Have you seen two bulls tied to a cart and these bulls are led along the way
chosen by the cartman. We too in Goa ,(not all) are bulls tied to a religious
cart and the cartman just wants to drive us the way he wants . Will we be save
or fall in the field or river ? don't ask questions or say
Can someone make goanet a bit interesting ? Instead of washing dirty linen it
would be better if goanet contains some nice receipes, jokes, tiatr and film
review, some marriage advertisments, some hints on how to have good health and
what fruits and vegs are found where. We are fed up of
Many times we are afraid of everything around us . When children are born we
are so careful and we clean everything on earth yet your child will eat the
dirt which is hidden under the door mat. What we have to be frightened is the
VACINES WE GIVE to our children just because a doctor has asked
Kidneys get affected when you use refine salt. God has given us salt coming out
from sea but we somehow do not belief in God's creations and believe doctors
and other people who say sea salt is not good but refined salt. This salt gets
deposited on the kidneys and certain chemicals used in
Can any one tell me who has benefited by minority rights ? The religious
running the schools are the beneficiaries. Take for example the schools run by
minorities. They reserve the post of the principal, headmaster for their own
people whether he or she is qualified or not. They do not pay
In today's world a middle class working person wants clean roads, jobs,
vegetation .Religion does not matter. What is the difference between a
catholic, christian, hindu, muslim, etc we are all human beings created by same
God. Do we get any benefits from our religion ? do we get roti kapda or
People in Goa always consider west as a clean place, no corruption, better
government, lots of facilities, good educational system, etc etc. A friend of
mine settled in London. They migrated tohi London from Africa. They always
considered UK those days as haven for goans and always looked Goa
For last 12 years living with Narendra Modi Fr.Prakash forgot about Hindutva.
Now only at election time he realised that Modi was a fanatic and promoter of
hindutva. whom is he trying to fool ? Regarding Vivian I pity him for not
getting a priest that does not mean you deprive us of priest to
we talk about minister being corrupt. why not take blame on yourself ? You go
to govt office. you want your work to be done. when you approach the govt
servant whose work is to serve you, you use flowery language praise him and
push a five hundred note in his pocket. You want a job for your
How many of us have visited Gujerat and seen what Modi has done for the state ?
how many has been to the bank and seen secular ministers' bank accounts and
properties ? People sit at the chai shop or bar and talk. Our tongue can wag
like dog's tail and there is no limit. How many of our priests
Narendra Modi changed the face of Gujerat. Wide and clean roads, flyoovers,
jobs to the poor and the widows, and agriculture is boosted. Villages look
green with different vegetables grown. Garbage is regullary collected and
sewage disposed. Why are some people with vested interest give diverse
People put dividers while talking to religion. Each person feels superior and
their leaders still higher. Our attitudes need to be changed and our thoughts
towards the other person need to be changed. Our christian religion wants us to
do just two things. Love God with your whole heart and
Once I took my family and my brothers's family to a spice garden. we were
around 35 of us fitted in a tempo traveller. We purchased tickets and got
inside and the owner took us round to show the spice garden. The garden was
beautiful but when we reached certain point he instructed us to keep
I doubt if any one of us have seen Narendra Modi or lived in the vicinity. Some
one has put it in our head that if modi comes to power then our churches will
be destroyed, catholics will be persecuted. When BJP came to power there were
able to solve the babri issue so nicely. Vajpee was the
we goans catholics think that Congress is a secular party and that goan
catholics will be saved. Even some of the priests have been talking about
secularism. This thought is ruining us. All those who contest elections are
self centred people and our priests have been preaching knowling or
I know there is no conscience in the catholic church leaders. Certain priests
get transfered to lucrative churches and others are shunted into wilderness
where the church is poor. Today brahamins priest get nice rich churches . If
our leaders cannot treat their own people nicely and justly why
I read what Girish Kumar and what Gerard Delaney has said. My education is just
BA and I cannot understand what both are saying and who is right and who is
wrong. But I shall as a lay person draw simple conclusions. I think it must be
at least 15 years since mobiles came into existence in Goa.
I read the message sent by centre of mass communication and etc regarding whom
we have to vote . . This type of centre wakes up like how frogs wake up at the
onset of monsoons. Today we have people having one meal a day. when I was in
school I studied in a nuns convent. I was never taken for
A goan migrates to Canada, USA, etc .He goes there because these places are
superior to our poor goa. We are poor people who have no father and mother. But
after you have selected these places why do you call yourself a Goan ? You are
no more a goan. Your passport is either British Passport, or
Awards should be given to someone for extraordinary events or action. Take
Mother Theresa. There are thousands of nuns all over India. some of them are
teachers, and some of them work in orphanages, and some work in home for the
aged. That job is given to them by their superiors. What is the
When God created the earth and the people he also created medicinal plants so
that man may use them and get ok. but we have failed to recogonise God as our
doctor and have too much faith in local doctors who once they get their mbbs
degree they do not open their books and do reference. Take a
Many senior advocates in Mapuca have their offices in residential areas. Mapuca
Municipality charges less charges to residence areas less electcity charges
where as those in commercial areas have to pay more municipality fees, higher
electricity bills. so it is not fair that some advocates are
How many of us are happy in this world ? Happiness comes when we think of the
comforts of other people. Someone comes to your house and want to spend some
few days with you. He or she may be known person, your relative, your aunt etc
may be your sister from other state etc. Will you give your
Arnold George Dorsey was born in Madras in 1936. He was the second son of
Merwyn Dorsey and olive Dorsey. Meryn worked as an engineer in India and in
1947 Merwyn moved to London and settled in Leicester. Arnold dropped from
school at the age of 15 and started to sing in Men's club. He married
My only Aires Rodrigues contest lok sabha election and become central minister
and I would like to see if he emasses wealth or throws to the dogs. He has been
grinding the sins of everyone except himself. Could he publicly tell people on
the net and elsewhere what is his assests for the last
we are persecuted by our own religious people. Every Sunday I have to sit on a
wooden bench listening to insipid sermon which my leader does not prepare. I
have to recite my prayers like a parrot which many times I forget to recite due
to weak memory. Some people say this is the best form of
Again and again the bank employees strike and we customers are the most
sufferers. What kind of service does these so called bank employees giving us ?
long ques, abuses, several trips to the banks to get small work done etc etc.
Why does Aires Rodrigues take up this issue instead of cleaning
Mogal ixtta, Sermaovamchea vellar hanv niddonk veta kiteac zaite padre missak
ieta sermavamchi toiari korinastana ani vazpam zatam tea aplea sermaovamchi
toiari korta ani amcam sogleank niddonk daddtat. Hanv chintunk poddleam ki 20
crore project kaddun tantun retire diupaucho padre nant tor tem
Goa has been eaten by moths. The moths have grown from Goan soil. The other day
I happen to go to candolim and while passing through saipem my heart started to
bleed to see the hills covered with forest have been converted into concrete
jungle and being a village the sarpanch and the panches
Every year state and National awards are given. Sometimes it is for a teacher
who has taught for say 35 years in a particular school or a musican who has
blown his instrument for 40 years or for a tiatrist who has danced on the stage
for many years or any other artist. But those who institute
USA first got hold of most of the jews and took them to the states. Jews were
intellegent people and mastermind in technology. Some of the jews became top
people in the government adminstration. Because of these intelligent jews USA
became one of the greatest nation in the world. Then USA tried
i saw our chief minister dressed in bush shirt . Many of us must have made a
statement that our chief minister does not dress well and to the occassion. But
I cannot understand why must the chief minister wear a suit ? People wear suits
in cold countries. I know that people even go to work in
Many of us praise the western countries even without seeing the place and study
its geography and its people too. We look upon our own mother India as a source
of inferiority and low class. Once upon a time we had a craze to buy foreign
items. Even our church has foreign saints. Most of the
We have celebrated Christmas with pomp and glory. We have made models of mud
and wood to represent Jesus, Mary Joseph. All these things do not have any
meaning in our lives only if we would understand that God wants to be born in
our hearts. But our hearts are dirty. It is not possible for God
My class mate in school in Bombay after finishing his engineering in bombay got
a job in one of the top industries in bombay. Inschool he was a topper and a
source of intellegence. He joined a top college for science . He was earning
around sixty thousand in seventies when you could get a rice
Let us learn to call a spade a spade and a knife a knife. When I studied in a
convent school the nuns would not tolerate cheating, telling lies. We were so
honest that if we found a small pencil we would run to the headmistress and
hand it over to her .The nuns taught me many things. One to be
I remember as a child when we lived in village of bardez we used to travel in
camiaos. It was 13 seater or 15 seater bus. More like a big maruti van.On the
back side there were two long seats and in front the driver seat and one
passenger seat. The conductor collected tickets which was six anna
They were all saying maka kiteac podlam ? , People of candolim , saipem,
Pilerne stand and see their hills are destroyed , trees are completely
destroyed and big buildings are build. i do not know if they are at all aware
that destroying hills and cutting trees on large scale will destroy the
Christmas does not mean making cribs and putting statues in it or lighting a
christmas star or having santa claus. Christmas reminds us of one thing. It is
a great event in the life of everyone where God himself becomes man and gets
into the womb of an ordinary human Mary. It teaches us
Any ordinary wedding now a days lakhs of rupees are spent. People always want a
grand show. Why can't our present chief minister celebrate his son's wedding ?
Secondly he has every right to spend money. Of course not above his income. Why
do some people like leeches talk against the chief
Why do you need a servant ? If each one of us learn to do our own work then
there is no need of hiring a servant. Is it necessary for both husband and wife
to work ? The answer is we cannot make both ends meet. Mr.John works in Goa, He
gets a salary of 15,000 rupees. He lives in his father's
We like to visit this doctor and that doctor. We do not like to use God given
medicines when we are sick. Cumin seeds or jeera. if you fry this jeera on a
frying pan and also little rice and add boiling water to it and on cooling
drink it cools your stomack, intenstine and removes all heat. It
We celebrate the feast of any saint to learn about his or her life and to make
our lives as theirs. Sitting in the bars and drinking is not a part of any
feast. That is actually what is happening in Goa . We celebrate one thousand
feasts, and what is going down our throat is a drink in large
Dear GoanettersGoans always feel that the grass grows greener on the other side
of the fence. I remember in my childhood days people from africa would visit
Goa and wear shirt and tie and a hat. They wanted everyone to see this atire
and call them africanders. So much so that even the mothers
I read the story of the girl who worked as a journalist and how she was
molested by her editor and how he tried to get her sexually aroused in the
lift. It is a shame . A person who is like her father, a friend has to stoop so
low as to molest a poor girl fit to be his daughter/
Dear FriendsNever take lic policy from employees of LIC. There are many LIC
employees who have taken lic agencies in their relations' name and far away
from posting. since the employees are not transfered there is no problem. A
friend of mine took a policy from an employee in Mapuca and went on
When I wrote about the way the catholic church is functioning and asked why we
should say the rosary etc etc this was rejected and here we read all sorts of
things in the goanet. check
The modern generation want a very fast zipzap cure for their ailments. In my
neighbourhood there is an old man living with his elderly wife and once in a
while his children will visit him. It was the old man's birthday and so all his
children and grand chind ldren thought it would be wise to
Goa is a beautiful place a land of hills, valleys, sea, beaches , rivers, lakes
etc. But Goans were never satisfied with this land which had lots of fields and
gave each one of us plenty to eat and a good feni of coconut and caju to drink
for those who wanted to. We had bars for those who
During my childhood days we had these meassurements. Pail , podd, solgem,
ornati and the last one was girnati were used .Two pailies made a kuddo. 4
podds made one paili. 2 solgem made one podd and so on
I do not know from time way back my childhood days Goans did not love Goa.
Everything is green else where but in Goa. So many left Goa and migrated . They
have taken that citizenship so if those who do not love Goa why call yourself
Goans ? We are the unfortunate ones who have taken Goa as our
In the good older days every village had a doctor who was known as gaumcho voiz
and paid by the government. Other doctors charged a nominal fee of I think two
or three or may be five rupees. In case of cold and fever the medicine given
was a mixture and the prescription could be read only by
This incident happened when my grandmother was alive. A young five year old
girl suffered from bronchities. The girl lived in my neighbour hood. My
grandmother advised the parents to put ventos. The father took the girl to a
good doctor who got her admitted and put her on antiobiotics and
You forget about the chief minister and the land. For so many years non goans
have occupiwed communidade land and have built their homes. Every communidade
has members called joneros and then there are share holders and then the
committee and then govt appointed bodies. Each time there is jon
Please do not send any photos of fish curry rice on this goanet or on any
website. Just today I saw photos sent by you with lovely fish which I do not
see in the market or am able to buy. Do you know how sad I became when I saw ta
li of lovely fish like conak, and other . Joe why don't you
being inquisitive in school I would get what I wanted to know but today no one
seems to answer my questions . Born in a catholic family I have bth een asking
priests questions like why should we say the rosary, why should we celebrate so
many feasts of our lady why there is no love and concern
Can any one be kind enough to send me the list of tiatrs that are to take part
in kala academy competition along with the dates ? i shall be obliged. The list
of tiatrs had come on herald by my hubby misplaced that copy of herald. please
publish on goanet. ana Maria
I still belong to Roman Catholic religion. Mr.Sanches has no knowledge of his
religion or else he would not throw vemon at me. He still clings to Roman life
or Egyptian life and does not want to find the truth of God, Jesus or Motherhei
Mary. Mary's life should be embedded in you. If you love
Absolutely right. though we are baptised christians we are still left with out
old traditional beliefs. How many of us put liquor bottles, cigerettes in the
coffin of the dead ? how many of us give bikareamchem jevon more because to
give solace to the dead and before we start the jevon we keep
Friends, Government has been giving us a slogan that small family is a happy
family. Ask your children Are you happy ? the answer is no. John and Lina are
married. They have already planned .No children for first five years(five year
plan) Lina wants promotion, John wants to build a house like
After Resurection Jesus was with his disciples and told them to wait for the
Holy spirit as he left to Heaven. The disciples were with Mother Mary and all
frightened. Then came the holy Spirit and all the apostles became vibrant. They
were not afraid of the jews and even death. They called
When I chose Christianity I chose Jesus Christ as my leader. What did jesus do
? He kept his father as the head of his family and life, He preached the word
of God. Did he say the Rosary, angelus ? then why do we do that thing now ?
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I have noticed that every year certain priests take a trip to Europe. I am very
well aware that the to and fro ticket visa runs into lakhs of rupees. From
where do these priest get money every year ? From sunday collection ? I was
told from my childhood that collection on good friday goes to
Washing somebody's linen publicly speaks of lack of education. Of late tiatr
standard are gone below standard. Tiatrist if they want to clean the government
should first clean the government employees. Most of the govt employees are
doing two or three businesses. They emass wealth and pay no
I find that tiatrs of today have no standards. Before any tiatrist speak on any
politicians he should contest the elections and see how it works. Tiatrist if
Why people do people insist on having airport at Mopa ? let us have an airport
else where .There are some leaders in North Goa that are determined to have
airport in Mopa because they have their property which will fetch a lot of
price. I have seen on the tv on Prabhu dessai shouting to have
I am a Roman Catholic. Till today I have not joined any believers because of my
mother in law. If I join the believers group then when my mother in law dies
she will not be burried in the catholic cementry. I know many priest try to use
this cementry as a weapon to get the flock together. I
Christ never founded any religion. He came into the world to improve our
standard of thought and life. He just wanted us to do two things. Love God with
your whole heart and love your neighbour . We celebrate 165 feasts of Mary a
year but still do not know who this Mary is. We have xerox type
My father had traced his family history by getting birth and death certificates
and when he reached somewhere like 1534 or something like that we found that
one of the parent was krishna Gaonkar or something like that. My elder brother
has the birthcertificate. that means we have decesended
if our catholic church is honest why are they afraid to disclose who is in the
managing committee of the catholic church and why do they not give us accounts
of money received and spent ? why are they forcing us to donate for projects
which is not ours ? If you believe in Jesus come out with
No our religion is not true. Peter is not the first pope. Prove that he was
the first pope. If he was a pope why was he murdered? Mary in catholic churches
is only a diety. priests blesses and insences the idiols. they are adoring
statues. what ever is blessed by priest becomes a god. Mary was
I have seen how minority schools function. The priest and nun is always a
headmaster or headmistress. He or she has no experience nor any quality to run
a school. These inefficient priests or nuns start barking from day one.
teachers get scared. Do you know how headmaster or headmistress teach
!
That too on goanet!!
Please lord help her! Amen!!
From: Ana Maria Fernandes amferns_n...@hotmail.com
Priest attached to church and their leaders are taking advantage of our lay
people ignorance to emasse wealth and live a luxurious life. Every saint is
sitting on a box with a opening
If any one of you feel that Mopa airport is not required then why not go to
high court and get justice to your demands ? We have courts where we can fight
for our rights. Some activist go to court when it suits them and quietly
withdraw when their palms are greased.
Marriage is a union of two people of different sexs . How you get married is
not a big thing but remaining faithful to one another is most important.
Marriage is a sacred commitment for life. People do not understand what
marriage is. Just because you get sex cravings you just cannot pick up a
Many writ petitions are filed in the courts and many of these cases are public
litigations. Can some one file a case against lawyers having their offices in
residential areas in Mapuca ? I would lay a challenge to any one doing this.
Many advocates occupy residential flats as it is cheaper
Many times we boast that our religion is founded by christ and that protestants
are traitors. Many times priest speak about believers saying that they do not
believe in Mother Mary. How many of the catholics know your religion!!!If any
one tries to argue they say you are spoiling my faith. We
When God created the world human beings were honest and had concerned for
others. In today's world everyone was glory and power and money without any
efforts. That is the reason money collected for the poor goes into the pockets
of those who collect it. In Go a we have caritas society. They
Can Aires tell me what type of Goa will be if you become the chief minister ? I
am fed up the way you dig at the ministers at all times. Put your hand over
your chest where your heart is and ask yourself this question am I a honest
citizen of India ? a honest husband, a honest father ? then
why can't we have concern for others ? On one side there are people throwing
plates after plates of food in the dustbin and on other side there are people
who cannot afford to eat one meal a day. I am coming from a poor family. We
were three girls and two boys. Parents could not afford to give
He would have looked at every one and sighed I made a grave mistake in coming
down to the earth and carry a heavy cross on my shoulders and shed blood. What
a fool I was !!!. Today my followers are making fool of myself. They are
emassing wealth , having big bank accounts, live in palaces, have
Once as I was walking along the busy road there was a dustbin where people had
just thrown their left overs after their lunch.I could see rice thrown not only
in the dust bin but also on the road and then I noticed some street children
two in number coming to the bin and eating the left overs
There is lot of discrimination in our churches when it comes to catholics,
believers and other non christians. It is necessary for a priest to announce in
the church openly that those who have not received baptism should not go for
communion ? what is the priest trying to boast ? Once my friend
faithfully
Ana Maria Fernandes
Naika Vaddo, Calangute, Goa
For a person who do not get two meals a day he is not worried if Digamber is
the chief minister or parrikar. He or she is not worried if there is one
airport at Dabolim and one at Mopa as he or she will not sit in the plane and
fly. For the poor and the middle class the government has given in
Michael Fernandes told me to become a nun. God gave me a vocation and got me
married to a nice young understanding huslband who gave me love and five nice
children. Bravo. I have loved not only my husband but his parents too and my
beautiful five children. 3 girls and 2 boys. I had left my job
I know best what it is to be poor. We were six children , grandparents and
parents take makes ten. My father was the only bread earner .We had fields that
gave us food but could not afford to eat fish, meat etc. My mom used to get
fish and put everything in the curry. Cost of the fish was just
Jesus never boasted that he was son of God but called himself as son of man. He
lived a simple life. His followers the priests and nuns like to call themselves
religious I do not know why. Many of us lay people are fanatics and want to
support a priest even after knowing he is out to make
Christianity is a way of life by which a person loves God and loves his brother
or sister. We need no lifeless statues, or time wasted in putting flowers to
statues which cannot talk to you and burning candles and adoring lifeless
statues. Our priest encourage all this nonsense because for
Blackmailing someone to get gainful money is not the right way. There are some
people who file cases in the court instigate people, give publicity and when
the opponent offers some gold they retrieve back like a earthworm and go back
to their hole. These type of people have a malicious type of
when my grandmother was 12 years old their neighbour told her father i would
like to bring your daughter as my daughter in law . My great grand father was
very poor and when he told him about his circumstances the neighbour said You
give me that particular land as dowary for your daughter .
The life of Jesus was a quiet one. no publicity, I cannot understand the
attitude of our church authorities and why they give publicity. In real life a
priest always boast of himself as educated and above board. He will condhuemn
the lay person many times from the pulprit. Why suddenly during
I was shocked the way hill cutting is done at saipem candolim. By end of may
there will no more be any forest in saipem candolim. I do not know why the
villagers of saipem, orda, candolim are keeping quiet over the whole hill being
destroyed. I have been told that a five star hotel is coming up
Soon after Easter catholic priests go house to house for house blessing. This
has gone for centuries. Our priest have been doing this job very methodically
or what adjective to use I do not know. But today our cities are converted into
huge buildings and each building has around four to five
when a person takes citizenship of another country he is no more a goan or an
Indian. He is a british, canadian, australian, etc. Keith vaz is no more a goan
or an Indian. why boast about his achievement ? if he comes to Goa he comes
like any britisher. Like wise others too. We goans are not
Jesus Christ was a rejected jew. The jews had their own beliefs. After Jesus
died and went to heaven his followers were just 11. But they had to swim
against the current. They called themselves believers. Till 64 AD when Nero was
the emperor he persecuted the christian community. He even set
Without feeling hurt I would be happy if someone can answer some of these
questions I want to put to the Clergy of Goa. Why are most of the parish priest
very adamant, rude, and boastful ? Why do they consider the lay peopWhy le as
inferior commodity lacking in knowledge of God and that the
Christian religion is the simplest of all religions. Just love God with your
whole heart and soul and love your neighbours like yourself. If we only we had
followed this there would be no crimes on earth, no robberies, no dacoties, no
bombs, no terriorist, no rapes, no land grabing. But our
Most of us have a tendency to tilt towards the west. We like the white colour,
and what not. West people are the best. west culture is the best. west goods
are the best. nndia shi shi backward. Many of our people migrate and when
they migrate ththeey find they are lost birds. They will not
The other day happened to visit a friend of mine in saipem and was shocked to
see a huge hill being cut and buildings are erupting from that. The slope is so
steep that it is difficult to drive even your car in first gear. Someone told
me that a five star hotel is coming up on that hill.
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