[Goanet] Looking out for...
I am presently outside India and am in search of a friend of mine who, during the eighties , was with me in the Gulf . I have heard that he has settled down in Goa and has opened a Resort type of Hotel somewhere in /near Baga beach . His name is Remy Martin and his wife was/is a Singer of Konkani songs. Awaiting to receive your reply and remain , Thanking you , Faithfully , Haresh D. -- # 211, Shaqaqi Alley , Safi Ali Shah Street , Enqalab Avenue , Tehran - 11496 Iran Voice : +98 21 876 6761 (O) 752 8470 (R) Mobile: +98 913 217 9661 Fax : +98 21 876 0967 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] What Goa is (or is not) doing on the IT front...
++ Below are some official statements, facts and figures that give a hint of what progress Goa has (or has not) made while promising to promote IT in the state: ++ FROM THE ECONOMIC SURVEY 2001-02 * To equip students with IT skills and to compete with recent trends of computerization in education, special courses, viz Computer Software Application (in secondary schools) and Computer Awareness Art (in higher secondary schools) have been introduced. * Upto March 2001, computers have been provided to all higher secondary schools and 97 high schools. (Note: No numbers of computers given mentioned. -FN) A provision of Rs 70 million has been made during 2001-02 to cover all remaining schools and purchase off hardware and software is in progress. * The Dept off IT has been created for evolving a suitable IT programme with the basic philosophy to realize the dream of taking the benefits of ICT to the masses of Goa and aiming to create an e-citizen for all transactions and for all-purposes, towards making Goa the 'intelligent state' of the decade. * Govt claims to have initiated the following infrastructure projects: hi-tech habitat, cyber-city/ICE city, IT resort. * WAN: to involve all departments of the government with various district HQs and the state capital. The various blocks will be linked to district HQs and they, in turn, to the state HQ through a lattice network. * This would enable the government to compress geographically dispersed resources as though they were centralized. Govt can use databases, telecom networks, and standardized processing systems to get the benefits of scale and coordination, while maintaining the benefits of flexibility and service. * INITIATIVES TOWARD E-GOVERNANCE: (i) To use IT in the process of governance and improve its response to its citizens (how will this be done if officials don't respond to e-mail? --FN) (ii) to have connectivity between all its officers (iii) to computerise process of governance so that citizens could file documents required by govt electronically (iv) to connect all depts and district HQ with video conferencing (and e-mail) with the CM's office to allow a channel of communication (v) to put in place a training programme to enable govt employees to use IT to enhance productivity. * Other issues the Economic Survey talks about (mainly lofty principles, low on specific commitments) include e-citizenship, e-democracy, e-administration, e-security etc (see Page 82-84) * Says the survey: It is proposed to set up an International Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM). The IIITM would be modeled after the Indian Institute of Technology and would have its own campus, and have the character of a national institution * The common-man in the state is largely unaware of the benefits and potential off IT in his day-to-day life. A massive awareness campaign is therefore required to be launched, to educate people about what IT can mean for improving their quality of life. * Incentives and support being offered to IT: - Exemption from Sales Tax, Sales Tax on Capital Goods, Entry Tax - In principle decided to accord maximum leverage in exemption, wherever possible. - NOC from Pollution Board, within environmental laws and regulations - Zonal regulations sought to be relaxed to permit IT software and IT-enabled commercial services in industrial and commercial zones, residential and mofussil areas located in exclusive buildings - Relaxation in FAR (floor-area ratio) being formulated for IT parks and hi-tech habitat to be established by government. - Concessions from Stamp Duty being formalised to attract investors for rebate on payment of stamp duty on sale deed or lease deed for premises to set up IT software and IT enabled services in IT Park, HiTech Habitat (set up by govt or govt-approved private parks) having minimum facilities like dedicated connectivity and adequate back(?) power. * STEPS INITIATED DURING 2001-2002 IT PROMOTION: (i) Dept with assistance of CII organised a seminar on IT enabled services (ii) Natl Conf on E-Governance was organised on Nov 8-9, 2001. (Just organising seminars? -FN) IT COUNCIL: Two meetings held in April and May 2001. (? Since?) INFRASTRUCTURE: (i) Dona Paula hitech habitat -- to be implemented as joint-venture between GoG and other parties. Process of identifying the JV partner is in an advanced stage (of) finalisation. (ii) Proposed to set up Cyber City/ICE City at Mandrem-Morjim Plateau. Preliminary work of land acquisition started and blueprint will be prepared. (ii) Proposed to create a unique infrastructure as IT Resort for high skilled IT professionals for work-cum-leisure. Official statement says details are being
[Goanet] Forming an Association of parents of a single girl child.
* Documented by Goa Desc Documentation Service circulated by Goa Civic Consumer Action Network (GOA CAN)[EMAIL PROTECTED] * Forming An Association I wish to invite parents who have only one child and that too a girl child to join hands with me in forming an association. This invitation goes out to parents who are not going to have more children. The purpose of forming such an association is to explore ways and means to get better privileges for ourselves from the government. This association will have no caste or creed barrier and is basically to promote the welfare of our only child. Let us keep in mind that if we unite we can achieve some good. Parents of single child (girl) desiring to form such an association may please contact me on Ph no 260839 between 3.30 to 4.30 pm and 8.30 to 9.00 pm. A Parent --- Response in HERALD 10/6/02 page 6 === GOA DESC RESOURCE CENTRE Documentation + Education + Solidarity 11 Liberty Apts., Feira Alta, Mapusa, Goa 403 507 Tel: 252660 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Working On Issues Of Development Democracy === =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] PAKISTAN -- Dress code appeal wears badly with women
Dress code appeal wears badly with women By Robin Fernandez KARACHI: An advisory issued by the city's biggest church on the prescribed attire and appearance of worshippers has received a lukewarm response from church-goers here some of whom question the merits of the dress code.Ask yourself what you should wear when you come to the house of the Lord, said Fr Joe D'Mello, supplementing a short notice in St Patrick Cathedral's Sunday service leaflet. To the credit of the cathedral's prelates the question was, at first, open-ended and its subtlety guaranteed more than passing adherence. But within weeks it became clear that the church notice was aimed particularly at women who wore allegedly revealing clothes. Among the first to be cited for indecent exposure were young brides and their maids of honour. They were publicly admonished over their choice of attire, and if that was not enough more unsolicited advice poured forth from the pulpit for would-be brides. Please be careful about the kind of bridal wear you choose. Make sure it it's not revealing, the priest in carge was quoted as telling women preparing for marriage. A similar note of caution was struck in the cathedral in recent weeks. Older men and women feel that it is time a dress code is enforced in Pakistani churches but most young women bristle with rage at the suggestion. It's not as if women here are wearing strapless gowns and are going around in see-through clothes. How many women wear mini-dresses to church, anyway? asked a flight attendent icily. I'd like to quote an enlightened Muslim girl who told her conservative fiance that purdah (the act of covering one's head and body) is in the mind, not in the eyes. Since the church earlier left it to the people to decide what is or isn't decent attire, it is not fair to talk of a dress code now, complained a female choir member. Much of the criticism about female dress may also be unjustified. The national dress of Pakistan (shalwar kamez) is suitably modest and chic, and most Christian women aged between 16 and 45 consider it a fair alternative, if not first choice wear, to Western-style clothes. Older generations of women, however, find the dress cumbersome and culturally alien, though their daughters and younger siblings have no such qualms. Whether it is office workers or secretaries, sales reps or teachers the use of shalwar kameez has become more pervasive among women today, said an old female secretary who first took to wearing shalwar kameez 35 years ago. Apparently it is the skimpier versions of Western-style clothing that has prompted the church appeal for a dress code. Young women acknowledge that there probably are few breaches of the unwritten yetwell-defined rules of female modesty, but these are too few to be counted. In any case women do know how far to go, said a twentysomething teacher candidly. The idea of a dress code for church-goers has not been rejected altogether but many people insist that the code be applicable to both males and females instead of being gender-specific. Men can be sloppy dressers too, said a young bank worker.Modesty in clothing is a desirable goal. We should not show any disrespect to God by wearing indecent clothes. However the church should allow men and women themselves to determine what the criteria of modesty is, said a male marketing executive. While the phrase Sunday bes __ You have received this email from TV-Email, developed by Wavetech. For more information on TV-Email click on http://wavetec.com/tv-email =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Re: Sentinels of Goa's Past
Forts are sentinels of Goa's past. They are important national monuments. They are. Goa itself, with its varied population, the sentinel of India's past. It is a national monument. That is why the Prime Minister took personal interest in saving it from previous decades' instability and political rape. He wanted to carry it not into its glorious past, but worthwhile future. Who will stand up in Goa as sentinels of the future? These need to be preserved, made national monuments and remembered constantly in order only to strengthen their hands. There are plenty of these in Goa. Search should be on to look them up rather than the luxuries of backward looking sentinels in stone, mud and mortar! William -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Padre Pio's most astonishing healings
PADRE PIO REMAINS TOTAL MYSTERY -- WITH AMAZING CURES THAT STILL STUN EXPERTS Who was Padre Pio? How do we comprehend a man of so much mystery? How could a single person have so many gifts? There are saints who have been known for healing; there are saints who could read souls; there are saints who were known for levitation; there were saints who bore the stigmata, or were seen in apparition, or had the odor of sanctity. There are saints who could understand languages they didn't know. But Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, who died in 1968 and will be canonized Sunday in a huge, historic ceremony, had all these charisms -- and more. In fact, no saint in history, with the possible exception of St. Francis, had more in the way of mysticism. It seemed there are no charisms he didn't possess. This was a man who was a mystery to everyone he ever met and a mystery even to himself. To this day, we still don't understand how a single person could pack such potency -- nor what this implies. Who was he? Why did one man have such potency? We know only that he has been a fantastic intercessor -- stories of his miracles, both during and subsequent to his death, are absolutely legion -- and after his canonization, that intercession will grow. Of all Padre Pio's healings, one of the most remarkable may have been a blind girl from the Palermo area named Gemma DiGiorgio. I had no pupils in my eyes, said Gemma in 1971, several years after Padre Pio's death. I had no sight at all. When I was three months old, my mother took me to a very famous eye doctor in Palermo. He told her that, without pupils, I would never be able to see. Some claimed that she may have had pupils, but that her birth defect was so severe they were not recognized as such. Whatever the case, in 1946, when the girl was seven, a nun took it upon herself to write Padre Pio on her behalf and received a note saying that the girl should be brought to Padre Pio in San Giovanni Rotundo. That's exactly what Gemma's grandmother did: brought the girl to see the famous monk, who heard the child's first Confession and gave her first Communion -- then made the sign of the Cross on her eyes. After the blessing, Gemma was able to see. It's a fact that is beyond question, confirmed by amazed doctors. Did she really lack pupils? Or was her entire eye one large pupil (making it seem that way)? We know only that there was a severe defect and that although the physical defect remained unchanged, afterward Gemma was able to see normally. More astounding still may be the thoroughly-documented cure of a construction worker named Giovanni Savino, who was severely injured on February 15, 1949, in a dynamite mishap. When Dr. Guglielmo Sanguinetti, a physican, and Padre Raffaele, another Capuchin, and Father Dominic Meyer rushed to the injured man's side, all three men noted that among Savino's numerous injuries, his right eye was gone entirely. They agreed that 'the socket was empty,' reports biographer Bernard Ruffin in Padre Pio: The True Story. Other doctors confirmed that the eye was completely annihilated and the other one badly damaged. It looked like Savino was also going to be totally blind. For three days the worker lay on a hospital bed with his head and face bandaged. When a surgeon entered the room three days later, Savino reported that Padre Pio had visited him -- something Savino recognized because he had detected the beautiful aroma so often reported around the priest. A week later, at about one a.m. on February 25, 1949, Savino felt a slap on the right side of his face -- the side where the eye was completely gone. I asked, 'Who touched me?' testified Savino. There was nobody. Again I smelled the aroma of Padre Pio. It was beautiful. When later the ophthalmologist -- an atheist -- came to examine the remaining eye, there was shock. To their amazement, writes Ruffin, the doctors found that his shattered face was fully healed and covered with new skin. Savino, however, was most delighted at the fact that he could see. 'I can see you!' he said excitedly to the eye specialist. And indeed, as is medically documented, the doctor saw to his 'utter astonishment that Savino had his right eye back. Somehow, the eye had materialized. (Now I believe too, exclaimed the doctor, because of what my own hands have touched!) As Ruffin notes, it's one thing when diseases disappear; this is exciting. It's tremendous to hear of diabetes or arthritis or even cancer leaving a person. For a missing part of the body to be restored, however, is another matter, noted the expert biographer. _ 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
Re: [Goanet] Forts: Goa's sentinels lie neglected
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goanet-digest V1 #4083
goanet-digest Saturday, June 15 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4083 - In this issue: [Goanet] Forming an Association of parents of a single girl child. [Goanet] PAKISTAN -- Dress code appeal wears badly with women [Goanet] Re: Sentinels of Goa's Past [Goanet] Padre Pio's most astonishing healings See end of digest for information on subscribing/unsusbcribing. -- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:56:05 +0530 From: Goa Desc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Forming an Association of parents of a single girl child. * Documented by Goa Desc Documentation Service circulated by Goa Civic Consumer Action Network (GOA CAN)[EMAIL PROTECTED] * - Forming An Association - I wish to invite parents who have only one child and that too a girl child to join hands with me in forming an association. This invitation goes out to parents who are not going to have more children. The purpose of forming such an association is to explore ways and means to get better privileges for ourselves from the government. This association will have no caste or creed barrier and is basically to promote the welfare of our only child. Let us keep in mind that if we unite we can achieve some good. Parents of single child (girl) desiring to form such an association may please contact me on Ph no 260839 between 3.30 to 4.30 pm and 8.30 to 9.00 pm. A Parent - --- Response in HERALD 10/6/02 page 6 - === GOA DESC RESOURCE CENTRE Documentation + Education + Solidarity 11 Liberty Apts., Feira Alta, Mapusa, Goa 403 507 Tel: 252660 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- Working On Issues Of Development Democracy === -- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 04:39:08 -0600 (MDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] PAKISTAN -- Dress code appeal wears badly with women Dress code appeal wears badly with women By Robin Fernandez KARACHI: An advisory issued by the city's biggest church on the prescribed attire and appearance of worshippers has received a lukewarm response from church-goers here some of whom question the merits of the dress code.Ask yourself what you should wear when you come to the house of the Lord, said Fr Joe D'Mello, supplementing a short notice in St Patrick Cathedral's Sunday service leaflet. To the credit of the cathedral's prelates the question was, at first, open-ended and its subtlety guaranteed more than passing adherence. But within weeks it became clear that the church notice was aimed particularly at women who wore allegedly revealing clothes. Among the first to be cited for indecent exposure were young brides and their maids of honour. They were publicly admonished over their choice of attire, and if that was not enough more unsolicited advice poured forth from the pulpit for would-be brides. Please be careful about the kind of bridal wear you choose. Make sure it it's not revealing, the priest in carge was quoted as telling women preparing for marriage. A similar note of caution was struck in the cathedral in recent weeks. Older men and women feel that it is time a dress code is enforced in Pakistani churches but most young women bristle with rage at the suggestion. It's not as if women here are wearing strapless gowns and are going around in see-through clothes. How many women wear mini-dresses to church, anyway? asked a flight attendent icily. I'd like to quote an enlightened Muslim girl who told her conservative fiance that purdah (the act of covering one's head and body) is in the mind, not in the eyes. Since the church earlier left it to the people to decide what is or isn't decent attire, it is not fair to talk of a dress code now, complained a female choir member. Much of the criticism about female dress may also be unjustified. The national dress of Pakistan (shalwar kamez) is suitably modest and chic, and most Christian women aged between 16 and 45 consider it a fair alternative, if not first choice wear, to Western-style clothes. Older generations of women, however, find the dress cumbersome and culturally alien, though their daughters and younger siblings have no such qualms. Whether it is office workers or secretaries, sales reps or teachers the use of shalwar kameez has become more pervasive among women today, said an old female secretary who first took to wearing shalwar kameez 35 years ago. Apparently it is the skimpier versions of
[Goanet] From Carlos Silva: Please send me telephone numbers and email addresses
From: Carlos Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15 June 2002 09:15:54 + carlos silva wrote: Hi sir, Please see if you can send me tellphone numbers of all ministers and allso e-mail addrased. carlos Q8 15th =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Chaddas.. and the D'Souzas
Obese Anil Kapoor redeems film on Hindu-Christian amity By Subhash K. Jha, Indo-Asian News Service (byline mandatory) Badhaai Ho Badhaai. Starring Anil Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Keerthi Reddy, Amrish Puri, K. Vishwanath, Farida Jalal and Kader Khan. Directed by Satish Kaushik. There's a thin Anil Kapoor and a fat Anil Kapoor, and the twain do meet in Satish Kaushik's comedy about love sunshine and music, though not necessarily the melodious kind. Most of Kaushik's directorial ventures have been faithful adaptations of Tamil-Telugu blockbusters. Badhaai Ho Badhaai is no exception. It adheres to the original in most details and emerges with a frothy fun fare that tries to make a statement on two critical issues: communalism and obesity. But Kaushik's views on Hindu-Christian amity suffer from flabbiness. Fortunately the episode about an overweight Raja losing his girth for love is bracing and absorbing. In the first-half, Raja arrives in a crowded middle-class neighbourhood, which is recreated with a superb eye for detail by cinematographer Rajeev Jain and art director Sharmisha Roy, to stop the hatred between two neighbouring families. The Chaddas and the d'Souzas, we are told in swift flashbacks, began to detest one another when their progenies eloped and got married. The idea of an incorrigible do-gooder bringing peace is as familiar to mainstream Hindi cinema as Rajesh Khanna, Anil and Hrithik Roshan. All three stars have played the domestic saviour in one or more films. But in Badhaai Ho Badhaai, Anil overdoes the sweetness. Fat or thin, Raja is determined to spread the full-cream milk of human kindness. For a long while Kaushik's narrative functions as a relay race. To make sure nobody feels left out, Raja does everything in twos. If the matriarch from the Chaddha family, played by Farida Jalal, gets a smile, so does the one in the d'Souza family, enacted by Rohini Rattangadi. After a while we begin to feel we're watching a well-orchestrated propaganda film on communal harmony. The second half where we go into a flashback with a fat Anil has some wonderful moments. The growing bond between the obese Raja and the screechy feather-brained unfocussed Florence, played by Keerthi Reddy, makes us wonder if the director's own battle with the bulge inspired this section of the narrative. Anil plays the fat man with padded compassion. In scenes of romantic dejection the actor returns to his two old favourites, Raj Kapoor and Kamal Haasan, to play the Chaplinesque loser with podgy poignancy, a highlight of the film. The director also extracts chuckles at the two warring clans' expense. But like all of Kaushik's remakes, this one too suffers from congenital crowdedness. Characters spill out of every nook and cranny. The neighbourhood, though well conceived, is infested with overdone oddballs. Only Kader Khan shines as a screechy classical singer who has everybody running for cover. Some songs, especially Raag banke, done in the neo-classical style of Girish Karnad's Utsav, have been imaginatively filmed against picturesque backdrops. The biggest draw is the wonderful visual aesthetics. Kaushik avoids studio sets to take us into an outdoor freedom denied to most mainstream Hindi films. But he messes up an otherwise cute entertainer with an over-the-top climax where the two warring families run with guns to a lonely spots for a desi equivalent of a duel under the sun. Tact and subtlety aren't the highlights of this film. Though the story is about a Hindu and Christian family at war, Anil's climactic speech seems to be targeted more at Hindu-Muslim tension in India. The vastly gifted supporting cast plays its clichéd parts with stereotypical proficiency. Among the two leading ladies, after two consecutive flops in Hindi, Keerthi as the self-seeking Christian girl proves third-time lucky. She has been dressed and projected very well. Shilpa Shetty as a loud aggressive Punjabi woman masquerading as Anil's wife is a nightmarish synthesis of Kajol in Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and Sridevi in her best films. --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] Fw: discontinuing column
Dear Readers and Friends, My most recent column was pulled by the Gomantak Times editors. It seems I crossed their threshold of tolerance in my efforts to draw attention to, and ridicule, nuclear weapons, war and hate, and their propagators. You can't take shots at World Leaders like that. Write something else, they said. The disputed column, entitled Duck and Cover, was subsequently accepted and posted by the web edition of Outlook ( http://www.outlookindia.com ). As a result of this incident I am discontinuing my weekly column of the past 6 years (Wake Up And Smell the Coffee) with the Gomantak Times Weekender, owned by Mr. Pratap Pawar (Sakal), with immediate effect. I do this in protest of the negation of an opinion columnist's right to express views not necessarily espoused by the newspaper. I am not the first journalist to be censored in this manner, nor, I suspect, will I be the last. Those of you who endorse freedom of expression, and oppose muzzling of this nature, can submit your thoughts on the issue to the Managing Editor of Sakal at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hopefully, this will set a precedent, and help to prevent such an incident from happening with some other journalist in the future. Meanwhile, for those of you with web access, my columns will continue to appear, uncensored, at goanet and http://www.freenewsgoa.net/. Margaret Mascarenhas -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Re: Margaret Mascarenhas discontinuing column
Dear Mr. Pratap Pawar (Sakal): It is regrettable that you have censured one of the gems of your paper which has led to led to the discontinuation of Wake Up And Smell the Coffee by Margaret Mascarenhas. Your loss will be some other newspaper's gain. If you think Ms. Mascarenhas was not being deferential enough to world leaders, consider this: the world leaders we have today are a petty lot. They are unconcerned with the great issues of our times (24,000 children die daily, 3 billion are in poverty, and an equal number are estimated to be illiterate, without access to modern health care, adequate housing and clothing, and are touched by violence discrimination in various ways). If you had a complaint against Ms. Mascarenhas it should have been that she was too deferential. Perhaps your paper will take an expansive view of the world, represent the values of the silent majority, and treat our present world leaders with the disdain they deserve. But that is asking too much courage. It is easier to try and silence a journalist. Regards, George Pinto --- M Mascarenhas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Readers and Friends, My most recent column was pulled by the Gomantak Times editors. It seems I crossed their threshold of tolerance in my efforts to draw attention to, and ridicule, nuclear weapons, war and hate, and their propagators. You can't take shots at World Leaders like that. Write something else, they said. The disputed column, entitled Duck and Cover, was subsequently accepted and posted by the web edition of Outlook ( http://www.outlookindia.com ). As a result of this incident I am discontinuing my weekly column of the past 6 years (Wake Up And Smell the Coffee) with the Gomantak Times Weekender, __ 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-digest V1 #4084
goanet-digest Saturday, June 15 2002 Volume 01 : Number 4084 - In this issue: Re: [Goanet] Forts: Goa's sentinels lie neglected [Goanet] From Carlos Silva: Please send me telephone numbers and email addresses [Goanet] Chaddas.. and the D'Souzas [Goanet] Fw: discontinuing column [Goanet] RELEASE: Booklets on panchayats in Goa [Goanet] Re: Margaret Mascarenhas discontinuing column [Goanet] Happening s in the Goan World See end of digest for information on subscribing/unsusbcribing. -- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 21:30:06 -0400 From: Mervyn Lobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] Forts: Goa's sentinels lie neglected Mayuresh: Thank you for this posting. Mervyn Forts: Goas sentinels lie neglected -- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 08:36:29 +0200 From: Viviana [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] From Carlos Silva: Please send me telephone numbers and email addresses From: Carlos Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 15 June 2002 09:15:54 + carlos silva wrote: Hi sir, Please see if you can send me tellphone numbers of all ministers and allso e-mail addrased. carlos Q8 15th -- Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:04:07 +0530 (IST) From: Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Chaddas.. and the D'Souzas Obese Anil Kapoor redeems film on Hindu-Christian amity By Subhash K. Jha, Indo-Asian News Service (byline mandatory) Badhaai Ho Badhaai. Starring Anil Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Keerthi Reddy, Amrish Puri, K. Vishwanath, Farida Jalal and Kader Khan. Directed by Satish Kaushik. There's a thin Anil Kapoor and a fat Anil Kapoor, and the twain do meet in Satish Kaushik's comedy about love sunshine and music, though not necessarily the melodious kind. Most of Kaushik's directorial ventures have been faithful adaptations of Tamil-Telugu blockbusters. Badhaai Ho Badhaai is no exception. It adheres to the original in most details and emerges with a frothy fun fare that tries to make a statement on two critical issues: communalism and obesity. But Kaushik's views on Hindu-Christian amity suffer from flabbiness. Fortunately the episode about an overweight Raja losing his girth for love is bracing and absorbing. In the first-half, Raja arrives in a crowded middle-class neighbourhood, which is recreated with a superb eye for detail by cinematographer Rajeev Jain and art director Sharmisha Roy, to stop the hatred between two neighbouring families. The Chaddas and the d'Souzas, we are told in swift flashbacks, began to detest one another when their progenies eloped and got married. The idea of an incorrigible do-gooder bringing peace is as familiar to mainstream Hindi cinema as Rajesh Khanna, Anil and Hrithik Roshan. All thre= e stars have played the domestic saviour in one or more films. But in Badhaai Ho Badhaai, Anil overdoes the sweetness. Fat or thin, Raja is determined to spread the full-cream milk of human kindness. For a long while Kaushik's narrative functions as a relay race. To make sur= e nobody feels left out, Raja does everything in twos. If the matriarch from the Chaddha family, played by Farida Jalal, gets a smile, so does the one in the d'Souza family, enacted by Rohini Rattangadi. After a while we begin to feel we're watching a well-orchestrated propagand= a film on communal harmony. The second half where we go into a flashback with a fat Anil has some wonderful moments. The growing bond between the obese Raja and the screechy feather-brained unfocussed Florence, played by Keerthi Reddy, makes us wonder if the director's own battle with the bulge inspired this section of the narrative. Anil plays the fat man with padded compassion. In scenes of romantic dejection the actor returns to his two old favourites, Raj Kapoor and Kamal Haasan, to play the Chaplinesque loser with podgy poignancy, a highlight of the film. The director also extracts chuckles at the two warring clans' expense. But like all of Kaushik's remakes, this one too suffers from congenital crowdedness. Characters spill out of every nook and cranny. The neighbourhood, though well conceived, is infested with overdone oddballs. Only Kader Khan shines as a screechy classical singer who has everybody running for cover. Some songs, especially Raag banke, done in the neo-classical style of Girish Karnad's Utsav, have been imaginatively filmed against picturesque backdrops. The biggest draw is the wonderful visual aesthetics. Kaushik avoids studio sets to take us into an outdoor freedom denied to most mainstream Hindi films. But he messes up an otherwise cute entertainer with an over-the-top climax where the two warring families run with guns to a lonely spots for a desi equivalent of a duel under the sun. Tact and subtlety aren't the highlights of this film. Though the
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Sonali Prabhudesai wrote: ...and an email from Viviana saying that according to an email received by her, the entire matter has been married. Not! You have no email from me. I have no message in my Sent folder addressed to Sonali Prabhudesai. I guess this proves you're using an alias?? Viviana =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] 16 JUNE: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS 16 June 2002 On the occasion of the Feast of St Anthony, the patron saint of Siolim village in North Goa, we greet all the Siolkars A VERY HAPPY FEAST. RIBEIRO RAPS CADRE MANAGEMENT: Supercop Julio Ribeiro has picked several fist-sized hole in the police department's administration, in his report submitted to chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, on observations on Goa Police's functioning. From the little I have seen and learnt in my three days with the Goa Police, I had an uneasy feeling that cadre management has been neglected and is even non-existent, he states in the report. (H) ONE KILLED, 2 HURT IN MAPUSA LANDSLIDE: Heavy showers, which lashed the State since yesterday, claimed a life in Mapusa yesterday evening. Sonu Bablo Bhivshet (44) of Inanvaddo died on the spot after he was buried in the debris due to a landslide near the Mapusa church. Two persons were also seriously injured. A large rock gave way and came rolling down on three houses situated at the foot of the hillock. (H) AMBELIM FLOODS REPORT: In 2001, an expert committee report had suggested certain specific measures to contain flooding in the flood prone areas of Ambelim village in Salcette. Unfortunately, it's now a year since the report was submitted, and which still remains only on paper. (H) CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL MOTOR-CYCLE PILOTS: Transport Minister Pandurang Madkaikar said that the Transport department would take strict action against the part-timers, who operate illegally as motor-cycle pilots. The part-timers include a sizeable amount of government servants. (H) SALIGAO RESIDENTS UP IN ARMS: Saligao villagers are up in arms as the Mapusa Municipality has been dumping garbage on the Saligao Plateau for the last two days. The issue was raised by Saligao MLA Dr Wilfred de Souza in the Goa Assembly on Friday. (H) STRAY MENACE ON THE RISE: At least 26 persons are reported to have been bitten by dogs in the past six months, as residents in different villages of the taluka are expressing serious concern over man's best friend. (H) PETROL, DIESEL PRICES HIKED AGAIN: State-run oil companies last night hiked the price, for the second time in 15 days, of petrol and diesel by up to 30 paise per litre, to offset hardened international crude prices. (WE-GT) PAPER ON GOA HISTORY: Students of the third year Bachelor of Arts will have a compulsory paper on History of Goa from this academic year. Important events and personalities in the history of Goa, right from ancient times upto the Liberation, will be covered. (H) GSL LAUNCHES I.T. INITIATIVE: Goa Shipyard limited has embarked upon a project to transform itself into an e-enterprise with Godrej Infotech Limited, a leading IT solutions provider, as its partner. (H) REVOLUTION DAY CELEBRATIONS: The South Goa freedom fighters will celebrate the Goa Revolution Day on 18 June afternoon by organising a function at the Lohia Maidan, Margao. (WE-GT) MATHANY TO RAISE VOICE AGAINST INJUSTICE: Mathany Saldanha is perhaps one of the few activists, who managed to break through the seemingly impenetrable electoral system (for those without the clout of money and muscle power) into the legislative assembly. Even as one is reminded of Uday Bhembre's adventamong the deserving intellectualsinto the assembly in the mid-eighties, Saldanha's upward mobility bears comparison as it came through half-a-dozen abortive bids. He craves for a system which delivers the goods. (WE-GT) NEW WEBSITE FOR TOURISM DEPARTMENT: The Department of Tourism, Goa, is in the process of preparing a new comprehensive website, which is nearing completion and is scheduled to be launched during this month. (H) FIBRE-OPTIC LINK FOR ALL METROS: Fibre-optic communication links will be through between Howrah-Chennai, Howrah-Hyderabad and Chennai-Mumbai-Delhi routes on completion of the Rs.30-crore works in the Vijayawada division of the south Central Railway, covering 985 kms. (H) COMPUTER INSTITUTE DUPES STUDENTS: Many students of information technology have been allegedly duped by reputed institutions located in Panaji, Margao and Ponda. When they went to attend the classes, the students in Panjim were surprised to see a notice that the institution was closed for maintenance until June 5. Subsequently they found out that the faculty members had resigned en masse owing to non-payment of salaries. (NT) OUT OF DANGER: The residents of the low-lying areas of Ambelim, Velim and Assolna heaved a sight of relief, at least temporarily, as the water level of Sal river has receded. (NT) THE OBJECT IS MARINE LOCATION MARKER: The mysterious object, which was found at the Vagator beach on Friday night has been identified as a marine location marker. (H) HARVALEM NULLAH CLEANED: The Mineral Foundation of Goa, which has been undertaking several socio beneficial programmes, in its latest endeavour has taken up the cleaning of a nullah which connects the
