[Goanet] Photographic treasures from India.

[Con Menezes]

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[Goanet] The Global Meltdown (Times of India, 10/8/2017)

[V M]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/the-global-meltdown/articleshow/59994037.cms

Everywhere, there's more evidence that the world is in climatic
meltdown. On Monday this week, the eminent author (and part-time Goa
resident) Amitav Ghosh tweeted an alarming video file of a flaming
palm, writing, "I am told it is so hot in Kuwait that trees are
spontaneously combusting." Just last month, that desert country
registered the "hottest temperature ever recorded on earth", an
astonishing 54 degrees Celsius. Neighbouring Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq
and Syria also recorded highest-ever temperatures recently. It's
becoming painfully apparent the entire Middle East is inexorably
turning too hot for comfortable existence. The first cradle of human
civilization could eventually become an abandoned moonscape.

At the same time, Europe is suffering a calamitous summer, with
temperatures holding above 40C across the continent. This devilish
heatwave, inevitably called 'Lucifer', has already killed several
people. In Serbia, train tracks became so warped from the baking sun,
that service was halted. Runaway wildfires are raging in Bosnia,
Macedonia and Croatia simultaneously, following another deadly set of
blazes which killed dozens in Portugal. Romania's capital city of
Bucharest has alerted all citizens to stay indoors during afternoon
hours, while at least half of Spain remains on identical emergency
alert. Another sign of disruption: Italy's grape harvest for
wine-making started a full month earlier than anyone can remember
happening in the past.

Of course, there's no need to look far away for evidence of global
warming and catastrophic climate change. This monsoon season, everyone
can tell Goa has experienced more sunny days than cloudy, and received
just barely two-thirds its normal share of rain. Just across the
border, Karnataka staggers through the worst drought in five decades,
caused by its fourth consecutive failed monsoon. Chief minister
Siddaramaiah has declared a water emergency in 160 of 176 talukas.
Over Goa's other border, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis recently
promised, "In two years we can make Maharashtra drought free." But by
his own government accounts, nearly 30,000 villages are officially
registered as drought-afflicted.

Fadnavis's Maharashtra tallied an astonishing 852 farmer suicides in
just the first four months of this year, adding to an utterly tragic
national epidemic that is directly linked to global warming caused by
climate change. A few days ago, scientist Tamma Carleton (of the
University of California) released an eye-opening study associating
rising temperatures with nearly 60,000 farmer suicides in India. She
found an increase of even just one degree resulted in 67 additional
people killing themselves, while timely rainfall immediately
corresponded to drops in the death rate. Carleton writes, "This effect
occurs only during India's agricultural growing season, when heat also
lowers crop yields. I find no evidence that acclimatization, rising
incomes, or other unobserved drivers of adaptation are occurring."

The enormous scale of looming disaster is underlined by another
important international study published a few days ago by the journal
'Science Advances'. Drs Eun-Soon Im (Hong Kong University), Jeremy S
Pal (Loyola Marymount University) and Elfatih Eltahir (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology) warn "the most intense hazard from extreme
future heatwaves is concentrated around densely populated agricultural
regions of the Ganges and Indus river basins. Climate change, without
mitigation, presents a serious and unique risk in South Asia, a region
inhabited by about one-fifth of the global human population, due to an
unprecedented combination of severe natural hazard and acute
vulnerability."

This stunning, highly depressing analysis is predicated on 'wet bulb
temperature' (WBT), which factors in the cooling effects of humidity.
Once WBT crosses 35 degrees, humans get no relief by sweating, and
even perfectly fit people sitting in the shade will die after a few
hours of exposure. According to the 'Science Advances' study, if
current patterns of unchecked carbon emissions hold, that disastrous
scenario is sure to unfold in India in this coming century, exposing a
minimum of 4% of the national population to "unsurvivable six-hour
heatwaves of 35C WBT". Major cities like Lucknow and Patna are likely
to be wiped out, and tens of millions will die. It will be the end of
India as we know it.

There is a tiny glimmer of hope, however. The authors caution that 35C
WBT "killer heatwaves" need not occur if the nations of the world
manage to reduce carbon emissions in line with their own global Paris
climate change agreements. Here, it is to China and India's immense
credit that each is almost guaranteed to meet its assigned goals,
thanks to hugely impressive realignment to green technologies. Eltahir
of MIT points out that the highly dangerous (but not quite fatal) 31C
WBT level w

[Goanet] EMPOWER THE YOUTH

[Aires Rodrigues]

The Goa Government as a matter of rule should ensure that there is a total
ban on any extensions in service and contract appointments to the retired.
Every extension in service or contract appointment given beyond the
retirement age is a cruel and grave injustice to the Youth. It is also a
severe prejudice to those unemployed aspiring to join the government
service and to the young officers awaiting promotion.



No one is indispensable and steps should be taken well in advance to
replace those retiring. There are however some officers who just will not
retire as they cannot live without feasting on government perks and
freebies.  All good things need to come to an end. And there is something
known as “retired life” which many government officers unfortunately cannot
come to terms with.



We need to invest in our youth and give them a chance. The power,
diversity, and potential of our youth could energize the bureaucracy into a
vibrant engine to tow Goa out of the woods.



The great American writer Robert Heinlein had said “Age is not an
accomplishment, and youth is not a sin”.



Aires Rodrigues

Advocate High Court

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

Ribandar Retreat,

Ribandar – Goa – 403006

Mobile No: 9822684372

Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012

Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com

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   airesrodrig...@yahoo.com

You can also reach me on

Facebook.com/ AiresRodrigues

Twitter@rodrigues_aires


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[Goanet] Easy listening selection....Walk Away....Matt Monro.

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[Goanet] After Fighting Against Goa's Casinos, Parrikar Gives Them What They Want (Devika Sequeira, thewire.in)

[Goanet Reader]

After Fighting Against Goa's Casinos, Parrikar Gives Them
What They Want
BY DEVIKA SEQUIERA ON 07/08/2017

The floating casinos are
expected to be relocated to
Mopa and will help BJP sell its
controversial new airport
project.

A floating casino off Panaji in Goa. Credit: Devika Sequeira

Panaji: Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar recently made an
announcement in the state's legislative assembly: all
offshore casinos would have to shift to land-based operations
within three years if they wanted to continue doing business
in Goa. The decision, long expected despite the stock
denials, is what the big players in the casino industry had
been betting on all along, and it exposes the BJP's
doublespeak on the gambling business in Goa.

  There are currently six offshore and ten land-based
  casinos in play here, but live gaming (with dealers
  opposed to slot machines), where the stakes can go
  really high, is permitted only on the floating
  casinos, which makes the transfer and renewal of
  their licences such a lucrative business.

Jaydev Mody's Delta Corp Ltd is the biggest player in the Goa
casino business. It runs three offshore casinos, Deltin
Royale, Deltin Jaqk and Deltin Caravela as well as the
onshore Deltin Suites Casino Hotel at Nerul. The Ashok
Khetrapal fronted group is the next big casino operator with
Casino Pride and Casino Pride 2 anchored in the Mandovi.
Pride also runs the land-based Casino Paradise at Porvorim
and Casino Palms at Baga.

Faced with mounting protests over the BJP government granting
permission for a sixth offshore casino in the River Mandovi
after the party had earlier campaigned against them, a
providential occurrence spared Parrikar's blushes in the
monsoon session of the Goa assembly. On July 15, a new casino
vessel M. V. Lucky Seven, fully outfitted to commence
business as the Big Daddy Casino, drifted off course in
stormy weather and ran aground at Miramar beach (near Panaji)
where it is currently stuck, turning into a photo-op for
tourists. Operations to refloat and tow it away are currently
underway.

  Lucky Seven is promoted by the controversial former
  Haryana minister Gopal Kanda. The Tanzanian flag
  passenger vessel was brought to Goa by Golden Globe
  Hotels Pvt Ltd (GGHPL), a company started as a
  subsidiary of Kanda's defunct MDLR airline. There's
  very little information to be found on GGHPL or its
  businesses, but sources in the company said that
  Kanda, his son and son-in-law hold a majority stake
  in it and in their current interest in the casino
  business in Goa.

Kanda's foray into casinos here goes back to 2009 when he
bought the Leela group's Casino Rio for a reported amount of
Rs 30 crore. Leela had managed an offshore gaming licence in
2006 but the business never set sail. Neither did it under
Kanda, and in 2013 the government towed away the abandoned
vessel for owing the authorities Rs 12 crore in casino
licence fees. The fee with fines had mounted to Rs 50 crore
by 2017.

  This in itself should have been grounds enough to
  not renew Kanda's licence. But the Parrikar
  government renewed it all the same, using the ruse
  of a court order to justify the decision. In
  reality, however, it was the state's advocate
  general who told the high court of Bombay at Goa
  that the government would "favourably consider" the
  Kanda company's application for renewal.

All the casino licences in Goa -- both off-shore and land
based ones -- were dished out by gung-ho Congress
governments, with former chief minister Pratapsingh Rane and
former home minister Ravi Naik being the key players in this
high stakes game of licence roulette. This uncomfortable
fact, as much as the Congress' role in the mining scam,
provided the BJP its biggest ammunition for the 2012 state
assembly election which it won with a clear majority.
Parrikar would turn up at anti-casino protests with RSS
supporters, and doing away with casinos went to the top of
his party's 2012 manifesto, even as behind the scenes
assurances were reportedly given that they would be allowed
to carry on with business as usual.

Once in government though, the commitment by the BJP to move
the casinos out of the Mandovi and regulate the trade was
never seen through. The promise to set up a gaming commission
has not seen the light of day even five years later. What the
government did in effect, is facilitate more opaque
operations, allowing the state's Captain of Ports, rather
than the Centre's Director of Shipping -- as was the case
previously -- to licence the casino vessels, most of which are
not even seaworthy.

  In 2014, the BJP also reversed the law it had
  brought in to ban the transfer of casino licences
  when it allowed the Pride group to take over the V.
  M. Salgaocar & 

[Goanet] Solar powered tuk-tuk completes India to Uk trip.

[Con Menezes]

   
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-india-37389181/solar-powered-tuk-tuk-completes-india-to-uk-trip

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[Goanet] Goa Womens Forum decries promotion of sex tourism in Goa through escort service

[Goa Desc]

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Re: [Goanet] No country for old men: French index says India worst for retire

[Roland Francis]

Goan retirees in Canada once considered Goa as a Mecca for their retirement. 
Their ideal was 9 months in Goa, 3 in Canada.

Then experiences, specially medical ones made them revise that ideal. They 
flipped the numbers, 9 months in Canada, the 3 harshest Canadian winter months 
in Goa. The younger seniors 60 to 70 will still go for longer periods.

At the present time most Canadian Goans will use Goa as a destination to visit 
once every 3 years say, and for periods no longer than a month. Insurance, 
accommodation and other costs become too restrictive after that.

Now they seem to be abandoning Goa as a retirement place entirely, in favour of 
Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. Cuba is in my opinion a good option to 
retire but it hasn't caught on yet. Crowds, dirt and rising costs in India, 
made them look elsewhere.

This Economic Time article on the French survey indicates retirement life 
standards for Indians living in India. For Indians residing abroad, smaller 
Indian non-touristy towns still offer good value. Living is cheap, people are 
hospitable, the culture is familiar, the environment is clean and hospitals 
smaller but not too shabby. In any case medical facilities will play a part in 
the decision to select such a place.

Roland Francis
Toronto.

> On Aug 9, 2017, at 10:32 AM, Gabe Menezes  wrote:
> 
> http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/no-country-for-old-men-french-index-says-india-worst-for-retirement-now/articleshowsp/59984710.cms?intenttarget=no&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dailynewsletter&type=dailynews&ncode=d87a9f44d79f9df0e20bf43c4cc959ae
> -- 
> DEV BOREM KORUM
> 
> Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Adultery In Your Heart

[Roland Francis]

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed 
adultery with her in his heart. (Matthew 5:28).

Doesn't this smack of mind control? Don't we have a free will to exercise 
without committing any crime?
Isn't 'adultery' committed by a married person?
Would you have married your wife if you had not lustfully looked at her, 
assuming yours was not an arranged marriage where you didn't get to see your 
wife.
If god is wise, would he have not included women in the stricture against 
lusting (after men)? 
Can't one look at one's wife lustfully without being guilty of adultery?

The bible was supposed to have been recorded "with the inspiration of the Holy 
Spirit". Couldn't among thousands of others in the text,  this verse have been 
more precisely recorded so it would not be subject to various interpretations?

Roland Francis
Toronto.

[Goanet] Fwd: Requesting posting - Information for Chowgule College's Contemporary Dance-Movement Club and Ballet Classes

[Gautam Nima]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Gautam Nima 
Date: Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 1:19 AM
Subject: Fwd: Requesting posting - Information for Chowgule College's
Contemporary Dance-Movement Club and Ballet Classes
To: goatimeslisti...@gmail.com, 786nidasa...@gmail.com,
kimberlcol...@gmail.com



Hello,



We are Gautam and Pushpanjali. We were featured in your newspaper in May
2016 for our one week 'Movement Installation' work at Goa Chitra museum.  We
thank you for that wonderful coverage.

We are now offering weekly Contemporary Dance-Movement Classes at Chowgule
College for the students of Chowgule as well as the general public . We
have begun our classes a few weeks ago.

Our intention through these classes at Chowgule is to make dance accessible
to all, regardless of their age or experience. We are creating a space for
Dance and Movement Exploration in our Education systems and our daily lives
as well. We are committed to finding different ways to create a dialogue
between Dance and various academic subjects and cultivate a practice where
we learn how Dance-Movement Exploration can add to our understanding of
ourselves and our choices (whether it be career or personal).

Dance to us is a language that exists beyond the realm of just
entertainment and competition. We use it as a way to transform our personal
stories and in turn affect a transformative change in our society.

We are also teaching Ballet classes for children at Club Harmonia for age
group 4 to 12 in two separate classes.

We would love to share more about this initiative and our philosophy on
Dance with you if you are interested in covering it.

Please contact us on  8954619805



We would really like to get the word out so that people can benefit from
this opportunity. If you could please advertise our event, it would help us
a lot.

Thank you.



Please find attached the following:
1) Posters - "Chowgule College's Contemporary Dance-Movement Club"

2) Official Press Note

3) Photos



*Note for the Event section in the paper:*

1)Internationally Trained Dance Artists  Gautam Nima and Pushpanjali
Sharma teaching "Contemporary Dance-Movement" at Chowgule College, Tiger
Studios, Margao.

Come celebrate yourself-find your dance.

Timings-

Wednesdays & Fridays - 4pm to 6pm

Registration contact number 8954619805 (teacher) / 8308794850
<(830)%20879-4850> (Chowgule Office)



2)Internationally Trained Dance Artists  Gautam Nima and Pushpanjali
Sharma teaching "Ballet for Children" at Club Harmonia, Margao.

Timings-

Mondays & Tuesdays

4:15pm to 5:15pm for Kids of age 8 to 12 years

5:30pm to 6:30pm for Kids of age 4 to 7 years

Registration contact number 8954619805 (Teacher)



Thank you for your help in advance. We would appreciate your help in being
featured in whatever way you can enable for us. We would be happy to
provide any further information regarding the same.



Warm Regards,

Gautam and Pushpanjali



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[Goanet] 'The ten best travel quotes which remind me of Goa' (Geetanjali)

[Frederick Noronha]

https://www.tripoto.com/trip/the-10-best-travel-quotes-which-reminds-me-of-goa-56752f82a8306

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[Goanet] Goa quote: Daman and Diu....

[Frederick Noronha]

>From the 8th to 13th century, Daman and Diu, which was a part of Goa was a
stronghold of the Chowda Rajputs who were ousted by the Waghalas who in
turn were expelled by Muslims in 1330. It continued under Muslim rule for
another two hundred years till it was conquered by the Portuguese. Read
more at
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Re: [Goanet] Does Religion Offer Justice?

[BT Yahoo Mail]

Aren't these Christian beliefs, all concocted by Euro theologians & bishops, 
farcical? We have been fed on myths & fables for too long. Why on earth does 
God need to have a son? To us earthlings, 'son' means the product from the 
physical relations between man and woman. In the Euro Christian case, the 
father is God  but wait - isn't God genderless! So he decides to have 
'relations' with one of his own creatures - Mary, a Jewish teenager. Could 
anything be more weird??
How was this accomplished? We are told that the power from the Most High 
'overshadowed' her and she conceived. Now we are getting into magic and 
fantasy.  Ha, ha. 
But, why go through these spiritual gymnastics?God had created defective 
creatures and he wanted to redeem them. How? As Roland says: through "the cruel 
and unnecessary death of the son."

So after man's redemption, why is the world rotten as ever? Why do people (like 
Trump, Natenyahu and Modi) continue to prosper despite their crimes? Was the 
redemption in vain?The way out of this impasse is for our Asian theologians 
(and there are brilliant ones like John, Amaladoss and Pieris) to devise our 
own Christianity. But would they have the guts and would Europe allow this?
Until then, let's wait for the next redemption. 
The next Mary might be a Goan, who knows?
Eddie
 

On Wednesday, 9 August 2017, 17:40, Roland Francis 
 wrote:
 

 One of the arguments against non-belief in a god or gods or religion is that 
people would get away with injustices if there was no afterlife. Punishment in 
the form of hell (Christianity, Islam) or rebirth to a lower caste of life-form 
(Hinduism) solves that. God is merciful and yet administers firm justice.

Atheists on the other hand say that one can expect that people will sometimes 
get away with crimes against other people and prosper till they die with little 
price (but for one's conscience) to pay. It is an inevitable part of the human 
condition.

That is an honest stand compared to the hypocritical stance of the major 
religions. Islam for example teaches that Allah will forgive anything except 
'shirk' (belief in another God) or 'riddah' (apostasy, a Muslim denying Islam).

In Christianity, you may do anything, yes any crime, no exceptions, and with 
asking forgiveness you will enjoy heaven.

Aside from the fact that no one has any good evidence of heaven or hell, it 
also means that the concept of god's justice tempered with mercy is a fallacy. 
In Christianity you are told of hell, a punishment from the father, but you are 
offered a loophole of redemption due to the sacrifice, meaning cruel and 
unnecessary death of the son.

In human terms, a judge can convict you and with mitigating circumstances can 
give you a lesser term than you deserve. Justice tempered with mercy. With 
condemnation to hell, how is there mercy? In the religious context, afterlife 
believers should admit that for them, justice and mercy are mutually exclusive 
terms.

Roland Francis
Toronto.

   

[Goanet] Orlando da Costa's other works....

[Frederick Noronha]

Some information that I managed to collate from online
sources. Please correct my translations of the titles:

  Orlando da Costa (1929-2006) is known for *O Signo*
*  da Ira,* but he has also authored *A Estrada e a Voz*
  (1951); *Os Olhos sem Fronteira* (1953); *Sete Odes do*
*  Canto Comum* (1955); *Podem Chamar-me Eurídice*
  (1964), *Sem Flores nem Coroas* (1971); *Canto Civil*
  (1979); *A Como Estão os Cravos Hoje?* (1984); *Os*
*  Netos de Norton* (1994); and* O Último Olhar de Manú*
*  Miranda* (2000).

*A Estrada e a Voz* (The Road and the Voice) is a book of
poems, published by Centro Bibliografico, of 58 pages. His
second work, *Os Olhos sem Fronteira* (Eyes Without a Frontier)
was also published by the Centro Bibliográfico, and is a work
of poetry spanning 52 pages. Likewise, his third work, *Sete*
*Odes do Canto Comum* (Seven Odes of a Common Song), was also
one of poetry, a genre he took up to at the age of 15 after
being encouraged to do so by a schoolteacher in Goa,
according to his obituary in Publico
[https://www.publico.pt/culturaipsilon/jornal/morreu-o-
escritor-orlando-da-costa-60588]

In between his novels, he wrote the play *Sem Flores nem*
*Coroas*, set amidst the last days of Portuguese rule in Goa,
amidst a Catholic family.

  *Publico* also said: "It is curious, moreover, that
  his first novel was published exactly in the year
  in which the Indian army invaded Goa, Daman and
  Diu. In a certain sense, The Sign of Wrath (which
  won the Ricardo Malheiro prize of the Lisbon
  Academy of Sciences) was a symbolic farewell. In
  real life, Orlando da Costa never lost contact with
  Goa -- and was, above all, a convinced sympathizer
  of all the independence movements, whose gestation
  he followed very closely in the House of Students
  of the Empire, where he lived with other
  charismatic individuals such as Agostinho Neto and
  Amílcar Cabral."

Literary critic Serafim Ferreira comments
[http://www.apagina.pt/?aba=7&cat=99&doc=8317&mid=2]: "Until
this time, all [Orlando da Costa's] literary production came
out in the form of poetry, fiction and theater, but as a
prose writer he achieved greater notoriety, especially after
*The Sign of Wrath* (1961), *You Could Call Me Eurydice*
(1964) or *The Children of Norton* (1994)."

Incidentally, his work *Vocations* (Evocations, 2004) was a
collection of poems commemorating the 30th anniversary of the
25th of April Revolution.

Just this week, I came across a post by M Filomena Gomes
Rodrigues of the Universidade Aberta, Lisboa, who comments
briefly on the short story "Prabhu (Chronicle of a Christmas
Night)" by Orlando da Costa.

Gomes Rodrigues writes: "Another important fact that strikes
us in this unedited story of Orlando da Costa is the date it
was written, that is, December 18, 1948. It had indeed only
been a few years since the departure of Orlando from Goa to
Lisbon. But, above all, the surprise comes because it is a
story where the writer signs under the pseudonym of Sardar
Rarri. And, as far as we know, there is only this record
which allows us to advance the hypothesis that Orlando da
Costa has considered using a pseudonym as a way of assuming a
literary identity linked to his land of Goa. We will say that
this chronicle of Sardar Rarri, pseudonym of Orlando da
Costa, is one of the texts of great sensibility and human
presence of a writer not conformed to the difficult life of
the colonized people that fought to survive and to maintain
its dignity in a society of European colonizers."

https://www.academia.edu/34158266/Analysis_of_the_text_Prabh
u_Chronicle_of_a_Christmas_Night_by_Orlando_da_Costa_1

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[Goanet] great Goans: BATTLE GROUND ANJUNA!

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[Goanet] Does Religion Offer Justice?

[Roland Francis]

One of the arguments against non-belief in a god or gods or religion is that 
people would get away with injustices if there was no afterlife. Punishment in 
the form of hell (Christianity, Islam) or rebirth to a lower caste of life-form 
(Hinduism) solves that. God is merciful and yet administers firm justice.

Atheists on the other hand say that one can expect that people will sometimes 
get away with crimes against other people and prosper till they die with little 
price (but for one's conscience) to pay. It is an inevitable part of the human 
condition.

That is an honest stand compared to the hypocritical stance of the major 
religions. Islam for example teaches that Allah will forgive anything except 
'shirk' (belief in another God) or 'riddah' (apostasy, a Muslim denying Islam).

In Christianity, you may do anything, yes any crime, no exceptions, and with 
asking forgiveness you will enjoy heaven.

Aside from the fact that no one has any good evidence of heaven or hell, it 
also means that the concept of god's justice tempered with mercy is a fallacy. 
In Christianity you are told of hell, a punishment from the father, but you are 
offered a loophole of redemption due to the sacrifice, meaning cruel and 
unnecessary death of the son.

In human terms, a judge can convict you and with mitigating circumstances can 
give you a lesser term than you deserve. Justice tempered with mercy. With 
condemnation to hell, how is there mercy? In the religious context, afterlife 
believers should admit that for them, justice and mercy are mutually exclusive 
terms.

Roland Francis
Toronto.

[Goanet] S talker finally arrested for kidnapping

[Nelson Lopes]

Stalker is cornered at last

The  single, driving girl Varnaki Kundu was harassed and stalked over  a
large stretch  of road She was stopped at two points, when she tried to
reverse. The stalker came out tried to open the door and banged against the
door The police finally came to her rescue and arrested them .The accused
tried to apologize and  plead forgiveness for  their transgression. It is
believed that they  were reeking of alcohol.  Medical test was refused
though medical officer deposed about the alcohol smell.. Surpiringly the
serious section of kidnapping was not applied and accused released without
court direction. What was the determined intention of stalkers if not rape,
kidnapping, abductions?  God knows even murder?  Who can  vouche for their
motives of persistent, threatening with menancing following?  Stragely,the
accused were also served cold coffee at the police station .What was the
President of BJP unit in the state, the father of the stalkers doing at
3.30 a,m with 100 other functionaries of BJP at the police station , if not
trying to send a message and indirectly influencing the course of events ?.
Why the father of accused called her father  6 times, to send a veiled
threat? The FIR is not featuring the deposition of victim is very strange
and  contrary to the proedure. She had clearly stated in her deposition
that their intention to kidnap cannot be overruled.

Not subjecting to medical test of urine, blood, not that it matters about
the charges is significant aberration of procedure to be followed .The
police took the accused in police SUV now for medical test much later after
5  days. The serious charges were diluted and accused released swiftly. The
10 CTV footage suddenly disappeared. Now after public outcry the accused
are arrested after delay of 5 days and delayed medical test carried out
too. It is because of the status of her father she is receiving generous
attention, otherwise the case would have been closed like others. There
isalso an attempt in the social media at character assassination to
show her in poor light as loose character in company with male  companions
The statement as what she was doing at odd hours are accentuating the
motives The safety and protection of women in the country is totally at a
discount. The final act against the so of BJP state President is watched
with interests, It is rumored that this not the first case of involvement
of accused Vikas Barala. Whether it will be treated in isolation only time
will tell The BJP is of the opinion that the President is not responsible
for acts of his son and has said that law must take its course, but his
actions as the father and those of the police speak otherwise.

Nelson Lopes Chinchinim

Re: [Goanet] Among the Good Believers - Atheism vis-a-vis Religion

[Roland Francis]

In the normal world, good people do good things and bad people do bad things, 
but

With religion, good people do bad things. It poisons everything.

Roland Francis
Toronto

> On Aug 9, 2017, at 10:22 AM, Marshall Mendonza  wrote:
> 
> http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/cover-story/among-the-good-believers

[Goanet] No country for old men: French index says India worst for retire

[Gabe Menezes]

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/no-country-for-old-men-french-index-says-india-worst-for-retirement-now/articleshowsp/59984710.cms?intenttarget=no&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dailynewsletter&type=dailynews&ncode=d87a9f44d79f9df0e20bf43c4cc959ae
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[Goanet] Essential documents regarding Nationalization of Goa's rivers

[Sebastian]

http://bharatmukti.blogspot.in/2017/08/essential-documents-regarding.html

 Here is a list of essential documents to understand nationalization of Goa's 
rivers:

1. Short background note. click here

2. Expert Appraisal Committee minutes where 228 barges are mentioned behind 
nationalized Mandovi, Zuari and Cumbharjua canal dredging. Click here

3. Basic law - The Inland Waterways Authority of India Act 1985. Click here

4. Basic Law - The National Waterways Act 2016 by which Goa's rivers are 
declared as National Waterways. Click here

5. The damage that the State of India is doing by Nationalizing Goa's rivers is 
similar to what the State of New Zealand did to Maoris from 1840 onward.  Crown 
apologized after acknowledging the damage done. After fighting for 140 years 
New Zealand passed law - Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 
2017. Specially read up Part 3, Sections 69 to 70 on pages 44 to 49. Click here

6. Press Statement from "Our Rivers Our Rights". Click here

7. In 1961 India annexed Goa through conquest. The way Indian state plans 
savage attacks on Goa's attacks could even put Russians to shame. Time has come 
to question Russia for supporting Conquest of Goa by exercise of Veto power in 
security council. Click here.

8. Protection of rivers is a Fundamental duty of Every citizen of India under 
Article 51-A (g). Click here for copy of Constitution of India.  

[Goanet] fantastic: july crop circle

[Fidibus]

http://shop.lucypringle.co.uk/crop-circles-2017-july/

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[Goanet] OFFTOPIC: ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ and Other Great Hits

[Frederick Noronha]

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[Goanet] INGRATITUDE

[Nelson Lopes]

INGRATITUDE

GRATITUDE is the milk of human kindness. It not only enhances the worth of
the  grateful soul, but also encourages the other side by sincere
acknowledgment. Happiness can promote repetation of such behaviou,
strengthening the positive attitude ,spreading good relations. When one
expresses a simple all encompassing word THANK you, it says it all. Whether
it should be qualified further, it depends on situations and motives of
both. Was it done with a special motive to draw attention towards oneself
or whether the response was spontaneous demanded by the situation ,
feelings of human values? Some would deliberately avoid  the sense of being
grateful to show insensitivity and send a negative attitude and the
message  of being not touched. Even though it might not be expected
response   silence can cause disappointment

Everyone from parents, neihbours, siblings, friends, have felt the sting of
emotion of ingratitude at some point in their life to varying degrees. It
has left them wounded while others have just ignored it with a smile and
laughter. Pondering over it can only aggravate the feelings of remorse,
whether the kind  act of gratitude have had its desired result. Individuals
go to great lengths to confer a benevolent act, when it could have been
ignored without any obligation and expectations. The ingratitude is felt
deeply only when there is close bond of relationship and not with
encounters with  casual strangers. It may be that some are honest, sincere
enough requesting not to embarrass them with overt behavior. Some in their
positions, power , influence can offer acts as normal, routine course of
their dealings, but still it is worth appreciation and recognition

How ungrateful are children at times towards their parents, who have
sacrificed with love and dedication and instead of reciprocating, treating
them with ingratitude .How often do   brothers and sisters overlook the
their duty towards one another. The neighbours often are logger heads over
trifling matters to settle scores, forgetting the better times of
togetherness over the years. Friends who had shared good relations perhaps
for  life long, suddenly are on the opposite side of each other accusing
each other of ingratitude.  Ingratitude is also the other side of
gratitude? It is a fact of life to be contended within life of human
existence. When ingratitude is reduced to barest minimum then joy .
happiness co operation becomes the bedrock of friendship and good
relations. Nevertheless elimination of ingratitude at different levels of
relationship is a myth.,  Is it ego, complexes jealousy, pride and envy or
just the  habit of taking things for granted, lethargy or indifference that
is displayed, sowing the seed of ingratitude? The Bible speaks of human
need of gratitude when ingratitude of 9 cured lepers is expressed with only
one returning to show gratitude
The attitude, sentiment, emotion towards gratitude can be demonstrated by
various ways. A broad smile, wishing and  sincere acknowledgment, ‘thank
you’ or commercial message qualifying it further, returning a good act if
not immediately, passing the good news around to activate, stimulate
others, a public or personal  message, a little floral gift,  a  present
etc to keep the sentiment warm This value of gratitude has to be ingrained
in the family, school and society by rewarding and public appreciation
giving  widest publicity. It is not justified rationalization to expect and
take for granted as duty and obligation vis a vis our relations. Gratitude
cements relations and spurs growth and development of individuals and
encourages acts of benevolence Gratitude begets gratitude in general, but
exceptions do occur, Gratitude in all our relations, students towards
teachers,  patients towards doctors, employers towards employees, children
towards parents consumers towards service poroviders and all inter personal
relations can further human bonds and remove misunderstandings and ill
feelings Gratitude cannot be dispensed, in measured, calculated  doses of
only reciprocation  instead of  shared values
Nelson Lopes Chinchinim

[Goanet] and again: Another Holistic Doctor, Working Against Big Pharma, Found Dead

[Fidibus]

he encouraged his patients and followers to avoid Big Pharma’s poisonous 
products


http://yournewswire.com/another-holistic-doctor-dead/

*holistic author Ann Boroch’s research has been scrubbed from the internet*

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Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 12, Issue 396

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   1. AIFF REPORT: AFC FUTSAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME KICKS-OFF IN
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   2. AIFF REPORT: DECISIONS OF THE AIFF SPECIAL COMMITTEE (AIFF Media)
   3. XIX Sunday of the Year (Jude Botelho)
   4. FRIDAY BALCAO to focus on the United Nations Decade ofAction
  on Nutrition (Goa Desc)
   5. GOA 2017 Festival (Gabe Menezes)
   6. Break Your Silence: 101 Christian Intellectuals to theChurch
  in India (Goanet Reader)


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Dear colleagues,


Please find below a report on the AFC Futsal Development Programme which
kicked-off in the Capital today.



*For all updates of the National Team and exclusive pictures please follow
our Official Twitter Handle @IndianFootball at *
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AFC FUTSAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME KICKS-OFF IN NEW DELHI

*AIFF Media Team*



*NEW DELHI:* Representatives of the Asian Football Confederations (AFC) met
the All India Football Federation (AIFF) at the Football House, New Delhi
today (August 08, 2017) on the opening day of the AFC Futsal Development
Programme - Assessment Visit to India.



The AFC was represented by Mr. Ali Targholizadeh, who is the Technical
Director of the Futsal & Beach Soccer Development Department of the AFC,
Mr. Jacob Joseph Biggs, the Project Manager of the AFC Futsal Development
Programme and Mr. Badrul Hisham Bin Kalam of the AFC Futsal Referee's
Department.



AIFF?s General Secretary Mr. Kushal Das along with Hero I-League CEO Mr.
Sunando Dhar, AIFF?s Technical Director Savio Medeira, AIFF?s Head of
Player Development Richard Hood were also in attendance at the meeting.



Speaking on the occasion, the AIFF General Secretary said, ?We have trying
to develop Futsal in India for some time now. This was missing from the
Indian development programme. And I hope with the help of the AFC we should
be able to start a Futsal competition by this year in India. That is the
objective.?



Ali Targholizadeh opined, ?Asia has almost 2/3rd of the world population
and India is a major and very important part of that not just
demographically but in other aspects too. Countries who might not be
traditional footballing superpowers can do well in Futsal. I?m happy with
AIFF?s initiative to develop futsal for football and futsal for futsal
which is a part of developing football overall.?



?I think it?s a new beginning for us and we are looking towards getting in
more coaches and instructors to help us develop futsal in India?, added
Savio Medeira.



The meeting took place to discuss matters on regarding developing and
creating a road map for Futsal in India. There was also a discussion on
creating an ideal platform for the spread and advent of Futsal as a popular
form of football in India. The AIFF conveyed its full commitment towards
creating a pathway for courses, competitions and match officiating across
our country that will help in development of Futsal.

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Dear colleagues,


Please find below a report on the decisions taken by the AIFF Special
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[Goanet] Among the Good Believers - Atheism vis-a-vis Religion

[Marshall Mendonza]

http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/cover-story/among-the-good-believers