Adv. Lazarus Martins, Reena's father, was our friend, colleague and a relative.
We condole over his demise.
Bennet Paes fly.
--- On Thu, 9/9/10, JoeGoaUk joego...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
From: JoeGoaUk joego...@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: [Goanet] Condolences: Reena Martins, Mumbai
To:
A Goan is someone born in Goa or is of Goan parentage.
He/she may be living in and holding a passport of another country, but still
that
person is Goan, of Goan nationality.
Note:
1) If born in Goa, or if parents were born in Goa under the Portuguese rule,
their Nationality is Portuguese,
LUCKY TO BE A GOAN
By: Bennet Paes
I had a visitor the other day at my office. He was a businessman from Delhi. He
said to me: “Man, you’re lucky to be a Goan”.
I saluted him for the compliment, but was rather inquisitive to know whether he
was a fortune-teller in the guise of a
LIFE’S LIKE THAT
By: Bennet Paes
“Never judge a book by its cover” say wise men out of experience. However, that
piece of advice may be right for a bookshop browser, but my concept was a kind
of departure from that wisdom. “Pride and Prejudice”, acclaimed the world over
as a fictional
GOOSE CHASE
By: Bennet Paes
It’s no wild-goose-chase when a gander hisses in hot pursuit of a goose, and
gets it. No, it’s not even an accidental one-night stand, as is so infectious
with world’s football celebrities. In animal kingdom there are no
Sorry, my earlier mail on this subject was sent out inadvertently.
This this the right one.
QUEST FOR KASHMIR
By: Bennet Paes
Kashmir is unlike a candle. It lights up when it does not burn. And that’s
exactly when tourism brochures hail it as paradise on earth.
At other times it ceases
there should be no restrictions on
'dressing up or not' like wise...
--- On Fri, 16/7/10, From PAES bennetp...@yahoo.com wrote:
THE BURKA
By: Bennet Paes
The world over, the part of a human body that is most
visible to other humans is the face. Unlike those parts
that remain covered in privacy, it’s
THE BURKA
By: Bennet Paes
The world over, the part of a human body that is most visible to other humans
is the face. Unlike those parts that remain covered in privacy, it’s only the
face that faces the task of determining one’s identity. In fact, any object on
earth, animate or
SO, IT'S SPAIN
If 'Paul' had predicted 7 out of 8 correctly, it was a foregone
conclusion that Spain would take the World Cup home.
Oh, how it missed going a little to the west to Portugal!
Let's hope it will, the next time out of Brazil.
Bennet Paes
FREEDOM FIGHTER
By: Bennet Paes
Having passed through the portals of three Universities, and yet failing to get
past the freshman’s mark, I stumbled into a selective band of Goans on the
Indian side of the border. They prided themselves being called Freedom
Fighters, (FF’s). That
PORTUGAL, AGAIN
For Portugal, Shakira’s: “Vaka,Vaka“ might have ended, but the melody will
linger on.
A nation of 10 million “herois do mar” that sailed the seas and spread the
fever of football among nations bigger in size than its own, and produced the
world’s most expensive exponent of the
THE MONSOON MAGIC
By: Bennet Paes
Traditionally, we Goans have a-saint-a-season, and for a reason. St. Anthony is
for the coming of rains and San Joao to get us drenched in it. But nothing of
that sort happened, and only a few days ago we were soaking in sweat under a
sweltering sun. The only
PORTUGAL and FOOTBALL
It is strange that one billion plus Indians cannot produce 11 Indians that can
find a place in the World Cup football tournament. But, if that ever happened
and both, Portugal and India played each other, it would be tough for me to
choose which side I would blow the
THE BHOPAL BOTCH-UP
By: Bennet Paes
Mired in a legacy of lethargy, India is now trying to bring back the horse
that had bolted away from its stable 26 years ago. That horse is one Mr. Warren
Anderson, now 90, and living on borrowed oxygen. It’s almost like flogging a
dying horse, but the
Richard Betsy Nunes:
You might have irked the other 'True Goans' whose homes are palatial
and also got their children educated. The only difference is that they
chose to remain behind to serve their 'masters' and got hugely rewarded
in return.
Bennet Paes
Assolna, Goa
--- On Sun, 30/5/10,
Alda,
If the days under Portuguese rule were dark, the nights would have
been even darker. Yet we slept with our windows open!
Bennet Paes
Assolna, Goa
--- On Thu, 27/5/10, Alda Figueiredo alda_juli...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
From: Alda Figueiredo alda_juli...@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Goanet]
KASAB VERDICT
India showed the world that even hardened criminals are human, by giving Kasab
a fair trial lasting over a year. Now, it may as well raise this greatness to
greater heights, by giving a fallen criminal the treatment that a human being
does not deserve to be paid in revenge.
A QUIZ!
If contraception is unnatural, immoral - can forced celibacy escape those
adjectives?
Or, is my opinion on ‘contraception’ bigoted in the first place?
I am a Catholic.
Bennet Paes
Have a load of LP's (long-playing) English 'oldies' 33rpm and 45rpm too.
Anyone interested?
Bennet Paes
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M F HUSAIN
This guy professes that India is the country of his birth,
that he loves it and that he can return to it any time he chooses to.
If that is not a lie, he could have lived and worked in any country of the
world, still keeping his Indian passport under his 'brush'.
ZUBIN MEHTA, one
SHASHI THAROOR
By: Bennet Paes
It seems a slight departure, and a genuine one at that, from Nehru’s policies
on world stage, create a hue and cry in Indian media.. Shashi Tharoor may be in
Congress party and a Minister in its government, but talking on an
international forum, or rather
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Happy New Year Twenty-Ten
Hello Augusto:
I said, Indian law might have been non-existent or not in force.
Apparently, it was existent, but not in force.
According to me courage lies in fighting - much less in fasting.
Thank you for your comments, nevertheless.
Bennet
--- On Tue, 15/12/09, augusto pinto
Mervyn,
1) When the Goan drunkard drank 10 beers,
his intention may or may not have been to kill himself, but if he had declared
the former and if that had become known to the authorities, he ought to have
been arrested before he got into his car.
However, if his intention was not to kill
By: Bennet Paes
Many, many years ago when God sent an angel and took my little sister away from
us, it was heart-breaking to see my mother sob bitterly for days together. My
father weathered the agony with less visible emotions, but hastened to
commemorate the loss by placing an
Augusto:
In my opinion, fasting unto death is the beginning of an act of
suicide in slow motion. And in my opinion, suicide, or attempted
suicide, or for that matter fast-unto-death, is cowardly,immoral and illegal.
It is also so under the present Indian law.
But it so happens that, at the
In my opinion, hardly any.
Bennet
--- On Mon, 14/12/09, J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com wrote:
From: J. Colaco jc cola...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Fast unto death
To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org
Date: Monday, 14 December, 2009, 7:44 PM
.
Anyone please only respond after learning more about this
woman. Or just let
it go. But re valuate your thoughts.
She does no need our Goanet pre-Christmas waltzes.
venantius j pinto
Message: 8
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:55:39 -0800 (PST)
From: From PAES bennetp...@yahoo.com
In my opinion, if the person publically declares he/she is going into fast unto
death, or if the authorities come to know about it, that person should be
immediately arrested and taken into custody. While in custody he/she, inspite
of persuation, advice, etc., dies of hunger, starvation, etc.,
FAST UNTO DEATH
Refusing to take food or drink is intentionally causing an act leading to
death. It is suicide. And suicide is criminal.
1) Therefore, fasting unto death is suicidal, and criminal.
2) Therefore, it is a legal and moral obligation of the concerned authorities
to prevent death
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