sungttam Matso 'Paper' Dita? -Jose Salvador Fernandes Sokallchea vellar bosin provas kortana, mhojea hatant dor disachim don khobram-potram astat - Inglezintlem Herald ani Konknniche devnagorintlem Sunaporant. Bosin poinn kortana hanv tor tim potram kednach

Re: [Goanet] National Seminar-St.Xavier's College 22nd-23rd

2008-02-22 Thread Venantius Pinto
Dear Jayada Patnekar, Do please continue posting on such scientific matters. Thank oceans for this small lahar/lahr (wave) of difference in material posted on Goanet. venantius j pinto From: jayada patnekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] National Seminar-St.Xavier's College 22nd-23rd

[Goanet] Daily Haiku #23

2008-02-22 Thread Francis Rodrigues
DAILY HAIKU #23: OPINION POLL opinion poll era 1967, dr. jack sequeira smiles in heaven. http://2008goanconvention.com/blog/index.php __ Aunty, Famous Indians, Haiku, Churchill cartoons, etc.

Re: [Goanet] Goan archetypes, stereotypes and caricatures

2008-02-22 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - I thought this was a poorly written, incoherent piece. Cecil Pinto has written much better columns before. The phenomenon of the privileges an insider enjoys is well-known and universally accepted. For instance, blacks in America often refer to one another as Hey you nigga

Re: [Goanet] Stupid comments by SPIAG

2008-02-22 Thread Nigel Britto
Dear Bernado Colaco, Amen! I too was disappointed reading the SPIAG's comments. Democracy in Goa is just a concept, not reality. -- Truth Liberates, Nigel Britto http://amicusnaturae.blogspot.com