[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Another day, another age -- the Burma story and Goans in 1942

2007-12-19 Thread Goanet Reader
oever he could. No epitaph is necessary. - Eric Joaquim Augusto Gilbert de Menezes retired in 2003 from his last job as Manager for Aspenwall & Co in their Goa branch. He had previously worked for Chowgule Brothers and the Liaison Office of British Airways in Panjim, Goa. Before he

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: The much-despised Ghanti: ethnicity, identity and chauvinism Goan-style

2007-12-20 Thread Goanet Reader
ays in the epilogue to her study, 'So needed, yet so despised, the migrant workers' lot in Goa is paradoxical.' -- This two-part article appeared in Gomantak Times, Panjim, on 18 and 19 December 2007. -- GOANET-READER WELCOMES

[Goanet-News] Bringing Sorpotel to your END!

2007-12-23 Thread Goanet Reader
These lines of verse, the origin of which are unclear, surfaced recently via the St Mary's GreenChillies network at [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stmarysgirlsmapusa/] VIVA LA SORPOTEL Bringing Sorpotel to your END! It's just occured to me, (and I'm sure to you as well), Ther

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Lost identity, roots and a fortnight in Goa

2007-12-27 Thread Goanet Reader
initely many others) have been going through. He also explains perfectly the danger of the word Identity when there is lack of acceptance. Interesting to know is that it is pre-9/11 which makes it even stronger than any other post-9/11 book.

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Remembering Burma ... another day, another song (Yvonne Vaz Ezdani)

2007-12-28 Thread Goanet Reader
ine, advertising) will be held at the XCHR, Alto Porvorim, on Dec 29, 2007. The discussion will be chaired by law professional and social critic Jason Keith Fernandes, and speakers will be writer and returned expat Vivek Menezes, Goanet admin member Bosco D'Mello, ad world professional

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: O, far way in Africa... memories of the Goan kind

2008-01-02 Thread Goanet Reader
ves they led, the moments when they were forced to leave their beloved Africa either by Africanization or by the fiat of dictators like Idi Amin; anything but anything about Goans in Africa, not only East Africa (BEA), but all parts of Africa. What I have in mind is a collection of 25 to 30 articl

[Goanet-News] In Review: Goa's very own Wren & Martin (Walter Menezes on Romi Lipient Konknni Kors)

2008-01-04 Thread Goanet Reader
Goa's very own 'Wren & Martin' Gomantak Times, Wednesday, 02/01/2008. By Walter Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Great persons, someone said, are no different from the rest of us. They only do things differently! On September 29, 2007, Fr. Matthew Almeida did just that. He celebrated his birthday diffe

[Goanet-News] BOOKS: Of raves ... and Anjuna

2008-01-07 Thread Goanet Reader
THE PRINTED WORD -- OF RAVES AND ANJUNA A researcher puts together a new book offering new insights into the rave scene, and a photographer focuses on Goa's tiatrists, writes Frederick Noronha. Recently, an Australian lady journalist wrote

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: C'est la economie ... s'il vous plait

2008-01-09 Thread Goanet Reader
C'est la economie ... s'il vous plait Governments will find it increasing ly hard to dodge anti-people policies By Oscar Rebello [Gomantak Times, January 7, 2008] I SAT ON MY balcao, the other day, and pondered as I plucked the petals off a flower ... "Will SEZ really go?" "Will SEZ stay?" "Will

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Rosie's Theme (a short story by Peter Nazareth)

2008-01-16 Thread Goanet Reader
7;Reflected in Water' and is reproduced here with permission from Nazareth. Nazareth writes: "Rosie's Theme" was very different from everything else I have written since it is structured like music around a theme: in this case, survival (which includes growth and adaptation and yet contributing to the host culture). Her

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Tourism's blind spot in Goa, women and gender issues ... (Anita Haladi)

2008-01-17 Thread Goanet Reader
thapuram, 21-23rd July, 1997. Thomas Bryn and Douglas Streatfield-James, 'Lonely Planet: Goa', Lonely Planet Publications, London, 2000 Vikas Adhyayan Kendra, 'Facts against Myths: Myths on Tourism', Vol. II # 7, October, 199 Websites: http://www.earthsummit2002.org http://www.

[Goanet-News] REVIEW: A life less known (Walter Men ezes reviews Renderamam’ ani Tachem Jivit)

2008-01-26 Thread Goanet Reader
A life less known (Walter Menezes reviews Renderamam' ani Tachem Jivit) Filed under: Goa, Konkani, New books, Non-English books, Reviewed by contributors, Reviews Book Review of "Rendermam Ani Tachem Jivit" Author and Publisher: Fr. Ave Maria Afonso Pages: 64 Price: Rs.60 By: Walter Menezes I me

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader [DOCUMENT] Report from the NCM on violence in Orissa

2008-01-28 Thread Goanet Reader
A National Commission for Minorities Team comprising Zoya Hasan and Dileep Padgaonkar visited the violence-stricken areas in Orissa and the report from the NCM is now available at http://ncm.nic.in/pdf/orissa%20report.pdf -- NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR MINORITIES Report of the NCM visit to Orissa, 6-

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Caje's Bhaji -- lists of fives while focussing on food in Goa

2008-01-31 Thread Goanet Reader
CAJE'S BHAJI: LISTS OF FIVES WHILE FOCUSSING ON FOOD By Cajetan Vaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] For those of you in Goa who listen to FM Rainbow 105.4Mhz, some of this may be deja vu. Last year I started highlighting my Top 5 lists on my Friday show 'Caje's Bhaji'. N

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: In defence of the rag-picker (Clinton Vaz, green campaigner)

2008-01-31 Thread Goanet Reader
In defence of the rag-picker By Clinton Vaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all agree here that the Government should focus on basic amenities first. The difference in opinion here is to whom... the Goan or the outsider. In my understanding, we need the migrants, and we need them because there are a lot of

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Prof. D. D. Kosambi: Scientist, Indologist, humanist and peace activist

2008-02-03 Thread Goanet Reader
Prof. D. D. Kosambi: Scientist, Indologist, humanist and peace activist By Nandkumar Kamat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Two great Goans, the father and son duo -- renowned Buddhist scholar, Acharya Dharmanand Kosambi and mathematician turned Indologist, Damodar Kosambi -- have carved unique niches for thems

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Priests, feasts, glamour... and more (The Printed Word)

2008-02-07 Thread Goanet Reader
THE PRINTED WORD -- Priests, feasts, glamour... and more Some more new books that flow out of Goa, the challenges of getting published in Goa... and rembering Lino Leitao, the writer of Goan origins who passed away in Canada. Fr. Nascimento

[Goanet-News] An open letter to the Times of India

2008-02-18 Thread Goanet Reader
An open letter to the Times of India -- Dear Times of India, We have been getting the news of the entry of your publication for many moons now. There has been talk of your paper opening an edition in Goa for the past decade or so. Finally it's

[Goanet-News] REVIEW: The Flight of the Jackals (Augusto Pinto on 'Songs of the Survivors')

2008-02-24 Thread Goanet Reader
The Flight of the Jackals A Review of: Songs of the Survivors, ed. by Yvonne Vaz Ezdani, 2007, Goa 1556, Goa. Price Rs. 295 http://goa1556.goa-india.org/index.php?page=songs-of-the-survivors Available from: Broadway, Panjim or www.otherindiabookstore.com REVIEW BY Augusto Pinto [EMAIL PRO

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Upper-caste Catholics and the dream of the Hindu Right

2008-03-05 Thread Goanet Reader
ervishnotes.blogspot.com This essay was first published in the Gomantak Times. --------- GOANET-READER WELCOMES contributions from its readers, by way of essays, reviews, features and think-pieces. We share quality Goa-related writing amon

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: The Portuguese and Violence in the Indian Ocean: some second thoughts

2008-04-02 Thread Goanet Reader
en, Danish Scientific Press, 1958, p. 109. Excellent data in Anthony Reid, "An 'Age of Commerce' in SE Asian History," Modern Asian Studies, 24, 1990, pp. 1-30, espec. p. 11. -- The author can be contacted at Michael Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This article is being ci

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: The WildGoa Newsletter! (long) (Clinton Vaz)

2008-04-26 Thread Goanet Reader
The WildGoa Newsletter! News & Views about Goa's Wildlife & Outdoors Scene Vol. 2008.01 Yes, yes...voi murre...it's actually been 'years' since the last newsletter was out. Ins

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Goa's Michaelangelo...

2008-04-28 Thread Goanet Reader
GOA'S MICHAELANGELO... APPRECIATING THE WORK OF JOSE PEREIRA A fresco mural by Jose Perrira was unveiled by Alban Couto at a largely attended function in the Rosary Chapel Fatorda on April 26, 2008. The site of the mural, titled Creation Resurgent, is on the large nave of the chapel which has bee

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Goans in East Africa ... Tanzania: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

2008-04-30 Thread Goanet Reader
Goans in East Africa ... Tanzania: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow Goans in Dar es Salaam (and other towns) owned bars, bakeries many clothes and tailoring shops, music stores, butcheries 'soda factories', a shoemaker or two provision stores that had small

[Goanet-News] CONTROVERSY: Advani's views on the Christians of India ... (John Dayal)

2008-05-02 Thread Goanet Reader
ADVANI'S VIEWS ON THE CHRISTIANS OF INDIA By John Dayal Advani went to a Catholic school and a RSS shakha, but practices only what he learnt in the RSS. John Dayal's micro review of "My Country. My life", the autobiography by Lal Krishan Advani, the man aspiring to be the next Prime Minister of I

[Goanet-News] Trying not to remember St Xavier's (George Menezes)

2008-05-03 Thread Goanet Reader
Trying not to remember St Xavier's Prominent Goan writer George Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] pens his memories of his days in Bombay, to be published in a proposed book on Goans in the city, being currently edited by journalist Reena Martins. If you h

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader-Lighter Vein: Interrogating Politicians and Exposing Them: A Primer

2008-05-09 Thread Goanet Reader
Interrogating Politicians and Exposing Them: A Primer by Vidyadhar Gadgil [EMAIL PROTECTED] On one of my rare visits to Panjim, I bumped into old pal Cecil Pinto. At Bar Bevado, while he downed his customary caju feni and I, following my teetotal eccentricities, consumed cup after cup of tea, we

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Of Aunties and all that... the rise and fall of a Bombay Goan era (Roland Francis)

2008-05-11 Thread Goanet Reader
ing book on Goans in Bombay, covering the 1930s to the 1970s, currently being edited by Reena Martins, a feature-writer and journalist based in India's commercial and media capital. - GOANET-READER WELCOMES contributions from its readers

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Portuguese story, Arab voice, Diu as the setting ... and written by a Goan (Ben Antao)

2008-05-12 Thread Goanet Reader
PORTUGUESE STORY, ARAB VOICE, DIU AS THE SETTING ... WRITTEN BY A GOAN Love and Samsara : A review by Ben Antao "I do not know why I am writing this, nor do I know to whom I am writing," says the nar

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: The young bride at the duka ... Ms Mascarenhas of Kisii (by Mervyn Maciel)

2008-05-16 Thread Goanet Reader
es with gratitude the help received from Mrs. Mascarenhas's daughter-in-law (Jessie) and her grandson-in-law(Bryan). The author is also grateful to Cliff Pereira for permission to use some material from his extensive research. - GOANET-READER WELCOMES contributions from its rea

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader -- Bombay, in the human beehive, of pretty girls and still loving to drive (Mario Goveia)

2008-05-19 Thread Goanet Reader
- THIS ARTICLE is from a forthcoming book on Goans in Bombay. If you have an idea of a chapter you'd write to potentially contribute to this book, write to its editor, Reena Martins [EMAIL PROTECTED] GOANET-READER WELCOMES contributions from its readers, by way

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: What Goans gave Kenya -- in times past, under a different ruler

2008-05-22 Thread Goanet Reader
old Northern Frontier District with whom he still keeps in touch and tries to assist from time to time. His writing interests continue from his Surrey Manyatta. In their retirement, he and his wife, Elsie, rent a plot from their local Council growing organic produce, and are now well and truly watu wa

[Goanet-News] Three wine recipes: from a book by Edwin Saldanha ...

2008-05-29 Thread Goanet Reader
THREE WINE RECIPES: FROM A BOOK BY EDWIN SALDANHA -- Wine is the fermented, pure, poetic essence of mother nature. Wine is revered in religious rituals. Secrets of successful wine making, a very ancient art, are closely guarded by many cultures. How

[Goanet-News] Miguel Braganza... on planting trees

2008-06-09 Thread Goanet Reader
GREEN THUMB: Planting Trees By Miguel Braganza The difference between planting seedlings of field crops like cereals, oilseeds or pulses and planting seedlings or grafts of tree species is simply this: trees are for keeps! An error in a field crop can be rectified in the next season or next year

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: A cracked mirror, reflecting shattered journo images... and more

2008-06-09 Thread Goanet Reader
A cracked mirror, reflecting shattered journo images... and more BY BEN ANTAO [EMAIL PROTECTED] In Black and White: Insiders' Stories About the Press in Goa Goa 1556 Pages 217 Rs. 195 (in Goa) I'M NOT sure if I am the right person to review this book since I've contributed a chapter to it and ma

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader -- When the wireless ruled: radio gaga from the Goa of the Sixties (Tony Fernandes, Guirim and Ontario)

2008-06-10 Thread Goanet Reader
us musical instruments on the soundtracks of India cinema. Today when I mention the names of 1950's and 1960's singers, or just happen to sing or hum those old tunes impromptu in the Western world, people are surprised and turn their heads almo

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader :: Short Story :: Dalmira's Home ... (Belinda Willard, Tivim)

2008-06-11 Thread Goanet Reader
quot;No, Dalmira is much taller and has straight white hair that just about covers her ears." "Let's ask her, may be she will know where Dalmira is." They walked towards the well but the woman did not turn around. She had short curly hair but was much shorter than Dalmira. "

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Goa, one of India's leading producers of ore... and pollution

2008-06-21 Thread Goanet Reader
speed, the upheaval is most certainly going to be even more devastating. ENDS Reproduced with permission from the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), 41 Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi 110062 Tel: +91-11-29955124/5125/6394/6399/6401 or 26059810 and fax 91-11-2995 5879. http://www.cse

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Anglo Indians, Cotton Mary ... and the Bombay of those days (by Roland Francis)

2008-06-22 Thread Goanet Reader
no Cotton Marys to entertain a First World city with 'I went to see my darling, last Saturday night' -- Roland Francis is based in Toronto, Canada, and wrote this in June 2008. This article is to be published in a forthcoming book about Goans (and written by Goans) who lived in the Bombay o

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Politicos, hands off civil society (FN, Herald)

2008-06-26 Thread Goanet Reader
Politicos, hands off civil society By Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Herald, June 26, 2008] Short of running a matrimonial agency and a motorcycle-pilot taxi service, the BJP in Goa, it seems, wants to get into almost everything. Earlier in June 2008, newspaper reports announced that the B

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: From wooden to metal ploughs and more: the Charis of Parra

2008-07-01 Thread Goanet Reader
>From wooden to metal ploughs and more: the Charis of Parra By Claude Alvares [EMAIL PROTECTED] The rains have commenced. As every Goan knows, this is the time for work in the fields. Ploughs are dragged out. Oxen get extra rations. Women covered in plastic sheets gear up to plant paddy, working

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Quepem by the kilo (Hartman de Souza)

2008-07-02 Thread Goanet Reader
Quepem by the kilo By Hartman de Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] This morning, as you read this, I ask you to mourn the rape and murder of half a dozen steep, thickly forested hills barely 12 kilometres from Quepem town. These form an integral link of the magnificent Western Ghats that surround Goa, and

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: An Open Letter to Bal Thackeray ... (George Menezes, on georgemenace.com)

2008-07-04 Thread Goanet Reader
Dear Balasaheb, Namaskar! You will wonder who I am. Let me tell you. When I am introduced people automatically say "This is George Fernandes…… sorry I mean, George Menezes". It is an indication of how nameless, I am. I am an ordinary Indian citizen, Goan by ancestry and Maharashtrian by domicile.

[Goanet-News] Goa's way out: gating in the super-rich?

2008-07-05 Thread Goanet Reader
GOA'S WAY OUT: GATING IN THE SUPER-RICH? A letter from the Moira Action Committee Dear Mr Britto, You wrote an open letter to the people of Moira and Aldona in this forum [1] when they protested the projects that you were building in their villages. The Moira Action Committee would like to reply

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: An attempt to understand the Konknni language assertion movement

2008-07-05 Thread Goanet Reader
An attempt to understand the Konknni language assertion movement By Sammit Khandeparkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] The rejection of Maharashtra in the opinion poll held in 1967 and the inclusion of Konknni in Eighth Schedule of Indian Constitution were possible due to the alliance between Christians and H

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Mining blues and its many hues: when PR gets it badly wrong

2008-07-07 Thread Goanet Reader
MINING BLUES AND ITS MANY HUES: WHEN P.R. GETS IT BADLY WRONG By Claude Alvares [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sujay Gupta's article, 'Green movement has shades of black' [1] introduces another colour to the Naxalite controversy. Last week, we were all being called 'red' by the chief of the 'saffron' party, e

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Textbook wars come to Goa... and how do our politicians respond?

2008-07-15 Thread Goanet Reader
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- 2008 International Goan Convention Toronto, Canad

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Portugal not doing enough ... (Mario Cabral e Sa, in Gomantak Times)

2008-07-16 Thread Goanet Reader
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- 2008 International Goan Convention Toronto, Canad

[Goanet-News] The Paid Pipers of Panjim (Book review by Augusto Pinto... in thehoot.org)

2008-07-17 Thread Goanet Reader
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- 2008 International Goan Convention Toronto, Canad

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Yesterday's Goa -- communidades, landlords, Desais and inheritance

2008-07-19 Thread Goanet Reader
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- 2008 International Goan Convention Toronto, Canad

[Goanet-News] My brother Staff Sergeant Tate: A tribute from Goa

2008-07-27 Thread Goanet Reader
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 2008 Toronto International Goan Convention Theme: Goan Identity And Networking Today. http://2008goanconvention.com/index.php Mario Miranda Festival, July 24-26, 2008 Old GMC Building http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-July/077732

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: How to get a voter's ID and keep your sanity (Venita Coelho, in The Accidental Activist)

2008-07-28 Thread Goanet Reader
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 2008 Toronto International Goan Convention Theme: Goan Identity And Networking Today. http://2008goanconvention.com/index.php Mario Miranda Festival, July 24-26, 2008 Old GMC Building http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-July/077732

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader -- Wanted: A Peoples' Policy on Mining

2008-08-07 Thread Goanet Reader
the law, giving that same time to the mining companies in Goa to rehabilitate the lands they have already devastated. ENDS Hartman DeSouza is a veteran journalist, who has worked in New Delhi, Bangalore, Pune and elsewhere, in the fields of the print media, theatre and more. -

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Exile, and the Goan writer... a tango made for each other? (Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, in Ekvott!)

2008-08-12 Thread Goanet Reader
EXILE, AND THE GOAN WRITER: A TANGO MADE FOR EACH OTHER? By Victor Rangel-Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is relevant to the theme of this essay that the very first novel by a Goan to see the light of day was written and published when the author was overseas and far from home. Francisco Luis Gomes

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader -- Diverse roots, varied challenges -- the Goan diaspora in the UK (Dr Eddie D'Sa, in Goa Aparanta...)

2008-08-25 Thread Goanet Reader
DIVERSE ROOTS, VARIED CHALLENGES: THE GOAN DIASPORA IN THE U.K. This essay is from the book 'Goa: Aparanta -- Land Beyond the End', edited by Victor Rangel Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED], and reflects Dr Eddie D'Sa's analysis of Goans in Britain, and how their attitudes towards Goa have changed generat

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: From Siridao to Swindon

2008-08-27 Thread Goanet Reader
From Siridao to Swindon By Selma Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Driving through Swindon, I don't get the impression of a factory town. It is lush green with swathes of agricultural land, the streets lined with houses not given to prosperity but neither to the grime associated with industrial hubs. I w

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Men who will stop the water... vignettes from Goa's mining heartland (Hartman de Souza)

2008-09-14 Thread Goanet Reader
Men who will stop the water: vignettes from Goa's mining heartland By Hartman de Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] We skirt Paikdev's temple for Paikdev Zor, where this tribal snake deity bathes. The story goes that the village of Maina in Quepem Taluka once received all the water from the 'zor' or 'spring

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Costa Santan, the life and times of an able-bodied Goan tarvotti (Selma Carvalho)

2008-09-16 Thread Goanet Reader
Costa Santan, the life and times of an able-bodied Goan tarvotti By Selma Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a theory that if you separate the Goan from the sea, he'll wither away. All of our history ebbs and flows with that vast, undulating expanse of blue water. One does not look at the sea with

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: My African safari... of teachers, tribes, tennis and those times (Jules Carneiro)

2008-09-18 Thread Goanet Reader
MY AFRICAN SAFARI: OF TEACHERS, TRIBES, TENNIS AND THOSE TIMES Jules Carneiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] My safari in Africa began in 1960 when I was recruited by the Ethiopian ministry of education to teach there. That year saw a military coup there which put paid to any ambitions I had of completing my

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Hate and anger won't bring votes ... (an open letter from St Joseph's College, Bangalore)

2008-09-21 Thread Goanet Reader
HATE AND ANGER WON'T BRING VOTES; PEOPLE ALWAYS SEE THROUGH DIVISIVE POLITICS An Open Letter to the Chief Minister of Karnataka from St. Joseph's College, Bangalore Dear Sir, We write to you as members of the Staff of St. Joseph's College and as secular citizens of the state of Karnataka deeply d

[Goanet-News] GOANET READER: The plan that awakened Goa: moving from protest to a vision

2008-09-23 Thread Goanet Reader
The plan that awakened Goa: moving from protest to a vision Malini Krishnankutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] +91-9850928578 On January 18, 2007, the Goa government denotified Regional Plan 2011 (for short, referred to as RP 2011). It thus gave in to public opposition to the

[Goanet-News] Let all men and women of goodwill speak out...

2008-09-29 Thread Goanet Reader
LET ALL MEN AND WOMEN OF GOODWILL SPEAK OUT By Fr. Cedric Prakash sj [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear sisters and brothers, greetings of peace and love to each one of you. I have just returned from Mangalore, after spending five hectic days there, during which I met with, listened to and spoke to hundreds

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: These are home-grown terrorists... for whom wrong means no punishment (George Menezes)

2008-10-03 Thread Goanet Reader
THESE ARE HOME-GROWN TERRORISTS ... FOR WHOM WRONG MEANS NO PUNISHMENT By George Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't slept well these many months. I am sure a lot of Indians of different faiths who love this country and its Constitution and are committed to the rights of all Indians, must have lo

[Goanet-News] In India: Christians under siege (Basilio G. Monteiro)

2008-10-05 Thread Goanet Reader
In India: Christians under siege By Basilio G. Monteiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Global economic convulsions, brazen terrorism attacks and all other life-and-death struggles in India and in the rest of the world provide a perfect cover to attack the vulnerable 2% of the Indian population with impunity.

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Kitem? Bazarant vetam? Boslai? Paus poddta ...

2008-10-08 Thread Goanet Reader
KITEM? BAZARANT VETAM? KITLE POIS? PAUS PODDTA ... By Tony Pinto 20th August, the date in 1992 when Konkani was included in the Eighth Schedule of our Constitution, may not hold as much significance as 26th January, 15th August and 19th December for many people, but the date will be remembered by

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Of battles, negativity and solidarity ... dynamics of Goa's "low intensity civil war" (Jason Keith Fernandes)

2008-10-09 Thread Goanet Reader
OF BATTLES, NEGATIVITY AND SOLIDARITY Dynamics of Goa's "low intensity civil war" If you treat the Goan like a crab, why complain when he acts like one? By Jason Keith Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] How entirely predictable are the ways of the world. For the longest time the Goan print media was co

[Goanet-News] Activism, or cat's paw?

2008-10-22 Thread Goanet Reader
Activism, or cat's paw? DEVIL'S ADVOCATE / By Frederick Noronha Everyone in Goa seems to want to don the status of an activist these days. This term is no longer used as a bad word, as it was in the past. We've also come a long time from the days when a cocksure Pratapsing Rane dismissed the prot

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Oil Wells and Paddy Fields: The Lost Generation of Kuwait's Goans

2008-10-26 Thread Goanet Reader
ld not have been possible without them. This article is reproduced with permission from the Ben Antao-edited journal 'Ekvott', published during the recent international networking event of Goans in Toronto, in 2008. - GOANET-READER WELCOMES co

[Goanet-News] Are you responsible for what happened to me? (Venita Coelho, Moira)

2008-10-27 Thread Goanet Reader
Are you responsible for what happened to me? By Venita Coelho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yesterday I was dragged out of a Gram Sabha by the police as if I was a criminal, taken to the Mapusa Police Station and detained there. And I am wondering if you who are reading this mail had anything to do with it.

[Goanet-News] The village panchayats... and gram sabhas in Goa (useful background data)

2008-11-04 Thread Goanet Reader
THE VILLAGE PANCHAYAT I GRAM SABHA Compiled by: Kumar Kalanand Mani Soter D'Souza Antonnio Francisco Fernandes All information and suggestions are in accordance with the Goa Panchayati & Raj Act, 1994 (GPR Act, 1994) and Goa Panchayats Meeting Rules (GP Rules) & Circulars in force. This booklet

[Goanet-News] Today: Where I Come From (R. Benedito Ferrao)

2008-11-04 Thread Goanet Reader
Today: Where I Come From R. Benedito Ferrao [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a day following my first return to Los Angeles from London where I have lived the last few years, I was asked by a Caucasian man, whom it so happened was English, which bus he would need to take to get to Downtown LA. I advised him.

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: An Open Letter to L K Advani (By George Menezes)

2008-11-05 Thread Goanet Reader
s you and give you a long life George Menezes --------- GOANET-READER WELCOMES contributions from its readers, by way of essays, reviews, features and think-pieces. We share quality Goa-related writing among the 1-strong readership of th

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Trial by Facebook (FN)

2008-11-06 Thread Goanet Reader
DEVIL'S ADVOCATE / Trial by Facebook By Frederick Noronha All of a sudden, Goans older than 21 are discovering that there are newer aspects to cyberspace. And, there a moral panic over this. In a Margao higher secondary, a fight takes place between two girl students. Someone else captures what ha

[Goanet-News] The Culture Brokers: Undervaluing The Goan Cultural Fluidity (VM)

2008-11-11 Thread Goanet Reader
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[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Unwrapping Goan identity -- finding the right distraction to schizophrenia?

2008-11-14 Thread Goanet Reader
ot;bhaile" will distract us from our schizophrenia. -- Dr Souza is a prominent Indo-Portuguese historian. This essay was written for the recently-published 'Semana de Cultura Goa 2008', edited by Vivek Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

[Goanet-News] Portugal and Goa in the 21st Century: Towards an Alliance of the Small

2008-11-16 Thread Goanet Reader
formation Adviser to the Embassy of Portugal, freelance correspondent for Portuguese weekly 'Express' and broadcaster 'Rádio Renascea', and as a columnist for the magazine 'Atlântico'. Constantino is a Portuguese citizen of Goan and German origin. This article appear

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Politicians on the run? (FN in Herald)

2008-11-20 Thread Goanet Reader
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[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: That is not a Portuguese house (Raya Shankhwalker)

2008-11-21 Thread Goanet Reader
Portuguese cultural fest held in Goa (called the "Semana"). The book is priced at Rs. 350 and available at Singbal's in Panjim. Thanks to VM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for making available the text to Goanet Reader.

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: When the crew gets abandoned ... tales from the high seas

2008-11-26 Thread Goanet Reader
WHEN THE CREW GETS ABANDONED... TALES FROM THE HIGH SEAS Capt. Norbert Francis Rebello was born and schooled in Mumbai until he joined the merchant navy in the early 1980s. He has sailed on various types of ships, finally opting for the oil tanker fleet. In command of ships for over a decade, he n

[Goanet-News] Sophisticated Attacks, but by Whom? (ALAN COWELL and SOUAD MEKHENNET, NYT)

2008-11-28 Thread Goanet Reader
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/28/world/asia/28group.html?bl&ex=1228021200&en=276ae1b71db73654&ei=5087%0A Sophisticated Attacks, but by Whom? By ALAN COWELL and SOUAD MEKHENNET Published: November 27, 2008 PARIS — A day after the terror attacks in Mumbai that killed over 100 people, one question

[Goanet-News] Kowtowing to the super-censors (Vidyadhar Gadgil, Herald)

2008-11-28 Thread Goanet Reader
Kowtowing to the Super-Censors >From Herald, 28 Nov 2008 Vidyadhar Gadgil [EMAIL PROTECTED] The fiasco at IFFI over a film by M F Husain highlights the extent to which the state is in the thrall of obscurantist forces, says VIDYADHAR GADGIL The 'ban' on the screening of the short film 'Through t

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Dispatch From An Anxious Mumbai (Naresh Fernandes, in The New Republic)

2008-11-29 Thread Goanet Reader
The New Republic Dispatch From An Anxious Mumbai by Naresh Fernandes -- The editor of 'Time Out Mumbai' reports from the surreal scene of the attacks -- As columns of smoke rose from the Italianate dome of the Taj Mahal hotel in downtown Mumbai on Wednesday night, I came upon a woman standing a

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: "We've Never Felt Scared" (Naresh Fernandes in The New Republic)

2008-11-29 Thread Goanet Reader
"We've Never Felt Scared," by Naresh Fernandes Tracking the rich tradition of Jews in India. As an Indian Christian, I occasionally remind my Jewish friends that I owe my faith to them. Indian tradition maintains that a few years after Christ's death, one of his

[Goanet-News] Mumbai Under Siege (Yoginder Sikand in Islam, Peace and Justice)

2008-11-30 Thread Goanet Reader
Mumbai Under Siege (Yoginder Sikand in Islam, Peace and Justice) Yoginder Sikand "O ye who believe! stand out firmly for God, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and fear God. For G

[Goanet-News] For most of the educated chatteratti, V P Singh was an enigma – a paradox, a contradic tion in terms (Chhotebhai, aka Alan Noronha, in SA R News)

2008-12-03 Thread Goanet Reader
VP: Enigma Or Enema By Chhotebhai, SAR NEWS On the night of November 26, the earth quaked as Mumbai rocked to the sounds of terrorist gunfire. When Indira Gandhi was assassinated on October 31, 1984, the ensuing anti-Sikh riots were likened to the earth shaking when a giant tree fell. This naivet

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Before a single vote is cast... where terrorism touches ballotism

2008-12-07 Thread Goanet Reader
Before a single vote is cast... where terrorism touches ballotism By Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] The recent election for the Pale assembly by-election in Goa only confirm a trend we need to be really concerned about. That is, the results to elections in Goa are increasingly being decided

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Death Of A Salesman And Other Elite Ironies (Tarun J Tejpal, in Tehelka)

2008-12-07 Thread Goanet Reader
Death Of A Salesman And Other Elite Ironies TARUN J TEJPAL ROHINTON MALOO was shot doing two things he enjoyed immensely. Eating good food and tossing new ideas. He was among the 13 diners at the Kandahar, Trident-Oberoi, who were marched out onto the service staircase, ostensibly as hostages. Bu

[Goanet-News] THE PRINTED WORD: Views from, and about, 20th century Goa (FN in Gomantak Times)

2008-12-15 Thread Goanet Reader
Views from, and about, 20th century Goa Two books looking at Goa during the 20th century and before made it to the stands recently, writes Frederick 'FN' Noronha in his weekly column on books from Goa. Antonio de Noronha of Loutolim was a high court judge, during the Republican regime of colonial

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Skin-deep secularism (FN, in the Herald)

2008-12-17 Thread Goanet Reader
Skin-deep secularism FREDERICK NORONHA builds a case to show that 'secular' campaigners in Goa have their own religious and even caste biases. It may sound provocative, but the 'secular' campaigner in Goa isn't so secular. Scratch a 'secular' campaigner, and you would quickly realise that below t

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader -- Africa, through Goan eyes (by Mervyn Lobo in Toronto)

2008-12-18 Thread Goanet Reader
7;s. He became a civil engineer in the U.S. and returned to Tanzania after starting his studies for the priesthood. I too, had to find out what surprises the 'new world' had to offer. -- Mervyn A. Lobo wrote this essay in September 2008. He is based in Toronto. --

[Goanet-News] Soiled Sons and other Tourist Attractions in Goa (George Menezes, Goanet)

2008-12-22 Thread Goanet Reader
Soiled Sons and other Tourist Attractions in Goa George Menezes If there was a fear that tourism was going to take a beating in Goa, think again. There is too much happening in "amchem" Goa. And the happenings are of such exciting proportions that it will attract thousands of Indians and foreign

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: What Goans Have for Breakfast (by Augusto Pinto, first published 1996)

2008-12-26 Thread Goanet Reader
This essay was first published way back in 1996, and the author underlines that his favourite book is Wayne Booth's A Rhetoric of Irony [http://tinyurl.com/8qd8va] * * * What Goans Have for Breakfast By Augusto Pinto pinto...@gmail.com "History is the most dangerous of all the products of the c

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: The doyen of Goan writing in English (interview with Victor Rangel-Ribeiro)

2008-12-29 Thread Goanet Reader
The doyen of Goan writing in English Victor Rangel-Ribeiro is a name closely connected with the resurgence that Goan writing in English has seen in recent years. An octogenarian, what's admirable about him is not just the high-energy levels with wh

[Goanet-News] Communal cauldron: Goa isn't doing enough to hold things in check

2009-01-02 Thread Goanet Reader
Communal cauldron: Goa isn't doing enough to hold things in check By Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org Goa can't but feel the heat. Communal conflict from other parts of India has left scars and created distrust of a new kind. This has brought in its impact from Orissa and coastal Karnataka, n

[Goanet-News] THE PRINTED WORD : Konkani books... awaiting getting noticed

2009-01-12 Thread Goanet Reader
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[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: The Thought Police ... and the politics of exclusion in today's Goa (FN, Herald)

2009-01-19 Thread Goanet Reader
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[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: The Merger Issue and the Opinion Poll of 1967 (Bosco D'Mello, Toronto)

2009-01-20 Thread Goanet Reader
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[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: So why target Sebastian Rodrigues now? (Vidyadhar Gadgil)

2009-01-24 Thread Goanet Reader
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[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Meet Victor Hugo Gomes, at Goa's ... newest museum (Savia Viegas)

2009-01-31 Thread Goanet Reader
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[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Goan writing is waiting to be translated -- Maria A. Couto (Intv with FN)

2009-02-01 Thread Goanet Reader
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