Re: [Goanet] Viva Portugal (& Kim!)

Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:17:51 + From: Naguesh Bhatcar To: Subject: Re: [Goanet] Viva Portugal... Hope Kim Il Jong spares his hapless players! I really felt sorry for them, after watching the game. I had heard that Saddam Hussein's son Uday Hussein, used to beat up his football players a

Re: [Goanet] Russian visitors being given carte-blanche visas at Dabolim ?

Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:24:36 +0100 From: Gabe Menezes To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Subject: Re: [Goanet] Russian visitors being given carte-blanche visas at Dabolim ? On 26 July 2010 17:36, Joe lOBO wrote: >Noting a previous letter today about foreign nationa

Re: [Goanet] TAIP air-hostesses

> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:07:10 +0530 > From: Frederick Noronha > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" > > Subject: Re: [Goanet] TAIP air-hostesses > On 24 August 2010 20:29, Gabriel de Figueiredo > wrote: > >> NOTE: TAIP air-hostesses were the first ones to wear saris as uni

Re: [Goanet] Affluenza Rulez! (was: How many expat Goans inyour City/country)

> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 04:37:48 +0530 > From: Frederick FN Noronha *??? ??? > > To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" > > Subject: Re: [Goanet] How many expat Goans inyour City/country > > George, I won't be as pessimistic as you. Over my years

Re: [Goanet] The SS Gairsoppa

> > Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:23:04 +0100 (BST) > From: Ignatius Fernandes > To: "goa...@goanet.org" > Subject: [Goanet] The SS Gairsoppa > > > Thank you Roland Francis for whetting my appetite about > > the SS.Gairsoppa and it's treasure of silver found at the > > bottom of the sea.. > > Apparen

[Goanet] Bob Marley (not) in Goa

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Re: [Goanet] Church dress code

Re: >8. Church Dress Code (Cecil Pinto) > > > -- > > Message: 8 > Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:53:20 +0530 > From: Cecil Pinto > To: goa...@goanet.org > Subject: [Goanet] Church Dress Code > > http://epaper.timesofindia.com/

Re: [Goanet] Peter Nazareth Goans... among Asian writers in East Africa

Nice article, but ... work for you Fred! The Wikipedia entry on him is a disaster! His plays are not even mentionned (and I doubt he was a 'senior' bureaucrat under 'the last King of Scotland' ;-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Nazareth Cheers, 'Chief' & Diiinooos! > Peter Nazareth, Eas

[Goanet] Keith Vaz leading parliamentary committee hearings in re: 'Murdochalyps'' ; -)

Goa Diaspora and Goanet darling Keith Vaz MP is playing a leading role in the House of Commons Home affairs select committee grilling various high-ups connected or implicated in what is getting to be known as 'Murdochalyps, or the to-be expected fall of the Murdoch Media Empire in the wake of the

[Goanet] Dry day today, mostly...

I completely misunderstood the meaning of this subject line ... ;-) Cheers indeed! p+3D! (Hic!) ;-)

Re: [Goanet] The Happy Couple That ...

Both Arthur Koestler and Andre Gorz indeed made together with their companion an end to their lives indeed. regarding the right to suicide, here a note from an utopian society: Nugo The nugo is a metallic capsule an inch-and-a-half long and half-an-inch in diameter, secured by a twist-combinati

Re: [Goanet] Andamans

Without wanting to take sides in what looks like yet another fine goa-goan tiff about who's sitting higher on the moral high ground: I visited the Andamans (and thanks the Shipping Corporation of India's TSS Nancowry even Car Nicobar!) in 1981 for a few weeks, and I must say, I found myself transp

Re: [Goanet] Winability, the name of the game

> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:02:40 +0400 > From: Eugene Correia > To: goa...@goanet.org > Subject: [Goanet] Winability, the name of the game > > Winability, the name of the game > > Eugene Correia > . Rats! I thought this was about wine! ;-) Cheers all the same, p+4D! --

Re: [Goanet] Bridge over the Neura-Kwai ...

Re: >1. Kangress to build bridge over invisible river (Rajan P. Parrikar) > -- > > Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:20:12 -0800 (PST) > From: "Rajan P. Parrikar" > To: goa...@goanet.org > Subject: [Goanet] Kangress to build bridge

Re: [Goanet] Goanet on Basketball (Toni Prug)

ly/SupportDaddysHome --- On 15/09/10 07:19, Patrice Riemens wrote: > Diane Sawyers interview a young girl on ABC News funny. i wonder did she say this too: --- Basketball’s numbers are inflated, of course, by the large numbers of participants; in terms of individual risk,

[Goanet] Dr Cornell DaCosta Obit on the ISfTE website

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Re: [Goanet] Banco Nacional Ultramarino

Re: (JoeGoaUk) > SBI Panjim? (former Banco Nacional Ultramarino) > > another thing I learnt today.. > > First time I heard about this bank (BNU) was in 1980s > When I read that people from Goa can claim back the gold deposited > with? then Banco Nacional Ultramarino. that's about 20+ years after >

Re: [Goanet] Hitler's view on Fiasco

Re: Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:26:49 +0530 From: "Silvan M. De Sa" To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Hitler's view on Fiasco Dr U.G.Barad, The weblink you have given below is now redundant as the following message is displayed on Youtube website: "This video is no longer availabl

Re: [Goanet] When Mugabe Eased Quants, in Public./ Gold

Yesterday evening I went to a debate around Sebastian Nino-Becerra's famous book about the coming end of capitalism ('The crash of 2010'(*). In the panel sat the Dutch crypto journalist and highly succesful speculator Willem Middelkoop who's recently made a killing with gold. He was the first to c

Re: [Goanet] The Miracle of Chilean Mines

Re: Re: Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:38:42 -0400 From: Jeevan R To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] The Miracle of Chilean Mines What about the heroic role played by the Medics, Rescue workers, Engineers, and Scientists who all existed and physically brought the miners out of the hole whic

[Goanet] Glastonbury goes Goa!

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[Goanet] Glastonbury goes Goa 2: well, not really!

--- Sign the Petition requesting The Honble Minister of State for Environment and Forests (I/C) to maintain the moratorium on issuing further environmental clearances for mining activities in Goa ht

[Goanet] Fwd Ray Selby on: Goa / Sea Wolves (WWII) & settling Germans

Tue, April 13, 2010 11:21 To: "Patrice Riemens" -- Dear Patrice, 13 April 2010, you wrote: > Hi Ray, > Did you ever follow this story? Quite fascinating! Yes, I did, although I wasn't in G

[Goanet] On colonisation & colonialism (was: researching Kenya ....)

Re: Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 20:50:40 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Subject: Re: [Goanet] While researching Kenya, she found shocking Nice one! Can we get the Portuguese and British back, for a start? FN Frederick Noronha +91-9822122436 +91

[Goanet] Local language blues...

Miguel Braganza wrote (re: non avaibility of Goa laws): "Goa is a miserable state for those who would want to transact any business in its Official Language ... few people read or write it in the normal course of life (...)" That reminds me an anecdote my father used to tell: There was this (Eng

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] Goanetters ahoy.... a visual report of the Dec 27, 2007 meet in Goa.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/2146091010/ Blimy! Nobody Drinks Beer any more at Goanetters meets? I have seen other times... ;-) Cheers and Happy 2008 to All! patrizio and Dnooos1 (in coold Amsterdam) > Hard to believe it... there were no flame-baits, there were no angry > words.

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-news] Portugal slaps more curbs on passports for Goan residents (Devika Sequeira/Deccan Herald)

> Portugal slaps more curbs on passports for Goan residents > > > Panaji: New regulations recently brought in by the Portuguese > government will shut the doors on many in Goa who have queued > up for years to acquire a Portuguese passport. > > Official correspondence sent to applicants through the

Re: [Goanet] TOI in Goa/ at a 'price' ...

> Another English Daily from Goa - Times of India > Which also means our monthly newspaper bill will increase by another say > Rs.115 to about Rs.410 assuming TOI is sold at Rs.3. My, lucky Goans! Rs 410 would buy you about just _one week_ of _one_ newspaper in our parts, probably excluding the w

Re: [Goanet] Travelling in a ferry boat

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[Goanet] Goa on TV5 or: Lusostalgia Rulez!

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Re: [Goanet] Goa on TV5 or: Lusostalgia Rulez! (Eddie Fernandes)

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Re: [Goanet] cheap flights to Goa & elsewhere ...

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Re: [Goanet] Houses in Goa - Nagoa?

Pictures of a recent book on Contemporary Indian interiors with three houses from Goa. The houses are supposedly located in Nagoa-Bardez, Bardez (no specific location) and Porvorim. Maybe somebody may recognize the interior?? Maybe another excuse for an Salcette-Bardez fight?? http://www.flickr.c

[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] Indian Rhums

Hola Aloha, After the CondeNast article on 11 Indian Rhums with prices starting at Rs 1500 & above on Goanet (one was only Rs 800 I believe) I wonder how much my standard, Old Monk, is doing these days - in Goa & elsewhere. Information would be appreciated! Cheers indeed, p+2D!

[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!

[Goanet] Fwd: Prem Chandavarkar

le-based international order that has been the aspiration after > > > 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 sha

[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 it

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! Ram

[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 S

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 b

[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 t

[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 tour

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 Colum

[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 t

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 the

[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. A

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 W

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" The

[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 (

[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, ag

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 youn

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 c

[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] 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 i

[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 rev

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 obli

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) ..

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

it as long 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&quo

[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: https://www.awaazmagazine.com/volume-17/issue-2-volume-17/special-feature-issue-

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

> 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!

[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' t

[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 servici

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, organising

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 Por

[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 w

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 mailto:56948e3f-2611-44f7-8

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!

[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] 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://blog.

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! ;-) ma

[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 wel

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 year

[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 ... somewh

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 'ou

[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 in

[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

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!

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 >

[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 congregation

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

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

[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] 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] 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

[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 con

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 m

[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 Skandinavian

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!

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 peo

[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: http://www.mccrow.org.

[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 unpre

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] 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 forbids!

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 cou

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] [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

[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: https://www.monin.com/emea/sirop-

[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 t

[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 treat

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