[Goanet] Feryal and Baykal go Goa

Hola Aloha, That was back in 2004 - I guess the last Hippie has left Goa by now ... https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/16/the-moment-i-knew-in-goa-we-had-no-money-no-nothing-but-i-was-so-content Enjoy! Cheerio, p+7D!

[Goanet] Kilindini Bar (Goanet)

Hi Mervyn et all, Nice post! here for a vido: https://www.facebook.com/Ajabumedi/videos/a-c-desouza-co-the-kilindini-bar-perhaps-the-oldest-bar-in-mombasa-kenya-establi/1691151947742661/ and an article with pics:

Re: [Goanet] Arundhati Roy: Modi's model is at last revealed for what it is

as their vanishing and tarnished might lasts. For the remainder I might refer to the words that are inscribed under the Lion of Ashoka, the state emblem of India Cheers (but no cheers), p+7D! From: "Gilbert Lawrence" To: "Goanet Org" , "Patrice Riemens" Sent: Sund

[Goanet] Arundhati Roy: Modi’s model is at last revealed for what it is

Aloha, I might now have definitely blown my chance of a visa for India (at least during the current, err, 'adminsitration' ... But then I always have pleaded for 'audi et alteram partem' - even, or even just when, you disagree. Ciao Ciao, p+7D! Modi’s model is at last revealed

Re: [Goanet] Please, dear Lord, turn me into a.. (Rajan Parrikar)

Aloha, Difficult to react to the barrage of, err, curiosities Rajan is telling every time he engage in some sort of dialogue with Frederick, but I'd wish to reject at least one point, about immigrants in Europe. Yes the situation is complicated (euphemism) and there are problems (many, many)

Re: [Goanet] Royal British Racism

Aloha, The British royals are living in a bubble, or as the French call it, 'outside (above) soil'. But aslo, as The Guardian exposed a few weeks ago, they were able to tweak legislation (bwo 'Royal Consent') in their favor till the 1990s, freeing them, among (not a) few other things, of

[Goanet] India's demographic blues

Aloha, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/14/india-faces-deepening-demographic-divide-as-it-prepares-to-overtake-china-as-the-worlds-most-populous-country "India’s entrenched north-south divide is growing as its population changes, with serious social and political consequences" A

Re: [Goanet] Claire Coutinho

Nice take on the new British minister for Children, etc. Just hope she's not as bad, politically speaking, as het avowedly Goan roots colleague Braverman, whose general politics, towards foreigners (including EU ones) is despicable ... (but if not, it will surely rejoice the heart of Gonanet's

[Goanet] Rajan's grippe against Frederick N.

Aloha, Funky how two lines that were probably ironic (spending time shooting pics on a giant iceberg ;-) can attract such a long rejoinder ... And that while both seem to agree on many points (regarding Goa, minus politics and ... religion?) Ciao Ciao, p+7D!

Re: [Goanet] The Third Goanet (Three Goanets)

Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2022 23:38:20 + (UTC) From: Mervyn Lobo To: "Estb. 1994! Goa's Premiere Mailing List" , Goanet Subject: [Goanet] Three Goanets Message-ID: <1454890938.1778078.1667432300...@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Folks,It is becoming increasingly

Re: [Goanet] more on SIKULAR LIBTARD: - or rather, on Rishi Sunak

Hola Aloha, https://www.tatler.com/article/rishi-sunak-chancellor-of-the-exchequer-feature Heavy duty pseudo-nationalists riding the Rishi our Indian boy wave might not like this: "Rishi, the eldest of their three children, was cut from the same (English) patriotic cloth. Not only did the

[Goanet] Rajan Parrikar's 'traditionalist' views

Hola Aloha, The pb with Rajan Parrikar's 'traditionalist' views, e.g. on national governments vs globalist governace - if there is any such thing - is you can subsume all of them in the header 'the invention of tradition', with other words, many things hold to be of more or less permanent,

[Goanet] Amitav Ghosh: The Colonial Roots of Present Crises. (October 2022)

Hola Aloha, Since I understand that Amitav Ghosh is a part time resident of Goa, I thought this interview of his might be of interest. The url of the interview is provided, but since Felix Stalder made the effort to nicely edit it for nettime, I have c+p-ed it here. I am presently reading his

Re: [Goanet] Panjim Casino Walhalla ...

Hola Aloha, Re: 1. Adeus, Panjim? (O Heraldo, 16/10/2022) (V M) 2. Goa diary: 'Lee-gussy' overload (Rajan Parrikar) -- "r - Goan nationalist, Hindu, Hindutvavadi, bamon, pro-patriarchy, rightwing fundamentalist"

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 17, Issue 439

- Original Message - From: goanet-requ...@lists.goanet.org To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Monday, 19 September, 2022 19:02:42 Subject: Goanet Digest, Vol 17, Issue 439 Send Goanet mailing list submissions to goanet@lists.goanet.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World

[Goanet] PEN-America on 75 yes Indian Independence

Aloha, "To mark India at 75, PEN America reached out to authors from India and the Indian diaspora to write short texts expressing what they felt. Together they make a historic document. Authors who were born in British India responded, as did India’s Midnight’s Children and grandchildren.

Re: [Goanet] Guess: Which was Britain's only home-grown religion?

Aloha, I asked two female friends of mine who are or had been into witchcraft, and they were both unimpressed. They both said that by now wicca had degenerated into a feel-good yuppish past time, heavilly commercial/conumptionnarized and indulging into shallow mysticism. Little to do with

[Goanet] Blackmail

Hi Roland et all, Thank you Roland for reminding me of 'the other side to the story'. 'Me' rather than 'us', because most Goanet readers at least those outside the 'West' are less engulfed by the ... Western viewpoint. This said I find the aggression of Russia/Putin (not exactly the same I

Re: [Goanet] Challenge for Diaspora Goans (Cyprian Fernandes)

Hi Cyprian, et all Do you know Mahmood Mamdani? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmood_Mamdani As student I read his 2 famous books 'The Myth of Population Control' and 'From Citizen to Refugee' - he was expelled by Amin in '72 but returned later & became prof at Marakere Uni, now at

[Goanet] TSS Karanja/ Nancowry

Jambo all, Re: Adolfo's post about super dock in Dar... Yes the Karanja ... I sailed from Madras (then) to Port Blair with her - she was renamed Nancowry by then, bought at the kilo price of scrap metal by the SCI. My sister and I were eager to visit the Andamans, which were not a very

[Goanet] Sad plight of Postmen ... (Nelson Lopes)

Aloha, Sad but also strange story. I would have thought that in India postmen wouyld still be state employees with a secure & (relatively) well paid job, like befits an essential public service. It is no longer like that in the Netherlands, always at the forefront orf neo-liberalism, where

Re: [Goanet] Falklands Islands offered to take East African Asians!

Aloha, Waaaooow, yet another weird piece of history! I wonder if _any_ Ugandan Asian actually made it to the contested islands. ( activist protest postcard from the days of the war depicting blating sheeps amidst of army regalia with the subtext '4 million sheep cannot be wrong!') The

[Goanet] Codd-neck soda bottles, Banta/Goli Soda (Re: Soda Bottles with marble stoppers)

Aloha, Further 'study' on the codd-neck soda bottles (that's apparently their technical name) revealed two fascinating entries in Wikipedia (what else?): First the general article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codd-neck_bottle then, the article about the Indian survivor: Banta or Goli

Re: [Goanet] Soda Bottles with marble stoppers ...

> On 03/30/2022 9:34 PM goanet-requ...@lists.goanet.org > wrote: > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Soda bottles with marble stoppers drill available! Ramune Sodas. > > (Frederick Noronha) 2. Re: Soda bottles with marble stoppers drill > > available!

[Goanet] Fwd: What is Eurasianism? (- and how does India figure in it?)

Salve, This is the best 'Eurasianism 2.0' I've ever read, even if it is the firrst (!). India makes a cameo appearance, and rightly so, in my view, since I consider India an abject failure in terms of 'development', especially under the current regime. But India will, we hope, be redeemed by

[Goanet] Fwd: Prem Chandavarkar

> > > World War II. This validation is supported by Western mainstream media, > > > and largely accepted by the Western public. > > > * This “we are the good guys” perception is not one that is shared by > > > most other parts of the world, which sees

[Goanet] Panjim dirty? What about Paris then ....

Aloha, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/05/sacre-bleu-has-beautiful-paris-now-turned-into-the-city-of-blight Enjoy! ;-) p+7D!

Re: [Goanet] India's Hate Speech Woes (Anish Esteves)

Hi All, Please always include url of the originbal when posting c+p of articles (your own or others' ;-) Anish Esteves' one: https://asiatimes.com/2022/01/indias-hate-speech-conundrum-needs-to-be-tackled/ Cheers, p+7D!

[Goanet] fwd: Arjun Appadurai: From Nationalism to Genocidalism (in Modi's India)

Sorry, resend after bad typo on goanet. Btw Eddie's address - c+p from the list - bounces, it's apparently a file address, not able to receive incoming mails ... > On 01/18/2022 12:44 PM patrice riemens wrote: > > > Aloha, > > Re: Roland & Ediie's posts. > &g

[Goanet] Rishi Shunak

Aloha, There is not much to be proud about Rishi Shunak. He's for sure the most likely successor to BoJo the Clown, whose fall will happen when (not if) the ruthless Torry ruling class decides so. As PM, Shunak will then unlash a new era of austerity with gusto, as he hates the lower classes

Re: [Goanet] This Covid Is Crazy (Roalnd Francis)

Hear Hear! & It's just as bad in EU, esp in France where I am on holidays right now " where president Macron has just addressed some unfit to print words against the unvaxed ... A French sociologist has called the pandemic an all-encompassing social fact ('un fait social total'), I call it

[Goanet] The Sun sets on 2021 ...

Aloha, Re: Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'The Sun Sets on 2021' Goodbye, 2021. In the fields of Calapur, Goa. You may view the latest post at https://blog.parrikar.com/2021/12/31/the-sun-sets-on-2021/ Awesome pic! & Now looking fwd for the Sun rises on 2022 ...

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] 1961: Viewed from the perspective of a Margao schoolboy (Mariano Pereira)

Hola All, Reading Mariano's piece and generally thinking about 'the December 19 events' I get strong associations with a less known (mostly because his/her other works are so well-known) novella (in 2 parts) by Welsh Author Jan (prev James) Morris: Hav ('Last letters from Hav', followed 10

[Goanet] Mumbai Millenials

Aloha, The story reported by Roland made me think of a string of incidents in Sweden, I thing in the years before the financial crisis, when the sky was the limit in terms of fast enrichment. Now Sweden had been for decades under a fairly strict social democrat regime which ran an extensive

Re: [Goanet] Freddie Sayers asks: Who is Éric Zemmour?

Aloha, Re: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M9P0kLxElY Thanks Fred for the London explainer of rise of the Zemmour comet in the French political firmament. He is bad news indeed - if you ask me. But also very temporary so. Looking at the Zemmour phenomenon, a Zhou Enlai quote (yes, him! ;-)

Re: [Goanet] Steal Photos, Bear No Consequences

Sorry, resend after typo in address(.com instead og .org ...) > On 10/18/2021 8:37 AM patrice riemens wrote: > > > Aloha all, > > Notice anything here? > > https://itsgoa.com/brahma-temple-goa/ > Now look at this - > > https://bl

[Goanet] Sir Richard Turnbull

Aloha, Re: no bullet proof car, no security detail ... It was not different in the Netherlands of my young days. I have encountered the then prime minister (Drs Joop den Uyl) a number of times and even spoke to him once. On walks in Amsterdam one could also regularly come across the president

Re: [Goanet] Afghanistan - Land of endless war | DW Documentary (Frederick Noronha)

Aloha, https://youtu.be/L7e6tejlTNw A real Must See! One can pick up this one as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHPrU7R8L2Y Afghanistan before the Russian invasion (1979) Good explainer, also lots of music! Ciaoui, p+2D!

Re: [Goanet] Goa 1961 :: The Background (Valmiki Faleiro)

Re: Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 19:22:09 -0400 From: Roland Francis mailto:roland.fran...@gmail.com >To: goa...@goanet.org mailto:goa...@goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goa 1961 :: The Background (Valmiki Faleiro) Message-ID: <56948e3f-2611-44f7-88fc-79531ab90...@gmail.com

[Goanet] India's midnight evacuation from Kabul (AFP)

Aloha, https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210818-escorted-by-taliban-india-s-midnight-evacuation-from-afghanistan Maybe you can view the videoclip also, I couldn't: https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2021/08/escorted-by-taliban-indias-midnight-evacuation-from-afghanistan/ My forecast - for

Re: [Goanet] FORTHCOMING: Valmiki Faleiro's writing on Goa, 1961

Aloha, Re: Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2021 21:00:58 +1000 From: Oscar Carmino Lobo mailto:oscarde...@gmail.com > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" mailto:goanet@lists.goanet.org > Subject: Re: [Goanet] FORTHCOMING: Valmiki Faleiro's writing on Goa, 1961 Bloodless ? Indian side: 22 killed

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] The writing is on the wall: Bookshops see hardships on the shelves

Aloha, Sad story indeed. Situation better in France, where small bookshops got state aid and were deemed an 'essential service', so no closure during lockdown. In Italy like in France, many small bookshops that had survived before Covid have diversified into 'social hubs' (with a cafe,

[Goanet] 'Revert to type': Goa's last typewriter repair shop (The Guardian)

Aloha, Enjoy! Cheerio, p+7D! In today's Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/08/revert-to-type-how-goas-last-typewriter-repair-shop-defied-the-digital-age Revert to type: how Goa’s last typewriter repair shop defied the digital age Luis Abreu once thrived on

[Goanet] url VM's Vaccine Apartheid in DT

For the lovers of the '(digital) publication': https://www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/op-ed/2021/04/30/op-ed-the-dystopian-dichotomies-of-vaccine-apartheid & I was reminded that 'Apartheid' is the unique contribution of the Dutch to the world language. (but no worries, we have become very 'woke'

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Hotel California ...

> On 04/12/2021 6:45 PM Frederick Noronha wrote: > > > Hotel California > https://youtu.be/ryCJs0H13zs That was the unofficial hymn of the European Union/ Eurogroup before Brexiy actually did happen "You can check out any time, but you can't leave!" Eviva! Cheers to All, p+7D!

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Walk through... the Made-in-Saligao Tuesday market

Hi Freddie, pray, what is a 'nine decade old _expat-build_ institution' in the Goa context? A fig leaf for 'Portuguese'? (Colonial, fascho-Salazarist, etc.) ;-) Cheerio, p+7D! I send an A2 xerox ofthe Almanac de Parede to ... Portugal yesterday. Cost Rs 260/- (the xerox itself was 30/- ;-)

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Remembering Wendell Rodricks,

> Op 19-03-2021 15:24 schreef Frederick Noronha : > > > Remembering Wendell Rodricks (on work. life and careers) > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlXVg1SfbVE > > Bondo plays... for a minute or two, at Sangolda > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7kO448J9oI > > Cappuccinos, the Caravela way

Re: [Goanet] Goa Muslims posts

Aloha, Thanks to Fred, Gilbert and Roland I was able to leran about the (naval) battle of Diu and its consequences, facts which were completely unknown to me, despite their historical imortance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Diu Cheers to all, p+7D!

Re: [Goanet] Scam calls from India: Correction!

> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 10:56:39 +0100 (CET) > From: patrice riemens > To: "roland.fran...@gmail.com" , > "goa...@goanet.org" > Subject: Re: [Goanet] How India is the hub of all those scam calls - > TOI (Roland Francis) > > Aloha, &

Re: [Goanet] How India is the hub of all those scam calls - TOI (Roland Francis)

Aloha, The NYT had also recently (Jan 27) about this: Who's Making All Those Scam Calls? - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/magazine/scam-call-centers.html www.nytimes.com › magazine › scam-call-centers Ciao Ciao, p+7D! Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 00:50:08 -0500 From: Roland

Re: [Goanet] The Fool That Is Boris Johnson (Roland Francis)

On Fishing: https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2018/10/11/fishing-quota-uk-defra-michael-gove/ RF wrote: This may be only a beginning perhaps? The UK is adjusting to its new Brexit reality, and the fishing industry is being hit especially hard, with fresh catches reportedly being left to rot

[Goanet] Antoinette, an old lady in a care home, from Goa in ... Harare

Aloha, Goans everywhere ... "Ryan Nyahunzvi worked in the kitchen at the B.S. Leon Trust, an old peoples’ home “I was introduced to a timid-looking lady who, according to Sister Monica, “wanted to be friends”. I was apprehensive. Until that moment I had actively avoided chit-chatting with

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Dinesh D'Souza on Kamala Harris

On 2020-09-08 00:03, Frederick Noronha wrote: https://youtu.be/kGRfeTeGmgc Funky! Dinesh d'Souza being positionned by Wikipedia as 'far right' does here here all honors to the description!

Re: [Goanet] The orphans of Angola's secret massacre seek the truth

A very sad story indeed. Parallels the Algerian independance struggle (1957-62, finally recognzed by officail France as a war, and not a 'policing action'). Unfortunately, it was besides a war for independence, also, and maybe principally, a civil war between two FLN factions, the

[Goanet] 'Descendentes' ...

Aloha, A few days ago I found a GN post dating back from 1997 (on a print-out, I found it fascinating) about 'descendentes' people of pure or mixed Portuguese descent, of whom there were still a few in Panjim at that time, mostly in the dedicated old age home. They must be all gone by now.

[Goanet] Surat businessman converts office in Covid hospital for the poor

Aloha, Wish more rich people who follow suit ... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/30/india-office-covid-ward-poor-after-businessman-falls-ill-gujarat Office turned into 85-bed Covid ward for India's poor after businessman falls ill Kadar Shaikh was shocked by price of his

[Goanet] Goa, seen by Western (Dutch) Eyes, 2009

Aloha, Somewhere in the late eighties (if I remember well), two of the original initiators of Ruigoord, Amsterdam's squatted 'artists village' (now 'legalized' as 'cultural incubator' ;-) Hans Plomp and Gerben Hellinga wrote the book(let) 'Uit je Bol' (something like 'go bananas'), intended

[Goanet] Orgeat/Orchata

Hi Francis, Correct (yr post on Goanet), Orgeat syrup is actually widely available in Italy & in France too. In NL it is popular with the Surinam community - like them you should try it mixed with milk, not water! From Monin, an expensive but very good brand:

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Do you remember...The Family / The Children of God?

On 2020-06-13 04:30, Frederick Noronha wrote: They were all over the place in the 1970s, including at Calangute. As a students, I was drawn to the attractive comics-type flyers they handed out. If you too encountered this group, you might find this documentary to be of some interest: The Love

Re: [Goanet] Multiple crises: the cost of wasted time-CSE's Weekly Bulletin - June 3, 2020

Aloha, Superb good stuff! Good that CSE posts on Goanet. Do read it! Ciao Ciao, p+2D!

Re: [Goanet] The south India model: What north India could learn about governance and citizenship

Aloha, Bit of LOL this morning reading the post about Sagarika Bose's book. When I was 'resident' at Sarai/CSDS in Delhi, back in the early 00s, one of the statements that made me immensely popular (not ;-) was "The problem of India is North India" ... But it is not only North India that

[Goanet] Mandovi Bridge

re: "These photographs were taken in December 2018 during the construction of the third Third World quality bridge across River Mandovi in Panjim. See my earlier remarks." Do you mean it will colapse just as 'our' Ponte Morandi in Genova? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi God

Re: [Goanet] Coolies in British Navy / Naval mutiny Bombay 1946

Ola, re: Date: Thu, 7 May 2020 21:27:38 + (UTC) From: Gilbert Lawrence To: Goanet Org Subject: [Goanet] Coolies in British Navy Given the stay-at-home order, I am reading "RAJ - the Making and Unmaking of BRITISH INDIA" by Lawrence James. According to this historian the term "Coolie"

[Goanet] Down to Earth Magazine special issue on Coronavirus

Kia ora all, A slightly more helpful url: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/ https://www.downtoearth.org.in/archives Re: Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 14:52:20 +0530 From: Ramachandran To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Down To Earth magazine-COVID-19 Special Issue Dear Friend, These are

Re: [Goanet] Europeans of another color

(this post was delayed due to addressing mistake ... sorry!) The Brits were also annoyed to no end when PT kept the PT nationality open to all the people of Macao at the eve of the agreed transfer of the territory to the PRC, something UK adamantly refused to grant (UK nationality) to the

[Goanet] Views from Moshi ...

KALO PASXA to all! Moshi Railway station not so long ago: https://www.alamy.com/railway-station-in-moshi-city-africa-image261635219.html But recently the train service has been restored: https://www.dailynews.co.tz/news/2019-12-095dede6e93be73.aspx Happier (?) times:

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Good Friday services from Goa (via CCR)

On 2020-04-10 14:13, Frederick Noronha wrote: Good Friday services from Goa https://youtu.be/Nqlyxlc73oU The Easter Vigil Mass will be telecast on Cable TV and on YouTube by CCR TV from 930 pm from Archbishop's House on April 11th. KALO PASXA to All! Kia Kaha also! p+2D!

[Goanet] Oslo on Pause - but not for books!

Hej Hej, After Rajan's wonderful pics from Reykjavik, Oslo's empty streets and the last round of the 'hazmat booksllers' ... https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2020/mar/31/norways-hazmat-booksellers-keeping-oslo-reading-during-coronavirus-video Kjaelig Hilsen from a honorary

Re: [Goanet] pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:34:30 -0400 From: Voznadik vojem To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] COVID-19 will change food systems The article is as long as the longest word pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It is also specific to some rich city in the world. In

[Goanet] THE EPIDEMIC DISEASES ACT, 1897 WAS NEVER EXTENDED TO GOA

Aloha, re below: Despite India having till only 137 _registered_ cases of Covid19 infection by now, and the rest of the world nearly 2 lakhs, I do not believe this is the right time for juridial finicking: "Constitution experts say if the government believes a colonial-era law helps in

[Goanet] Social Design Festival - in Goa

Aloha, Re: "Social Problems are Design Problems" If the organisers/Kokum had phrased the title as 'social problems are _partially_ (or _also_) design problems' I would completely agree. Now my reservation is that it rather suggests a 'techno-solutionist' (-Evgeny Morozov) approach, where the

Re: [Goanet] Clube Nacional

No Dogs, no Goans? That doesn't leave many bi- or quadri-peds over. Maybe only cats and pure cavalheiros ...? Ciao Ciao, p+7D!

[Goanet] Dear onions ...

Aloha, Rs 160/- for a kg of onions? That's more expensive than in Netherlands or Italy, where the price of white onions is around 80-90 cents, and red ones go for E 1,50 (Rs 63-70 & 120 respectively) ... Wish you a beter harvest soon - or imports? Ciao Ciao, p+2D!

Re: [Goanet] Patrice is Grand Duke of Mon'aco ( not Mo-naco ! )

ually calls the shots over Monaco. ----- Patrice Riemens wrote: Hi Eric, Nice, thanks! Do wish them well from S.France! On 2019-11-24 08:39,

[Goanet] cathedrale notre-dame-de-la-paix yamoussoukro (was: basilica in the bush)

Aloha, re: "Boigny was overthrown and the Muslims won the civil war. The forest has overrun the cathedral.I hope the cocoa plantations survived, the world is short of the cacao commodity." A very 'Trumpian' statement! ('alternative facts' anyone?) The cathedral still stands, the

Re: [Goanet] Bihar Trains

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 02:53:49AM -0700, goanet-requ...@lists.goanet.org wrote: >3. Bihar trains to Goa (eric pinto) > > > -- > Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 02:41:02 + (UTC) > From: eric pinto > To: goanet@lists.goanet.org >

Re: [Goanet] Bombay Sapphire

Aloha, ... is a typical 'branded good', the value of which is mainled constituted by its name. The product itself I find indifferent and will take (almost) any IMFL Gin in preference to it. Here in Italy I consume Tancqueray, also a brand, but less pretentious than B.S. (what's in a name

[Goanet] Why this coffee costs $75

Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 18:42:35 +0100 From: Gabe Menezes To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Subject: [Goanet] Why this coffee costs $75 ... ... a cup! Waaoow! (no sugar, no milk please!) Cheerio, p+2D! On the recent topic of exotic coffee...

[Goanet] Civet menace ... and opportunity!

Hi, Feed the pests on coffee beans & recuperate the droppings - worth a fortune! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak Cheers! p+7D!

Re: [Goanet] Understanding Brexit ?

Undersatanding Brexit? You must be joking! Try that one first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein_Question (it's only slightly less complicated) Cheers from Olso - last days, p+2D!

Re: [Goanet] Film for Thought: 5th June 2019, 6.30 pm - Screening of `The Place Beyond the Pines' at Sunaparanta

On 2019-05-28 16:44, goanet-requ...@lists.goanet.org wrote: Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 16:59:15 +0530 From: "Sunaparanta - Goa Centre for Arts" To: "Sunaparanta - Goa Centre for Arts" Subject: [Goanet] Film for Thought: 5th June 2019, 6.30 pm - Screening of `The Place Beyond the

[Goanet] (Panjim Smart City?) Fwd: Workshop on India's Smart Cities Mission, 29 May 2019, Paris, France

Hiya, Aloha, I believe there has been some research on & criticism of the Panjim Smart City drive, so mybew people who are aware of it of have done it might contact Prof Arabindoo (cc) Cheerio, p+2D! Original Message Subject: Workshop on India's Smart Cities Mission, 29

Re: [Goanet] NYT in re: [Goanet-News] How Modi seduced India with envy and hate (Pankaj Mishra, NYT)

On 2019-05-23 22:06, Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا wrote: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/opinion/modi-india-election.html Hi Fred and G-netters, Just requested my friend Eduard, who has a subs on the NYT to Pdf it for me. NYT allows you a limited amount

Re: [Goanet] family portrait (by Rajan P)

re: https://blog.parrikar.com/2019/05/22/family-portrait/ Ha, with the scourge of the Swiss SVP included: the black sheep! http://eurojournalist.eu/die-schweizer-entscheiden-am-wochenende-ueber-die-ausweisung-krimineller-auslaender/#prettyPhoto/0/ Let@s hope Iceland is milder. And India?

Re: [Goanet] Was Goanet infected? (Gilbert Lawrence)

Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 11:09:06 + (UTC) From: Gilbert Lawrence To: Goanet Org Subject: [Goanet] Was Goanet infected? Now that the Muller report is out, it is apparent the Russians and their American-based agents had extensively interfered in the last US presidential elections. One of

Re: [Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] Alien Colony

Aloha, Fascinating pic! Some context info: https://nea.is/geothermal/direct-utilization/greenhouses/ https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/farms-in-iceland

[Goanet] Low-end vs hi-end tourists

Low-end tourists, both Indian and foreign are not welcomed by the local politicians class. One of the reason is that it brings nothing in for them. Hi-class tourism and hi-end tourist infrastructure is so much more fun: so many benefits, one of which is that they themselves can wallow in

Re: [Goanet] Emblem/coat of arms of Goa

Aloha, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblem_of_Goa#/media/File:Lesser_coat_of_arms_of_Portuguese_India.svg Were the 5 shields on the 'lesser coat of arm' for Goa, Daman, Diu, Dadra, and Nagar Haveli? And btw, what has become of the two latter ones? Ciaoui, p+2D!

[Goanet] Brexit Clusterfaktap, lah ...

Bondi Vivek et all, Nice explainer in the ToI, though a bit short on the real madness that is Brexit. Of course I am riveted to this unfolding soap, with the greatest surprise being for how long it's been going, and how many plot twists happen keeping this crazy show on the road. Brexit as

[Goanet] V.S. Naipaul RIP

Aloha, Re: Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 05:13:01 + (UTC) From: George Pinto To: "Estb. 1994! Goa's Premiere Mailing List" Subject: [Goanet] V. S. Naipaul Naipaul, who just passed away, had accepted a knighthood. It has always struck me as odd that ethnic Indians, especially the

Re: [Goanet] India & Pakistan would have remained united had Nehru let Jinnah become the PM says Dalai Lama

Re: Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 13:24:59 +0530 From: John Eric Gomes To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Subject: Re: [Goanet] India & Pakistan would have remained united had Nehru let Jinnah become the PM says Dalai Lama. I am wondering why he made such a statement. He could

Re: [Goanet] Malcurada

>6. Malcurada - Goa's pride (Bernado Colaco) > > Message: 6 > Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 10:39:30 + (UTC) > From: Bernado Colaco > To: goanet@lists.goanet.org > Subject: [Goanet] Malcurada - Goa's pride > > Just yesterday I was offered the best mango in the world the

Re: [Goanet] The next time you visit India check out the Indian tea seller to see if he was not caught using water from train toilet (Stephen Dias

You guys should stop being so sensationalist and paranoid. The water the tanks in railway bogies are filled with is, in principle, drinkable, that is, not worse than the water coming out of pipes in India generally is (and that means: bad). Once boiled (and chai is boiled, over and over)

Re: [Goanet] Assange works for the people , now we need to save him (Fidibus)

re: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/422992-zizek-assange-cambridge-analytica/ I agree, but it won't help, as all parties concerned (including 'Julian') are not very cooperative towards a cool-headed solution. 'Neutralising' Assange, meaning safe passage to a host country giving him asylum - on

Re: [Goanet] The Times of Israel: Ending a decade of silence, Israel confirms it blew up Assad?s nuclear reactor

Next step and they will confirm which places are targetted by their nuclear bombs ... (no price for guessing ...) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 11:02:58 -0400 From: Roland Francis To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] The Times of Israel: Ending a decade of silence,

Re: [Goanet] Brick by brick: Decoding the suicide of Suraj Parmar

Aloha, "However, the ministry of housing and urban development’s plan to put in place a single window time-bound clearance system for layout approvals and building permissions by the beginning of next year, is hailed as an effective antidote to corruption." Maybe something for the

[Goanet] The War on Cash - not only in Goa

For those interested in the background of doing away with cash here's a nice article - there are many many more to be found on the net. Quote of the day: "Cash is the enemy" -queen Maxima of the Netherlands (she comes from the financial world and is an expert on micro-credit and 'financial

Re: [Goanet] Need for a Taxi Revolution

Ever since I have been in Goa, back in the 90s and early 00s, the local taxi situation has become a kind of exemplary case for me. And when in the Netherlands, the governemnt, bent on putting 'the magic of the market' to work, deregulated the taxi market, this resulted in Amsterdam in taxi

Re: [Goanet] Julian Assange warns for coup Trump out Pence in ...

... You don't need the hydrogenized holed-up ape to tell you something that was written large from Day One: 'the 'Brazil' scenario. Now Pence is real far-right, so as far as destroying the American people, and making the 1% even richer, you've seen nuthin' yet ... Doewie, p+7D!

Re: [Goanet] Who is Priti Patel etc. (Mervyn Maciel)

She is (was) Priti 'don't tell' Patel And the 'Maybot' soap continues ... All waiting for a reset ... Cheerio, p+7D!

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