>From Kanata (or Canada) and other lands, senile pontificates abound
>proselytizing, admonishing and urging us on exhibiting behaviour( “show
>finger”)totally unbecoming of “cultured and beautiful” land.
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Clube Nacional de Pangim may be the oldest. Still, in our living memory,
Goans and dogs were not allowed.
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Voznadikvojem
Thanks for the memories.
My life was not only full, but It was sated when the band played this number
as the first dance on my wedding day.
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VoznadikVojem
Thank you for the memories:
It is early morning. The first rays of the sun break through my “nacre” pastel
windows. Already the song is blaring through the tiny speakers in the hallway.
I know it is time to get up and go to the courtyard. Lined up and snaking half
a furlong, were all
All of us will have to mobilize and lobby every level of government to
bring home safely our son, brother, cousin, nephew, father, grandfather or
an uncle.
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Voznadik Vojem
imply wrap around my cranium to definitively establish on which rung
of the ladder I am balanced on.
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Voznadik Vojem
.
And why oh why, you Mephistopheles affronts and taunts me “ Think’st thou
that I who saw the face of God/And tasted the eternal joys of heaven/Am
not tormented with ten thousand hells/In being deprived of everlasting
bliss?”
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speak
Konkani. We are more comfortable to sing in Xhosa than our own mother
tongue.
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Voznadik Vojem
or for that matter Goans to be labelled as "
Goanvirus".
It simply does disservice to Goa and to all Goans. It may serve all
humanity well if we reign in our flights of imagination.
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Voznadik Vojem
e remnants. What a sobering dream to see the
chandelier come crashing down and smithereen into million pieces all our
innermost yearnings.
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Voznadik Vojem
Welcome Back Remo Fernandes 2020 with “when will you learn man”
---
At the outset, I must confess that I am yet to see the video. I am
intrigued by the addition of the word "man". Is it by intent or clever
design, that only man is the focus of the song.
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Voznadik Vojem
May
be, in the Rome of the Orient, we should consider leaving a lasting
legacy for generations to come.
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Voznadik Vojem
of St. Thomas Church,
Aldona, Bardez is "AIZ MAKA, FALEA TUKA". Other cemeteries, in Goa, may
have a slight variation of the original Latin phrase" *hodie mihi,
cras tibi."*
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Voznadik Vojem
of human existence.
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Voznadik Vojem
Clement in 1309 in Avignon
France, we will await our day. It is eau de vie, triple distilled, aging
slowly but surely for that day of reckoning of just one pope from Goa.
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to that characterization.*
*I have enough fuel to circle around but if I prematurely crash-land,there will
still be access to the blackbox to initiate an inquiry *
--
Voznadik Vojem responds:
With that forthright and candid acknowledgement, that Goa or Goans
were not summarily
Quepem, my Quepem, the quintessential,
Unparalleled in natures' bounty stands tall.
Euphoric in all its resplendent glory
Past and present for its rich history,
Eternity and beyond, its soul will forever
Move our hearts that we so much revere.
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Voznadik Vojem
today it was no joy to serve the local populace of Quepem. Many in the
erstwhile Government and till today consider a transfer to Quepem as the
ultimate humiliation. Bananas or no bananas the soul of Quepem will still
be bananas.
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Voznadik Vojem
to Quepem. Not far, between the villages Xeldem and Nagvem lies
the infamous "door of no return" just as in Ghana.
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three songs are playing on my teeny player, sitting here on "manxer"
watching a dappled kingfisher dive straight into what was my prize fish for
supper.
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Voznadik Vojem
ated in the preamble
itself in the above post, but sometimes even the prestigious online
newspaper falter and the letter was taken down with profuse
apologies.*
*Abhar,*
*Voznadik Vojem.*
ao and baked
newspaper. I believe rest of the world can put their newspaper in the oven
and stay safe.
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Voznadik Vojem
The article is as long as the longest word
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It is also specific to some
rich city in the world. In my part of the world, we hope and pray that we
will never have to wash our fish baskets or the leaves that we use to eat
our food.
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Voznadik
uctions, Mapusa, Goa. You are
spot on that the first version came in 2005 as per the liner notes.
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Voznadik Vojem
Stripped of the word Bramana, and simply known as *Lingua
Canarim *was the language of the masses otherwise known as plebeians.
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Voznadik Vojem.
hour confabulation. *
Dom Martin
Voznadik Vojem responds:
Dom:
The prospects are frightening and worrisome beyond our imagination.
The covert WWIII tattoo will be the 'be all and end all" of our human
race. No, it is not an ordinary tattoo, but far
for
five years. He was the last medical General in Goa.
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No, it is not wishful thinking. After much deliberations about Goan Pope,
we are moving on. Nobel Committee may bestow the honour to a resident of
Quepem and whole of Goa will rejoice!
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Voznadik Vojem
Let me cast no stone or pass judgement. Let the statistics speak for
themselves.. Goa university is ranked 5726 in the world and country ranking
in India stands at an impressive 190. Sorbonne on the other hand stands at
36 globally and number 1 nationally in France. Rhetorics or no rhetorics it
o an infant child for whatever reason had to be
wet nursed.
Dont preach us from Macau, take care of the crumbling structure in Macau--
we will take care of our heritage in Goa for you to come and enjoy.
Are Bernard --makdache xemped dorun tum Macao paulo?
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Voznadik Vojem
l of of 1st Marquis de Pombal when he
took reigns in 1750. It was a time of great upheaval and
inquisitions. He was well known to opposition of Jesuits and Jews
alike and the rest is history.
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in history books that the Governor used to use back door to visit
Mhamai Kamat.
Sometime in 1843 or so and soon after the plague devastated the city of
goa(Cidade de Goa), the capital was moved to Panjim and was called "Nova
Goa".
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Vozn
and deliciously tantalizing.
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Voznadik Vojem
Fortunatus guide us as we praise heaven in a Matin during
Passiontide --"Sing,my tongue, the glorious battle: Sing the ending of
the fray".
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say that same for India as our World Heritage sites in Old Goa
are in a state of disrepair).
KIng Nebuchadnezzar"s Hanging Gardens and Tower of Babylon can wait for
another day.
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Voznadik Vojem
A whole generation grew up grooving to the thrilling, electrifying and
flashy showman, Little Richard. He skyrocketed on the rock and roll scene
and was instrumental in influencing musicians over a wide spectrum of
genre.
His all time hits included Long Tall sally, Ready Teady, Lucille, Tutti
ncentrated in Uttara
Kanada and till today speak in Konkani.
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in this narrative. And the wheel had turned full
circle. Admiral Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda determinedly worked up his way
up by working at Karachi docks.
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Voznadik Vojem
---
My late father, Vincent Xavier Verodiano Martin, whose academic credentials
were “segundgrao
ted by
the headlines.
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Voznadik Vojem
The final battle: It is Corona virus against Corona beer!
Woe is me, Woe is me, My order of six pack of Corona beer is not here,
perhaps it never will.
As I gaze in the distance, in my impending doom and gloom, I cast my eye
skyward at the lone skylark, as it disappears in the undulating
In my part of the world, nobody knows what a mask is. We do not have toilet
paper and this ensures "social distancing" at its best.
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Voznadikvojem
d
endanger harmony in our lives before we loose our sanity. Physical
distancing, in various forms, as mentioned in this forum and practiced in
our part of the world will plank the curve.
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Voznadik Vojem
We always take such good advice seriously, In particular the part of
quarantining in our abodes. Now , there is an air of expectancy around
December. In our part of the world, we will not stock on diapers as we use
none.
Abhar,
Voznadik Vojem
Thank you for the memories:
The day was 12th June 2019. The environment at the Boston TD arena was charged
and pregnant with expectation. The massive crowd was awaiting the appearance
of Laura Branigan to sing “Gloria” live, the anthem song of St. Louis Blues.
It all started earlier in the
grandfathers bamboo fishing rod! And yes, I
did reach out to the writer about coolies, he did not respond.
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Voznadik Vojem
certain African features and
our ongoing fascination and affinity to that great big continent of Africa.
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Voznadik Vojem
Among the European countries, the Portuguese were the biggest
slave-traders; with most
Is it not Devak Argham a pseudonym?
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Voznadik Vojem
Sir Cliff Richard (born Harry Rodger Webb) in Lucknow, whose voice filled
every living room in Goa. Here he is singing "We don't talk anymore" just
a week ago in support of "Shooting Star Children's Hospices".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL3rWlhTMG0
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Voznadik Vojem
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