Re: [Goanet] danger in Goa?
I like your suggestion, but unfortunately, it is impossible to implement. The members of the Armed forces lose some of their basic rights, the day they sign up. Among these, are the right to free expression, and the right to political activity. regards--Gilbert. -Original Message- From: Tariq Siddiqui [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gilbert menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, May 24, 2002 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] danger in Goa? In my opinion, members of the Indian Armed Forces should start a movement where the sons and daughters of the Indian politicians should first serve in Kashmir, Assam, Tripura and Nagaland, before they go in. Also, before entering the local or national assemblies, the elected representatives should serve atleast one year in Kashmir and the North East. I guarantee we'll have a settlement of all these conflicts within no time. -Tariq =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Compensate Tiatrists/Rape Victims
COMPENSATION FOR RAPE VICTIMS AND TIATRISTS TOO. GOENKARANCHO EKVOTT DEMANDS COMPENSATION TO RAPE VICTIMS OF 1961 Dear Agnelo Gomes Bab, Your write up on the above subject on 23rd of this month created some more interest in me. Your campaign against those guilty of committing atrocities against our females deserves strong support. You and people like you are in much-much more better position than many others to tackle such issues. You and few other living souls who witnessed the hara-kiri committed on innocent Goans in 1961 December during the march of Bharati troops over Goa are the only Goans who can do something to enlighten the present and future generations of the destructive events took place in 1961 in the name of forced liberation. I am sure you need more of Agnelo Gomes to further your campaign and hope more of Agnelo Gomes will join you. Please do what you can to ask justice and compensation for the rape victims. Sardarjis were the worst culprits, even Pakistanis say during the partition time Sardarjis committed worst cruelties against Muslim women. Alfred DCruz was a renowned Goan journalist from Bombay, after working for 40 years at Times of India he retired and now leading a retired life at his Bombay Bandra Home, near Linking Road. Hailing from Saligao Bardez and coming from an aristocratic family he as a boarder at Arpora finished his Matriculation and completed his double graduation in Bombay and soon joined Times under the British Editor. While in Bombay he involved in Goas liberation movement and because of which he was banned by the Portuguese Government in Goa from entering Goa. Even when his dearest mother died he could not attend to her funeral though he tried his level best to cast his last glance on his dead mother. Soon after Goa was grabbed by Bharat, Nehru was in Bombay addressing a press conference. During this conference Nehru spotted DCruz and asked him thus Mr. DCruz! Are you satisfied that your beloved Goa is now liberated by our troops? For this Alfred DCruz retorted thus Mr. Prime Minister, it hurts me very much to ask you that - have you sent your troops to Goa to liberate my Goa or to rape our innocent women and loot my Goa? For this Nehru was totally embarrassed, so too others. The rapes, pillage and loot done by Indian Military personnel in 1961 was not a fake argument but a truth and REAL TRUTH. Indian Military is a shameless Military as far as rapes are concerned. This is because most of the Military personnel are having scrap character, coming from third class background, they look like people coming from zapadpatti and only from this class of people are capable to commit such heinous crimes against innocent women as Iraqi Military did in Kuwait during the invasion of Kuwait. And by the way, havent we heard of such rapes committed by Indian Military personnel in Bangladesh after the defeat of Pakistan in East Pakistan? While demanding compensation for our rape victims, kindly add compensation for our the then great Goa lover tiatrists who openly opposed grabbing of Goa by Bharati Army sent by Nehrus Congress thru the chicanery of Malyali Krishna Menon. The tiatrists that I am referring to are Jacinto Vaz, Young Menezes, M. Dod de Verna, Dioginho de Mello, Ansu Rodrigues, Jeorgina Jacques, Baldino Araujo, Johny Sylvester, Alen Decosta, Reginaldo Fernandes, Kid Boxer and others whose names I cannot remember. Some of these Tiatrists are dead and gone after highlighting their demand even from the stage. But nobody cared for their voice. They were working for the then Emissora de Goa and as employees of Emissora de Goa owned by the then Goa Government (India Portuguesa) their task was to air Konkani programme in support of the Portuguese Government in Goa. It is but natural to follow these lines. To please the British Government and its Monarch, even the National Anthem of India was composed as per the likes of the then British Government by its composer whom we call the greatest patriot of India Rabindranath Tagore. Still we are adoring and singing this as our National Anthem and yet no body call Tagore a British chamcha when Indians suffered so much from the hands of British in fact worst of brutalities were suffered by Indians from the hands of Britsh than what the so called freedom fighters suffered from the hands of Portuguese. The above named Tiatrists and artistes of Emissora de Goa were not paid their (3) months salaries prior to the 19th December 1961. Since they were not paid their salaries by Portuguese Goa Government it was natural for the Indian Government to pay the same as it was done in other cases. But as a punishment for their airing of programmes on Emissora de Goa against Indian military action their salaries were not paid. Jacinto Vaz after December 1961 and till his death at least 5 to 6 times raised this topic from the stage and put
[Goanet] CYBERMATRIMONIALS: Goans in the US, Canada, Dubai, Merchant Navy...
~***cls* C Y B E R - M A T R I M O N I A L S ** LOOKING OUT FOR a life partner? Circulate your message among thousands of Goans for free. For a listing in this column send details to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the 1 MATRIMONIAL. Respondents are requested to verify details for themselves. We carry, in good faith, details as sent in by our readers. Make sure to include an email address to enable you to get faster responses. LOOKING FOR A GOAN RC GIRL: Looking for a Goan Roman Catholic girl around 25 to 29 yrs for a 31 yr old MBA bank manager abroad, 5'10 tall, good personality, very well settled, excellent family background, non-smoker, friendly, caring, honest, down-to-earth person with good values. Reply with full details and photograph. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GOAN, IN THE US: Goan Roman Catholic spinster, in the US, 26 yrs, slim, attractive and well-accomplished, working as a marketing executive for a multinational company, invites alliance from Goan Roman Catholic professional bachelors in the US. Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] WELL-SETTLED GOAN SPINSTER: Well settled Goan spinster seeking Goan bachelors 33-37yrs preferably settled in Canada. If interested please reply with full details to [EMAIL PROTECTED] SEEKING MATURE, JOVIAL GIRL: Seeking a mature, jovial and sincere girl. Peferably settled in Canada for a Goan bachelor 33 years 58'. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] 25, RESIDENT IN CANADA: Goan/Mangalorean, 25, intelligent and good-looking, Canadian resident seeks affectionate person who will be more than a husband. He will be my friend and soulmate.E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] BACHELOR, LIVING IN EUROPE: Kind and loving bachelor (living in Europe for the last 10 years) 28 years of age seeks a good, loving and sincere Goan Catholic girl between the age of 18 and 25 for marriage. Must be willing to settle in Europe as I myself live and work there. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do send a picture of yourself if possible and do mention your address or your contact number in the e-mail. Will be visiting Goa this year between Sept 2002 and December 2002. NRI ENGINEER SON: RC Goan parents invite alliance from well qualified professional spinsters 25-28 yrs old for their NRI engineer son 5'10 tall, 32 yrs old and well settled. If interested do email [EMAIL PROTECTED] GOAN BOY IN DUBAI: Parents of smart good looking boy 34 yrs, honest and jovial well settled in Dubai with good, own new business seeks a smart reasonably fair looking educated girl willing to settle in Dubai. Pls mail biodata and latest picture address - P.O.Box 30625 Dubai - U.A.E. and hope 4 the best. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ARTSY GOAN GAL? Looking to hear from artsy Goan gal, prefrably in N Am for 40 yr old artsy Goan guy. Must be educated, fit, interesting. [EMAIL PROTECTED] BACHELOR WORKING FOR AN MNC: Alliance invited from well settled, well educated Roman Catholic bachelor for Roman Catholic spinster 28/ 5'6 working for a MNC in UAE email [EMAIL PROTECTED] GOAN MERCHANT NAVY OFFICER: Smart, goodlooking, fair and intelligent Goan Merchant Navy officer, from a good and affluent family. 31yrs/5'8/67kgs. Looking for an interesting, goodlooking and intelligent match. Will be in Bombay in July. If interested please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Make your ad more interesting by including details about hobbies, interests, things you feel passionate about, activities you like to participate in, political views, favourite music and books, typical weekend activities, things you think about... Keep ads to a max of 100 words. Please note, we *don't* carry caste affiliations in these columns. Do you know anyone on the lookout for a suitable match? Feel free to copy this dispatch to them. Invite them to join GoaNet/GoaNews, by writing in to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with SUBSCRIBE GOANET/GOANETDIGEST as the subjectline. * =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Village Feast/School Celebrations in Toronto - Aldona - Monte Guirim - Siolim
The Aldona Association - Ontario Canada Presents the 27th Annual Celebration Feast of St. Thomas Date: Sunday, June 2nd, 2002 Time: Mass - 11:30 a.m. SHARP Location: Christ The King Church 3495 Confederation Parkway Mississauga, Ontario Followed by Entertainment / Fun / Dancing and much more. Ticket Contacts: Maureen Pereira - 905.793.9342 Hazel Fernandes - 905.850.1635 Marina Ribeiro - 905.270.0125 Natalie Rodrigues - 905.793.5734 Almir DaCunha - 416.748.9980 Tina DCruz - 416.562.8291 Karl Pereira - 905.793.9342 ADULTS @ $22.00 STUDENTS (13 - 18 yrs.) @ $15.00 SENIORS @ $20.00 CHILDREN (4 - 12 yrs.) @ $8.00 (3 YRS. UNDER FREE) MONTE DE GUIRIM, EX-STUDENTS (TORONTO CHAPTER) INVITATION TO THE EIGHT ANNUAL REUNION ON SUNDAY JUNE 9, 2002 The Ex-Students Association - Toronto Chapter of St. Anthony's High School, Monte De Guirim, Goa is pleased to invite all alumni and their brethren, friends and family to their eight annual gala lunch dance to be held at Sangeet Banquet hall, 181 Rexdale Boulevard, Etobicoke, Ontario. Feast Mass in honour of St. Anthony will be celebrated at 11 AM and will be followed by our traditional Goan festive celebrations. A live band ad DJ will be in attendance. Indian buffet lunch will be served accompanied by Sorpotel. Prizes and surprises galore. Please contact President of the Social Committee, Felix Colaco for further details and tickets at (905)509 9294, (416)983 9694 and (416) 399 5074 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please respond as soon as possible if you will be attending. Thank you. Siolim Association of Toronto Celebration of the Feast of Saint Anthony Date: June 15, 2002 Mass @ 5.30 p.m. followed by dinner dancing Place: Taj Banquet Hall Phone: (416)742-9787 4611 Steeles Ave W, (Hwy 400/Steeles) North York, ON M9L 1X2 For Ticket Information Contact: Ben Priscilla Pinto: 416 298 3895 or Bruno Melissa Lopes: 416 231 8751 Posted by JJD'S =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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 #4016
goanet-digest Saturday, May 25 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4016 - In this issue: [Goanet] Village Feast/School Celebrations in Toronto - Aldona - Monte Guirim - Siolim [Goanet] 10QUESTIONS: 'Once elected, politicians don't show their face' [Goanet] Re: BEWARE OF HEPATITIS B VACCINE. See end of digest for information on subscribing/unsusbcribing. -- Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 09:06:11 -0700 From: John D'souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Village Feast/School Celebrations in Toronto - Aldona - Monte Guirim - Siolim The Aldona Association - Ontario Canada Presents the 27th Annual Celebration Feast of St. Thomas Date: Sunday, June 2nd, 2002 Time: Mass - 11:30 a.m. SHARP Location: Christ The King Church 3495 Confederation Parkway Mississauga, Ontario Followed by Entertainment / Fun / Dancing and much more. Ticket Contacts: Maureen Pereira - 905.793.9342 Hazel Fernandes - 905.850.1635 Marina Ribeiro - 905.270.0125 Natalie Rodrigues - 905.793.5734 Almir DaCunha - 416.748.9980 Tina DCruz - 416.562.8291 Karl Pereira - 905.793.9342 ADULTS @ $22.00 STUDENTS (13 - 18 yrs.) @ $15.00 SENIORS @ $20.00 CHILDREN (4 - 12 yrs.) @ $8.00 (3 YRS. UNDER FREE) MONTE DE GUIRIM, EX-STUDENTS (TORONTO CHAPTER) INVITATION TO THE EIGHT ANNUAL REUNION ON SUNDAY JUNE 9, 2002 The Ex-Students Association - Toronto Chapter of St. Anthony's High School, Monte De Guirim, Goa is pleased to invite all alumni and their brethren, friends and family to their eight annual gala lunch dance to be held at Sangeet Banquet hall, 181 Rexdale Boulevard, Etobicoke, Ontario. Feast Mass in honour of St. Anthony will be celebrated at 11 AM and will be followed by our traditional Goan festive celebrations. A live band ad DJ will be in attendance. Indian buffet lunch will be served accompanied by Sorpotel. Prizes and surprises galore. Please contact President of the Social Committee, Felix Colaco for further details and tickets at (905)509 9294, (416)983 9694 and (416) 399 5074 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please respond as soon as possible if you will be attending. Thank you. Siolim Association of Toronto Celebration of the Feast of Saint Anthony Date: June 15, 2002 Mass @ 5.30 p.m. followed by dinner dancing Place: Taj Banquet Hall Phone: (416)742-9787 4611 Steeles Ave W, (Hwy 400/Steeles) North York, ON M9L 1X2 For Ticket Information Contact: Ben Priscilla Pinto: 416 298 3895 or Bruno Melissa Lopes: 416 231 8751 Posted by JJD'S -- Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 20:50:45 +0530 (IST) From: Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] 10QUESTIONS: 'Once elected, politicians don't show their face' 'Once elected, politicians don't show their face' Four decades back, John Eric Gomes was a young lieutenant on the warship INS Cauvery that bombarded the Portuguese military vessel, 'Albuquerque'. Today, he's got his guns trained on another target: double-speaking politicians who divide the people and enrichen themselves. A former Assistant Director of Naval Operations at Delhi, he was later also in the Merchant Navy. He voices the growing impatience many feel with Goa's selfish politicians, in a talk with Frederick Noronha: - - FN: How do you see the current scene, pre-polls? Is there hope? - - There's absolute frustration. For the voter, the choice is between the devil and the deep blue sea. Between proven corruption and the BJP, who's definitely got the best people, but is communal. A party who's versions of Hindutva even the Hindus won't accept. What happened in Gujarat is absolutely disgusting. - - FN: So what's the option? - - That's why we've brought in the smaller parties (to face citizens at a meet-the-candidate programme, just over on Saturday in Porvorim). - - FN: But one view is that the smaller parties would only fragment votes and probably contribute to the wrong person winning. - - Hence the frustration... It's also the fault of the people. Specially the middle and upper-middleclass. Their attitude makes me sometimes wonder if we're fit for democracy. In a democracy, you have to take part. They only want to sit and criticise. This evening itself, one person boldly said he was not going to vote, and was critical like anything. I asked him just one question: What are you doing about this? He had no answer because he was
[Goanet] what is new on The Goan Forum Website
Dear all, Three new posts responses are added to TGF's Are Goans Liberated editorial (total now 20 responses) at http://www.colaco.net being updated bur still accessible they are listed below your criticism are welcome jc for TGF === Livia de Abreu Noronha May 24, 2002 One man's meat is another man's poison, and therefore to some Goa is liberated and to others it is still in bondage. Nitin Singh May 24, 2002 Even if Mr. Prabhudesai doesnt miss an opportunity to slam the Portuguese, we do have TGF here to defend the Portuguese honor! Dont we!?! * Nitin Singh May 25, 2002 Ineffective Indian blockade of Goa, Hippies and a communal harmony that came into being* Both * posts have TGF comments added at foot of posts Coming Soon.Siddis Religion = Recommended Goan Sites in Cyberspace Goa-World at http://www.goa-world.net The Goan Forum is at http://www.colaco.net __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.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 !!
[Goanet] From Prof. Hari Sharma (retd.)
Dear friends: Here is a report on the NY event. It shows that the Sangh Parivar fascists can indeed be isolated. It shows that they may be very well organized, and very vocal. But they are still a very small minority. A hand full of upper-caste, upper-class, bigots. Imagine what would be their fate if the vast majority of the NRI's - the workers in the organized and unorganized sectors, the un- or under-employed marginalized workers, the taxi drivers, the workers on the farms, the small business men and women, those belonging to religious minorities, the dalits, and the students and professionals who still have their thinking faculties and their rationality not appropriated - imagine, if all of these were brought together to stand up and speak! The Hindutava-fascists among the NRIs in North America (or anywhere else) do not amount to more a tiny percent of the lot. They can be silenced. They can be reduced to their little conceited selves. A definite indication of the work we have to do. And a cheering news, indeed. Hari sharma President, SANSAD, President, INSAF A 'Riot' was planned, but nobody came Rediff.com News May 22, 2002 0950 IST Prem Panicker in New York A boisterous protest was scheduled for this evening. It didn't happen. And a good thing, too. The voice of fundamentalism, though often short on fact and long on rhetoric, tends to be shrill. The voice of reason, though sane, lucid, eloquent, tends to be soft. It is in the nature of the second to be drowned, and of the first to drown. The real triumph of this evening, thus, could well lie in the fact that the voice of reason was heard, and appreciated with frequent bursts of applause, by the audience at the Tischman Auditorium in the main building of The New School, on 12th Street, New York. Outside the school premises, the middle-aged Narain Kataria of the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh and his followers - numbering all of 18 - chanted a few slogans, held up assorted placards, and flashed embarrassed grins at passersby wondering what the heck was going on. Inside, an audience of approximately 500 people, at $10 a pop, gathered for a staged reading of author and senior United Nations official Shashi Tharoor's novel, 'Riot'. For the uninitiated, a staged reading is essentially a dramatised version of a book or part thereof, in multiple voices. In this instance, four characters from the book - Ram Charan Gupta, Mohammad Sarwar, superintendent of police Gurinder Singh and district magistrate Lakshman were chosen. And voiced by, respectively, actress and parliamentarian Shabhana Azmi, actress and director Madhur Jaffrey, Tharoor himself, and Deputy Editorial Features Editor of the Wall Street Journal Tunku Varadarajan. 'Riot' - the novel - is a tale of love and its almost inevitable fictional concomitant, death, set against the backdrop of the Ram Janambhoomi agitation. In it, the author uses 12 different voices to tell his story and, inter-alia, to cast light on the troubled times. Michael Johnson Chase, International Program Director of the Lark Theatre Company, in tandem with the author adapted the book for the event. That is to say, he gave the central romance the miss in baulk, and made the canvas itself his tale. Thus on stage we had Shabhana Azmi playing the volatile Hindutva chauvinist Ram Charan Gupta. Ironical bit of casting that, for the handful of protestors outside had in their slogans been characterising her as rabidly anti-Hindu, and a friend to Muslim jehadis and the Taleban. Tunku Varadarajan, known for his acerbic columns, was another instance of classic miscasting - as the soft-spoken, rational district magistrate trying to do the right thing. Tharoor, with his booming base, played the expletive-spouting, hard-drinking top cop. And Madhur Jaffrey rounded off the ensemble as the sarcastic, witty, yet always sensible Muslim professor making a case for his -- and his community's - essential Indianness. It was a structured retelling, kicking off with Azmi talking of the historical injustice of Babar's demolition of a Hindu temple to erect a Muslim mosque on the land revered as the birthplace of Lord Ram, and making a case for the land to be reclaimed, and a temple to Ram erected in place of the mosque. Varadarajan as the middle-of-the-road official followed up with an argument against the increasing climate of intolerance. The phrase Hindu fundamentalist, he said, is a contradiction of terms, because Hinduism is a religion without any fundamentals - a line that, in fact, finds place in Tharoor's earlier work of non-fiction, India: From Independence to the Millennium and which, like a few others, were transplanted into this performance. Jaffrey in her turn gently mocked the Hindutva brigade's claims to historical sanction, and rounded off with the eminently quotable: Build Ram in your hearts because if he is there, it little matters where else he is. And Tharoor rounded off by
[Goanet] Wake up Sr.Pe.Vigar/Sr.Pe.Cur.
WAKE UP SENHOR PE. VIGAR/SENHOR PE. CUR. The purpose of the Church authorities is to guide the people away from the sin and away from the path that leads to sin. Today political scenario in Goa is leading to sin and sinful life. Hence it is the duty of every religious authority not only of Christian and Catholic but also of all other religions to guide the people in right direction. Because of failing standard of political morality in Goa Church role is imperative since Church is already taken up issues earlier of public importance. That other religious authorities kept silence over many Goan issues affecting the life of Goans is very disturbing. When moral standard in any aspect is going down then religious authority must involve otherwise we may easily have another Soddom and Gomorrah. Some of our political leaders when they get elected and assume ministerial powers they immediately indulge in sinful life and convert innocent people into sinners. Accepting bribes, committing sexual hara-kiri on our innocent girls by promising them Government jobs, using muscle and money power to get their work done these are some of the worst crimes politicians can commit. By committing such crimes the politicians degrade the human standard to that of an animal and slave. In the last Assembly we saw so many politicians got defected and made mess of the entire system in Goa. Law and order was totally destroyed beyond recognition. Defection is the worst crime a politician can commit. In Aldona constituency there are number of villages where the majority of voters are practicing Catholics. These voters are misguided by the politicians either thru false promises or thru bribes. They must be educated and only the Church can take up this responsibility rightly. At this stage Church leaders in Aldona constituency cannot remain silent spectators. The Pe. Viagars and Pe. Curs in Aldona constituency must come out forcefully against the defectors, against the candidates who use our Catholic Girls as whores and concubines. These Pe. Vigars and Pe. Curs must tell the congregation not to vote for the candidate who ask monetarily and sexually bribes to dole Government jobs. I am sure when priest in the Church highlight these issues then there is every possibility for the congregation to follow the Church instructions. If Church leaders, if Pe. Vigars and Pe. Curs now fail in their obligation towards guiding the people in right direction then we may again have the same candidates who took us for a ride in the last Assembly. The above pattern should be also followed in other constituencies where defectors are again contesting the election in their constituencies namely at Curtorim (Sardinha), Cortalim (Mauwin Godinho), Ponda (Ravi Naik) and etc. It is surprising that besides Church no other religious authority is coming forward in Goa to guide the people. It is a must that every religious authority should involve in guiding its followers so that they are not trapped on wrong side. Every religious authority is duty bound to tell the voters NOT TO VOTE FOR DEFECTORS NOT TO VOTE FOR SEXTERS NOT TO VOTE FOR COMMUNAL ELEMENTS. The candidates of the party that committed carnage at Gujarat by all means should be defeated otherwise these people will come out with greater fury and convert Goa into another Gujarat. The candidates of the party that disgraces the fair image of Mahatmah Gandhi must be thrown out. The candidates of Congress have no right even to utter the name of most upright man Mahatmah Gandhi. They will fool the voters by uttering the name of Gandhi but voters should be clever. Mahatma Gandhi stood for uprightness in political life. Are the current candidates of Congress upright? NO AND HENCE THEY DESERVE KICK IN THE COMING ELECTION. Wake up voters in Aldona and elsewhere where defectors and crooks are contesting. Show your condemnation to them by NOT VOTING THESE RASCALS. Vote only for clean and upright candidates A. Veronica Fernandes, Kuwait. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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 #4017
goanet-digest Saturday, May 25 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4017 - In this issue: [Goanet] what is new on The Goan Forum Website [Goanet] From Prof. Hari Sharma (retd.) [Goanet] Interview with Fred Noronha [Goanet] Wake up Sr.Pe.Vigar/Sr.Pe.Cur. See end of digest for information on subscribing/unsusbcribing. -- Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 13:57:10 -0700 (PDT) From: The Goan Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] what is new on The Goan Forum Website Dear all, Three new posts responses are added to TGF's Are Goans Liberated editorial (total now 20 responses) at http://www.colaco.net being updated bur still accessible they are listed below your criticism are welcome jc for TGF === Livia de Abreu Noronha May 24, 2002 One man's meat is another man's poison, and therefore to some Goa is liberated and to others it is still in bondage. Nitin Singh May 24, 2002 Even if Mr. Prabhudesai doesnt miss an opportunity to slam the Portuguese, we do have TGF here to defend the Portuguese honor! Dont we!?! * Nitin Singh May 25, 2002 Ineffective Indian blockade of Goa, Hippies and a communal harmony that came into being* Both * posts have TGF comments added at foot of posts Coming Soon.Siddis Religion = Recommended Goan Sites in Cyberspace Goa-World at http://www.goa-world.net The Goan Forum is at http://www.colaco.net __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 18:47:09 -0700 (PDT) From: George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] From Prof. Hari Sharma (retd.) Dear friends: Here is a report on the NY event. It shows that the Sangh Parivar fascists can indeed be isolated. It shows that they may be very well organized, and very vocal. But they are still a very small minority. A hand full of upper-caste, upper-class, bigots. Imagine what would be their fate if the vast majority of the NRI's - the workers in the organized and unorganized sectors, the un- or under-employed marginalized workers, the taxi drivers, the workers on the farms, the small business men and women, those belonging to religious minorities, the dalits, and the students and professionals who still have their thinking faculties and their rationality not appropriated - imagine, if all of these were brought together to stand up and speak! The Hindutava-fascists among the NRIs in North America (or anywhere else) do not amount to more a tiny percent of the lot. They can be silenced. They can be reduced to their little conceited selves. A definite indication of the work we have to do. And a cheering news, indeed. Hari sharma President, SANSAD, President, INSAF A 'Riot' was planned, but nobody came Rediff.com News May 22, 2002 0950 IST Prem Panicker in New York A boisterous protest was scheduled for this evening. It didn't happen. And a good thing, too. The voice of fundamentalism, though often short on fact and long on rhetoric, tends to be shrill. The voice of reason, though sane, lucid, eloquent, tends to be soft. It is in the nature of the second to be drowned, and of the first to drown. The real triumph of this evening, thus, could well lie in the fact that the voice of reason was heard, and appreciated with frequent bursts of applause, by the audience at the Tischman Auditorium in the main building of The New School, on 12th Street, New York. Outside the school premises, the middle-aged Narain Kataria of the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh and his followers - numbering all of 18 - chanted a few slogans, held up assorted placards, and flashed embarrassed grins at passersby wondering what the heck was going on. Inside, an audience of approximately 500 people, at $10 a pop, gathered for a staged reading of author and senior United Nations official Shashi Tharoor's novel, 'Riot'. For the uninitiated, a staged reading is essentially a dramatised version of a book or part thereof, in multiple voices. In this instance, four characters from the book - Ram Charan Gupta, Mohammad Sarwar, superintendent of police Gurinder Singh and district magistrate Lakshman were chosen. And voiced by, respectively, actress and parliamentarian Shabhana Azmi, actress and director Madhur Jaffrey, Tharoor himself, and Deputy Editorial Features Editor of the Wall Street Journal Tunku Varadarajan. 'Riot' - the novel - is a tale of love and its almost inevitable fictional concomitant, death, set against the backdrop of the Ram Janambhoomi agitation. In it, the author uses 12 different voices to tell his story and, inter-alia, to cast light on the troubled times. Michael Johnson Chase, International Program Director of the Lark Theatre Company, in tandem with the author adapted
[Goanet] NEWS: Christian body slams terrorism, calls for peace
Christian body slams terrorism, calls for peace From Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) A prominent Christian body Saturday urged India and Pakistan to refrain from armed conflict and resolve their differences through peaceful means. The Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) called for initiating dialogue between the two countries to deal with terrorism that has seen a sudden spurt during since April and claimed nearly 50 lives in Jammu and Kashmir. Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated following the attack on an army camp May 14 when terrorists mowed down 31 people, mostly wives and children of Indian soldiers, and the assassination of separatist leader Abdul Ghani Lone on May 21. Expressing concern about the possibility of a confrontation between the two nuclear powers, CBCI appealed to both the governments to show restraint. While condemning the latest terrorists attacks, it called upon Islamabad to stop the infiltration of terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir. India and Pakistan must work towards diplomacy and dialogue to avoid the present situation at their borders, said Percival Fernandez, CBCI's secretary general. War, which ends only in the massacre of innocent people on both sides, should be avoided at all costs and both the countries should understand that they cannot afford a war at a time when millions of their people are living in poverty, social injustice, illiteracy and painful economic conditions. Delhi's Archbishop Vincent Concessao said: War is not the right solution to remove terrorism from India and Pakistan. The CBCI is of the firm conviction that Indians and Pakistanis are a peace loving people and they would never want a war between the two countries as a means to fight terrorism, which has affected both the countries and claimed hundreds of innocent lives, a statement issued by the CBCI said. Nearly 30,000 people have been killed in a bloody separatist campaign in Jammu and Kashmir since 1989. --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 !!
[Goanet] 26 MAY: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS 26 May 2002 PARRIKAR'S AIDE ASSAULTED: Poll related group clashes in the trouble-prone Ponda taluka surfaced yet again, when Mayuresh Khaunte, a special assistant to Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, was allegedly attacked by a group of Congress workers in Ponda city on Friday night, (in connection with the fixing of poll banners and posters). Chief Minister Parrikar flayed the Congress party for attacking the BJP workers and alleged that the attack on his workers was carried out by the son of Ravi Naik and a councilor of Ponda. (H) CEO URGED TO LIFT BAN ON CASSETTES: A group of prominent citizens has urged the Chief Electoral Officer that the instructions issued by him to the police to seize cassettes of the film Hey Ram and magazine Communalism Combat on Gujarat carnage, be immediately withdrawn, as they are not only biased to a political ideology but also against the fundamental rights of freedom of speech and expression. (H) MGP INTRODUCED DAYANAND SCHEME: The MGP candidate for Bicholim, Pandurang Raut, has insisted that the Dayanand Social Security Scheme, which is being propagated by the BJP, was in fact being practiced by the MGP during Bandodkar's time. Raut accused the BJP of distributing DSSS forms to voters in a bid to lure them to vote for the BJP. (H) BARS MAKE MERRY: Apathy of the Colva police to maintain strict vigil in the hyper-sensitive Benaulim constituency has led to bar owners making merry and keeping their establishments open till deep into the night. (WE-GT) FORGERY UNEARTHED: A scam in which five persons formed a co-operative housing society (in Tivim-Cansa) and obtained a loan of about Rs.1.5 crore after forging signatures, has come to light after the victims were intimated for recovery of arrears by the assistant registrar of co-operative societies. (WE-GT) KNOW YOUR SALIGAO CANDIDATE: The Lions Club of Arpora-Nagoa-Parra in association with the Holy Trinity Social Cell of Nagoa, will organised a programme for the electorate of Saligao constituency today at St Joseph's High School Ground, Arpora, at 5.30 pm. (WE-GT) MAGIC FOR PUBLIC AWARENESS: The Goan Magicians' Guild has decided that every month the Guild will come out with many informative shows in different parts of the State, especially tailored to spread awareness on hygiene related topics and instructive magic acts exposing the street gamblers, quacks, short changers, hypnotist and fake godmen. (NT) ASI KILLED IN MISHAP: In a hit and run case, Assistant Sub-Inspector, attached to Verna Police Station, Vinayak Kerkar, was knocked down fatally near the accident prone zone at Rumder-Nuvem on Saturday afternoon. (H) PUP ADOPTION CAMP: Goa Animal Welfare Trust will hold a free Pup Adoption Camp on May 26 at Varca Ground from 8.30 am to 12.30 pm. (NT) COMUNIDADE ASSOCIATION DEMANDS: The managing committee members of the Association of Components of Comunidades has resolved to demand public assurance from contesting parties/candidates that on formation of the government in Goa, the undue interference by the government in the administration of the Comunidades should be withdrawn forthwith. (NT) ALDONA FEAST IN TORONTO:The Aldona Association in Ontario, Canada, will holds the 27th Annual Celebration Feast of St Thomas on June 2, 2002, with Mass at 11:30 a.m., at Christ The King Church, 3495 Confederation Parkway Mississauga, Ontario, followed by Entertainment / Fun / Dancing and much more. Contact: Maureen Pereira: 905.793.9342; Hazel Fernandes: 905.850.1635; Marina Ribeiro: 905.270.0125; Natalie Rodrigues: 905.793.5734;Almir da Cunha: 416.748.9980; Tina D'Cruz: 416.562.8291; Karl Pereira: 905.793.9342 (John D'souza [EMAIL PROTECTED]) MONTE DE GUIRIM, EX-STUDENTS REUNION IN TORONTO: The Ex-Students Association (Toronto Chapter) of St Anthony's High School, Monte de Guirim, Goa, will hold their eight annual gala lunch dance on June 9, atSangeet Banquet hall, 181 Rexdale Boulevard, Etobicoke, Ontario. Feast Mass in honour of St. Anthony will be celebrated at 11 AM and will be followed byour traditional Goan festive celebrations. A live band ad DJ will be in attendance. Indian buffet lunch will be served accompanied by Sorpotel. Contact: Felix Colaco for details and tickets at (905)509 9294, (416)983 9694 and (416) 399 5074 oremail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John D'souza [EMAIL PROTECTED]) SIOLIM FEAST IN TORONTO: The celebration of the feast of Saint Anthony will be held on June 15, 2002, with Mass @ 5.30 p.m. followed by dinner dancing. Contact: Ben Priscilla Pinto: 416 298 3895 or Bruno Melissa Lopes: 416 231 8751 (John D'souza [EMAIL PROTECTED]) TARA TO BE STAGED: Tara an English play will be staged at the Kala Academy on May 27-28 at 6.30 pm, by Mustard Seed Arts. THE TASTY INDIAN MANGOES: One of the reasons that the relations between Emperor Shahjahan and his recalcitrant son (late Emperor Aurangzeb) went sour in the 17 century, seems to
