Dr. Neela Vas, a life well lived...
By Valmiki Faleiro
I was in the idyllic island village of Chorao last but one Monday ago. To
celebrate a life.
Isles and islands fascinate me, be they hamlets or villages, cities or city-
states. Chorao or Divar, Ibiza or Singapore. My 'dekko' of Old Goa to
Hi
Found the video clipping Goa rises: Don't sell our motherland (IBN live)
very interesting,
I am from Morjim myself and have a home very close to where the
demonstration took place.
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Dear Fred,
Riza has a fine eye for detail, and I am glad you are encouraging her
to express herself. May I suggest, however, that you also encourage her to sit
at the computer on her own? That way she will learn some of the computer
skills that are so necessary today, and will not be tem
It was not a Parish, but the School's chapel filled in for generations of
Marine Line - Crawford folk, specially the 8 am Choir Mass. I have learnt
that the Jesuit fathers have shut it's doors, a response to falling
attendance: most Crawford Market catholics have now moved on. It had bee
Hi
Thanks for Goanet news. Hv been reading it with interest for a long time
now.
Keep up the good work.
I am lookiin for some info & was hopiing you could help.
We are looking for an apartment in Goa & was wondering
if you would have some real agents contacts in Goa.
If you do, please mail them
Kuwait Goans Association (KGA) are all set for Konkani tiatr "GHOR BHANDLEM
GHORABO MODDLO"
KONKANI TIATR "GHOR BHANDLEM GHORABO MODDLO"
Kuwait Goans Association (KGA) are all set to present the Konkani tiatr "GHOR
BHANDLEM GHORABO MODDLO" featuring Konkani stage artistes: Ophelia,&nb
sp;Babl
Katty De Navelim's New Konkani Album
Renowned Producer and Famed Singer Katty de Navelim after a stupendous
success of his maiden Konkani Album titled 'DENNEM" all over Europe, Middle
East and India, now storms back to with his second album titled "UGDASS
TUMCHO". This album contains 12 powerful h
BTW: Just finished reading Ben Antao's novel PENANCE. In short, it was truly
un-put-down-able!
Dear Renebab,
It is 12 more days to World Goa Day 2006. Trust that all is going well with
the plans.
>From our (TGF's) point of view, we'd like to commend you and all WGD Alliance
Associates for t
--- velho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Mario,
>
> As the main proponent of the theory that "God
> fearing people cannot be evil". Can you please
> explain the following paradoxes.
>
Mario responds:
>
Sadly for your case, you start off with a false
premise. When exactly did I say what you say
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*** Parsvnath wins Goa land bid (NDTV Profit)
Parsvnath Developers Limited has been awarded prime land in
Panjim, Goa by the state government owned Economic Development
Corporate Ltd. Parsvn
Koslo faido ami vhodda dhobajean goddnnieo/festam somorpun zorui amkam
tancho orth nam?
(Whats the use of celebrating events/feasts pompously if we dont know
their meaning?)
Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA
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Ex
No Gilbert,
You said my thoughts on the subject were not
plausible, ergo this means you have alternative ideas
on the subject. I'd like to hear them, so that I can
learn from them.
Don't scurry off now.
I'm also waiting for that list of agnostics/atheists
who preach one thing and practice anoth
<
Mario responded:
>
a) Radha, by pretending to know the difference between
a neo-con and a conservative you are embarrassing
yourself once again. You don't know the difference
based on your comment above.>>
My response: Perfectly understandable, Mario! With the mess they've
created all over, no
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Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your
family members, relatives, neighbours and friends.
Help others be BETTER INFORMED,
The time is come for the people of Goa
to ORGANISE not AGONISE !!
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--- velho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> To give you an example of this, a friend of mine
> bought a flat in Mumbai for about Rs. 1.5 crores,
> he rents it out for about Rs. 1.5 lakh a month. For
> a penthouse close to your residence in Miramar that
> costs almost Rs. 1.5 crores, you will not fi
--- borg costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A life spent making mistakes is not only more
> honorable, but more useful than a life spent
> doing nothing.
>
> ---George Bernard Shaw
>
Mario observes:
>
Borg,
With all due respect, the quote for today makes no
sense to me. How can a life spent m
TO VENGURLA, VIA KARWAR... WITH A 'XENDRI' IN HAND
What it meant to be a schoolboy at transition-time in Goa, a
generation ago
By Constantino 'Tino' de Nazare
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[This is one of the
contributions from an alumni of
St Britto's, the prominent
Mapusa-based school that
completed 60 ye
Hi Mario,
Since you have repeated a lot of your logic once again by conveniently
avoiding to give an answer to the question "Karl Marx, 19-century
Communist Manifesto aside, in todays world of Cafeteria & plural
identities, what practically prevents a Christian from being a
Communist in political/
Please read my email once again in its entirety, if you'd like to debate on
this issue.
Jim F.
New York.
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From: Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> --- velho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Jim Fernandes,
> >
> > If considered in pure eco
i
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Dear Rosary Fernando, are you a Sri Lankan or Goan? It seems to me your ID
is faked. Tell me; are you the enemy of Mr. Veronica and Kuwait like Saddam
Hussien of Iraq? Do you were here during the time of Invasion 1990 by the
Iraqis and brutal murderer Saddam Hussien? No
. I dont think so. The
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Anjuna deserted as Israelis leave for war
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Dear Mario,
Firstly, is there a difference between "REAL" evil and
"FAKE" evil?
Secondly, are you now saying that your position on
homosexuality, is different from that of the Catholic
Church, who firmly condemns the act i.e labels it as
"evil". If that is the case, what you are saying is
that th
Patollio or Patoyo
August month is the month of Patollio see pic.
Patollio or patoyo is one of the Goan delicacies. It gives nice flovour when it
is
done on turmeric leaves Halldi panam or patolle panam. These leave are
readily
available by end of July and whole of August/Sept. End of J
In my opinion, in the short run, no difference. In
the longer run, OCI.
>
As a naturalized US citizen, I have a ten year visa
for India, and will switch to the OCI when it expires.
The only difference for me is that with the OCI I can
stay in India as long as I like per visit, but only 6
months a
Fred, your discourse with Nasci reminds of that Sanskrit saying about
reciting poetry to a buffalo!
Cheers,
RKN
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Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your
family members, relatives, neighbours and friends.
Help others be BETTER INFORMED,
The time is come for the people of Goa
to ORGANISE not AGONISE !!
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In response to this from me: < It is my belief that NO God fearing person
will EVER commit violence against another ... except in self-defence.>
Lawrence Rodrigues asked: < What about the Abraham's attempt to kill his son
Isaac? >
Dear Lawrence,
Good question - even if it is in too strict(nar
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WHEN TRANSPARENCY COMES TO TOWN: OFFICIALS GEAR UP TO FACE RTI
>From Frederick Noronha / GoaRTI Report
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goarti
IIPA, the Indian Institute of Public Administration (Goa
chapter), held a lively session on the Right to Information
Act, which drew a full-hall at the Insti
Hi Radha,
Thanks for reading my post.
And then fighting your temptation not to respond.
That's really incredible.:-))
That's better than the guy who responds to my post saying "Nobody reads your
post".
That's whom I call a sucker.:=))
There is humor in small things in life.
Kind Regards
Nasci writes about Hindu belief. Hindus do not have any guiding force behind
them. Whatever has been passed from generation to generation has been
imbibed by them. But there are many things similar with the Catholics too.
When a person is dead they light a lamp after the funeral at the place whe
Hi Cornel,
I have been following the subject with interest and the many requests about
evidence required about the cases of rape and other regrettable incidents
that followed the Indian invasion of Dec. 1961.
Firstly, I have to say that from what I read over the years, there is very
little writt
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MESSAGE FROM Councillor Rabi Martins
Chairman (Civic Mayor) Watford Borough Council -UK
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The celebrated author Graham Greene is reputed to have once said
"Anthropologically speaking Goans a
<< ... It is my belief that NO God fearing person will NEVER commit violence
against another ... except in self-defence. ... >> Jose Colaco
What about the Abraham's attempt to kill his son Isaac?
Lawrence
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A fellow former-Chemburkar (Bombay), my first memory of George Menezes was when
he dressed as
Santa Claus and came down the chimney at the Club to amuse us as kids - next to
OLPS School. A
good family friend and my dad's contemporary, he has achieved much and done Goa
proud. His
submission below
This is a meaningless thread, Nasci is not making any convincing
points, except to use each post to pour scorn on a religion he doesn't
belong to and doesn't think twice before insulting and
misinterpreting.
On 07/08/06, Nasci Caldeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I do respect Hindus as people,
Interesting Facts:
1. The longest one-syllable word in the English
language is "screeched."
2. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the
letters "mt"
3. Almonds are members of the peach family.
4. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an
octothorpe.
5. The dot over the lette
Some of us,having been informed that all topics regarding Iraq and
Israel were now considered 'Personna non grata', accepted this with no
qualms.
One Goanet poster who always wants to have the last word posted his
piece directly to our inbox, whilst also informing us that we were on
his spam list,
Could the Bible encourage some form of two-way communication? Can it's
message be a bit more contemporary? If so, it could possibly get a
greater mindshare (and not have to depend purely on subsidised
publication that ends up among the most-widely-circulated-but-unread
books).
No offense meant, bu
Hi Lenny
Many thanks for you kind reply. Like Clinton, I feel your pain about war but
definitely need to rely on hard data about allegations of rape in Kuwait or
for that matter in Goa in 1961. For now, no such hard data has been
forthcoming but only hearsay.
I am sure you have seen a newspaper
Below is a list of departments which have not done data entry under
the Right to Information Act 2005. I obtained this information under
the RTI itself, from the Department of Information:
1. National Savings Organisation
2. GSIDC
3. Goa Tourism Development Corporation
4. Environment Department
5.
0
Just a short note to let you know that the World Goa Day celebrations are
progressing very well over here in Sydney.
We are promoting the event to a wider audience here in Australia.
The Radio interview by Australia's SBS radio
New Konkani VCD "FUGDDI".
John D'Silva is one of the well known Goan Stage artistes from Sam Jose de
Areal. He has written and directed many dramas and staged them not only in
Goa but even in other parts of Goan World including Gulf. Recently almost a
fortnight back he with his own troupe tou
Just a few updates I came across:
* Goa's official gazette (Series II No 17 dated July 28, 2006) lists
the officers designated at Principal Information Officers (PIOs) and
Assistant PIOs (APIOs) and the first appelate authority by various
departments, autonomous bodies, corporations, panchayats an
Hi Mario,
As the main proponent of the theory that "God fearing people cannot be
evil". Can you please explain the following paradoxes.
1. Why is the "Bible Belt" in the USA known for religious god fearing people
as well as for the most racist ones ??
2. Why are Brahmins( the most god fearing a
Albert wrote
For those people who have friends in the bank it is very easy to get good
service. I have an account in the Bank of India and my neighbour who works
there was the one who forced me to open the account. Till he was in the
Mapuca branch the service was too good as he would do all the
Dear Mario,
If you are closely monitoring the real estate situation in Goa and the rest
of India, you will find that while property rates have increased manyfold in
the last five years the rise in RENTS for residential properties have only
increased marginally. Any economist will tell you what
Mogal Elisabeth,
Perhaps you do not read all my posts.
I don’t blame you! But you do break my heart in that regard. :=))
In one recent post, I confessed, "I was not a scholar on religion."
And the religion questions should be answered by theologians and not by
supurlem Goenkars like me.
Now
Cell Phone vs. Bible
I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible
like we treat our cell phones?
What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?
What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?
What if we flipped through it several times a day?
What if we used it to receive m
SPEAK A LITTLE KONKANI ON "WORLD GOA DAY"
[ 20 AUGUST] .and every day after that!
Dear Friends/Mogall Ixttano,
When two Malayalis meet they speak Malayalam to each other; two Maharashtrians
speak Marathi; two Kannadigas speak Kannada, two Bengalies speak Bangla;
two Gujaratis speak G
I just want to add my two cents (not worth banking
on), here to say that some of the banks in Goa, such
as HDFC are actually superb with service on par with
any banking institution one would encounter in other
parts of the world.
Elisabeth
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> > Friends
> > The bankin
WILLIAM DE CURTORIM ARRIVED IN KUWAIT.
The stage is all set for Rosary Ferns to stage his new Tiatro on Friday 11th
of this month at Hawally A/C Hall, starting at 3.30 p.m. William de
Curtorim has already arrived yesterday and all set to render 3 powerful
solos in his usual style one of them a
On 08/08/06, brian mark mendonca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 'LAST BUS TO VASCO' GOES TO FRANKFURT
>
>
> After being displayed in Toronto for the Viva Goa festival last week, Goan
> traveller-poet Brian Mendonca's debut volume of verse - 'Last Bus to Vasco:
> Poems from Goa' - now heads to Frankfu
GOA'S OWN CYBER-BALCAO: LESSONS TO LEARN ON THE INTERNET SUPERHIGHWAY
by V. M. de Malar
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I had Goa in mind the very first time I logged onto the
Internet, more than 11 years ago. The news media was full of
reports about this big new thing, this World Wide Web that
could potential
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