[Goanet] Freedom fighters to be honoured

2008-06-16 Thread D'Souza, Avelino
Freedom fighters to be honoured Panaji (PTI): Around 41 freedom fighters will be honoured on the occasion of Goa Revolution Day to be held here on June 18. Various functions will be organised at the state and taluka level to pay tributes to the memory of freedom fighters and martyrs for their

[Goanet] RECIPE FOR: Baked Squid

2008-06-16 Thread edwardingoa
RECIPE FOR: Baked Squid *Ingredients: *1 kg fresh squid tubes, cleaned sliced into 1cm rings 4 tablespoons olive oil 1 onion, chopped 1 clove garlic, minced 1/2 cup tomato paste 1/2 cup white wine 4 or 5 cups cooked rice Juice of one lemon *Method *In a 4 to 5-quart pan, bring about 1 1/2

[Goanet] RE.: Malaika (My Angel ) on YouTube

2008-06-16 Thread Francis Rodrigues
Hi Tony, What a wonderful and beautifully-sketched write-up. A few words, if I may. Fadhili Williams did indeed compose the lyrics to Malaika, but in all probability, was not the creator of that delightful melody. A few years ago, whilst researching early folk-music of East Africa with

[Goanet] Mopa airport project bullet points

2008-06-16 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
The Mopa airport if allowed to come up will be another big white elephant at the taxpayer’s cost and a destruction of scarce land resource. With the world wide price of oil skyrocketing, the airlines in turn increasing fares to pass the costs on to customers, and with some

[Goanet] Goa People's Assembly

2008-06-16 Thread Miguel Braganza
Dears, My comprehension of English may be as bad as Satyawan's, BUT Rajan's men women with ideas coming together with the hope that a cohesive resistance may emerge to save Goa from impending ruin. seems to mean either 1.cohesive resistence as in GBA or GGRM or SVM or even GMAS has NOT YET

[Goanet] Balcao Banter

2008-06-16 Thread Frederick Menezes
www.timesofindia.com - June 16, 2008 Balcao Banter 13-day CM again? When we met the strong man from the South last week at the height of the rumour mongering that the government was on its way out, the man thundered, So long as I'm with Digambar, his government will not fall. A few seconds

[Goanet] Scenes from Goa

2008-06-16 Thread Jazz Goa
See some of Goa's scenic beauty captured in this konkani music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MMxXaySEE0

[Goanet] Goa Churches Figure As World Heritage Sites (Fr Desmond de Souza, CSsR)

2008-06-16 Thread Goanet News
Goa Churches Figure As World Heritage Sites By Fr Desmond de Sousa CSsR, SAR NEWS PANAJI, Goa (SAR NEWS) -- How to become and remain a World Heritage Site and How to manage World Heritage Sites are the topics for two back-to-back workshops organised by the Archeological Survey of India (ASI),

Re: [Goanet] Reading for the Goa People's Assembly

2008-06-16 Thread J. Colaco jc
2008/6/16 Miguel Braganza [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1: So GPA is not a group but an assembly that hopes to assemble a group 2: I am just checking my comprehension of the English language as in TOEFL; nothing more than that for the time being. Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL

[Goanet] The Perfect Husband...

2008-06-16 Thread edwardingoa
The Perfect Husband... Several men are in the changing room of a golf club. A mobile phone on a bench rings and a man engages the hands free speaker-function and began to talk. Everyone else in the room stops to listen. MAN: Hello WOMAN: Darling, it's me. Are you at the club? MAN: Yes

[Goanet] Headline - Anoushka Shankar

2008-06-16 Thread Ruby Goes
Dear BOSCO, You have been sent this article link by Ruby Goes courtesy of smh.com.au Personal Message: Hi Bosco, Any other Anoushka fans on Goanet? We love her here. Thanks Bosco. rubygoes Anoushka Shankar John Shand, reviewer June 12, 2008 To view the entire article, click on:

[Goanet] rubygoes' reply to Tony. THANKS BOSCO. I WISH TO MAKE MYSELF CLEAR.( FOR KIND FAVOUR OF PUBLICATION)

2008-06-16 Thread Ruby Goes
Thanks Tony Barros for your lovely letter about all things Africa. I bet you have an excellent voice; wish you'd get on Utube. I am resending the email. You'll see that I was talking about the Makeba/Belafonte duet. Very yummy. BY THE WAY, I LIKE DOLLAR BRAND/A BDULLAH IBRAHIM, CESARIA EVORA,

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 3, Issue 731

2008-06-16 Thread Cruz Braganza
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[Goanet] POLICE

2008-06-16 Thread edwardingoa
*Comedian Agostinho* after capturing hearts of Goan audiences with his latest overwhelming response tiatr *POLICE* going house full everywhere in Goa,is all set to capture the hearts of Goans in *Dubai* with his latest Tiatr *POLICE* which is all set to be staged on *3rd July 2008*, 9:00 Pm at

[Goanet] Kerala Church To Support Families That 'Go Forth And Multiply' (SAR News)

2008-06-16 Thread Goanet News
Kerala Church To Support Families That 'Go Forth And Multiply' By SAR NEWS KOCHI, Kerala (SAR NEWS) -- Even as India struggles to keep its rising population under check, the Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council, or KCBC, has come out saying it would support families that have more children, in a bid

[Goanet] Goa's flying circus is back

2008-06-16 Thread Lionel Messias
*Around The World In 365 Days -2* If you remember this column of March 10, 2008 titled *'Around The World In 365 days'* you would recall that Dayanand Narvekar spent Rs14,94,884 of your precious tax money flying to Mumbai and *Dilli*. That was from February 2, 2000 to March 3, 2007, the time frame

[Goanet] Living to eat -4

2008-06-16 Thread Lionel Messias
*Bad day at Devaaya* You must have missed it too. Browsing through the December issue of *Outlook Traveller*, I spotted this on Devaaya, the resort in Diwar, whose restaurant is closed to non-residents including the islanders themselves. Unfortunately it's all downhill from there (before this the

[Goanet] Mopa airport project bullet points

2008-06-16 Thread Philip Thomas
The Mopa airport if allowed to come up will be another big white elephant ... airport traffic congestion is bound to decreaseDabolim airport should be capable to handle air traffic for another 20 years comfortably with a little of expansion;..One suggestion from my side would be to come up

Re: [Goanet] Mopa, oil prices and portaloos

2008-06-16 Thread J. Colaco jc
Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão wrote: 1: The Mopa airport if allowed to come up will be another big white elephant at the taxpayer's cost and a destruction of scarce land resource. 2: With the world wide price of oil skyrocketing, the airlines in turn increasing fares to pass the costs on to

[Goanet] [JudeSundayReflections] Twelfth Sunday of the Year

2008-06-16 Thread Jude Botelho
13-June-2008   Dear Friend,   If we are honest we have all to admit that we are all frightened people, we all have something or another that we are afraid of! Of course it is human to be afraid but when fear paralyzes us and prevents us from doing what we can do then our fears have got the

[Goanet] Goa People's Assembly - the address

2008-06-16 Thread floriano
GOA PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY Hotel Mandovi - 16-06-08 A written address to the Assembly AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF TWO ORGANIZATIONS - GOA ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION GROUP [GEAG] GOA SU-RAJ PARTY [GSRP] FIRSTLY, I CONGRATULATE RAJAN PARIKAR AND SOTER D'SOUZA (PEACEFUL SOCIETY) FOR WHAT THEY ARE DOING

[Goanet] Photos of Goa People's Assembly in Panjim (Monday, June 16, 2008)

2008-06-16 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - A few photographs of the Goa People's Assembly held this evening (Monday, June 16, 2008) at Hotel Mandovi in Panjim. Speakers came from as far as Khola and Agonda in Canacona. Adolphine Thamm from Sinquerim - http://www.parrikar.org/images/Assembly/adolphine.jpg Norma Alvares of

[Goanet] Goa People's Assembly

2008-06-16 Thread Satyawan Govekar
I must say thank you to Minguel bab and Jose bab for taking my points forward. Jose bab writes very good comedy and also very good serious writings. Today I will write more serious readings for my teacher Rajan bab who told me that I must learn to read. So like a very good student I have gone

Re: [Goanet] Inside Gate, India's Good Life; Outside, the Servants' Slums

2008-06-16 Thread CORNEL DACOSTA
Hi Rajan and Ruby In this post, I can't figure out exactly what either of you are saying about gated communities in India. Please can you clarify? Thanks Cornel --- Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To Goanet - This page was sent to you by: rubygoes at hotmail.com. HI BOSCO AND

[Goanet] Curbing donations through approved fee structures in schools.

2008-06-16 Thread Tony de Sa
Hi, The menace of donations to schools for admitting wards and the irregularities thereto has assumed massive proportions. The Director of Education has belatedly woken up to the fact, after a group of Margao parents demonstrated, that private schools have been operating for years without an

Re: [Goanet] RE.: Malaika (My Angel ) on YouTube

2008-06-16 Thread CORNEL DACOSTA
Hi Francis, Ruby and Tony Thanks for so much nostalgia and info about Malaika. Fadhili Williams who wrote the song was from my small home town Mombasa where many people were familiar to each other. The dance bands then and to this day have invariably been asked to play this tune all over the

[Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues

2008-06-16 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario wrote: Hey, Rui, Once again, Rui, you and your new friend, Gabe, are missing the point.? Has either of you grasped yet that there is no such thing as caste in Christianity?? Of all the Hindu religious practises our ancestors dropped when they became Christians, the leadership retained this

[Goanet] UAE Goans beware!

2008-06-16 Thread Gabe Menezes
UK says UAE terror risk is 'high' British nationals in the United Arab Emirates have been warned there is now a high risk of a terror attack there. Travel advice from the UK Foreign Office said terrorists might be planning indiscriminate attacks in places frequented by expatriates. It did not

Re: [Goanet] Phds are time wasters ?

2008-06-16 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario wrote: From: Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Even with my less-than-Ph.D. education I can deduce from all my extensive research that Edward will never be a Ph.D.:-)) Q.E.D. I think Edward is just having some fun with the Ph.D.s on Goanet, some of whom - not most - certainly

[Goanet] Case against Narvekar

2008-06-16 Thread Sachin Phadte
I am surprised that there is so very little demand for the resignation of Dayanand Narvekar in his being charged in the fake ticket case. The amount of money involved in this forgery is quite large and as the judge had said that it is difficult to believe that the whole thing was done by

[Goanet] Molre on living to eat

2008-06-16 Thread Lionel Messias
*Make a meal of it* *Imagine 40 more fortune-hunters* Ram Niwas Mirdha, chairman of the National Akademi of Music, Dance and Drama was singing a different tune. Or, was he dancing to one? Imagine increasing the current strength of 40 MLAs to 80 fortune-hunters to avoid the constant toppling

[Goanet] More on the Goa Flying Circus

2008-06-16 Thread Lionel Messias
*June 16, 2008* *Eye Spy* *Lionel Messias* * * *Around The World In 365 Days –3* *They might flown to **Dilli **more times than you went to the Kesarval spring for that special bath or to Baga for that matter on picnic in a life time of trying to do so amid your busy schedules and trying to

[Goanet] Category 5 Cyclone (hurricane) Hitting Middle East Oil Producing Countries

2008-06-16 Thread edwardingoa
An unusual event is happening over the next 48 hours, as the first tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds, and major hurricane-force winds at that, is approaching the Gulf of Oman, to strike the eastern coast of Oman, curve northward, and make landfall on the coast of Iran. In the tropical

[Goanet] Euro 2008 - latest tables; Euro Power Rankings

2008-06-16 Thread Gabe Menezes
Euro 2008 - Group A - Full Table Pos.TeamPl W D L GF GA +/- Pts 1 Portugal3 2 0 1 5 3 2 6 2 Turkey 3 2 0 1 5 5 0 6 3 Czech Republic 3

[Goanet] Go Colva

2008-06-16 Thread Arwin Mesquita
Subject: Go Colva Way to Go Colva. The unanimous proposal by the people to ask the Local MLA to move legislation vs. Mega Projects is great. I think all other villages need to follow suit and ask their Local MLA's to act for Goa's Interests. With so much going on in Colva other areas of

[Goanet] Goan Welfare Society Annual Scholarship Awards for SSC Examination - Goa Board

2008-06-16 Thread Wilson Coelho
GWS (Goan Welfare Society - Kuwait) Annual Scholarship Award for meritorious Goan students will be awarded to two Goan students who have secured the highest aggregate marks at the S.S.C. examination conducted by the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education in April 2008. The

[Goanet] Canadian immigration Bill C-50

2008-06-16 Thread Eugene Correia
INDO-CANADIANS TAKE THE BIGGEST HIT UNDER BILL C-50, SAYS IMMIGRATION EXPERT KURLAND by Ratan Mall Indo-Canadians will be the number one group taking the hit under Bill C-50, says well-known immigration lawyer Richard Kurland. Lexbase, the country's leading immigration publication run by

[Goanet] Goa People’s Assembly: After Report , pictures... now comes Video

2008-06-16 Thread JoeGoaUk
GPA = Goa People’s Assembly You had the full report – Thanks to Godfreyji And you had pictures –Thanks to Rajan Parrikar Now you get Video too – Thanks to JoeGoaUk Watch Remo, Hema, Norma, Matanhy, Floriano, Shanti etc http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=e-z2b3subIo Sorry kept short (30 minutes of

[Goanet] Goa news for June 17, 2008

2008-06-16 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Goa govt. invokes ESMA to crackdown the week-long strike - Hindu [7 hours ago] Panaji (PTI): Failing to pull off a negotiated settlement to end the strike by government employees

[Goanet] Democratic Management of Common Property in Goa (Economic and Political Weekly)

2008-06-16 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या
Democratic Management of Common Property in Goa Common property was controlled and regulated by a highly endemic, localised, semi-autonomous institution called the 'gaonkaria' in Goa. In the colonial period, this institution was considerably overhauled by the Portuguese who rechristened it as

Re: [Goanet] The International Goan Convention July 2008 - Brahmin Issues: Vol 3, Issue 735

2008-06-16 Thread rui nuvo
Hei Mario, It would appear that Gabe, Edward and I are in agreement about you. Just that what we said we said differently. Essentially, Gabe thinks you are a bit of an arrogant peasant :))). Edward suggests that if you do not understand your own caste to which you belong then it is highly

Re: [Goanet] Speed reading, writing AND comprehension

2008-06-16 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Mario Goveia wrote; My previous response to your so-called challenge was rejected as inappropriate, and I let it go. Now you bring it up again with your typical charming invective and snide insinuations.  So, let me try again. -snip- I would like Goanetters to carefully read what you have

Re: [Goanet] Fast until

2008-06-16 Thread J. Colaco jc
Dear JoeGoaUk Thanks for the Video Good to see some faces. I suggest to those who want to fast - Please fast only unto the point of Slimming down Enjoyed Norma, Floriano, Hema and Lida (Lida ..strangely could not pronounce Benaulim) What's up girl? Went to some Bhailli patshalla? jc

[Goanet] Mopa, oil prices and portaloos

2008-06-16 Thread Philip Thomas
jc's comments:a: It is possibly true that MOPA is a can of worms engineered by'insider-trading-politicians' and their compadres who have invested inthe surrounding land. I would oppose it on that point alone. Much water may have flowed under the Mopa airport project bridge since this argument was

Re: [Goanet] Fw: Cardinal's speech

2008-06-16 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sun, 6/15/08, Fr. Ivo C da Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it will enlighten Science in the meaning of the world and in the realm of values. I hope most people will reject interference of this type. The meaning of scientific concepts and explanations as they relate to the natural

[Goanet] Mopa, oil prices and portaloos

2008-06-16 Thread Philip Thomas
The answer to this may be to downsize it at the start say to regionalairport proportions and expand modularly as traffic builds up and demand isgenerated. The biggest advantage of this strategy is to compartmentaliseMopa and Dabolim operations to minimise overlap and address new markets. This

[Goanet] GPA v/s GLA?

2008-06-16 Thread cedrico dacosta
GPA v/s GLA? So once again the mass confusao creators are back at it...another front...there are definately too many cooks in Goa and they will definately spoil the soup for the Goans...so now the bitter poison that was flung on the GBA and its blue-eyed captain makes sense...run down the

[Goanet] Bharatnatyam Classes at International Centre Goa

2008-06-16 Thread Goanet Events
Sadhnalaya in association with the International Centre Goa will hold a 3-months Production based theme Dance classes titled Mudra (for beginners) and Samarpan. Classes will begin from Monday 17 June 2008 at International Centre Goa, Dona Paula from 4:30 to 6 pm on every Tuesday and Saturday.

[Goanet] The global popularity of Malaika

2008-06-16 Thread Tony Barros
Hi Cornel, Ruby, Francis Percival It seems that I sure opened a pandora's box as I was not aware that so many goanetters were very well informed about this great Swahili ballad. Cornel- like your Taiwanese experience, I was also caught off-guard when I attended a gig in New York city. From the

Re: [Goanet] Phds are time wasters ?

2008-06-16 Thread Seb dc
In your hurry to reply (though i told you not to take the trouble) you seem to have missed everything! including your train.(Now don't ask where the train came from) In plain simple language, i had asked; Do you have a Ph.D or Not? Cause if you read your mail properly in your first Para you below

[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (17Jun08)

2008-06-16 Thread alexyz fernandes
50% Discount on Umbrellas No wonder only 50% of the Umbrella works! To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org

[Goanet] Fervent Appeal - Letter From A Brit

2008-06-16 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Andy Butkiss should be permitted to sun-kiss, On the beaches of Candolim and / or Benaulim. His butt-prints would be of added value, To the sands of Goa, Daman and Diu.   Yes, this budget traveler, Will make Goa more paler. Yet, with a name like Andy, Goa could become more randy.   When will the

[Goanet-News] Goa news for June 17, 2008

2008-06-16 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Goa govt. invokes ESMA to crackdown the week-long strike - Hindu [7 hours ago] Panaji (PTI): Failing to pull off a negotiated settlement to end the strike by government employees