[Goanet-News] The Island Goa Forgot

2011-11-29 Thread Gerard de Souza
*Vanxim, on the river Mandovi, has been out of sight for years. And out of mind too. Originally belonging to the Santa Monica nunnery in Old Goa, the island is deserted. Now a resort project on the island has divided **villagers. Many want ‘development’ and jobs while others feel that this will

[Goanet] The Island Goa Forgot

2011-11-29 Thread Gerard de Souza
*Vanxim, on the river Mandovi, has been out of sight for years. And out of mind too. Originally belonging to the Santa Monica nunnery in Old Goa, the island is deserted. Now a resort project on the island has divided **villagers. Many want ‘development’ and jobs while others feel that this will

[Goanet] Move Out Or Be Kicked Out

2011-11-29 Thread Freddy Fernandes
Move Out Or Be Kicked Out Congress spokesperson and Deputy Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly Mauvin Godinho says that the people of Goa are like the majority of children who do not want to go to school. If Mauvin's children do not want to go to school it is his problem but most of our

Re: [Goanet] To add to the debate on English

2011-11-29 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Hi Eugene, I think this entire engineered debate was a conspiracy to get unsuspecting you to read Selma's book. Finally! If that was really the case, I would definitely give full marks to Selma, and withdraw all my charges, insinuations, allegations, aspersions, etc, etc about her possibly being

[Goanet] Konkani Amchi bhas - full stop - by Rose Fernandes

2011-11-29 Thread Melvyn Fernandes
Dear fellow goanet readers A well known actor/comedian in the United Kingdom recently described London as no longer English. On my way home from work, as I travel by bus, observing fellow passengers around me, he was quite right of course. However this bus journey also brought home some

[Goanet] Gymnema: Ancient herbal “sugar destroyer”

2011-11-29 Thread Con Menezes
Information for diabetics about the 'sugar destroyer' http://www.healthiertalk.com/gymnema-ancient-herbal-sugar-destroyer-1325 --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first

Re: [Goanet] To add to the debate on English

2011-11-29 Thread J. Colaco jc
Eugene Correia wrote: [1] Like a magnet, Selma's Into The Diaspora Wilderness pulls me towards it. [2] My apology, Selma for saying that it didn't have the acknowledgement page. Khommenth: Baba Eugene, Good morning from the east coast... re #1: I am (personally) relieved to hear that it

[Goanet] IFFI goa 2011 Day 6 - Band Tidal Wave etc

2011-11-29 Thread JoeGoaUk
  IFFI goa 2011 Day 6 - Band Tidal Wave etc Day 5 - (27.11.11) There was no entertaiment due to death of a Brazilian Film director Oscar Maron Filho (56) who died of heart attack at Inox Premises Day 6. It rained just after 8.30pm thus disrupting all activities at Kingfisher village and the

[Goanet] CATHOLICS SLUM-DWELLERS - A COMPAR

2011-11-29 Thread jm
Migrant Non-Catholics living in the slums of bombay are prepared to do any type of work any type of job and any type of street business……..native catholics of bombay living in the gaothans (villages) of bombay will be afraid of doing any type of job any type of work and any type of street business

Re: [Goanet] The Happy Couple that. . . Cecil Pinto---Comment by Driscoll.

2011-11-29 Thread DAN DRISCOLL
I think now I recall the name---Arthur Koestler, and it would have been somewhere in the 70 s, I think. I can see that you must have quite a story yourself. Did you ever happen to run into a couple by name Lannoy---Richard and Violet (Dias). They spent a good portion of the seventies in Paris,

[Goanet] I bees childish but I want to know...

2011-11-29 Thread Carvalho
I really want to know from Frederick why:   1. He bees the quiet in response to Cecil's Column? 2. Why at the time of Venita's column he did not feel inclined to make similar statements as he has made about me? Instead he felt inclined to disseminate that column all across the globe announcing

[Goanet] The island Goa forgot

2011-11-29 Thread Gerard de Souza
*Vanxim, on the river Mandovi, has been out of sight for years. And out of mind too. Originally belonging to the Santa Monica nunnery in Old Goa, the island is deserted. Now a resort project on the island has divided **villagers. Many want ‘development’ and jobs while others feel that this will

Re: [Goanet] IFFI goa 2011 Day 6 - Band Tidal Wave etc

2011-11-29 Thread Stephen Fernandes
THIS IS GREAT LESSON TO ALL MINISTERS JUDAS LADY SONI FOR KEEPING IFFI DURING THE NOVENA FEAST OF ST FRANCIS XAVIER . HE IS  SAINT WITH ALIVE BODY IN GOA AND SEE WAIT TO WELCOME FOR THE  HEAVY RAIN AND ENJOY THE FUN OF IFFI IN HELL OF RAIN. WATCH  MORE WILL OF GOD.

[Goanet] For Goans who were born outside Goa.

2011-11-29 Thread Tony de Sa
Goans who were born abroad prior to 19.12.1961 and who were not issued Indian passports are having a tough time getting a passport. Post 19.121961, found the High Commissions/ Consulates dishing out Indian Passports to Goans like confetti. This often resulted in shabby record keeping. The High

[Goanet] Assimilation of Goans in Foreign Countries

2011-11-29 Thread Roland Francis
It's interesting to note that while Goans have reasonably culturally assimilated with their mainstream populations in the first generation and more so in the second, assimilations by marriages have not taken place as rapidly. From a personal perspective of second-generation Goans in Canada, only

Re: [Goanet] To add to the debate on English

2011-11-29 Thread Santosh Helekar
2011/11/28 Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونياfredericknoro...@gmail.com: Why have all the Goan experts in the Queen's English simply migrated to Texas and Drayton? I noticed that, using the well-honed skills of distortion and incomprehension, Admin Noronha has now left

[Goanet] re To add to the debate on English

2011-11-29 Thread Eugene Correia
Trying to understand Selma's outburst against Fred, who she termed an old friend and also blamed him as having changed because of his success as publisher, I feel that Selma's success as a writer too has changed her. Both seem to be victims of the own successes. Selma has undergone glacial change

[Goanet] FW: IFFI goa 2011 Day 6 - Band Tidal Wave etc: SURELY, THE MAKINGS OF A CURSE?

2011-11-29 Thread Alfred de Tavares
A Franciscan Curse? Hardly fantastic The awesome Basque has been attributed far greater credits for breath-taking mystical, mythical, featsincluding the arrest of Shivaji's hordes across the creek from pouncing upon his beloved city their, subsequent funky flight.. however,

[Goanet] And so Mauvin thinks that we are a bunch of obstreperous school kids, eh?

2011-11-29 Thread Tony de Sa
Mauvin has compared the people of Goa to a bunch of obstreperous school kids simply because the people have been unanimously demanding that the regional plan 2021 be demolished. He gives a kind of justification by saying that school kids universally do not wish to attend school therefore school

[Goanet] IFFI goa 2011 Day 7 - CRIMSON TIDE, Latin Dancers etc

2011-11-29 Thread JoeGoaUk
  IFFI goa 2011 Day 7 - CRIMSON TIDE, Latin Dancers etc Band: CRIMSON TIDE http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukiffi/6426291765/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukiffi/6426292869/in/photostream/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukiffi/6426293681/in/photostream/ or visit

Re: [Goanet] To add to the debate on English

2011-11-29 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
All good arguments, but veering off the point. A few issues struck me while reading this: * What makes English a foreign language? National boundaries? Its origins? How does this tie up with its current position in India, where it is used as an associate national language? * Also, what about

[Goanet] The Jews of Byculla

2011-11-29 Thread Roland Francis
The Jewish communities in Byculla and Mazagon were small but thriving populations lost among the larger numbers of Hindus, Muslims, Goans, Parsees and Anglo-Indians, but determined to keep their individuality. Hardworking and thrifty for which their religionists are known throughout the world, the

Re: [Goanet] To add to the debate on English

2011-11-29 Thread J. Colaco jc
Frederick FN Noronha 'rote': The challenge is what happens to those STILL STRUGGLING TO PICK UP those skills. Do we treat them with disdain, charity, condescension or hope? Khommenth: a: Those who truly struggle - deserve our helping hand and encouragement. b: The tratamenth with disdain,

[Goanet] Annie Murphy Paul: What we learn before we're born | Video on TED.com

2011-11-29 Thread Con Menezes
Did you learn before you were born.?.fascinating video here.. http://www.ted.com/talks/annie_murphy_paul_what_we_learn_before_we_re_born.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2011-11-29utm_campaign=newsletter_weeklyutm_medium=email

Re: [Goanet] For Goans who were born outside Goa.

2011-11-29 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 29 November 2011 18:21, Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com wrote: Goans who were born abroad prior to 19.12.1961 and who were not issued Indian passports are having a tough time getting a passport. Post 19.121961, found the High Commissions/ Consulates dishing out Indian Passports to Goans

Re: [Goanet] To add to the debate on English

2011-11-29 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 29 November 2011 18:22, Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com wrote: 2011/11/28 Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoro...@gmail.com: Why have all the Goan experts in the Queen's English simply migrated to Texas and Drayton? I noticed that, using the

[Goanet] SPRUCING THE JUDICIARY

2011-11-29 Thread Aires Rodrigues
Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia was very right in saying that the entire Judiciary cannot be brought to disrepute because of a few erring judges. We have some very outstanding judges and there cannot be room for any rotten apples. This may however happen only when there is a thorough

[Goanet] Goa news for November 30, 2011

2011-11-29 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Hyderabad bowl out Goa for 147 - Times of India late-league-2011/content/story/542999.htmlBowlers give Hyderabad control

Re: [Goanet] For Goans who were born outside Goa

2011-11-29 Thread Vivian A. DSouza
Very interesting information from Tony DeSa about Indian Passports for Goans born outside of Goa. I was living in the former Tanganyika (now Tanzania) at the time that Goa was invaded by India.  The invasion of Goa came less than two weeks after Tanganyika (then a U.N. territory administered by

[Goanet] Fw: Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude. | Video on TED.com

2011-11-29 Thread Con Menezes
Very good! Watch here... Subject: Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude. | Video on TED.com http://www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_nature_beauty_gratitude.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2011-11-29utm_campaign=newsletter_weeklyutm_medium=email

[Goanet] Afghans say commando unit was attacked before airstrike was called on Pakistan - The Washington Post

2011-11-29 Thread Con Menezes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/afghans-say-unit-was-attacked-before-airstrike/2011/11/28/gIQAX6ZY5N_story.html?hpid=z1 --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first

Re: [Goanet] For Goans who were born outside Goa

2011-11-29 Thread floriano
Vivian, With my personal experiences with the Indian Consulates and Indian High Commissions over a period of 25 years of travels to foreign lands as a shippy, I think I could write a BOOK. The Classic experiences are at Indian High Commission at Lagos/Nigeria and the Indian Consulate at San

[Goanet] Forgiveness – Learn To Let Go | Be Well Buzz

2011-11-29 Thread Con Menezes
http://www.bewellbuzz.com/wellness-buzz/forgiveness/ --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at:

Re: [Goanet] I bees childish but I want to know...

2011-11-29 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Selma, I don't want to get into a dog-fight over this one. My actions are out there for everyone to see; if someone feels it is inconsistent, so be it! In addition, I don't want to go about justifying my stands re. Venita Coelho, Jerry Pinto or Cecil Pinto. Personally, I don't feel the need to be

Re: [Goanet] To add to the debate on English

2011-11-29 Thread J. Colaco jc
Gabe Menezes wrote thus to Santoshbab: As they say in English spoken in England for F's sake, the man has told you that he should not be addressed as admin Noronha; are you plain thick or what? RESPONSE: I know that between work, travel, the beach and sleep, I miss a number of Goanet related

Re: [Goanet] to add to the debate in English.. and assimiliation...

2011-11-29 Thread Eugene Correia
It is not only childish on Selma's part but rather foolish to let this debate take a toll on her. For someone who is British-educated, she should have understood that Cecil's column is humour. One can take liberties with the accents of one's own community. Check Russell Peters having a ball with