[Goanet] Bible verse for the Day

[Devak Argham]

Memorial of Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe,  priest and martyr
***


John15:12-15
===


12  This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.


13  No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s
friends.


14  You are my friends if you do what I command you.


15  I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his
master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you
everything I have heard from my Father.

Re: [Goanet] A South Asian in the West Wing? (Dhaka Tribune, 13/8/2020)

[Mervyn Lobo]

VM,I like the premise in your second last paragraph but the reality also is 
that Biden would not win without a black woman as V.P. He was trailing badly in 
the Democratic race till the non-whites came out and voted for him in mass in 
S. Carolina. 

Biden had a debt to repay and in addition, in this era of BLM it would be 
suicidal to run for office - any office - in the US without responding to the 
needs of BLM.

I have always maintained that 90% of US voters will habitually vote for either 
the Democrats or Republicans. Each party gets half of those habitual votes. 
Elections are won on which candidate appeals to the swing vote. Incredibly, 
that swing vote is still up for grabs. Roger Stone, self described “One man 
dirty tricks department” still has a few surprises up his sleeve. 

I expect this presidential election to be twice as dirty as the last. Stone is 
guaranteed to make things interesting and will bring out the worst in politics 
that he can. 

MervynP.S. since I am aware of the hurdles Kamala had to overcome, every step 
of the way, to get to where she is, I contributed a few more dollars to her 
appeal after she was invited to join the ticket. The response was immediate. I 
got an email asking for more money :-) 



On Thursday, August 13, 2020, 2:42 PM, V M  wrote:

https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2020/08/13/op-ed-a-south-asian-in-the-west-wing


A highly ambitious politician from the dominant majority – the same exact
constituencies that Trump stirs to express their worst instincts –
initially showed himself capable of standing aside to allow the growth and
eventual stardom of a much younger, much less seasoned Barack Obama. Now
he’s chosen someone who is more dazzling still, and without making any fuss
about it, is clearly passing leadership to a very different America from
the one he grew up in.

That’s statesmanship.

[Goanet] CM PRAMOD SAWANT SEEMS TO BE OFF HIS ROCKERS: GOA NEEDS COVID HOSPITALS AND NOT IFFI

[Aires Rodrigues]

Given the current sordid precarious times that our Goa is going through, we
should as Goans be so outraged that Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has had
the rank audacity to announce that IFFI 2020 will be staged in Goa. Yet
another misplaced priority, yet another cheap gesture to distract the minds
of people living in fear from the serious situation of a raging pandemic
and a failing economy that CM Sawant has lost total control of.

The Goa Government seems to be losing its last marbles. The irony is that
the Goa Assembly Session was restricted for an hour on account of this
Pandemic and that the Speaker Rajesh Patnekar adjourned hearings against
those defecting dozen MLAs on account of the same reason but now Pramod
Sawant wants to hold IFFI 2020 in Goa while our poorest of the poor are
financially in total doldrums.That the very thought of holding IFFI 2020
has dwelled in the minds of our accidental Chief Minister only goes to
prove his intellectual and other mental incapacities.

With the COVID-19 pandemic raging by the day, the Chief Minister needs to
focus on new Covid hospitals across Goa so that the public get the required
best medical care which is the statutory duty of the State. IFFI 2020 and
the National Games should be shelved as innocent Goans are dying by the day
on account of the rank administrative incompetence of the Chief Minister
and his otherwise so potent Health Minister.

In 2004 the then Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar did the people of Goa and
Panaji in particular the biggest disservice by consenting to host IFFI in
the State. Over the years it has been over a week long annual nightmare
faced by Goans in the hosting of that IFFI which has in no way benefited
the State but only been a big window of opportunity for the politicians in
power to rake in huge moolah. Even the small contracts of all events have
not been entrusted to our local artists.

With its crumbling infrastructure Panaji is already a very congested city
and the traffic chaos on account of IFFI is something the city could do
without. With the fun and frolic at tax payers’ expense, IFFI has only
further burdened an already cash strapped State, besides the extra pile up
of tons of garbage IFFI generates and the municipal authorities have to
grapple with. The common man also suffers as the day to day government
administration takes a break with officials all pre-occupied with the IFFI
fiesta.

IFFI has been a bonanza only to the workers of the political party in power
and not been advantageous to the State. The ground reality is that what is
being staged infact is the International Fraud Festival of India. Time to
bid it a farewell and free Goa from this unwelcome extravaganza.

Goa urgently and desperately needs hospitals and health centres, well
resourced with good doctors and nurses with state of the art equipment and
medicines. It does NOT need film festivals that does nothing for the people
living in fear, confusion and poverty as a result of a pandemic and a
failing economy caused by a total lack of political leadership and no will
to plan and focus on real priorities. Goa needs dedicated politicians who
will do everything to protect its citizens and not be masquerading as
actors on vanity projects that often end up as scams.

Aires Rodrigues

Advocate High Court

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

Ribandar Retreat,

Ribandar – Goa – 403006

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[Goanet] BR Shetty and the Missing Millions | Al Jazeera World

[Frederick Noronha]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQzLFmIxHlw

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Re: [Goanet] World Goa Day

[Frederick Noronha]

PS: Who cares anyway?
Do we go to the International Court at the Hague to make the point that
Goanews was started as part of the Goanet project, and then got to be used
by some other project?

On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 at 01:16, Frederick Noronha 
wrote:

> That is like throwing the cat among the pigeons.
> Question: How many Goans would it take to create a light-bulb.
> (I know it's sad when we feel we deserve the criticism and don't get it...
> but let's move on and see if/what we can really create. Are we doomed to
> live in the past?) FN
>
> On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 at 01:10, Cecil Pinto  wrote:
>
>> While there are conflicting opinions on whether Goa Day was founded by Goa
>> Sudharop or Rene Baretto there is another aspect to the matter.
>>
>> From my limited knowledge the Gulf Goans had mooted the idea many years
>> before Rene. It was celebrated by the Goan Welfare Society in Kuwait and
>> also by the Qatar Goans.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Cecil
>>
>> ==
>
>

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[Goanet] Major setback for China’s African Safari

[Frederick Noronha]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjeXUuiX9lU
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Re: [Goanet] World Goa Day

[Frederick Noronha]

That is like throwing the cat among the pigeons.
Question: How many Goans would it take to create a light-bulb.
(I know it's sad when we feel we deserve the criticism and don't get it...
but let's move on and see if/what we can really create. Are we doomed to
live in the past?) FN

On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 at 01:10, Cecil Pinto  wrote:

> While there are conflicting opinions on whether Goa Day was founded by Goa
> Sudharop or Rene Baretto there is another aspect to the matter.
>
> From my limited knowledge the Gulf Goans had mooted the idea many years
> before Rene. It was celebrated by the Goan Welfare Society in Kuwait and
> also by the Qatar Goans.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Cecil
>
> ==
>


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Re: [Goanet] A South Asian in the West Wing? (Dhaka Tribune, 13/8/2020)

[V M]

Thank you, Bhai!

On Thu, 13 Aug 2020, 21:34 Damodar Mauzo,  wrote:

> Very insightful piece, Vivek. You bring home hope.
> Bhai
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 9:08 PM V M  wrote:
>
>>
>> https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2020/08/13/op-ed-a-south-asian-in-the-west-wing
>>
>> History in the making in American politics, as Joe Biden – the Democrat
>> favoured to win this year’s Presidential election – selected Kamala Harris
>> as his running mate.
>>
>> Their combination sparks instant electricity and drew an immediate global
>> spotlight, quite like what Biden experienced as Vice President under Barack
>> Obama. One reason is sheer stakes: the world knows it cannot afford another
>> four devastatingly incompetent years of Donald Trump.
>>
>> But it’s also Harris, who she is and what she stands for. The daughter of
>> immigrants from Jamaica and India, she maintains (and proudly communicates)
>> strong ties to both countries of her parents. Also, via the USA’s
>> unscientific and infuriating, yet inescapable, “racial” calculus, she’s the
>> first “woman of colour” major party candidate for that country’s highest
>> offices.
>>
>> All this assumes huge significance because Biden is 77, and has
>> reportedly already told his aides he will only serve one term.
>>
>> That means, in the way American politics lines itself up, a part-Hindu,
>> part-Christian (she’s married to a Jewish man), “Black” Jamaican-Caribbean
>> Tamilian Brahmin Californian-American woman now has the inside track to the
>> “most powerful office in the world.”
>>
>> Wild? Not when you consider that Harris comes from two of the most
>> successful immigrant communities in American - and indeed world - history.
>>
>> There are 3 million Jamaicans in Jamaica, but almost the equivalent
>> number lives in diaspora (over a million in the US alone). Sons and
>> daughters of the island have always been in the vanguard of the civil
>> rights movement, from Marcus Garvey to Harry Belafonte. It’s important to
>> remember that, just two decades ago, Colin Powell was the most popular
>> political figure in America, though he declined to run for President (his
>> wife feared he’d be assassinated).
>>
>> Donald Harris, the father of Kamala and her younger sister Maya, was
>> divorced from Shyamala Gopalan when their daughters were young. Yet, this
>> Stanford economic professor (he is a rare Marxist in the highest levels of
>> US academe) often took his daughters to visit his family, he writes, to
>> “memba whe yu cum fram."
>>
>> In an essay entitled *Reflections of a Jamaican Father*, Harris writes,
>> “my message to them, from the lessons I had learned along the way, was that
>> the sky is the limit on what one can achieve with effort and determination
>> and that, in this process, it is important not to lose sight of those who
>> get left behind by social neglect or abuse and lack of access to resources
>> or ‘privilege’; also not to get ‘swell-headed’ and that it is important to
>> ‘give back’ with service to some greater cause than oneself.”
>>
>> Those “home truths” were considerably reinforced by Kamala and her
>> sister’s evidently remarkable mother Shyamalan Gopalan, and her family.
>>
>> Since the nomination of Harris earlier this week, some reactions have
>> revelled in vulgar triumphalism because her mother was an Iyer Tamilian
>> Brahmin (a set of sub-castes short-handed as Tam-Brahms). And it is a fact
>> this relatively minuscule community has accumulated vastly disproportionate
>> achievements, including three Nobel Prize winners and a World Chess
>> Champion.
>>
>> But the actions of the Gopalans embody the rejection of caste orthodoxy.
>> Shyamalan Gopalan was unquestioningly supported when she chose to study in
>> California, to marry (and then divorce) a Jamaican man of African-Caribbean
>> heritage, and raise her daughters amidst the onerous strictures of “Black”
>> America. Her sisters and brother (he married a Mexican) also blazed their
>> own trails, to an extent unusual even today.
>>
>> South Asians are going to have to grapple and come to terms with these
>> complexities, and hopefully learn from them.
>>
>> The poet and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote aptly referenced Satyajit
>> Ray’s 1984 classic movie, when he commented on Twitter this week, “What
>> saddens me is the playing up, in India, of her Tamil Brahmin connections -
>> with no mention of her Afro-Caribbean heritage, which involves histories of
>> a very different kind. Some people who feel threatened by marvellous
>> transcultural hybridity at home seem to celebrate it when it happens
>> overseas. Ghare Baire!”
>>
>> It’s already clear that citizens of the subcontinent will now spend
>> months – and, fingers crossed – years obsessively parsing everything that
>> Kamala Harris says and does. Actually, if the early days after her
>> nomination are any indication, it’s going to be an international pastime.
>>
>> But this is also the moment to pause and consider 

Re: [Goanet] A South Asian in the West Wing? (Dhaka Tribune, 13/8/2020)

[Nandini Sardesai]

 Vivek-As usual a well analysed article though i agree with one of your 
respondents that she cannot be called just South Asian-she is Indo African-
The fact is both her parents were activists-also the fact that she was brought 
up by a single mother who influenced her in her growing years( on the lighter 
side, her fondness for dosas and she is quite a chef)-what a remarkable woman 
with awesome achievements!-for me the impressive facet is that she is liberal, 
a human rights advocate and an ANTI BHAKT!! Hope the Americans make a sensible 
choice!!


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Subject: A South Asian in the West Wing? (Dhaka Tribune, 13/8/2020)

https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2020/08/13/op-ed-a-south-asian-in-the-west-wing

History in the making in American politics, as Joe Biden – the Democrat 
favoured to win this year’s Presidential election – selected Kamala Harris as 
his running mate.

Their combination sparks instant electricity and drew an immediate global 
spotlight, quite like what Biden experienced as Vice President under Barack 
Obama. One reason is sheer stakes: the world knows it cannot afford another 
four devastatingly incompetent years of Donald Trump.

But it’s also Harris, who she is and what she stands for. The daughter of 
immigrants from Jamaica and India, she maintains (and proudly communicates) 
strong ties to both countries of her parents. Also, via the USA’s unscientific 
and infuriating, yet inescapable, “racial” calculus, she’s the first “woman of 
colour” major party candidate for that country’s highest offices.

All this assumes huge significance because Biden is 77, and has reportedly 
already told his aides he will only serve one term.

That means, in the way American politics lines itself up, a part-Hindu, 
part-Christian (she’s married to a Jewish man), “Black” Jamaican-Caribbean 
Tamilian Brahmin Californian-American woman now has the inside track to the 
“most powerful office in the world.”

Wild? Not when you consider that Harris comes from two of the most successful 
immigrant communities in American - and indeed world - history.

There are 3 million Jamaicans in Jamaica, but almost the equivalent number 
lives in diaspora (over a million in the US alone). Sons and daughters of the 
island have always been in the vanguard of the civil rights movement, from 
Marcus Garvey to Harry Belafonte. It’s important to remember that, just two 
decades ago, Colin Powell was the most popular political figure in America, 
though he declined to run for President (his wife feared he’d be assassinated).

Donald Harris, the father of Kamala and her younger sister Maya, was divorced 
from Shyamala Gopalan when their daughters were young. Yet, this Stanford 
economic professor (he is a rare Marxist in the highest levels of US academe) 
often took his daughters to visit his family, he writes, to “memba whe yu cum 
fram."

In an essay entitled Reflections of a Jamaican Father, Harris writes, “my 
message to them, from the lessons I had learned along the way, was that the sky 
is the limit on what one can achieve with effort and determination and that, in 
this process, it is important not to lose sight of those who get left behind by 
social neglect or abuse and lack of access to resources or ‘privilege’; also 
not to get ‘swell-headed’ and that it is important to ‘give back’ with service 
to some greater cause than oneself.”

Those “home truths” were considerably reinforced by Kamala and her sister’s 
evidently remarkable mother Shyamalan Gopalan, and her family.

Since the nomination of Harris earlier this week, some reactions have revelled 
in vulgar triumphalism because her mother was an Iyer Tamilian Brahmin (a set 
of sub-castes short-handed as Tam-Brahms). And it is a fact this relatively 
minuscule community has accumulated vastly disproportionate achievements, 
including three Nobel Prize winners and a World Chess Champion.

But the actions of the Gopalans embody the rejection of caste orthodoxy. 
Shyamalan Gopalan was unquestioningly supported when she chose to study in 
California, to marry (and then divorce) a Jamaican man of African-Caribbean 
heritage, and raise her daughters amidst the onerous strictures of “Black” 
America. Her sisters and brother (he married a Mexican) also blazed their own 
trails, to an extent unusual even today.

South Asians are going to have to grapple and come to terms with these 
complexities, and hopefully learn from them.

The poet and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote aptly referenced Satyajit Ray’s 
1984 classic movie, when he commented on Twitter this week, “What 

Re: [Goanet] A South Asian in the West Wing? (Dhaka Tribune, 13/8/2020)

[V M]

Sincere apologies for spamming via CC. These are the perils of working from
my phone. Really sorry!

VM

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 9:07 PM V M  wrote:

>
> https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2020/08/13/op-ed-a-south-asian-in-the-west-wing
>
> History in the making in American politics, as Joe Biden – the Democrat
> favoured to win this year’s Presidential election – selected Kamala Harris
> as his running mate.
>
> Their combination sparks instant electricity and drew an immediate global
> spotlight, quite like what Biden experienced as Vice President under Barack
> Obama. One reason is sheer stakes: the world knows it cannot afford another
> four devastatingly incompetent years of Donald Trump.
>
> But it’s also Harris, who she is and what she stands for. The daughter of
> immigrants from Jamaica and India, she maintains (and proudly communicates)
> strong ties to both countries of her parents. Also, via the USA’s
> unscientific and infuriating, yet inescapable, “racial” calculus, she’s the
> first “woman of colour” major party candidate for that country’s highest
> offices.
>
> All this assumes huge significance because Biden is 77, and has reportedly
> already told his aides he will only serve one term.
>
> That means, in the way American politics lines itself up, a part-Hindu,
> part-Christian (she’s married to a Jewish man), “Black” Jamaican-Caribbean
> Tamilian Brahmin Californian-American woman now has the inside track to the
> “most powerful office in the world.”
>
> Wild? Not when you consider that Harris comes from two of the most
> successful immigrant communities in American - and indeed world - history.
>
> There are 3 million Jamaicans in Jamaica, but almost the equivalent number
> lives in diaspora (over a million in the US alone). Sons and daughters of
> the island have always been in the vanguard of the civil rights movement,
> from Marcus Garvey to Harry Belafonte. It’s important to remember that,
> just two decades ago, Colin Powell was the most popular political figure in
> America, though he declined to run for President (his wife feared he’d be
> assassinated).
>
> Donald Harris, the father of Kamala and her younger sister Maya, was
> divorced from Shyamala Gopalan when their daughters were young. Yet, this
> Stanford economic professor (he is a rare Marxist in the highest levels of
> US academe) often took his daughters to visit his family, he writes, to
> “memba whe yu cum fram."
>
> In an essay entitled *Reflections of a Jamaican Father*, Harris writes,
> “my message to them, from the lessons I had learned along the way, was that
> the sky is the limit on what one can achieve with effort and determination
> and that, in this process, it is important not to lose sight of those who
> get left behind by social neglect or abuse and lack of access to resources
> or ‘privilege’; also not to get ‘swell-headed’ and that it is important to
> ‘give back’ with service to some greater cause than oneself.”
>
> Those “home truths” were considerably reinforced by Kamala and her
> sister’s evidently remarkable mother Shyamalan Gopalan, and her family.
>
> Since the nomination of Harris earlier this week, some reactions have
> revelled in vulgar triumphalism because her mother was an Iyer Tamilian
> Brahmin (a set of sub-castes short-handed as Tam-Brahms). And it is a fact
> this relatively minuscule community has accumulated vastly disproportionate
> achievements, including three Nobel Prize winners and a World Chess
> Champion.
>
> But the actions of the Gopalans embody the rejection of caste orthodoxy.
> Shyamalan Gopalan was unquestioningly supported when she chose to study in
> California, to marry (and then divorce) a Jamaican man of African-Caribbean
> heritage, and raise her daughters amidst the onerous strictures of “Black”
> America. Her sisters and brother (he married a Mexican) also blazed their
> own trails, to an extent unusual even today.
>
> South Asians are going to have to grapple and come to terms with these
> complexities, and hopefully learn from them.
>
> The poet and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote aptly referenced Satyajit
> Ray’s 1984 classic movie, when he commented on Twitter this week, “What
> saddens me is the playing up, in India, of her Tamil Brahmin connections -
> with no mention of her Afro-Caribbean heritage, which involves histories of
> a very different kind. Some people who feel threatened by marvellous
> transcultural hybridity at home seem to celebrate it when it happens
> overseas. Ghare Baire!”
>
> It’s already clear that citizens of the subcontinent will now spend months
> – and, fingers crossed – years obsessively parsing everything that Kamala
> Harris says and does. Actually, if the early days after her nomination are
> any indication, it’s going to be an international pastime.
>
> But this is also the moment to pause and consider the immensely
> impressive, totally unprecedented significance of what Joe Biden has done.
>
> A highly ambitious 

[Goanet] A South Asian in the West Wing? (Dhaka Tribune, 13/8/2020)

[V M]

https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2020/08/13/op-ed-a-south-asian-in-the-west-wing

History in the making in American politics, as Joe Biden – the Democrat
favoured to win this year’s Presidential election – selected Kamala Harris
as his running mate.

Their combination sparks instant electricity and drew an immediate global
spotlight, quite like what Biden experienced as Vice President under Barack
Obama. One reason is sheer stakes: the world knows it cannot afford another
four devastatingly incompetent years of Donald Trump.

But it’s also Harris, who she is and what she stands for. The daughter of
immigrants from Jamaica and India, she maintains (and proudly communicates)
strong ties to both countries of her parents. Also, via the USA’s
unscientific and infuriating, yet inescapable, “racial” calculus, she’s the
first “woman of colour” major party candidate for that country’s highest
offices.

All this assumes huge significance because Biden is 77, and has reportedly
already told his aides he will only serve one term.

That means, in the way American politics lines itself up, a part-Hindu,
part-Christian (she’s married to a Jewish man), “Black” Jamaican-Caribbean
Tamilian Brahmin Californian-American woman now has the inside track to the
“most powerful office in the world.”

Wild? Not when you consider that Harris comes from two of the most
successful immigrant communities in American - and indeed world - history.

There are 3 million Jamaicans in Jamaica, but almost the equivalent number
lives in diaspora (over a million in the US alone). Sons and daughters of
the island have always been in the vanguard of the civil rights movement,
from Marcus Garvey to Harry Belafonte. It’s important to remember that,
just two decades ago, Colin Powell was the most popular political figure in
America, though he declined to run for President (his wife feared he’d be
assassinated).

Donald Harris, the father of Kamala and her younger sister Maya, was
divorced from Shyamala Gopalan when their daughters were young. Yet, this
Stanford economic professor (he is a rare Marxist in the highest levels of
US academe) often took his daughters to visit his family, he writes, to
“memba whe yu cum fram."

In an essay entitled *Reflections of a Jamaican Father*, Harris writes, “my
message to them, from the lessons I had learned along the way, was that the
sky is the limit on what one can achieve with effort and determination and
that, in this process, it is important not to lose sight of those who get
left behind by social neglect or abuse and lack of access to resources or
‘privilege’; also not to get ‘swell-headed’ and that it is important to
‘give back’ with service to some greater cause than oneself.”

Those “home truths” were considerably reinforced by Kamala and her sister’s
evidently remarkable mother Shyamalan Gopalan, and her family.

Since the nomination of Harris earlier this week, some reactions have
revelled in vulgar triumphalism because her mother was an Iyer Tamilian
Brahmin (a set of sub-castes short-handed as Tam-Brahms). And it is a fact
this relatively minuscule community has accumulated vastly disproportionate
achievements, including three Nobel Prize winners and a World Chess
Champion.

But the actions of the Gopalans embody the rejection of caste orthodoxy.
Shyamalan Gopalan was unquestioningly supported when she chose to study in
California, to marry (and then divorce) a Jamaican man of African-Caribbean
heritage, and raise her daughters amidst the onerous strictures of “Black”
America. Her sisters and brother (he married a Mexican) also blazed their
own trails, to an extent unusual even today.

South Asians are going to have to grapple and come to terms with these
complexities, and hopefully learn from them.

The poet and cultural theorist Ranjit Hoskote aptly referenced Satyajit
Ray’s 1984 classic movie, when he commented on Twitter this week, “What
saddens me is the playing up, in India, of her Tamil Brahmin connections -
with no mention of her Afro-Caribbean heritage, which involves histories of
a very different kind. Some people who feel threatened by marvellous
transcultural hybridity at home seem to celebrate it when it happens
overseas. Ghare Baire!”

It’s already clear that citizens of the subcontinent will now spend months
– and, fingers crossed – years obsessively parsing everything that Kamala
Harris says and does. Actually, if the early days after her nomination are
any indication, it’s going to be an international pastime.

But this is also the moment to pause and consider the immensely impressive,
totally unprecedented significance of what Joe Biden has done.

A highly ambitious politician from the dominant majority – the same exact
constituencies that Trump stirs to express their worst instincts –
initially showed himself capable of standing aside to allow the growth and
eventual stardom of a much younger, much less seasoned Barack Obama. Now
he’s chosen someone who is more dazzling 

[Goanet] Schedule for Friday 14th August 2020

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Schedule for Friday 14th August 2020

12:00 AM
Rosary - Sorrowful Mysteries

12:24 AM
Nimanni Kavita

12:30 AM
You are the salt of the earth - Talk by Agnes Bharucha

12:54 AM
Consecrated Life - Daughters of St Paul

1:00 AM
Mass in Konkani for Thursday

1:45 AM
DYC - The Way Eps 1

2:00 AM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Dukhiche Mister

2:25 AM
Ximpientlim Motiam- Bhag 31- Kavllo

2:35 AM
Fuddarache Dive -  Celeste Pereira interviewed by Michael Gracias

3:03 AM
Hymn - No man can live as an island -  Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

3:05 AM
Gonvllik Chitticher 2020-21 Boska 7

3:27 AM
Bible Project -  Holiness

3:33 AM
Suffering - Talk by Adv. F.E. Noronha

4:10 AM
Hymns - St Theresa of Jesus H.S. - Chaudi

4:16 AM
What is Spiritual Freshness?  - Talk by Alfwold Silveira

4:45 AM
Magnnem, Upas, Dhorm Dan - Anthony D'Souza

5:25 AM
Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 2

5:27 AM
Agnel Inst of Food, Crafts and Culinary Sciences, Verna

5:50 AM
CCR TV visits Xavier Centre of Historical Research

6:20 AM
How reliable are the words of the Bible? - Edmund Antao

6:50 AM
Hymn : Voch ani Tum-vui Toxench Kor - Fr John Albano Fernandes

6:54 AM
Hymn - Memorare - Brian Colaco 3

6:57 AM
Sokalchem Magnnem

7:00 AM
Novena Mass 9 in Konkani from Velsao followed by Jivitacho Prokas

7:45 AM
Bhajans 3

8:14 AM
Morning Prayer  -  Friday Wk 1 & 3

8:20 AM
Our Father - Tamil

8:25 AM
Music - Vakhann'nni 1 followed by Povitr Atmeak Dispottem Magnnem

8:58 AM
Hymn - Papia tum re Nirbhagia - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

9:00 AM
Consecrated Life - Precious Blood Missionaries

9:25 AM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  102 Sunnem  - Fr Pratap Naik sj

9:32 AM
Hymn - Ankvar Maie Mhoje - Fr Ubaldo  Fernandes

9:42 AM
Abundant Life - Philosophy of Life - Prof Nicholas D'Souza

10:32 AM
Literally Goa  - Miguel Braganza interviewed by Frederick Noronha

11:04 AM
Song - Aradhana - Justina and Brian Colaco

11:12 AM
Bible Project - Messiah

11:18 AM
Intercessions (English)

11:30 AM
Mass in English followed by Daily Flash

12:15 PM
Prophetic Intercession 1 - Cyril John

12:40 PM
Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 2

1:00 PM
Hymn -Come Back My Love - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

1:03 PM
Biblical Web Series - Eps 2 - DCBA

1:07 PM
Song - A Pastor's cry for his people

1:12 PM
Your SIns are Forgiven - Talk by Fr Michael Peters C.PP.S.

1:36 PM
Magnificat (Konkani)

1:38 PM
Hymn - Yes, I Shall Arise- Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

1:40 PM
Prayer - A lifeline to God - Fr Fernando da Costa

2:40 PM
What's Cooking - Episode 9 - Rechado, Mocktail, Linen Art

3:08 PM
Wealth out of Waste - Coasters and Bags

3:30 PM
Divine Mercy Chaplet

3:38 PM
Talk on World Health Day - Dr Celina B. Noronha

4:00 PM
Rosary - Sorrowful Mysteries

4:24 PM
Reflection on the Gospel - Dominicans

4:30 PM
Senior Citizens Exercises - 8

5:00 PM
Way of the Cross - English - Juvenal and Esther

5:50 PM
Bhagiancher Niyall II - Br Malvino Alfonso  ocd

6:00 PM
Angelus - English

6:03 PM
Yadnikank Niyall - Fr Jorge Fernandes

6:18 PM 6
Intercessions (Konkani)

6:30 PM
Mass in Konkani from Majorda followed by Jivitacho Prokas

7:16 PM
Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 10

7:20 PM
Song - Corona Duvens - Brijesh Vaz

7:25 PM
Hymn - Sacred Heart - Brian Colaco

7:30 PM
Saibinnichi Ruzai - Dukhiche Mister

7:55 PM
Tell me a story - Prodigal Son

8:13 PM
Catechism for First Holy Communion -2

8:30 PM
Prayer Vigil in Konkani

11:00 PM
Ratchem Magnem

11:15 PM
Concert - Vem Cantar (2019) 12 to 15 yrs

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[Goanet] World Goa Day

[Cecil Pinto]

While there are conflicting opinions on whether Goa Day was founded by Goa
Sudharop or Rene Baretto there is another aspect to the matter.

>From my limited knowledge the Gulf Goans had mooted the idea many years
before Rene. It was celebrated by the Goan Welfare Society in Kuwait and
also by the Qatar Goans.

Cheers!

Cecil

==

[Goanet] AIFF TV LIVE interview with Blue Tigers goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu on Indian Football Instagram handle at 11 AM IST tomorrow (Aug 14, 2020) + AIFF Report & Video: ‘There was no way we c

[AIFF Media]

Dear colleagues,

Tomorrow, on *AIFF TV*, we go *LIVE* with Indian senior national team
goalkeeper and Arjuna awardee *Gurpreet Singh Sandhu*, who will join us
from Sydney, Australia.

Join us on the *@indianfootball* Instagram handle at *11 AM IST* *tomorrow
(August 14, 2020, Friday) *to watch the full show.

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at @IndianFootball with the hashtag *#AskGurpreet*.

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Please find below today's report and the corresponding video, which
features India's goals from the AFC Challenge Cup 2008 final.

*‘There was no way we could lose the AFC Challenge Cup final,’ recollects
Steven Dias*

*On the 12th anniversary of India winning the AFC Challenge Cup 2008 in New
Delhi, midfielder Steven Dias takes a walk down memory lane to pen down his
account of that historic night for the official website.*

*Read here:*
https://www.the-aiff.com/article/there-was-no-way-we-could-lose-the-afc-challenge-cup-final-recollects-steven-dias

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*2. **Tr*aining kids of the Kuki Tribe, Len Doungel finds ‘rich hearts’



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Re: [Goanet] Inquisition

[augusto pinto]

The Inquisition has been the flavour of the day on various media, the print
media certainly, but also social media like Facebook and WhatsApp.


https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10158731292342996=658192995

Former editor Derek Almeida's Facebook page became a site where GBC
members, the right honourable Eugene Correia and the rightly dishonourable
yours insincerely had a huge amount of fun.

Enjoy!

Augusto

I'm not sure if Derek is a member of the fora I write to so I'll bcc him
separately

On Wed, 12 Aug, 2020, 2:04 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:

> I beg your pardon!
>
> I had quickly skimmed through the book which I came across today and
> hadn't noticed any reference to Goa.
>
> However friends familiar with the work tell me there's an appendix which
> is a well documented account of the Goa Inquisition.
>
> I must try to be more careful with what I put out on the internet. Bah!
>
> Best
> Augusto
>
> On Wed, 12 Aug, 2020, 1:27 PM augusto pinto,  wrote:
>
>>
>> “The Marrano Factory: The Portuguese Inquisition and Its New Christians
>> 1536-1765 -   Antonio J. Saraiva”
>>
>> This book is available on the internet here
>> http://nokahoyu.inoxdvr.com/237.html
>>
>>
>> https://vdocuments-site.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/vdocuments.site/amp/the-marrano-factory-the-portuguese-inquistion-and-its-new-christians-1536-1765.html?amp_js_v=a3_gsa=1=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15972187884378=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com_tf=From%20%251%24s=https%3A%2F%2Fvdocuments.site%2Fthe-marrano-factory-the-portuguese-inquistion-and-its-new-christians-1536-1765.html
>>
>> Also on other sites.
>>
>> You probably are already aware of this but I'm posting it just in case.
>>
>> It's not directly about Goa but it gives an idea about the institution of
>> the Inquisition in Portugal and Spain.
>>
>> Augusto
>>
>

[Goanet] WGD, or RWGD. orSUDGWD ....How Important Is It Among all the Feast

[Adolfo Mascarenhas]

Dom Thank You ...on the above topic ,from Dar es Salaam in a remote
suburb about 150 Goans came together to pray to St Antonio of  Lisboa (SAL)
some of the Goans of Dar did a magnificent   thing .they got
together and among other things collected over 14 million shillings and
this sum, as has been elaborated by Greg, will be given to 200 families to
help the poor. 

Some of us Goans do things because we are responsible for our neighbour,
without discrimination of race, colour and creed, caste

Dom I like your parable like intervention ...about bread dough, pao ,,,Lets
Toast To Success Feni. Water, for Toasting even burnt Toast has
value it helps the Guts.
Peace 

Grandolfo
In the Hot Seat of Quepem