Re: [Goanet] Why this apathy about doing something positive and concrete

2011-10-24 Thread lyrawmn
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's

Re: [Goanet] Mayem woman commits suicide

2011-10-17 Thread lyrawmn
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's

Re: [Goanet] Mayem woman commits suicide

2011-10-16 Thread lyrawmn
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's

Re: [Goanet] Expats doing something for Goa

2011-10-05 Thread lyrawmn
Dear Mr. Noronha, Do you think **cowardice, casteism and censorship  might qualify?   Cheers, I. Nunes ** RE: Abusive emails  sent me  in retaliation to being corrected.  Frederick FN Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com  wrote A controversy over birthday wishes too, what next :-)   Sometimes free

Re: [Goanet] PIGS Food Facts.

2011-10-03 Thread lyrawmn
The Goanet author erred. Frank McCourt, American, was awarded the Pulitzer prize  for Biography or Autobiography in 1997 for Angela's Ashes. No  Noble whatever. No  Nobel. Unclear if curry diners  were ever standard  fare in Depression-era  Ireland. I. Nunes *** eric pinto ericpin...@yahoo.com 

Re: [Goanet] On Fred's column on Goa's debate.....

2011-09-29 Thread lyrawmn
    Carvalho elisabeth_...@yahoo.com wrote in response to Gabe Menezes: Figure out? Why do I need to figure it out? I didn't know I needed proof. I always thought being Goan meant one can assume without proof people's sexual proclivities, insinuate without proof financial wrongdoing, defame,

Re: [Goanet] Flying Foxes

2011-09-29 Thread lyrawmn
Dear Goanet readers, September 28 was World Rabies Day, a global health observance to raise awareness about rabies,  prevention and control efforts. http://www.cdc.gov/worldrabiesday/eMedia.html http://www.cdc.gov/rabies/location/world/index.html   Please be aware that these beautiful mammals, 

Re: [Goanet] A gift... of Goan books to Karachi

2011-09-28 Thread lyrawmn
    Comment to Mr. Fernandes: Do you think anyone is surprised by the antics of the self-titled “authoress in waiting” Mistress Carvalho? As a self described journalist, her fact-checking is of note – that is lack of, which have often compelled retractions.   Can the lack of integrity, and

Re: [Goanet] On Fred's column on Goa's debate.....

2011-09-27 Thread lyrawmn
Correction:   On 27 September 2011 06:54, lyrawmn lyra...@yahoo.com wrote: I. Nunes does not ‘do’ colour treatment in prose befitting the chick lit genre, believing that such raising of “creative writing” to new heights complete with abject, obsequious treatment of subjects [read suck up

Re: [Goanet] On Fred's column on Goa's debate.....

2011-09-26 Thread lyrawmn
Comments: You are right.   I. Nunes does not ‘do’ colour treatment in prose befitting the chick lit genre, believing that such raising of  “creative writing” to new heights complete with abject, obsequious  treatment of subjects [read suck up] is better left to the more  practiced  authoress.

Re: [Goanet] Cashing on Patients misery

2011-09-25 Thread lyrawmn
    Comment: Mr. Lopes, yours is a sad indictment of medical care accessible by Goans in Goa. The consensus  after 40 years in the fight  against cancer is that Hodgkin's Lymphoma is curable in many cases.      Expectations (prognosis) Hodgkin’s disease is considered one of the most curable

Re: [Goanet] A gift... of Goan books to Karachi

2011-09-24 Thread lyrawmn
I Nunes responds:   It appears  Mistress Carvalho , Goanet’s “esteemed authoress”, has naively taken the satirical soubriquet of a Goanetter* to heart, and now attempts a shakedown.  That is, in addition to being a shill and mouthpiece, for the business interests of Goanese dons in return for

Re: [Goanet] On Fred's column on Goa's debate.....

2011-09-24 Thread lyrawmn
Mr. Noronha, In your Op-ed article titled Goa’s debate that isn’t happening you write: As cardiologist Antonio Gomes suggests in his novel ‘The Sting of Peppercorns’, the Goa-Portugal relationship has been complex. Both sides probably lost out in a way, and at times, even gained from it.

Re: [Goanet] A gift... of Goan books to Karachi

2011-09-20 Thread lyrawmn
  Add to your list: Traditional Taste of Goa Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian by Mrs. Kumudini Usgaokar and Mrs. Sharma Sardesai Published  by Fomento Foundation Goa, 2000   Vasco Pinho's  Snapshots of Indo-Portuguese  History  series   Panjim Then and Now  I,  II, III [2009]   Best, I. Nunes  

Re: [Goanet] Fw: CRS Report(Santosh Helekar)

2011-09-19 Thread lyrawmn
Comment: I agree with Mr. Gerald Fernandes. Until Dr. Helekar cited the CRS,  I was unaware of this nonpartisan,  think tank research  and analyses service provided to lawmakers,  and paid by the American taxpayer to the tune of ~$120 mil annually. I surmise that before  issue, such  white

Re: [Goanet] Through The Wormhole: Is there a Sixth Sense? | Watch Free Documentary Online

2011-09-12 Thread lyrawmn
Comment: What is interesting to one is  boring to another.   For instance, Dr. Helekar’s post [6th Sept 2011] with this link:  http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/immuneSystem/Pages/default.aspx was  highly credible, and correctly offered a professional source for information on the immune system.

Re: [Goanet] I walked over half a kilometer barefooted in Margao

2011-09-09 Thread lyrawmn
  Once I wept for I had no shoes. Then I came across a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes. I mean, it's not like he really needed them. John Handey       From: Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoro...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!

Re: [Goanet] I walked over half a kilometer barefooted in Margao

2011-09-08 Thread lyrawmn
Comment:Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. Cheers, I. Nunes     From: Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoro...@gmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org Sent:

Re: [Goanet] LONDON CONVENTION COST GOAN TAX PAYER OVER 12 LAKHS

2011-08-30 Thread lyrawmn
  Mr.Rodrigues,   Another example of pigs at the trough!   This shameless behavior of corrupt NRI bagmen is aided and abetted by the Goanese abroad endorsing these junkets, but funded by the good people of Goa who have no say in the matter. In the name of Goan unity. Ha! Surely tax revenue

Re: [Goanet] Cremation of Catholics............

2011-08-30 Thread lyrawmn
Mr. D'Souza,   Here is information you may find interesting.   There is no evidence, 30 years later, that the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (which causes AIDS) can exist in soil, in potable water, or the air. The known modes of transmission remains sexual, dirty needles ( IV drugs) and blood

Re: [Goanet] How many expat Goans inyour City/country

2011-08-21 Thread lyrawmn
  Comment: I too agree with George Pinto. If I might add: The Goans who are convinced they are not Indians ( yes, DNA  analyses be damned) are more likely to reside  out of India, lost in the diaspora  and living as brown-faced Portuguese, by choice. Thereby making all  guesstimates to count

Re: [Goanet] Does anybody know the answer to this question?

2011-08-13 Thread lyrawmn
B and JC: Would this help? http://indiannavy.nic.in/Milan%202008_files/Page2565.htm  Much before the British occupation there was: http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/reprints/thangaraj/rep-thangaraj.htm Regards, I. Nunes   From: Bosco D bos...@canada.com To: goa...@goanet.org Sent: Thursday, August

Re: [Goanet] Funeral chants in Sanscrit, Hindi or English

2011-08-13 Thread lyrawmn
  Mr. Coelho, Have you  tried these links? http://www.a-good-dying.com/hindu-prayers.html http://www.hinduwebsite.com/sacredscripts/rigintro.asp best I. Nunes   From: Ariosto Coelho ariostocoe...@yahoo.com To: Goa Net goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 12:44 PM Subject:

Re: [Goanet] Gabe's response to 'Reflections after the Global Goans Convention

2011-08-08 Thread lyrawmn
 Fernandes jason.k.fernan...@gmail.com  wrote: The fact that I was a panelist Gabe, was obvious to all on Goanet and the world.I should point out, that I write these posts for the newspaper, and am often constrained for space. Not every detail gets to print. I know its important, but I did

Re: [Goanet] Reply to Selma on her message 3, vol 6, issue 703 - Preserving culture through the Arts

2011-07-26 Thread lyrawmn
  The Tate's collection includes 2 works of  Francis Newton Souza. Two Saints in a Landscape (1961), and Crucifixion (1959)  http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=99961workid=20820tabview=texttexttype=10 Cheers,http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=20820 From: Melvyn

Re: [Goanet] Goa migration... attempting to arrive at some figures

2011-07-23 Thread lyrawmn
Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org  on July 20, 2011 10:31 AM wrote :    Statistician and engineer John Nazareth john.nazar...@aero.bombardier.com shared with me his figures of estimates of Goan migration, within India and the rest of the globe. He writes: I don't mind them being on Goanet. The

Re: [Goanet] Background and context of the Historical Archive of Goa. Cyril A Hromnik, Syracuse Univ.

2011-07-18 Thread lyrawmn
Compliments.   Other two might be of interest. I. Nunes If you can access this paper, kindly send me a copy offline. http://www.jstor.org/pss/3171501 Background and context of the Historical Archive of Goa. Cyril A Hromnik, Syracuse Univ. QUOTE Although barely known to the community of

Re: [Goanet] Bring back the British!

2011-07-04 Thread lyrawmn
determined to have been lost. --- On Sun, 7/3/11, lyrawmn lyra...@yahoo.com wrote: Dr. Helekar,   I am curious.   Is not your referenced  M:F ratio derived from live births? Therefore there would be no way in India especially of knowing how many female fetuses were sex selected for abortion

Re: [Goanet] Bring back the British!

2011-07-03 Thread lyrawmn
gout!  Vive la difference!       On Sat, 7/2/11, Nascy Caldeira nascy...@yahoo.com.au    Lyrawmn? Hmmm? So you mean you are happy to live with this, because in China it is worse? Where is your conscience gone man? In China there is no Ban on Cow Slaughter, No full democracy, no false gods either

Re: [Goanet] Bring back the British!

2011-07-03 Thread lyrawmn
Dr. Helekar,   I am curious.   Is not your referenced  M:F ratio derived from live births? Therefore there would be no way in India especially of knowing how many female fetuses were sex selected for abortion.  Sex determination ultrasound scans are widely available in major Indian

Re: [Goanet] Bring back the British!

2011-07-02 Thread lyrawmn
Dear Nascy  Caldeira: ' foetus-icide' is referred to as abortion.  Sex selected (or other genetic traits ) determined  while  in utero, and deemed unwanted.  Infanticide is killing infants, male or female after birth. Both occur/occurred  in China,  as in countries where women are

Re: [Goanet] St. Anthony i II

2011-06-27 Thread lyrawmn
On Sun, 6/26/11, Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca wrote:   Thank you for reminding everyone here what the subject mater started off as. If you have the time, try and take a moment to recollect who marched Donald Rumsfeld into a discussion about saints. Nah! let me save you some time. The next

Re: [Goanet] St. Anthony

2011-06-25 Thread lyrawmn
On Thu, 6/23/11, Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca wrote   A known known that Rummy was unaware of was that there was no St. Anthony's Church in Afghanistan for the residents to pray at. After 10 years of installing democracy in that country, yesterday Hussein Obama declared mission

Re: [Goanet] Feast of St. Anthony

2011-06-23 Thread lyrawmn
sur le réseau de Bell. -Original Message- From: lyrawmn lyra...@yahoo.com Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:47:45 To: roland.fran...@gmail.com; estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing listgoanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Feast of St. Anthony -- On Tue, 6/21/11, roland.fran...@gmail.com

Re: [Goanet] Feast of St. Anthony

2011-06-22 Thread lyrawmn
-- On Tue, 6/21/11, roland.fran...@gmail.com roland.fran...@gmail.com wrote:  Why undoubtedly is Anthony the most popular saint in Goa? One would have thought that Francis Xavier (Goencho Saib) would qualify for that popular saint sobriquet.  Comment:   Do you think the Catholic Goan males

Re: [Goanet] Mayem Lake, Swans, ducks etc

2011-06-13 Thread lyrawmn
Mervyn 1532Lobo wrote:     When the question is swans, it is always a mute one. The reason being that  the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland owns all of those. Clarification: Not so. She lays claim only to the  mute swan species Cygnus olor in open water.

Re: [Goanet] : corruption is the cancer

2011-05-27 Thread lyrawmn
On Thu, 5/26/11, manuel tavares duk...@bell.net wrote:   Subject: [Goanet] : corruption is the cancer Many remedies have been proposed to end the Cancer called Corruption, but Very scarce or indeed non existent are the fruits of of such efforts...   I. Nunes responds: Mr

Re: [Goanet] USA, USA.

2010-02-23 Thread lyrawmn
--- *** Follow Goanet on Twitter *** http://twitter.com/goanet --- --- On Mon, 2/22/10, Mervyn Lobo

Re: [Goanet] USA, USA.

2010-02-22 Thread lyrawmn
--- *** Follow Goanet on Twitter *** http://twitter.com/goanet --- Dear Mervyn Lobo, As I understand,

Re: [Goanet] Caste rumblings in this day and age was Cacaphony in a caanso

2010-02-15 Thread lyrawmn
--- *** Follow Goanet on Twitter *** http://twitter.com/goanet --- Nunes responds:   I have no

Re: [Goanet] CACOPHONY IN A CAANSO

2010-02-12 Thread lyrawmn
    On Sun, 2/7/10, Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com wrote: By what justification do your own inept ramblings on birth control for instance Turn your firepower on the real enemy.  Rogues desecrating the land of our forefathers? So you can ramble on at will on Goanet and others should stay mum?

Re: [Goanet] Why blame politicians in Goa?

2010-01-20 Thread lyrawmn
Soter: I agree with you.   It is the matter of lack of integrity, transparency and independence of the press.   If the newspaper's editor can not even attribute credit  to JoeGoaUK for use of his  photography - a simple matter of journalistic ethics -  will they have the spine to report the

Re: [Goanet] From one RG to another an open letter.

2010-01-16 Thread lyrawmn
--- On Wed, 1/13/10, Tony de Sa tonyde...@gmail.com wrote:   But you black skinned American/ Britisher/ Australian/ Canadian just try buying property in a WASP only locality. Racial prejudice may not be overt but it is still there. You are still a 'second class' citizen no matter how you

Re: [Goanet] Citizenship issue...

2010-01-16 Thread lyrawmn
--- On Thu, 1/14/10, manuel tavares duk...@bell.ne wrote: Commencing with our Tarvotis and early immigrants to Africa India and other countries, Expatriate remittances have significantly contributed to Goa's economy. I. Nunes comments: NRG's  remittances account (conservatively) for upwards of

Re: [Goanet] From one RG to another an open letter

2010-01-16 Thread lyrawmn
Mr. Goveia,   You have articulated concisely and well the rebuttal to some RGs claims of unwarranted meddling by concerned NRGs in matters Goa. I suspect theirs is a minority view culled in literary salons of the cognoscenti.   In fairness, the RGs have a point in one area. Some well

Re: [Goanet] From one NRG to another: an open letter.

2010-01-15 Thread lyrawmn
Mr. Colaco, You have captured with wicked humour, the core dislike [ I'd say resentment]  evidenced by some RGs - the ones with claims to being the cognoscenti -  towards NRGs.    At the risk of being impertinent, I will add another tenet: #11.  We are not always right, but we are never wrong! 

Re: [Goanet] Samir and his problems/ Philistines at the Gate

2010-01-12 Thread lyrawmn
On Sat, 1/9/10, Samir Kelekar samir_kele...@yahoo.com wrote: RE: Philistines at the Gate   Long time back, someone wrote a book called the denationalization of Goa. Hundred years later, we see the same reality here. You dont deserve any political rights in Goa, and hence you would not have

Re: [Goanet] Philistines at the Gate

2010-01-09 Thread lyrawmn
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

Re: [Goanet] Rajan Parrikar Citizenship

2010-01-08 Thread lyrawmn
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

Re: [Goanet] Question MOPA Airport

2010-01-08 Thread lyrawmn
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Happy New Year Twenty-Ten

Re: [Goanet] Goanetters Meet

2009-12-31 Thread lyrawmn
recipient of invective.  [ I should have written bricks and knives (sharp)]  Air kiss would be tres chic when sequins and bows (big) is the norm. Happy New Year I. Nunes   --- On Wed, 12/30/09, Mario Goveia mgov...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:50:30 -0800 (PST) From: lyrawmn lyra

Re: [Goanet] Goanetters Meet

2009-12-29 Thread lyrawmn
Mr. Goveia, Tsk! Tsk! So unfortunate that your Christmas spirit keeps intruding on the innate impulse to bat and brick attacks. I. Nunes --- On Mon, 12/28/09, Mario Goveia mgov...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Carvalho elisabeth_car at yahoo.com Mon Dec 28 09:43:06 PST 2009 Dear Tony, You know I

Re: [Goanet] Goanetters Meet

2009-12-28 Thread lyrawmn
Dear Mr. Goveia, Tsk! Tsk! So unfortunate that your Christmas spirit keeps intruding on the innate impulse to bat and brick attacks. I. Nunes   --- On Mon, 12/28/09, Mario Goveia mgov...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Carvalho elisabeth_car at yahoo.com Mon Dec 28 09:43:06 PST 2009 Dear Tony, You

Re: [Goanet] GBA cabal's footsie dances (Letter in Herald)

2009-12-28 Thread lyrawmn
Mr. Parrikar, I tend to think that Oscar Rebello's mea culpa has been done with an eye towards a future political run. He has gained name recognition with tacit help from the press.   The Goan press is compromised by its incestuous relationships to politicians, developers, mining and vested

[Goanet] A Climate Carol

2009-12-24 Thread lyrawmn
To Goanet from I. Nunes: David Horsey's cartoon today is timely.   http://www.theweek.com/cartoons/index/104519/A_climate_carol David Horsey, copyright 2009 Tribune Media Services       Sung to the tune of Santa Claus is Coming to Town   You'd better watch out you'll freeze or you'll fry. That

Re: [Goanet] Kornelia's slow food Kitchen - Mediterranean cooking in India

2009-12-19 Thread lyrawmn
Questions for Cecil Pinto for his plug:   Is your foreign friend Kornelia of Kornelia's Kitchen, a charity registered to accept donations in Goa?  Is there any accounting of, and taxes paid on the donations earned?  Or is this not reportable income? I. Nunes --- On Fri, 12/18/09, Cecil Pinto

Re: [Goanet] Who is a Goan?

2009-12-15 Thread lyrawmn
Mr. Noronha, Do elaborate on what moral definition you are alluding to, and for whom? Can the foreign residents presently in Goa claim Goaness? I. Nunes --- On Tue, 12/15/09, Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Oster :-) Are you referring to the legal, political, moral or

Re: [Goanet] Re. Goa RIP

2009-12-13 Thread lyrawmn
Dear Bosco D, I agree with you.   Mr. Arwin Mesquita, labours daily and heroically to get out the message of the destruction of our beloved Goa. He has stayed on the message in the face of taunts, ridicule and personal attacks from certain Goanetters who claim to be voice of reason.  Ha!. 

Re: [Goanet] Re. Goa RIP

2009-12-13 Thread lyrawmn
stated, my dear Mario. jc lyrawmn lyra...@yahoo.com stated: Mr. Mesquita is correct when he states:It is high time you stop focusing on what is legal for Goa and what is actually right for Goa. Legality has not deterred politicians and entities in the current destruction of Goa. I. Nunes

Re: [Goanet] Re. Goa RIP

2009-12-11 Thread lyrawmn
Photos from Goa's 2009 mando festival: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/sets/72157622843319441/ Event on Wed, Thurs evening from 5 pm onwards, Kala Academy, Panaji-Goa

Re: [Goanet] Recommendations on the Grounded River Princess by 30th November

2009-11-22 Thread lyrawmn
Perhaps the Govt. of Goa can get the artist Christo to wrap it.  Something in aluminum foil. I. Nunes --- On Sun, 11/22/09, Goa Desc goad...@gmail.com wrote: Recommendations on the Grounded River Princess OFFICIAL GAZETTE — GOVT. OF GOA

Re: [Goanet] Preserve the Culture and Identity of Goa, says NRI Commissioner Eduardo Faleiro

2009-11-21 Thread lyrawmn
on the finances of these politicians. Follow the money. I. Nunes lyra...@yahoo.com --- On Sat, 11/21/09, Ashley D'silva ashleyivordsi...@gmail.com wrote: That's a politician talking Mario lyrawmn. Ashley -Original Message- From: goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org [mailto:goanet-boun

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: Goan... via the stomach (Alda Figueiredo'srecipes)

2009-11-18 Thread lyrawmn
Dear Mr. Rangel-Ribeiro, I agree with you.  To my knowledge the term 'Goanese'  was  synonymous with derogation. Certainly for the Goans living abroad. Its use by the authoress implies a contextual misunderstanding of the Goan ethos. One hopes her recipes are better. I. Nunes --- On Tue,

Re: [Goanet] Preserve the Culture and Identity of Goa, says, NRI Commissioner Eduardo Faleiro

2009-11-18 Thread lyrawmn
Dear Mr. Fernandes:   I find it deliciously hypocritical that NRI Commissioner Faleiro who having done so much to encourage and promote out migration of Goans and others as Gulf guest-workers who daily toil in inhospitable climes, and who attempts faux Goan unity with repeat junkets (paid for

Re: [Goanet] Goan veterans

2009-11-17 Thread lyrawmn
Ms. Carvalho: Have you found any similar archival material which  (conclusively ! ) found certain members of the the British Royal Family to be Nazi sympathizers? For example, it has long, and often been reported that the late Duke of Windsor was one.   Or is the National Archives selective in

Re: [Goanet] Let's Face it

2009-11-15 Thread lyrawmn
Bennet Paes' essay and opinions are not ridiculous, but extremely valid in today's world. I am sure those employed by the multitude of Indian call centers, and those seeking such employ  will agree with Mr. Paes.  Ditto  all those software engineers. Ditto all those seeking to work in any

Re: [Goanet] Veteran's Day: Goans who laid down their lives

2009-11-11 Thread lyrawmn
Why would Brazilians and/or Portuguese be included in the Commonwealth War Graves Registry? Neither Brazil nor Portugal were ever part of the British Empire or a Commonweath country. I. Nunes --- On Wed, 11/11/09, Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote: Couldn't they be

Re: [Goanet] Non Resident Goans

2009-11-11 Thread lyrawmn
I agree with FN.  However at a 6.3% contribution to Goa's GDP [ 3% India] remittances are a cash cow for the politicians. I am particularly disturbed by the recommendations delineated by the Goa Migration Survey 2008 sponsors.   The Government of Goa's message and inducements are unmistakable: 

Re: [Goanet] Ghanttis... on AIR FM

2009-11-03 Thread lyrawmn
As I have said before to you, an opinion survey on Goanet would enable fact gathering, evaluation of which issues are important, and how many think that way.   I. Nunes --- On Sun, 11/1/09, Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org wrote: State-run All India Radio FM was playing this marching-song

Re: [Goanet] Why salt?

2009-11-03 Thread lyrawmn
of the major exporters of quality salt, and apparently played a major role in the South Asia-Africa-Arab markets at some point of history. 2009/11/3 lyrawmn lyra...@yahoo.com: Foremost food preservative - think Gandhi's Salt March of 1930 to protest British taxation on Indian salt producers. I

Re: [Goanet] Request for words for monkey in Konknni

2009-11-02 Thread lyrawmn
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey Mark Twain  in Eruption, 1940 I. Nunes --- On Sun, 11/1/09, MD mmdme...@gmail.com wrote: On the lighter side, Seriously Fred, is this your observation??  Do you mean to say we are living in the planet of

Re: [Goanet] Why salt?

2009-11-02 Thread lyrawmn
Foremost food preservative - think Gandhi's Salt March of 1930 to protest British taxation on Indian salt producers. I. Nunes  --- On Mon, 11/2/09, Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org wrote: Dr Celsa Pinto (currently the director of education, Government of Goa), in her economic history of

Re: [Goanet] Ranking of Countries

2009-11-01 Thread lyrawmn
  It appears that rankings ( 1-12) are inversely related to the diversity of their population. Homogeneity of the populace - others would call it white bread - makes for much happiness and contentment, apparently. I. Nunes --- On Sun, 11/1/09, Gilbert Lawrence gilbert2...@yahoo.com wrote:

[Goanet] GOA FOR SALE Land sales and tourism.

2009-10-31 Thread lyrawmn
Dear Goanet Moderator: Request to post. With the onset of the tourist season, here is a reprise of the article published O Heraldo, dated 31 July 2006. I. Nunes ^^ Goa For Sale   To the Editor Oheraldo:   With reference to the recent postings by Sandra Wright and John Main

Re: [Goanet] Religious make-up of Goa

2009-10-27 Thread lyrawmn
I. Nunes responds:   A lack of democracy  ( which is also a threat to ethic identity),  lack of economic development, globalization,  existence of ethnic fragmentation (and heterogenity by population size. Add refugees too) and  warring neighbours, are all positively associated with the

Re: [Goanet] Sharon Clarke Sequeira--Sanatan Sanstha inmate

2009-10-26 Thread lyrawmn
It seems to me that these dumb people (yes!) hear and read of  personal trainers, and personal coaches  and personal what-nots in use by Bollywood, who appropriated this nonsense from the west, and then latch on as me-too. Lemmings anyone? I. Nunes --- On Sun, 10/25/09, Santosh Helekar

Re: [Goanet] Religious make-up of Goa

2009-10-25 Thread lyrawmn
Size is important for fair representation in a democracy. Or would you rather have the community, religious, ethic or other,  seek and be classified under schedule and protected status, and then ignored and forgotten?  Or seek correction through civil war? Witness Sri Lanka,  N. Ireland,

Re: [Goanet] Old therapy

2009-10-25 Thread lyrawmn
Dear Gilbert Lawrence, You will agree that ignorance vastly amusing as it is in exposure, has been helped by the Internet, yes? It is very likely that many lay people still believe in the virtues of blood letting, fire cupping, in  humours, in mercury and arsenic for STDs,  in lobotomies, etc

Re: [Goanet] Shake off your masks - coward Goans

2009-10-18 Thread lyrawmn
Dear Soter, I wholly agree with you. Enough with the pontification of irrelevancies by sit-on-the-fence pseudo-intellects. Time for action. best, I. Nunes -- On Sat, 10/17/09, soter wrote: There are some Goans, some of whom are reputed journalists, who exhort everyone to be optimistic

Re: [Goanet] More migrant 'contributions'

2009-10-17 Thread lyrawmn
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Re: [Goanet] Indian colonialism

2009-10-01 Thread lyrawmn
that it is of zero use to Goans. Goa was already annexed in 1961 jc 2009/9/29 lyrawmn lyra...@yahoo.com: My reference was to the 1951 Peace in the Pacific Treaty to which Japan and the USA were signatories, following WWII. The distinction I was attempting was that nations wage war, surrender

Re: [Goanet] Indian colonialism

2009-09-30 Thread lyrawmn
INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION: Alternative Publishing - Is it viable to traditional publishing? WHERE: Art Lounge - Sunaparanta, Near Lar de Estudantes, Altinho, Panaji WHEN: September 30, 2009 - 5:30pm

Re: [Goanet] Indian colonialism

2009-09-29 Thread lyrawmn
INTERACTIVE DISCUSSION: Alternative Publishing - Is it viable to traditional publishing? WHERE: Art Lounge - Sunaparanta, Near Lar de Estudantes, Altinho, Panaji WHEN: September 30, 2009 - 5:30pm

Re: [Goanet] Fw: Goodbye Goans ahoy ghantis

2009-09-23 Thread lyrawmn
Response to Francis Ribeiro: And you, no doubt felt compelled to interject an element of caste in your good advice. I. Nunes --- On Tue, 9/22/09, Francis Ribeiro ja...@rediffmail.com wrote: Can anybody tell me who is really a Goan? I know my ancestors were Hindu Saraswat Brahmins, migrated

Re: [Goanet] Review of Goa's Liberation

2009-09-20 Thread lyrawmn
Response to Mr. Mesquita:   If Goa is losing her identity, know it is in great part due to goans themselves who aid and abet the loss by acting as middlemen in property deals with forged deeds, unrestrained property development, mining ventures, all of which are contributory in

Re: [Goanet] ARE GOANS RACIST ?

2009-09-20 Thread lyrawmn
Canada is America's hat, nein? I. Nunes   --- On Sun, 9/20/09, Mario Goveia mgov...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: Mario Goveia mgov...@sbcglobal.net Subject: Re: [Goanet] ARE GOANS RACIST ? To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009, 8:08 AM Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:22:14

[Goanet] Read 'Discrimination against Locals I' by Nandkumar Kamat

2009-09-09 Thread lyrawmn
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Re: [Goanet] Pimps, peddlers and more --- Goans can't enter Goan restaurant

2009-09-09 Thread lyrawmn
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Two new showrooms/office spaces, double height (135 sq m each with bath) for

[Goanet] Goa's Tourism Revenue is a Myth

2009-08-30 Thread lyrawmn
* Dear Goanet Readers,   With tourism considered the dominant industry in Goa, a critical evaluation of tourism's real earnings contribution is required. So too the outlay that Goa expends to develop and promote this industry.  With the tourist season opening up, Goans need

Re: [Goanet] Coconut... picking your brains

2009-08-27 Thread lyrawmn
August 25, 2009 - Goanet's 15th Anniversary FN: Would that be bhondo (sp) or bondo re: sterile coconut? Water?  Narlachen

Re: [Goanet] Would anyone have Konkani words for the following?

2009-08-25 Thread lyrawmn
August 25, 2009 - Goanet's 15th Anniversary --- On Tue, 8/25/09, Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org wrote: From: Frederick

Re: [Goanet] G'bye Goa - Goan Emigration-6: HERALD(Goa), Aug 23, 2009

2009-08-24 Thread lyrawmn
August 25, 2009 - Goanet's 15th Anniversary To Valmiki Faleiro:   Very interesting 6-part article of yours.   Please add Bahamas to

Re: [Goanet] healthcare in US

2009-08-23 Thread lyrawmn
Goanet:   Can anyone in explain why this Dr. Joseph Manley [referenced in the Guardian article] who said he served in Vietnam, was ineligible for any Veterans Health Benefits? Or for either Medical (based on income) or Medicare (age) Health Benefits?   To date, there is no cure (or reversal)

Re: [Goanet] G.O.A. in London.

2009-08-23 Thread lyrawmn
One could argue that Goa has become a retirement ' home '.  Not for Goans, but for the many foreigners who can spot ideal conditions - most would say cheap - in retiring to Goa. And perhaps running a business on the side!   Expat enclaves in gated communities with the good, and good natured

Re: [Goanet] How the NRI has fallen from grace

2009-08-23 Thread lyrawmn
to a Reserve Bank of India.   best,  I. Nunes. --- On Thu, 8/20/09, Marshall Mendonza mmendonz...@gmail.com wrote: From: Marshall Mendonza mmendonz...@gmail.com Subject: [Goanet] How the NRI has fallen from grace To: goanet goanet@lists.goanet.org Date: Thursday, August 20, 2009, 11:19 AM lyrawmn : Do you

[Goanet] Fw: Re: A friend sent me this query via Facebook. Could you help?

2009-08-22 Thread lyrawmn
Mirabilis jalapa also known as: four o' clock, marvel-of-Peru, beauty-of-the-night plant. Family: Nyctaginaceae --- On Fri, 8/21/09, lyrawmn lyra...@yahoo.com wrote: From: lyrawmn lyra...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Goanet] A friend sent me this query via Facebook. Could you help

Re: [Goanet] A friend sent me this query via Facebook. Could you help?

2009-08-22 Thread lyrawmn
FN: As referenced in Navhind Times http://www.navhindtimes.com/story.php?story=2009011852 Shabduli is Mirabilis jalapa I. Nunes   --- On Fri, 8/21/09, Frederick FN Noronha f...@goa-india.org wrote: From: Frederick FN Noronha f...@goa-india.org Subject: [Goanet] A friend sent me this query via

Re: [Goanet] Solving healthcare crisis

2009-08-20 Thread lyrawmn
August 20 - WORLD GOA DAY Celebrating the inclusion of Konkani in the 8th schedule of the Indian Constitution on August 20, 1992 For a list of World Goa Day events see:

Re: [Goanet] HOW MANY AND WHO ARE THE UNINSURED IN THE US Misrepresentations of the views of others

2009-08-18 Thread lyrawmn
         at Goa Chambers of Commerce and Industry Hall,                 near Azad Maidan in Panjim, Goa                  http://medieval-goa.notlong.com - lyrawmn wrote:   The information in M. Goveia post is severely at variance with what has

Re: [Goanet] WHY? Goa Scholarship Programme for Diaspora Children (GSPDC).

2009-08-18 Thread lyrawmn
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