goanet-digest V1 #3952
goanet-digest Friday, May 10 2002 Volume 01 : Number 3952 - In this issue: Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza [Goanet] NEWS: City networking project a bridge between East and West [Goanet] 11 MAY: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS See end of digest for information on subscribing/unsusbcribing. -- Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 00:38:19 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] Dinesh D'Souza In a message dated 05/09/2002 7:27:33 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just cannot see how any reasonably balanced person could ever read thru more than two paragraphs of Dinesh D'souza's work. The man is just too far fetched (for me.) In fact, I believe that the only reason he is around is because the US right wing are willing to pay for this stuff, only if it comes from the mouth of a non-white person. A white person publishing what Dinesh does, will not get anywhere close to the sales Dinesh manages to generat Hello Mervyn: This may sound strange to you, but when we first arrived in the US in 1972, my Maryland Driving Licence listed my race as Caucasian. There were only three classifications: 1. Caucasian 2. Negroid 3. Mongloid If it is a matter re white or black, we definitely belong to the former category. Yet I am amazed at some who believe that Goans 'worship the white.' Shouldn't we be proud of our caucasian stock? Pat de Sousa Maryland, USA -- Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 10:33:43 +0530 (IST) From: Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] NEWS: City networking project a bridge between East and West Maybe Goa could do with something like this... FN City networking project a bridge between East and West By Sharvani Pandit, Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, May 10 (IANS) A project that links Eastern cities with cities in the West and provides a bridge between them to bring about sustained development through synergy of resources was launched here Friday. Part of the European Commission (E.C.)-funded Asia Urbs programme in partnership with Auroville, the universal township in Pondicherry in southern India, Paris and Spur in France, Venice and the province of Treviso in Italy, it hopes to create a database of innovative urban management techniques that can be used by cities to devise methods of sustainable development through ideas used successfully in each city. An exhibition forming part of the project runs in Delhi May 11-19, then moves to Paris and Venice and comes back to Mumbai and portrays the best of strategies in India and Europe in the field of urban management. It highlights the prospects of city-to-city cooperation and how it can be used to tackle many urban issues, in terms of exchange of know-how, transfer of technology and financing small sized projects. E.C. First Secretary Francois Massoulie, who was present at the media preview of the exhibition, said: Each city has its own unique problems. It is easy to develop a dead city like Fatehpur Sikri (near Agra), but equally difficult to promote the Qutub Minar in Delhi as a centre for economic development because of the human and administrative complexities involved. He said city networking could help make it easier for cities to tackle urban problems and bring about models that could sustain development like say building of heritage cities or eco-tourism concepts, learning from experiences of others. Auroville director Luigi Lanzi said the idea among others was heritage management and integration of the urban with the cultural aspects to harmonise society. Massoulie said the Asia Urbs programme was not a one-sided North South exchange where experts from the North came and people from the south were at the receiving end. He elaborated saying partnerships would be formed between say one Indian city and two European ones to build models that could be adapted by each for sustained development. Zanzi said each area had its own unique problems and Asia Urbs would help each city find solutions through examples of others and learning to do things differently. Under the Asia Urbs programme, the E.C. is also going fund proposals, though on a competitive basis, for networking projects between Asian and European cities in September the forms for which can be downloaded from the Asia Urbs Web page on the E.C. site. Ideally, the E.C. hopes to stop funding Asia Urbs after it takes off, as another objective is decentralisation in development and helping individual cities and local bodies take forward the impetus provided by the project. We don't believe that bureaucratic bungling should interfere with the individual requirements or the vision of the cities. It is up to them to use the tools provided in the city networking project, Massoulie said. A database has already been created of innovative urban management techniques of
[Goanet] Free Indian Mangoes in the UK
Headline: Indian flavours for Britain, this time it's free mangoes By: Sanjay Suri (IANS) Source: Hindustan Times 11 May at http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/110502/dlfor23.asp London, May 11 --- After a deluge of Bollywood and cricket from India, London residents are in for a tangy treat -- they are due to eat about five tonnes of free mangoes by this weekend. The mangoes have been brought over by India's Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) to promote the fruit to coincide with the promotion of Bollywood films and cricket already under way. We are distributing the mangoes to several upmarket Indian restaurants and to the Selfridges department store, APEDA secretary DB Sabbarwal told IANS. Under the promotion, APEDA is distributing about 400-500 kg of mangoes to Selfridges, which is hosting a Bollywood festival, and to 11 Indian outlets that will be offering mangoes free to customers until May 12. The four-day promotion began May 9. Some of the restaurants are also making special mango dishes and serving them complimentary to customers to promote Indian mangoes, Sabbarwal said. But it is Selfridges that has made the most of the mango delivery. They got about half a tonne of mangoes free from APEDA, but instead of distributing freely, decided to sell them. The fruit, mostly Alphonso mangoes, are being sold by the store at £1.25 each. But APEDA has no plans to charge Selfridges for the mangoes it gave them for free. The idea had been free distribution to promote the mangoes, Sabbarwal said. That Selfridges chose to sell them is still promotion of Indian mangoes. The mango promotion is part of a promotion of Indian food in Britain, Reena Pandey, commercial counsellor in the Indian High Commission in London, said at the launch of the mango festival Thursday. Of every one pound spent on food in Britain 30 pennies are spent on curry, she said. We'll be very happy to see those pennies go further. APEDA has already held mango festivals in Dubai, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Kuwait. After London, APEDA will launch its last mango festival of the season in the German city of Frankfurt. Europe is the second biggest market for Indian mangoes after the United Arab Emirates. About 10,000 tonnes of Indian mangoes are sold in the European Union every year. That's too little, APEDA believes. Britain has been identified as a promising market to boost sale of exotic mangoes from India. By exotic is meant fibreless mangoes, Sabbarwal said. India produces about half the world's mangoes. World production is about 10 million tonnes a year. Alphonso mangoes are currently selling at about £6 a dozen. A meal at an upmarket restaurant costs at least £20 per head. Hardly worth going there especially for a free mango. Nor is it worth buying them from Selfridges. On the other hand we can discuss if they should be called Alphonse! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] indianfootball.com crosses 100.000 HITs !!!
Dear Friends, Today the indianfootball.com Website crossed the 100.000 HITs barrier !!! indianfootball.com started on April 10, 1998 but we only started with the counter on the site in 1999. The success of the site is something, which Chris, Daniel I wouldn't have dreamed off when we started with the site... But this is also prove for us that our hard work for the site pays off with the return of the visitors in search of Indian football news and we can proudly say, until today there is no other site in the web, which covers the whole range of issues in and around Indian football!!! bye, Arunava Arunava Chaudhuri - [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster http://www.indianfootball.com/ alternative server: http://www.indianfootball.de/ IIFS 2002 - International Indian Football Series home: http://iifs.indianfootball.com mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] For Jazz enthusiasts...
Check out this group 'Just Jazz' which plays at the Goa Marriott Resort's 'Ozone' on Wednesday night. Live webcast and MP3-download is at http://www.justjazz.8m.com Also check out Goa's Latino band in a live webcast at http://www.obligato.8m.com The blues band is at http://www.bluespower.8m.com I think Colin, a Mumbai-based Goan featuring in the 'Limca Book of Indian Records' is behind these ventures... FN =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] GOAN ELECTION MAY 2002.
GOAN ELECTION MAY 2002. From the current events going on in Goa, it looks that many of the defectors are getting the same party tickets from where earlier they defected to contest the coming election. Other defectors who are denied party tickets are going to contest the election as independent. The Circular issued by the Church on this subject is very relevant and it is now left to the individual priests in their localities to use this Circular to campaign hard from the pulpit (as Martin Luther Jr. did in USA to eradicate apartheid) to educate the voters to vote for the right candidates. While using the Church forum openly to educate the voters the priests should be very vocal so that their voice is heard not only by the Catholics but also by others, such a powerful capacity priests should show. Every political party will harp on its sincerity. Every political party when it came into existence it came with a slogan to give clean politics but later on every party turned out to be a traitor. Even in future it may be the same case. For this reason Church has provided a very good opportunity for its priests to raise their voice against corrupt politicial life in Goa. While talking of Church campaing, will the entire Church in Goa follow the instruction of the Church Authority? I doubt. The Goa Church is polluted with some non-Goan elements in the form of non-Goan priests who are mainly affiliated to the congregation other than our Diocesan authority, these congregations are mushrooming in Goa and they have their own ulterior movives. Many of the priests belonging to these congrations have no love for Goan culture, Goan tradition, Goan history and Goan way of life. In fact many of the priests belonging to these congregations are anti-Goans. I am afraid they might use their priestly robes to misguide the Goan voters. Some of these congregations are inhaling Goan air for their survival but implant as heads and other office bearers of their congregations in Goa non-Goan priests who I feel will never do justice to the cause of Goa, instead they will do injustice to Goan cause. Patriotic Goans should be very careful of non-Goan priests and non-Goan Nuns, many of them are all out to destroy the fabrics of clean Goan life. They are envious of decent Goan life. Some of the Goan priests joined these congregations are suffering a lot for this reason Goan boys should refrain from joining these non-Goan congregations which are controlled by Mafia type of gangs from Mangalore and other places. Those Goan priests who are undergoing suffering in these non-Goan congregations should revolt and resign from there and join Goan congregations. Goans with social conscience must now come forward and start a solid campaign against all the defectors who are contesting the coming election again. For example Suresh Parulenkar in Calangute constituency should be questioned by all the voters who earlier voted him why he defected and if voted to power again what guarantee is there he will not repeat the same defection? Likewise all the Parulenkars in Goa should be questioned and reprimanded and if necessary booted out. If possible all the defectors and even other contestants should be made to give an undertaking thru any official method if available or be made publicly to swear upon their religious books or symbols that they will not defect to any other party once they are elected. To campaing for the right candidate one need not belong to any political party, in fact persons having no affiliation to any political party is is in better position to raise his voice against corruption in political life. Man like Christopher Fonseca Trade Union Leader is going to contest the election. Mr. Fonseca was involved in creating disaster of Konkani Daily Newspaper Novem Goem. He failed in delivering proper administration in NG. If he gets elected then what sort of administration he will give? By the way is he first of all fit to get elected when he along with other NGP Trustees failed to run Novem Goem properly? If he cannot run a small venture like Novem Goem Daily then how he will run the affairs of Goa if he is elected? The relatives, nearest and closest of Gulf Goans especially of Kuwait Goans should ask this question to Christopher Fonseca when he comes for canvassing in Siolim. Likewise all other candidates especially having dubious character should be publicly questioned by the voters in their respective constituencies as the late Mark Fernandes used to do in Calangute some years back. If expatriate Goans had to have one Newspaper owned by them even a weekly now at their disposal in Goa, lot of educative campaign could have been carried out independently on our own behalf the way we want of course without affiliating to any political party. Unfortunately to press our views we have to rely on this forum which is the previllege of few and as such it
[Goanet] Fwd: GOANS
---BeginMessage--- Dear Dr. Narain, I have just read your ideas about Goans, using Dinesh D'Souza as a whipping boy. To get a more complex idea about Goans in relation to a very particular and long colonial history, I would suggest you read some of my work, as follows: An interview with me done by H. S. Shiva Prakash in INDIAN LITERATURE, a bi-monthly journal of the Sahitya Akademi, July-August, 2001, No. 204. An interview with me (done originally in 1976) in AFRICA TALKS BACK, sub-titled Interviews with Anglophone African Authors, by Professor Bernth Lindfors, Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press (2002). A story of mine, Moneyman, published in both FERRY CROSSING, ed. Manohar Shetty, Penguin, New Delhi, 1998 and in THE PICADOR BOOK OF AFRICAN STORIES, ed. Stephen Gray, London: Macmillan, 2001 (this will let you see how I can be both an African writer, born in Uganda, and a Goan writer: thanks to a historical displacement). Interweaving Edwin Thumboo, an extract from an interview I did with Edwin Thumboo, the pioneering Singapore poet, with a new introduction by me, in ARIELS; DEPARTURES AND RETURNS, Oxford University Press, 2001, which was launched last August by the President of Singapore. If you get interested, I can let you know more about my writing, including the issue of The Journal of South Asian Literature I edited on Goan literature. I can also let you know about how one of my favorite novelists, Ishmael Reed, satirized Dinesh D'Souza in two of his novels (and I mentioned Dinesh in my review of Reed's novels, published in World Literature Today). Best wishes. Peter Nazareth Professor of English African American World Studies / Advisor, International Writing Program, The University of Iowa ---End Message---
[Goanet] Goa Day Rene
Dear Rene Barreto, I applaud you for your efforts towards organizing GOA DAY 2002 (August 17, 18). I would like to repeat some of what I said last year on the occasion of GOA DAY. GOA SUDHAROP (www.goasudharop.org) is committed to sharing the pride and joy Goans feel as a community on GOA DAY this year. Our manner of celebration is to try and give something back to our community by improving and developing Goa. Our efforts are very minor but we are trying. Other Goans have given back differently and impressively. Whether they have built cyber communities, donated money, time, skills, computers, or work for the underpriveledged, etc., there is hopefully a significant increase in altruism, based on our traditional Goan emphathy for humanity I suppose. Our worldwide celebration of GOA DAY should not be minimized. It compares no less with the Irish efforts of ST. PATRICK'S DAY and America's INDEPENDENCE DAY (minus the commercial marketing of those days) in preserving our identity. If we want to be, we can be a proud people, holding our own on the world stage. We have our own music, art, cuisine, history, literature, etc. Let's hope we speficially set aside some time this GOA DAY to celebrate our culture. Congratulations to you and everyone who has contributed to making this GOA DAY happen again. Best wishes, George Pinto __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
Re: [Goanet] indianfootball.com crosses 100.000 HITs !!!
CONGRATULATIONS ! to Arunava ,Chris and Daniel ...Good work. The hard work has paid. rene barreto - Original Message - From: Arunava Chaudhuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 6:01 AM Subject: [Goanet] indianfootball.com crosses 100.000 HITs !!! Dear Friends, Today the indianfootball.com Website crossed the 100.000 HITs barrier !!! indianfootball.com started on April 10, 1998 but we only started with the counter on the site in 1999. The success of the site is something, which Chris, Daniel I wouldn't =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
