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Re: [Goanet] The Express (London). Surgeon hit wife with coathanger
[Goanet] Advani is made deputy prime minister in India
[Goanet] 30 JUNE: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
[Goanet] The PIg Did NOt Want To Die !!!
[Goanet] BRAZIL CAMPEAO MUNDIAL
[Goanet] SUGGESTION: Setting up Goa-related mailing list
RE: [Goanet] The Express (London). Surgeon hit wife with coathanger
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Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 23:59:45 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Goanet] The Express (London). Surgeon hit wife with coathanger
In a message dated 06/29/2002 2:15:22 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED]=20
writes:
<< 1. BURTON, Richard F. Goa and the Blue Mountains. London, Bentley, 1851.
=20
Richard Burton, the Orientalist (Kama Sutra, Arabian Knights, etc.) went to
Goa to recuperate after he was unwell, and stayed there for six months.
He wrote a book on his experiences there. He did not like Goa at all. He
lived in Panjim and asked his Goan manservant, Salvador, one day,:
=93Salvador, what is that terrible noise =96 are they slaughtering a pig?=
=94
=93Nothing,=94 replied Salvador, =93nothing whatever =96 some Christian bea=
ting his
wife.=94
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2. The Express (London). 29 June 2002.
Headline: Surgeon hit wife with coathanger.
By Sally Guyoncourt.
=20
A Surgeon hit his wife with a coathanger after he caught her dancing with=20=
a
younger man at a party.....
Mendonca, who is originally from Bombay, admitted punching his wife,
slapping her across the buttocks and then hitting her so hard with a plasti=
c
coathanger it snapped. ....
=20
"I'm looking forward to a new life, which, hopefully, will be peaceful,
without alcohol and without aggro," he said. >>
Eddie -- I liked the way you juxtaposed the 1951 wife beating incident with=20
that of=20
the coathanger :-)
BTW, what is "aggro," an abbreviation for aggravation?
Reminded me of the good old days when ladies in England had to wait for=20
dinner until after the men had eaten. That custom is still in vogue in some=20
other places :(
Times certainly are changing -- now many men find themselves in the other=20
seat!
Pat de Sousa=20
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Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 22:22:19 -0600 (MDT)
From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Advani is made deputy prime minister in India
Advani is deputy prime minister ahead of cabinet recast=20
By Ajit Sahi, Indo-Asian News Service
New Delhi, June 29 (IANS) L.K. Advani was appointed India's deputy prime
minister Saturday, making official a status he already enjoyed as Prime
Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's number two man in the cabinet.
A communiqu=E9 from President K.R. Narayanan said Advani was being designat=
ed
deputy prime minister and would continue to hold the crucial home portfolio=
=2E
"The president of India, as advised by the prime minister, has directed tha=
t
Lal Krishna Advani, home
minister, will be designated as deputy prime minister," the communiqu=E9 sa=
id.
"He will continue to look after the ministry of home affairs."
The announcement came a day after Vajpayee had told a crowded press
conference in his Lok Sabha constituency of Lucknow that he was mulling the
option of appointing a deputy prime minister.
Although the Indian Constitution does not provide for the post of a deputy
prime minister, the tradition of naming senior leaders to the post began
soon after India gained freedom from British rule in 1947. Advani will the
seventh deputy prime minister and the first in 11 years.
Sources in Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Advani's elevation
was of a piece with the prime minister's move to comprehensively recast his
cabinet and the party on Monday to rejuvenate their dipping fortunes.
The recognition as deputy prime minister would accord Advani, who is
currently serving his fourth Lok Sabha term, a higher standing and increase
his influence on the government and the party, a party source said.
Advani, who would be 75 years old in four months, was born at Karachi (now
in Pakistan) on November 8, 1927. He is a former president of the BJP, whic=
h
leads Vajpayee's multi-party coalition. He and Vajpayee are the party's
biggest stars.
"The BJP has a tradition of collective leadership and his (Advani's)
appointment is on the lines of that reality," Rajya Sabha BJP MP Balbir
Punj, a Vajpayee confidante, told IANS shortly after Advani's appointment.
On several occasions, such as when Vajpayee was hospitalised for a week at
Mumbai in June 2001 for knee-replacement surgery, Advani had been in charge
of running the government.
Immediately after his appointment, Advani said there would be no change in
his "job profile".
"I was being consulted on important matters when the prime minister was
away. This decision formalises that arrangement," Advani told reporters who
had thronged to his residence.
The elevation "reflects the confidence that the prime minister and the
allies have reposed in me," Advani said.
The main opposition Congress party reacted sharply to Advani's appointment.
Said Congress spokesman S. Jaipal Reddy: "The appointment is not so much
Advani's elevation as a lowering of Vajpayee's status."
Advani is reportedly playing a crucial role in fine-tuning Monday's cabinet
shuffle, an exercise that would also see the installation of a new BJP
president.
BJP president K. Jana Krishnamurthy is expected to join Vajpayee's cabinet
and make way for another leader, possibly Rural Development Minister M.
Venkaiah Naidu.
With the cabinet-party shake-up, Vajpayee aims to revive the fortunes of hi=
s
party that has lost power in seven states since 1998 when he became prime
minister for the second time.
A BJP leader requesting anonymity said Advani's appointment is also in line
with the party's decision to re-adopt an aggressive pro-Hindu stance, which
it had jettisoned four years ago to become acceptable to secular allies and
take power in New Delhi.
Unlike Vajpayee who is seen as a moderate, Advani has long held an image of
a Hindu hawk. That position was bolstered by Advani's forceful participatio=
n
in a 1989-92 controversial campaign to replace the 16th century Babri mosqu=
e
with a temple at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh which led to its demolition by
Hindu zealots in December 1992.
Advani also has close links with the Hindu supremacist Rashtriya Swayamseva=
k
Sangh (RSS), the BJP's ideological guide. He carries sweeping leverage with
affiliated Hindu groups such as the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and the
Bajrang Dal.
Advani's elevation comes just two months after the BJP's national meet at
Goa belligerently revived its pro-Hindu ideology, brushing off all criticis=
m
against its government in Gujarat over widespread communal violence there.
Last week, the BJP appointed another Hindu hardliner, 47-year-old Lok Sabha
MP Vinay Katiyar, as the head of the party in Uttar Pradesh, India's
politically most
vital state where it lost power in February and where the party is now a
junior partner in a coalition government.
Another Hindu extremist, Sports and Youth Affairs Minister Uma Bharti, is
widely tipped to head the BJP in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh=
,
where it has been in political wilderness for a decade and aspires to win
assembly polls in 2003.
Schooled in Karachi, Advani studied law at Mumbai. He has lived in New Delh=
i
since the 1950s.
Those who have earlier been deputy prime ministers are Vallabhbahi Patel
(under Jawaharlal Nehru), Morarji Desai (under Indira Gandhi), Jagjivan Ram
and Charan Singh (under Morarji Desai), Y.B. Chavan (under Charan Singh) an=
d
Devi Lal (under V.P. Singh and Chandra Shekhar).
- --Indo-Asian News Service
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 12:30:43 +0530
From: "Joel D'Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] 30 JUNE: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
30 July 2002
BENAULIM SARPANCH CORNERED ON DANDO GROUNDS: Guilhermina Leitao, the lady
Sarpanch of the Benaulim panchayat, walked off in a huff as four members
gheraoed her over issuing an NOC to a professional team (Zee-Churchill) to
conduct training session without deciding on fees to be charged. The
members brought to her notice that on 15 May 2000, permission was granted
to the team wherein the panchayat had requested the club managers to
deposit an amount of Rs.12,000 towards maintenance for utilization of the
said ground. They demanded to know as to why the NOC was issued without
collecting the pending dues. (WE-GT)
BSNL'S CELLULAR ADVANCE: Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is expected to hit
the 'mobile market' in Goa, during the last week of September this year,
with a tariff about 30 to 35 per cent less than the one offered by other
providers in Goa. (H)
SAVE MANDOVI, SAVE GOA: "Mhadei, popularly known in Goa as Mandovi, is the
lifeline of the small State…Goa derives its name from Gomanti river, by
which name river Mandovi was known in the earlier days. This is the
lifeline of Goan ecology and culture and if the Karnataka government goes
ahead with its plans to construct seven dams and divert water from its
catchment areas at four other different places, then there will be
devastating effects on Goa, its economy and ecology." (Rajendra Kerkar,
secretary of Mhadei Bachao Abhiyan, in an interview in Panorama-NT)
PACKAGE FOR INDUSTRIES: While inaugurating the 94th annual general meeting
of the Goa chamber of commerce and Industries in Panjim, Industries
Minister Ramrao Desai said that there was a need for a package through a
suitable policy for the benefit of big and small scale industries in view
of the overall recession. He also said that 5000 small units and 150 large
and medium units have been identified and measures taken to facilitate the
growth of the industrial sector. (WE-GT)
STRAY CATTLE: Although the proposal for the impounding of stray cattle in
Goa has been approved in theory by the government to curb the cattle
menace, which has caused several road accidents over the years, financial
approval is still awaited. (H)
MOBILE MALARIA DISPENSARIES SOON: A special drug policy to tackle
drug-resistant malaria, mobile clinics for screening migrant labour and
stricter enforcement of laws for builders and contractors were suggested at
a symposium on roll-back malaria held at the GMC in Bambolim on June 29, to
combat the increasing danger of the parasite in Goa. (WE-GT)
CLOSURE OF NIRMALA MATERNITY HOSPITAL: Faced by a financial crisis, the
decade-old Nirmala Maternity Hospital, run by the Franciscan Sisters of the
Immaculate, in the coastal village of Cavelossim, stands closed from June
29. The Parish Pastoral Council, the village panchayat, the Lions Club and
the villagers have all appealed to the Franciscan Sisters to reconsider the
decision. (H)
BROTHER GETS LIFER: Anand Shyamsunder Khandekar of Bicholim, who had
strangulated his sister Sandya on the night of 4-5 January, over her
decision to marry outside her caste, has been sentenced to under life
imprisonment. (WE-GT)
COMPUTER OFFICE GUTTED IN MARGAO: A computer marketing office at the
five-storey Apna Complex, behind South Goa Collectorate, was totally gutted
in a fire causing an estimated damage of over Rs.5 lakh. (WE-GT)
COPS RETURN WITH DACOITS: The team that had left Goa along with the two
dacoits to rural Pune, arrived back with two more accused, who were
involved in the dacoity case at the bungalow of late Industries Minister
Babu Naik in Margao on 20 June night. (WE-GT)
POLICE RECOVER SKELETAL REMAINS: Collem Police yesterday found the skeletal
remains of a woman, which were noticed by the residents of Sukatali-Mollem
for almost a month, barely 50 metres from the Goa-Belgaum highway. (H)
ROAD OBSTRUCTION IN MAJORDA: A banyan tree, which got uprooted in Dongorim
ward of Majorda and was cleared only partially, is now at the centre of a
controversy over who should remove the remaining portion and clear the
road. (NT)
PRIVATISATION OF PORTS OPPOSED: "Ports are second line defence
establishments and we cannot take the risk of handing over the ports to
private parties and therefore we are opposing privatization of ports tooth
and nail," remarked general secretary of All India Ports and Dock Workers
Federation SK Shetye. (WE-GT)
MARATHI SHORT FILM ON TOURISM: The Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Parrikar,
released a Marathi short film titled "Eka Sagar Kinari", at the Kala
Academy on Friday. The film depicts the effects of tourism on Goan
community and the related changes in the social life-style. (NT)
MARGAO MUNICIPAL REVENUE: The Margao Municipal Council collected revenue
amounting to Rs.91.28 lakh during the last financial areas from various
taxes and fees though the target was to collect over Rs.1.37 crore in the
financial year 2001-2002. (WE-GT)
KBM HAILS PARRIKAR: Konkani Bhasha Mandal president Shyam Verenkar has
congratulated the Government of Goa and Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar for
their decision to observe the Shenoi Goembab's 125th anniversary year as
"Asmitai Year" all over the State. (WE-GT)
VEGETARIAN COOKING: Vegetarian Society, Goa Chapter, will be holding a
demonstration on vegetarian cooking by Shiresh Shah from Hot Spot, Panjim,
at Youth Hostel, Miramar on 9th July at 6.30 pm. (WE-GT)
LIC'S BIMA NIVESH: The Life Insurance Corporation will launch its popular
single premium policyBima Niveshwith the features of high returns plus high
risk cover for a fixed term of 10 years from July 1. (NT)
ECAP-2002, the Exhibition of Computers and Allied Products organised by the
Computer Society of India, Goa Chapter, is now announced for two venues
this year, at Hotel Mandovi in Panaji and at Nanutel in Margao on different
dates. This is the 10th consecutive year since 1993 that CSI-Goa Chapter
will be organising this exhibition. Please plan your participation early
and do your booking to avoid disappointment later. ("P. R. Mahambre"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
FR ARIOSTO'S HOMILY: An inspiring homily on "Spiritual Leadership in the
Church Today" which Rev Fr Ariosto Coelho was asked to give recently at
St. John's Church in Hayward, California, on the occasion of the Episcopal
Consecration of Bishop Joseph Rose, OSB, can be browsed at
http://www.spiritualdirection.org/glow.htm.
"SANGODD" CELEBRATION AT ORDA: "Sangodd", the traditional sailing stage,
erected on boats, delighted the large crowd watching veteran Konkani
singers as well as local artistes perform on the sailing state as it moved
don the Orda creek in Candolim yesterday evening. (NT)
S P O R T S
GOAN EVES CHAMPIONS: Goan girls scored a resounding eight-wicket win over
Maharashtra to emerge champions in the VIIth National Sub-Junior Tennis
Ball cricket championship, in Uttar Pradesh. Goa boys lost to Maharashtra
in the quarter-finals.
D E A T H S
29 June: Sarzora: VIDICIANO FERNANDES, son of late Antonio Felix/late
Maria, brother/brother-in-law of Amalia/Menino (Canada), Silvano/Angela
(all in Canada), Merle, Felix (USA) and Blinston.
29 June: Carmona/Fatorda: GENEROSA ANTAO, wife of Teofilo, mother of
Rosendo/Ina, Joaquim/Pia, Pamela/Luciano, Freeda/Julio, Ramsey/Dolcy.
28 June: Navelim: CECILIO XAVIER LOBO, husband of Alda, father of
Charlotte/Afonso, Conrad/Susan (UK), Cleopha/Kevin, Clement.
G O A W E A T H E R
Temp: 27.0 deg C (80 deg F) at 7.30 am at Assagao.
Max temp: 31.0 deg C; Humidity: 78 per cent. (Panjim yesterday)
Rainfall so far: 1136.7 mm
Weather: While rains have been playing havoc in Maharashtra (claimed 87
lives and rendered over 6000 people homeless, in Goa it looks like the
rains have been blown away. The Weather Bureau has, however, forecast
torrential rains in Goa within a day or two.
Courtesy: H=Herald, NT=The Navhind Times, WE-GT=Weekender-Gomantak Times
Daily Goacom News Clippings also at: http://www.goacom.com/news
Website: http://www.goacom.com
Webzine: http://www.goacom.com/goanow
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 04:35:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: eric pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] The PIg Did NOt Want To Die !!!
New Yorker Eric TRavers discovered that 30 years in
Calangute, then a young backpacker in a two rupee a
night bed, when he heard what he thought were human
screams at dawn. It was a pig, he tells me, and it
simply 'did not want to die, and that was it, i never
ever ate meat again'. Do we believe him, yes, the
sunday knock on our door is followed by the same
greeting, wheres the dall !! They do it more
humanely in Mangalore i am told, a meal of fermented
soupy rice, a hammer blow to the skull ends a happy
wobbly trotter !! And, yes, Eric still remembers
Brenda ----. eric PINTO.
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 08:54:26 -0400
From: Edgar D Furtado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] BRAZIL CAMPEAO MUNDIAL
Viva Ronaldo
Viva Ronaldino
Viva Brazil Campeao Mundial
Vencedor da Copa do Mundo pela QUINTA vez
Que BELEZA!!!!!
Edgar Furtado
Boston, MA
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 21:37:10 +0530 (IST)
From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] SUGGESTION: Setting up Goa-related mailing list
Would anyone like to set up (e)mailing lists that could help network
specific interest groups of Goans across the globe? We already have a
number of different groups running, many of which (includes one I've set
up) were inspired by GoaNet set up in 1994 by Herman Carneiro.
Some of the lists currently running include:
GoaNet/GoaNetDigest (discussion and news lists)
GoaNews (news-only list)
GoaNetUK (news-summaries, tightly edited from Eddie Fernandes)
GoaResearchNet (only open to academics studying Goa, low-volume)
GoaJourno (for journalists from Goa/who worked in Goa)
Education (low-volume, yet to pickup)
BSG (Botanical Society of Goa, for those with green fingers)
CSI (Computer Society of India mailing list)
ILUG-Goa (list to promote GNU/Linux software)
CGN (Catholic Goan Network)
There are also lists dealing with specific localities:
SaligaoNet (about 130+ members strong)
CalanguteNet (recently started)
CortalimSancoaleStJacinto (set up by John DeSa in the Gulf)
among others.
If any volunteers would like to set up mailing-lists for specific interest
groups (e.g. professional, etc) or for specific village localities, and
need some help to do so, please contact me. Regards, FN
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Frederick Noronha * Freelance Journalist * Goa * India 832.409490 / 409783
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Writing with a difference... on what makes *the* difference
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 23:29:09 +0100
From: "Eddie Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [Goanet] The Express (London). Surgeon hit wife with coathanger
Dear Pat,
Aggro is the slang for aggravation. See London slang at
http://www.londonslang.com/db/a/ : aggro - short for aggravation or violence
The surgeon in question lives in Roehampton, a small and exclusive part of
London. Coincidentally only last Thursday GoaNet-UK reported a link between
another Goan, Roehampton and aggro:
Free anger management workshops are available for people in Putney or
Roehampton. Public health and mental health lead worker Ros Lobo said: "The
workshops, which involve teaching and discussion, are not a substitute for
specialist counselling." For more information phone South Thames College on
020 8918 7676. From Local London News at:
http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/local_london/archive/2002/06/14/xml.vii.2
00811786ZM.html
Note though that Richard Burton's book was published in 1851 not 1951. Plus
ca change!
Eddie
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- -----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 30 June 2002 05:00
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Goanet] The Express (London). Surgeon hit wife with
coathanger
In a message dated 06/29/2002 2:15:22 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
<< 1. BURTON, Richard F. Goa and the Blue Mountains. London, Bentley, 1851.
Richard Burton, the Orientalist (Kama Sutra, Arabian Knights, etc.) went to
Goa to recuperate after he was unwell, and stayed there for six months.
He wrote a book on his experiences there. He did not like Goa at all. He
lived in Panjim and asked his Goan manservant, Salvador, one day,:
“Salvador, what is that terrible noise – are they slaughtering a pig?”
“Nothing,” replied Salvador, “nothing whatever – some Christian beating his
wife.”
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2. The Express (London). 29 June 2002.
Headline: Surgeon hit wife with coathanger.
By Sally Guyoncourt.
A Surgeon hit his wife with a coathanger after he caught her dancing with
a
younger man at a party.....
Mendonca, who is originally from Bombay, admitted punching his wife,
slapping her across the buttocks and then hitting her so hard with a
plastic
coathanger it snapped. ....
"I'm looking forward to a new life, which, hopefully, will be peaceful,
without alcohol and without aggro," he said. >>
Eddie -- I liked the way you juxtaposed the 1951 wife beating incident with
that of
the coathanger :-)
BTW, what is "aggro," an abbreviation for aggravation?
Reminded me of the good old days when ladies in England had to wait for
dinner until after the men had eaten. That custom is still in vogue in some
other places :(
Times certainly are changing -- now many men find themselves in the other
seat!
Pat de Sousa
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