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*** Fresh face-off between Centre and Goa over SEZs - Hindu
[11 hours ago] New Delhi (PTI): With the Commerce Ministry
unrelenting on the demand for cancellation of the Goa SEZs, the
Centre
Dear Rajan,
Conversion?! Ruppees to Euros/Dollars or religion.And if you mean religion
what have you unearthed that irks -- T-shirts too? Are the buildesr selling
for a lower price to those who convert? Are these Christian builders? Are
there many?
venantius
From: Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL
Mario asks:
Why is everyone getting so excited about this?
Obviously you folks have no idea that worse things are
happening all over India, with very few exceptions.
I don't think there is any MLA in Goa yet who was
elected while bars and serving from behind bars.
You are setting the
Dear Diogo,
Why do I think otherwise about Oscar-bab?
My Answer:
1. We all want to save Goa, don't we? And our ways of going about doing that
could be different. And different ways of doing the same thing becomes a
literal mess and we land up undoing what we are trying to do. But the
I read only today (4 Jun), a BSNL notice in the newspaper stating that this
Government of India Enterprise informs public that sample copy of New landline
Telephone Directory 2008, are available at Customer Service Centres and
Telephone Exchanges. We have to verify entries by EXTENDED DATE
To Goanet -
Rs 100 crore at stake, say the builders
See -
http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=4990cid=2
I say to the builders: the future of lakhs of
Goan children, including those yet to be born,
is also at stake. We have to take you down
before you take down Goa.
Regards,
r
Construction + Convertion = Crematorium + Cemetry
Extinction = man (Convertion x Construction)[E=mC2]Rajan P. Parrikar wrote:
To Goanet -Stop the 2 C's - Construction Conversion - rightaway in Goa. Can
someone come up with a pithy and catchy slogan that could be printed on a
T-shirt?r
Dr.
There is a way George, there is a way. If we manage to break free! If the
36 crore Gods remember that they are Gods. I include the Christians and
Muslims among the 36 crore Gods whether they like that probability or not.
Imagine the uchambov if the Goan Gods stood up, along with their ancestral
Here is a news item that made headlines today:
http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=5002cid=26
With Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) issues gaining prominence following the
threat of demolitions looming large in coastal areas, efforts are on to launch
a joint agitation against State-level
A mentoring network for freshers wanting to enter journalism:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goajmentor/
Feel free to join or pass the word around. FN
--
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http://fn.goa-india.org * Phone +91-832-2409490
A major problem for making peace with Babush is to decide which minister is to
be dropped. It would seem that everyone presently in the cabinet would have a
nuisance value once not in the ministry. Everyone, that is, except the chief
minister himself! So why not drop him, and solve the
R. Goes saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you
should see it.
** Message **
GOOD MORNING BOSCO AND GOANET.
SAY HELLO TO OUR MAHARASHTRIAN NEIGHBOURS. HAVE A HISTORY LESSON!
Thanks.
Ruby Goes
** India plans huge 'liberty' statue **
The government of the Indian state of Maharashtra
Dear Goanetters,
Venatius Pinto wrote,
Dear Rajan,
Conversion?! Ruppees to Euros/Dollars or religion.And if you mean religion
what have you unearthed that irks -- T-shirts too? Are the buildesr selling
for a lower price to those who convert? Are these Christian builders? Are
there many?
Rajan writes:
To Goanet -
Rs 100 crore at stake, say the builders
See -
http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=4990cid=2
I say to the builders: the future of lakhs of
Goan children, including those yet to be born,
is also at stake. We have to take you down
before you take down Goa.
Dear Goans,
I came across this inspiring quote from Robert Fritz and I think its very
relevant to movement for Goan Identity. Let me share it.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you
disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a
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Venantius Pinto wrote through message number 13, Tue, 3 Jun 2008:
Conversion?! Rupees to Euros/Dollars or religion. And if you mean religion
what have you unearthed that irks -- T-shirts too? Are the buildesr selling
for a lower price to those who convert? Are these Christian builders? Are
This supports the theory (for which we have a lot of data from
this very forum) that the internet is becoming the medium of
choice for hate speech. Like, you can say all the horrible things
you want, as long as you avoid four-letter obscenities (though
they are okay too, as long as they are not
Dear Dr. U. G. Barad,
I promise more detailed reading / understanding of Rajan Parrikar's in the
future. Perhaps my understanding of English is faulty. I will make every
attempt to not give anyone the opportunity to say that I may be
short-sighted.
In appreciation,
Venantius J Pinto
Chaddis instead of T-Shirts
Did some naked soul cry for T-shirts...
i would say we could have topis, chaddis, lungis and
dhotis with the print...Save Goa...from the locusts!
cedric da costa
Dubai, Uae
Dear Dr. Anil Desai,
In my next response, I asked of Rajan the question about land conversion
ceilings. After I did that, I read your concerns and presume that I have
sufficiently addressed them.If you have read what I written in the past, you
will understand that it was a question. There are
Very right you are Selma
We want the government to look the other way when it comes to our
illegalities and we pressurise the government to demolish what is not ours.
Funny people goans that we are. The laws are for the others to observe. Not
me.
In the instance of the 3 hotel pulled up by
To Goanet -
Wed, June 4, 2008, Panjim:
Today, a delegation of Goa's Movement Against
SEZs (GMAS) led by Convener Matanhy Saldanha
met Chief Minister Digambar Kamat at his official
residence and sought from him answers about
the latest goings-on in the SEZ saga.
Hi Selma
Pray, who exactly do you mean in your statement
below--each and every one of us is responsible for
flaunting the law... Does it include poor me, minding
my own business from some 5000 miles away from Goa?
And if so, how please?
Cornel
--- Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reason
Advaplpal villagers today protested against British Multinational Vedanta owned
Sesa Goa in Panjim. For text and pictures click the following links:
http://mandgoa.blogspot.com/2008/06/protests-against-vedanta-owned-sesa-goa.html
Warmly,
Seby
Dear Savio,
Thanks for your response. I would like to make some comments.
Savio Figueiredo wrote:
Sometime back I was in shop buying cheap ballpens ( Das ka 10 for
Rs.10) for my Cyber Cafe for the use of customers ( as pens are often
not returned back); a lady stopped me and after
Hi Chris !
Thanks for your valid criticism on the low contribution made by the
300 attendees at the GOANJ Spring Fling dance in New Jersey.However,
I would like to put certain issues in perspective.
This was a 50/50 raffle, hence the balance of $450 was set aside for
other expenses. Many of
One way of saving Goa is to give incentives to those who keep their land
or use it to do agriculture. Thus, one has to de-incentivize people from
converting their agricultural land into settlement/commercial land.
We will have to force govt. to think on such lines.
samir
Mario asks:
Why is everyone getting so excited about this?
Obviously you folks have no idea that worse things
are happening all over India, with very few
exceptions.
I don't think there is any MLA in Goa yet who was
elected while bars and serving from behind bars.
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008
Rajan P. Parrikar wrote Stop the 2 C's - Construction Conversion
- right away in Goa.
Venantius Pinto 'coated': Conversion?! Rupees to Euros/Dollars or religion.
Dr. Anil Desai wrote: There are conversions going on in Goa day in and
day out. they are conversions of agricultural land into
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Or Rajan, are you talking about converting /changing the ceiling on land,
where farm or wetlands becomes available for construction.
venantius
From: Venantius Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Stop the 2 C's NOW!
To: goanet@lists.goanet.org
Message-ID:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
No matter how hard your try to change it ...
It looks like Baina will always remain Baina
Earlier it was very famous for Red Light Area (even now it is, many biknnakars
do ask about it when they reach here) and now this.
What is the point of saving Goa when we lose on Goa's beauty, culture,
Cedrico wrote:
i wonder why Goans don't talk about :
(1) Communialisation of Goa
(2) Saffronisation of Goa
(3) Saffronisation of the Goa Police
(4) Backstabbing of Goa
(5) CM through the backdoor in Goa
(6) Sex scandal at Miramar
(7) Instigating riots in Goa
(8) Turning Goa into Gujarat
(9)
ICONS OF GOAN DESIGN
By Wendell Rodricks
All design students, in fields of art and design, whether fine art,
architecture, interiors, photography or fashions are schooled in the
preliminary Elements of Design. In the USA, this elective is a term
subject on its own. Closer home, the elements of
So thanks to Marshall, Eugene, Reena, Augusto, Mervyn, Carmo, Tony and others
here is a tentative list of women (Goans/or Goan origin) who represented India
at hockey.
1) Philomena Trinidade
2) Margaret Toscano
3) Eliza Mendonca - Nelson
4) Loretta D'Souza - Srinivasan (of Moira)
5) Angela
--- On Wed, 6/4/08, CORNEL DACOSTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: CORNEL DACOSTA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Selma
Pray, who exactly do you mean in your statement
below--each and every one of us is responsible for
flaunting the law... Does it include poor me, minding
my own business from some
--- On Wed, 6/4/08, Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And don't give me Selma's cow cakes about the local
Panchayats and Gram Sabhas being corrupt! To begin
with they can't be any more corrupt than anyone else
in government, and secondly, if they, comprised of
your friends and
Venantius--
It is not that they don't smell the roses, but how do they make the time
with all their varied interests and activities??
I must have missed the Naresh message. Madhav's response to Naresh displays
astonishing knowledge of the U.S. music scene from the thirties to the
World Environment Day
Let's talk about Goa's environment...
(or may be this is not part of environment)
Mapusa city
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2552942204/sizes/l/
Panjim City
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk_dirtypanjim/
Vasco city
To Goanet -
I know this dept is a farce. But out of curiosity,
has anyone filed a complaint online?
http://www.goavigilance.nic.in/index.php
Regards,
r
Dear Goanet Reader
Rs.100 crores at stake, says the builders.
What about the billions they have made?
What about the crores they have paid to Politicians and Babus from 40%
black?money they take from their clients?
What about the huge distortion in housing market they have created, as a
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*** Fresh face-off between Centre and Goa over SEZs - Hindu
[11 hours ago] New Delhi (PTI): With the Commerce Ministry
unrelenting on the demand for cancellation of the Goa SEZs, the
Centre
I don’t know if I can wish and say
Happy Environment Day
Or if should wish and pray
that Environment survives today
This year the World Environment Day function on June 5th is at 10am at Colomba
village of Sanguem Taluka. The public meeting will commence at 10.00 am. Come
to Tilamol junction
KONKANI BOOKS TO BE RELEASED
It's good to see more books in Konkani emerging,
A clear indication that love for the language is surging.
Let us support such writers,
Who are in fact valiant fighters,
Who keep alive our language, without any special urging.
-Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 1 of 25
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DAILY QUOTE #43:
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Bring back the princely purses - it will
halve the gajjar problem i.e. it's a gajjar
halva! And we mahars will be kings again...
whaat, has nobody heard of mahar-ajas??
Prakash Velip - Leader of the downtrodden.
Dear Goanetters,
Please join in to commemorate the eight death
anniversary of the River Princess...
-- there will be a hand-washing ceremony at the
Sinquerim beach today...5th june , 2008all those
who wish to wash their dirty hands -- clean -- off the
princess...please do so... today!
--
A friend ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has sent you an article:
Malaria: a miracle in the making offers hope to millions worldwide
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/malaria-a-miracle-in-the-making-offers-hope-to-millions-worldwide-839604.html
Herald, Editorial, 5/06/08
GBA’s unity paramount
It comes as a huge sigh of relief to Goans in general that the Goa
Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) is united and determined in purpose to act as
a watchdog in the formation of the Regional Plan 2021. At a
meeting on Tuesday, the organisation ironed out
How about this Rajan?
Consruction and Conversion
Goa's Damnation!
--
Tony de Sa
Ph: +91 832 2470148
E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
M: +91 9975 162 897
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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it is the only idea we have.
PIL on Vasco Baina beach ?
Public Interest Litigation
After sending some pics and video on Dirty Vasco Baina Beach (see repeated
belwo) I have received a few feedback concerning the sorry state of the beach.
Which reminds me of a PIL filed by Rajan P Parrikar on Panjim.
To Parrikar:
Please
Dear Goanet Readers
JP wrote Most of the doing of this Congress Government are so obviously
disgusting,corrupt and malafide,that you don't have to look at it through
Communal or any other glasses and give it a ' Saffron' tinge every time someone
criticizes them.
There are some people on this
If Dotor Oscar is a Judasthen...what is ...?
Mails, posters and pamplets galore from the saviours
of Goa all over...
Soon there will be VCDs circulating and photo
exhibitions organised in every slum on how the green
eyed Dotor betrayed...
rapist, molestors, chaddiwallahas, lungiwallahas,
272 schools to function sans toilets
4 Jun 2008, 0440 hrs IST, Gauree Malkarnekar, TNN
PANAJI: When schools reopen on June 5, thousands of students from 272
government primary schools will be heading to institutions that do not have
provisions for toilets.
Sources in the Directorate of
In the sudden death of an ever smiling Pale MLA Prof. Gurudas Gawas due to a
heart ailment the state of Goa and his constituency in particular have lost a
very young promising and honest politician. One wonders why the Almighty took
away an upright Gurudas Gawas while the other politicians
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