[Goanet] Kanheram-Nature’s food store and phar macy for insects-is there something useful for ai ling humans?

2010-09-17 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Goanet joins Noel Rebello to raise money for Daddy's Home (Margao, Goa) Sponsor Noel

[Goanet] Aayle bangde, talle, isvonache dis-How the changing colours of kaleidoscopic post monsoon skies indicate a bumper fish harvest

2010-09-16 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Goanet joins Noel Rebello to raise money for Daddy's Home (Margao, Goa) Sponsor Noel

[Goanet] Ethnomycology of Goa’s shiti olami

2010-09-12 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Goanet mourns the passing of Cornel da Costa in London, England - Sep 10/10

[Goanet] Fwd: What the Portuguese did in 1632 to compete with Taj Mahal and impress the Moghuls?

2010-09-07 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
A wrong videoclip link was sent in earlier post. This one is the correct one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brh6WfrfMEg -- Forwarded message -- From: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:36 PM Subject: What the Portuguese did in 1632 to compete

[Goanet] Chronicles of ecological agony and urban ecstasy

2010-09-07 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Chronicles of ecological agony and urban ecstasy How green was my Taleigao http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMb5KWUO33A End of hope-the neglected and flooded farms of Taleigao http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUdlmNyZoZg Waiting for Concrete jungles-vast expanses of uncultivated Merces farms

[Goanet] Tribute to My teachers:-informal and formal-Part I

2010-09-05 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Tribute to My teachers:-informal and formal-Part I Nandkumar Kamat “Sa vidya ya vimuktaye’ ‘Vidya bhoghkari, yasha sukhkari, Vidhya Gurunam Guru” “Vidyadhanam sarva dhanapradhanam” “Gurrursahkshat parabrahma, tasmai sri guruve namah” I was raised in the above tradition in a family of GSB

[Goanet] Tribute to My teachers:-informal and formal-Part I

2010-09-04 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Tribute to My teachers:-informal and formal-Part I Nandkumar Kamat “Sa vidya ya vimuktaye’ ‘Vidya bhoghkari, yasha sukhkari, Vidhya Gurunam Guru” “Vidyadhanam sarva dhanapradhanam” “Gurrursahkshat parabrahma, tasmai sri guruve namah” I was raised in the above tradition in a family of GSB

[Goanet] Poemoods:10 Taka chanchavan, chachavan mallo!

2010-09-04 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Taka chanchavan, chachavan mallo! (cathartic poesis) Nandkumar Kamat Two people were discussing in market,’ The ghastly Dourado murder, I heard this sharp statement “taka chanchavan chachavan mallo” What form of cruelty, That creates a Goa of Mahanand, Or the accused, baby faced young

[Goanet] Amcho Ravindrabab Sonsarak aantaralo

2010-08-27 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Mogal Goenkar bhavano ani bhaynano, Amcho Ravindrabab Sonsarak aantaralo, Ravindrabab Gelo! Padmabhushan Ravindra Kelekar breathed his last after a prolonged illness at 11.30 a.m. at Margao. His death would be the biggest news for days and weeks, locally, nationally, internationally-such was

[Goanet] We Are Mightier Than Death (By Ravindra Kelekar, translated by Augusto Pinto) reposted by Nandkumar Kamat

2010-08-27 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Goanet Reader: We Are Mightier Than Death (By Ravindra Kelekar, translated by Augusto Pinto) On Monday 24 th September 2007 Augusto Pinto had posted this beautiful translation. It is most appropriate as state of Goa is mourning Kelekar's death...thanks Augustobab I take liberty to post it again

[Goanet] Fwd: Amcho Ravindrabab Sonsarak aantaralo

2010-08-27 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
-- Forwarded message -- From: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:56:45 +0530 Subject: Amcho Ravindrabab Sonsarak aantaralo To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Mogal Goenkar bhavano ani bhaynano, Amcho Ravindrabab Sonsarak aantaralo, Ravindrabab Gelo

[Goanet] Priolacho maharukh (the giant banyan of Priol) (A poetic tribute to late Ravindraba Kelekar) by Nandkumar Kamat

2010-08-27 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Priolacho maharukh (the giant banyan of Priol) (A poetic tribute to late Ravindraba Kelekar) Bakibab gavan gelo, Manoharbab Zagovan gelo, Bhangibab chitun gelo, Pandit pitarun gelo, Ayaz goencher padlya monel, Sukanidekhun moni zalyat, Pavasakuy rodunk yeta, Themyathemyant dukam

[Goanet] An English Bandhkavya poem-HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO GOANET'-corrected version (ignore previous post please)

2010-08-26 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Sorry, due to an oversight three lines beginning with P, N, and S -were accidentally dropped from the poem posted earlier. This is the corrected version, Do not consider the previously posted In Sanskrit, Chitrakavya, Bandhkavya are forms of poetry based on arrangement of letters. World’s

[Goanet] The orphaned farms of Goa-a tragedy unfolding as you tour the countryside during monsoon-2010

2010-08-24 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
The orphaned farms of Goa Kamati, tukam amche kidyak podla, Tuze xet aasa? Tu kalafurcho re, kay bhailo? I had been heckled for telling the truth. By my own Goan brethern... I Know that I have no farmland, or a plot of land , even a house of my own.. but what I have is a vision of Goa, for

[Goanet] Tribute to a Hindu father

2010-08-23 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
I don't know what to say when some people question my being a Hindu by birth. Very few are interested in knowing about the pains I took for my religious and spiritual education in a family which was very ritualistic. My father was an epitome of Hinduism as he understood it from his perspective. My

[Goanet] World’s first free educational video lectures on Genus Termitomyces (from Mycolab, Botany dept. Goa University)

2010-08-22 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
World’s first free educational video lectures on Genus Termitomyces Some background:- So far 71 species have been catalogued in the paleotropical wild, edible mushroom genus Termitomyces. These are found in a belt stretching from sub saharan Africa, Yunan, Vietnam, Chinese Taipei to

[Goanet] Goa’s Transformed Landscape under Goo gle Earth

2010-08-22 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
All those who were and are directly involved in preparing, supporting, blessing RP-2021 would be answerable to people of Goa for what has been revealed by latest imagery from Google. And it is foolish to accept overnight revolution in the same corrupt administration which would ‘implement’ RP-2021

[Goanet] Fwd: You have photographed toxic Chlorophyllum molybdites mushrooms

2010-08-21 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
. -- Forwarded message -- From: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:04 PM Subject: Re: You have photographed toxic Chlorophyllum molybdites mushrooms To: JoeGoaUk joego...@yahoo.co.uk For further information and to create awareness I am attaching one

[Goanet] Demand Google earth based land use audit -Latest (april 2010) Google Earth satellite images of Goa reveal the bitter, naked truth-almost nothing left for spatial planning under RP-2021

2010-08-20 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Latest Google Earth satellite images of Goa reveal the bitter, naked truth about drastic change in land use It was a mistake/underestimate when I had written in one of the previous post that only about 72900 ha. Of land (about 729 sq.kms or 20% of Goa’s geographical area) is left for any kind

[Goanet] Intellectual and culinary communion with mushrooms-An unique first hand expert Goan ethno-Termitomycophilic experience

2010-08-19 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Intellectual and culinary communion with mushrooms-An unique first hand expert Goan ethno-Termitomycophilic experience As if SHE had heard my prayers, the Mother Earth suddenly began blessing me by producing bountiful crops of edible Termitomyces mushrooms at my common house at Bondir, Santa

[Goanet] Videosnippets of Centre for science and environment (CSE) regional workshop on Coasts at Goa University

2010-08-17 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Centre for science and environment (CSE) regional workshop on Coasts at Goa University CSE , New Delhi ( visit http://www.cseindia.org/) founded by eco crusader late Anil Agarwal which publishes the very informative environmental advocacy magazine ‘Down to earth’ (check

[Goanet] Fwd: Videosnippets of Centre for science and environment (CSE) regional workshop on Coasts at Goa University

2010-08-17 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
-- Forwarded message -- From: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:19 PM Subject: Videosnippets of Centre for science and environment (CSE) regional workshop on Coasts at Goa University To: goanet goanet@lists.goanet.org Centre for science

[Goanet] Poemoods:08-Celebrating Freedom

2010-08-14 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Celebrating freedom… I celebrate freedom… Freedom to say what I want and write, I am an Indian , I love India, India is part of my system, I live for India, I wish to die for India, Be part of same elements of which my ancestors had been part! This country has given me everything, The nutrients

[Goanet] 15 Videoclips to celebrate August 15 th

2010-08-11 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Celebrating International year of Biodiversity and the Independence day 15 Videoclips to celebrate August 15 th Watch my latest bio-videoclips The avian diversity in action! Birds of prey 1. The majestic flight of a Brahminy kite (Haliastur indus)

[Goanet] Goa's Padmashree Dr. Suresh Gundu Amonkar on Dr. Jose Pereira and Hinduism

2010-08-09 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Padamshree Suresh Gundu Amonkar in response to the controversy over Dr. Jose Pereira’s paintings wrote a lead article for The Navhind Times, Sunday Panorama, Aug. 8, 2010. Despite his ill health Sureshbab has devoted himself to build a multicultural society full of love, peace and mutual respect…

[Goanet] An unique species of bioluminescent caterpillar discovered in Goa University campus!

2010-08-09 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Ga University, Taleigao campus favours beautiful bioluminescent creatures of night We hate wild vegetation and love manicured lawns, but it is the same wild vegetation which supports these fireflies. We must oppose any pesticide sprays on our campus. I am observing campus fireflies since

[Goanet] Fwd: All for just 72000 hectares-how civil society in Goa wastes its' energy!

2010-08-08 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
-- Forwarded message -- From: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 22:42:23 +0530 Subject: All for just 72000 hectares-how civil society in Goa wastes its' energy! To: goanet@lists.goanet.org do you mean that only about 7 hectares would be left

[Goanet] Big victory for Goa's culture vultures and heritage entrepreneurs-Assemby passes the draconian amendment to archaeological act. 1978 to stiffle public protests and 'interference'

2010-08-05 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
August 4 th was a party day for Goa's culture vultures and the new and highly professional breed of heritage entrepreneurs in Goa! Finally their systematic lobbying has handsomely paid off. The government moved and passed with voice vote a seemingly innocuous amendment to ancient monuments and

[Goanet] All for just 72000 hectares-how civil society in Goa wastes its' energy!

2010-08-05 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
do you mean that only about 7 hectares would be left for spatial planning Arch. Edgar Ribeiro who was taking down notes while we were discussing (not a presentation before RP task force) on Oct. 7, 2007 at CM's residence asked me... yes, that's it and therefore the whole RP business does not

[Goanet] Rise of Goa’s Cultural Censors

2010-08-01 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Rise of Goa’s Cultural Censors Published on: August 2, 2010 - 00:07 (Courtesy:-The Navhind Times, Goa, Monday, August 2, 2010) Original article weblink:- http://www.navhindtimes.in/opinion/rise-goa-s-cultural-censors *By Nandkumar Kamat** *Any serious student and practitioner of Hinduism who

[Goanet] “nudism” in Dr. Pereira’s paint ings and criticism of Laxman’s ‘Last supper ’ Carton - In which century are we living?

2010-07-29 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
“nudism” in Dr. Pereira’s paintings and Laxman’s ‘Last supper’ Carton In which century are we living? (Then Jesus said, Father forgive them, for they know not what they doLuke 23:24) ( Avidnyatam vijanatam, vidnyatam avijanatam- Kathopanishada – “those who think that they no nothing ,

[Goanet] How forces destroying Goa are made statutorily stronger-retired scientists get rehabilitated on powerful statutory posts again and again

2010-07-27 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
My indologist Guru ,Dr. Josebab Pereira says prophetically, 'THE FORCES DESTROYING GOA ARE MUCH STRONGER THAN I AM' But who's making these forces stronger-?. all those who are willingly or unwillingly involved in disempowering people of Goa and those who see no conflict of interests when such

[Goanet] Ravindra Kelekar: A Cultural Institution

2010-07-26 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Ravindra Kelekar: A Cultural Institution Published on: July 25, 2010 - 22:58 BY NANDKUMAR KAMAT (Courtesy, The Navhind Times, Monday 26 July 2010) (http://www.navhindtimes.in/opinion/ravindra-kelekar-cultural-institution) ON July 31, the prestigious Dnyanpeeth Award would be conferred by the

[Goanet] VideoPoem shot on the location devoted to aquatic bubble universe

2010-07-25 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
While photographing a monsoon stream in our campus ( it feeds our Bondval lake) , this spinning vortex, a dynamic nursery of bubbles was noticed and on the spot as I tried to hold the Sony cybershot camera steady, came out a poem spontaneously as I was transfixed by the rotating motion and the

[Goanet] The ridiculous and wholesale cheating b y Task force on RP-2021-What happened on Sunday O ctober 7, 2007 at CM’s residence?

2010-07-22 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
-for uploading on GRN, Goanaet etc.-The Model town and country planning act, 1998 Reply | Dr.Nandkumar Kamat to fredericknoron. show details 8/25/07 fromDr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka...@gmail.comtofredericknoro...@gmail.com dateSat, Aug 25, 2007 at 7:10 PMsubjecturgent-for uploading on GRN, Goanaet etc

[Goanet] Fwd: Remind Goa CM about RP promise, GBA to MLAs

2010-07-21 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
POPULATION WITHIN NEXT FIVE YEARS DIRECTLY. -- Forwarded message -- From: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 6:52 PM Subject: Re: Remind Goa CM about RP promise, GBA to MLAs To: roger dsouza rdsg2...@gmail.com The biggest mistake of GBA was to cooperate

[Goanet] A literary bombshell from a writer who aimed to create his own school of aesthetics and literary criticism in Marathi

2010-07-21 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
A literary bombshell from a writer who aimed to create his own school of aesthetics and literary criticism in Marathi I have never waited so eagerly to pounce on the oven fresh copy of Prof. Bhalchandra Nemade’s latest and much awaited Marathi novel- “Hindu-jaganyachi ek samruddh adgal’. This

[Goanet] No conflict of interests now?-Liberal critical comments welcome once again....

2010-07-16 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
The highly selective approach of the conscience keepers of Goa would be seen in their stand on the following issues where obviously the 'conflict of interest' is either not detected due to poor homework or because there is a tacit understanding that these personalities deserve permanent

[Goanet] Fwd: Re: Discovery in Bambolim

2010-07-07 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
that the sea levels in Goa are moving in the wrong direction from their predictions. --- On *Sat, 7/3/10, Santosh Helekar *wrote: From: Santosh Helekar Subject: Discovery in Bambolim To: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat .Date: Saturday, July 3, 2010, 6:40 PM Nandakumar, A couple of questions. First

[Goanet] A humble tribute :-On the occasion of 26 th death anniversary of Poet Balakrishna Bhagvant Borkar

2010-07-07 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
On the occasion of 26 th death anniversary of Poet Balakrishna Bhagvant Borkar (B. 30 November 1910, Curchorem, Goa , death- 8 July 1984, Pune, Maharashtra) “Once upon a time, in a beautiful land called GOA, amche Goem lived a poet Bakibab Borkar” ( Our Grandchildren in AD. 2060) “ and

[Goanet] Poemoods-06: Moods of water-Cosmic and chaotic

2010-07-06 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Poemoods-06 Moods of water-Cosmic and chaotic :Cosmic: I imagine, Archeology of water, Cosmic, Chaotic, Potential of history In aquatic seeds, Clouds Extending beyond Galactic horizons, Eclectic interstellar dusty landscapes, Molecules, Fully Didactic, Water-the liquid altar of

[Goanet] Poemoods:05-July Rains_Trivisions

2010-07-05 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
After experiencing 51 rains, a stage comes when rains cease to appear as vertical streams of water and assume a different ecospiritual, transcendent personality….monsoon in Goa needs an epic, but I have neither time , nor priority to write one now…. Poemoods:05 July rains: trivisions

[Goanet] Memories of Allen costa

2010-07-05 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
As a student of Panaji's Massano de Amorim Govt. Marathi primary school I was a child artist in the popular Khalar and malar' programme on AIR-Panaji. I remember Allen costa on AIR and can't forget his voice emanating from our Radio with nice wooden cabinet. I bumped into Allen later on AIR

[Goanet] Marine microbial diversity research centre at Goa University

2010-07-04 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Marine research centre to be set up at Goa University TNN, Jul 5, 2010, 12.36am IST PANAJI: Goa university (GU) vice-chancellor D Deobagkar said recently that a marine microbial diversity research centre, under government of India's department of earth sciences, is proposed to be set up at the

[Goanet] Botanists fear threat to survival of rare floral species at Rivona

2010-07-04 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
My senior colleague Prof. M.K.Janarthanam who specializes in Plant taxonomy gave a presentation in a Biodiversity awareness workshop pn July 3rd at Goa University. You may view the details of the workshop sponsored by UGC in association with Goa Union of Journalists on

[Goanet] A new leaf in Goa's prehistoryLinear cupules of BambolimHistory of human colonization of Tiswadi now goes back to mesolithic (10000 years BCE) period

2010-07-03 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
On June 25 th I made an important discovery on Bambolim plateau which pushes back the history of human colonization of Tiswadi island to 1 BCE (humans entered Goa 60-8 years BCE) It was the discovery of five groups of linear stone cupules...vestiges of prehistoric rock art, which I have

[Goanet] Helping save Australian rock art heritage

2010-07-03 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Dear Friends, I have just read and signed the online petition: Save Dampier rock art hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition service, at: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/dampier/ http://www.petitiononline.com/dampier/ I personally agree with what this petition

[Goanet] Poemoods:-04-:After making an epochal discovery:

2010-06-29 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Poemoods:-04 Dr. Nandkumar Kamat ( A treasure trove of Mesolithic rock art, the oldest so far in Goa was discovered last week by the writer. He knows that if the discovery is given publicity the site would be rapidly vandalized. And if it is not published then it is as good as having never

[Goanet] Poemoods:-3:Serving my son-Nachiketas:

2010-06-28 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Poemoods:-3 Dr. Nandkumar Kamat :Serving my son-Nachiketas: OM Nachiketasayh Namah! I saw his name in my dream, Nachiketa-the heavenly fire of knowledge; The creator of Kathopanishada; THE BOOK of books; Some atoms of that creation Cycling in the biosphere for eons; Might have

[Goanet] Poemoods-I-(Anthropocene fusion poems depicting moods of nature, species, people, capturing events)

2010-06-27 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Poemoods (Anthropocene fusion poems depicting moods of nature, species, people, capturing events) Dr. Nandkumar Kamat I :Fireflies: I stayed awake the whole night; And nights after nights; To glimpse a few stray Flipping greenish photons; Of airborne creatures of light Fireflies! I

[Goanet] Poemoods:-2

2010-06-27 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Poemoods:-2 Dr. Nandkumar Kamat I :Making way for stagnated water in the campus: Sometimes with the tips of my shoes, Or end of a wooden stick, I stop on my way, To restore, The free flow of stagnated water in the campus; A small drain, a gutter, a pool; Wherever, water has halted,

[Goanet] Scattered old public (published, verifiable) confessions of a newly anointed mining agent (proudly Indian, not IDRC sponsored fifth columnist ) -Part A

2010-06-24 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Scattered old public (published, verifiable) confessions (in English- technical problems in translating Marathi, Konkani ) of a newly anointed mining agent (proudly Indian, not IDRC sponsored fifth columnist ) -Part A I. What we are drinking is actually poison water. There are no quality checks

[Goanet] Please respond -Is suffering of mining affected people a human rights violation issue? Can it be made a human rights issue?

2010-06-24 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
I need the Goanetters responses , need specific answers , not evasive replies 1. Is suffering of mining affected people in the mining belt of Goa a human rights violations issue? 2. if not can it be made a human rights issue? 3. If not, then the reasons thereof? 4. if yes, then whether it can be

[Goanet] Let us give up “mori ambot tikh” an d launch 'save sharks (mori) campaign/movem ent

2010-06-23 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Let us give up “mori ambot tikh” Goa’s fish markets would show you baby sharks, hammer head sharks… There are lots of customers who prefer “mori’ fresh or dried… I also love “mori ambot tik”. The best recipe which I tasted was at Caranzalem, Panaji’s Martins’ beach corner… For past five

[Goanet] Grateful to Mr. Rajendra Kakodkar, Need still more critical and qualitative contributions

2010-06-23 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
'satyam bruyat, priyam bruyat, na satyam apriyam bruyat' 'Vade vade jayte tatavabodha' I was very pleased to receive mining consultant Mr. Rajendra Kakodkar's recent emails. Need more such critical and qualitative participation which would enrich my forthcoming publication to be released at the

[Goanet] Global alert!Backdoor privatization of heritage monuments-After Reis magos it would be Cabo de Rama (Kholgad) fort

2010-06-23 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Could people who welcome restoration but oppose privatization (superstore, shopping mall, film institute et al) of old GMC building have a separate yardstick for privatization of Reis magos, Cabo de Rama and Chapora (or what ever is left there) forts?. I salute Heraldo and the vernacular language

[Goanet] Poems from the forthcoming collection of a mining agent-II

2010-06-22 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Poems from the forthcoming collection of a mining agent-II As a newly anointed ‘mining agent’ , I would be dedicating a series of numerous poems (they come so easily to me since my childhood, like salivation or urination…) to miners of Goa whom people love to hate..or hate to love depending on

[Goanet] The geopolitical and geoeconomic duplicity digest-II

2010-06-22 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
The geopolitical and geoeconomic duplicity digest-II Previous part contained examples of Canadian mining pollution and suppression of data on their toxic waste from the people and Canadian NGOs Canada has long term plans to take over mines in India through its’ powerful MNCs and the grounds

[Goanet] Fwd: Acknowledgement of email

2010-06-21 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
It was a serious proposal and the CM would have to study and only then with justification reject it. please support the proposal. -- Forwarded message -- From: cm.goa cm@nic.in Date: Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:47 AM Subject: Acknowledgement of email To: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka

[Goanet] Call for support of the proposalColonialism as a theme for IFFI-2010 and writer Ms. Arundhati Roy to inaugurate and make a speech

2010-06-20 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
but Ms. Roy may leave an indelible mark on our psyche after her visit... -- Forwarded message -- From: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:03 PM Subject: Colonialism as a theme for IFFI-2010 and writer Ms. Arundhati Roy to inaugurate and make a speech

[Goanet] Mahatma Gandhi and his disciple Vinoba Bhave took pride in cleaning toilets

2010-06-20 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Apinirvanmayati-nanlo-yati-shitatam The details of MFG projects were sent as committed in my previous post-critical comments are welcome etc. People who weigh their microseconds in gold would never waste time in reading it unless there is a compelling reason (or treason…) Each and every mail

[Goanet] Poems from the forthcoming collection of a mining agent-I

2010-06-19 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Poems from the forthcoming collection of a mining agent-I As a newly anointed ‘mining agent’ , I would be dedicating a series of numerous poems (they come so easily to me since my childhood, like salivation or urination…) to miners of Goa whom people love to hate..or hate to love depending on

[Goanet] Fwd: Goans support the first people of Canada in their struggle for indigenous people's human rights

2010-06-19 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
This mail would also be marked to parliamentarians from Goa with a request to raise the matter in the next session -- Forwarded message -- From: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka...@gmail.com Date: Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:51 PM Subject: Goans support the first people of Canada

[Goanet] The geopolitical and geoeconomic duplic ity digest –I

2010-06-19 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
The geopolitical and geoeconomic duplicity digest –I The Canadian crown corporation IDRC funded strategic studies on Goa’s mining since 1998 (reference:- http://www.idrc.ca/es/ev-5415-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html and http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-29129-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html ) to influence local policies while

[Goanet] Where the Mineral Foundation of Goa money goes?-from the minutes of Feb. 10, 2010 meeting of executive committee of MFG-an illustrative list

2010-06-19 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
1 Construction of compound wall, toilet flooring for Primary school building at Dapodem in V P Curdi 2,75,000/- 2 Request to provide toilet facilities, 20 benches with desks for GPS Pontemol. 2,00,000/- 3 Construction of additional staircase for C T N H School - Curchorem 9,00,000/- 4 Donation

[Goanet] Naxalism with (capitalist) printer cartridges?

2010-06-19 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Naxalism with (capitalist) printer cartridges? Huge quantity of rice, 300 kg of dried fish, two generator sets, three solar panel plates, a big battery, three motorcycles, two cartons filled with printer cartridges and an electric metal cutter - these are just some of the “mind-boggling”

[Goanet] More critical comments are welcome-reg. Is Nandakumar Kamat an Agent of Mine Owners and the Politicians Who Want to Sell Minerals for a Song to Multinationals for their Personal Benefit?

2010-06-17 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
:41 AM Subject: Re: Is Nandakumar Kamat an Agent of Mine Owners and the Politicians Who Want to Sell Minerals for a Song to Multinationals for their Personal Benefit? To: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka...@gmail.com Dear Dr. Kamat, Apologies for the delayed response. The following have represented

[Goanet] Fwd: Explanation needed

2010-06-17 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
-- Forwarded message -- From: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:41 PM Subject: Explanation needed To: Hartman de Souza hartman.deso...@gmail.com What's Canadian interest in western ghats?. Are Indian funding agencies gone bankrupt

[Goanet] Cushioning impact of globalization- del ivering socio economic justice to workers in Goa ’s traditional occupations (GTOS) and busin esses

2010-06-12 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Cushioning impact of globalization- delivering socio economic justice to workers in Goa’s traditional occupations and businesses This has reference to previous post http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-March/190767.html As a chairman of the 30 member task force committee

[Goanet] Note (2006) on preparing a policy on sustainable mining of alluvial sand resources from Goa's rivers

2010-06-12 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
With low capital base, cheaply exploited unorganised labour living in poor conditions, zero concern for ecology and environment, intensive sand mining is nothing but the mass rape of rivers of Goa. Exploitation has crossed millions of cubic metres per month. The business has crossed Rs. 1000

[Goanet] Appeal to CM , Goa to introduce the bill on Khazan land management (draft enclosed)

2010-06-10 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
-Economy-of-Khazan-Lands-of-Goa -- Forwarded message -- From: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:00 AM Subject: Please introduce the bill on Khazan land management (draft enclosed) To: cm@nic.in cm@nic.in Cc: nka...@unigoa.ac.in To, The Hon

[Goanet] Proud to be an agent of tribals-my non violent and compassionate path

2010-06-10 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Helping the tribals-my non violent and compassionate path The incident occurred 26 years ago but whenever I step in the tribal wards of Markaim the Gavade tribal people recognize and come forward to greet me with tremendous love and affection…this is the village where I had taken practical

[Goanet] Please urgently stop sand digging in ecofragile Vanxim island near Divar

2010-06-09 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
-- Forwarded message -- From: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:39 AM Subject: Please urgently stop sand digging in ecofragile Vanxim island near Divar To: cm@nic.in Attention Dear Hon. CM, Please recall the telephonic talk about stopping

[Goanet] Need to act on report on minor minerals sent by minister of state, MOEF, (ind. charge) Mr. Jairam Ramesh

2010-06-09 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
-- Forwarded message -- From: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:51 AM Subject: Need to act on report on minor minerals sent by minister of state (ind. charge) Mr. Jairam Ramesh To: cm@nic.in Dear CM, Goa A lot of agitations have taken place

[Goanet] Arundhati Roy, Operation Green Hunt And The Indian Middle Class By Abhijit Dutta

2010-06-08 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
An eye witness account by Roy's critical middle class admirer, Abhijit Dutta who attended the meeting of Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights (CPDR) on the ‘War Against People’ in Mumbai She is a writer. So she writes. Who does she write for? Who is the audience? Where does she publish?

[Goanet] Chennai Journalist Nandini Krishnan says-We need Arundhati Roy like a hole in the head

2010-06-08 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
A thoughtful critique by Journalist Nandini Krishnan, Chennai Excerpts:- The Maoists have consistently turned down invitations to hold talks. India doesn’t have the best record where ‘talks’ are concerned - we’ve been ‘talking’ to Pakistan for half a century - but is killing non-Naxals a solution

[Goanet] Proxy war against Indian republic under the facade of Naxalism exposed

2010-06-07 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Foreign powers would do anything to see India bleed. This has been going on since 1948. A surrendered Naxalite revealed- “We had a Filipino man come down to train us in 2001. LTTE men have come twice for the same purpose. They instructed us in defense and offense tactics, like laying mines and

[Goanet] Romantic revolutionary dreams for tribals held hostage under the barrel of gun

2010-06-07 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
The Naxals would be sandwitched between the tribal rebels and the Indian forces very soon, if they continue to romanticise revolution under the barrel of the gun!. “The Naxals have been saying that they are fighting to bring us power. For many years, we roamed the forests chasing this elusive

[Goanet] Celebrating World Environment Day-How green was my campus-View My 30 best pictures

2010-06-05 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Greetings of World Environment Day 2010 View my 30 best pictures of Goa University campus. http://picasaweb.google.co.in/Nandkamat/HowGreenWasMyCampusMy30BestPictures# It was an attempt over past 10 years to freeze on frame whatever that remains before we lose it, miss it, kill it, eliminate

[Goanet] Odxel valley -urban development to engulf -Tiswadi's last intact windswept valley with climax evergreen vegetation

2010-06-05 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Please view the web-album to get an idea of what all this is about... http://picasaweb.google.co.in/Nandkamat/OdxelValleyInTaleigaoMarkedForClearance#5479387668296171602 Where Odxel ward of Taleigao ends and Cancra ward of St. cruz begins- you find the Odxel valley. Same type of Valley we would

[Goanet] If armed forces step in then Naxalites should nominate Arundhati Roy for Nobel peace prize-2010-11

2010-06-03 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Compared to work of Dr. Karanth, Bhairappa, CT Khanolkar, HM Marathe, RS Dighe, SNPendase, TS Pillai, MT vasudevan Nair and our own Pundalik Naik and Mahabaleshwar Sail I did not find anything in much hyped GOST which I read within a few weeks of its' publication in India. Unfortunatley all those

[Goanet] Sorry-Not a megaproject-road construction and tree slaughter was done by Goa University for completing boundary wall

2010-06-01 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Not a megaproject-road construction and tree slaughter was done by Goa University for completing boundary wall This is a new and interesting development. After posting the previous alert and appeal about the road construction and tree slaughter, I visited the registrar, Goa University, Dr.

[Goanet] Goa netters need to read the State economic survey 2009-10

2010-05-31 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Please visit the website of Goa's dept. of planning. http://goadpse.gov.in/ and download and read the latest State economic survey from this weblink http://goadpse.gov.in/publications/Economicsurvey0910.pdf How wealth is getting created in Goa?. How bank deposits are growing phenomenally despite

[Goanet] Final assault on the last surviving green belt and wildlife habitat-Kalapur bandh-Nagali hill-the grand megaproject plan exposed

2010-05-31 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
I have observed that everywhere people are hurrying to destroy green belts and fields as if they know that after notification of RP-2021, they would get all these crimes condoned….that explains filling up of vast Khazan fields at Merces and at many other places There is a grand plan to destroy

[Goanet] How we put tiny Goa on the global rock art map 17 years ago-Part I- A peep into prehistoric Goan shamanism

2010-05-10 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
How we put tiny Goa on the global rock art map 17 years ago- Part I- A peep into prehistoric Goan shamanism (Prelude:- During 1988 I discovered paleolithic stone tools and petroglyphs at Tiska-Usgao on the old route across the mountain to Bondla and published the findings in the Navhind Times.

Re: [Goanet] 39 new dragonfly species found in Goa (Paul Fernandes, TNN)

2010-05-07 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
The caption of the posted news item is misleading. A new species means a novel species in science which the taxonomists have to diagnose and publish with full details. The caption of the news item is misleading. I have seen the original paper mailed to me by Mr. Ranganekar. It says that 34

[Goanet] Episodes of environmental destruction at Bambolim valley and Merces khazans

2010-05-03 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
The regional plan 2021 is a mass harakiri by unsuspecting Goans. Those who believe in it are extremely naive about the dynamics of destruction on ground level and the connivance of all vested interests. RP-2021 is a joint ploy to deny people their powers at grass roots level and centralize

[Goanet] A global call for saving Goan Mangoes from Extinction

2010-03-01 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
--- *** Follow Goanet on Twitter *** http://twitter.com/goanet --- Mangoes – A case study of How Goa

[Goanet] A note on considering Goa as a special case -an ecologically fragile/ecovulnerable state-copy of Letter mailed on August 30 , 2009 to Mr. Jairam Ramesh, Union minister for state (independent

2010-01-31 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
In his Visit and interaction/public hearing on CZMA at the auditorium of Agnel Polytechnic, Verna, on Aug. 30, 2009 the Hon. Minister for environment and forests, Mr. Jairam Ramesh declared- anyone in audience may write to me why Goa deseves a special case . Within a few hours I dispatched him

[Goanet] Cultural Talent Search Competition

2010-01-27 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
*The Directorate of Art Culture, Govt, of Goa recently organized a ‘Cultural Talent Search Competition’ for the school students involving several events,* * i.e. Tabla, Harmonium, Guitar, Keyboard, Violin, Indian Classical Vocal, Light Music, Kathak, Bharatnatyam, Monologue, Western Solo,

[Goanet] Advocacy is not over-in pursuit of good public policies for Goa, Goans and the great Indian republic

2010-01-25 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Advocacy is not over-in pursuit of good public policies for Goa, Goans and the great Indian republic Reminiscences of republic day-2000 to 2010 Dr. Nandkumar M. Kamat- (ex-chairman) task force committee to draft Goa state cultural policy-2002-07 (The State cultural policy, 2007 mentioned

[Goanet] Struggle is not yet over-the battle to save Goa’s Khazans and Salt pans--reminiscing 1 9 years after the highcourt judgment

2010-01-15 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Struggle is not yet over-the battle to save Goa’s Khazans and Salt pans--reminiscing after 19 eventful years…. Nandkumar M. Kamat Struggle is not over-only the pace is reduced. Life is dissipating slowly. At 51, my once youthful stamina is absentEvil forces are increasing. Voices of sanity and

[Goanet] Agacaim byepass would be an environmental disaster from monsoon 2010

2009-12-26 Thread Dr.Nandkumar Kamat
Has anyone seen the cross drainages Of the much hyped Agacaim byepass?. Six months ago I had alerted the local MLA Mr. Silveira. I told him that the byepass would act as an earthen dam restricting natural, normal drainage of the higher ground between siridao to Agacaim to the Zuari river.