[Goanet] Joel Almeida's Colonialism: in response to Aloysius' post
Hi Jose and Joel -- plus Goans everywhere, Definitely the Dollar = 50 Rupees equation is extremely important -- we Indians still convert to Rupees everytime we talk of Dollars or Pounds or Euros -- consequently the sums get hugely magnified -- Hence earning U S $ 1,000 in the U S A is to Indians in India (and probably to the earner himself) equivalent to Rs.49,000/- -- which as you are aware is HUGE sum in India -- but the Indians in the U S A forget that they are living there and paying in U S $ and U S $ 1,000/- per month is not even a subsistence wage -- so the multiplication game is a farce -- At the Bombay airport touts and take drivers approach tourists, businessmen and returning Indians with tall claims of what they can get Customs to overlook / pass if they (the tout or txi driver) is paid in U S $. A recent racket is that the pre-paid taxi you engage at the airport, has a breakdown along the road (usually in the vicinity of the slums along the road) and another taxi conveniently rolls up to take you onwards and in the process of shifting your baggage from one taxi to the other some of your luggage disappear -- our neighbour, a Gujerati gentlemen, who normally resides in London when coming to Bombay this February was forced by the taxi driver at Mahim (just before St Michael's Chruch) to pay a considerable sum before he brought him on t our place. So U S $ is a very important consideration. Don't forget the U S $ sign in the Goan marriage market!!! Cheers Aloysius D'Souza - Original Message - From: colaco1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 1:04 AM Subject: [The Goan Forum d-list] Re: Joel Almeida's Colonialism: in response to Aloysius' post Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4 and no minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/orkH0C/n97DAA/Ey.GAA/E5z3lB/TM -~- Aloysius D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [By and large Indians do suffer from an inferiority complex when they come up against white skinned people -- but on the other hand we Indians seem to think that we are superior to the blacks and yellows of this world] [We are primarily RACIST and CASTEIST in our own country] [Unfortunately most Indians while having double and triple degrees are really UNEDUCATED ] [Surprisingly, Goans who have gone abroad, probably because of our Christian upbringing and education appear to be less awed by white skinned people -- but in India even our Goans are awed by white- skinned persons as is evident in the way we fall at the feet of white tourists many of whom are literally the dregs of the society from which they come.] Dear Aloysius You have made four very telling observations. Indians are defintely in awe of the European tourists. Indians are also in awe of Arab tourists and Government Ministers. Are $$$/Rupees also factoring in this equation? I believe so. jc Goa elections 2002 : The Goan Forum predicts post-ballot confusion and horse trading. Defections? You ain't seen nuttin Yet, baby!! TGF will be pleased to publish interesting posts from this list on The Goan Forum at http://www.thegoanforum.com REMEMBER: to log in to Goa-World.net http://www.goa-world.net for the most complete view of Goa. Express yourself on Mother's Day - May 12, 2002 with flowers from EXPRESSIONS - The Flower Shop http://www.goa-world.net/expressions/ [This is NOT a commercial list...No Adverts...Only INFO...No Charges] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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 !!
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[Goanet] Goa elections : Clear choices
So it's clear now. We have Luizinho Faleiro, Mauvin Godinho, Dayand Narvekar, Somnath Zuarkar, Ramakant Khalap, Ravi Naik, Sardinha with the Congress on one side and the likes of Manohar Parrikar, Digambar Kamat and I don't know the names of the other BJP MLAs on the other. The choices : The totally corrupt vs. the non or less corrupt The pseudo-secularists vs. the non-secularists The rotten vs. the able The covertly communal and casteist vs. the openly communal The poor in governance vs. the reasonably good in governance The divisive vs. the maybe non-divisive Birds of a feather flock together !!! ;-) Any further ideas on nomenclature for the two main groups ? Also, any debates on who the people should choose ? Cheers, Sunila www.rediff.com Congress' Goa list full of defectors Sandesh Prabhudesai in Panaji The Congress on Saturday announced its list of candidates for the Goa assembly elections. The list consisted of at least 14 defectors and three alleged scamsters. The party, however, has left four seats unannounced -- Saligao, Siolim, Tivim and Mapusa -- as it intends to leave it to the Nationalist Congress Party if the ongoing talks for alliance succeed. The list consists of five former chief ministers, three former deputy chief ministers and 12 former ministers. Most of them had come to power by joining hands with the opposition. Topping the list is Ravi Naik, who was the deputy chief minister in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government till he resigned on Friday morning. With him are four others -- including former Union law minister Ramakant Khalap -- who left the Congress and later staged a homecoming. Ex-BJP ministers Sanjay Bandekar, who had quit the Congress in October 2000 to join the saffron brigade, has been welcomed back. Bandu Desai, who left much earlier to join the BJP, has also got a ticket. The only defector who has not got a ticket is Jose Philip D'Souza, the first one to quit the BJP government soon after the dissolution of the House on February 27. Dayanand Narvekar, Somnath Zuwarkar and Mauvin Godinho -- chargesheeted in the bogus cricket ticket scam, co-operative bank scam and the power rebate scam respectively -- have also been considered 'fit' to contest the assembly elections. Francisco Sardinha Subhash Shirodkar, Alexio Sequeira, Victoria Fernandes and Francis Silveira, who had split to topple the Congress government in November 1999, were also taken back into party fold Among the former Congress legislators, only four had not defected during the game of musical chairs that began in 1990. Pratapsingh Rane, Nirmala Sawant, Luizinho Faleiro and Jitendra Deshprabhu. They have all been retained. The party, however, has also awarded tickets to old defectors Churchill Alemao and Luis Alex Cardoz as well as Isidore Fernandes, who won as an independent after being denied a Congress ticket during the last elections. _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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 !!
[Goanet] UK Xacutti and other snippets...Survey!
Please respond to the Survey! Please let goanet-admin know if you prefer to have news items: a. in summary format as below b. in full format as individual items posted on GoaNet and GoaNet Digest c. if you would prefer not to have any news posted to this list. d. Indicate any other preferences you may have: Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not to GoaNet. Thank you. .. The Observer 12 May 2002 at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4409283,00.html Headline: It's curry, but not as we know it. By: Geraldine Bedell. 4201 words. Excerpts: .In the last half-century, curry has become more traditionally English than English breakfast. Robin Cook believes that chicken tikka masala is now our national dish. It was entirely fitting that David Beckham celebrated scoring the goal that qualified England for the World Cup at Manchester's Shimla Pinks, with what we are told is 'his favourite' chicken korma. .Waitrose has been selling a Goan dish called Xacutti for about three years. You might have found this in one of the very few restaurants specialising in Goan food (such as Cyrus Todiwala's Cafe Spice Namaste at Aldgate East and Battersea) but never in your local curry house. [Note: Waitrose is a UK Supermarket chain, part of the John Lewis Department Stores group. Xacutti has been on sale at the delicatessen counter in a few of their stores for about five years now.] .. San Francisco Chronicle 12 May. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/05/12/IN.DTL Excerpt: .During the Gulf War a decade ago, Iraq might have found it easier to have won acceptance for its view of the invasion of Kuwait as a post-colonial vindication, analogous to India's capture of Goa. .. Khaleej Times (Dubai) 7 May. Headline: Goa beckons Arab tourists with monsoon packages. 597 words. Full text at: http://www.khaleejtimes.co.ae/ktarchive/070502/uae.htm#story6 Excerpts: Goa is making a big presence at this year's Arabian Travel Market (ATM) as part of its aggressive campaign to woo tourists from the Middle East.the Goan delegation of tourism officials, hoteliers and travel trade professionals will be offering information and conducting networking with the regional players. Nearly 20,000 Arabs, including UAE nationals, visited Goa last year .Goa is not a place, but a way of life. Goa has opened its doors to NRIs for investments as well. A Canada-based NRI has recently approached us to set up a Sentosa Island-style facility in Goa. . THE Hindu 11 May. Electronic libraries in 10 states. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/02111807.htm New Delhi, May 11. (PTI): The Centre will soon set up electronic libraries, Minister for Culture and Tourism Jagmohan said today. The pilot project of the Rs 200 crore proposal to establish 18950 Electronic Doorway Libraries (EDL) all over the country will be started in the 10 states which have a Library Act and will be funded by the Centre.Library facilities in the 10 states - Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Manipur, Kerala, Haryana, Mizoram and Goa - are inadequate, Developing Library Network (DELNET) Director H K Kaul said.The country has only one library for every 16,000 people when the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions prescribe one for every 3,000. . Deccan Herald. 12 May. Headline: Behind the sun sand: Goa is much more than sea, sand and spirits. The place has an identity of its own, jealously guarded by its people, writes Viswas D Paul Karra. 943 words. Full text at: http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may12/sh6.htm . Times of India 11 May. Headline: Goa in the throes of major water crisis. 947 words. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_Id=9499144 . 8 May Agência Lusa (Portuguese). Headline: Goa - Igreja católica apela para rejeição de candidatos fundamentalistas hindus. 302 words . Canadian NewsWire May 10. Headline: Teen Science Projects Show Promise. 1011 words. http://www.newswire.ca/releases/May2002/10/c4263.html Excerpts: Crystal Pinto, an OAC student at Francis Libermann Catholic High School in Toronto, has won the $5,000 first prize in this year's Aventis Biotech Challenge (ABC).the ABC Intermediate competition for Grade 9 and 10 students was won by Kory Benvenuto-Whitman, Rohit Barreto, Sara Dolcetti and Priscilla Mendonca of St. Elizabeth Catholic High School for their project on reducing micro-organisms commonly found in hamburger meat. . Gulf News (Dubai) 12 May at http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=50761 Excerpt: UAE Xchange (Chinchinim) won their match against Kerala Boys in the ongoing Panasonic Gold Cup Expatriate football tournament. The match was closely fought as both teams had international players from Goa and Kerala in their respective sides. .. Gulf News (Dubai) 12 May at
[Goanet] PEOPLE OF GOA UNITE, TEACH DEFECTORS A LESSON
By Brig (Retd) IAN DA COSTA (Navhind Times 12/02/5/02) front page. Hats off to The Navhind Times for the series concerned with citizens' choices for the next assembly elections. I would like to add one more voice of reason, as this is definitely a crossroad where we must decide to gamble or use reason to decide how to vote. Each one of us must vote if we are to save Goa. Most Goans have made it their favourite pastime to sit on the balcao and talk about the corruption in politics. The same topic is discussed during chance meetings with friends in the market or at the bus stand. Two decades ago, we enjoyed a boom in the tourism industry and though many issues like the language agitation divided the population, politics was relatively clean and corruption-free. Then we saw the bad years. Our politicians became greedy and self-centered. They began to manipulate their vote-banks by using muscle and money power. We citizens succumbed to their threats and by giving bribes further institutionalised corruption. Our people forgot their manners and friendly approach and that did not go down well with the tourists that came to enjoy our sun, sand and wonderful happy-go-lucky simple people. Today, Kerala in the South and Maharashtra and Rajasthan in the North have become preferred destinations. Tourists get a better deal for their money and are treated like VIPs. I am a personal witness to this. We all blame the politicians for this mess! But are we not equally to blame? Have we not elected these greedy and corrupt MLAs who rely on money and muscle power to coerce voters to vote for them? Let us make Goa relatively more corruption-free, for I know that achieving perfection will take many steps and time. This time let us take the first step in the right direction. Every election, there is about 40 per cent of the electorate that does not vote. The general excuse is that, what is the use of voting, as all are corrupt? It is people with this attitude who enable corrupt politicians to manipulate the remaining 50 to 60 per cent of the population who vote. We all need to study the candidate's profile and vote for the least corrupt or at least the best of the bad lot. The Supreme Court ruling to the Election Commission, that all candidates must declare their assets and that of their spouse and also declare if they were ever convicted of a criminal offence or whether any criminal offence has been registered against them in the past 6 months is a giant step in the right direction. It will make decision making much more easier for the voters. At all costs we must stop the defectors. If parties keep them out, they may enter the foray as independents or change colours like a chameleon and take some other party ticket. The church has rightly recommended to keep defectors and communal minded candidates out. But are we practicing what we preach? As soon as the government is formed and defectors, who caused a split, as some technically like to call it, Cross the Lakshman rekha to the other side, are rewarded with ministerial or other plumb posts. These are the very people who are given respectability and the sermons from the mount are soon forgotten. Let us practice what we preach and teach all defectors a lesson. Nobody should waste their votes on them. Let them cool their heels for a few years and do penance and prayers for all their wrong doings. Then society may think of them if they have shown exemplary behaviour between the two elections. It is our sacred duty to vote, specially when Goa is facing such a critical situation. Those who do not vote lose the moral right to criticise. It is here that the 40 per cent who do not vote, but instead choose to sleep it out, or go to the pub, or go on a picnic, or watch television, can make a big difference. The power of the people can move mountains. It certainly stopped the privatisation of Miramar beach and the cutting down of the Campal raintrees. All we need is a common purpose to unite. Saving Goa from Ali Baba and the forty thieves is the most urgent need today. Defectors and parties who field them need to be taught a lesson. Use your vote to do it. Lets usher in new faces and thus create a ground for cleaner politics and stability in the years to come. We are still in mourning over the death and destruction in Gujarat. The Party in power just refuses to accept the facts of the case, that certain fanatics let loose a reign of terror and organised burning of people alive, which has been reported by the NHRC, numerous citizens committees, Police Commission head Mr. Julio Ribeiro and many other independent organisations other than the Minorities Commission. What does a citizen do if the police refuse to record an FIR? Mr Julio Rebeiro is on record to say, that this is because of direct political interference on the police force, making them spectators when they have sworn to protect the lives of all
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goanet-digest Sunday, May 12 2002 Volume 01 : Number 3957 - In this issue: [Goanet] Goa elections : Clear choices [Goanet] Ugdas Mai-cho (Kovita)-Happy Mothers Day [Goanet] UK Xacutti and other snippets...Survey! [Goanet] PEOPLE OF GOA UNITE, TEACH DEFECTORS A LESSON See end of digest for information on subscribing/unsusbcribing. -- Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 16:20:36 +0400 From: Sunila Muzawar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Goa elections : Clear choices So it's clear now. We have Luizinho Faleiro, Mauvin Godinho, Dayand Narvekar, Somnath Zuarkar, Ramakant Khalap, Ravi Naik, Sardinha with the Congress on one side and the likes of Manohar Parrikar, Digambar Kamat and I don't know the names of the other BJP MLAs on the other. The choices : The totally corrupt vs. the non or less corrupt The pseudo-secularists vs. the non-secularists The rotten vs. the able The covertly communal and casteist vs. the openly communal The poor in governance vs. the reasonably good in governance The divisive vs. the maybe non-divisive Birds of a feather flock together !!! ;-) Any further ideas on nomenclature for the two main groups ? Also, any debates on who the people should choose ? Cheers, Sunila www.rediff.com Congress' Goa list full of defectors Sandesh Prabhudesai in Panaji The Congress on Saturday announced its list of candidates for the Goa assembly elections. The list consisted of at least 14 defectors and three alleged scamsters. The party, however, has left four seats unannounced -- Saligao, Siolim, Tivim and Mapusa -- as it intends to leave it to the Nationalist Congress Party if the ongoing talks for alliance succeed. The list consists of five former chief ministers, three former deputy chief ministers and 12 former ministers. Most of them had come to power by joining hands with the opposition. Topping the list is Ravi Naik, who was the deputy chief minister in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government till he resigned on Friday morning. With him are four others -- including former Union law minister Ramakant Khalap -- who left the Congress and later staged a homecoming. Ex-BJP ministers Sanjay Bandekar, who had quit the Congress in October 2000 to join the saffron brigade, has been welcomed back. Bandu Desai, who left much earlier to join the BJP, has also got a ticket. The only defector who has not got a ticket is Jose Philip D'Souza, the first one to quit the BJP government soon after the dissolution of the House on February 27. Dayanand Narvekar, Somnath Zuwarkar and Mauvin Godinho -- chargesheeted in the bogus cricket ticket scam, co-operative bank scam and the power rebate scam respectively -- have also been considered 'fit' to contest the assembly elections. Francisco Sardinha Subhash Shirodkar, Alexio Sequeira, Victoria Fernandes and Francis Silveira, who had split to topple the Congress government in November 1999, were also taken back into party fold Among the former Congress legislators, only four had not defected during the game of musical chairs that began in 1990. Pratapsingh Rane, Nirmala Sawant, Luizinho Faleiro and Jitendra Deshprabhu. They have all been retained. The party, however, has also awarded tickets to old defectors Churchill Alemao and Luis Alex Cardoz as well as Isidore Fernandes, who won as an independent after being denied a Congress ticket during the last elections. _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -- Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 05:54:39 -0700 (PDT) From: JoaquimAlmeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Ugdas Mai-cho (Kovita)-Happy Mothers Day Moji Maim vho thi tuji Maim Zaun assa ek sukachi bhaim Nou muine khusveant sambaulea aplea thaim Mai-che khoxtt ani dukh kednach farik korunk zaunche naim Mojea ixt'ta hem ked'nach visronakaim Mojea sukha khatir sodanch vavurthali ani vavurtha Pun bailechem aikon soro pivon tuka boroch bodoita Tum bolkavant boson sopiar pejechea nisac volvolta Pun baile sangatak hanv chicken motton khatta Maim tuven maka lhan aslolo vhod kelo Mojo boro cuidad korunk tujea jivar zaitoch bhar ghetlo Hanv lhan astanam Pai mojo somplolo Pun tuka dhir ani adhar haven kednach nam dilo Hanv atam kazari ani tum atam matari Tujo cuidad korunk maka chod kotint Dhiun tujea hatant ek manichi dandi Azilant tuka dadtam nidh nidhonk sasnachi Moji Maim vho thi tuji Maim Zaun assa ek sukachi bhaim Nou muine khusveant sambaulea aplea thaim Mai-che khoxtt ani dukh kednach farik korunk zaunche naim Mojea ixt'ta hem ked'nach visronakaim __ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com -- Date: Sun, 12
[Goanet] Re: [The Goan Forum d-list] Re: Aloysius pre-paid taxi recent racket
Hi Jose, These touts do exist and the fools who fall for their stories / claims usually end up with the Customs Vigilance guy catching them at the final gate as they exit with the goods theythink the Customs have overlooked -- double cross -- and the tout is no where to be seen Cheers Aloysius - Original Message - From: colaco1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 2:06 PM Subject: [The Goan Forum d-list] Re: Aloysius pre-paid taxi recent racket Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Kwick Pick opens locked car doors, front doors, drawers, briefcases, padlocks, and more. On sale now! http://us.click.yahoo.com/ehaLqB/Fg5DAA/Ey.GAA/E5z3lB/TM -~- Aloysius D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [At the Bombay airport touts and take drivers approach tourists, businessmen and returning Indians with tall claims of what they can get Customs to overlook / pass if they (the tour or taxi driver) is paid in U S $.] This is quite strange Aloysius. you mean that these guys loiter around between Immigration and Customs? [[A recent racket is that the pre-paid taxi you engage at the airport, has a breakdown along the road ] At Bombay Airportthe taxi scam is complimented by the Hotel booking scam. These chaps ostensibly working for the Maharashtra State Govt, try to steer you towards some strange sounding hotels and are quite busy offering deals in the Exchange market. [Don't forget the U S $ sign in the Goan marriage market!!!] Never saw that onebut am sure that it exists jc Goa elections 2002 : The Goan Forum predicts post-ballot confusion and horse trading. Defections? You ain't seen nuttin Yet, baby!! TGF will be pleased to publish interesting posts from this list on The Goan Forum at http://www.thegoanforum.com REMEMBER: to log in to Goa-World.net http://www.goa-world.net for the most complete view of Goa. Express yourself on Mother's Day - May 12, 2002 with flowers from EXPRESSIONS - The Flower Shop http://www.goa-world.net/expressions/ [This is NOT a commercial list...No Adverts...Only INFO...No Charges] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] NEWS: Queen Mother's will with details on Kohinoor kept secret
Queen Mother's will with details on Kohinoor kept secret By Sanjay Suri, Indo-Asian News Service London, May 12 (IANS) A will left by the Queen Mother, giving precise instructions on what should be done with the Kohinoor diamond, is being kept secret by the royal family. Buckingham Palace announced last week that the Queen would not publish the details of her mother's will. The decision has already led to a row in the House of Commons with several MPs demanding that it be made public. A portion of the Queen Mother's will has already been carried out. The decision to parade her crown over the coffin through the funeral processions was stated explicitly by the Queen Mother in her will. According to the will, say media reports here, the crown with the Kohinoor in it would stay in public view right until the last private ceremony in Windsor Castle. But the will is believed to have more to say on what she would have like the future of the Kohinoor to be. The palace is declining to publish the will partly because of sensitivities over the Kohinoor. The decision to parade the Kohinoor, which the British took away after the death of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, ruler of the princely state of Punjab in India, has been sharply criticised by Kuldip Nayar, Indian MP and former high commissioner in London. The Foreign Office is believed to have recommended the palace play down any issues over the Kohinoor. Earlier, her will had become controversial over what the Queen Mother has left, and over inheritance tax. Labour MP Alan Williams has demanded utter transparency over the will. The will is believed to contain details of the royal family wealth, one of the best-kept secrets in Britain Williams said the Queen should not be allowed to cover up on money. The Queen is exempt from paying any inheritance tax. Williams said the move is obscenely generous. It seems a strange argument to say, 'Because we have so much, we should be exempt.' The Queen Mother is believed to have left a personal estate of 50 million pounds. She received 643,000 pounds a year from the government but she is believed to have spent about two million pounds a year. She employed a personal staff of more than 50. The Queen Mother raised the rest of the family from her investments and from other members of the royal family. Estimates of royal wealth vary widely, from a few hundred million pounds to several billions of pounds. --Indo-Asian News Service =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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 !!
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RAVI NAIK'S EXIT WILL BOOST BJP=92S NON-CORRUPT IMAGE: PARRIKAR The exit of Mr Ravi Naik will add credibility to the BJP's clean image and its drive against corruption. This was stated by the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Parrikar at a press conference today. Brushing aside a question whether the departure would harm the party=92s prospects in the coming elections, Mr Parrikar said that the party had known for some time that Mr Naik was not fully with the BJP. He had been delaying the filing of his nomination from Ponda. The party did not want to take the first step and had been waiting for Mr Naik=92s response, he said. Mr Parrikar added that the voters knew very well people like Mr Naik and that such leaders should not be under the impression that they can take the voters for granted. Mr Parrikar said the performance of Mr Ravi Naik could have been much better, considering that he had given the PWD Rs 300 crore for development work. The Chief Minister said that those people who do not feel comfortable with the party=92s stand against corruption, for cleanliness and transparency in public life, are bound to leave. He expressed satisfaction that the BJP had taken such a clear stand against corruption, and added that the people fully endorsed this stand. When asked how he had in the first place accepted such people in the party, Mr Parrikar said he was not fully comfortable with such people in the party, but that he had to take a decision in those circumstances regarding government formation. Mr. Parrikar added that the BJP wished to demonstrate to the people of Goa what good governance was and therefore seized the opportunity that existed at that time. Mr. Parrikar said that despite having no experience in governance the BJP still provided the State with a better and cleaner government than their predecessors. The situation was such that the party had to accept people like Mr Ravi Naik, he said. He disclosed that thrice earlier Mr Naik had approached him to jo in the BJP but that he had fobbed him off. The Chief Minister said that the dissatisfaction over the situation (of having to admit MLAs who were not competent or not fitting the BJP criterion of cleanliness and transparency) was one reason why he went in for dissolution. The BJP has returned to the people for a fresh mandate because of this dissatisfaction, he emphasized. Commenting on the recent exit of other leaders from the BJP, Mr Parrikar remarked that ``birds of the same feather flock together.=92=92 He added th= at the Congress was full of corrupt people. He said the exit of people like Mr Naik and others had brought about a clear polarization as far as voter choice was concerned. The choice is now between a clean, non-corrupt government or a government full of corrupt people, he remarked. Mr Parrikar said that the people had to decide whether they want a clean government such as the one the BJP had provided over the last 18 months or a government that existed in 1999 and before. END Govind Parvatkar General Secretary PLEASE VISIT US www.goabjp.com FOR MORE ARTICLES COLUMNS. THANK YOU. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] FEATURE: Goan lady tops a difficult ailment, to emerge a comedienne
GOA LADY TOPS AILMENT, TO EMERGE A STAND-UP COMEDIENNE By Frederick Noronha If you're suffering from a difficult ailment, even while in the prime of life, what do you do? Become a comedian! That was the choice of Chrystal F. Gomes, a Goan settled in Scarborough, Ontario, in Canada. This is a story of bravery and courage, of this lady of Goan origin, whose family was earlier in Tanzania. She got to grips with multiple sclerosis (MS), and battled shyness to do something she really enjoys -- making others happy with her punch-lines. Not only is she enjoying life and staying away from a kind of fear that paralysis even the boldest, but she is also inspiring others. Including those more fortunate than her. Canadian newspaper 'Toronto Star' termed this a stand-up response to MS (multiple sclerosis). A clear case that laughter is the best medicine. Newspapers in Canada also quoted Chrystal Gomes as saying that her unlikely work as a comic makes her feel accepted. Today Chrystal is the most famous comedian of South Asian origin in the country of her adoption. Sample her humour: Did she face any racial prejudice on shifting from Tanzania to Toronto? Some. And we were pretty sensitive about it. I remember my parents pulled me out of Girl Guides because they didn't like me being called a BROWNIE! Is it true that she's still living with her parents at the family home in Scarborough? Yes. I recently spoke to Mom and Dad about finally moving out. But THEY WOULDN'T LEAVE! But Chrystal's real-life story isn't that funny. MS is an insidious illness of unknown origin that strikes one in 500 Canadians. It is a wasting disease that causes short circuits in the electrical impulses carried by the nervous system, and a relentless foe that attacks slowly and intermittently with increasing severity. There is no known cure. Several years ago, just when life seemed to be getting on fine, it started with a terrible headache that came on suddenly one night. After being a good-student at the Notre Dame High School, she took on a routine clerical job, and then decided to travel abroad. She loved travel, and so decided to make it her work. Chrystal enrolled in the hotel and convention management studies at Centennial College in 1994. To cut the long story short, the next morning, her headache left the whole left side of her face numb. Many tests and two weeks later, it was diagnosed as MS. In days' time, the whole left side of her body was numb. Symptoms just seemed to progress, and they included double vision, eye pain, diminished peripheral vision, slurred or garbled speech, dizziness, inability to walk without assistance, complete loss of hand coordination. She recalls: I couldn't write or feed myself. There was also loss of taste, 'frozen' feet, and a desperate feeling of being trapped inside her own body...to name a few symptoms. I thought I was going to die, but I wasn't so lucky...or so I felt at the time. I was hospitalized for a month-and-a-half, during which time, I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), she says. MS is a disease of the central nervous system (the brain and the spinal cord). One's nerves have a protective covering of fatty tissue called myelin, which helps nerve fibres conduct electrical impulses, and send messages to the body. In MS, the body's immune system attacks the myelin, leaving scar tissue called 'sclerosis', in random spots throughout the central nervous system. The damaged areas are also called plaques or lesions. When myelin is destroyed or damaged, the transmission of signals required for normal operation is disrupted because the nerves are not able to conduct electrical impulses to and from the brain. This disruption produces the various symptoms of MS. Long sessions of physiotherapy and occupational therapy followed. Chrystal had the relapsing-remitting form of MS, which means that unpredictable relapses are followed by partial or total remission. Doctors advice: avoid stress. This meant the career she was following, with its long hours, and shift work was no longer viable. She was advised to take on small, easily-reachable goals. For the next few years, Chrystal did temporary office assignments, and continued to 'live' in fear. Fear of having relapses...fear of doing anything that might trigger a relapse. When she wasn't afraid, she was either very sad or very angry. MS was all that I thought about. I read everything I could find about the illness, and I obsessed about it, says the young lady. In 1998, a friend introduced her to a series of courses called The Pursuit of Excellence. These were self-discovery, personal enrichment type courses. She learnt a lot and faced many of her own 'demons'. I realized that there had always been a part of me that wanted to speak out, be a part of society, feel accepted, feel like I belonged. I faced 'who I was', revealed 'who I wanted to be', and admitted 'what was stopping me from becoming that
[Goanet] Cong appeases defectors, tie-up with NCP off
DECCAN HERALD=20 Sunday, May 12, 2002 =20 --- Countdown begins for Goa assembly poll Cong appeases defectors, tie-up with NCP off From=20Devika Sequeira DH News Service PANAJI, May 11: Failing to seize the day and clean up its act, the Congress Party chose to 'reward' its perennial defectors. It has re-nominated 12 of them in the list of 36 candidates released by the AICC in Delhi today, bringing dismay and consternation among Congress supporters here. Goa Congress leaders blamed AICC secretary Ramesh Chennithala and his band = of party observers for so blatantly disregarding loyalty and sincerity in t= he selection of candidates. We are back to square one. Instead of weeding = out the black sheep, the Congress is once more encouraging the politics of = money, muscle power, and opportunism, one outgoing MLA said. The Youth Congress is threatening en masse resignation to register its prot= est, and said discussions for a plan of action were on. Mr Ravi Naik who walked out of the BJP yesterday, and former Union minister= Ramakanth Khalap figure prominently among Congress nominees, as do 'tainte= d' former ministers Dayanand Narvekar, Mauvin Godinho and Somnath Zuwarkar. Mr Chennithala is said to have over-ridden protests from all local Congress= leaders in clearing the names of Mr Sardinha, Mr Narvekar, Mr Godinho, Mr = Zuwarkar and Mr Naik with AICC president Sonia Gandhi. The green signal for= these names held up the announcement of the list by a day. Among the nominees are also five former chief ministers, Luizinho Faleiro, = Pratapsingh Rane, Francisco Sardinha, Churchill Alemao and Ravi Naik, as we= ll as the PCC president Nirmala Sawant. All of them will be in the race for= the CLP leadership. The Congress held back declaring candidates to four constituencies, includi= ng Tivim, Siolim, Mapusa and Saligao, saying it was leaving these to the Na= tionalist Congress Party (NCP) to contest in a poll understanding. But a dissatisfied NCP said it was not prepared to accept mere sops from = the Congress and announced that negotiations were off. It will now contest = all 40 seats on its own. Congress sources said the NCP had asked for a mini= mum 7 seats from the alliance. We waited till the last moment for the seat adjustment with the Congress b= ecause we sincerely desired a tie-up between secular forces. But it require= s more than one hand to clap, NCP leader Wilfred De Souza said. He accused= the Congress of betraying the secular cause, and giving in to corrupt and= opportunistic politics. With just a day left for filing nominations on Monday, the NCP camp has tur= ned into a rallying point for Congress rebels. A number of them are expecte= d to now enter the fray as NCP candidates. ---= - =A9 Copyright, 1999 The Printers (Mysore)Ltd.=20 [E-mail to Editor] [Main Page..Text Version] [Main Page..Graphic Version] ---= - =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] FEATURE: In rain-soaked Goa, water shortages become a politicalissue
IN RAIN-SOAKED GOA, WATER SHORTAGES BECOME A POLITICAL ISSUE PANAJI, May 10: Some two dozen people sat before the man who has been Goa's chief minister on three different occasions, and water surfaced as one of the issues in this part of Saligao constitutency. Saligao, the North Goa constutuency some 8 kms from Panaji, that long voted for ex-Goa CM Dr Wilfred de Souza as its MLA, is just adjacent to the North Goa coastal touristic belt. It is also home to the most rampant sale of water by tankers, from villages like Sangolda, Guirim and Saligao itself. To add to its woes, as the groundwater gets depleted by incessant drawal for sale at around five paisa a litre, parts of the village now get tapped-water supply for just one hour every alternate day. Hotels in the coastal zone, including their swimming pools, meanwhile, somehow get the water supplies they need. We're being cheated of our ground water, and it's being sold, says Mrs Isa Vaz, raising the water issue at a recent campaign meeting for Dr Souza. Pointing to figures thrown up by a study undertaken by concerned villagers, it was noted that four hundred thousand (400,000) litres of water are being sold each day from some nine wells in this village alone. Water is drawn and ferried out of the village by tankers. Goa recently passed a groundwater protection law, which however is still to be effectively implemented. It has also come in for criticism of being ridden with loopholes. Faced with the ire over water, local MLA Dr Wilfred de Souza argued that villagers need not worry about what would be the plight of our children. Souza said that large pipes are already being laid to bring water from dam projects in interior Goa. But it's not so sure whether laying down pipes would ensure that water flows through them. Goa, which gets roughly 300 cms of rainfall (over 100 inches) each year, has been unable to solve the state's water needs through dam-dependent centralised water schemes. Projects like the Salaulim irrigation project have seem over ten-fold cost overruns. Piping in water from the eastern interiors to the populated coastline is also fraught with its own difficulties. In the past, Goa's naturally-evolved water-management strategy dependend on villagers having their own wells. But these are falling into disuse, or can't cope with the insatiable appetite of the hotel and industrial or building lobby. Sometimes, in cases like Saligao, the wells are being simply sucked dry. Facing some angry sentiments, Dr Souza said he himself had accused the ground-water minister of allowing people to rob groundwater, while the water-table was going down. Another villager, Nicholas Sequeira pointed out that Saligao has been suffering due to the extraction of water, while the Goa government did not have sufficient water to meet the needs of the tourism industry. But, he felt, if the new pipeline is sanctioned, the demand for water (which is sold outside the village, including to the Navy colony two villages away) would be dropped. Hopefully, these plans will materialise, he said. Later, in the discussion interspersed with appeals for votes, the MLA also conceded that there is a water problem even close to his home, at the other end of Saligao. Said Souza, a septuagenarian double-FRCS and one-time arguably Goa's best surgeons: I gave my land and made a road (in front of my house). Now, every two minutes -- throughout the day and night -- there's a tanker taking water on that road. He's minting money out of it. I blame myself for making the road. The intention was not to encourage the tankers. Irked over the situation, villagers have been studying the impact of drawing out such large quantities of water on traditional wells in the area. Even in normal monsoon years, they reported, there was a fifty percent increase in wells in the area around where water is being sold that ran dry for the first-time ever in the summer months of April or May. In other parts of Goa too, there have been reports of water shortages coming in, particularly in North Goa. Caretaker chief minister Manohar Parrikar appealed to citizens not to get panicky over the situation. Last monsoons (2001) was a poor one, but the unsustainble water-guzzling industries, tourism, and building-boom is increasingly making its presence here felt. (#) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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 AWARDS - selection Round starts!
Dear Friends, After the new entrance logo to indianfootball.com website, the achieving of reaching 100.000 HITs, now something brand new at indianfootball.com: We are from now organising the first-ever indianfootball.com Awards! It starts with the selection Round until next Sunday, May 19, were you, our visitors can name us, your one favourite in 5 different categories. Then we will offer you the five most chosen in all categories and the best in each category will be chosen once again by you! Sadly this year, the AWARDIES will only be named on the site but maybe in future, with the help from sponsors or donators we can really carry out an AWARD evening... The Categories: PLAYER of the year FOREIGN PLAYER of the year ROOKIE (NEWCOMER) of the year COACH of the year TEAM of the year Cast your votes at the http://www.indianfootball.com website or send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! (Everyone can cast only one vote!) 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-digest V1 #3958
goanet-digest Sunday, May 12 2002 Volume 01 : Number 3958 - In this issue: [Goanet] Re: [The Goan Forum d-list] Re: Aloysius pre-paid taxi recent racket [Goanet] Virus -- W32.Klez.gen@mm [Goanet] Drama Review [Goanet] FEATURE: Goan lady tops a difficult ailment, to emerge a comedienne See end of digest for information on subscribing/unsusbcribing. -- Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 22:29:00 +0530 From: Aloysius D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Re: [The Goan Forum d-list] Re: Aloysius pre-paid taxi recent racket Hi Jose, These touts do exist and the fools who fall for their stories / claims usually end up with the Customs Vigilance guy catching them at the final gate as they exit with the goods theythink the Customs have overlooked -- double cross -- and the tout is no where to be seen Cheers Aloysius - - Original Message - From: colaco1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 2:06 PM Subject: [The Goan Forum d-list] Re: Aloysius pre-paid taxi recent racket Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Kwick Pick opens locked car doors, front doors, drawers, briefcases, padlocks, and more. On sale now! http://us.click.yahoo.com/ehaLqB/Fg5DAA/Ey.GAA/E5z3lB/TM -~- Aloysius D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [At the Bombay airport touts and take drivers approach tourists, businessmen and returning Indians with tall claims of what they can get Customs to overlook / pass if they (the tour or taxi driver) is paid in U S $.] This is quite strange Aloysius. you mean that these guys loiter around between Immigration and Customs? [[A recent racket is that the pre-paid taxi you engage at the airport, has a breakdown along the road ] At Bombay Airportthe taxi scam is complimented by the Hotel booking scam. These chaps ostensibly working for the Maharashtra State Govt, try to steer you towards some strange sounding hotels and are quite busy offering deals in the Exchange market. [Don't forget the U S $ sign in the Goan marriage market!!!] Never saw that onebut am sure that it exists jc Goa elections 2002 : The Goan Forum predicts post-ballot confusion and horse trading. Defections? You ain't seen nuttin Yet, baby!! TGF will be pleased to publish interesting posts from this list on The Goan Forum at http://www.thegoanforum.com REMEMBER: to log in to Goa-World.net http://www.goa-world.net for the most complete view of Goa. Express yourself on Mother's Day - May 12, 2002 with flowers from EXPRESSIONS - The Flower Shop http://www.goa-world.net/expressions/ [This is NOT a commercial list...No Adverts...Only INFO...No Charges] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 22:32:24 +0530 From: Aloysius D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Virus -- W32.Klez.gen@mm Dear Rene, The message __ A Powerful Tool -- you sent me contains the above virus -- I have deleted it -- please check at your end Cheers Aloysius D'Souza -- Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 22:42:18 +0530 From: Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Drama Review Zo Hat Painnem Dholoita =85=85.Impressive The drama season has taken off in style. The discerning viewer has= =20 a wide choice this season to select his entertainment. The big names, not=20 so big names, the small timers and the new comers too are in the fray to=20 grab the honours on the konkani stage this season. I began this season view= =20 Rose Ferns =91Zo Hat Painnem Dholoita=85..=92. As usual, the Director has= taken=20 pains to bring forth an interesting and absorbing story revolving round a=20 middle class family. Since the show has just gone on stage and has a long stretch=20 ahead, I do not wish to give out the entire story line and play spoilsport= =20 with the viewers. However, the story coming from a reputed Writer, Actor=20 and Director of the non-stop segment needs a mention. The Director has=20 chosen a very catchy and winning name =91Zo Hat Painnem Dholoita=85..=92 for= his=20 new venture. But one has to really see the show to know exactly whose hand= =20 it is that actually rocks the cradle. The plot woven round a middle class family has Adv. Leandro (Rose= =20 Ferns), Shaini (Antonette de Calangute) Kishiya (Olga), Mark (Anil=20 Pednekar) and Shawn (Ulhas Tari) in the main roles. With Jaju, and Bonny=20 Pereira giving a good account of themselves in their respective roles too. The Writer has taken pains to bring to light that =91Love, Trust= and=20 Understanding=92 go a long way in keeping the unity and bondage in a family= =20 strong
