[GOANET] The Goa Helmet Controversy is back in focus.
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- --- Documented by Goa Desc Documentation Service & circulated by Goa Civic & Consumer Action Network (GOA CAN)<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ph:2252660 --- HELMET CONTROVERSY They are at it again. Goa is one of the most literates states in India, and the two-wheeler users are very aware of the pros and cons of wearing crash helmets. It is obvious that the doctors and the police who are making a hu-ha about this are generally not two-wheeler drivers themselves. In passing, it may be said that abroad there is civic sense, traffic discipline, and helmets when left unattended are seldom stolen which is not the case in India. Let me make it clear. I myself always wear a helmet while driving a two-wheeler. However, helmets do not prevent accidents! I have been futilely trying for the last six years to get the traffic authorities to prevent accidents by maintaining proper roads, and lighting, No Parking/traffic sign-boards and implementing it, relocating dangerous bus stops, hoardings; making public transport buses stop at designated stops; enforcing rules regarding blind headlights at night etc. Towards this end I have personally handed to the IGP for the umpteenth time on 16 October, 2002, a letter on traffic hazards/safety with a copy to the Chief Minister, with Xerox copies of their own traffic cells' recommendations and notifications. Sorry to state, I have seen no improvement or any action initiated towards the basics for reducing accidents, which should be accorded far more priority than helmets! John Eric Gomes Porvorim --- Letter to the editor in GOMANTAK TIMES 3/01/03 page 4 -- === GOA DESC RESOURCE CENTRE Documentation + Education + Solidarity 11 Liberty Apts., Feira Alta, Mapusa, Goa 403 507 Tel: 2252660 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.goadesc.org -- Working On Issues Of Development & Democracy ===
[GOANET] Apology for repeated posts
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Dear Goanetter, I apologise for the all the posts from "Gajbhiye, Nandkishor X" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. He has been unsubscribed from the list. Thank you for your patience. Sincerely yours, - Herman Original Message Follows From: "Gajbhiye, Nandkishor X" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [GOANET] Panaji... Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 06:59:18 +0300 I am not Goan. Please remove from mailing list. Thanks & regards, Nandkishor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 6:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GOANET] Panaji... -- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- In a message dated 01/03/2003 10:47:45 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Actually, Panaji (with the second 'a' silent, as it is pronounced) is rather close to the Portuguese term Pangim (with the 'm' almost silent). Panjim, preferred by English-language speakers, seems to be of uncertain origins. If we want to go forward via the past, shouldn't we all think about the locally more-authentic 'Ponjje'? FN >> That's the way I remember it in days bygone :-) But, what motivates people to change names -- just to suit their appetites? If we want to get rid of "Panjim" then "Ponjje" is my most logical choice. Pat WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Notice : This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is confidential to the addressee and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it in any way whatsoever. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message, and deleting the original and any printout thereof. _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] DEMAND FOR PANCHAYAT : RIBANDAR
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- DEMAND FOR PANCHAYAT : RIBANDAR DELEGATION MEETS CM A delegation of the Ribandar Citizen's Committee led by its Convenor Mr. Subhash Mhambre, on January 3, 2003, called on Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and submitted a memorandum signed by the residents of Ribandar demanding a Ribandar Panchayat. Local MLA Victoria Fernandes and Adv. Aires Rodrigues accompanied the delegation which urged the Chief Minister to take immediate steps to set up a Ribandar Village Panchayat. Ribandar, Manas-wado and a part of Sao Pedro is currently Ward 18 of The Panjim Municipal Council. The Chief Minister was told that Ribandar has been neglected and has not seen any infrastructure development and that the residents were only being burdened with high taxes but no civic amenities. The delegation told the Chief Minister that if Taleigao was being reverted back as a Panchayat in view of the public demand, there was no reason why the Government should not accede to the demand of the people of Ribandar for a Village Panchayat. The Ribandar Citizens's Committee will meet on Sunday 5th January to plan the future plan of action to demand Panchayat status for Ribandar. x x x x WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] 04 JAN: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS January 04, 2003 PFA DAYS NUMBERED: The Panjim Municipal Council has decided to enlist the support of the Goa Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in tackling the stray dog menace in the city from February. People for Animals (PFA), another NGO, has been given till 1 February to wind up its operations in Panjim. (GT) CARRASCO MOVES NO TRUST MOTION: In a surprise political move, seven councilors of the Mapusa Municipal Council on Friday moved a no-confidence motion against vice-chairman Sudhir Kandolkar, thereby indicating a virtual split in the ruling faction. The seven councilors, who have signed the memorandum seeking the ouster of Kandolkar, include MMC chairman Michael Carrasco and his close allies Maria Carvalho and Suryakant Naik. (H) OSTEOPOROSIS SCARES THE AGED: Osteoporosis takes an enormous toll of the ageing population besides being a physical, economic and social problem to patients and their relatives. Throwing light on the causes, prevention and cure of the disease, Dr Nelia Afonso, the assistant professor at Department of Internal Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, said at the first Asian American International Medical Conference underway at Cidade de Goa Dona Paula since yesterday. (GT) CONSTABLE'S GUN MISFIRES: A young constable from the Goa Reserve Police assigned to squad vehicles used for the Prime Minister's visit, had an "explosive" New Year. The constable was loading his .303 rifle near the police canteen on New Year's Day, at about 9.30 pm, when he accidentally fired the weapon. (GT) SKYBUS PROJECT FOR COASTAL AREAS: Tourism Minister Mickky Pacheco felt that the Skybus metro project should cover the coastal areas of both the districts in order to boost tourism in the State. Reacting to PM Vajpayee's New Year gift to Goa, Mickky told reporters that there was need to provide better infrastructure to tourism instead of utilizing Rs.350 crore for the project between Panaji and Mapusa. (GT) SKY BUS PROJECT MAY NOT BE VIABLE? Is the proposed Sky Bus Metro suited and economically viable in a state like Goa with a small population? A brochure brought out by the Konkan Railway Corporation says any town or city with a population of 20 lakh and a 10-km busy traffic route with 2 to 3 lakh journeys a day can implement the Sky Bus Metro. On this count, the population of Goa does not cross the 15-lakh figure. Moreover, the population is spread across the length and breadth of the State and not concentrated in any city or town. (H) WATCH SHOWROOM BURGLED: Unknown culprits broke open the shutters of a showroom of watches by name "Time and Tune", situated at Tilak Maidan complex at Vasco and stole away watches of different makes of Titan, Cenzor, etc., worth Rs.84,000. (GT) COMPUTER SELLER ORDERED TO PAY: Consumer Dispute Redressal Forum has ordered a computer hardware vendor to refund the entire cost of the system and an additional compensation of Rs.10,000 to his consumer. (GT) LPG, KEROSENE TO COST MORE: After steeply increasing petrol and diesel prices yesterday, the government is all set to increase retail prices of LPG and Kerosene by five to ten per cent in the wake of sharp rise in the international prices. (NT) DRAIN OUT SALINE WATER: The khazan lands in the Raia-Rachol-Curtorim belt in Salcete has not only given sleepless nights to the authorities but has virtually kept the Salcete Mamlatdar on his toes. The Mamlatdar issued orders to the chairmen of the five tenants Associations to drain out the saline water from the fields within 24 hours or face action. (H) GKA CERTIFICATES: Goa Hit-Rakhan Manch has stated that the government's move to withdraw the four-year-old system of using Goa Konkani Academy's certificate as a requirement for jobs would jeopardize the future of local youth. (GT) PUBLIC VISIT TO RAJ BHAVAN: The Goa Governor Kidar Nath Sahani has given permission for the people to visit and see the Raj Bhavan gardens, the palace and the chapel on January 11, 12, 13 and 14, from 3 pm to 6 pm. (H) COUTO, ADVISOR TO GOVT: Retired IAS officer, Mr Alban Couto, will soon be appointed as the advisor to the Government of Goa. The decision to this effect was taken by the Goa cabinet last month though this was not announced during the post-cabinet briefing. (H) STAGE ARTIST ROSARIO HONOURED: Renowned Konkani stage artiste, Rosario Rodrigues, popularly known as the Goan Shakespeare, was honoured with the title "Father of Konkani non-stop drama" in Benaulim on January 1. Rodrigues, who is not keeping well since the last nine months due to stomach cancer accepted a memento, a "gramophone", from former Benaulim MLA, Churchill Alemao for his immense contribution to the non-sto
RE: [GOANET] Indianfootball.com update
Title: RE: [GOANET] Indianfootball.com update I am not Goan. Please remove from mailing list. Thanks & regards, Nandkishor -Original Message- From: Arunava Chaudhuri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [GOANET] Indianfootball.com update -- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- indianfootball.com update (Arunava Chaudhuri, Fri Jan 3 06:25:46 2003) Dear Friends, Happy New Year to you all!!! The indianfootball.com team hopes and will work to cover Indian football in it's whole spectrum in the new year as we did in the past one. But as you know, it is not always easy... So here are the latest updates at indianfootball.com: - indianfootball.com eMail interview exclusively with Kalyan Chaubey, goalkeeper at Salgaocar about his background, his aims and his trials in Germany last summer. - 3rd SAFF Cup we have put together a special section for the 3rd SAFF Cup going to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from January 10-20, 2003. With infos on schedule, teams, statistics, etc... http://specials.indianfootball.com/saffcup2003/ - 115th Durand Cup 2003 Scores, schedule,etc online - 108th IFA-Shield 2003 Scores, schedule,etc online - 7th National League 2002/03 covering the NFL with numerous details, e.g. league table, scores, schedule, team lists and pictures Go to http://www.indianfootball.com/ for details... bye, Arunava. PS: indianfootball.com has a new forum. You find it under http://www.sports-india.com/phpBB2/ . Cooperation between indianfootball.com, TennisIndia.org and Sports-India.com . WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Notice : This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is confidential to the addressee and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it in any way whatsoever. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message, and deleting the original and any printout thereof.
RE: [GOANET] Greetings
Title: RE: [GOANET] Greetings I am not Goan. Please remove from mailing list. Thanks & regards, Nandkishor -Original Message- From: Arz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 2:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [GOANET] Greetings -- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Wishing you a Happy New Year!! from all of us at Arz, Sincerely, Zarine Chinvala Director, Arz * Arz is a Development Organisation based in the red-light area of Baina Beach, Goa, India, working to combat trafficking in humans for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Arz works with victims/survivors, perpetrators of trafficking and persons vulnerable to becoming either victims or perpetrators. Arz works at the level of Prevention, Protection, Rescue, Reintegration, Rehabilitation, Prosecution. Arz MHN 27/1, Behind Anthony Bar, Baina Beach, Vasco da Gama, Goa - 403 802. Ph: 0832- 251 99 51 / 251 53 53 --- WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Notice : This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is confidential to the addressee and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it in any way whatsoever. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message, and deleting the original and any printout thereof.
RE: [GOANET] Panaji...
Title: RE: [GOANET] Panaji... I am not Goan. Please remove from mailing list. Thanks & regards, Nandkishor -Original Message- From: Ivor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 5:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GOANET] Panaji... -- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Thank you for your opinion. Ponjje or Panjim is definitely acceptable but not 'PANAJI". -Original Message- From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, January 03, 2003 7:44 AM Subject: [GOANET] Panaji... >-- >Archives: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ >-- > >Actually, Panaji (with the second 'a' silent, as it is pronounced) is >rather close to the Portuguese term Pangim (with the 'm' almost >silent). Panjim, preferred by English-language speakers, seems to be of >uncertain origins. If we want to go forward via the past, shouldn't we >all think about the locally more-authentic 'Ponjje'? FN > >> --__--__-- >> >> Message: 4 >> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 2:44:15 -0500 >> Subject: [GOANET] Re: referendum for panjim >> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> Dear Goan Brothers & Sisters, >> >> This "PANAJI" sounds more like "BHAJI". Maybe it's time for all Goans >> to write to their MLA's that "PANAJI" should be cast to the rubbish bin >> for the original and beautiful sounding name we always had and remember >> about - PANJIM. >> >> Let us all strive to keep all these "JI'S" sounding names out of >> GOA. If not GOA may soon be called 'GOAJI". Now you know what that >> means. The death of GOA!! >> >> VIVA GOA! VIVA THE INDEPENDENCE OF GOA!! >> >> GOA FOR GOANS FIRST. >> >> Ivor (Samora). > >WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Notice : This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is confidential to the addressee and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it in any way whatsoever. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message, and deleting the original and any printout thereof.
RE: [GOANET] Condolences: Aloysius and Deepika
Title: RE: [GOANET] Condolences: Aloysius and Deepika I am not Goan. Please remove from mailing list. Thanks & regards, Nandkishor -Original Message- From: Frederick Noronha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 3:44 AM To: Aloysius D'Souza Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [GOANET] Condolences: Aloysius and Deepika -- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Our sincere condolences to our Aloysius and Deepika, our regular posters on GoaNet, on the loss of Hazel, Aloysius's wife and Deepika's mum. We never met Hazel, but seeing the care and concern in this father-daughter duo it's more than obvious that she was a great wife and mother. Burma-returned Aloysius has been active on GoaNet, SaligaoNet and a number of other Goa-related fora. Deepika, for the few who might not know them, is a Mumbai-based social activist who has taken up a wide range of concerns dealing with the environment, the law and the rights of the marginalised. She represents the younger generation of Goan women, who fought in a patriarchial society to get their voices heard and contribute in equal measure as (and often, in greater measure than) their menfolk. May both of these fine people have the courage to bear the loss of their dear one, knowing that their work is not going unappreciated! FN WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Notice : This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is confidential to the addressee and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it in any way whatsoever. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message, and deleting the original and any printout thereof.
RE: [GOANET] FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES.
I am not Goan. Please remove from mailing list. Thanks & regards, Nandkishor -Original Message-From: Tim de Mello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 6:06 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [GOANET] FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES.-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Just as a reminder the exchange rates for any currency can be obtained at any time from: www.goacom.com/news Just click on the link "Exchange Rates" in the side bar.Tim de Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ontario, CANADA >From: "gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [GOANET] FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES. >Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 11:20:01 - > >I HAVE DECIDED TO MAKE THIS USER FRIENDLY, ALL CURRENCIES PER UNIT AGAINST INDIAN RUPEE: > >I ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR RATES GIVEN. > >USD/INDIAN RUPEE 48.035 > >EURO 49.91 > >GREAT BRITAIN 76.57 > >SINGAPORE 27.54 > >HONGKONG & MACAO 6.159 > >THAILAND 1.1167 > >KUWAIT 160.33 > >SAUDI ARABIA 12.809 > >JAPAN 1 RUP = 2.4963 YEN > >SWISS 34.283 > >CANADA 30.626 > >AUSTRALIA 27.06 > >NEW ZEALAND 25.16 > >DENMARK 6.715 > >NORWAY 6.8836 > >SWEDEN 5.478 > >SOUTH AFRICA 5.68 > >NALAYSIA 6.0895 > >UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 13.16 > > > >REGARDS GABE MENEZES > > > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Notice : This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is confidential to the addressee and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it in any way whatsoever. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message, and deleting the original and any printout thereof.
RE: [GOANET] Mother Teresa
I am not Goan. Please remove from mailing list. Thanks & regards, Nandkishor -Original Message-From: Eddie D'Sa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 8:22 PMTo: GoaNetSubject: [GOANET] Mother Teresa MOTHER TERESA is being fast tracked for the ultimate honour by the Vatican 'saint factory'. Christopher Hitchens, one of her trenchant critics, had produced a TV documentary about her called Hell’s Angel (1994) and wrote the book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Verso 1998) where he dismissed her as a religious fundamentalist. Interestingly, the Vatican invited Hitchens to act as the Devil’s Advocate and a few nights ago, he was debating with John Donahue of the Catholic Defence League in Washington. Hitchens summarised his objections yesterday (2 Jan 03) in the Mirror (London). - M Teresa received millions of pounds in charity, some of it from dubious sources like the Duvaliers of Haiti and swindler Charles Keating. She never built any hospitals but claimed to have built some 150 convents. Was this what the money was for? - She seems to have spent more time travelling and posing with the rich and famous than treating the sick & lepers. - To her, contraception and abortion were not just immoral but threats to world peace! - When she was sick, she made sure of being treated at top US clinics, not in Calcutta. Vijay Prashad, Associate Prof at Trinity College, Hartford, CT had written about M Teresa in the Goan Overseas Digest in Jan 1998. He noted with insight that to M Teresa (and to church leaders), poverty is 'beautiful', its causes not to be challenged. She was not averse to moving with the makers of poverty like Reagan or Thatcher. Like the popes she remained subservient to power. For example, how did she & Pope JPII view the Bhopal disaster (1984)? As a product of capitalist greed? Hardly. They called it a ‘sad event’ that resulted from ‘man’s efforts to make progress.’ ___ Notice : This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is confidential to the addressee and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it in any way whatsoever. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message, and deleting the original and any printout thereof.
RE: [GOANET] Thanks all your Christmas and New Year greetings
Title: RE: [GOANET] Thanks all your Christmas and New Year greetings I am not Goan. Please remove from mailing list. Thanks & regards, Nandkishor -Original Message- From: Aloysius D'Souza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 10:21 PM To: Goanet; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Joel D'Souza; Frederick Noronha; Jose & Ema Colaco Subject: [GOANET] Thanks all your Christmas and New Year greetings -- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Dear Goans everywhere, Thank you for your Christmas and New Year's greetings -- We sincerely reciprocate these greetings. However, we have not really been able to enjoy this Christmas season -- Hazel has been very ill since August and could not sleep or turn or move and was in great pain since October -- She was at Tata Memorial for a week end October and went back for some radiation early December -- we shifted her to the CIPLA FOUNDATION for palliative care of cancer patients at Warje, Pune on December 17th and with their care and attention they were able to relieve the pain she was enduring -- initially with morphine and gradually reduced the dosage of morphine as the other medicines took effect --since December 30th she was in no pain, but the cancer had spread to her lungs and she had difficulty breathing -- she breathed her last yesterday -- January 2nd at 10:00 -- After a Mass at the hospice this morning her body was cremated at Pune today -- We will have the seventh day Mass here at St Stephen's Church and then take her ashes down to Goa where they will be interred in the niche at Porvorim after Mass, probably on January 26th Please join us in our prayers for the repose of her soul Deepika and I have just got back home and will catch up on all correspondence Once again thank you one and all Lots of love, Deepika and Aloysius WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Notice : This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is confidential to the addressee and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it in any way whatsoever. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message, and deleting the original and any printout thereof.
RE: [GOANET] Panaji...
Title: RE: [GOANET] Panaji... I am not Goan. Please remove from mailing list. Thanks & regards, Nandkishor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 6:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [GOANET] Panaji... -- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- In a message dated 01/03/2003 10:47:45 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Actually, Panaji (with the second 'a' silent, as it is pronounced) is rather close to the Portuguese term Pangim (with the 'm' almost silent). Panjim, preferred by English-language speakers, seems to be of uncertain origins. If we want to go forward via the past, shouldn't we all think about the locally more-authentic 'Ponjje'? FN >> That's the way I remember it in days bygone :-) But, what motivates people to change names -- just to suit their appetites? If we want to get rid of "Panjim" then "Ponjje" is my most logical choice. Pat WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Notice : This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is confidential to the addressee and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it in any way whatsoever. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message, and deleting the original and any printout thereof.
RE: [GOANET] Re: Thanks
Title: RE: [GOANET] Re: Thanks I am not Goan. Please remove from mailing list. Thanks & regards, Nandkishor -Original Message- From: George Pinto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 12:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [GOANET] Re: Thanks -- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Dear Rene: Thank you for your kind comments, although ALL credit for our success goes to teamwork. Working together, the Goan community is moving ahead world-wide and there is optimism that things will only improve. Thank you for giving so much of your time to the Goan community with GOA DAY and your other ventures. Regards, George Pinto --- renebarreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Goenkars , > > > George Pinto is another Goan who has made it HAPPEN > for the less fortunate in Goa. He is one Goan who has > supported the World Goa Day irrespective of the happenings. > Thank YoU George for believing in us. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Notice : This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is confidential to the addressee and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it in any way whatsoever. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message, and deleting the original and any printout thereof.
RE: [GOANET] Panaji...
I am not Goan. Please remove from mailing list. Thanks & regards, Nandkishor -Original Message-From: Anthony Fernandes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 8:14 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [GOANET] Panaji...-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- PLEASE REMOVEME FROM MAILING LIST. THANKS. "The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -- Gandhi >From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [GOANET] Panaji... >Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 18:54:11 +0530 (IST) > >-- >Archives: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ >-- > >Actually, Panaji (with the second 'a' silent, as it is pronounced) is >rather close to the Portuguese term Pangim (with the 'm' almost >silent). Panjim, preferred by English-language speakers, seems to be of >uncertain origins. If we want to go forward via the past, shouldn't we >all think about the locally more-authentic 'Ponjje'? FN > > > --__--__-- > > > > Message: 4 > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 2:44:15 -0500 > > Subject: [GOANET] Re: referendum for panjim > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Dear Goan Brothers & Sisters, > > > > This "PANAJI" sounds more like "BHAJI". Maybe it's time for all Goans > > to write to their MLA's that "PANAJI" should be cast to the rubbish bin > > for the original and beautiful sounding name we always had and remember > > about - PANJIM. > > > > Let us all strive to keep all these "JI'S" sounding names out of > > GOA. If not GOA may soon be called 'GOAJI". Now you know what that > > means. The death of GOA!! > > > > VIVA GOA! VIVA THE INDEPENDENCE OF GOA!! > > > > GOA FOR GOANS FIRST. > > > > Ivor (Samora). > >WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Notice : This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is confidential to the addressee and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it in any way whatsoever. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message, and deleting the original and any printout thereof.
RE: [GOANET] Panaji...
Title: RE: [GOANET] Panaji... I am not Goan. Please remove from mailing list. Thanks & regards, Nandkishor -Original Message- From: Frederick Noronha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 4:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [GOANET] Panaji... -- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Actually, Panaji (with the second 'a' silent, as it is pronounced) is rather close to the Portuguese term Pangim (with the 'm' almost silent). Panjim, preferred by English-language speakers, seems to be of uncertain origins. If we want to go forward via the past, shouldn't we all think about the locally more-authentic 'Ponjje'? FN > --__--__-- > > Message: 4 > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 2:44:15 -0500 > Subject: [GOANET] Re: referendum for panjim > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Dear Goan Brothers & Sisters, > > This "PANAJI" sounds more like "BHAJI". Maybe it's time for all Goans > to write to their MLA's that "PANAJI" should be cast to the rubbish bin > for the original and beautiful sounding name we always had and remember > about - PANJIM. > > Let us all strive to keep all these "JI'S" sounding names out of > GOA. If not GOA may soon be called 'GOAJI". Now you know what that > means. The death of GOA!! > > VIVA GOA! VIVA THE INDEPENDENCE OF GOA!! > > GOA FOR GOANS FIRST. > > Ivor (Samora). WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Notice : This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is confidential to the addressee and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it in any way whatsoever. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message, and deleting the original and any printout thereof.
RE: [GOANET] Mother Teresa
I am not Goan. Please remove from mailing list. Thanks & regards, Nandkishor -Original Message-From: Eddie D'Sa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 8:22 PMTo: GoaNetSubject: [GOANET] Mother Teresa MOTHER TERESA is being fast tracked for the ultimate honour by the Vatican 'saint factory'. Christopher Hitchens, one of her trenchant critics, had produced a TV documentary about her called Hell’s Angel (1994) and wrote the book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Verso 1998) where he dismissed her as a religious fundamentalist. Interestingly, the Vatican invited Hitchens to act as the Devil’s Advocate and a few nights ago, he was debating with John Donahue of the Catholic Defence League in Washington. Hitchens summarised his objections yesterday (2 Jan 03) in the Mirror (London). - M Teresa received millions of pounds in charity, some of it from dubious sources like the Duvaliers of Haiti and swindler Charles Keating. She never built any hospitals but claimed to have built some 150 convents. Was this what the money was for? - She seems to have spent more time travelling and posing with the rich and famous than treating the sick & lepers. - To her, contraception and abortion were not just immoral but threats to world peace! - When she was sick, she made sure of being treated at top US clinics, not in Calcutta. Vijay Prashad, Associate Prof at Trinity College, Hartford, CT had written about M Teresa in the Goan Overseas Digest in Jan 1998. He noted with insight that to M Teresa (and to church leaders), poverty is 'beautiful', its causes not to be challenged. She was not averse to moving with the makers of poverty like Reagan or Thatcher. Like the popes she remained subservient to power. For example, how did she & Pope JPII view the Bhopal disaster (1984)? As a product of capitalist greed? Hardly. They called it a ‘sad event’ that resulted from ‘man’s efforts to make progress.’ ___ Notice : This e-mail and any attachments may contain information which is confidential to the addressee and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you may not copy, forward, disclose or otherwise use it in any way whatsoever. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message, and deleting the original and any printout thereof.
[GOANET] CONDOLENCES: DEATH OF HAZEL, MOTHER AND WIFE
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- In a message dated 01/03/2003 2:33:37 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Hazel has been very ill since August ... -- we shifted her to the CIPLA FOUNDATION for palliative care of cancer patients at Warje, Pune on December 17th and with their care and attention they were able to relieve the pain she was enduring ... --since December 30th she was in no pain, but the cancer had spread to her lungs and she had difficulty breathing -- she breathed her last yesterday -- January 2nd at 10:00 -- After a Mass at the hospice this morning her body was cremated at Pune today -- We will have the seventh day Mass here at St Stephen's Church and then take her ashes down to Goa where they will be interred in the niche at Porvorim after Mass, probably on January 26th >> Dear Deepika and Aloysius: Please accept our heartfelt condolences and sympathies on the sad death of your mother and wife, Hazel. We are born in pain and die in pain -- sometimes relieved by medical intervention. But, we believe that there is a Better Life After Death and you and other grieving family members should take comfort and solace in this belief. Please be assured of our prayers. We are also copying this to the Catholic Goan Network Eternal Rest Grant Unto the Soul of Hazel, O Lord, and Let Perpetual Light Shine Upon Her. May Her Soul and the Souls of all The Faithful Departed, Rest in Peace, AMEN. Prayerfully yours, Clare & Pat de Sousa Maryland, USA WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [GOANET] Panaji...
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- In a message dated 01/03/2003 10:47:45 AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Actually, Panaji (with the second 'a' silent, as it is pronounced) is rather close to the Portuguese term Pangim (with the 'm' almost silent). Panjim, preferred by English-language speakers, seems to be of uncertain origins. If we want to go forward via the past, shouldn't we all think about the locally more-authentic 'Ponjje'? FN >> That's the way I remember it in days bygone :-) But, what motivates people to change names -- just to suit their appetites? If we want to get rid of "Panjim" then "Ponjje" is my most logical choice. Pat WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] Condolences: Aloysius and Deepika
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Our sincere condolences to our Aloysius and Deepika, our regular posters on GoaNet, on the loss of Hazel, Aloysius's wife and Deepika's mum. We never met Hazel, but seeing the care and concern in this father-daughter duo it's more than obvious that she was a great wife and mother. Burma-returned Aloysius has been active on GoaNet, SaligaoNet and a number of other Goa-related fora. Deepika, for the few who might not know them, is a Mumbai-based social activist who has taken up a wide range of concerns dealing with the environment, the law and the rights of the marginalised. She represents the younger generation of Goan women, who fought in a patriarchial society to get their voices heard and contribute in equal measure as (and often, in greater measure than) their menfolk. May both of these fine people have the courage to bear the loss of their dear one, knowing that their work is not going unappreciated! FN WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [GOANET] Panaji...
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Thank you for your opinion. Ponjje or Panjim is definitely acceptable but not 'PANAJI". -Original Message- From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, January 03, 2003 7:44 AM Subject: [GOANET] Panaji... >-- >Archives: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ >-- > >Actually, Panaji (with the second 'a' silent, as it is pronounced) is >rather close to the Portuguese term Pangim (with the 'm' almost >silent). Panjim, preferred by English-language speakers, seems to be of >uncertain origins. If we want to go forward via the past, shouldn't we >all think about the locally more-authentic 'Ponjje'? FN > >> --__--__-- >> >> Message: 4 >> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 2:44:15 -0500 >> Subject: [GOANET] Re: referendum for panjim >> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> Dear Goan Brothers & Sisters, >> >> This "PANAJI" sounds more like "BHAJI". Maybe it's time for all Goans >> to write to their MLA's that "PANAJI" should be cast to the rubbish bin >> for the original and beautiful sounding name we always had and remember >> about - PANJIM. >> >> Let us all strive to keep all these "JI'S" sounding names out of >> GOA. If not GOA may soon be called 'GOAJI". Now you know what that >> means. The death of GOA!! >> >> VIVA GOA! VIVA THE INDEPENDENCE OF GOA!! >> >> GOA FOR GOANS FIRST. >> >> Ivor (Samora). > >WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] HI CAN Y?
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- >From: edgar furtado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [GOANET] Shifting of Oil Tanks to Sancoale Hilltop >Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 06:02:18 -0800 (PST) > >-- >Archives: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ >-- > >SAY NO TO SHIFTING OF THE OIL TANKS TO SANCOALE >HILLTOP > >This issue should be addressed to Cortalim MLA Mathany >Saldanha. > > >EF >Boston, MA > > >__ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. >http://mailplus.yahoo.com >WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > get 2 months FREE* WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] Greetings
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Wishing you a Happy New Year!! from all of us at Arz, Sincerely, Zarine Chinvala Director, Arz * Arz is a Development Organisation based in the red-light area of Baina Beach, Goa, India, working to combat trafficking in humans for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation. Arz works with victims/survivors, perpetrators of trafficking and persons vulnerable to becoming either victims or perpetrators. Arz works at the level of Prevention, Protection, Rescue, Reintegration, Rehabilitation, Prosecution. Arz MHN 27/1, Behind Anthony Bar, Baina Beach, Vasco da Gama, Goa - 403 802. Ph: 0832- 251 99 51 / 251 53 53 --- WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] Indianfootball.com update
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- indianfootball.com update (Arunava Chaudhuri, Fri Jan 3 06:25:46 2003) Dear Friends, Happy New Year to you all!!! The indianfootball.com team hopes and will work to cover Indian football in it's whole spectrum in the new year as we did in the past one. But as you know, it is not always easy... So here are the latest updates at indianfootball.com: - indianfootball.com eMail interview exclusively with Kalyan Chaubey, goalkeeper at Salgaocar about his background, his aims and his trials in Germany last summer. - 3rd SAFF Cup we have put together a special section for the 3rd SAFF Cup going to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from January 10-20, 2003. With infos on schedule, teams, statistics, etc... http://specials.indianfootball.com/saffcup2003/ - 115th Durand Cup 2003 Scores, schedule,etc online - 108th IFA-Shield 2003 Scores, schedule,etc online - 7th National League 2002/03 covering the NFL with numerous details, e.g. league table, scores, schedule, team lists and pictures Go to http://www.indianfootball.com/ for details... bye, Arunava. PS: indianfootball.com has a new forum. You find it under http://www.sports-india.com/phpBB2/ . Cooperation between indianfootball.com, TennisIndia.org and Sports-India.com . WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] NEWS: Christian separatist group in Tripura target tribal Hindus
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Christian separatist group in Tripura target tribal Hindus By Syed Zarir Hussain, Indo-Asian News Service Guwahati, Dec 31 (IANS) Tribal Hindu villagers in India's northeastern state of Tripura Tuesday vowed to fight back alleged extortion demands by a Christian separatist group, community leaders said. Militants of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) have served extortion notices to hundreds of Hindu tribal villagers and threatened to kill them if they don't pay up soon. "The notes were served only to Hindu villagers with warnings of capital punishment to those who violated the diktat," Aswathama Jamatia, head priest of Jamatia Hoda, an influential tribal Hindu group, told IANS by telephone. The NLFT, fighting for an independent tribal homeland, is a predominantly Christian group. Police have confirmed the extortion demands to Hindu villagers in Tripura. "We have received some complaints in this regard," said a police official in Tripura's state capital Agartala. Community leaders say the NLFT was demanding three percent of the annual earnings of all government employees as tax, besides charging between Rs. 2,000 and Rs 5,000 from farmers and other businessmen. Villagers in remote areas have formed vigilante groups to foil the NLFT's extortion drive. "People armed with sticks and other crude weapons, including bows and arrows, patrol vulnerable villages to scare militants who come for extorting money," said Rampada Jamatia, secretary of Jamatia Hoda. "At no cost are we going to pay the militants." Tribal Hindus account for 22 percent of Tripura's 3.2 million people. Christians are just about eight percent of the state's total population. Tribal Hindu groups say the NLFT has been converting people to Christianity at gunpoint. "We believe up to 5,000 tribal villagers were coerced into converting to Christianity by the NLFT during the past couple of years," the head priest said. Community chiefs and religious heads of 19 tribes, who met recently, formed a platform called the Tribal Culture Protection Committee to counter the perceived militant threat. The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) ruled government in Tripura has accused the church of boosting secessionist campaigns in the state. Police in Tripura in 2002 arrested 10 church leaders on charges of colluding with separatists in the killing of some CPI-M members. Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, however, said his government does not have "hard evidence" of the Christian missionaries' nexus with rebel groups. "The fact remains that militant groups have been targeting government schools and non-Christian people, while institutions run by missionaries are never touched," he said. "We want the Christian missionaries to make their stand clear and help us fight militancy for the greater interest of the state." Church leaders have denied the allegations. "In fact, a number of our priests and missionaries have been the target of attacks by unidentified miscreants over the past couple of years," said Jong Bahadur Debbarma, a church leader. "Instead of just accusing the church of having nexus with militants, the Indian government should initiate a probe and punish the guilty." The genesis of insurgency in Tripura can be traced back to the massive influx of Bengali-speaking refugees when East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, was created during India's partition in 1947. The indigenous tribal people, who accounted for 95 percent of the Tripura population in the 1931 census, are now just 30 percent. More than 10,000 people have lost their lives to insurgency in Tripura during the past two decades. --Indo-Asian News Service WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] who is this?
>From: "Anthony Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [GOANET] Panaji... >Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 17:14:04 + > The new MSN 8 is here: Try it free* for 2 months --- Begin Message --- -- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- PLEASE REMOVEME FROM MAILING LIST. THANKS. "The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -- Gandhi >From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [GOANET] Panaji... >Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 18:54:11 +0530 (IST) > >-- >Archives: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ >-- > >Actually, Panaji (with the second 'a' silent, as it is pronounced) is >rather close to the Portuguese term Pangim (with the 'm' almost >silent). Panjim, preferred by English-language speakers, seems to be of >uncertain origins. If we want to go forward via the past, shouldn't we >all think about the locally more-authentic 'Ponjje'? FN > > > --__--__-- > > > > Message: 4 > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 2:44:15 -0500 > > Subject: [GOANET] Re: referendum for panjim > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Dear Goan Brothers & Sisters, > > > > This "PANAJI" sounds more like "BHAJI". Maybe it's time for all Goans > > to write to their MLA's that "PANAJI" should be cast to the rubbish bin > > for the original and beautiful sounding name we always had and remember > > about - PANJIM. > > > > Let us all strive to keep all these "JI'S" sounding names out of > > GOA. If not GOA may soon be called 'GOAJI". Now you know what that > > means. The death of GOA!! > > > > VIVA GOA! VIVA THE INDEPENDENCE OF GOA!! > > > > GOA FOR GOANS FIRST. > > > > Ivor (Samora). > >WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- End Message ---
[GOANET] Re: Thanks
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Dear Rene: Thank you for your kind comments, although ALL credit for our success goes to teamwork. Working together, the Goan community is moving ahead world-wide and there is optimism that things will only improve. Thank you for giving so much of your time to the Goan community with GOA DAY and your other ventures. Regards, George Pinto --- renebarreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Goenkars , > > > George Pinto is another Goan who has made it HAPPEN > for the less fortunate in Goa. He is one Goan who has > supported the World Goa Day irrespective of the happenings. > Thank YoU George for believing in us. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] Thanks all your Christmas and New Year greetings
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Dear Goans everywhere, Thank you for your Christmas and New Year's greetings -- We sincerely reciprocate these greetings. However, we have not really been able to enjoy this Christmas season -- Hazel has been very ill since August and could not sleep or turn or move and was in great pain since October -- She was at Tata Memorial for a week end October and went back for some radiation early December -- we shifted her to the CIPLA FOUNDATION for palliative care of cancer patients at Warje, Pune on December 17th and with their care and attention they were able to relieve the pain she was enduring -- initially with morphine and gradually reduced the dosage of morphine as the other medicines took effect --since December 30th she was in no pain, but the cancer had spread to her lungs and she had difficulty breathing -- she breathed her last yesterday -- January 2nd at 10:00 -- After a Mass at the hospice this morning her body was cremated at Pune today -- We will have the seventh day Mass here at St Stephen's Church and then take her ashes down to Goa where they will be interred in the niche at Porvorim after Mass, probably on January 26th Please join us in our prayers for the repose of her soul Deepika and I have just got back home and will catch up on all correspondence Once again thank you one and all Lots of love, Deepika and Aloysius WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] TidBits.001
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- And here's wishing all my readers a very happy and prosperous New Year, 2003. On New Year's Resolutions: And as is customary, every new year comes with a new resolutions. I too have made a resolution, which I believe is an unique one. For, this one has a central theme "CHARITY STARTS AT HOME". But then, as we have often seen, new year's resolutions are made to be broken. I remember one particular resolution of a long time ago, when we, the two chain smoking brothers decided to quit smoking come new year's ringing in. Folks at home saw us lighting up as many cigarettes as the ten fingers could handle at one time and puffing away to glory even as the seconds hand on the wall clock ticked away to the zero hour. Come next morning it was a tough time trying to salvage some of the cigarettes that were flung on the loft never to be lit again. That was the shortest lived resolution in my life. To come to the 2003 resolution, it is such that it cannot be broken. A flexible one indeed, I must say. When I say the theme is "Charity Starts at Home", I had in mind a thought that OUR GOA is a survivor. It has survived four and a half centuries of military 'PORTUGUESE' rule. It can very well survive another couple centuries of 'HINDUTVA's HINDU RASHTRA rule. After all, whether it is the PORTUGUESE rule or the HINDUTVA rule, we ordinary folks have to scratch for our living anyway. Besides, who else better to follow in the footsteps than our very own Dr. Wilfred D'Souza who has shown us that " IF YOU CAN'T FIGHT THEM, JOIN THEM" And in keeping with my new year's resolution, I shall not shed a drop of my tear or of my blood for Goa more than what I can afford to shed knowing fully well that Goa will survive and outlive me. I might as well try to live a decent life, or whatever is left of it. I would like to repeat John F. Kennedy's words to suit my thoughts in that " I must think not what I can do for Goa but what Goa can do for me" Under the circumstances, most Goemkars will abundantly agree with me. On PM's Holidaying in good old GOA. And I had my first glimpse of a colourful chameleon pictured in the Navhind Times on the New Year's Day, sitting in a lounge chair, watching the setting sun over the horizon of the Arabian Sea. With the kind of headline Quote PM ATTACKS EXTREMIST PROJECTION OF HINDUTVA Unquote that went with the picture, it could'nt have been anything else but a chameleon. This chameleon had a totally different colour a few days before when he patted the back and installed as the Gujarat Chief Minister the same Hindutva extremist that he preferred to attack from Goa. The only sensible drift that we Goans can get out of the 'Hinduism is Secularism' crap that our PM tried to dish out to the world in his 'Goa Musings' is that perhaps he has tried out our Goan delicacy in the liquid form and found it exhilarating. "The Caju Feni". After all, we saw a number of clear liquid glasses on his table and any one of which could have been the inspiration behind the great thought. And of course, our PM could'nt have been holidaying in GOA without sampling the Goan spirit. On PM's New Year's Gift to Goa. Chameleon or not, Goans, especially the Mapxemkars, should be more than happy for the gift of 350 crores worth of a "Sky Bus" project for Goa, entirely at the Centre's cost. Whow! Well done Manohar Parrikar and thank you. Mapxemkars will never be able to forget you as a co-Mapxemkar who helped convince our dear PM that Goa was the place to relax and ring in the hectic HINDUTVA New Year and then go along and strip him of 350 huge crores. Only see that Nirmala Sawant does not steal the Mapxemkar's New Year's gift and hand it over to the Kashmiris of Calangute, Candolim, Baga and Vagator. It is not her fault anyway . It is the breeding of the Congressmen and Congresswomen. They never had their priorities right for the long 20 odd years of rule they had in hand in Goa. And the Goa Congress has always never believed that "Charity starts at Home" It has always but always been helping non Goans rather than Goans. Nevertheless, we trust you, Manohar Parrikar, to do your homework well as far as scheduling of the project is concerned, as it will lose the meaning of a costly " PRIME MINISTER'S GIFT" if it should take ten years or more to complete it, and, by that time, the Prime Minister be Prime Minister no more. Also, the Panjimkars and Mapxemkars and all Goemkars alike will heartily thank you for not choosing "Saffron" as the colour for the "Sky Bus" as it will not go well with the 'Green Goa'. And, finally, I dedicate this very first "TidBits" of 2003 to dear Viviana of Goanet. Goes to show that like there are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, there are no permanen
[GOANET] Mother Teresa
MOTHER TERESA is being fast tracked for the ultimate honour by the Vatican 'saint factory'. Christopher Hitchens, one of her trenchant critics, had produced a TV documentary about her called Hells Angel (1994) and wrote the book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Verso 1998) where he dismissed her as a religious fundamentalist. Interestingly, the Vatican invited Hitchens to act as the Devils Advocate and a few nights ago, he was debating with John Donahue of the Catholic Defence League in Washington. Hitchens summarised his objections yesterday (2 Jan 03) in the Mirror (London). - M Teresa received millions of pounds in charity, some of it from dubious sources like the Duvaliers of Haiti and swindler Charles Keating. She never built any hospitals but claimed to have built some 150 convents. Was this what the money was for? - She seems to have spent more time travelling and posing with the rich and famous than treating the sick & lepers. - To her, contraception and abortion were not just immoral but threats to world peace! - When she was sick, she made sure of being treated at top US clinics, not in Calcutta. Vijay Prashad, Associate Prof at Trinity College, Hartford, CT had written about M Teresa in the Goan Overseas Digest in Jan 1998. He noted with insight that to M Teresa (and to church leaders), poverty is 'beautiful', its causes not to be challenged. She was not averse to moving with the makers of poverty like Reagan or Thatcher. Like the popes she remained subservient to power. For example, how did she & Pope JPII view the Bhopal disaster (1984)? As a product of capitalist greed? Hardly. They called it a sad event that resulted from mans efforts to make progress.
Re: [GOANET] Panaji...
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- PLEASE REMOVEME FROM MAILING LIST. THANKS. "The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -- Gandhi >From: Frederick Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [GOANET] Panaji... >Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 18:54:11 +0530 (IST) > >-- >Archives: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ >-- > >Actually, Panaji (with the second 'a' silent, as it is pronounced) is >rather close to the Portuguese term Pangim (with the 'm' almost >silent). Panjim, preferred by English-language speakers, seems to be of >uncertain origins. If we want to go forward via the past, shouldn't we >all think about the locally more-authentic 'Ponjje'? FN > > > --__--__-- > > > > Message: 4 > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 2:44:15 -0500 > > Subject: [GOANET] Re: referendum for panjim > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > Dear Goan Brothers & Sisters, > > > > This "PANAJI" sounds more like "BHAJI". Maybe it's time for all Goans > > to write to their MLA's that "PANAJI" should be cast to the rubbish bin > > for the original and beautiful sounding name we always had and remember > > about - PANJIM. > > > > Let us all strive to keep all these "JI'S" sounding names out of > > GOA. If not GOA may soon be called 'GOAJI". Now you know what that > > means. The death of GOA!! > > > > VIVA GOA! VIVA THE INDEPENDENCE OF GOA!! > > > > GOA FOR GOANS FIRST. > > > > Ivor (Samora). > >WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] Mother Teresa
MOTHER TERESA is being fast tracked for the ultimate honour by the Vatican 'saint factory'. Christopher Hitchens, one of her trenchant critics, had produced a TV documentary about her called Hells Angel (1994) and wrote the book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Verso 1998) where he dismissed her as a religious fundamentalist. Interestingly, the Vatican invited Hitchens to act as the Devils Advocate and a few nights ago, he was debating with John Donahue of the Catholic Defence League in Washington. Hitchens summarised his objections yesterday (2 Jan 03) in the Mirror (London). - M Teresa received millions of pounds in charity, some of it from dubious sources like the Duvaliers of Haiti and swindler Charles Keating. She never built any hospitals but claimed to have built some 150 convents. Was this what the money was for? - She seems to have spent more time travelling and posing with the rich and famous than treating the sick & lepers. - To her, contraception and abortion were not just immoral but threats to world peace! - When she was sick, she made sure of being treated at top US clinics, not in Calcutta. Vijay Prashad, Associate Prof at Trinity College, Hartford, CT had written about M Teresa in the Goan Overseas Digest in Jan 1998. He noted with insight that to M Teresa (and to church leaders), poverty is 'beautiful', its causes not to be challenged. She was not averse to moving with the makers of poverty like Reagan or Thatcher. Like the popes she remained subservient to power. For example, how did she & Pope JPII view the Bhopal disaster (1984)? As a product of capitalist greed? Hardly. They called it a sad event that resulted from mans efforts to make progress.
[GOANET] Panaji...
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Actually, Panaji (with the second 'a' silent, as it is pronounced) is rather close to the Portuguese term Pangim (with the 'm' almost silent). Panjim, preferred by English-language speakers, seems to be of uncertain origins. If we want to go forward via the past, shouldn't we all think about the locally more-authentic 'Ponjje'? FN > --__--__-- > > Message: 4 > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 2:44:15 -0500 > Subject: [GOANET] Re: referendum for panjim > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Dear Goan Brothers & Sisters, > > This "PANAJI" sounds more like "BHAJI". Maybe it's time for all Goans > to write to their MLA's that "PANAJI" should be cast to the rubbish bin > for the original and beautiful sounding name we always had and remember > about - PANJIM. > > Let us all strive to keep all these "JI'S" sounding names out of > GOA. If not GOA may soon be called 'GOAJI". Now you know what that > means. The death of GOA!! > > VIVA GOA! VIVA THE INDEPENDENCE OF GOA!! > > GOA FOR GOANS FIRST. > > Ivor (Samora). WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [GOANET] FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES.
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Just as a reminder the exchange rates for any currency can be obtained at any time from: www.goacom.com/news Just click on the link "Exchange Rates" in the side bar.Tim de Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ontario, CANADA >From: "gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [GOANET] FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES. >Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 11:20:01 - > >I HAVE DECIDED TO MAKE THIS USER FRIENDLY, ALL CURRENCIES PER UNIT AGAINST INDIAN RUPEE: > >I ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR RATES GIVEN. > >USD/INDIAN RUPEE 48.035 > >EURO 49.91 > >GREAT BRITAIN 76.57 > >SINGAPORE 27.54 > >HONGKONG & MACAO 6.159 > >THAILAND 1.1167 > >KUWAIT 160.33 > >SAUDI ARABIA 12.809 > >JAPAN 1 RUP = 2.4963 YEN > >SWISS 34.283 > >CANADA 30.626 > >AUSTRALIA 27.06 > >NEW ZEALAND 25.16 > >DENMARK 6.715 > >NORWAY 6.8836 > >SWEDEN 5.478 > >SOUTH AFRICA 5.68 > >NALAYSIA 6.0895 > >UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 13.16 > > > >REGARDS GABE MENEZES > > > Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] Portuguese: Why some Goans still Love it?
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- This is only my opinion on why I Speak, Write,and Read Portuguese. I grew up speaking Portuguese in Panjim, so I decided to get into the habit of speaking, reading and writing Portuguese once again. My best friend here in New England is a former Portuguese literature lecturer at a University in Curitiba, Brazil. She has rehearsed and taught me an elegant way of speaking Portuguese as the Brazilians do, which is different from the Portuguese spoken in Portugal and elsewhere. Portuguese is a beautiful language. Here in New England I live in a Portuguese neighborhood of Boston filled with folks from Brazil and Portugal. Brazilian cuisine is similar to Goan gastronomy. In Goa we have "Sorpotel". There is a place in North Brazil that is called "Sarapatel" which is famous for its pork dishes. From all of my global travels right up to Buenos Aires, I must say that the Brazilians are the only ones who know how to "Party" every single day. I see that right on my face when I get back home from work, my Brazilian friends are all set to take me to the beach for another evening of "Churrassco" either at the beaches in Cape Cod or the North Shore. I guess this is where we Goans get our "sooosegaaad" habits. In my town of Somerville, I can boast of the best Portuguese "Pao" prepared in clay ovens by early Portuguese settlers from the Azores, and Sao Martin. Prescuito/ Presunto here is fine so also the various kinds of wines. Happy Reading, Edgar Para Goeses: Conversacão, Escrita e Leitura em Português. Eu cresci falando português em Panjim, então eu decidi adiquirir o hábito de falar, ler e escrever em português, novamente. Aqui em Novo Inglaterra meus melhor amigos elle é formada em literatura por uma Universidade de Curitiba. Desde que eu a conheci, ela tem me ensinado o falar português corretamente e elegantemente como os próprios brasileiros falam, cujo é diferente do português falado em Portugal. O Português é um idioma muito bonito de se falar e agradavel de ouvir aos não habituados. Atualmente moro em um bairro aonde vivem muitos brasileiros e portuguses. A cozinha Brasileira é muito parecida com a de Goa. Em Goa nós temos o " Sorpotel ". Na região Nordeste do Brasil, especificamente no Estado da Bahia, podemos encontrar e saborear o " Sarapatel " e que é muito famosa dentro e fora do país. Em todas as minhas viagens em varias partes do globo, fui até Buenos Aires eu sou obrigado a mencionar que não existe outro povo no mundo que saiba fazer festa como brasileiros, seja em qualquer país onde residam, seja quando for, seja com quem for. Quando volto do servico para casa, encontro alguns amigos brasileiros e eles logo me convidam ou para ir à praia, ou para um "churrasquinho", pode ser tanto em Cape Cod, ao sul de Boston, como em North Shore. Eu acho que sei de onde nós nascidos em Goa herdamos o nosso " Sossego ". Na cidade de Somerville posso desfrutar do melhor "Pão" Português, como nos velhos tempos em Goa. Feitos em fornos por portugueses de Acores e de San Martin. Presunto aqui, é tão fino quanto as variedades de vinhos. Boa Leitura. Attenciamento Edgar Furtado __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [GOANET] Shifting of Oil Tanks to Sancoale Hilltop
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- SAY NO TO SHIFTING OF THE OIL TANKS TO SANCOALE HILLTOP This issue should be addressed to Cortalim MLA Mathany Saldanha. EF Boston, MA __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] Cable TV subscribers opposed to hike in pay channel rates.
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- --- Documented by Goa Desc Documentation Service & circulated by Goa Civic & Consumer Action Network (GOA CAN)<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ph:2252660 --- -- HIKE IN PAY CHANNELS OPPOSED -- The Navelim Civic and Consumer Forum unanimously resolved to oppose the hike in the monthly rent proposed yet again by the Cable TV operators. The decision was taken at the Forum's monthly meeting held on Sunday. The Forum will submit a memorandum to the Director of Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Panaji in this regard. The members present opined that the hike is not justified and agreed with the view that a subscriber should be charged only for the channels he wishes to watch. With so many channels in the air, it is ridiculous to charge each subscriber for all the channels shown by the operator. Meanwhile, the Forum has also decided to have a 'LPG Safety Camp' on cooking gas on Sunday 19 January 2003 at 3.30 pm at Navelim in association with the Bharat Gas and BP dealer Kadam Gas Agencies, Margao. A demonstration on safe cooking practices will be done at the venue by representatives of the Bharat Gas. Also any grievances of customers will be attended to. New registrations for existing customers as well as new connections will be issued on that day, according to Forum Secretary Joseph L R Vaz. - GOMANTAK TIMES 02/01/03 Page II === GOA DESC RESOURCE CENTRE Documentation + Education + Solidarity 11 Liberty Apts., Feira Alta, Mapusa, Goa 403 507 Tel: 2252660 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.goadesc.org -- Working On Issues Of Development & Democracy === WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] NEWS: India may grant dual citizenship for people of Indian origin
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- India may grant dual citizenship for people of Indian origin >From Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) India is getting ready to grant dual citizenship to persons of Indian origin (PIOs) in select countries ahead of a global diaspora meet here next week. "The granting of dual citizenship has reached an advance stage of discussion and we have reached a final decision," J.C. Sharma, a secretary in the external affairs ministry, told reporters here Friday. He said Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had in "principal accepted this aspect". "The discussions are going on at the highest levels of the Indian government," Sharma said. He hinted that an announcement granting dual citizenship to some 20 million PIOs scattered across the world would be made at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas or diaspora day, which will be held here January 9-1. Some 1,200 people from some 60 countries will attend the meet. The proposal for granting dual nationality was recommended by a high-level committee headed by L.M. Singhvi, a former Indian envoy to Britain. The panel had proposed a $400-fee for the dual citizenship. The proposal was made after an earlier government scheme to issue PIO cards for $1,000 to facilitate hassle-free visas found few takers. While the law ministry thinks that granting dual nationality would entail amending the constitution, the home ministry has voiced concerns about security implications of such a move. The diaspora day meet coincides with the anniversary of the return of Mahatma Gandhi to India on January 9, 1915, after almost two decades in South Africa. It is aimed at recognizing the contribution of the Indian diaspora in political, social, academic and cultural fields. Mauritius Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth will deliver a special address at the opening ceremony. Former Fijian prime minister Mahendra Pal Chaudhury, Malaysian Works Minister S. Samy Vellu and a number of prominent NRIs and PIOs will attend the meeting. They include Nobel laureates Amartya Sen and V.S. Naipaul, Lord Bhikhu Parekh of Britain and Deepak Jain, dean of the Kellogg School of Management. >From India, the participants will include politicians, businesspersons, bureaucrats and leaders in various fields. Prime Minister Vajpayee will open the conference. --Indo-Asian News Service WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] 03 JAN: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS January 03, 2003 PROBE INTO PATIENT'S DEATH: An inquiry has been sought into the death of patient, Suresh Govekar, on Sunday at Asilo Hospital, Mapusa, by the victim's kin who have alleged negligence and callousness on the part of the staff. (GT) CHILD-FRIENDLY STATE: The State government has proposed to enact Children's Act, revise the school syllabus on the principles of "Joy of Learning" and set up a State Commission for Children during the current year (2003), which has been declared as the Year of the Child. This was announced after PM Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee launched the year 2003 as the "Year of the Child" in Goa, at a simple ceremony at Benaulim on January 1. (H) POETIC INSPIRATION IN GOA! Face to face with the Prime Minister, one was frustratingly fazed by the hovering security men all around but managed to ask if he had written any poetry in Goa? With a smile, he replied, so far, he hadn't but this was not for lack of inspiration! Before one could put in another question a member of his large and aggressive special protection security police intervened. (Tara Narayan in Herald) PM'S GOA MUSINGS: The political controversy regarding the Prime Minister, Mr AB Vajpayee's Goa musings on Hindutva continued today (Jan 2) with the Bharatiya Janata Party saying that there would be a clash of pseudo-secularism against cultural nationalism in the coming assembly elections. (UNI report in NT) NARVEKAR GRANTED BAIL: The Additional Sessions Court granted anticipatory bail to Goa Cricket Association Secretary Vinod Phadke and president Dayanand Narvekar bail on payment of Rs.15,000 each with sureties for the same amount. (GT) CHRISTMAS SANS SALARIES: For a section of secondary private management aided high school teachers of Canacona, it was quite literally a "blue" Christmas without their salaries. They had to go without December salary for Christmas, even though their counterparts--government high school teachers and primary teachers--received their salaries on 24 December. (H) JUDGE CONDEMNS POLITICIANS: The District and Sessions Court, while granting anticipatory bail to one Subhash B Sawant of Mandrem, Pernem, who apprehended arrest following an allegedly politically motivated complaint lodged against him, has observed that it was "unfortunate" that "police machinery is being freely misused by political masters to harass innocent persons". (H) POLICE MARINE FORCE: The newly-formed Police Marine Force is back to base after handling its first major operation of keeping watch on the sea front at Benaulim during Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's recent holiday. (GT) MUSEUM WEEK: The Directorate of Museums will celebrate the "Museum Week" in Goa from January 6 to 10, 2003. The Governor Mr Kidarnath Sahani will inaugurate the Week at Goa State Museum, EDC Complex, Patto. (NT) RS.2.5 LAKH STOLEN? The State Bank of India, Margao, foreign exchange counter suffered a loss of around Rs.2.5 lakh when 3210 dollars, 105 Euro currency, 320 pounds and travellers' cheques mysteriously disappeared from the counter yesterday afternoon. (GT) IRRESPONSIBLE DOG OWNERS: "The fact is that the Mapusa Council is working very hard alongside the International Animal Rescue to reduce the number of stray dogs in the Mapusa area. However, there are irresponsible people permitting their dogs to breed and then simply throwing the unwanted pups out on to the streets." (John Hicks, Mapusa, in My View/NT) ASSAULTED WOMAN ADMITTED: Aurora Vaz, Povasao, Macazana, who was assaulted by her neighbour over a property dispute on 1 January, has been admitted to Hospicio Hospital for treatment. (GT) CRIME AGAINST WOMEN: The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Mr Karnal Singh, outrightly rejected the Home Ministry's reply in Parliament to a question that Goa is the fifth state in India after Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan to top the crime graph against women. (Shaikh Jamaluddin in NT) MPT BEATS RECORD: Mormugao Port Trust's Mechanical ore Handling Plant has once again surpassed its own record during the Calendar year 2002. A total of 11.17 million mt of iron ore was loaded by the shipping section, surpassing the previous record of 10.27 million mt in the year 2000. (GT) CELLULAR OPERATORS CUT STD CHARGES: The cellular operators (on January 2) slashed STD rates to Rs.2.99 per minute from a peak Rs.9 charged for distances above 500 km that may trigger a price war with basic telecom operators. (PTI report in NT) TOWARDS CORPORATIONHOOD: The New Year heralds a new status for the capital city Panaji, which is being represented by Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar in the State Assembly. The irony of it is that the jurisdiction of Goa
[GOANET] Live jazz at soulfry (Mumbai)
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- SOULFRYpresents LIVE JAZZfeaturing Jeanne Michael..vocals Saby Diassaxophone Tony Pinto..piano Colin D'Cruz.bass Rex Monsorate...drums 8th January, 9pm onwards. Phone 26046892 WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] Sea turtle 'mela' at Morjim, Jan 10
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Centre for Environment Education, Goa State Office invites you to the "Sea Turtle Mela" being organized as part of the project "Turtle Conservation Education Programme in Schools" Supported by Ministry of Human Resource Development Govt. of India. Date: 10 January 2003 Venue: Near the Olive Ridley Restaurant, Vithaldas Vado Morjim, (Pernem taluka) Goa. Dr. D. Pandey IFS Chief Conservator of Forests, Govt. Of Goa has kindly consented to be the chief guest and Mr. G. L. Pernekar Director of Education, Govt. of Goa will preside over the function Programme 9:00am - Reporting time for students and teachers 9:30am - 10:00am Inauguration 10:00am - 10:30am Exhibition 10:30am - 11:30am Poetry Writing and Clay modeling competition and group Activities for the students 11:30am - 12:15pm General talk on Turtle (for 5th to 7th Std students) Group Activities 12:15pm - 01:00pm Lunch 01:00pm - 02:00pm Film screening 02:00pm - 2:45 pm General talk on turtle (for 8th to 10th Std students) Group Activities 02:45pm - 03:00pm Tea 03:00pm - 04:00pm Kite Flying 04:00pm - 05:00pm Rally into the village 05:00pm - 05:30pm Skit --- WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] FEATURE: Goa's soul in music (curtain-raiser to the 36th Mando Festival)
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- * MANDO FESTIVAL IN GOA: Jan 4, 2002. Kala Academy. * Angling for cultural tourism - there's more to Goa than sun, sand and nature By Isac Hilario Dias Go to Goa - the cultural Goa. There's simply no place like it . There is more to Goa than sun, sand and natural beauty. The allurement is quite distinct from the rest of India. Go to Goa: for that relaxed lifestyle amongst its marvelous expanses of palm-fringed white beaches and azure blue seas, scenic splendours of wooded hills and green valleys hiding the rivers and the ponds dominated by rising steeples of white washed Churches and Temples across its expanse of land. All this tranquility is enlivened by the Goan love for music, song and dance. The people of Goa are by nature warm and hospitable. They are also richly endowed with musical and artistic talents. Over the centuries, they have evolved a culture which is a combination of Portuguese and Indian arts. Their songs in Konkani have an appeal that bring to mind the gentle murmur of the surf on the glistening white beaches of Goa. Yes, go to Goa, and you will be fascinated to see how much this tiny region, less than half of size of a normal district in India has contributed to music. Goan folk songs embrace all aspects of life. They are joyful or sad, lyrical or satirical, and at times rise to spiritual heights. Yet, the most popular song dance of the Goans is the Mando, sweetly sad in its melody. The oriental and occidental winds that swept over Goa are artistically blended in the Mando. Mando is nostalgically sung and danced and it has gone with Goans outside Goa too ! Cradle of inter-acted music in India What factors could be attributed to regard Goa rightly as the cradle of western music in India as also its storehouse? Why, among the world celebrities in the art of music, Goans have excelled in their musical talents, earned appreciation and secured international applause? Goans have shone in music not only in Goa, not only in the rest of India but in places around the world wherever they are. There are historical reasons for this. Everyone is not a good singer or gifted to appreciate music. It is a gift to have a great musical ear. But having a hidden talent is like a lighted lamp hidden under a bushel. The seed has to be given chance to grow, be nurtured until it becomes a fruit bearing tree. Quite a challenging and difficult task, and exactly why talented musicians and singers are well respected in the developed countries. Goans have taken personal interest and worked hard to improve this gift of nature. Well, across the important centres in 'Indostan', prominent Hindu temples encouraged and supported Bhajan Mandals. These Bhajan Mandals were teaching, free of cost, rudiments of Hindustani music and were resources for giving talented singers for temple pujas, the artists for 'nattaks' (dramas) and Bhajan singers. The historians who accompanied Alexander the Great have recorded admiration for what they observed in 'Indostan' in those centuries of yore, in support for music and, in appreciation, many good Hindustani singers were taken to Greece. Now, in this part of Indostan in Goa, after the advent of the Portuguese, the authorities watched the prevailing system for imparting of free knowledge of Hindustani music by the Bhajan Mandals in Goa as in the rest of India. On a similar pattern, the authorities decided to approve to give the newly converts to Christianity in their respective Churches and Chapels, the rudiments of western music. Consequently, in the 16th century onwards, 'escolas paroquiais' attached to the Churches were established, the responsibility for teaching of western music and playing of the violin having been given to the Choir Master or 'Mestre'. These resources helped to meet the choir services of the Churches. Sources indicate that it is wrong to conclude that the Portuguese had such a system for teaching music in general in other places under their flag, because such an arrangement did not exist neither in Portugal or Europe -- but was typical in Goa. Hence, this bye-product of Mandos and Dulpods, has instant appeal to musical ears of India and Europe. Mandos and Dulpods Go to Goa -- the cultural Goa -- and you will be entranced by the softly strumming of guitars, the suave playing of violins and drumming in well measured beats on the 'gumott'. Mando was nostalgically sung and danced in Goan families and was central attraction at Goan weddings and happy ceremonial functions etc. Mando, which is essentially a love song, has in its gradual evolution combined the best elements in rom
[GOANET] NEWS-GULF: 40,000 Indians expect to use UAE amnesty
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- 40,000 Indians expected to use UAE amnesty >From Indo-Asian News Service Dubai, Jan 3 (IANS) Nearly 40,000 Indians are expected to avail themselves of an amnesty for illegal immigrants in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from January 1, but the rush is yet to pick up. Indian officials told IANS their embassy was yet to see a rush of Indian workers seeking emergency certificates (ECs), as this is a holiday period locally, and the mass migration is expected to begin next week. About 35,000 to 40,000 Indians residing illegally in the UAE are expected to exit the country during the four-month amnesty period. A similar amnesty in 1996 saw an exodus of 50,000 Indians. The UAE has announced the long-awaited amnesty for illegal immigrants, which will allow them to leave the country without facing punishment or fine. The amnesty began on January 1 and will conclude on April 30. The Indian consulate in Dubai has extended its working hours to expedite the process of issuing ECs and travel permits, facilitating the exodus. Indian Consul General George Joseph said the consulate had received over 3,000 applications for ECs -- a one-time, one-way passport for people who have no valid documents to authenticate their identity as Indians -- and travel permits. He said as it takes time to process applications, it was in the best interest of Indians who have no valid proof of their identity to apply as fast as possible. The consulate has teamed up with Indian welfare associations throughout the emirates to set up mini-missions or centres from where EC and travel permit applications can be forwarded to the consulate. The consulate as well as the Indian embassy will issue standard computer-generated ECs, cutting down on the time-consuming and cumbersome procedures that were involved earlier. Indian Airlines and Air-India have also set up their counters within the premises of the Indian consulate in Dubai to offer concessional airfares to those seeking amnesty. At least 300,000 illegal immigrants are expected to leave the UAE under the second amnesty to have been officially declared since 1996. In 1996, about 200,000 illegal immigrants left under the amnesty, which continued for six months. The amnesty seekers belong to three categories -- those who have overstayed, those absconding from sponsors and those who have entered the country illegally. The UAE will out phasing out a total of 240,000 private sector workers, who do not have proper educational qualifications, by focusing on labour and recruitment policies, reports said. Illiterate and under-qualified workers form 13.9 percent of the current expatriate workforce. Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (AGCC) states are working hard to cut their dependence on expatriates through jobs-for-nationals programmes but will have to continue relying on foreign workers for the next one or two decades. The AGCC states now have a combined population of around 27 million, of which expatriates account for 35 percent, with a high of around 75 percent in the UAE and Qatar. Bahrain has about 30 percent expatriates, while they account for 56 percent in Kuwait and 27 percent each in Oman and Saudi Arabia. --Indo-Asian News Service WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES.
I HAVE DECIDED TO MAKE THIS USER FRIENDLY, ALL CURRENCIES PER UNIT AGAINST INDIAN RUPEE: I ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR RATES GIVEN. USD/INDIAN RUPEE 48.035 EURO 49.91 GREAT BRITAIN 76.57 SINGAPORE 27.54 HONGKONG & MACAO 6.159 THAILAND 1.1167 KUWAIT 160.33 SAUDI ARABIA 12.809 JAPAN 1 RUP = 2.4963 YEN SWISS 34.283 CANADA 30.626 AUSTRALIA 27.06 NEW ZEALAND 25.16 DENMARK 6.715 NORWAY 6.8836 SWEDEN 5.478 SOUTH AFRICA 5.68 NALAYSIA 6.0895 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 13.16 REGARDS GABE MENEZES
[GOANET] FRIDAY BALCAO:Problems faced by Telephone subscribers in Goa.
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- WELCOME TO THE FRIDAY BALCAO Dear Cybergaonkars on GoaNet, As a concerned citizen, you are well aware that there are many issues affecting Goa and its people. There is thus a need for us to be well informed of what's happening, what's reported in the media and what we can do in our own small way to bring about a change so that Goa, the country and the world become less oppressive, more environmentally friendly and developmentally sustainable for others and ourselves. We at GOA DESC believe that ' INFORMATION IS POWER AND MUST BE SHARED EQUITABLY'. Therefore our Centre has taken a step in this direction, as we organize a session every fortnight thereby creating the space for concerned citizens, volunteers, sympathizers and activists to know more and to network better. 'FRIDAY BALCAO' is this space to listen, discuss, chat, agree to disagree but most of all to get our act together. DATE: 10th January 2003TIME: 4.00 pm to 6.00 pm TOPIC: Problems faced by Telephone subscribers in Goa. SPEAKERS: An open discussion. We invite you to contribute to the discussion at Friday Balcao by attending the event but if you cannot attend, then please send your views and action plan suggestions by post to FRIDAY BALCAO Post Box 78, Mapusa 403 507 or by email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you would like to receive a one page SYNOPSIS of each Balcao session in the year 2003, you could SUBSCRIBE for the invitation cum synopsis by sending Rs. 80/- to cover printing cum mailing costs. You can also GIFT SUBSCRIBE for a relative or friend in Goa/India. The FRIDAY BALCAO BOOKLET is available for RS.70/- only Buy your personal copy and gift one to your relatives, neighbours and friends. The information handbook that is a must in every Goan home. We would be grateful if you could circulate this invitation to your friends in Goa, the country and overseas. many thanks, Roland Martins. === GOA DESC RESOURCE CENTRE Documentation + Education + Solidarity 11 Liberty Apts., Feira Alta, Mapusa, Goa 403 507 Tel: 2252660 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.goadesc.org -- Working On Issues Of Development & Democracy === WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
