[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader -- The Portuguese produced immense knowledge about India: Zupanov [FN]

2011-02-18 Thread Goanet Reader
The Portuguese produced immense knowledge about India: Zupanov History looks towards understanding Catholic Orientalism For THE PRINTED WORD|Frederick Noronha Catholic Orientalism? Can I hear you ask what's that? In a noisy Cafe Prakash, the unofficial press club of Panjim, Dr Ines Zupanov

[Goanet-News] NEWS: Goa police keeps a check on Dum Maro Dum ... Goa tourism industry unsettled by Rohan Sippy's Dum Maro Dum

2011-02-18 Thread Goanet News
Goa police keeps a check on Dum Maro Dum Kunal M Shah, MUMBAI MIRROR, Feb 17, 2011, 11.21am IST Added to the blue sea and green meadows, Goa now has shades of grey. Rohan Sippy may have chosen to show these in Dum Maro Dum, his next film on drugs, sex and the state's underbelly but his journey

[Goanet-News] Goa news for February 19, 2011

2011-02-18 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** 'Dum' punch for Goa's tourism? - Herald Publications ased film, Dum Maro Dum, a potboiler of sex, drugs and the underbelly. But a can of worms is opening up, a week before the release of

[Goanet-News] NEWS: Confusion in Egypt, gain for Goa (ToI)

2011-02-18 Thread Goanet News
Confusion in Egypt, gain for Goa TNN, Feb 17, 2011, 02.32am IST PANAJI: The unrest and chaos in Egypt has brought its tourism industry to a virtual standstill. Tourists that were planning on travelling to the land of the pyramids are now heading to other global destinations, including Goa.

[Goanet] WHO IS SUJAY GUPTA?

2011-02-18 Thread Nobert Carvalho
bernard dcosta Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:26:14 -0800 asked: Who is Sujay Gupta? Reply: Sujay Gupta is one on whom Averthanus L. D'Souza. described as IRRESPONSIBLE JOURNALIST whom Herald has made their Weekend editor. Read: IRRESPONSIBLE JOURNALIST VERSUS NGOs. By: Averthanus L. D'Souza. There is

[Goanet] Fatal disconnect-CSE's Fortnightly News Bulletin (Feb 18, 2011)

2011-02-18 Thread CSE
CSE's Fortnightly News Bulletin (February 18, 2011) === The focus this fortnight remains on village commons. A landmark Supreme Court ruling comes as a bugbear for all who illegally occupy village commons. At the same time, an unclean, not-so-white

[Goanet] Talking Photos: Some Pics from Panjim, Mapusa Pernem

2011-02-18 Thread JoeGoaUk
Talking Photos: Some Pics from Panjim, Mapusa Pernem   Police commissioner office shifted at Old GMC http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk32/5455671246/sizes/l/ Where the infamous Panjim Police Station is shifted to?   Original or modified fort?

[Goanet] Daily Grook #886

2011-02-18 Thread Francis Rodrigues
DAILY GROOK #886 DEATH REGRET by Francis Rodrigues undertakers repent throughout history, their sad investment in a dying industry! *GREAT ALL-OCCASION GIFT* http://www.KonkaniSongBook.com

[Goanet] Fw: Death of Goa's fields - thanks to the lack of low cost manual labour

2011-02-18 Thread soter
Dr Ferdinando wrote: Soter has forgotten one main reason that started the downfall of our rice cultivation. Both the Acts, Mundkar Act and the Agricultural tenancy Act were vote oriented Acts by Bandodkar. It was put into the heads of the populace that they were bonded labourers like in the

[Goanet] Accuser got grilled without oil fire

2011-02-18 Thread U. G. Barad
While trying to locate video footage of PM's recent conference with TV editors of India, I located two video coverage's which I thought of sharing with you all. Please click the links provided here below: http://www.ndtv.com/video/special/blaming-coalition-is-an-attempt-to-cover-f

[Goanet] OPA ELA

2011-02-18 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
I would like to ask Goa netters whether OPA and ELA are in fact places, or are these acronyms for works installed at Ponda and Old Goa respectively? The last two letters of OPA appear to me like Processamento de Agua and the last two of of ELA to be Laboratorios Agriculturais . I could be

[Goanet] What the active political campaigners on Goanet won't tell you....

2011-02-18 Thread Frederick Noronha
Advani apologises to Sonia on Swiss bank account issue http://in.news.yahoo.com/advani-apologises-sonia-swiss-bank-account-issue-20110217-222700-854.html

[Goanet] Press Note (TAG)

2011-02-18 Thread Tiatr Academy Goa
* * *Press Note* *For Favour of Publication* *Meet the Artiste:- Tony Sax* The monthly programme of Tiatr Academy of Goa (TAG) ‘Kolakarak Bhett’ (Meet the Artiste) will be held on Tuesday 22nd February 2011 at 4:45 pm at Conference Hall of Tiatr Academy of Goa (TAG), Campal Trade

[Goanet] Dempo Sports Club to play in Qatar on 19 Feb 2011

2011-02-18 Thread john desa
All Goans / Indian football lovers Let us all go and support  Dempo Sports Club who play against Al Sadd Sports Club at the Al Sadd Stadium in Doha on 19th February 2011 at 5:30 pm John Desa +974 55605755     AFC Champions League: Team Dempo heads to Qatar   Panaji, Feb 17 (PTI) Dempo Sports Club

[Goanet] ubject: Mining starts at Old Goa: West Goans will soon feel the nuisance of Mining

2011-02-18 Thread Carmen Miranda
And perhaps the day when the miners will start digging bang in the middle of Municipal Garden Garcia da Horta in central Panjim is not far! And our fellow Goans will continue in their passive mode, no reaction, let it be, I am doing fine mode, it is not my problem mode.. Wake up fellow Goans!

Re: [Goanet] Guilty until proven innocent?

2011-02-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
I am puzzled by this post of Jose, particularly the claim of Goan judges before 1961 who would be offended by my statement of facts that I have read in a scholarly book on law, and quoted here. Would the Indian and British judges also be offended by what Gabriel has stated? All I need is a quote

[Goanet] BEWARE - A Keralite becomes a GOAN

2011-02-18 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
Is it so easy to become a Goan? In connivance with government Babus? Gomantak Times dt. 18th February, 2011 : http://www.flickr.com/photos/goaghantis/5455391426/in/photostream/#/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/goaghantis/5454779981/in/photostream/ Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.

[Goanet] What the congenital hypocritical liars on Goanet will tell you

2011-02-18 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Frederick Noronha wrote: Advani apologises to Sonia on Swiss bank account issue http://in.news.yahoo.com/advani-apologises-sonia-swiss-bank-account-issue-20110217-222700-854.html When it suits them they will quote Advani's word as gospel. Regards, r

Re: [Goanet] OPA ELA

2011-02-18 Thread Frederick Noronha
Gabriel, He must have been very old if he was working there since 1504! FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 18 February 2011 10:38, Gabriel de Figueiredo gdefigueir...@yahoo.com.au wrote: wrong, but my mind was wandering and I know that a Portuguese agricultural

[Goanet] Fwd: 15º COLÓQUIO DA LUSOFONIA EM MACAU

2011-02-18 Thread aicl gmail
Mensagem Original Assunto:15º COLÓQUIO DA LUSOFONIA EM MACAU Data: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:11:49 -0100 De: aicl gmail lusofonia.a...@gmail.com Para: Destinatários não divulgados:; SEGUE EM ANEXO COMUNICADO PARA A COMUNICAÇÃO SOCIAL -- J. CHRYS CHRYSTELLO,

Re: [Goanet] What the active political campaigners on Goanet won't tellyou....

2011-02-18 Thread floriano
What a height for ' twisted logic' a la Advani. Does it mean that: If some a*** publicizes my name as a criminal who needs to be hanged and if I do not get up before the cock crows in the morn, I shall be hanged and it would be my fault for not declaring my innocence? A perfect J**K

Re: [Goanet] Guilty until proven innocent?That

2011-02-18 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Given that the series was written in 2002, the author would have had little, if any, experience of Goan justice system pre-1962. I would treat the statement the same way as I would treat Arun Sinha's statement that the portuguese did absolutely nothing regarding agriculture, in his book Goa

Re: [Goanet] Is this good news for Goa?

2011-02-18 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Frederick Noronha wrote: Arrest of Balwa may trip DB Realty's rapid rise http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/real-estate/news-/arrest-of-balwa-may-trip-db-realtys-rapid-rise/articleshow/7464573.cms Aldeia de Goa: The Seaside Hill Station DB Realty [Residential][Commercial]

Re: [Goanet] ubject: Mining starts at Old Goa: West Goans will soon feel the nuisance of Mining

2011-02-18 Thread floriano
Do something ! Uhmmm! The onliest thing that comes to my mind is to riddle the first guy/s who digs with 302 bullets. BTW any one has a howitzer or something ? Pls do let me know. It'll do a better job and faster too. :-) cheers floriano goasuraj 9890470896 www.goasu-raj.org - Original

Re: [Goanet] Eucharistic Miracles

2011-02-18 Thread Ivo
From: Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com The response appended below shows that the detailed explanation I gave in my last post regarding the biological impossibility of having a type AB blood with only a single set of chromosomes derived from the mother was not understood at all. **It is

Re: [Goanet] Eucharistic Miracles

2011-02-18 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:31:34 -0800, Santosh Helekar wrote : Let me reiterate that my interest in this discussion is only to provide accurate medical scientific information, and in refuting the bogus claims made in the post appended below that a relic preserved in Italy has been confirmed by

Re: [Goanet] Eucharistic Magic .. aka Miracles

2011-02-18 Thread marlon menezes
Santosh, I think the confusion in this discussion is in part the result of an erroneous subject header - which I have now corrected. Dr. ... er .. Fr. Ivo is an expert in the subject of Eucharistic Magic. Please give him the benefit of the doubt on this issue. Marlon

[Goanet] Water debate...

2011-02-18 Thread Frederick Noronha
Some issues from the water debate... not irrelevant to Goa: * Harbouring trouble: The impact of ports on commons http://bit.ly/iaKwUa * Conservation is good, but is it always fair? http://infochangeindia.org/Environment/Coastal-commons/Questions-about-conservation.html * How dams and irrigation

[Goanet] NEWS: Goa police keeps a check on Dum Maro Dum ... Goa tourism industry unsettled by Rohan Sippy's Dum Maro Dum

2011-02-18 Thread Goanet News
Goa police keeps a check on Dum Maro Dum Kunal M Shah, MUMBAI MIRROR, Feb 17, 2011, 11.21am IST Added to the blue sea and green meadows, Goa now has shades of grey. Rohan Sippy may have chosen to show these in Dum Maro Dum, his next film on drugs, sex and the state's underbelly but his journey

[Goanet] The Middle Class Catholic Goan Identities

2011-02-18 Thread Roland Francis
The Bombay Goan. Has prospered with the economic resurgence in India, with Bombay as its hub. Was used to going for about 2 months vacation to his ancestral house in Goa, yearly, when his children got school or college holidays. Has modernized his Goa house mostly with Rajasthani marble

Re: [Goanet] BEWARE - A Keralite becomes a GOAN

2011-02-18 Thread soter
Probably he has got hold of a birth certificate of some Patrick Fernandes. The next thing he will do is apply for a Portuguese passport. That is why the pages in the registrar have been made to disappear. -Soter

[Goanet] Goa State Horticulture Department Corporation’s (GSHC) subsidized vegetable scheme from Belgaum whole sale Market.

2011-02-18 Thread SANTANO VAZ
Goa State Horticulture Department Corporation’s (GSHC) subsidized vegetable scheme from Belgaum whole sale Market. It was a huge celebrations and smiles all around when this project was launched but in last few days the department is crying foul and blaming the Vegetable mafia for the

Re: [Goanet] Guilty until proven innocent?That

2011-02-18 Thread Santosh Helekar
The book I mentioned is a very impartial document on Indian and Portuguese laws in Goa. It describes these laws and the criminal justice procedures in a dispassionate manner in consultation with legal documents, and legal authorities and police officers who were familiar with the procedures at

[Goanet] NEWS: Chaka Chak hasn't made Goa shine yet (ToI)

2011-02-18 Thread Goanet News
Chaka Chak hasn't made Goa shine yet TNN, Feb 17, 2011, 07.33am IST The ban on plastic below 40 microns thickness, and the crackdown on shops by the municipal authorities, have not yet had any visible impact on the condition of Goa roads and street corners where the status quo ante continues to

[Goanet] Shameless Advani and BJP's deflated swiss bank campaign

2011-02-18 Thread soter
Advani now says that that the Gandhis should have denied this publicly when there were murmurs that names of her family members could figure in the report. Why the hell should she have denied it earlier? Who has emerged smarter now, Sonia or Advani? There was least doubt that the entire Swiss

[Goanet] Death of Goa's fields - thanks to the lack of low cost manual labour

2011-02-18 Thread Carmen Miranda
It was good to learn the reasons why our agriculture in Goa is in serious decline. Given that climate change is already creating havoc world wide and serious impact on food production, food security especially in countries like India is a serious issue. Any suggestions to get our agriculture

[Goanet] Goanet Reader -- The Portuguese produced immense knowledge about India: Zupanov [FN]

2011-02-18 Thread Goanet Reader
The Portuguese produced immense knowledge about India: Zupanov History looks towards understanding Catholic Orientalism For THE PRINTED WORD|Frederick Noronha Catholic Orientalism? Can I hear you ask what's that? In a noisy Cafe Prakash, the unofficial press club of Panjim, Dr Ines Zupanov

[Goanet] Shying away from Konkani

2011-02-18 Thread Mervyn Elsie Maciel
Fr. Conceicao D'Silva's lament about Goans shying away from Konkani, reminded me of a poem composed by that late Goan Jesuit historian(who taught English at St. Paul's, Belgaum) -Rev. Claude Saldanha, S.J. Sadly, age had dimmed my memory, but here are some of the verses I can

[Goanet] Mundo Fado II - Sonia Sirsat - Indian Queen of Fado

2011-02-18 Thread Goanet A-C-E!
India's Queen of Fado Sonia Sirsat enthralled a full house audience at the Kala Academy on February 14, 2011. She was accompanied by Portuguese musicians Flavio Texeira Cardoso on the Portuguese guitar and Pedro Minguel Soares on Classical Guitar, who were specially flown to Goa from Lisbon

[Goanet] Goa news for February 19, 2011

2011-02-18 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** 'Dum' punch for Goa's tourism? - Herald Publications ased film, Dum Maro Dum, a potboiler of sex, drugs and the underbelly. But a can of worms is opening up, a week before the release of

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Reader -- The Portuguese produced immense knowledge about India: Zupanov [FN]

2011-02-18 Thread TC
Sir, I , a post-portugese goan, have long agreed with my parents, that the positive influence of the portuguese in goa, among goans, is either downplayed or ignored by the indian, and present-day goans. good that it takes an outsider to show us this! anthony. - Original Message -

[Goanet] COMMENT: No end in sight to this 11-year-old epic (ToI)

2011-02-18 Thread Goanet News
No end in sight to this 11-year-old epic TNN, Feb 18, 2011, 04.52am IST The River Princess may have been grounded for over 11 years now, but the issue continues to haunt Goa. On January 31, 2011, Arihant Ship Breakers, Mumbai, made a presentation to the Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB),

[Goanet] Talking Photos: More Navelim Pics - Church, AMFT, water Well, School, Bust, Bl. Joseph Vaz etc

2011-02-18 Thread JoeGoaUk
Talking Photos: More Navelim Pics - Church, AMFT, water Well, School, Bust. Bl. Jose Vaz etc   Masses are held outside the Church (left of the church) (Some renovation or painting work going on inside ) http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk36/5441671027/sizes/l/   ambo bhorpur fulola

[Goanet] Natya Sangeet... English version

2011-02-18 Thread Frederick Noronha
Natya Sangeet: Natya Sangeet is a form of Indian classical and semi-classical music. The name literally means Dramatic Music. It is also one of the two popular forms of vocal arts in Maharashtra and surrounding states. The other one is Bhavageet. Natya Sangeet is said to have originated in the

[Goanet] NEWS: Confusion in Egypt, gain for Goa (ToI)

2011-02-18 Thread Goanet News
Confusion in Egypt, gain for Goa TNN, Feb 17, 2011, 02.32am IST PANAJI: The unrest and chaos in Egypt has brought its tourism industry to a virtual standstill. Tourists that were planning on travelling to the land of the pyramids are now heading to other global destinations, including Goa.

[Goanet] Wildtrek Adventures: Mandovi backwaters cruise

2011-02-18 Thread Savio Fernandes
Hi All Catch a trip up the Mandovi, explore the backwaters in the Cumbarjua canal, surf through the mangroves, seek out the birds and the bats. And most importantly join Wildtrek Adventures in search of Goa’s Marsh Crocodile. Sight them bask along the banks, soaking in the sun. Explore this wild

[Goanet] Mhojem Svopon (3)

2011-02-18 Thread Ivo
Mhojem Svopon-3 Broxtachar amkam naka! Jen'na hanv durdisnnyar Just Imagine!, hi karyavoll polletam, ten'na mhaka khup svopnam poddtat. He karyavollint hansun-khellun, dukhoynastona, kantto kaddta, sot sangun dita. Amche Vidhan Sobhent khup-xyo gomotichyo ghoddnyo ghoddlyat: eklo montri

[Goanet] Getting Just a Little Steamed to Fight Cancer

2011-02-18 Thread Con Menezes
http://www.healthiertalk.com/getting-just-little-steamed-fight-cancer-3386

[Goanet] NEWS: Ten-year-old shooting prodigy in National Games (IANS)

2011-02-18 Thread Goanet News
Ten-year-old shooting prodigy in National Games IANS, Feb 17, 2011, 07.43pm IST RANCHI: Yash Yogeshwar Padloskar is only 10 years old, but has become the first shooter to represent Goa in the National Games. Yash participated in the qualifying round of the 10 meter air rifle event, finishing

[Goanet] Wish best of luck for Dempo in Qatar today

2011-02-18 Thread Doha Goans Sports Club
On behalf of all Goan football lovers in Qatar, we extend a hearty welcome to our Goan brothers (Dempo Sports Club) who are here to play against Al Sadd sports on Feb 19 at 5.50 pm at Al Sadd stadium in the AFC Champions league play-off match ( the top club competition for clubs from Asia). the

Re: [Goanet] Guilty until proven innocent?

2011-02-18 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 08:56:58 -0800, Santosh Helekar wrote : The book I mentioned is a very impartial document on Indian and Portuguese laws in Goa. It describes these laws and the criminal justice procedures in a dispassionate manner in consultation with legal documents, and legal

Re: [Goanet] Death of Goa's fields - thanks to the lack of low cost

2011-02-18 Thread marlon menezes
Pinheiro, No matter how you (or Soter) attempt to slice and dice it - the fact remains that the obsolete labor intensive methods of agriculture cannot survive without low cost labor. If in case you missed it, I vaguely mentioned it on the subject header. Unless you wish to invent a backwards

[Goanet] OPA and ELA

2011-02-18 Thread Bernado Colaco
Eng. Hernani Mourao was the intitiator of the first Goa Day in Lisbon, together with young Constatino Xavier.   BC           Gabriel, He must have been very old if he was working there since 1504! FN Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 18 February 2011 10:38, Gabriel de

[Goanet] Goans shying away from Konkani, says priest

2011-02-18 Thread soter
It is time for Goans to shy away from priests konkani priests. The sooner they do it the better for Goa. The prostitute is much holier. -Soter