On some issues, Modi cannot afford to be phlegmatic,
In politics, you succeed only if you are pragmatic;
Attacks on nuns must be stemmed,
And more roundly condemned –
It’s time he more firmly reined in the fanatic.
- Shanti Dhoot
The damage done by Modi’s supporters could be great
He should not the effect on public opinion underestimate
One hopes he’s aware of the risks involved
For the economic problems yet unsolved –
As it could, in a loss of general overall backing, translate.
-Shanti Dhoot
Afrikaner amchea dar-ar yetat ani ulou martat “HODI”,
Te polloitat tum tenca vadtolo zalear xitt-codi;
Punn amche Goencar ecdom uxear,
Tencam repos cortat utranim char –
“Aiz muji tokli fodta, aiconn kitem munta Narendra Modi!”
-
Shanti Dhoot
There are many who Modi’s victory at the polls hate,
He does promise to make of India a prosperous state,
But he has started his innings
With his ideological underpinnings,
Acting in ways that will the communal divide inflate.
Shanti Dhoot
,
But somehow the path to which we cannot discern,
And not merely show us how to get rid of every evil weed.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Goa of Our Dreams: Living Within a China Wall - Navhind Times -
by Arun Sinha
Goans feel estranged by present-day Goa...(but)I am yet to meet two people
who have the same
DEJA VU
Sometimes when readers, the posts on Goanet, view,
They must have an uneasy but certain feeling of déjà vu.
They're generally about Konkani and corruption
And the like – without interruption.
Can't we from time to time, also discuss something new?
-Shanti Dhoot
,
It is not because for them it is not a real gem.
There are often other ties and solid grounds
To make them run with the hares and hunt with the hounds,
And we should not them on that account condemn.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
*Lambert Mascarenhas: A Fierce Fighter at 94*
16 Jun: Navhind Times. By Tomazinho
of modern technology.
Now others must seek fresh avenues
Whereby we can likewise use
The Internet to maintain and spread Goa's cultural anthropology.
- Shanti Dhoot
Re:
Message: 9 of 19 Jun 2008
Subject: [Goanet] 'RadioGoa' a gift to Konkani music lovers
PTI June 18, 2008
PANAJI: RadioGoa
.
The truth is that the people have now awoken to the reality,
And now abandoned their former complacent mentality.
They have realised it is not enough to be whining,
If they really want to get rid of the evils of mining,
And need to raise their united voices with thundering vitality.
- Shanti
interests decline
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
*GOA: SEZS SCRAPPED, DEVELOPERS TO FEEL THE HEAT*
Ketki Angre NDTV
Sunday, June 15, 2008 (Goa)
A day after the Goa government scrapped all seven Special Economic Zones in
the state; the Centre is worried about its impact on investors and the
future of other SEZs
and STD,
Must our officials go on bended knee
So often to the Delhi and Mumbai?
One would like to know why:
How does this better governance guarantee?
- Shanti Dhoot
RE
Message: 10 16 Jun 2008
From: Lionel Messias [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Goa's flying circus is back
Message-ID
innovative become,
Helping, for example, each other to settle down
And in other ways assist them in getting around -
Refusing to fissiparous tendencies to succumb.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 5 of 15 Jun 2008
From: Oscar Lobo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Goans in Melbourne celebrate MAY QUEEN BALL
,
As the mango tree takes time to bear fruit .
Meanwhile private orchards can provide,
And some portion of their produce set aside.
In this way the culture of exports in Goa will take root.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
INDIAN MANGOES MESMERISING AMERICANS
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal
have already entered the educational field,
As also others in Goa that have done well, are now well-heeled,
Should take more interest in our village youth,
Who are undeniably and in truth,
As good as any others, and ensure the urban-rural divide is not congealed.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE
They're doing nothing – this is the new definition of political shortchange.
-Shanti Dhoot
Re:
Message: 5 of 12 Jun 2008
From: Eddie Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Goanet] Israeli housing projects in Goa
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Title: Yaakov Engel, Hezi Hermoni in Goa housing projects
.
Fervently would our youth bless and applaud
Those well-to-do Goans that are living abroad,
Who would set up such scholarships for those intellectually adept.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
From GoanvoiceUK [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
date Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:03 AM**
**subject GoanvoiceUK
CASTE MENTALITY
Whether it is plain jealousy or a show of casteism,
The sad truth is that it has led to many a schism
Between one Goan and another
When one should treat the other as a brother.
The point is: when will our vision avoid this narrow prism?
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 2
chosen few,
And now find, suddenly, as in the US, and quite out of the blue,
That casteism, like racism, is dying, a subject for academic symposia.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 10
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:51:22 +0100 (BST)
From: CORNEL DACOSTA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Goanet] LIMERICK
PHOTOGRAPHS ON GOA
A picture is worth a thousand words, they say
And Joe's photographs that he publishes almost every day
Are worth much more, simply because
They portray Goa as it once was:
For NRGs it is the best substitute for action replay.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
*GOANET HIGHLIGHTS
an unseemly struggle,
In which vested interests would try to smuggle
In the names of cronies and others,
And deny the more worthy claims of another's,
And those in charge would have the demands of caste, creed etc. to juggle.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 10 of 13 May 2008
From: Pandu Lampiao
TOURISM PROSPECTS OF GOA
This news should be taken note of by the government
Immediately, and before it is too late to repent.
If remedial measures are not taken
Goa will soon be forsaken
As a tourist destination, and it may be too late to lament.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 2 of 25 May
not make for any mental transformation.
A mentality of jealousy in this context,
Should not leave one perplexed.
What the eventual solution
May be to its final dilution
Has better brains, better equipped than mine, vexed.
- Shanti Dhoot
Re:
Message: 9 of 6 Jun 2008
From: Gilbert Lawrence
the lead
And their present agenda try to exceed?
May be have such stories of outstanding success
Compiled and printed cheaply by some visionary press -
Surely some Goan NRG would a request for financial help heed.
-Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Goanet Reader: The young bride at the duka ... Ms Mascarenhas
KONKANI BOOKS TO BE RELEASED
It's good to see more books in Konkani emerging,
A clear indication that love for the language is surging.
Let us support such writers,
Who are in fact valiant fighters,
Who keep alive our language, without any special urging.
-Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 1 of 25
PAPER COMPANIES HELP FOREIGNERS BUY LAND IN GOA
This news is more than somewhat disturbing,
A new dimension to this whole business it does bring.
Whatever way one looks at it,
It is neither moral nor legit,
And calls for immediate curbing
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 2 of 26 May 2008
From
DOUBLE STANDARDS
The news of a constable being dismissed for a theft,
Has one somehow, with mixed feelings, left.
One knows well the truth, but. few find it bizarre,
That there are others in high places, guiltier by far,
But escape punishment being manipulative and very deft.
-Shanti Dhoot
, they are a dubious source of black money
A kind of round-the year Easter bunny
That delivers Easter eggs for those who are corrupt,
And their evil plans further, instead of disrupt -
An opportunity for a few to make hay while the weather is sunny.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 4 of Goanet Digest, Vol
with any seriousness
Our resentment against the present mess
Then now is the time
For us to get rid of the slime
By responding to the forum with a resounding YES.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 1; 31 May 2008
From: Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: New forum formed to save Goa
Message
BJP WINS IN KARNATAKA
What is for us in Goa in store
With the BJP victory next door?
One doesn't mind their understandable festivity
And should expect heightened BJP activity
In Goa, but we cannot their hidden agenda ignore.
Not that the Congress and other parties are simon pure
They
that this tiny little State
Takes its place in the sun and its dream revives.
- Shanti Dhoot
Thank you Jerry, for your kind words in verse.
I seem to have a gift, some think it is a curse!
It is nice to be appreciated,
And I do feel quite elated
But may be it would be easier for me to write in blank verse!
- Shanti Dhoot
RE
Message: 3 of 28 May 2008
From: Jerry Fernandes [EMAIL
.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 12 of Goanet Digest, Vol 3, Issue 621; 25 May 2008
From: Goanet News [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Pin-ups replacing cartoons: Mario Miranda (Navhind Times)
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Pin-ups
http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=052552Pin-ups
should this example try and emulate.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 5; 25 May 2008
From: Wilson Coelho [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GW SOCIETY - SCHOLARSHIPS FOR GOAN STUDENTS IN KUWAIT
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Goan Welfare Society Announces Scholarship
The GWS Annual scholarship Awards
cries
For emulation as one sorrowfully eyes
Such eyesores rising in other villages too.
Such grassroots reaction is long overdue
To discourage other builders from doing likewise.
- SHANTI DHOOT
RE:
News item in the HINDU by Prakash Kamat in which he wrote:
Date:14/04/2008 URL:
http
for action replay.
Thank you, Joe, for each and every photograph
They generally make us think and sometimes, laugh.
As we have frequently heard,
A picture says more than the spoken or written word -
These photos say more than verbal posts, often too clever by half.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
From
DRUG ABUSE IN GOA
An official Goan study reveals that by 20, our youth take to intravenous
drugs -
This is certainly news that cannot be swept under official or non-official
rugs.
What is most shameful is that by 12, children choose
To find out how they can other drugs abuse -
Surely they are
photographs from a Goan village,
A brave and heroic protest against continued pillage
Of their land and natural resources
By some nefarious forces -
Isn't it great to see women fighting for their heritage?
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 4; 22 May 2008
From: sebastian Rodrigues [EMAIL
.
This could well be the spark that starts a brush-fire,
That ultimately takes us out of the dismal mire
In which we now find ourselves caught.
It has left us in a mental state bordering on the distraught,
Wondering how to get to the Promised Land to which we aspire.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE
demolition of Goan clubs in Mumbai
Makes one sad, nostalgic and want to sigh.
The clubs were a modest home away from home
For many Goans such as Pedro, Caetan and Jerome -
One fears that a morsel of our history is about to die.
-Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 7 of 18 May 2008
From: D'Souza, Avelino
on
It will have many adherents won.
Let us show that we are not, as people say, sucegad
That we too can be in our own way, avant-garde
And may be a new era for technology in Goa will be born.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 7 ; 20 May 2008
From: Frederick [FN] Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject
place as a rule,
We will be able to sift the core issues at stake
And not make the usual mistake
Of using them as meaningless and mere debating fuel.
- Shanti Dhoot
Message: 4 of 16 May 2008
From: Eddie Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goa has become a Toilet
I would
are not spurned.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
*British PM concerned about tourists' safety in Goa*
16 May 2008, [image: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/images/spacer.gif]
PTI
LONDON: UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has expressed concern over the safety
of British tourists in Goa and said that his
is inferior to that of none.
However, good school results are not enough.
Hard work, guidance and coaching are actually the stuff
Of future success - and a place in the sun.
- Shanti Dhoot.
RE:
Message: 2 of 8 May 2008
From: D'Souza, Avelino [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Goanet] Goan kids
stray aberration,
But even for a casual visitor there is little doubt,
That there are many things that Goa can do without -
And these are now leading to widespread frustration.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 3
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 21:37:48 +0530
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Goanet] The tragedy
, or its horizon expand.
Yet one has in life to make use of one's skill
So that one can one's dharma somehow fulfill.
It may not ultimately amount to much,
And even be at most a simple crutch -
But finally one stops only when over the hill.
--
--- Shanti Dhoot
,
And not derive momentary satisfaction
From one or two seeming successes,
And now see that the people's voice again expresses
Its views, loudly and clearly, and show their dissatisfaction.
- -- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 7 of Goanet Digest, Vol 3, Issue 525; 7 May 2008
From
to migrants' complaints.
May be it has to function under inbuilt constraints –
Well then, let us ensure that it does not on that crutch lean.
Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 9; 2 May 2008
From: Goanet News [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Goanet] Goa to initiate migrant monitoring study
Panaji: Goa
?
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 6 ; 8 May 2008
From: jane gillian rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Goanet] great goan women
Dear Friends,
(A) I must commend Placinto on his beautifully written article on Great
Goan Women.
In fact, even better, he has given a solution to all Goans, as to how
be a valuable tool.
-Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 5 8 May 2008 ;
From: Goanet AE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Goanet] Book celebrating Goa to be launched on May 13
Panaji Goa: Aparanta, Land Beyond the End, a long-awaited, lavishly
illustrated five coloured hardcover coffee table book celebrating Goan life
REMO'S TAKE ON GOA'S PROBLEMS
Remo is a renowned Goan icon in his own right,
And for many worthy causes does manfully fight.
His views on the crab mentality and the outsider
Need to be publicised much wider -
Hopefully some solutions he will soon bring to light.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message
double-quick.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 8 of Goanet Digest, Vol 3, Issue 530; 8 May 2008
From: George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Daily Haiku Limerick
Kudos and credit to Shanti Doot (Limerick) and Francis (Daily Haiku) for
their 7 days-a-week output on this forum. Sometimes we fail
not by it, to death be bled.
This was inadvertent and I regret very much the lapse,
And agree that before there is in the social system a collapse
There should be some form of control
And the immediate and urgent goal
Should be migration with strictly enforced caps.
- Shanti Dhoot
---
RE
neighbours they've a friendly attitude created.
Yes, some migrants in Goa do provide a service
But do not also forget this
They have created more than one slum
That have eyesores now become -
Their absence we will not certainly miss.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 6; 4 May 2008
From: Rajan P. Parrikar
in such matters can be quite tough,
And do not easily change course.
Perhaps we need a task force
To devise effective strategies, short of getting rough.
- Sha- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 8 of Goanet Digest, Vol 3, Issue 508; 4 May 2008
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Goanet] Public meeting
,
So controls on their entry should not be misunderstood -
For opportunism there should be no place.
- - Shanti Dhoot
with new vigour infuse.
I also hope that the new library will be designed
By an architect whose plans will have in them combined,
A modernistic approach which will also reflect
The unique ethos of Goa into a great project
With functional utility and imagination intertwined.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE
,
And Inspire them to be more than just a white collar worker or clerk.
- - -- Shanti Dhoot
FENI PRODUCTION
Feni all over the world has a certain distinct fame -
Then who, for the poor production, is to blame?
The Goa Government could help by taking every measure,
To encourage marketing abroad this well-known treasure,
And without delay transform it into a Goan brand name.
- Shanti
children and adults,
Yielding concrete and tangible results,
And Goa's overall backwardness in this area would see a diminution
- Shanti Dhoot
or the reason,
We often think of ways we can be of help in any season.
And so long as we have feelings for our mother-land,
And try its problems to meaningfully understand,
We certainly cannot be accused of the crime of treason.
- Shanti Dhoot
GRAM SABHAS TAKE ON BUILDERS
For Goa, April 27 was indeed a very big day,
At least six Gram Panchayats had their say
About nefarious builders who indulged in open pillage,
In the name of development of their village -
One hopes that more villages will now join this fray.
It is time
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 5 of 21 Apr 2008
From: Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Unchecked migrant influx will erase identity: Khalap
PANJIM, APRIL 19- Former Deputy Chief Minister of Goa Ramakant Khalap said
that the massive influx of migrants into Goa will soon turn
GOAN IDENTITY ABROAD
I live far away from Goa, in a big city,
At times, I think of myself as an object of pity,
For in spite of all my comforts,
What really hurts
Is that there I cannot really assert my Goan identity.
- Shanti Dhoot
CASINOS IN GOA
The setting up in Goa of four more casinos is most suspect,
Making money has been the government's sole criterion in this project.
For licenses, newspaper and mining magnates are contenders,
None of them can really be considered Goa's real defenders.
Should not the government
,
One wonders why the delay - it really makes you want to cry.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 From: George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: April 21, 357th birth anniversary of Blessed Vaz.
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BLESSED JOSEPH VAZ was made Patron of the Archdiocese of Goa, Daman
.
- Shanti Dhoot
that of no other.
-- Shanti Dhoot
have been best
If you had given up this unwholesome quest.
You chose to enter where angels fear to tread
And that is why today you are in the end, dead
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 11 of 19 Apr 2008
From: VaNiTa K [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Goanet] A poem in memory of Scarlett Keeling
people, ever ready to unite and frustrate evil plans.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
Message: 6 of 20 Apr
Subject: [Goanet] Saligao citizens express concern over influx of
migrants in village
PANJIM, APRIL 19 - Saligao citizens vociferously protesting against the
massive influx of migrant labourers
for the government to review?
Is there some place where people can this document view?
What has been achieved by his visits abroad?
Or is this institution just another fraud?
The answers to such questions are, it seems, long overdue.
- Shanti Dhoot
to fall into the hands of thugs.
- Shanti Dhoot
Re;
Message: 2 of 21 Apr 2008 From: Bosco D'Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Goanet] POEM: SCARLETT KEELING (Herald - April 21/08)
SCARLETT KEELING
S o abruptly it happened - the end came to a 15-year old
C unning is not the word
against any other conceivable future trick
-- Shanti Dhoot
example that loudly cries
For emulation as one sorrowfully eyes
Such eyesores rising in other villages too.
Such grassroots reaction is long overdue
To discourage other builders from doing likewise.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
News item in the HINDU by Prakash Kamat in which he wrote:
QUOTE Residents
JOB OFFERS ON GOANET
Job offers on Goanet are few and far between.
Why aren't more such offers to be seen?
May be there could be a wider selection,
Perhaps in a once-a-week special section.
Then Goanet would, more than just a forum, mean.
-Shanti Dhoot
into previous purchases is indispensable.
- Shanti Dhoot
RE:
A recent article by veteran Goan journalist, Rajdeep Sardesai:
QUOTE The critical threat to Goan society instead comes from within: from
the brazen sale of priceless real estate to those who have little
stake in the state's future.UNQUOTE
GOA AND DRUGS
I raptly watched the investigative report by CNN-IBN,
That revealed clearly that Goa is a drug dealers' den.
How can this abominable situation go on?
What other vices will it in future spawn?
The question is: will this situation at all end – and if so, when?
- Shanti Dhoot
RE
RUSSIAN VILLAGE IN MORJIM
They say that foreigners to Goa like to flock,
But in Morjim the Russians have settled en bloc.
I wonder if Goans would be allowed to Russia to migrate
For closed tight against immigration is the Russian gate.
On the basis of reciprocity we too should not our doors
MANGOS FOR EXPORT
Goans are mighty proud of their mankurad and Alphonoso -
Mangos that essentially only in our beloved Goa grow.
But I doubt if Goans think
Or even so much as blink,
That in exploiting this asset for exports, they've been so slow.
- Shanti Dhoot
and thereby try my beloved Goa to reach.
- Shanti Dhoot
down under.
Nor could they teach us any lessons in the pernicious art of graft.
- Shanti Dhoot
will believe their pious claims, I am sure.
Do they really have to go all the way to Australia
To learn about governance - in their official regalia?
How long must we such despicable shenanigans endure?
- - - Shanti Dhoot
NOSTALGIA
When I was young I didn't think of Goa very much,
Then over the years as I travelled far and wide, I lost touch.
Now in the evening of my life I yearn
More about my native land to learn,
And every stray piece of news and information about it clutch
- Shanti Dhoot
LAW-ABIDING GOANS
No one will by any means claim that Goans are flawless,
But sometimes, it would seem they are quite clawless.
Just as well, for when they face a predicament
Which they would like to oppose or circumvent
They employ means that are peaceful, and not lawless.
- Shanti Dhoot
if you are far
In terms of distance and even of time -
You'll never forget the church bell's sweet chime,
Nor for that matter the rich red soil or the Mapusa bazaar.
-Shanti Dhoot
It is most reasonable for Dr Cornel Da Costa to request
That it would help all concerned and be for the best,
If the Archbishop of Goa would tell his flock,
That they should really walk the walk,
And earnestly join in a concerted caste-eradication quest.
- Shanti Dhoot
ignite.
- Shanti Dhoot
Goa off-shore is soon to be the magnificent locale
Of a mega project called extravagantly Casino Royale.
I do not wish at all the waters to muddy,
By asking if there's been a serious study,
Analysing its cost-benefits for Goa and its rationale.
- Shanti Dhoot
.
I think the ability to speak Konkani is what essentially makes us what we
are.
- Shanti Dhoot
the sidelines with serenity?
- Shanti Dhoot
.
- Shanti Dhoot
- and solutions to our problems become an
obsession?
- Shanti Dhoot
of us feel queasy
It is not just that their behaviour is at times sleazy.
Now their attitudes have become contagious
People see only what is for themselves most advantageous
This lure of money above all else makes one feel so uneasy.
- Shanti Dhoot
altogether their sad and tragic psychological state
To what low levels of indifference and skewed values have we now sunk?
- Shanti Dhoot
and the *adle diss.*
- Shanti Dhoot
**
,
But now it has become, it seems, a den of thieves.
- Shanti Dhoot
see the eden for which he long had yearned.
- Shanti Dhoot
impact
On world history since - of a nature no one had foreseen.
- Shanti Dhoot
include ALL from outside Goa who cut corners -
After all there is no doubt that Goa's situation is truly unique.
- Shanti Dhoot
,
Not reflecting today on that seminal event will only be our loss.
- Shanti Dhoot
before they further sink.
Let us do so before it is too late
Otherwise we are in for a worse fate -
And Goans may become an endangered species, I do think.
- Shanti Dhoot
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