[Goanet] Re: INS-deported Canadian a Goan??
For more information/links, see http://goanet.netfirms.com From: "Neal Pinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The following article is about a Canadian woman by the name of Berna Cruz who INS officials deported to India. Is she a Goan? > > Neal Pinto Berna Cruz is indeed Goan. A photograph of her appeared in the Toronto Star 14 Feb. - see url below. It is of more than a little concern that she was picked upon by the US Immigration Service for having a Latin name. Some excerpts from the reports. She was asked how she could have a Latin name. The officers were not convinced when Cruz, who was born in Thiruvananthapuram, told them that her family is from Goa, where such names are common. Cruz says an officer also asked here why her surname was not "Singh" and commented that it was clever of her to use a Spanish name. Cruz, who is separated from her husband, says she told the officers that her maiden name is Fernandez. It's not uncommon for Indian-born people to have Portuguese surnames, but the officers didn't seem to care, she says. When Cruz didn't arrive home and missed work, her family in India and Toronto became worried and, without knowing what had happened, a family member told her boss that she was sick. Two days later, the pilot who helped Cruz had his daughter phone Cruz's employer to tell them what had happened. But with two different stories, and no word from Cruz herself, her employer took her off payroll and assigned her desk to someone else. The work problems have since been sorted out, although she did not want to name the bank she works for. "It's horrible. It was humiliating," said Cruz. "What I felt was that it was total discrimination, racism." 1. Toronto woman suffers ordeal at hands of U.S. immigration Kitchener-Waterloo Record , 15 February 2003, 480 words, (English) A Toronto woman coming home from India says she was pulled aside at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, accused of using a fake Canadian passport, denied consular assistance, threatened with jail, then put on a plane back to India . ... 2. World Briefing Americas: Canada: Immigration Accusations The New York Times , 15 February 2003, 88 words, (English) The government urged the United States to examine the case of a Canadian who accused American officials of mutilating her passport at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and putting her on a plane to India. Berna Cruz, a native of India ... http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/15/international/americas/15BRIE4.html 3. Basic courtesy to verify passport The Toronto Star , 15 February 2003, 194 words, (English) Canadian in passport fiasco Feb 14. Why couldn't the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Services officers have the basic human courtesy to verify Berna Cruz's passport before sending her to India? ... http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Artic le_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035777804571&call_page=TS_Letters&call_pageid=968332 189003&call_pagepath=News/Letters 4. Indian surnames are wide-ranging The Toronto Star , 15 February 2003, 150 words, (English) Canadian in passport fiasco Feb. 14. My name is Liz John. I am not white. I am South Asian and many Indian Christians like me have "white" surnames such as Thomas, Joseph, Philip and Matthew. The blatant ignorance and discrimination that ... http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Artic le_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035777804547&call_page=TS_Letters&call_pageid=968332 189003&call_pagepath=News/Letters 5. Canadian faces ordeal in U.S., shipped to India Winnipeg Free Press , 15 February 2003, 606 words, (English) Jim Rankin TORONTO -- A Toronto woman coming home from India says she was pulled aside at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, accused of using a fake Canadian passport, denied consular assistance, threatened with jail, then put on a plane back to ... 6. TORONTO -- It's a stopover Berna Cruz would like to forget. The Toronto woman says she was coming home from India on January Broadcast News , 09:29, 14 February 2003, 211 words, (English) TORONTO -- It's a stopover Berna Cruz would like to forget. The Toronto woman says she was coming home from India on January 27th when she was pulled aside at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. ... 7. Une Torontoise est malmenée par l'immigration américaine, à Chicago La Presse Canadienne , 12:10, 14 February 2003, 240 words, (French) TORONTO (PC) _ Il s'agit certainement d'une halte que Berna Cruz voudra oublier. La femme de Toronto souligne qu'elle a été mise à l'écart à l'aéroport O'Hare, de Chicago, lors de son voyage de retour de l'Inde, le 27 janvier dernier. ... 8. Une Torontoise est malmenée par l'immigration américaine, à Chicago Nouvelles Tele-Radio , 12:11, 14 February 2003, 240 words, (French) TORONTO (PC) _ Il s'agit certainement d'une halte que Berna Cruz voudra oublier. La femme de Toronto souligne qu'elle a é
[GOANET] St Valentine Indian Love Feast.
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- 20 couples have been selected to try a St Valentine Indian Love Feast and determine if Indian food can have sensuous aphrodisiac properties. From Daily Record (Scotland). 7 Feb. Full text, 1050 words at: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/features/page.cfm?objectid=12616222&method=full&siteid=89488 For the menu and results see: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/news/page.cfm?objectid=12624115&method=full&siteid=89488 The above is from the 14 Feb. issue of Goan Voice UK newsletter which is now available at http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/newsletter/2003-7/ Special feature this week: The Young London Goans Society. == Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet.
[GOANET] Snippets from the Press
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- 8 Feb. Daily Star (UK). Headline: I'm Goan straight to prison. Text: An Irish holidaymaker got the shock of his life when he appeared to tell gun cops the purpose of his visit to India was "terrorism". But immigration officers at Goa International airport mistook "tourism" for "terrorism" in his Irish accent - and banged him up. Witness Simon Cheetham, 41, from Aylesbury, Bucks, said: "It sounds funny, but he was petrified. It took him hours to get out." 7 Feb. Florida Today. Headline: Restaurateur hosted astronaut's family. Excerpts: Local restaurateur Ashok "Sid" Sikdar, owner of the recently opened Taste of Goa International Indian Cuisine Restaurant in Cape Canaveral said he was honored Chawla's family and friends chose to dine at his restaurant the evening of the launch of Columbia. They enjoyed Indian dishes like Vindaloo chicken and pork A Taste of Goa is at 8501 Astronaut Blvd. (State Road A1A), Cape Canaveral. Full text, 560 words at: http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/indexjose.htm 8 Feb. The Canadian Press. Germany defeated Canada 11-4 at the indoor World Cup men's field hockey championship Friday. John De Souza opened the scoring for Canada. The other scorers for Canada were Wes De Souza, Robin D'Abreo and Wayne Fernandes. 6 Feb. The Edmonton Sun. Wayne Fernandes of Mississauga, Ont., scored four goals to lead Canada to a 5-4 win over Switzerland at the inaugural indoor field hockey World Cup yesterday in Leipzig, Germany. John De Souza scored the other. Other matches with names of the Canadian scorers: Canada vs. Russia : 3-3. Ken Pereira 2; Wayne Fernandes 1. Canada vs. New Zealand : 7-2. Wayne Fernandes 3; Ken Pereira 2; Wes de Souza 1; Adam Evans 1. Canada vs. Czech Republic : 5-5. Robin D'Abreo 2; Scott Sandison 2; Wayne Fernandes 1. [For photographs and biodata of the Canadian team, see: http://www.fieldhockey.ca/teams/2003iwc/menu.html 8 Feb. The Times (UK). Jill Crawshaw revisits Goa and discovers why it has retained its appeal for generations of British tourists. Excerpts: The Portuguese withdrew from Goa in 1961, leaving behind a state that is 30 per cent Catholic, dynasties of da Sousas and Braganzas - plus a very un-Indian propensity for wine .Goa is quite rightly dubbed "beginner's India", less foreign, less poor, with less hassle, and even the searing heat is tempered by sea breezes . the village of Cavelossim now claims Goa's first air-conditioned shopping mall . popular spots such as Calangute and Baga in the north have been commercialised with budget apartment blocks, English pubs, tattoo parlours and chaotic, congested streets .On the beach the children frolic with their fathers in the waves, though their sari-clad mothers only paddle at the water's edge. ...Goa's famed sunsets may have set a vogue for honeymooners, but the real Bombay brides behave as decorously on the beach as if at a Buckingham Palace garden party. Woggling is not yet on their agenda ..the police have cracked down on noise and drugs, but in Anjuna someone tries to sell you grass every ten seconds." ...I linger contentedly over my last pomfret and Kingfisher beer at the Palolem Beach House, where accommodation is in tents or cabins. Palolem is still OK. And the rest of Goa isn't bad either. Full text, 1184 words at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,71-568556,00.html 7 Feb. Retail Week (UK). As Asda/Wal-Mart gears up to go for control of Safeway, word is spreading about the value offered by the retailer. It seems the message has now spread to Goa in India. Retailers ranging from market stall-holders to hagglers push their wares by claiming that their deals are "better than Asda price". Another trader of beach tat, attempting to emphasise the quality of his goods rather than simply price, proclaimed they were "as good as Marks & Spencer". 6 Feb. Belfast Telegraph. Headline: Road laws in India say might is right. 769 word article on the Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycle tours organised by Blazing Tails of Goa. Full text at http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/features/story.jsp?story=376059 Blazing Trails is at: http://www.travelingoa.com/blazingtrails/ 4 Feb. Daily Mail. Bow Street Magistrates Court in London heard that a girl of 14 was raped by three crewmen on a cruise ship after being invited to their cabin for a drink,. The girl is said to have been attacked by Roy Fernandes, 25, Charles Fernandes, 28, and Anthony Travasso, 29. James Lewis, QC, told the Court, 'She was offered an alcoholic drink and Charles Fernandes began kissing her without her consent. Ne
[GOANET] PR Newswire (US): Mr Parrikar at San Jose.
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Headline: Golden Jubilee Celebrations of IIT End on a High Note Source: PR Newswire (US) 22:25 20-Jan-03 at http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-20 -2003/0001875036&EDATE= Excerpt: Mr. Manohar Parrikar, the Chief Minister of the Indian State of Goa, regaled the audience with stories about how he went from winning elections for student government positions in IIT to successfully running a major Indian state. He underlined the importance of setting high ethical standards in politics, and said that his proudest achievement as an IIT alumnus has been in showing that "good politicians can make a difference." Full text: SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- An enthusiastic audience of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumni and their families celebrated the successful conclusion of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the IIT at a banquet in the Imperial Ballroom of the Fairmont Hotel. Earlier in the evening, John Hennessy, President of Stanford University, and Robert Berdahl, Chancellor of the University of Berkeley, addressed IIT alumni to congratulate them on the tremendous success that has been achieved by the IIT system, while exhorting them to be ambitious in their plans for the coming fifty years. The CBS News 60 Minutes segment which described the IITs as "the most important university you've never heard of" was shown on large screens during the course of the banquet. Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam sent a message to IIT alumni stating that "India is proud of the achievements of these prestigious educational institutions that have more than fulfilled Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's ambition of building globally competitive technology education, research and training centers." He expressed the hope that the IITs "will play a steering role in our second vision of making India a developed nation by 2020." H.E. Murli Manohar Joshi, India's Minister of Human Resource Development, congratulated the IIT system on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations, and underlined the need to "foster among the IIT alumni/students a greater introspection and understanding about their roles, which they should play in serving the best interests of the nation." Amongst the highlights of the event was the keynote speech delivered by Bill Gates, Chairman and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, who began his comments by stating that IIT is "an incredible institution that has really changed the world and has the potential to do even more in the years ahead." He added that he made a very special exception to speak at such a college event given "the role that ... IIT can play inside India in tapping into its potential." Mr. Gates said the "theme I will strike tonight is working together ... the United States working with India ... and commercial organizations like Microsoft with IIT." He concluded his speech by saying that being with the "incredibly talented group" of people in the audience made him optimistic about taking the great advances in science and ensuring that they are available not only in the developed world but to the entirety of humanity. During the course of the second day of the event, a keynote speech was given by Robert Blackwill, US Ambassador to India. He described the IITs as a reputed global brand name. He added that India's human resources and intellectual capital are its greatest assets, and that an India that brings its people out of poverty through economic growth at a more rapid rate would be an inspiration to democracies everywhere. There were also three panel discussions on "Leadership," "Business Innovation" and "Value Creation" which featured a stellar collection of leaders from industry and academia. Mr.Arun Sarin, CEO-designate of Vodafone described leadership as being about doing many things well at the same time, and he underlined the importance of identifying the future leaders of a company at an early stage so that they can be trained appropriately for their roles. Manoj Singh, Managing Director of Deloitte Consulting, added that leadership is about turning adversity into opportunity. Yogen Dalal, a Managing Partner at Mayfield, speaking on the "Innovation" panel urged the IITs to set a greater goal and mission in focusing on innovation in the "B-to-4B" space. This is a term that has been used to describe ideas and solutions for the four billion of the world's poorest citizens earning less than $1,500 per year, and representing over two-thirds of humanity. Mr. Dalal also highlighted the work done by Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala at IIT Madras in developing the corDECT Wireless in Local Loop (WLL) technology, which is a more viable option for rural telephony and Internet connectivity than CDMA. WLL is now be
[GOANET] Daily Record, NJ: Parrikar in New Jersey.
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Source: Daily Record, NJ.19 Jan 2003. Headline: Indians soon may be Americans, too. Asian nation considers allowing natives in U.S. to become dual citizens. By Minauti Dave. 864 words. Excerpt: .Last week, a high-level governmental official from Goa, a state in India, met in a Morristown restaurant reception with Goans living in the United States. When asked about the dual citizenship, Chief Minister Monohar Parrikar said the new law would funnel support back into India. "It can help India by way of getting back with their own citizens who have migrated for better opportunities," Parrikar said. "It can be greatly useful in the sense that it can keep the ties". Full text at: http://www.dailyrecord.com/news/03/01/19/news5-india.htm = Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet!
Re: [GOANET] QUERY: A L Dias
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Fred, Anthony Lancelot Dias died on September 22, 2002. The Times carried an obituary of about 200 words on 4 Nov. See: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-468392,00.html It is unsigned, as is their practice. The Examiner published a longer one of about 1000 words on 30 Nov. by Julio Ribeiro. Let me know if you require the full text. A two-page biography with photograph appears in VAZ, J. Clement: Profiles of Eminent Goans. New Delhi, Concept, 1997, pages 158-59. ISBN 81-7022-619-8. For more information try Alban Couto in Goa. Eddie Fernandes === - Original Message - From: "Frederick Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 3:38 AM Subject: [GOANET] QUERY: A L Dias > > This is a belatedly-noticed obit from the National Book Trust (New > Delhi) newsletter of October 2002. Does anyone know more about A L > Dias? He is one of those Goans who seems to be little written about back > home. Had seen some earlier references which came in via Eddie, but these > were from the UK media: > > AL Dias passes away: Former Chairman of the NBT (National > Book Trust) and ex-Governor of West Bengal, A L Dias, > died in Mumbai on Sunday. He was 92. Dias had a > distinguished career in the Maharashtra cadre of the > ICS (the British colonial Indian Civil Service-FN). He > also played a major role in the liberation of Goa from > the Portuguese
[GOANET] Vancouver Sun: Jason DaSilva's film selected for Sundance Film Festival.
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Headline: Daydream fuelled Sundance documentary. B.C. film-maker wanted a story about two children living radically different lives. By Kevin Griffin. Source: Vancouver Sun. Tuesday, January 14, 2003 at http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/story.asp?id=898603AE-02F3-459C -92C3-B263066D7CF6 A photograph of Jason DaSilva can be found at the website. Text: An idea born daydreaming on the bus between the University of B.C. and Tsawwassen has resulted in a local film-maker creating a short film that's been chosen for Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival. Called Olivia's Puzzle, the 12-minute documentary by Jason DaSilva depicts the different lives of two seven-year-old girls: one who lives in Ladner, and the other in the village of Aldona, Goa, the former Portuguese colony in India. DaSilva's film will play five times at the Park City, Utah film festival known around the world as one of the premiere venues for independent film-makers. It will be shown several times along with The Murder of Emmett Till, a Stanley Nelson documentary about the 1955 murder of an African-American teenager in the Mississippi Delta which helped spark the civil rights movement in the U.S. DaSilva's film has already won first prize at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival. It premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival and has shown at several other film festivals around the world. DaSilva, 24, conceded he doesn't really know that much about Redford -- something which surprised his mother. But he said when he travels to Park City, he wouldn't mind meeting the famous actor and director -- and using the festival as an opportunity to market his film. "It'll be fun -- after all the festivals I've been to, I've learned how to schmooze really well," he said. The Sundance Institute was founded in 1981 by Redford to showcase independent films. By 1985, it grew to encompass an existing film festival in Utah and officially became the Sundance Film Festival in 1991. This year's festival runs from Thurday to Jan. 26. DaSilva got the idea for Olivia's Puzzle while on the bus home after a sociology class at UBC. He thought that the best way to show how socialization and the environment shape individuals would be to make a documentary about two children living in radically different situations. He first wanted to make a film about two boys but couldn't find the right subjects. With help from his family, who are from Goa, he was able to find two girls: one is his cousin Olivia Athaide who lives in Ladner. The other is Reshma Sham Kamulekar from Goa. DaSilva's grandmother Irene also played a critical role in the making of the Olivia's Puzzle. Since Reshma doesn't speak English and DaSilva doesn't speak Konkani, the native language of Goa, his grandmother acted as the all-important intermediary who translated for everyone. The film shows the two seven-year-olds at school, talking with their friends, the foods they eat and how they see themselves in the world. The puzzle, DaSilva said, is how Olivia views her own culture and her awareness of it as a child. DaSilva said one of the major contrasts between the lives of the two children is when they talk about the future. "Olivia says that when she grows up, she might be an artist or a dance teacher. Reshma says she'll get married, have kids and work in the fields," DaSilva said. "Reshma won't have that opportunity to do anything different." DaSilva said he doesn't see himself sticking exclusively with making documentaries. He'd like to move back and forth between fiction and non-fiction -- citing Mira Nair, who started out making documentaries and has also made the hit feature films Salaam Bombay! and Monsoon Wedding. Interested in comics as a youngster, DaSilva added sound and motion to his narrative skills while at Emily Carr School of Art and Design. For several years he also created Good Tasty Comic for Discorder, the magazine published by CITR, the student radio station at UBC. More information on DaSilva and Olivia's Puzzle is available at www.oliviaspuzzle.com Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet!
Re: [GOANET] JOHN HICKS AND HIS IRESPONSIBLE VIEWS
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Hi Aires, That's good - who checked the draft :-) I tried to call you on Sunday on the mobile but you must have been very busy. We got here OK. The seats allocated were much better than the ones we had asked for as they had extra leg room. The sausages, spices, feni and bebinca got through OK. Our two cartons of books did not arrive even after everyone else had collected their luggage and gone. We were asked to fill a claim form which we did. Then someone went back to the aircraft and found them under some "catering rubbish" Thanks for arranging our seats and weight and late check in. Now I am waiting Sebby's invoice! Eddie
[GOANET] Vimala Devi new book Monso. La Vanguardia (Spain).
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Vimala Devi is also the author of the masterly compilation, A Literatura Indo-Portuguesa 2 vol. JIU, Lisbon, 1971. Source: La Vanguardia. 30 Dec 2002 at: http://www.lavanguardia.es/web/20021230/133309014.html BY: ROSE MARIA PIÑOL The article is in Spanish. A machine translation of variable quality is below: == The problems derived from the shock of the cultures Hindu and western and a feudal economic structure are the subject of stories of the Indo-Portuguese author settled in Barcelona. BARCELONA Thirty years after settling in Barcelona, the Indo-Portuguese writer Vimala Devi finished publishing her first book of narrative in Catalan, her language of adoption, in which already she has published several poetry books. The work that she now it publishes is Monsó, a set of stories on Goa, shortly before which this state of India became independent from Portugal, in 1961. Vimala Devi, daughter of a lawyer and a batcar (rural landowner), Catholic and proEuropean, lived the atmosphere of colonial Goa until 1959, when she decided to emigrate to Lisbon. She was 25 years old, and in the Portuguese capital she worked as civil servant of Property and she knew the writer and translator Manuel de Seabra,who she married. From 1973, the couple resided in Barcelona and made of Catalunya their land of adoption. Shock of cultures Most of stories of Monsó were published in Portuguese in 1963, in Lisbon, and later partially they were translated to the Swedish and Esperanto (a language that both writers know thoroughly). Now, besides translatimg to Catalan the those stories, Vimala Devi has added to the set three new narrations. The work has been published by the publishing house of Vilanova i the Geltrú Cep i the Nansa. Trasfondo common to all the stories que can be ***reflxed mng like a novel, since some even share personajes are the problems derived from the shock of cultures and religions, as well as the abuses produced within the framework of a society sustained in a rural economy still with feudales resabios. The author portrays the social estates of Goa and the historical phase angle that the existence of manducares (a species of almost medieval servants of gleba which they had to give the product of his work) and batcares meant (rural proprietors with right to services and gratuitous goods of its farmers). The difficult crossing between chaste and social classes are also reflected in the work. El problem of that society is that she was neither Hindu nor Portuguese, but a mixture created through four centuries and means of explica colonization of Portugal Vimala . To the Portuguese Goa interested to them as important center of commerce and treated to its inhabitants like not conquered allies and like. They inculcaron its culture to them and they caused the mixed marriages, that is to say, they made a policy of colonization that in other places of India did not occur. Countries like Holland, that later colonized the nation, always maintained a separation with colonizados . This mixture of cultures and religions is dealt with the great sensitivity by the author, who turns fiction real cases that she conocio ': impossible loving relations, to the being the chaste lovers of different; the social conventions that forced the woman to marry because soltería was bad Vista, which caused marriages of convenience and indebtedness of the parents to pay the mandatory dowries; the social conflicts in the rural properties... Although the general tone of the book is intimist, also perceives in him a denunciation. Los protagonists of stories are the pressed ones, because they were without voice. manducares was an emblematic case. My grandmother was a great proprietor and I from small had opportunity to observe those farmers, how they lived and how they dressed. And he felt to me bad. For that reason volume divided in favor of the pluses desfavorecidos. WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] New Cardiac Care Center for Goa: Morning Call, Allentown, PA
-- Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Source: 27 Dec. The Morning Call. Allentown, PA, USA. at http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b3-3pacedec27,0,6023501.story?coll=all%2Dnewslocal%2Dhed Lehigh Valley cardiologist finds new use for outdated and used medical supplies >From pacemakers to catheters, hospitals in India can use them all. By Tracy Jordan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dr. Daniel Mascarenhas opens a suitcase in the basement of his Bethlehem Township home to reveal the items he will be taking with him when he visits his native India next month. ''You will be shocked,'' he warns, revealing his own amazement. ''Some of it is brand new in the packaging.'' In two months, Mascarenhas has collected thousands of dollars worth of cardiac medical supplies intended for the garbage bin. There are balloons worth $300 each, catheters worth $600 each, stents worth $1,000 each, pacemakers worth $5,000 each and a defibrillator worth $25,000. Except for the pacemakers and defibrillator, which were removed from patients in the hospital or from corpses at funeral homes, the equipment is no longer wanted by hospitals and medical supply companies because the expiration dates have lapsed. ''It has to be legally dumped because it cannot be used for any people in this country,'' Mascarenhas said. ''They give it to me because they know I'm going to put it to good use.'' Mascarenhas estimates he has delivered more than $500,000 in medical supplies during the past several years to hospitals in India, where medical equipment is so scarce doctors readily install used pacemakers. ''The problem here is one infection, and lawyers are going to be jumping all over it,'' Mascarenhas said. ''These people in India have used these pacemakers without any problems. This is like having found gold.'' At Sion University Hospital in Bombay, Dr. Suleman Merchant says the equipment is saving lives. ''Although cannot be reused in your country, many indigent members of our community are receiving a new lease on life,'' Merchant wrote in a letter about Mascarenhas. ''Through his effort, he has obtained life-saving stents to help in excess of 200 patients.'' Mascarenhas, who has also shipped supplies to Croatia and Haiti, is director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg and practices at Easton Hospital in Wilson, St. Luke's Hospital in Fountain Hill and Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg in Bethlehem. He understands the needs of India's hospitals because he trained at King Edward Memorial Hospital in Bombay. One of his responsibilities there was to collect all the used cardiac catheters and sterilize them for the next day's patients. ''We would reuse them until they virtually broke, but we had no choice really,'' Mascarenhas said. ''Unless you were in that place and worked in that situation, you don't know what it is like.'' When Mascarenhas began his fellowship at St. Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts in 1992, he started collecting used catheters again to sterilize and send to hospitals in Bombay. He continued sending medical supplies after joining Easton Hospital about eight years ago. ''People ask me what I do for my hobby. This is my hobby,'' said Mascarenhas, who also is helping raise money to open a cardiac care center near his hometown in Goa, India. Mascarenhas said the amount of supplies he sends has been increasing because more people, including funeral directors, are becoming aware of his mission. ''As long as the family gives us permission, we do it, especially for people who are cremated,'' said Bill Webb, a funeral director at Strunk Funeral Home in Easton. ''The pacemakers can't be cremated because they will destroy the retort.'' Kline Ashton of Ashton Funeral Home in Easton said the donation also provides some comfort to grieving families. ''It helps them in some small way to cope with their loss, and it gives them a small bit of hope for somebody else,'' Ashton said. ''It's just wonderful what does.'' Mascarenhas believes many more medical supplies that could be saving lives are being thrown away, but he can't collect them all himself. ''I'm hoping to talk to the association to make them aware that so much of this trash can be used as gold,'' Mascarenhas said. ''It would be nice if more and more people were in a more organized fashion sending stuff.'' = Dont forget you saw it on GoaNet! WANT TO check out which mailing lists you could subscribe to? Send a blank email message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[GOANET] Government crackdown prevents Goans from using real 'Christmas trees'
-- * CHRISTMAS PARTIES 2002 * Dec 21 - GOA-LA, Los Angeles, +1 (714) 821-6168 Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a free party announcement Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Goanet2003/ -- Headline: Government crackdown prevents Goans from using real 'Christmas trees' Source: Catholic News Service (Washington DC) 18 Dec. 2002 at: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20021218.htm PANAJI, India (CNS) -- Christians in the Indian state of Goa no longer use real "Christmas trees" due to a crackdown by the government's forestry service. Local residents used to cut large branches from casuarina trees along Goa's coastline, but efforts by the forestry service to protect the trees have largely stopped the practice, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. Michael de Sa, a Catholic in Goa, said the crackdown has taken away much of the Christmas fun. Casuarina trees, whose spiny leaves and drooping branches resemble traditional Christmas evergreens, blanket Goa's 64-mile coastline. Dionosio Carvalho, deputy forest conservator, said his department planted the trees in the early 1970s to control sand erosion and to beautify the area. Dont forget you saw it on GoaNet! Ongoing: Exhibition of paintings, Art Chamber, Calangute www.goa-art.com Dec 14 onwards: Shireen Mody's Goa 2002 exhibition, Arpora. Tel 2276759 Dec 17, 18, 20: Indo-Portuguese furniture, lectures Fundacao Ph 2230728 Jan 19-22: Gauri Divan's studio pottery, Rust, Aguada Rd Ph 2479340 Dec 23-Jan 7: Dayanita Singh's photo exhibition, Art House Tel 2276123 Jan 18-19: International kite carnival at Morgim beach, Pernem
[GOANET] Reuters: India Sex Imbalance Grows as Rich, Poor Want Boys
Dec 7-8: Seminar 'Jesuits in India', at XCHR-Porvorim Ongoing: Exhibition of paintings, Art Chamber, Calangute www.goa-art.com Dec 14: Customer Relationship Mgt Seminar, Xaviers, Mapusa Tel 2262356 Dec 13: Dance workshop, with Jaap Van Maanen. Tel 2275733 BB Cafe Dec 09: Martial arts for women and travellers. Tai Chi, Karate, BB Cafe Jan 18-19: Int't kite carnival at Morgim beach, Pernem * * * * * * * * * * * * Note: Some events continue beyond the starting date mentioned above Last year on a visit to Goa, we visited the Punjab Food Festival in the grounds of a luxury hotel complex. The clientele seemed to be exclusively Punjabi apart from us. After a short while I noticed that there were about 20 children sitting with their parents at various tables and that they were all, without exception, boys! I was somewhat sickened by the realisation. I wondered what the statistics would reveal. Now I know Headline: India Sex Imbalance Grows as Rich, Poor Want Boys Source: Reuters Mon December 9, 2002 01:39 PM ET By Penny MacRae Text at: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=1876292 NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Workers cleaning drains in a northern Indian town recently discovered two aborted female fetuses, a find that highlights the country's bias against girls. A few weeks later, a bag turned up in the same town of Alwar in Rajasthan state containing a dozen female fetuses and dead baby girls police believe was dumped by a nursing home. The discoveries were stark evidence of the preference for boys over girls among many parents that has skewed the sex ratio in this country of more than a billion and been exploited by money-hungry doctors using ultrasound machines to detect the sex of fetuses. "It's an unholy alliance of tradition and technology. Ultrasound was not meant for sex selection," said demographer Ashish Bose. "It's a quick way for greedy doctors to make money." The result of the quest for sons was clear in the 2001 census. From the ages of birth to 6, there were 927 girls for 1,000 boys, down from 945 girls a decade earlier. But that national figure masked big local variations. In northern Punjab state, for instance, there were 793 girls for 1,000 boys, down from 875 girls in 1991. The global ratio is about 1,005 females to 1,000 males. India has had a long history of female infanticide--of girls poisoned, suffocated, drowned or left to die. In the early 19th century, British Col. Alexander Walker recorded his horror at seeing a mother drowning her newborn girl in a trough of milk in the western Gujarat region. But now abortion of female fetuses or "female feticide" has become common with the easy availability of ultrasound sex tests. While such tests, costing as little as 600 rupees ($12.42), are illegal across India, the law is regularly flouted and clinics offering sex tests abound. Portable ultrasound machines mean the tests can be done even in remote areas. "It's illegal but it's happening all over. It's available at an affordable price," New Delhi social worker Mira Shiva of the Voluntary Health Association told Reuters. The yearning for a son is deep-rooted social phenomenon. "A lot of it is economically based. If you have children you're better off having boys because the sons will take care of you in your old age," Bose said. DAUGHTERS LEAVE HOME Daughters, on the other hand, leave home when they wed and a dowry--which can range from $100 to a new car, jewelry, apartment or more--can prove crippling for a family. Social activists say many who seek to find out the sex of their unborn child are poor, rural and illiterate. The prejudice against girls also stretches into urban centers such as the capital, New Delhi, where the census showed about 850 girls per 1,000 boys in some affluent neighborhoods. "Often a woman who gives birth to a daughter gets treated much worse than one who gives birth to a son," Shiva said. "Some commit suicide they're so worried about how they'll be treated by their husband's family. The family may be educated, have money. This discrimination is across-the-board," she said. "Girls are seen as a burden and the fact educated women are willing to abort their girls shows their social conditioning." Shiva says the government's push for two-child families to slow population growth has only worsened the situation. "With the small family norm, many people want boys so they have abortions and keep trying when it's a girl," she said. In neighboring China where there is a similar traditional preference for boys and a controversial one-child rule to keep the population down, there is also a big sex imbalance. Social workers in India say the trend will mean major social problems ahead and make it harder for young men to wed. "People won't be able to find girls to marry for thei
[GOANET] Goa - the next terrorist target?
Goa's phone numbers change from Nov 10, 2002. Prefix old number with a 2. New numbers will be seven-digit 2XX (where XX is the old number). 18 Nov. CNN. Interview With Eric Margolis Anderson Cooper..And there are plenty of other soft targets around the globe that attract, I mean, international tourists. I would think Goa in India, Puket in Thailand. And not just American tourists, but Australians and Canadians, as you mentioned, and even Israeli... 28 Nov. CNN Newsnight. Deadly Terror Attacks Rock Israeli Interests in Kenya. Anderson Cooper: If I'm running the tourist industries in India and Thailand, I would be very scared tonight, because Israelis go there. Those are prime targets now. Michael Elliott: Oh. Oh, absolutely. Somewhere like Goa, you know. http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0211/28/asb.00.html 29 Nov. Arab News (Saudi Arabia) Yesterday's suicide bomb explosion at Mombasa was not wholly unexpected. Yesterday, it was Mombasa. Tomorrow where? Goa? 578 words. http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=20726 1 Nov. Sunday Telegraph (UK). .In India, anti-terrorist officers are to guard the beaches of Goa in south India after warnings that tourists, including thousands of Israelis, may be the target of an attack by an al-Qa'eda cell. More than 40 officers have been seconded to the tiny former Portuguese colony after intelligence reports alleged that followers of Osama bin Laden are prepared to bomb a high-profile tourist target in India... http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/12/01/wkenya01. xml&sSheet=/portal/2002/12/01/ixport.html = Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! -- What's On In Goa (WOIG): Nov 06 Children's book exhibn opens, Walkabout, Anjuna... (all weekdays) Nov 06 ArtHouse, Calangute: Chaitali's acrylics on canvas till 19.11 Nov 07 Revision of electoral rolls (till Nov 30) See schedule. Dec 01 Two day conference, Goa Agenda. IT For Society. (Ends 2.12) Every Sunday: Music therapy sessions at Moira, 5 pm. 278, N.Portugal --
[GOANET] Some forthcoming UK Goan events
Goa's phone numbers change from Nov 10, 2002. Prefix old number with a 2. New numbers will be seven-digit 2XX (where XX is the old number). Sun. 1 Dec. 12.30pm. Goan Association (UK). Feast Of St Francis Xavier at Archbishop Lanfranc School, Mitcham Road, Croydon. Choir by the Goan Musical Society. Contacts: Diego Pinto 020 - 8767 0663, Cyril Rapose: 020 - 8874 8329. Tue. 3 Dec.7.00pm. Feast of St Francis Xavier celebrated at the Goan Community Centre, Keston Rd. N17. Ladainha followed by Mass and a Feast of shared eats & drink after the service.This will be a time for reflection when we explore our hopes & fears, giving thanks to all the volunteers. Tue. 3 Dec. 7:45pm. The South East Goans Sports & Social Club will be celebrating the Feast of St. Francis Xavier. St. Thomas More Church, Long Lane, Bexleyheath, Kent. Principal Celebrant: Right Reverend Bishop Charles Henderson. Free refreshments in the Church Hall after Mass. Contacts: Damaciano: 020 8316 1473;Eusebio: 020 8304 9089;Alex: 020 8306 0974. Tue. 3 Dec. 7:00pm. Special Holy Mass to commemorate the 450th anniversary of St Francis Xavier at the Holy Family Church, Trelawney Avenue, Langley, Slough. The mass will be celebrated by Rev. Fr. Oliver Antao s.f.x., and will be followed by a get together after the service. Further information from Ciril de Quadros (ph 07986355391) or e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri. 6 Dec. Join 'Say One Do One Disco' in an evening playing R&B, Garage and latest tunes. All welcome, free entry. Upstairs in the Princess Louise Pub, 208 High Holborn from 7 till 11. For details call Paul on 07956 496190 or Nigel 07956 984532 or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat. 7 Dec. 3pm sharp. Goan Cultural Society. A Children's Konkani Pantomime CINDERELLA" written and directed by Mike Alfonso, at St Johns Hall, Bourne Hill, Palmers Green, London N13. Admission: Adults £5; Children £3. Contact Ida- 020 8881 2921 or Rosy - 020 8352 9450. Flyer at: http://community.webshots.com/photo/41541835/55241902TCLAOw Sun 8 Dec. The Moira Association, London is celebrating its 25th Anniversary. Starting with a thanksgiving Mass from 12.30pm followed by a social till 8pm - Music provided by Maz & Co. Location: Bishop Thomas Grant School, Streatham, SW16. Tickets Prices - Members: £10; Guests: £12 Children under 13: £5 (all prices include a meal and snacks) Please contact Alex De Mello 020 8306 0974 or Joe Mendes 020 8303 3974 for tickets. ALL WELCOME! Sun. 8 Dec. - Harrow & Edgware Goans invite you to celebrate the Feast of St. Francis Xavier. 3.00pm service at St. Anthony's Church, Garrett Road, Edgware followed by social get-together at the Church hall (next to Church). Music by Dark Star to finish at 8pm. Tickets Adults 5.00 Children £3.50 to include meal. For details and tickets contact Joe Fernandes 020-8951 5066 or Derrick Pereira 020-8952 8899. Sun 8 Dec. North London Goans celebrating the Feast of St. Francis Xavier. White Hart Lane School Hall, White Hart Lane, Wood Green, London. Tickets contact Seby D'Silva 020 8245 5463; Johnny Fernandes 020 8881 4579 or Tina Rodrigues 07957 272 134. Thu. 12 Dec. 10.30am -12.30am. Repeated 19th Dec. Come & join the 'Over 50's group' to make Goan Christmas 'Cuswar' at the Goan Community Centre, Keston Rd. N17. Ingredients provided by the GCA. If interested contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu. 12 Dec. From Commander Joseph Da Gama: Please join us for a Presentation on The Royal Navy at the Goan Community Centre, Keston Rd. N17 7-9pm. Over 60 Career options. Workshop followed by refreshments. It is important to know the attendance for catering purposes. Please contact Candy on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat 14 Dec. 2pm. Saligao Assoc. Panto at the Polka Theatre, Wimbledon. Tickets £6/£10. Contact Nathan DeSouza at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat. 14 Dec. 4.30p.m. Goan Association (UK). EGM/AGM Archbishop Lanfranc School. Open to fully paid-up members only. 14 Dec. 6.00 - 11.00p.m. Croydon Goans Annual Christmas Dance at Our Lady of nnunciation Church Hall, Addiscombe, Croydon Contact Raymond Lobo 020 8654 0268 Sat.14 Dec. 7-11.30pm Goan Community Centre, Keston Rd. N17. Christmas Party especially for the 13-19's. £2 inc.Chicken 'n' chips/veg.& a drink. No Alcohol. Music by DJDEX22 Dec. = £15 all. Felix 020 8482 3277 Frank 020 1400 Tue. 31st Dec. (7pm till 1am). The South East Goans Sports & Social Club: "New Year's Eve Ball" at the Woolwich Town Hall, Market Street, London, SE18. Music and Disco by "Eclipse". Entry inc. snacks: Members £12; Guests £15. Contacts: Eusebio: 020 8304 9089;Alex: 020 8306 0974 Tatayana: 020 8316 1473; Sheila: 020 8310 9921; Damaciano: 020 8316 1473 Paul: 020 8304 6970 Sat. 4 Jan. Goan Association (UK) 2003 Extravaganza at Wandsworth Town Hall, Wandsworth High Street from 7 pm to 1 am. In a
[GOANET] New York Times: Book Review: A Girl From Zanzibar.
Goa's phone numbers change from Nov 10, 2002. Prefix old number with a 2. New numbers will be seven-digit 2XX (where XX is the old number). 'A Girl From Zanzibar' is the story of Marcella D'Souza -- a naive, ambitious and beautiful young illegal immigrant. The book was published on 15 Nov., 2002. $14.95, 320 pages. ISBN: 1885586604. Order from: http://www.amazon.com Excerpts from three reviews: 1. From Goan Voice UK 2002-46, 29 Nov. 2002: Source: New York Times. 24 Nov. by Suzanne Ruta at http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/24/books/review/24RUTALT.html 1082 words. Excerpts: . entertaining novel about postcolonial migrants trying to survive in Margaret Thatcher's Britain. 'A Girl From Zanzibar' The story of Marcella D'Souza -- a naive, ambitious and beautiful young illegal immigrant. Marcella's life, as she looks back on it, is a case in point. Born from the ruins of three major empires -- the Portuguese, the Arab, the British -- she is, as a friend puts it, a ''Goan Indian Portugese Arab African of Catholic Moslem parentage.'' ''You're from everywhere,'' this friend (an earnest British aid worker who serves as the novel's deus ex machina) tells her. She corrects him: ''I'm from nowhere.'' .arguing with her forceful Aunt Stella, a pillar of the local Goan community. Aunt Stella, a Dickensian eccentric for sure, insists that Goans are ''really Europeans in disguise.'' ''We have European names, some of us have European blood. We've been European for 400 years. We eat beef. We drink alcohol. We ballroom dance. We're European.'' Naughty Marcella disagrees: ''Just because our ancestors were the first to jump into bed with the Portuguese when they arrived in India, doesn't make us European.'' === 2. From Goan Voice UK 2002-45, 22 Nov. 2002: 17 Nov. Newsday (New York) at http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/printedition/ny-bkpolly3004547nov17,0,5 325905.story Excerpts: Marcella D'Souza is the girl from Zanzibar. Her father's family comes from Goa, another island in the Indian Ocean. As Geoffrey, an English visitor to tells her: "I've worked it out ... You're a Goan Indian Portuguese Arab African of Catholic Moslem parentage." .Marcella longs to leave Zanzibar and go to Europe.No boring Goan accountant for her, like her sister's husband, she decides. No, Marcella aspires to an Arab or even a European as a ticket off Zanzibar. === 3. From Goan Voice UK 2002-40, 18 Oct. 2002: Restless, young, and ambitious Marcella D'Souza dreams of leaving her island home of impoverished Zanzibar. A chance meeting and budding relationship with a British academic takes Marcella to London, where she discovers other international expatriates like herself. Unlike Marcella, they are embroiled in matters of international intrigue and questionable banking practices. Her new group of friends introduces Marcella to money, power, respect, and love. Of multiethnic background-Portuguese, Indian, Arab-European-Marcella is constantly searching for a sense of self and place, which she finds once in England.Marcella is beautiful, bright, and business minded. Pre-publication review by Kaite Mediatore. See also: http://www.artbook.com/1885586604.html Roger King, born in the U.K. has twice been nominated for the Booker Prize. His previous novels include Sea Level and Horizontal Hotel. Excerpt from the book at: http://www.turtlepoint.com/catalog/frames/books/zanzibar/zanzibarex.html = Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! -- What's On In Goa (WOIG): Nov 06 Children's book exhibn opens, Walkabout, Anjuna... (all weekdays) Nov 06 ArtHouse, Calangute: Chaitali's acrylics on canvas till 19.11 Nov 07 Revision of electoral rolls (till Nov 30) See schedule. Dec 01 Two day conference, Goa Agenda. IT For Society. (Ends 2.12) Every Sunday: Music therapy sessions at Moira, 5 pm. 278, N.Portugal --
[GOANET] The Guardian: Christmas in Goa.
Goa's phone numbers change from Nov 10, 2002. Prefix old number with a 2. New numbers will be seven-digit 2XX (where XX is the old number). Source: The Guardian. 23 November 2002. Headline: Deck the hall with bougainvillea - Can't face another year of turkey and mince pies? Louise Nicholson and family spend Christmas in Goa, breakfasting on papaya and bathing in the Arabian sea. By Louise Nicholson. Feature article (1,424 words) with photographs at http://travel.guardian.co.uk/countries/story/0,7451,845562,00.html Excerpts: It was Christmas Day in sun-drenched Goa. Multi-coloured tinsel, plastic reindeers and plenty of cottonwool snow decorated our hotel. .we mixed lazy hotel life with land trips, renting a car and driver - only a fool would drive his family around India, even in laid-back Goa. At Margao we found the fish market where fisherwomen crouch, cheroot between lips, beside baskets of shrimp, sardines and prawns. .we went down the coast to the uba dando, or straight road, the 12-mile stretch of beach in south Goa, stopping at little villages such as Baga [sic] to take a sunset walk along the beach and pause at one of the little beach shacks for a dish of grilled tiger prawns and a glass of feni. .Sometimes, we drove inland past dozens of white-washed baroque colonial Portuguese churches and through tiny villages where locals sat on their balcaos - built-in seats by the front door - like any self-respecting Portuguese villager. ...Goa's 1,446 square miles is roughly the same size as Sussex. .hundreds of churches were built across the state, and most still retain their grand altarpieces, annual feasts and showy processions. .Nehru, increasingly annoyed by Goa's wholesale whisky smuggling through its port, took firm action in 1961. .Goa is the springboard for seeing the rest of India, and using a package deal in and out of the state usually helps keep the prices down. Louise Nicholson, based in New York, is a personal travel consultant on India and has been travelling there and writing about the country for more than 20 years. To know more about her tours and customised itineraries, e-mail her at [EMAIL PROTECTED] == And from The Daily Telegraph. 23 Nov. at: http://www.money.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2002/11/23/et newsxmas23.xml Extract: Freedom Direct, a Newcastle-based call centre that sells the holidays of major travel firms, including Thomson, First Choice and MyTravel, is offering two weeks to Goa, departing from Gatwick on Friday with Somak Holidays for £189 - a saving of £340 on the brochure price. Freedom Direct 0870 010 7812 -- What's On In Goa (WOIG): Nov 06 Children's book exhibn opens, Walkabout, Anjuna... (all weekdays) Nov 06 ArtHouse, Calangute: Chaitali's acrylics on canvas till 19.11 Nov 07 Revision of electoral rolls (till Nov 30) See schedule. Dec 01 Two day conference, Goa Agenda. IT For Society. (Ends 2.12) Every Sunday: Music therapy sessions at Moira, 5 pm. 278, N.Portugal --
[GOANET] Re: Princess pleads guilty
Goa's phone numbers change from Nov 10, 2002. Prefix old number with a 2. New numbers will be seven-digit 2XX (where XX is the old number). The first report of the case was in the Mail on Sunday which broke the story with the banner headline: ANNE FACES COURT AFTER DOG ATTACKS ASIAN COUPLE. Of course, it subsequently emerged that the dog had bitten the children of the couple. As far as I am aware, they have not yet been named in the Press though expect that to happen now. Eddie === MAIL ON SUNDAY September 29, 2002 HEADLINE: ANNE FACES COURT AFTER DOG ATTACKS ASIAN COUPLE; Anne's dog 'bit'walker Princess's bull terrier may have to be put down after it is let off the leash and attacks couple in Windsor Great Park WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Princess first Royal to face prosecution with possibility of prison sentence Extracts: ...It is understood that the dog was allowed to run off its leash and attacked another couple, thought to be an Asian man and woman, who were walking nearby. One of them was allegedly bitten on the leg, though not seriously, and the police were alerted... ...THE identity of the dog that has resulted in Princess Anne being summonsed is not known. But it is thought to be one of the Princess's English bull terriers, the most infamous of which is Eglantyne. The 13-year-old bitch has been involved in at least two violent incidents in the past. The pet was originally named 'BP' after 'back pocket' because of a distinctive brown patch on her rump. But, since BP reminded Anne too much of Buckingham Palace, she renamed it after Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children, one of her favourite charities. Eglantyne featured in the official first wedding anniversary photos of Princess Anne and her second husband in 1993. By then the dog had already established a reputation for her ferocity, having caused panic at horse trials in May 1991 when she bit the smaller terrier in the neck, then snapped at its owner before being pulled off by a highly embarrassed Princess Anne. The incident happened as the dog was allowed to wander off her lead around the horse box enclosure at Windsor Great Park, which was packed with competitors, spectators and day trippers. A furious spectator said afterwards: 'It was irresponsible to leave the dog untied. People were having picnics with children nearby. It's a rule at horse events that all dogs are kept on leads.' The owners of the kennels which bred Eglantyne vigorously defended the breed, which are known for never letting go once they bite. But in 1993 Eglantyne was back in the doghouse when she bit a spectator at the Gatcombe horse trials, held at the Princess's Gloucestershire estate, and refused to let go until the Princess barked a stern command. The spectator was unhurt. The bull terrier is on the RSPCA's list of most dangerous dogs. Originally bred for bull baiting, they do not have the 'soft' mouths of labradors, retrievers or spaniels. The Queen is said not to share her daughter's affection for Eglantyne, nor does she share Anne's opinion that the bull terrier will 'give the Palace corgis a run for their money'. = gabriel writes: > > Any other person's dog would have had a muzzle order instituted against it > cest la vie!! > > > > London Evening Standard > > 21 November 2002 > > Princess pleads guilty > > > > > > Breaking news: The Princess Royal has become the first royal > > to have a criminal record after pleading guilty to charges that > > her dog bit two children. The Princess's English bull terrier > > bit two children aged seven and 12 as they walked in > > Windsor Great Park earlier this year... -- What's On In Goa (WOIG): Nov 06 Children's book exhibn opens, Walkabout, Anjuna... (all weekdays) Nov 06 ArtHouse, Calangute: Chaitali's acrylics on canvas till 19.11 Nov 07 Revision of electoral rolls (till Nov 30) See schedule. Dec 01 Two day conference, Goa Agenda. IT For Society. (Ends 2.12) Every Sunday: Music therapy sessions at Moira, 5 pm. 278, N.Portugal --
[GOANET] The Reis Magos Fort. - Part 2
Goa's phone numbers change from Nov 10, 2002. Prefix old number with a 2. New numbers will be seven-digit 2XX (where XX is the old number). Headline: Tycoon's widow loses battle to restore Goa's ancient fort Source: The Sunday Telegraph 17 Nov. 2002 at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ By Rajeev Syal in Goa Lady Hamlyn, one of the richest women in Britain, has become embroiled in a bitter row with the government of Goa after being accused of trying to turn an ancient colonial monument into a holiday home. Helen Hamlyn, the widow of Lord Hamlyn, the publishing tycoon, had offered to pay £300,000 through her charitable trust to restore the 16th-century Reis Magos fort, which is said to have the most spectacular view of Goa on India's western coast. Lady Hamlyn, whose husband left her £50 million when he died of cancer last year, said she wanted to restore the fort to make a contribution to local culture. Her proposals suggested that the fort's grounds could be used as an art centre and would be open to the public. She submitted the plans to take over the fort, which was built in 1551 by Portuguese conquerors, through the Helen Hamlyn Trust, a charitable foundation she has endowed in Goa. The renovation plans, however, also stated that she and her family must be given access to an apartment being built in the fort for four months each year until 2015. Mario Cabral e Sa, a Goan writer who objected to Lady Hamlyn's renovation, accused her of attempting to construct a holiday home rather than restore a historic monument. "She should know that our history is not for sale," he said. Foreigners have been allowed to buy property in Goa, renowned for its sandy beaches and coconut groves, since the Indian government introduced land reforms in the early 1980s. Many foreigners, however, are still discouraged from buying homes because if they sell a property they are not allowed to take the profits out of the country. Buying the fort outright could have cost Lady Hamlyn, 68, millions of pounds which she would not have been able to recoup. A Goan government spokesman said: "It appears that Lady Hamlyn was not so interested in Goan heritage and there were some doubts over her experience of dealing with ancient sites. Her application to take over the fort has been rejected." Lord Hamlyn, who became a peer in 1998, built up a £300 million fortune through publishing, including Books for Pleasure and Music for Pleasure. He gave millions to charity and also donated more than £2.5 million to the Labour Party. On his death, the bulk of his estate - more than £200 million - passed to the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, his personal charity. Lady Hamlyn has also given millions of pounds to charity and has endowed a foundation that supports projects for improving older people's lives. It has also given £3 million to the Royal College of Art. She has bought and restored a crumbling castle in Bagnols, in the Beaujolais region of France, which she and her late husband spent £4 million turning into a hotel. Lady Hamlyn's permanent home is a house in Chelsea, London, which is thought to be worth several million pounds, where she has entertained guests including Tony Blair. She also has a suite of rooms at the hotel in Beaujolais. However, Lady Hamlyn insisted that her intention had only been to contribute to the Goan culture and economy. "I have spent time and money trying to make this project work because I love India and the people and wanted to give something back," she said. "Then earlier this year - after I had employed an architect, drawn up the plans and started to clear the site, it emerged that they had changed their minds. I am furious and baffled at what they have done." She has told her solicitors to contact the Goan government for an explanation but has not yet received a reply. "The only reason I wanted to stay in the apartment was so that I could oversee the renovation work. If I or my family stayed there we would have paid rent. Now I want nothing to do with the Goan government and it is unlikely that I will ever be able to complete my dream," she said. -- -- What's On In Goa (WOIG): Nov 06 Children's book exhibn opens, Walkabout, Anjuna... (all weekdays) Nov 06 ArtHouse, Calangute: Chaitali's acrylics on canvas till 19.11 Nov 07 Revision of electoral rolls (till Nov 30) See schedule. Dec 01 Two day conference, Goa Agenda. IT For Society. (Ends 2.12) Every Sunday: Music therapy sessions at Moira, 5 pm. 278, N.Portugal --
[GOANET] The Reis Magos Fort. - Part 1
Goa's phone numbers change from Nov 10, 2002. Prefix old number with a 2. New numbers will be seven-digit 2XX (where XX is the old number). Today's ( 17 Nov. 2002) Sunday Telegraph (UK) has a feature article entitled: "Tycoon's Widow Loses Battle To Restore Goa's Ancient Fort." Because of the length of the article, I am posting it in part 2. This posting contains a few introductory remarks: 1. The Sunday Telegraph article on the website has a link to Joel's Goa Now article on Reis Magos: http://www.goacom.com/goanow/2001/aug/forts.html Excerpts: Reis Magos has been receiving increased attention in recent years, with one party even ready to undertake its conservation .Last year, the UK-based Lady Hamlyn Trust agreed to bear the cost of the conservation of the unused fort. In return for the costly restoration exercise, the Trust merely asked to be allowed to use the upper part as a private residence for a period of 15 years. 2. Several years ago Lord Hamlyn of Hamlyn Publications decided to celebrate his birthday in Goa so he and Lady Hamlyn flew down in their private jet. See http://www.pousada-tauma.com/mansworld.html 3. As founders of the Hamlyn Trust, http://www.phf.org.uk/ their motives should be beyond question. The Foundation has three priority areas of funding - one of them is overseas projects, which are concentrated in India. They decided to pay for the restoration of Reis Magos fort and in return asked to use a part of the fort to enable them to keep an eye on the restoration work. They have a track record of meticulous restoration - see, for example, the reports of the Bagnols work http://bagnolsenbeaujolais.free.fr/FR/CHATEAU.php3 4 . In Jan 2001 Goa Now reported: Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's hue and cry about foreign funding. 5. Lord Hamlyn died in August 2001 and bequeathed £200m to charity. His widow was determined to honour her husband's desire to have the Reis Magos fort restored. Now it is reported that the Goa Government is going to deny that wish. I think it is a crying shame. Let us hope that the Hamlyn Trust do not pull out their charitable work in India as a result. BTW: The Sunday Telegraph article is written by "Rajeev Syal in Goa." Rajeev Syal was the main journalist probing the business interests of Keith Vaz a year ago and this included allegations that he owned property in Goa. Also, the Sunday Telegraph has an interesting link to http://www.photoguide.to/goa/ Eddie Fernandes -- What's On In Goa (WOIG): Nov 06 Children's book exhibn opens, Walkabout, Anjuna... (all weekdays) Nov 06 ArtHouse, Calangute: Chaitali's acrylics on canvas till 19.11 Nov 07 Revision of electoral rolls (till Nov 30) See schedule. Dec 01 Two day conference, Goa Agenda. IT For Society. (Ends 2.12) Every Sunday: Music therapy sessions at Moira, 5 pm. 278, N.Portugal --
[GOANET] San Francisco Chronicle: New life for old PCs.
Goa's phone numbers change from Nov 10, 2002. Prefix old number with a 2. New numbers will be seven-digit 2XX (where XX is the old number). Excerpt: Hooking up with the World Computer Exchange has resulted in "tremendous cost savings," wrote Daryl Martyris, a representative of the Goa Schools Computers Project in Goa, India, in an e-mail interview. His group, he said, has placed 380 donated computers in community Internet centers in 100 schools serving more than 20,000 villagers. "Low-cost, good-quality equipment is practically impossible to obtain locally," he wrote. Headline: New life for old PCs. Nonprofit group collects donated computers to aid students in developing nations Source: San Francisco Chronicle 16 Nov. 2002 at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/11/16 /BU68249.DTL&type=business By: Henry Norr, Chronicle Staff Writer Saturday, November 16, 2002 Text: "One man's junk is another man's treasure." That old adage hasn't lost its relevance in the Information Age. On the contrary: PCs that Americans are ready to toss on the scrap heap can serve as a bridge to the Internet and the world of modern technology for young people in Asia, Africa and Latin America. That's the premise behind the World Computer Exchange, a nonprofit organization that collects working but unwanted Windows and Macintosh computers and arranges for their delivery to schools, education agencies and community-development programs around the world. Under banners reading "PCs for Peace," the group's Bay Area branch will hold a two-day collection this weekend in Mountain View and Sunnyvale. Since its incorporation in March 2000, the Massachusetts group has shipped 4,000 computers to 585 schools with 217,000 students in Bangladesh, Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, India, Kenya, Lithuania, Nepal, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. With the hardware it hopes to collect this weekend, the group plans to add the Republic of Georgia to the list. A shipment to Bolivia -- the group's first to Latin America -- is scheduled for next month. Projects with numerous other nations, from Afghanistan and Barbados to Vietnam and Zimbabwe, are in the works. "We're seeing more demand for our donated computers than we can keep up with," said Richard Gingras, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and former Apple and AtHome executive who serves as chair of the group's Bay Area chapter. For donors, the program is not only a way to put unwanted equipment to good use, but also a bargain: They not only avoid the fees many computer-recycling operations charge but also get a tax deduction. Volunteers will fire up donated machines on the spot. If they work, donors will get a receipt to file with their tax returns. Gear that doesn't work won't be accepted. BUSINESS DONATIONS ACCEPTED In addition to consumer-oriented collection programs like this weekend's, the group seeks volume donations from businesses replacing older PCs. Last month, for example, it cut a deal with the Palo Alto Research Center (formerly Xerox PARC), which is providing volunteer assistance as well as hardware. To comply with license requirements, computers are usually shipped with the operating system that was on them when they were donated. When donors have stripped the hard drive for security reasons, the group installs a copy of the free Linux OS. For groups that would prefer to have Windows installed on such PCs, Gingras said, "We are exploring a solution with Microsoft, but haven't yet closed an arrangement." The group doesn't just dispatch the hardware, he said. It also works closely with recipients to "make sure the the educational implementations within each country are appropriately planned and appropriately funded." Recipient organizations prepare detailed, 10-to-40-page plans, which -- like all of the group's documents, including budgets and the minutes of meetings -- are posted on the Exchange Web site. The Exchange advises that 10 percent of the computers received be set aside for spare parts. The cost of collecting, processing, shipping and installing a computer (with keyboard, monitor and mouse) averages about $75, according to Gingras. That money typically comes from sponsors in the recipient country -- a local university or foundation or, in a few instances, government grants. Hooking up with the World Computer Exchange has resulted in "tremendous cost savings," wrote Daryl Martyris, a representative of the Goa Schools Computers Project in Goa, India, in an e-mail interview. His group, he said, has placed 380 donated computers in community Internet centers in 100 schools serving more than 20,000 villagers. "Low-cost, good-quality equipment is practically impossible to obtain locally," he wrote. In fact, according to Dikenra Kandel of the Committee for the Promotion of Publi
[GOANET] Microsoft invests $400M in India: Kitchener-Waterloo Record
Goa's phone numbers change from Nov 10, 2002. Prefix old number with a 2. New numbers will be seven-digit 2XX (where XX is the old number). Excerpt: It could take several months' income for an average Indian to buy Microsoft's software," said Frederick Noronha, founder of Bytesforall.org, whose group works for information technology access to poor people. "Microsoft's software may be ubiquitous, but it restricts many freedoms of the users like any other proprietary software," Noronha said from Bangalore, India's technology hub. === Headline: Microsoft invests $400M in India Souce: Kitchener-Waterloo Record (Canada. 13 Nov. 2002 at: http://www.therecord.com/business/technology/z111219A.html Full text: Hoping to stave off a rise in the popularity of free, open-source software, Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates has announced a $400-million-US investment in India. The three-year initiative -- part philanthropy, part business boost -- seeks to entrench products of the world's dominant software company in schools and among India's multitude of talented programmers. "We are very optimistic as to what will happen to information technology in this country,'' Gates said yesterday. India's strength, he said, lies in its education system, a fast-developing communications infrastructure and its vast pool of skilled labour. India's software industry has bucked a global slowdown to post high growth in revenues and employment. Last year, its exports grew by 29 per cent. Microsoft will invest about a quarter of the $400 million in its software development centre in the southern city of Hyderabad -- the company's only such facility outside the United States. Gates said the centre's staff will more than triple to 500 by 2005. About $20 million will go toward computer training for teachers and students at government-run schools. Microsoft aims to reach 80,000 teachers and 3.5 million students under Project Shiksha, the Hindi word for education. Microsoft also plans to set up 10 information technology training centres in partnership with Indian states. Gates sought to downplay India's growing enthusiasm for the open-source Linux operating system, noting that Microsoft's Windows remains far ahead of its competition. But Indian software companies are increasingly opting for Linux. Users say they prefer the open-source system because its basic code is non-proprietary, can be freely modified and makes better sense for the developing world than Windows. Gates' announcement "is irrelevant to 95 per cent of Indians -- it could take several months' income for an average Indian to buy Microsoft's software,'' said Frederick Noronha, founder of Bytesforall.org, whose group works for information technology access to poor people. -- Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! -- What's On In Goa (WOIG): Nov 06 Children's book exhibn opens, Walkabout, Anjuna... (all weekdays) Nov 06 ArtHouse, Calangute: Chaitali's acrylics on canvas till 19.11 Nov 07 Revision of electoral rolls (till Nov 30) See schedule. Nov 07 Creative science, for children, Goa Sc Centre (till 16.11) Nov 10 Corporate summit on IT and biotechnology, Intl Centre (till 11.11) Nov 17 Goan Engineers and Assoc meet, at Pickering, Canada. Nov 20 Fr Agnelo's 75th death anniversary, Pilar Dec 01 Two day conference, Goa Agenda. IT For Society. (Ends 2.12) Every Sunday: Music therapy sessions at Moira, 5 pm. 278, N.Portugal --
[GOANET] The Times (UK): Obituary - Anthony Lancelot Dias
You can post to GoaNet. Send in your views and comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Headline: Anthony Lancelot Dias Souce: The Times (UK). 4 Nov. 2002 at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-468392,00.html Anthony Lancelot Dias, Indian civil servant, was born on March 13, 1910. He died in Bombay on September 22, 2002, aged 92. A member of the elite Indian Civil Service, which he served with distinction until his retirement in 1969, A. L. Dias is perhaps best known for the role he played as Governor of West Bengal in shepherding that state through the turmoil of left-wing extremism in the early 1970s. Though Dias originally hailed from the Portugese colonial enclave of Goa, he joined the Bombay cadre of the Indian Civil Service after studying at the London School of Economics. Known as a keen and able administrator, he held a number of important posts in the erstwhile Bombay presidency and Maharashtra, as the province came to be known eventually in independent India. After serving as Maharashtra Home Secretary, he moved to Delhi, where he worked as Food Secretary during the particularly turbulent food shortages of the late 1960s. He dealt with the 1966 Bihar drought, and his previous experience as chairman of the Bombay Port Trust enabled him to see India through its ship to mouth existence. He subsequently helped to set up the public sector Modern Bakeries = Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! -- What's On In Goa (WOIG): Nov 05 onwards: Wendell Rodrigues Festival. Altinho, Panjim Nov 05 Bobbin lace-making training, Don Bosco's Panjim (till 17.11) Nov 06 Richard Stallman, free software guru, speaks Farmagudi 4 pm Nov 06 Bob Fitts, gospel music singer, Navelim grounds, 6 pm Nov 06 Fr Britto's health courses, Pilar. Till 10.11. Later Chicalim. Nov 06 ArtHouse, Calangute: Chaitali's acrylics on canvas till 19.11 Nov 07 Creative science, for children, Goa Sc Centre (till 16.11) Nov 17 Goan Engineers and Assoc meet, at Pickering, Canada. Nov 20 Fr Agnelo's 75th death anniversary, Pilar Dec 01 Two day conference, Goa Agenda. IT For Society. (Ends 2.12) Every Sunday: Music therapy sessions at Moira, 5 pm. 278, N.Portugal --
[GOANET] Manipur beat Goa to enter final of Santosh Trophy
You can post to GoaNet. Send in your views and comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Headline:Manipur beat Goa to enter final of Santosh Trophy Source: Outlook India at http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?gid=&id=94901 IMPHAL, NOV 3 (PTI) Hosts Manipur entered the final beating Goa 4-3 in the penalty shootout in the replayed second semi final match of the 58th national football championship for Santosh Trophy at Khuman Lampak Main stadium here today. Both the teams were locked goalless during the stipulated time and 30-minute extra time. In the tie breaker, Manipur scored four goals and Goa three. Manipur will meet Kerala in the final on November 5. The match was a replay as yesterday's encounter, which was abandoned following violence by a section of the spectators on the field soon after Goa took lead by scoring a goal in the second half. = Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! -- What's On In Goa (WOIG): Nov 05 onwards: Wendell Rodrigues Festival. Altinho, Panjim Nov 05 Bobbin lace-making training, Don Bosco's Panjim (till 17.11) Nov 06 Richard Stallman, free software guru, speaks Farmagudi 4 pm Nov 06 Bob Fitts, gospel music singer, Navelim grounds, 6 pm Nov 06 Fr Britto's health courses, Pilar. Till 10.11. Later Chicalim. Nov 06 ArtHouse, Calangute: Chaitali's acrylics on canvas till 19.11 Nov 07 Creative science, for children, Goa Sc Centre (till 16.11) Nov 17 Goan Engineers and Assoc meet, at Pickering, Canada. Nov 20 Fr Agnelo's 75th death anniversary, Pilar Dec 01 Two day conference, Goa Agenda. IT For Society. (Ends 2.12) Every Sunday: Music therapy sessions at Moira, 5 pm. 278, N.Portugal --
[GOANET] Santosh: Manipur-Goa semi-final match abandoned
You can post to GoaNet. Send in your views and comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: Outlook India 2 Nov. at http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?gid=105&id=94697 Headline: Manipur-Goa semi-final match abandoned IMPHAL, NOV 2 (PTI) In an unprecedented move, the Disciplinary Committee of the All-India Football Federation today decided to abandon the second semi-final match between Manipur and Goa of the 58th National Football Championship for Santosh Trophy due to crowd trouble. The trouble erupted in the 57th minute when Goa's Climax Lawrence scored an opportunistic goal to make it 1-0 for the last year's runners up. However, the home crowd started pelting stones and water bottles in protest against the goal. Play stopped for 50 minutes as the Organising Committee made a frantic bid to appease the agitated spectators. Television footage was repeatedly telecast showing the controversial goal but the officials awarded the goal to Goa. Later Hardev Jadeja, Chairman of the AIFF's Disciplinary Committee, told reporters that the match had been abandoned and the winner would be decided after consulting the AIFF president and secretary. Jadeja ruled out replay of the match till the All Manipur Football Association, organisers of the Santosh Trophy match here, gave a written assurance that such incidents would not recur. Defending champions Kerala yesterday entered the final defeating Services 3-2. Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! -- What's On In Goa (WOIG): * Nov 1-17: Swimming classes for children, others. SAG pool, Fatorda * Nov 1: Antonio Costa's painting exhibition opens, F.Oriente 6.30pm * Nov 3: Children's Day by Jan Ugahi, Navelim Perpetual Convent morning. * Nov 4: Book release, on Dr Gama Pinto, Lourdes Convent Saligao --
[GOANET] The Mississauga News: Multi-faiths define Goa's Konkanis
You can post to GoaNet. Send in your views and comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quote: In Mississauga alone, there are quite a few significant personalities from the Konkani community. Source: The Mississauga News (Canada) Nov 1, 2002 at: http://www.mississauganews.com/mi/news/story/695054p-824781c.html Title: Multi-faiths define Goa's Konkanis By: Bikram Lamba One of the most versatile, exuberant, and enterprising communities, Konkanis are originally inhabitants from Central Asia, and their history dates back to 2500 BC when they reached India. Now, though small in number, their enterprising spirit makes them visible all over. In Mississauga alone, there are quite a few significant personalities from the Konkani community. The Konkanis are a multi-religious community. They are Hindus, Muslims, and Christians. Their most potent influence has been that of the Portuguese. The Hindu Konkanis mostly worship Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu, and the majority of Christians belong to the Roman Catholic faith. The Konkanis are artistic by temperament, and two famous Bollywood names -- Girish Karnad and Shyam Benegal -- immediately spring to mind. Another famous Konkani film personality of yesteryear is Guru Dutt. Still another famous name is Rimo Fernandes -- a pop singer. Lata Mangeshkar, the famed singer is a Konkani, and there is a dedicated temple "the Mangeshi Temple", which is associated with their family name. The Konkanis do not lag behind in sports. The international badminton star Prakash Padukone is a Konkani. The carnivals of the Konkanis are famous, and during their famed Christmas carnival, people from all over the world converge to the silver sands of the Goan beaches to celebrate the Christmas carnival. At one time Goa was the hippie capital of the world. The Konkanis are quite liberal in their attitude. So much so that even their food is free from any inhibitions. Even the Brahamins amongst them eat fish, which is normally a taboo to this sect. The Hindu Konkanis observe their traditional rituals. They call these rituals nitya or naimittika or kamya. The nitya rituals are obligatory, the naimittika rituals are as per the occasion, and the kamya rituals are optional. These rituals govern their birth, marriage, death, and even their business transactions. Every household has a home shrine where the home-deity is worshipped. The deity is treated like a royal guest and is awakened, given a ritual bath, offered fruits and flowers and worshipped. The morning meal is first offered to the deity for its blessings. The Christian Konkanis follow the Catholic rituals and their patron saint is St. Francis of Assisi. The Muslims amongst them celebrate Id and other festivals. In spite of different religious denominations, the Konkanis maintain absolute harmony. These three religious groups have more than 20 castes, sub-castes, and sects -- each speaking a distinct dialect of its own. However, the Konkani language is understood by the community and is widely spoken at home. Outside the home, English and Portuguese are the language. The Goan food is a mixture of meat, (especially pork, except for the Muslims) and all kinds of seafood. Usually, the entire family sits at a long table to partake of the food. A meat or fish dish is a must at every meal. The vegetables are usually cooked without any spices. There is a strong Portuguese influence on the Konkani cooking. Palm vinegar, coconut, garlic, and tamarind are used for meat delicacies. Their most famous dish is vindaloo, which was originally an extra hot and sour pork curry, but now is made from meat and fish as well. Some other famous dishes are: chourico, made from red sausages; sarpotel, made from pickled pig heart; leitao, made from suckling pig; chicken or mutton xacutti, made with a sauce of lemon juice, peanuts, coconuts, and other spices; camarao, spicy prawn pie with rice and semolina crust. Konkanis are fully westernized in their dress and are fun-loving people. === Dont't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! -- What's On In Goa (WOIG): * Nov 1-17: Swimming classes for children, others. SAG pool, Fatorda * Nov 1: Antonio Costa's painting exhibition opens, F.Oriente 6.30pm * Nov 3: Children's Day by Jan Ugahi, Navelim Perpetual Convent morning. * Nov 4: Book release, on Dr Gama Pinto, Lourdes Convent Saligao --
[GOANET] York Evening News: Mapusa rubbish dump to be transformed.
You can post to GoaNet. Send in your views and comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: Evening News (York) 11:50 GMT Friday, November 01, 2002 Text and photograph at: http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/york/news/YORK_NEWS_LOCAL14.html Headline: From Tang Hall to Goa. By Adam Nichols CONSERVATION skills are being extended from a York estate to the Indian sub continent. Gordon Campbell Thomas is using skills picked up by managing St Nicholas' Fields nature reserve, in Tang Hall, to transform a rubbish dump in Goa. The nature lover came up with the idea during a recent visit to south India. He was told that Mapusa dump posed a potential health hazard as rainwater washed through years of accumulated waste and into underground watercourses. He has drawn up an organisation to work on the transformation, and a board of prominent Goans and English people is being formed. The scheme would build a two-hectare urban nature park, including a children's play area, a community woodland and a sustainable environmental community centre similar to one built in St Nicholas' Fields. Mr Campbell Thomas said: "We have done this in England and it works well. "Our building in York was the first of its kind in the country. Now we want to bring it to Goa because Goa deserves the best and, with the goodwill of the Goan people and the help of the authorities, we hope to deliver the best." The organisation, named John Lally International, after a famous environmentalist, has already started negotiations with Mapusa Municipal Council and its municipal engineer Vivek Parsemkar. The work, estimated to take about ten years, will be based on that done in Tang Hall. It will be powered by solar panels and wind turbine, and will recycle rainwater for drinking. It is aimed to put Goa at the head of environmental improvement. Matthew Pereira, acting joint chairman of John Lally, said: "There has been enough garbage dumping, now we have to build for the future. "The transformation will show the people of Mapusa and Goa that there are better ways of doing things." Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! -- What's On In Goa (WOIG): * Nov 1-17: Swimming classes for children, others. SAG pool, Fatorda * Nov 1: Antonio Costa's painting exhibition opens, F.Oriente 6.30pm * Nov 3: Children's Day by Jan Ugahi, Navelim Perpetual Convent morning. * Nov 4: Book release, on Dr Gama Pinto, Lourdes Convent Saligao --
[Goanet] Catholic News: Indian Catholics consider including Sanskrit in prayers
-- What's On In Goa: * Oct 16-27: Vipasana meditation, Alto Porvorim * Oct 23: Launch of CellOne, BSNL's cellular service in Goa * Oct 24: Antonio Pereira Puraskar (Award) ceremony, Porvorim -- Headline: Indian Catholics consider including Sanskrit in prayers Source: Catholic News (Australia). 23 Oct. 2002 at http://www.cathnews.com/news/210/127.php The synod of bishops from India and Philippines, which began on Sunday in India, is studying a proposal to include the Sanskrit word "Sachidanand" in liturgical prayers, in order to make Christianity more acceptable to Hindi speakers. "The word 'Sachidanand,' meaning the Trinity of Gods, also conforms to the Christian precept of God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit," according to Archbishop Benedict Osta SJ of Patna (pictured). In India, Christians generally say prayers in English or in literal translations into local languages. Osta said the church was also considering publishing a Hindi-language magazine and setting up a press to publish liturgical books in Hindi. The three-day meeting was called to find ways to make Christianity more amenable to Hindi-speakers in the wake of a number of attacks on Christians and their churches. SOURCE AFP LINKS Sanskrit Academy Catholic Bishops Conference of India | Archdiocese of Patna Archbishop Benedict John Osta, S.J. (catholic-hierarchy.org) Dalit Christians Hope for Papal Endorsement of their Cause = Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! We need your help to introduce GoaNet to more Goans across the globe...
[Goanet] Independent: The Jesus-Ganesh collision
-- What's On In Goa: * Oct 16-27: Vipasana meditation, Alto Porvorim * Oct 24: Antonio Pereira Puraskar (Award) ceremony, Porvorim -- Headline: Travel - `We've learned to share everything'. By Juliet Clough. Source: Independent On Sunday, 20 October 2002 Away from Goa's beaches, Juliet Clough revels in the magical combination of its Portuguese and Hindu heritage Without the Rough Guide, I might never have prised myself away from these blandishments and found my way inland in search of a very different Goa, the place where fallout from the Jesus-Ganesh collision, now nearly 500 years old, still casts a faint glow. South-east of Margao, viridian rice terraces flow down the hillsides to meet terracotta-roofed farmhouses half hidden in groves of coconut and mango. Their owners have inherited the mantle of Goa's patrician landlords, whose prosperity vanished with independence in 1962 but whose descendants cling to their decrepit mansions in Chandor, Goa's old capital. "Everything changed overnight," says Alda Braganza, gesturing apologetically towards three painted grandes dames whose powdered wigs and affronted expressions can just be discerned through the cracked glass of their portraits. Eighty-four-year old Alda lives alone in the west wing of the Perreira-Braganza/ Menezes-Braganza mansion, the grand-daughter, later daughter-in-law, of a house that can trace its ancestry back to the 16th-century arrival of the Portuguese and its name to the invaders' habit of embellishing converts with their own fancy handles. We move slowly through interiors drained of light and heat by window panes of thin, overlapping oyster shells, Alda trailing a length of crochet as we go. Dust has settled on great grandmother's Chinese fan, on Belgian chandeliers, on quantities of porcelain, on the library of 5,000 books collected by the famous journalist and freedom fighter Luis de Menezes-Braganza. I admire a pair of silver tureens but Alda makes a face: "All day I have to dust and polish." Sara Fernandes may have occupied her late husband's mansion, just beyond Chandor, for a mere 47 years but the house goes back to a pre-conquest, Hindu era. Proof lies in the secret underground passage, hopping with frogs and pierced with ancient shot holes, which emerges at the river. "Let me show you the entrance," says Sara, opening a cupboard door to the consternation of the bats roosting on the coat hangers. We work our way through what feels increasingly like the pages of a magical realism novel. I pick up a doll, reposing in a willow-patterned bidet, but put her hastily back as her eyes start to flash and tinny Hindi film music shatters the silence. Sara indicates here a shrine to Our Lady of Bomparte: "Efficacious in childbirth"; there a heroically collapsing four-poster bed. A worm-eaten sedan chair rests in a corner of the courtyard, put down after its last journey and simply forgotten. I reach Panjim in a snowstorm of leaflets from International Women's Day: "Stop child marriage"; "Say No to casinos, prostitution, paedophilia, pre-natal testing". "Pre-natal testing?" The woman on the lorry looks incredulous: have I never heard of female infanticide? Even Jonas, my guide, has never seen inside the Mhamai Kamat house, one of the oldest continuously occupied Hindu mansions in Panjim, but we strike lucky, finding 26-year-old Soniya in the travel agency next door. Some 35 people of all ages live in the warrens of her home. It was more like 80 when Soniya was growing up: all descendants of a famous merchant family trading in, among other things, opium, precious stones and slaves. The house rambles seemingly endlessly: an inner courtyard overlooked by crazily buckling balconies, a guest house for scholars, a suite for the visiting swami. A kitten - or, at any rate, something small and furry that I tell myself firmly is a kitten - scuttles from the earth-floored communal kitchen, whose conveniences extend to a row of stone mortars and a well, ceremoniously visited twice daily by the household priest. "We cannot come in here when menstruating," says Soniya. "It annoys the god, a golden cobra." I look nervously into the darker recesses but the cobra is seldom seen. "There was a pair," Soniya continues, "but in the time of the negroes, the male was burnt and we were accursed. For 15 years we had no sons." Faint sounds from the Women's Day parade penetrate the heavy wooden screens that shield the house from the street. Can I really be having this conversation with a composed young woman who, half an hour ago, was running her own business from a computer? But Soniya tells me that she would not trade her orthodox upbringing for anything in the world. "It is a boon to have been born in this house. We learn to share everything and all are loved equally. Given this background, I can handle any problem." The colossal opulence o
[Goanet] Times of India: Aires Rodrigues challenges another top appointment.
-- What's On In Goa: * Oct 16-27: Vipasana meditation, Alto Porvorim * Oct 24: Antonio Pereira Puraskar (Award) ceremony, Porvorim -- Headline: Appointment to top post questioned. Source: Times Of India. Sunday 20 Oct. 2002 at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?artid=25692734 Text: PANAJI: The appointment of Rajesh Singh to the post of Director, Information and Publicity, by the Goa government has run into rough weather. In a legal notice to Chief Secretary Baleshwar Rai, advocate Aires Rodrigues has drawn the government's attention to recruitment rules for the appointment to the post, which confers on him administrative, financial and statutory powers, by Government Order dated September 30, 2002. According to Rodrigues, Rajesh Singh does not qualify for the post and cannot even assume charge of the post. He alleged that Singh was a BJP advisor during the recent Assembly elections and was appointed as the Press Liaison Officer to the Chief Minister on contract basis. "From this junior post, Singh has been elevated to this high post against all norms. Therefore, this appointment is totally illegal and in contravention of the recruitment rules and against public interest," Rodrigues alleged. Rodrigues has called upon the Chief Secretary to revoke the appointment order of Singh as in-charge Director of Information and Publicity by October 22, 2002, or he would be constrained to move the High Court. Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! To view GoaNet's archives http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net For (un)subscribing or for help, contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't want so many e-mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead!
[Goanet] Coventry Evening Telegraph: Making a Goa of our own business!
-- What's On In Goa: * Oct 11: Konkani translation of Satre book, Alliance Francaise * Oct 11: Friday Balcao, Mapusa. Mental health, suicides 4pm * Oct 12: History Reading (Farar Far by Dr Pratima Kamat, Fundacao 5pm * Oct 12: Goa Orchestra performs at the Kala (Corelli, Bach) * Oct 15: Magic in town... Illusion India show, Panjim then Vasco * Oct 16-17: Ornithology workshop, Bondla southernbirdwing.com -- Headline: Making a Goa of our own business! By PAULA HALL. Source: Coventry Evening Telegraph 7 October 2002 MEET THE TWO FRIENDS WHO VISITED INDIA ON HOLIDAY AND BECAME SO ENAMOURED WITH THE COUNTRY THEY DECIDED TO SET UP SHOP THERE EVERYONE dreams of quitting the rat race when they're on holiday. But most simply return to work the next Monday and get on with their lives. But one Warwickshire woman has turned her dream into a reality. PAULA HALL reports AS a civil servant on a management training course, Sue Watkins was asked to draw up a vision of where she wanted to be in five years time. Other delegates came up with bigger houses and cars, children and promotions. Sue struggled. Then, in response to the growing frustration of the course leader, she drew a beach with palm trees, a huge sun, a large garden and a boat. "Everyone was quite dismissive of it," she remembers. "I filed the notes away and there they stayed, forgotten." She rediscovered the picture from the past some years later as she cleared her desk in England for the last time - to start a new life in the exotic state of Goa on the west coast of India. The only thing she doesn't now have is the boat. Sue, originally from Nuneaton, set up the holiday villa company, Lazydays in Goa, with her friend and colleague Linda Guthrie, when the lives of both civil servants changed forever following a winter break in February 1992. They went to Goa, found an idyllic sunny paradise, and fell in love with the place. It was to be a holiday romance which didn't end on their return home. Goa had reminded Sue of the Algarve in Portugal in the early 70s, when it was just waking up to tourism. "When we were in Goa we said 'wouldn't it be nice if we could get a cup of tea and a cake and maybe a sun lounger'. "Then the next year when we returned for a holiday all these things had started to happen. We were sat there going 'but that was our idea'." A third holiday followed. Colleagues told them to "stop talking about it, go and do it". Sue, a Training and Enterprise Council manager in Sheffield, seized her chance to leave during a reorganisation of the service - so she sold her terraced home and moved to Goa. "I didn't feel brave at the time," says the former pupil of Kenilworth Grammar School and Higham Lane High School in Nuneaton. "I just felt it was the right thing to do." Linda joined her in Goa on eight months leave from work and their intention was to set up a hotel, but they struggled to find the right site. When Sue drove Linda back to the airport at the end of her stay, they were no closer to success. Then as Linda was checking in - literally in the last 10 minutes of her eight-month visit - they hit on the idea of renting out villas instead. And over the last seven seasons the company has grown from managing three properties to about 30. Now Linda, who is originally from Wolverhampton, splits her time between Goa and the UK, returning each year to avoid the monsoon rains, while Sue is permanently resident in a local village, with her Goan partner and their three dogs. She has a century-old detached cottage with terracotta tiles, built in Portuguese colonial times, with a big garden full of exotic fruit trees. And she has no regrets. "It's a ten minute walk from the village to the beach, along little pathways through coconut trees. And I live just under a hill with nice walks for the dogs and natural spring water," she says. The company meanwhile is going from strength to strength. It has a sales office in Bournemouth and a base in Goa, where the team includes housekeepers, an electrician, plumber and gardener, and is currently preparing for the busiest time, the sunshine season from October to April. The aim is to offer an alternative to the usual hotel holidays. Rather than sell endless trips at a welcome meeting they prefer to simply let their guests, who tend to be more independent travellers, get on with their own lives. "We just say if you want us we're at the end of the phone," says Sue. It is a different world of work to the one Linda and Sue left behind. Each day Sue sets out with a list of jobs, knowing she might only achieve two of them through the heat of the day. Going to the bank alone can write off a whole morning. On the day we speak Sue and Linda, who are both in their mid 40s, have spent a couple of hours at a house being renovated by a man who wants them to let it as a villa. "It was a plea
[Goanet] [goanet-uk] Newsletter. Issue 2002-38. Oct. 4, 2002
=== WHAT'S ON IN GOA: * Oct 04-06: Natl conf on Alzheimers, Hotel Majestic * Oct 04: Dr Anil Seth speaks on late Prof Dijkstra, CSI 6.30 pm * Oct 03-06: Wildlife Week, Goa Science Centre * Mid-Oct: 2-day ornithologists workshop, Bondla southernbirdwing.com * Oct 12: Goa State Strings Orchestra performs at Kala Academy (Corelli, Bach) * Nov 29-Dec 1: Plant Utsav 2k2 at Panjim (demo, contest, sale of plants) === COMMUNITY NEWS: Northumbria schools will host Goan teachers again in May 2003. GONAS, which sponsors the exchange programme, is short of UKP 830. Fund-raising by GONAS continues alongside the selection of teachers by the Nirmala Institute of Education, Altinho, Goa. Sarita Carvalho (Panjim) and Uday Gaunker (Sanguem) were selected for 2001. For details, contact David Futers email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (01670) 815-297; http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goa-net/message/24282 Thomas Pereira will be playing for FC VIKING (Norway) in the in the UFEA cup match against Chelsea on 3 Oct. Thomas already has 6 International caps for Norway. He is married to Hanne. & they have three sons. All of them seem to follow their father^Òs footsteps. Thomas is the son of Austin Pereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] an ex-Ugandan from Masaka who was a keen footballer himself in early 70`s. >From The Watford Observer, 3 Oct.: Councillor Rabi Martins jetted off to Kashmir on Sunday on a fact-finding mission as part of a high-level Liberal Democrat delegation, which includes Baroness Shirley Williams and Lord and Lady Dholakia^Å Martins said it was Watford's Kashmiri community who had sparked his interested in the region^Å 318 words at: http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/search/display.html?nwid=632365 Warren Noronha is one of our assets. This season, he has found his feet and is ready to prance into the limelight. He is still a little derivative and, perhaps, overtricksy, but his softly rounded shoulders and controlled layering demonstrates that he is entirely in charge. Sunday Times 29 Sep. Two oil paintings by FN Souza are coming up for auction at Christies, London, on 18 Oct. Est. price £1,500 - £ 2,500 each. http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/search/LotSummary.asp?sid=&strNextPreviou s=N&intSaleID=17756&intObjectID=3995696 Donations: Benaulim Assoc. £25; Delia & Canute D'Aguiar £15; Lucy Collaco £20; Please make cheques payable to E. Fernandes and post to Eddie Fernandes, 1 Onslow Gardens, London N10 3JT. Thank you *** DEATHS 24 Sept. Carmona, Goa. SATYRO S. FERNANDES. (Ex-Post & Telegraph - Tanzania). Brother/brother-in-law of Ignatius/Crescy (U.K.), late Leandro/Filu (U.K.), Abel/Flaviana, Lourdina/late Belarmino, Reggie/Candolina, Redu/late Laurent, Vilu/late Cipriano (U.K.). 27 Sept. New Orleans, USA. Rev. Fr. CLAUDIO URBANO GRACIAS. Brother of late Carma/late Roque Gomes, Thomas/Amelia, Sr. Lira (F.M.M.) Pune, Fr. Fermino (O.C.D), late Rosario/Milena (U.K.). Uncle of Yvonne/Kieran (U.K.) Shirley/Paul (U.K.), etc. 29 Sept. London. LESLIE CARVALHO, 49. (ex-Nairobi). Son of late Alexander & Clara Carvalho. Survived by brother Ronnie (Boreham Wood), sister Maureen (Uxbridge) and partner Betty Fernandes. Les was best known as the drummer of the band Question Mark, that played at most of the Goan functions between 1970 and 1975. FUNERAL: 10.00am, Friday 11th October, All Saints Church, Kenton Road, Kenton. Cemetery: Carpenders Park. Condolence messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29 Sep. Loutolim. MARIA DO CARMO de MATOS SEQUEIRA e ALVARES. Wife of late Jose Antonio do Rosario Alvares, Mother of Hugo/Cheryl (Canada), Lourdes/Antonio (Venezuela), Flavio/Espe (London), Elsa/Bill (London), Wanda, Fernanda/Thomas (Germany), Carlos/Celiza (London), late Victor (Pequeno), Alan/Sepsy (Bahrain), Mario/Fernanda (Dubai) and Bonny/Dolcy. 30 Sept. Caranzalem, Goa. MARIA AUXILIA DORA RODRIGUES e FERNANDES (ALZIRA). (Ex-Pemba, Zanzibar). Wife of Cajetan Fernandes. Mother of Wendy, Joseph and Sebastian. Sister of Sr. Isabel C.P.S. (Tanzania) Lilia/Antonio (Portugal) Fernando/Felicidade (London) Sr. Gemma C.P.S. (Zanzibar) etc. *** LOOKING FOR: Bettina Gracias who writes for Radio and the Theatre, asks if anyone knows of any Indian (Goan or otherwise) Old Wives tales about what a girl has to do to find a husband. An English one, for example, is if you sleep with your shoes in the shape of a T you will dream of your future husband. Write to her at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From Viveca in Malaysia, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are there any Goan families in Chorley, Lancashire? If you know of any do email me and let me know? Thanks. I have a daughter who has just gone over there to do her Internship in Ch
[Goanet] Wireless Week: Goa to have Webfone by next week
=== WHAT'S ON IN GOA: * Oct 12: Goa State Strings Orchestra performs at Kala Academy (Corelli, Bach) * Nov 29-Dec 1: Plant Utsav 2k2 at Panjim (demo, contest, sale of plants) === Headline: Goa to have Webfone by next week Source: Wireless Week (USA) OCTOBER 3, 2002 at http://www.wirelessweek.com/index.asp?layout=story&articleId=NEa1002348.6iw&verticalID=110&vertical=Wireless+Internet&; By Prakash Kamat 10/03/2002 PANAJI: BSNL is all set to introduce Webfone internet telephony in Goa by next week. Apart from the mobile service which was expected to be commissioned by the last week of September, Goa will also be the next destination in the zone after Pune to get Direct Internet Access Service (DIAS) soon. The tourist state, which has a fairly high rate of internet connectivity and a fairly high expatriate population, is expected to benefit from this facility. "With the tourist season on, this could be a value-added service for the cyber cafes," says N Chenchaiah, general manager, BSNL. He also disclosed that BSNL's mobile phones with roam-free facility, covering around 1,600 cities across the country, will be introduced in the state soon. In Goa, BSNL has invested around Rs 25 crore on the mobile project, setting up 27 base stations. Mr Chenchaiah disclosed that Goa will have a capacity for 12,000 connections in the first phase, and it will be enhanced to 90,000 during the second phase of expansion before March '03. As for the DIAS, Mr Chenchaiah explained that it would work on the same telephone cable with a modem installed by the BSNL at the customer's end. This will be available for a domestic customer at a flat rate of Rs 995, and there would not be billing for internet use. For commercial purpose, however, the facility will be charged Rs 3,000 per month. == Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! === 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! ===
[Goanet] Old Wives tales
=== Help GoaNet grow... recommend it to others you know... === Bettina Gracias who writes for Radio and the Theatre, asks if anyone knows of any Indian (Goan or otherwise) Old Wives tales about what a girl has to do to find a husband. An English one, for example, is if you sleep with your shoes in the shape of a T you will dream of your future husband. Write to her at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From GoaNet-UK Newsletter: >18 Oct. 14:15-15:00. BBC Radio 4. Afternoon Play: Goan Flame. By >Bettina Gracias. "Maria, an English-bred Goan, retires as a GP and >travels to Goa for the first time to find her father's house. Here >she blossoms, but unearths some cold facts about Goan history". >Neil D'Souza plays Xavier. Music by Anthony de Mello. Thanks, Eddie Fernandes === 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! ===
[Goanet] More on the Tony Sequeira Tragedy: Calgary Herald..
Headline: Popular marketing director was to marry in December
By: Scott Crowson
Source: Calgary Herald. Tuesday, September 24, 2002. FULL TEXT at:
http://www.canada.com/calgary/news/story.asp?id={19B85F52-51CE-4578-8F8D-C61
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Photograph of Tony Sequeira is in the above url
Excerpts:
A Calgarian who drowned in a boating accident Sunday was going to get
married in December
The bachelor, in his late 40s, had been looking forward to marrying Ramona
DeSouza, a medical professor and a friend from childhood.
"It was very hard to break the news to her," said the victim's
brother-in-law, Alfredo Fernandes
Sequeira was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and moved to Canada in 1975. He studied
engineering at the University of Calgary.
"He loved fishing, he loved the outdoors, he loved travelling," his
brother-in-law said. "He really enjoyed life."
Sequeira's other sports included golf, field hockey and squash.
An avid reader and trivia buff, he could answer almost every question on
television quiz shows, Fernandes said.
Sequeira helped launch Enermarket Solutions Ltd., an online brokerage, two
years ago
Sequeira was the vice-president of marketing.
"He was very well respected," Peters said.
Before joining Enermarket, Sequeira worked in a similar capacity for other
Calgary companies, including Agate Laboratories and Core Laboratories Canada
Ltd.
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[Goanet] Calgary Sun: The Tony Sequeira Tragedy
Headline: Life-jacket may have saved man By MICHAEL WOOD. Source: Calgary Sun. Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/cs.cs-09-24-0011.html A Calgary man who planned to get married in December might be alive today if he had put on a life-preserver before going fishing, RCMP said yesterday. Despite being a poor swimmer, Tony Sequeira, 49, refused to don the life-saving jacket when he and pal William Sattlegger, 44, and Sandy Hrycyk, 42, set out on the choppy waters of Crawling Valley reservoir Sunday. "I'm so devastated because I can't believe it," Sierra Sequeira, the wife of Tony's cousin Dominic, said from her Calgary home. "It is sad because he was going to go to India to get married in December. "It is sad enough but his fiancee is not here and his mom, who is 86 years old, lives in Goa in India." Tony had recently become the vice-president of marketing for Enermarket Solutions Ltd. Tony and Sattlegger set out with Hrycyk, an experienced guide, on Saturday as part of a fishing tour package Sattlegger purchased through a Trout Unlimited silent auction. The men were supposed to return to Calgary on Sunday from the reservoir northeast of Bassano, 100 km east of Calgary. "I didn't know that he didn't know how to swim," a tired and sullen Hrycyk told the Sun. "There were life-jackets in the side of the boat near Tony, but it happened so quick ..." The trio ran into trouble just after 12:30 p.m. Sunday when a gust of wind brought heavy waves crashing into the boat, filling it with freezing water before it capsized. For several agonizing minutes, the men clung desperately to the boat, hoping the craft would wash ashore. Hrycyk pulled Tony from the frigid water and propped him on the underside of a fixed knee brace on the boat's bow, holding him steady as he slipped into unconsciousness. "I held him for as long as I could, then my lungs started filling with water, I had to go, it was taking me under," Hrycyk said. He and Sattlegger made it ashore, as their companion slipped under the water. His body was recovered hours later by Calgary divers, and he was pronounced dead at Bassano hospital. Campers who spotted the men in trouble phoned 911 and helped Hrycyk and Sattlegger ashore. Both were taken to hospital and treated for hypothermia and minor injuries. RCMP said no charges would be laid. "It's just an unfortunate tragedy," said Const. Ted Zadderey of the Bassano detachment. "If he'd been wearing his life-jacket, he might have been alive today." Edn. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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 !
[Goanet] LA Times: The Real Thing
Source: Los Angeles Times, September 18, 2002 Title: The Real Thing; For Indian curry with finesse and fire, look no farther than L.A. By: Barbara Hansen, Times Staff Writer. at http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-curry18sep18002046(0,4647280).sto ry?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dfood%2Dmanual 3,181 words. Excerpts: Los Angeles is a city proud of its spectacular range of ethnic foods and proud, too, that so much of it is authentic. When it comes to authenticity, however, a glaring exception is Indian curry. Oh, there are many dishes that are described as curry. But, trust us, they're just impostors Almost every restaurant slaps the word vindaloo onto a fiery dish that tastes nothing like it would in its place of origin, which is Goa, the former Portuguese enclave on the west coast of India. Goan food is particularly difficult to find here, so we sought out one of the few Goan chefs in the city, Addi Decosta, to explain how vindaloo should be made. For years, Decosta cooked his vinegar-seasoned curry at Chicken Madras in Hawthorne. (He has sold that place and will open a new restaurant, Addi's Tandoor, in Redondo Beach next month.) A Goan native, Decosta is scandalized by American vindaloos that reek of tomato sauce--a real no-no. Goan cooks of the past relied on vinegar as a preservative, because they didn't have refrigeration, he says. When tomato sauce is added, the vinegar has to be reduced to balance the acidity. This throws off the flavor. "Vindaloo is like a pickle, almost," Decosta says. "The longer you keep it, the better it tastes." Goan cooks stored their vindaloo in clay pots, reheating it as needed. The standing time also tenderizes tough meat. Pork is traditional in vindaloo, but today more Goan cooks are opting for lighter foods and have switched to shrimp. The difference is seafood has to be cooked and served immediately. It's not likely Goan food will become more common in Los Angeles, because Goan chefs are not immigrating here. "In Goa, they have many resorts, so they are all busy over there," Decosta says. "And they are very well paid." Those are the last words you'd use to describe the Chicken Mangalorean at Surya on West Third Street. It is a truly glorious dish. Even though it has never been put on the menu, everyone seems to know it's there. As a matter of fact, it's the second most popular dish after chicken tikka masala, says owner Sheel Joshi. "We have quite a few people who won't eat anything else, he says. Creamy, unctuous and just a little spicy, it is devastatingly addictive. Joshi devised the recipe, phoning to Mangalore on India's southwest coast for input. "It's a mix of north and south," he says. The classic northern seasonings--ginger, garlic, cinnamon, cloves and cardamoms--get together with southern coconut milk, curry leaves and mustard seeds. At first glance, one assumes the cook was not paying attention and burned the spices. But the black flecks in the golden sauce are deliberate. Fresh curry leaves, mustard seeds and red chiles cook in oil so hot that the curry leaves crackle and turn black instantly. The chiles also blacken. "They should burn--that really gives the flavor to the oil," Joshi says. The taste of curry leaves is hard to describe. Think of toned-down eucalyptus crossed with pepper, a flavor unlike anything in the gamut of herbs and spices that most Americans know. It is what gives this dish its cachet. Without curry leaves, the sauce would be pleasantly creamy, but not distinctive. No longer rare, curry leaves are sold fresh in many Indian markets. But they're not always available, and that's why chicken Mangalorean is not printed on the menu. Shrimp Vindaloo Active Work Time: 20 minutes * Total Preparation Time: 45 minutes >From Addi Decosta, former owner of Chicken Madras in Hawthorne, now of Addi's Tandoor in Redondo Beach. 15 whole cloves, divided 1 teaspoon cumin seeds 2 (3-inch) cinnamon sticks, divided 6 cloves garlic, divided 10 small dried red chiles, or more to taste 3/4 teaspoon turmeric 24 whole black peppercorns, divided 3/4 cup white vinegar 2 cups water 1 (1-inch) piece ginger root 1 tablespoon oil 2 large red onions, minced 1 boiling potato, peeled and cut into 2-inch chunks 2 pounds large shrimp, peeled and deveined 2 teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons sugar Place 9 cloves, the cumin seeds, 1 cinnamon stick, 3 garlic cloves, the chiles, turmeric, 18 peppercorns and the vinegar in a blender. Blend on high speed until as smooth as possible, about 4 to 5 minutes. Add the water and blend just to combine. Set aside. Place the remaining garlic and the ginger in a small food processor along with about 1 tablespoon of water. Process until a paste is formed. Set aside. Heat the oil in a large saucepan over high heat. Add the onions, remaining cloves, remaining cinnamon stick and remaining peppercorns. Cook, stirring often, until the onions have browned, about 15 minutes. Add the mixture from the blender, the ginge
[Goanet] Maureen De Souza: East African Goan Convention, Nairobi, 23-25 Aug., 2002
Forwarded by Eddie Fernandes from Nairobi. East African Goan Convention, Nairobi, 23-25 Aug., 2002 Report by Maureen De Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>- Mombasa, Kenya. I would like to let you all know that the 4th East African Goan Convention is to be held in Arusha in the year 2004. I was not sure of going for the Convention in Nairobi, but I am sincerely very happy I made it. We had such a good time and met so many new Goans that it makes me happy to share this little information with you all. When we arrived at the Goan Gymkhana (Nairobi) on Friday. The ladies in the welcoming committee and their friends were all happy to see us. They gave us forms to fill, and then presented us with a folder which had some paper, a pen, some map routes, a name tag and our tickets. A tinto was set up selling items like pickles, Bombay ducks, masala's, Goa sausages, feni and T-shirts. The Friday evening cocktail party was very united. So many people from so many places. Not only were the Goans from Arusha, Tanga, Zanzibar, Dar-es-Salaam and Mombasa there, but we had some UK, Canadian, Ugandan and Kenyan upcountry Goans too. We all met and chatted and the food was delicious catered by Gaye Fernandes!! The Ismaili and Hindu Unions had their heads at this cocktail party and their speeches were very educational and informative to us all. Ann Franco, the flowers and plants definitely made a difference. You did a remarkable arrangement in the Centre and I am sure many people will join me in saying this. Brendan, the youth had a good time dancing to your music, as you noticed they did not want you to stop playing. The EAGC family, you did an excellent cultural show and we all enjoyed it. Saturday was a great get-together for the youth with fun and games at the Nairobi Institute. The Convention, also held at the same venue, went off very well and a lot was discussed. Mass at the Don Bosco shrine at 1.30p.m. was absolutely fantastic. The attendance by over 250 people, the 6 celebrants (all Goan priests within East Africa), the flowers of different varieties were beautifully arranged - Jane De Souza, good work organising this. Mass service began with all the leaders of the various zones lighting candles, hymns sung were music to our ears. Fr Wilfred was celebrating his birthday that day so a birthday song was sung for him. A tour of the shrine was a great idea, as many had not seen the beautiful shrine before. After mass they served us with water and snacks free of charge and sold us the most beautiful candles with the statue of our Lady of Fatima placed in it. That idea was the most creative one and I hear magician Johnny Rodrigues had a lot to do with it so I wish to congratulate him on a fantastic piece of art!!! This is something you must all see and have in your homes. The dance on Saturday night was attended by over 480 people and the Nairobi Institute hall was full. In all my years going to the NI I have never seen a hall so full of Goans and the dance floor so full at all times. Brian Lisboa did a great job on the music and Elmer Noronha made a great Master of Ceremonies. The food catered by Mrs Elizabeth Fernandes was delicious and everyone will join me and say so. We thought we were in Goa!! Gaye’s deserts were delicious. The plants arranged in the dining hall were the most beautiful creation of the Lord, put together and arranged by Ann Franco I heard.. What wonderful plants we have in this world. The decorations in the hall at the N.I., on the wall, hanging in the air, on the dance floor and also on the tables were great. The tiles made especially for the 3rd EAGC were fantastic -these were put on the tables with balloons. The dance routines were simply lovely & the youth of Nairobi should be proud to be such good dancers. Sunday I am sorry to say was not complete without our Arusha, Dar and Tanga friends, actually by now I should say "our family from TZ". Due to their long journey back to Tanzania, they missed a lovely day in the sun with us all!! Steve Vaz you are simply the best caterer. Your cold buffet was exquisite, there was so much food and people ate more and more Would you believe people started eating at 12 noon and until 6p.m there was still food at the table & small sandwiches were being enjoyed with coffee & tea! Music by Theo Fernandes in the dining area at the Goan Gymkhana was lovely. Then out near the pool was a karaoke session where we all had a good time and sang our hearts out. Maurice Dantas - your voice is absolutely fantastic. I look forward to hearing you sing again sometime soon -our national convention 2003 ? The brochures done by Cheryl. De Souza (Wilma's daughter) was "informative and well designed". We will learn for years to come from this brochure and it has taught us many new things and has also given us creative ideas. The most important... "the East African Goan convention
[Goanet] The Times (UK): Chorao Island .
Source: The Times (UK) August 17, 2002 at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,71-384920,00.html Text: Back on the tourist map now that the Foreign Office has reclassified Goa, and most of India, as safe to visit, holidaymakers who want a taste of uncommercialised rural Goa will be able to stay on Chorao Island on the Mandovi River in new cottages and apartments introduced for this winter by self- catering specialists, Lazydays in Goa. With much the same view of the spires and domes of Old Goa as the Portuguese would have had when they sailed upriver in their galleons to their former capital, the sleepy island consists of farming hamlets and rice paddies, churches and Portuguese-style mansions. There are no beaches but the mangrove swamps are home to the Dr Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary. Chorao is only accessible by ferry (about two minutes), and is ten minutes from Panjim, the modern capital. Lazydays is offering one, two and three-bedroomed properties with gardens and a shared pool. To rent one-bedroomed Dove Cottage for a week costs from £226-£396; a hire car with driver and a complimentary ayurvedic massage is included in the price. Flights are extra, but can be arranged. Details: Lazydays in Goa (01202 771170, www.lazydays.co.uk). === Source: The Times (UK) August 11, 2002 at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,195-381825,00.html Gap years for grown-ups. Why should students get all the fun? Thousands of adults are junking their jobs and hitting the road. Extract: Tonia Freyer, 33, was a merchandiser with the clothing chain Monsoon. She lives in London. Why? I was 25 and single. Id always intended to take a year off after university, but had never got round to it. My parents had just moved to Australia, so it seemed like a good time to travel. Where? Tonia spent a year in Australia, visiting her parents in Canberra and staying with friends in Sydney and Melbourne. She supported herself with temporary jobs, including a six-week stint picking pears. On the way home, Tonia planned to take a holiday in Goa, but ended up staying there for six months, living in a hippie commune. I went native. It was a social experiment for me, living in an open house with very little money. I learnt a lot about getting on with different sorts of people. How much? Tonia left Britain with just £2,000 and came back owing a friend £500. She earned about £3,000 in Australia, so the whole trip cost a total of £5,500. The best bit? We spent a night on the beach in Goa around a campfire, watching a full moon set over the sea. There were lots of weird and wonderful people coming and going. It was very spiritual. The worst bit? When I arrived in Sydney I felt very lonely. I had been hanging out with other travellers and I was suddenly in a big city surrounded by people working I started to question what I was doing out there. What now? By luck, Tonia returned home to find a job waiting for her with her former employer. I was back at my old desk within a week it was very strange. I soon got back into work, but I had changed: more confident, but also more tolerant. It was a great experience. = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Variety: Blockbuster to be filmed in Goa, Mumbai & Rajastan
Headline: Bollywood, Hollywood Bloom for 'Marigold'
Source: Reuters. August 16, 2002 02:41 AM ET
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By Cathy Dunkley
HOLLYWOOD (Variety) - Indian actor Salman Khan will star in "Marigold," a
musical romantic comedy written and to be directed early next year by U.S.
filmmaker Willard Carroll ("Playing by Heart").
The picture, budgeted at under $10 million, will see Khan co-star opposite
an as-yet-uncast U.S. actress. Dubbed as a Bollywood-Hollywood
collaboration, the project will be shot in both English and Hindi. Filming
will take place in Mumbai and the Indian states of Goa and Rajasthan.
"Marigold," which is being touted as the first Hindi-language film made by
a U.S. director, is the story of a demanding B-movie actress stranded in
India when her latest fly-by-night film is suddenly canceled. Penniless and
unable to return home, the desperate actress accepts a role in a gaudy
Bollywood production even though she is a terrible dancer. Khan will play
her dance instructor Prem.
"The movie-within-a-movie format enables us to do the Bollywood sequences
for real and at full strength while still preserving the narrative
structure of a mainstream Hollywood entertainment," Carroll said.
Carroll added that he also incorporated many of Khan's suggestions into the
final version of the screenplay to add details to the Bollywood sequences
and to clarify certain aspects of Indian family life and culture.
"In the past, U.S. productions shooting in India have used the country as
an exotic backdrop and a source of inexpensive manpower," said Sidharth
Jain, VP of producer Hyperion Pictures India. "This project is different.
It's a true co-production; Indians working side by side with Americans. It
will be a seamless mixture of what each industry does best."
Khan made his breakthrough in Indian cinema in Sooraj Barjatya's "Maine
pyar kiya" (I Have Loved). In subsequent films like the hit "Hum dil de
chuke sanam" (I Have Given My Heart to You), the actor has been closely
associated with the family-values genre of tuneful romance and celebrations
of the traditional Indian joint family that defined mainstream Hindi cinema
in the 1990s.
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[Goanet] Stereotypical Tourists?
Headline: No break from caring
By: Claire Snook
Source: Bristol Evening Post. 2 August 2002 at:
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Two Rotary members were inspired to raise money for Indian orphans while on
holiday in far-flung destination.
John and Jean Moore from the Rotary Club of Avonmouth were staying in Goa
when they found a leaflet on El Shaddai children's homes in the area.
They are run by Englishwoman Anita Edgar who they met when they visited the
local flea market and found her selling bric a brac donated to her by
tourists.
Anita had originally come to Goa as a tourist but when she saw the plight of
the children with no homes or food she decided to make it her life's work to
help them after speaking to her local pastor.
She came back to Britain, registered as a charity and rented a house in Goa
where Anita began to take in children, both orphans and those from families
who are unable to feed or look after them.
Access to the children is freely granted to the children for relatives, and
help is often given to the families themselves.
Her work has meant the children are well fed, housed, clothed, educated, and
more importantly, they are registered for birth so they officially exist
within the system. Anita spends six months of the year in Goa and six months
trying to raise funds and get volunteers for the homes.
When Jean and John first met the children three years ago, Anita had two
homes in El Shaddai.
Their first impression was being overwhelmed by the children who were
obviously very happy, even though furnishings were spartan.
They found the children were learning both English and Indian {sic] and were
well-looked after by staff and volunteers who the children adored.
Jean and John wanted to get involved and were presented with a long list of
necessities, with a 32 seater mini bus at the top of the requirement list.
Their club in Avomouth agreed to help raise the money for a bus and three
years later the club has managed to get the GBP 12,000 needed.
Anita has visited the club three times over the past three years and was so
impressed by the work they do, she has joined an Indian Rotary Club.
John and Jean will be visiting the homes later this year to see how the
money raised has affected the children's lives.
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[Goanet] [goanet-uk] Newsletter. Issue 2002-31. Aug. 02, 2002
dian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4470146,00.html 29 Jul. Mirror (UK): Holiday Paradise Rape Was Just Start Of Hell. Double page spread, 1470 words and photographs. Excerpts: Hazel Smith, 36, wants to make sure that the man she says raped her is punished. It was a brutal, terrifying ordeal. But what happened to her afterwards turned her life into a waking nightmare. She is a travel firm director from Gillingham, Kent. Full text at: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12071933&method=full&s iteid=50143 29 Jul. Herald (Goa). In a shocking eight out of nine molestation offences against foreigners, the offender is either acquitted or allowed to let go scot-free for lack of evidence. http://www.oherald.com/Archives/tue_30july.htm 30 Jul. Northern Territory News (Australia). Consumers Affairs commissioner Richard O'Sullivan said six people had contacted the commission in the past few months to complain about holiday timeshare scams. He said one couple handed over $14,000 to buy a share in a unit at a resort in Goa, India, but were unable to cancel the deal when they realised how much it was going to cost them 31 Jul. Westside News (Australia). Club de Goa will host the inter-club cricket tournament at the South Brisbane District Club at Fairfield on Sunday 31 Jul: The Atlanta Journal and Constitution. Beauty pageants in US feature traditions from old world. . "We all wanted to learn something from being there," said Rashmee Goes, 22, who lived in Goa state in India until she was 16.I really don't have that many Indian friends anymore, and this was a way for me to meet people my age from India," said Goes, a practicing Catholic." 31 Jul. New York Times. Dining Out. Brick Lane Curry House, 342 East Sixth Street (First Avenue), East Village the lamb vindaloo ($15) offers the smoky heat that Goan dish is known best for The chef, Eric McCarthy was born in the former Portuguese colony of Goa http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/31/dining/31UNDE.html *** FORTHCOMING: Sun 4 Aug. GOAN FESTIVAL in conjunction with Goan Organisations at Archbishop Lanfranc School, Mitcham Road, Croydon. Starts with Holy Mass at 12.00 noon. Contact:Diego Pinto020 - 8767 0663 For offers of help: Contact Cornelius Monteiro 020 - 8681 8716For Stalls: Contact Juliette de Menezes 020 - 8765 0258 Tue. 06 Aug. 8:00 - 8:40pm. BBC Radio 4. Asian Diasporas . First of a 3 part weekly series examining the explosion in Asian migration around the world in the 20th century. Repeated Sundays at 5:00pm Sat 10 Aug. Goan Community Centre, Keston Road N17. Cookery Workshop/Beat Show. Candy Fernandes 020 9493 0958 Sun. 11 Aug. 3.00 pm. The Goan Cultural Society UK. KONKANI CONTEST. Merton Hall, Kingston Road, S. Wimbledon. This nostalgic show of your old time favourites will be performed by children. Limited tickets, Adults £ 5, children under10 £ 3. Please contact: Bella 020 8352 0373, Rosy 020 8352 9450, Ida 020 8881 2921. Sun 18 Aug. Bastora Social Archbishop Lanfranc School - Contacts: Peter De Souza 020 - 8672 3232 John Coutinho 020 - 8361 6061 Sun. 18 Aug. Goan Community Centre, Keston Road N17. Day of Prayer & Mass. Candy Fernandes 020 9493 0958. Fri. 23 Aug. YLGS (Young London Goans Social - free membership 18 - 40+). Monthly Social - 5.30pm - late. Venue: Los Locos Bar/Restaurant, 24/26 Russell Street, Convent Gardens, London WC2.New members welcome. Contacts [EMAIL PROTECTED] (07958 373 076 ), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (07799 586 793), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (07957 395 811 ) Sat. 24 Aug. Chorao UK. Annual social (feast of St Bartholomew). Venue Merton Hall Kingston Rd. London SW19. Tickets £9.00 Adults and £5.00 for 12-16 year olds. Mass at 4.30p.m.followed by social. Contact Claver 020 8672 4562/ Mervyn 020 8689 2970. Sat 24 Aug. 7.30-11.30pm. Elvis Dance. Bishop Douglass RC School, Hamilton Road, East Finchley, London N2. Live music by Silver Star Dust playing Elvis and Konkani. Prizes for the best Impersonator. Before 15 Aug.: Adults £8; children <14 - £5. Later: £10 & £5Info/Tickets: (Ricky) 07958930012 or (Ellie) 0208 3469993 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun 25 Aug. Goan Association UK. SPORTS DAY at Archbishop Lanfranc School, Mitcham Road, Croydon. Contact: Glyn Albuquerque 020 - 8680 2401. For offers of help: Contact Peter Rodrigues 020 - 8399 4883 For stalls: Contact Juliette de Menezes 020 - 8765 0258 ******* Thank you to the Contributors to this issue. Publication: Thursdays (21.00 GMT). Contributions required by the preceding Tuesday by e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or post items to: Eddie Fernandes, 1 Onslow Gardens, London N10 3JT ___ To view archives, please visit: http://www.goacom.com/goanet-uk To subscribe, go to: http://www.goacom
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[Goanet] More Naïve Foreigners in Goa?
Headline: Police record in molestation cases 'impotent' Source: Herald (Goa) 30 July 2002 at: http://www.oherald.com/Archives/tue_30july.htm PANJIM, JULY 29 - In a shocking eight out of nine molestation offences against foreigners, the offender is either acquitted or allowed to let go scot-free for lack of evidence. The ninth still being under investigation. Seven of these offences were registered in jurisdiction of the Calangute and the Anjuna, police stations both hubs of tourist activity. Take the instance of a molestation incident at Bambolim, wherein five persons outraged the modesty of a Canadian fashion designer at Bambolim Beach. The five were arrested, but were later acquitted. An American national was sexually abused and an attempt was made to kill her. The two accused in this case, who were arrested were acquitted by the JMFC hearing the case. Unknown persons outraged the modesty of a German lady at Vagator, and robbed her purse and other paraphernalia. The police in this case 'A' finalled the case due to lack of clues. Similar is the case with Teresa Booths, a Britisher who registered a complaint of a similar nature, which was also 'A' finalled for want of accused (identified in this case) and clues and with Estrella Schmidt (English), Claudine Harrer (Germany), Keren Alphasi (Israel) and Cherry Boucher (England). The last instance involves the in-the-news Nigerian couple of Levi Anynwu, who in a complaint registered at the Anjuna Police claims, that his wife was Helen was molested by their alleged assailants at Assagao. Meanwhile three out of the nine cases of rape registered by foreigners have also been allowed to go scot free, with the police 'A' finalising the case due to lack of evidence. Two other instances have been convicted, while the rest are pending trial. = Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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: Mirror (UK): Holiday Paradise Rape Was Just Start Of Hell
Dear Gilbert, Your response is a pathetic cop out! Best wishes though, Eddie + gilmen30 writes: > Eddie, > I cant understand your convoluted logic. So I will leave you with the > Daily Mirror, while I return to my "blatant prejudices" and "stone > age" environment. > Have a great day, pal. > Gilbert. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] [goanet-uk] Newsletter. Issue 2002-30. Jul. 26, 2002
. Goan Association UK. SPORTS DAY at Archbishop Lanfranc School, Mitcham Road, Croydon. Contact: Glyn Albuquerque 020 - 8680 2401. For offers of help: Contact Peter Rodrigues 020 - 8399 4883 For stalls: Contact Juliette de Menezes 020 - 8765 0258 * Thank you to the Contributors to this issue. Publication: Thursdays (21.00 GMT). Contributions required by the preceding Tuesday by e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or post items to: Eddie Fernandes, 1 Onslow Gardens, London N10 3JT ___ To view archives, please visit: http://www.goacom.com/goanet-uk To subscribe, go to: http://www.goacom.com/mailman/listinfo/goanet-uk2 For help, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] Re: 30 JULY: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS
Nagesh Bhatcar writes: > I have also read of cases where > Goans in high places have been approached by fellow Goans, expecting > preferential treatment, and have been disappointed by the indifferent > response! At times, kids of ethnic Indian parents, consider themselves > more Western than the westerners themselves. ***I guess it is impossible to generalise and kids of ethnic Indian parents will consider themselves what they are comfortable with at any given point of time. However, what is more disturbing is the suggestion that Goans in the West should give preferential treatment to other Goans? 1. Do you do so? 2. Do you give even more preferential treatment to other Goans of your own faith? 3. Do you fell it right that you discriminate against Goans not of your faith? 4. If you discriminate in favour of some on the basis of race, do you tolerate being discriminated against by people of other races? Best wishes, Eddie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] UK Auction of 18th c. Madonna & Child Ivory carving.
1. 20 Jul. Bath Chronicle. Forthcoming Auctions. In the Bristol Auction Rooms' sale of Antique and Decorative Items on Tuesday 23 July: a 18th century graceful ivory statue of a Madonna and child in the sale, has been catalogued as possibly from Goa in India, which was a Portuguese colony. It is estimated at £700-£1,000. === 2. 27 July. Western Daily Press. HEADLINE: Making light of a day of contrasts; Antiques BY: John Hudson Text: All the quality lots were well contested at Bristol Auction Rooms' cracking sale on Tuesday. A Portuguese bidder and a specialist collector were among those battling it out for a fine 18th-century ivory carving of the Madonna and Child which was probably made in Portugal's colony of Goa. In all there were six telephone bidders, which helped keep the contest ticking along nicely until it stopped at £6,600. = I guess this kind of demand is going to result in further raids on Goa's Churches. Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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: Mirror (UK): Holiday Paradise Rape Was Just Start Of Hell
My comments preceded by *** gilmen30 writes: > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eddie Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Is it not strange that these heinous crimes get hushed up in Goa? > Eddie] > > > > Eddie, >what makes you think that this alleged crime has been hushed up? It was >widely reported in the local press, and an FIR has been registered. ***I go through web editions of the Goa newspapers daily and did not see this item. What kind of coverage did it get? Here, it was splashed over two pages. However, I wonder if you are confusing this instance with the case of Joleen Sketchley. >Secondly, what sort of woman is this, allows >the door to be bolted, and removes all her clothes! How naive can anybody get? *** You are displaying your blatant prejudices. a. what sort of woman is this: She is 36-year-old travel firm director who has travelled to India three times. b. who enters a dubious howel: It was in one of the busiest streets in Baga. She was shown his certificates and recommendations from other tourist and put at ease. c. Allows the door to be bolted: She became aware that the door had been bolted after the assault began. d. removes all her clothes. Don't know how you reached this conclusion but in any case this is the practice with legit masseurs. >>From our perspective in Goa, we are getting a bit fed up of the beer louts >and druggies coming out on some of the charters. *** Your condemnation of individuals based on the misdeeds of others is deeply disturbing. Here, in the West we expect to be judged as individuals and not stereotype cast. How do you expect to be judged both in India and abroad? > Recently I saw a young >girl who was completely drunk or drugged, sitting at a shack late at night, >making a nuisance of herself. *** And I saw Mother Teresa helping the orphans. So what does that prove? >In such cases, one is asking for trouble in >the Indian environment. *** This takes the cake! I thought we had progressed from the Stone Age mentality . If your perception is that someone is "asking for trouble" do they become fair game? Horrors! >Do you agree? ***One of the reasons Kerala is a popular destination is because they offer a full body massage and this is often written about. Bogus masseurs are trying to cash in on the service. Yes, one needs to be careful but how far would you go in blaming the victims of crime? ***The victim in this case not stereotype cast the locals and is quite noble in saying: "India is still my favourite country in the world. Its people are warm and generous, but what I experienced was horrific. I don't want my complaint to harm the tourist industry there, I just want people to be more aware of the dangers. Maybe I was too naïve." *** So, the question remains: Should Naïve Women Be Raped? Best wishes, Eddie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Mirror (UK): Holiday Paradise Rape Was Just Start Of Hell
[Is it not strange that these heinous crimes get hushed up in Goa? Eddie] Headline: HOLIDAY PARADISE RAPE WAS JUST START OF HELL Source: The Mirror. Jul 29 2002 [The mirror is a major UK tabloid with a circulation of over 2 million copies daily]. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=12071933&method=full&siteid=50143 HOLIDAY PARADISE RAPE WAS JUST START OF HELL By Sara Nuwar HAZEL Smith wants justice - and she is prepared to fly 5,000 miles to make sure that the man she says raped her is punished. Her rape in the Indian paradise holiday resort of Goa was a brutal, terrifying ordeal. But what happened to her afterwards turned her life into a waking nightmare. While the 36-year-old former travel firm director was still shocked and bleeding from her assault, Indian police: -MADE her go back to the scene of the crime just an hour after the rape; -FORCED her to pick up the rapist's clothes from the floor for use as evidence; -ASKED her to travel alone in the back of the police van with the man who had raped her; -LEFT her to sit and listen while police beat her attacker up at the police station; -MADE her wait for six hours for medical tests even though she had been badly injured. Now, speaking for the first time Hazel says: "I just want justice. I also want tourists to be more aware of the dangers." (Four tourists were reportedly raped in Goa in January, but none of them reported the attacks to police.) "I know a lot of people have to deal with much more awful things," Hazel says. "But I still have dreadful nightmares and it haunts me." Hazel's ordeal began in January during a three-week holiday at the popular destination. On the night of the assault, she had gone for a traditional Indian massage on one of the busiest streets in Baga. Hazel, from Gillingham in Kent, who has travelled to India three times, says: "The place looked reputable and the man showed me all his certificates and recommendations from other tourists. He put me at ease. "It all seemed very normal. But then he started to touch my breasts and I noticed he had locked the door." AS SHE struggled to get to her feet the 23-year-old masseuse lunged at her, grabbing her by the throat. He pinned her against the wall before raping her. "I really thought I was going to die. I was screaming and crying," she says. "When he'd finished he walked to the bathroom and I made a run for the door. I managed to unbolt it and ran into the street, trying to grab my clothes on the way." After going back to her hotel, she was helped to the local police station by another tourist. Officers then took her back to the scene of the crime to point out her attacker. Although her hair was matted with blood from grazes sustained during the attack, she was not seen by a doctor. "About an hour and a half after it had happened I was back there with eight or ten armed police officers and the Commissioner of Police. "I identified the man and he lunged at me again. I was then asked to pick up his clothes and a shawl I had been wearing and any other evidence I thought was relevant." At this point the terrified businesswoman was asked by police to get into the back of a police van with her attacker. "He was arrested and they said I had to get into the back of the vehicle with him. I refused. I was hysterical. I was in a nightmare." Once back at the police station she claims she then heard officers beating up the suspect. A woman, a complete stranger called in off the street, was brought in to act as a translator so that Hazel could give a statement. Hours later a doctor eventually saw her - and without her knowledge gave her a sedative. Police then told her she still had to be examined for forensic evidence and she was not been allowed to drink or go to the toilet in case this interfered with the tests. She was eventually taken to the hospital six hours after the rape. "I just wanted to have a bath. I felt disgusting. In the end I was able to have a shower," she says. To her further horror, when she returned to her hotel, staff had thrown out her belongings. Hazel, who has travelled all over the world as a tour executive, says: "All my stuff had been thrown outside. It was everywhere. They wanted me out as quickly as possible. They didn't want to be associated with a rape." The following day, accompanied by a representative from the British Consular Office, she was asked to attend an identity parade. The man she eventually picked out as her attacker had been allowed to change his appearance by shaving his hair and moustache. "I was trembling as I had to put my hand on his shoulder to say it was him," she says. She then had to describe the attack in intimate detail to a judge in front of all the members of the ID parade. When she finally got out of the courtroom, she collapsed. Hazel, whose travel firm had been in financial difficulties since the Se
[Goanet] The Guardian: Family Holidays in Goa.
Headline: Asia minors Source: The Guardian. 27 July 2002 at http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4469160,00.html 1,592 words. Excerpts: The Foreign Office this week advised that it is once again safe to travel to India. Louise Nicholson, who has visited the country more than 130 times, describes how she introduced her two young sons to the sub-continent. India was inevitable. We had honeymooned there, blissfully. Later, our first son was conceived there, and my two pregnancies were mostly spent working there. So it was with great restraint that we waited until William and Oliver reached seven and five before introducing them to the country I find the most stimulating, inspiring and sheer fun. Friends thought we were either mad or irresponsible, or both. Fortunately, both boys took to India with gusto. They relished the radically different culture in all its variations. The cheapest flights were to Goa, so we booked a package deal there and broke out of it by booking hotels and internal flights ourselves. Goa's rich mix of south Indian and Portuguese cultures is an ideal gateway into India. We started with a week at Cidada de Goa, a family-run beachside hotel outside the capital, Panjim. It has large gardens, good restaurants and quality facilities, all strung around a child-safe bay that is also free of hawkers. We happily launched into Christmas Goan style. We went sailing to the tune of "We saw three ships", joined groups of carol singers on the beach, took a sunset boatride on the Mandovi River, and went to inspect Old Goa's ruins by boat up a forgotten canal, where we paused for home-cooked lunch with a local farmer. Two years later, we again started in Goa, this time down in the south to enjoy the long sandy beach, Margao town and the thoroughly non-PC Great Indian Circus, whose elephants played cricket and whose tigers roared furiously. Louise Nicholson, based in New York, is a personal travel consultant on India and has been travelling there and writing about the country for more than 20 years. To know more about her tours and customised itineraries, e-mail her at [EMAIL PROTECTED] + She has written: Odyssey Illustrated Guide to Goa. Paperback - 247 pages (March 1997) Local Colour Publishers; ISBN: 9622174159 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] BOOK REVIEW: The Fight for Freedom. By Simon James Collier.
Excerpts: The Hags are ugly, smell and their favourite pastime is torturing human beings. Unfortunately they rule Goa... ...Rajun and Anuj are travelling to Goa for what they think will be their annual family summer holiday, whilst in Goa they develop magic powers, talk to dead saints and fight for the freedom of the people of Goa -not the normal kind of family holiday! ++ BOOK REVIEW. Title: Towards The Light Fantastic -- Part 1: The Fight for Freedom Author: Simon James Collier Published by: The Okai Collier Company Limited ISBN: 1-901155-01-3 Price: £3.99 Reviewer: Joanne Tillman. M2 Best Books. 26 July 2002. 'The Fight for freedom' is part one in the series 'Towards the Light Fantastic', the series is the story of two young lads - the "chosen one's" - from Loughborough, UK and their journey towards the Light Fantastic. There are five books altogether in the series and number two is ready to be published in March 2003. If part one is anything to go by this series will prove to be a fabulous read. The text is written in an easy to understand, fast and exciting style and the author (Simon James Collier) explains everything in a plain and simple language that is easy to follow. The reader knows who is who and what is going on at all times. Firstly Collier explains who each character is and what they have to do with the story. The story is based in Goa and begins (700 years ago) with the tale of the Hags. Hags are both male and female in one body. They are ugly, smell and their favourite pastime is torturing human beings. Unfortunately they rule Goa at the time. Mikey the wizard is the good guy. He invents the Sacred Freedom stone that can cure humans of their ailments but, as this stone can only cure a few humans once a year, Mikey decides to cast a spell over the Hags and send them millions of miles away to Nowhere (which is somewhere but no-one knows where). Now the adventure begins. Somehow the Hags get hold of the Sacred Freedom Stone and are threatening to come back to Goa and take over again. The stone, however, can be saved and is protected by Guardians (though obviously they weren't doing their jobs properly the day the stone got taken) who have a plan for emergencies. This is where the "chosen ones" come in. Rajun and Anuj are travelling to Goa for what they think will be their annual family summer holiday, whilst in Goa they develop magic powers, talk to dead saints and fight for the freedom of the people of Goa -not the normal kind of family holiday! This is not the end of their adventure though as they will have these gifts for the rest of their lives and must use them in their journey with Mikey the magician Towards the Light Fantastic. This book is obviously aimed at children. It has a feel-good factor where good always prevails over evil and you are transported into a world of fantasy where all these fabulous characters become your friends (except the Hags). This is the kind of text that I believe is ideal for children, the baddies are not too bad, which is helped by the fact that the author makes fun of them, so children will not have nightmares. The heroes are the same as the children that are reading it - they live normal everyday lives and do normal everyday things. It's just that sometimes they have to have a break to save the world. CONCLUSION:Definitely recommended and a bargain at just GBP3.99. Title: Towards The Light Fantastic -- Part 1: The Fight for Freedom Author: Simon James Collier Published by: The OkaiCollier Company Limited ISBN: 1-901155-01-3 Price: £3.99 Reviewer: Joanne Tillman =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Commonwealth Games: Goan Triumphs.
1. In Hockey, as Gabe Menezes revealed: Wales 1-1 Canada. Wales took the lead in the second half through Simon Organ's penalty stroke, but it lasted just eight minutes as Canada's Wayne Fernandes earned a share of the spoils 2. In the synchro swimming, Claire Carver-Dias, Goan by marriage to Douglas Dias, did it again today. With Fanny Letourneau, she triumphed in the duets competition. >From the BBC Report at http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/commonwealthgames2002/hi/hockey/newsid_2155000/ 2155757.stm Carver-Dias showed no ill effects from a busy Friday, on which she sandwiched lunch with the Queen in between winning the solo title. And afterwards she revealed that she was contemplating retirement at the age of 25 Extracts from todays papers: The Times (London) July 27, 2002. That victory ensured that Canada's unbeaten record in the Commonwealth Games synchronised swimming remained intact. And all on a day when Carver-Dias had enjoyed a lunch of poached salmon with the Queen at the athletes' village. Daily Mail (London) July 27, 2002 The gold medalist said: 'It was a great lunch - although I only had coffee and no food - and I was probably more nervous about that than my swim. But she was really great and I really enjoyed it.' The Hamilton Spectator, July 27, 2002 "It really has been a fairytale," she said, "Pretty amazing. I was sitting at the Queen's table for lunch and she wished me good luck for my competition She was selected as Canada's representative to a luncheon which featured an athlete from all 72 countries at the Games. Eight sat with the Queen and eight with Prince Phillip She said her husband Douglas was yelling "10, 10" in the morning technical session and she had eight family members on hand, including two aunts from Wales. Full text at: http://waymoresports.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename= HamiltonWMS/Layout/Article_Layout&call_pageid=991828049690&c=Article&cid=102 7720942443 Toronto Star, July 27, 2002 Carver-Dias had considered retiring after Sydney, saying she wanted to get to know her husband again. Guess she familiarized herself with him quickly enough because a month later she re-dedicated herself to the sport. Yesterday, husband Douglas was among the eight family members including two aunties from Wales who'd never seen synchro before in the audience "I could hear him yelling.'' Full text at: http://waymoresports.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_ =12c1aede5fe07f94&pagename=waymoresports/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid= 1026143732739&call_page=WM_Home&call_pageid=979619472127&call_pagepath=Home/ Home And in the live TV transmission today, we too could hear and see him yelling! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Commonwealth Games 2002: GOAN GETS GOLD!!!
Headline: Carver-Dias claims title.
Source: BBC News 26 July 2002.
Text and photograph at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/commonwealthgames2002/hi/swimming/newsid_215300
0/2153273.stm
Headline: Carver-Dias of Mississauga, Ont., wins gold in solo synchronized
swimming.
Source: Vancouver Sun 27 July.
Text and photograph at:
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/story.asp?id={8B36467B-DEBB-40CF-A5BE-39B992
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Actually, it is a case of Goan by marriage rather than birth
Claire Carver-Dias
Birthdate: May 19, 1977
Husband: Douglas Dias.
Douglas Dias was born in Canada. His deceased father Cecil Dias and
Grandfather Joe Dias were born in Nagpur. Douglas traces his Goan roots to
Navelim. He has just completed his MBA and he is currently with Claire in
Manchester.
There has been wide expectation, even in the UK Press, that Claire would
get gold:
1. The Independent (London). July 26, 2002.
Today sees the nose-plug girls compete in the solo synchro, with Claire
Carver-Dias of Canada hot favourite to grin to gold.
2. Daily Mail (London) July 23, 2002. Synchronised Swimming
Favourites: Canada.
Visitor to Watch: Claire Carver-Dias (Canada), 25.
3. The Independent (London) July 22, 2002.
Headline: Commonwealth Games: Synchronised Swimming
The red hot favourites are, unsurprisingly, Canada. More specifically Claire
Carver-Dias
4. Sunday Times (London) August 13, 2000.
HEADLINE: Athletes bare all in race for pin-up gold
Claire Carver-Dias said her team had recently rejected an offer to pose for
Playboy magazine. The stampede to strip off put "the focus on bodies and the
sexual side of things, instead of the athletic side", she argued.
For more information on Claire Carver-Dias, see her website at:
http://www.synchrocanada.com/SynchroCanada/carver_dias.html
For more information on Douglas Dias, [EMAIL PROTECTED] , see his
website at:
www.wlu.ca/~wwwsbe/sbe2000/html/Resumes2002/Douglas.Dias.PDF
I am grateful to Gladys Pinto of Mississauga, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.unitoday.net/gladyspinto for the information on the Douglas Dias
family tree. Douglas is her nephew.
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[Goanet] +John Miller R.I.P.
The John Miller Print Collection can be seen at: http://www.johnmiller-prints.com/index.shtml 1. Western Morning News, 25 July 2002 at: http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=77707&command=dis playContent&sourceNode=77259&contentPK=2216264 Headline: Much loved painter of the sea mourned. Excerpts: People from all walks of life in Cornwall will be shocked and saddened to learn that the artist John Miller has died at home, just one week before his 71st birthday. It was typical of his thought for others that, subsequent to a recent prolonged visit to Goa in India, he was planning to return there to set up an establishment to help improve the education and job prospects of its children. A memorial service is being held at 12 noon on August 2, in St Mary's Church, Penzance. Further information from W C Matthews & Son, Funeral Directors, Sennen on 01736 871265. + 2. Western Morning News 6 June 2002 at: http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=77707&command=dis playContent&sourceNode=77259&contentPK=1854191 Excerpts: One of the Westcountry's best-known artists, John Miller, whose azure blue seascapes with pure white sandy beaches are collectors' items, is selling his studio with its own beach house at Lelant overlooking St Ives Bay - and going to Goa. "Goa is a wonderful place for my rheumatism," he says. "I spent three months out there last winter, and it was superb. The BBC came out to film me, and the presenter walked straight past me because he didn't recognise me. He said I looked 20 years younger! "The hot climate was simply wonderful for my health. So I've decided to lease a house there for the next five years, and I shall go there every winter." John will hold an exhibition of his Goan paintings in London next year. + 3. Financial Times (FT.Com) 21 June 2002. Excerpts: Because of the onset of arthritis Miller spent three months in Goa last winter, and he has now leased a house there. His plan is to go to the Indian Ocean island for the winters and paint Goa's beaches even though the light there is hazier than in Cornwall, and to interact with Goans whom he loves to paint. Wintering in Goa does not mean abandoning Cornwall. "I shall always paint Cornwall. I ran away here from London in 1958 and I've just written a book published here called Seeing is Believing. It is really a sort of autobiography. I enjoy principally the light of Cornwall and also the pace of life. "People in Cornwall have time to talk to each other. And in Goa now it's as it was when I first came here - children stop and talk to you." +++ There clearly is a need to help organise the exhibition of his Goan paintings in London next year, especially if the proceeds can be used towards his Goa project. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] UK Travel Agents Tested On Service To Goa.
Travel Trade Gazette is the specialist journal for the travel trade. A regular feature involved testing the service offered by different agents to a particular destination. This week we have the results of 4 agents being blind tested regarding a request for a holiday to Goa. === Source: Travel Trade Gazette UK & Ireland. July 22, 2002 This Week's Request: One or two weeks in Goa for two adults in a good- quality hotel in November TOP TIPS TO GOA: * Be aware of the latest Foreign Office travel advice about India. Due to the dispute over Kashmir between Pakistan and India, and the possibility of terrorism or military action, the goverment is advising against all non-essential travel to both countries. This warning applies to the whole of India. Customers who do wish to travel for essential business reasons are advised to register with their embassy. * The above scaled-down advice was issued on June 26 - after the mystery shopper's visit to Knaresborough. At the time of the survey, the Foreign Office was advising British nationals to leave India. * Goa's population is predominantly Hindu, followed by Muslim and Christian [sic]. It has a more liberal attitude than other areas of India. * Advise customers to visit the local markets to purchase silks, semi- precious stones, cottons and spices. Many operators offer excursions to markets and Hindu temples. Encourage customers to pre-book. * Southern Goa is a popular tourist resort, with a huge stretch of beach. The resorts contain many restaurants, shops and local bazaars. * Food and drink is cheap. Typical prices are 50p for a beer, 30p for a soft drink and pounds 10 for a three-course meal for two. * Currency is the Indian rupee. * A tourist visa is required. It costs pounds 30 and can be obtained from the High Commission of India. THE 4 AGENTS TESTED: 1. Ryedale Travel, High Street SCORED 66 points Brochures offered: Jewel in the Crown Manos Holidays Somak Holiday When I entered, both consultants were busy. I was offered a seat and told I would be attended to as soon as possible. The clerk who served me immediately said she thought Goa was affected by travel restrictions, for which she checked for details on the computer. She then made a phone call to find out the latest situation, which she said was easing. The consultant did not have first-hand knowledge of Goa, but looked in the brochure for information and advised me about vaccinations without prompting. She suggested an all-inclusive holiday would suit me best. We also discussed excursions. The clerk said that as the situation in India was improving, it would be fine to book and get a refund if necessary. The service given by this clerk was thorough and helpful. 2. GOING PLACES, High Street SCORED 50 points Brochures offered: Cosmos Winter Sun First Choice Winter Sun Airtours Winter Collection A consultant admitted she had no personal knowledge of Goa, but said it was very popular and that holidays tended to be booked up quickly. The agent looked up flight times in her chosen brochures and also checked the weather conditions for November. She then handed me the three brochures. The clerk said she thought I might need some vaccinations, but did not specify which. No mention was made of visa requirements and she appeared totally unaware of the travel restrictions in force, as these were not mentioned. The consultant did not check for any details on the computer. Instead, she suggested I took the brochures away and returned when I had looked through them. While this clerk was pleasant and gave me some information, I felt she could have looked at things in more detail. 3. TRAVEL OPTIONS, Castlegate SCORED 28 points Brochures offered: Hayes & Jarvis Manos Holidays Odyssey Holidays When I arrived the consultant was already dealing with a client, but after several minutes she offered me a seat. When I told the agent what I was looking for she immediately said that there were restrictions on travel to Goa and checked on the computer. The clerk said I would require a visa and vaccinations for travel. However, she also said Goa was a "no-go" area and advised me to return to the agency when the situation in India had improved. The brochure racks were not well-stocked and I had to ask for copies to take away with me. This consultant was pleasant, but I left with no details of price or availability. I found this strange as none of the other agencies had said I should not attempt to visit Goa. 4. THIS WEEK'S WINNER: RIPON TRAVEL, High Street SCORED 80 points Brochures offered: Jewel in the Crown Somak Holidays The consultant displayed an excellent knowledge of Goa as she had been there herself. She was aware of Foreign Office advice against non-essential travel to India and said she would be unwilling to book a holiday without a guarantee of a refund if the situation worsened. The consultant gave me details of hotels and camp
[Goanet] Lack of medical equipment is crisis in tourist region: Evening Herald (Plymouth)
Headline: Ambulance will be a goer in Goa. Source: Evening Herald (Plymouth). 23 July, 2002 at: http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=98912&command=display Content&sourceNode=98821&contentPK=2194540 APPEAL: Lack of medical equipment is crisis in tourist region A Saltash couple is appealing for donations and medical equipment to help provide an emergency ambulance service in the popular Indian tourist region of Goa. Colin and Sue Russell are both members of Saltash Lions, and Colin retired from Saltash ambulance service three years ago. Last year, they took out locally-raised funds to enable 1,000 sight-saving eye operations to be carried out at a desert hospital at Bisalpur, Western Rajasthan, and also took educational materials to an orphanage for deaf and dumb children near Bombay. But it was while giving first-aid resuscitation training in Goa towards the end of their trip that Colin became aware of the ambulance crisis facing the region. He saw a female English tourist who had drowned in the surf being attended by a doctor and nurse. They worked unsuccessfully for an hour to save her life before an ambulance turned up - a bare white van with no equipment and not even a stretcher. The president of Candolin Lions, Saltash's twin group in Goa, put a shocked Colin in touch with the region's secretary of St John Ambulance and the Red Cross of Goa. Colin said: "It was evident that they could provide personnel, training and expertise, but they had no ambulances or equipment. "We came back to Saltash in January with the target of getting three ambulances out there." Saltash's St John Ambulance had already donated its old vehicle for use as a mobile medical centre in Moldova, but St John in Axminster donated theirs for use in Goa, and it was rededicated last month. It is now being stored free of charge at Certini Cycles, on the Tamar View industrial estate at Carkeel, while Colin and Sue gather as much equipment and medical supplies as they can. Sue said: "Goa has now got five vehicles, so we are taking one ambulance and as much kit as we can. "All the Lions clubs in the district are helping to equip it, and we are also receiving donations of money. "We may need to fill a separate container as well as the ambulance, and are looking for ways to ship it all out; Colin will fly out to meet it at the other end." The Russells will also be returning to the eye hospital, the orphanage and Goa in January, taking with them Saltash Leos president Amanda Wells and member Caroline Smith. Anyone who would like to help the Russells is asked to contact them on 01752 844659. AND Express and Echo (Devon), 11 July 2002 Ambulance will be sent to Far East. Axminster and district St John Ambulance is sending its old ambulance to Goa in the Far East [sic], where ambulances are in short supply. Following the dedication of the new ambulance at the parish church, Superintendent Derek Cowling handed the keys of the old ambulance to Jamie Love, the president of Axminster Lions, which is sponsoring and arranging the vehicles transportation to the Far East. == Dont forget you saw it on GoaNet! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] New Zealand Herald: NZ abuser of orphans jailed for seven years
Headline: NZ abuser of orphans jailed for seven years Source: New Zealand Herald Monday, 22.07.2002 at http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=2098855&thesection=news&t hesubsection=general Text: New Zealander Eoghan McBride has been sentenced to seven years in an Indian jail for sexually abusing orphans. McBride, 63, from Upper Hutt, was extradited from New Zealand to Goa in 1999 after Indian police laid child sex abuse charges dating back to the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was found guilty of sodomising children from a Goan orphanage and criminal conspiracy. On Saturday, he was sentenced to seven years' jail for the sex offences and three years on the conspiracy charges. The sentences are to be served concurrently. British-born Freddy Peats, who ran the orphanage, is serving a life sentence for child sex offences. Warrants to arrest an Australian and a Swede are outstanding. A spokeswoman for End Child Prostitution and Trafficking, Denise Ritchie, said her group was contacted in 1996 by a Goan child rights group seeking help with McBride's arrest and extradition. "It is an excellent result and a small measure of justice for the child victims," she said. "It puts all New Zealanders on notice that when it comes to the sexual abuse of foreign children, no place is too far for the arm of the law to reach." - NZPA = Dont forget you saw it on GoaNet! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Evening Standard: Joel Almeida at the QEH concert.
Excerpt: pianist Joel Almeida and bass player Jonas Elba injected an upbeat fusion element Source: The Evening Standard (London) July 17, 2002 HEADLINE: BLESSINGS FROM SHANKAR. By Sue Steward Text: In a surprise introduction to this celebration of South Indian (Karnatic) classical music, a frail looking Ravi Shankar blessed the leader of the percussion septet Sapthaakshara, about to play. Vinayakaram was visibly moved. His modesty matches that of his instrument - an earthenware pot (ghatam), which he transformed into a magical drum, coaxing unimaginable sounds by slapping, tickling, cupping, thudding, using fingers and thumbs, palms and forearms, and cutting up rhythms with the mathematical precision which characterises Karnatic music. Seated cross-legged in an arc, the musicians unfolded an ecstatic display beginning with Shiva's dance, accompanied by the singer's soft hand-claps and rhythm counting on his fingers, the ghatam drumming, and drones emerging from electronic harmonium and dulcimer-like vina. A typical Karnatic song, composed of fast-scatted syllables and racing rhythms, required audience participation, then a sublime raga showcased the virtuoso young singer with Bollywood looks, V. Ulma Mahesh. Vinayakaram's solo was a masterclass in technique and expression; Ravi Shankar accompanied it with delicate hand-dancing. After the interval, tabla player Anindo Chatterjee brought a fresh North Indian tone, and pianist Joel Almeida and bass player Jonas Elba injected an upbeat fusion element. To close, The Elephant's Dance returned us to the compelling Southern folk terrain. Then, instead of basking in deserved glory, Vinayakaram led the musicians to be blessed with the audience by the man who was a focus all night without playing a note: Ravi Shankar. WORLD MUSIC Vikku Vinayakaram and Sapthaakshara Queen Elizabeth Hall. 16 July 2002. Photograph and more of Joel Almeida at: http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/69/joelalmeida.html = Don't forget - you saw it pn GoaNet! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Fwd Glynis Viegas: Calangute Social, Canada. Report.
>From Glynis Viegas: Calangute Social, Toronto, July 13, 2002 The villagers of Calangute and their guests celebrated the village feast of patron St. Alex on July 13, 2002, at the Royal Banquet Hall in Mississauga, Canada. The feast was very well attended with a crowd of approximately 400 people. The function commenced with Holy Mass celebrated by Reverend Fathers Michael D'Cruz and Joseph Gonsalves, and was followed by dinner, dance and show, and of course the Tinto. The menu included appetizers, a buffet dinner including king fish mole, dessert and bebinca, a midnight snack and fresh fruit, coffee and tea. This year's feast encouraged and gave prominence to the children. The readings, bidding prayers, mass serving and offertory were done by the young children of Calangute (Nygel Fernandes, Warren and Kenneth Viegas, Kaleigh D'Souza, Kyle D'Mello, Andre Ferrieria, Joelle Ferrieria, Charlene D'Souza, Daniel D'Souza and Rachael D'Souza). The choir sang hymns in Konkani, English and Swahili, bringing to the mass a little from each country from which many of the Goans in Canada have emigrated. The traditional dance, the Lances, was performed by an extremely young troupe of children varying from age 4 to 10 years (Nicholas D'Souza, Kyle D'Mello, Melissa and Lee-anne Akram, Kenneth Viegas, Larissa and Averil Silvera and Jason D'Souza). The children performed all seven different steps without fault and were a rousing success. The group was trained by Cicely Noronha, Noemia and Akhtar Akram and co-ordinated by Lynette D'Mello. A song on Goa was sung by two young Calangute boys aged 7 and 9 years (Warren and Kenneth Viegas). Other entertainment included stand-up comedienne, Crystal Gomes, and some belly dancers. All in the hall could not seem to get themselves off the dance floor as they enjoyed continuous dancing to the fabulous music of the band, Naked Flame and DJ Fatz and Clinton! The 2002/2003 Calangute Committee received numerous compliments for their organization of the function and the committee looks forward to an equally successful function next year. The 2002/2003 Calangute Committee: Pat Fernandes, President Glynis Viegas, Vice-President Shannon D'Souza, Treasurer Charles D'Souza, Secretary Olavio Ferrieria, Social Secretary Lynette D'Mello, Member Shaun D'Souza, Member Active "Committee helpers" - Glenn & Maria Noronha and Lillian D'Souza. The Committee would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who attended the function, and the many others who worked tirelessly and helped at the function, contributing to its success. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Foreign national convicted in child abuse in Goa.
There are errors in the report below. It is hoped that these errors do not originate with the CBI. E C Mobride = E. C. McBride Raymond Andrew Varlay of Thailand, = Raymond Andrew Varley of the UK Dominique Sebire = Dominic Sabire Headline: Foreign national convicted in child abuse in Goa Source: Times of India, July 13 2002 at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=15786516 PTI NEW DELHI: After a seven-year probe into the sensational child sex abuse racket in Goa, a court in Goa on Friday convicted a New Zealand national after holding him guilty of entering into a criminal conspiracy and indulging in sodomy of children. Convicting E C Mobride, a Kiwi national who was extradited to India in 2000, second additional sessions judge, after hearing the arguments on material placed by the CBI, said the court would pronounce the sentence on July 17. Mobride was chargesheeted by the CBI under section 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 377 (sodomy), 367 (kidnapping to cause hurt) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of Indian Penal Code by the CBI and which was upheld by the court. The CBI had also filed chargesheet against Freddy Albert Peats, an Indian national and five other foreign national besides Mobride. Peats, who has been sentenced to life earlier, was also convicted today under 120-B 363 (kidnapping), 367 and 372 (selling minors for purpose of prostitution) of IPC. CBI said that extradition proceedings against W W Ingo of Australia, Raymond Andrew Varlay of Thailand, Dominique Sebire of France and Yorgen of Germany were continuing. The case came to light after Goa police arrested Peats on a complaint that he was sexually abusing children in the garb of running an orphanage for destitute children. It was found that he was indulging in child sex abuse and also supplying children to foreign tourists. Later, the Goa bench of Bombay High Court transferred the investigation to CBI in 1995. = Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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: NEWS: Who's ready for cow's urine?
Headline: Indian police arrest two for cow urine AIDS ''cure'' Source: Reuters quoted by MSNBC, Friday 12 July 2002 at: http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters07-12-053954.asp?reg=ASIA CALCUTTA, India, July 12 - Indian police said on Friday they had arrested two men in Calcutta accused of selling bottles of cow urine mixed with cow dung and claiming they were cures for AIDS, cancer and tuberculosis. Sivaji Ghosh, deputy commissioner of Calcutta police, told Reuters the men were arrested after a complaint to police by drug authorities. ''They were selling these bottles for everything under the sun,'' Ghosh said. ''It was a bit surprising to see this happening in a big city. In villages, quacks sell a lot of things as medicines or having medicinal value.'' Police said they had filed a First Information Report, paving the way for an investigation, after seizing dozens of bottles from a shop. Ghosh said people were paying around 600-700 rupees ($12-$14) for each bottle. == On Thursday 4th July 2002 Ananova reported: Cow urine drug patented in US by Indian scientists. Full text at: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_622052.html?menu= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Travel article: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham) - Magical Beauty of Goa
Headline: MAGICAL BEAUTY OF GOA. By JOANNE LANE. 7 July 2002 Sunday Mercury GOA'S Anjuna markets are one of the few places in the world where you'll find an American hippy selling handmade Australian-style didgeridoos to English tourists. This surreal experience seems tailor-made for these colourful markets in the South Indian beach state. As we arrived, a crowd of people were experimenting with his instruments and the hum and hoots could be heard above the din from the Israeli eateries and the clamour of haggling. Three million tourists flock to Goa each year and it's easy to understand why. Gleaming whitewashed churches and Portuguese-style houses dot the state as a physical witness to its former occupiers. There are old forts guarding the coastlines, lush green paddy fields, secluded beaches fringed with palm trees, lively markets and religious carnivals. Some come for the party atmosphere of the northern beaches, but others settle for the more uninhabited splendour of the south. Whatever your preference, it's a beach holiday with a difference. It's easy to forget that Goa is still part of India. It was a Portuguese enclave and Roman Catholicism is still a major religion here so there are far more churches than temples. Beggars are virtually unheard of and the locals are more liberal than most Indians. Women wear dresses rather than saris, chat freely with men and are entitled to 50 per cent of their husband's estate. Remember, though, that it is still India. You can wear bikinis and shorts but be modest. Avoid nude bathing and try to keep your beachwear to the beach. I chose Benaulim as my destination. The beach is obviously the main attraction and it's easy to spend all day here because the restaurants are actually on the sand. You only have to walk a few yards to get breakfast, lunch or dinner, and it's wonderful to sit at a table with your feet in the sand, listening to the lapping of the waves or Goan music. Seafood makes up a large part of the menu (try the kingfish) but there's also a wide selection of meats including pork, beef, fish and chicken. If it's too much effort to take those few steps to the restaurant, don't worry. Local women sell fruit on the beach, and will come over to your towel and cut up the juicy pineapples and watermelons for you. There are also people from the neighbouring state of Karnataka selling jewellery and cloth - but they'll leave you alone if you're not interested, unlike in other areas of India. Fishing is a big industry and the locals still employ traditional methods. Old wooden fishing boats dot the shores and the fishermen are very friendly. They bring in their catch in the early morning so this is a good time to get to the beach. I made a point of helping bring the boats in and many handed out fresh fish for my pains. Once you've tired of eating and lazing on the beach the easiest way to get around the flat Goan streets is on a bicycle. These cost 30 rupees a day (40p) but you can bargain the price down if you hire them for longer. The backstreets are fascinating to pedal around. Small lanes meander through tiny villages where fish have been laid out to dry in the sun, men work on their boats or nets, children play under the palm trees and women work the fields in skirts. Otherwise it's not far to Colva, which has more variety for shopping and restaurants, and Margao - the nearest big town. Pedal south and you can catch a ferry across the estuary to Betul - but if you plan to go further to the lovely Palolem beach or to a deserted fort, it's better to hire a scooter or motorbike. These cost about 200 rupees ( £2.72) per day for a scooter and 400 rupees ( £5.44) for an Enfield. Most places do not require a licence but may watch you test-drive the vehicles. So sit back, let your hair out, and zoom around. Just look out for the wild pigs and buffalo that tend to run out on to the road without warning. A network of buses services links most Goan towns if you want to try another means of transport. These are an experience - hopelessly overcrowded and bursting with deafeningly loud music. Most buses don't have their destinations marked so you'll have to listen to the money-collector calling it out as the bus drives past. Once you're outside a town, however, you'll have the bus pretty much to yourself. If all this activity sounds like too much, just head back to the beach, seat yourself within easy reach of food, put your feet in the sand and let Goa work its magic. GOA TRAVEL FILE There's an international airport near Panaji, the state's main business centre. India's domestic airlines also operate out of here. Alternatively, trains link Goa with Bombay, Delhi, Bangalore and other centres. There's a railway station at Margao, on the coast, but you may be deposited at Londa. Buses and jeeps will bring you to the coast but take several hours. Bargain hard for the jeeps. Boats also travel between Goa and Bombay. Most hotels in Goa are c
[Goanet] Times (UK) 6 July: Crises re. Goa package holidays from UK
Headline: India operators in uproar. Foreign Office advice on India is wrong, say angry tour operators. By: Tom Chesshyre. Source: The Times (UK) July 6 2002. 703 words. Excerpts: Tour operators are furious with continuing Foreign Office advice not to travel to India. They say that popular beaches in Goa and Kerala are thousands of miles from trouble along the Pakistan border in Kashmir and they want the FO to differentiate between potential strike zones and other parts of the country. At the moment travel insurance companies, which follow to the letter FO advice against all but essential travel, will not offer full cover for holidaymakers. This has effectively closed down mainstream tourism to India, as most tourists will not risk travelling overseas without insurance Individual operators have been more forthright. It is incredibly unfair, said Platon Loizou, managing director of Jewel in the Crown, an India specialist. It is stopping all tourism to India, while Goa and Kerala are miles from Kashmir. People are still calling in wanting to go, as they know it is safe in the south, but we are getting a fraction of our usual requests. The Foreign Office is putting people off. He said sales were down by as much as 85 per cent for the coming winter season, which runs from October to May. Jewel in the Crown sent more than 6,500 people to Goa last winter. Ash Sofat, chief executive of Somak Holidays, another Goa specialist, said that sales were down by a similar amount. The Foreign Office must realise that India is a huge continent, he said. The minute the FO advice is lifted bookings will pick up again. But we are running out of time before the season begins. Instead of India, many holidaymakers have been booking trips to Mombasa in Kenya, Mauritius, Sri Lanka, and Dubai which is fast gaining in popularity. Loizou added: This is destroying tourism in India. The average tourist industry worker in Goa gets £30-£40 a month, and now they will not even be getting that. Full text at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,71-346586,00.html >From Goanet-UK Newsletter of 5 July 2002 at www.goacom.com/goanet-uk FLIGHT INFORMATION: 27 Jun. BBC. India travel warning eased. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_2069000/2069234.stm 1 Jul. Travel Trade Gazette. Excerpts: Jewel in the Crown Holidays is confident of carrying 10,000 passengers to Goa this winter. . Sales director Paul Cowley said: "We have asked Monarch to ring us if other operators give back seats, so that we can take them on." Jewel in the Crown had hoped to carry 10,000 customers last winter, but the downturn after September 11 limited bookings to less than 7,000 - 2,000 fewer than the previous winter. He added: "We are the second-largest operator to Goa, between JMC and Airtours.".. 199 words. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
RE: [Goanet] The Express (London). Surgeon hit wife with coathanger
Dear Pat, Aggro is the slang for aggravation. See London slang at http://www.londonslang.com/db/a/ : aggro - short for aggravation or violence The surgeon in question lives in Roehampton, a small and exclusive part of London. Coincidentally only last Thursday GoaNet-UK reported a link between another Goan, Roehampton and aggro: Free anger management workshops are available for people in Putney or Roehampton. Public health and mental health lead worker Ros Lobo said: "The workshops, which involve teaching and discussion, are not a substitute for specialist counselling." For more information phone South Thames College on 020 8918 7676. From Local London News at: http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/local_london/archive/2002/06/14/xml.vii.2 00811786ZM.html Note though that Richard Burton's book was published in 1851 not 1951. Plus ca change! Eddie = -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 June 2002 05:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] The Express (London). Surgeon hit wife with coathanger In a message dated 06/29/2002 2:15:22 PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << 1. BURTON, Richard F. Goa and the Blue Mountains. London, Bentley, 1851. Richard Burton, the Orientalist (Kama Sutra, Arabian Knights, etc.) went to Goa to recuperate after he was unwell, and stayed there for six months. He wrote a book on his experiences there. He did not like Goa at all. He lived in Panjim and asked his Goan manservant, Salvador, one day,: Salvador, what is that terrible noise are they slaughtering a pig? Nothing, replied Salvador, nothing whatever some Christian beating his wife. 2. The Express (London). 29 June 2002. Headline: Surgeon hit wife with coathanger. By Sally Guyoncourt. A Surgeon hit his wife with a coathanger after he caught her dancing with a younger man at a party. Mendonca, who is originally from Bombay, admitted punching his wife, slapping her across the buttocks and then hitting her so hard with a plastic coathanger it snapped. "I'm looking forward to a new life, which, hopefully, will be peaceful, without alcohol and without aggro," he said. >> Eddie -- I liked the way you juxtaposed the 1951 wife beating incident with that of the coathanger :-) BTW, what is "aggro," an abbreviation for aggravation? Reminded me of the good old days when ladies in England had to wait for dinner until after the men had eaten. That custom is still in vogue in some other places :( Times certainly are changing -- now many men find themselves in the other seat! Pat de Sousa =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] The Express (London). Surgeon hit wife with coathanger
1. BURTON, Richard F. Goa and the Blue Mountains. London, Bentley, 1851. Richard Burton, the Orientalist (Kama Sutra, Arabian Knights, etc.) went to Goa to recuperate after he e was unwell, and stayed there for six months. He wrote a book on his experiences there. He did not like Goa at all. He lived in Panjim and asked his Goan manservant, Salvador, one day,: Salvador, what is that terrible noise are they slaughtering a pig? Nothing, replied Salvador, nothing whatever some Christian beating his wife. 2. The Express (London). 29 June 2002. Headline: Surgeon hit wife with coathanger. By Sally Guyoncourt. A Surgeon hit his wife with a coathanger after he caught her dancing with a younger man at a party. Ear, nose and throat specialist Dennis Mendonca, 62, was warned by magistrates that the assault on his wife, Judith, was so serious that he could face a stretch behind bars. Mendonca, who is originally from Bombay, admitted punching his wife, slapping her across the buttocks and then hitting her so hard with a plastic coathanger it snapped. But he asked the court, at Cirencester, Gloucestershire, to show leniency. "I'm looking forward to a new life, which, hopefully, will be peaceful, without alcohol and without aggro," he said. "I look to this court for some mercy." The attack happened earlier this month while the couple were spending a weekend at their country home at Coln Rogers, Gloucestershire. They went to a neighbour's party and a row broke out when Mendonca saw his wife dancing with a young man. She then returned home alone. The doctor returned later to find her asleep in their spare room and he then flew into a violent rage. After the beating, Mrs Mendonca managed to struggle to her feet but then lost her balance and fell down the stairs. She awoke some time later at the bottom of the stairs with bruising to her face, a black eye, a deep wound on her hand and some bruising to her right buttock. The police were called early the following morning but Mrs Mendonca refused hospital treatment. Harley Street surgeon Mendonca admitted assault causing actual bodily harm when he was questioned at Stroud Police Station. He said: "I started to make amends the next day and I will continue to do so." He added that he was now reconciled with his wife and was trying to get his life back on track, attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and an anger management group. Prosecutor Geoff Nash told the court: "Mrs Mendonca apparently danced with a younger man at the party, which caused the defendant some concern." Mendonca, who also practises at Kingston Hospital in Surrey and at Queen Mary's University Hospital in London, said that he was very sorry for committing the offence. However, he also claimed some of his wife's injuries could have been sustained when she fell down the stairs. He was remanded on bail and will be sentenced on July 23. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Gulf Daily News: June King contest at Young Goans
Headline: June King contest at Young Goans Source: Gulf Daily News (Bahrain), Wed. 26 Jun. 2002 at http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Articles.asp?Article=26304&Sn=BNEW MEN of all nationalities are welcome to join the Young Goans Club'ssearch for the June King 2002. The contest will be held tomorrow at the club's premises in Manama, beginning at 8.30pm. Contestants must be at least 15 years old. The first prize will be a mobile phone, second prize a return air ticket to Abu Dhabi, UAE, and the third prize, a VCD. Brian Dias will be the compere for the evening. Entrance is free for members and BD3 for guests. The main sponsor is Gulf Cellar. Co-sponsors are Basma and Alfredo D'Souza and family. Meanwhile, the club's annual Goan Fiesta will be held on July 4, also at its premises. The event, which starts at 8.30pm, is being organised by singers Lucy Fernandes and Fatima Jacques and their troupe. The programme line-up includes a Konkani quiz, a comedy show, a lucky dip, Konkani music, a skit and a fiesta membership draw. Entrance is for members, their families and sponsored guests only. == Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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: Goan doc's work at St Mary's London...
1. Article and photograph of Dr Britto: Goa Today Jan 2002 at http://www.goacom.com/goatoday/2002/jan/spotlight.html Headline: Doctor with a Mission London-based topnotch Goan pediatrician Dr Joseph Britto was down in Goa last month to catalyze the setting up of mobile intensive care units for children in the State. Following his keynote address on Inter-Hospital Transfer of critically ill Children at the 16th Asia Pacific Congress on Diseases of the Chest, he tirelessly played the role of a motivator by driving the players of the paradigm. A Consultant in Pediatric Intensive Care at St Mary's Hospital, London. Dr Britto led a study that found that the death rate of critically ill children referred to the pediatric intensive care unit of major hospitals in the country plummeted from 23 to 2 per cent. An alumnus of Grant Medical College, Mumbai, he offers an internet related clinical decision system via www.isabel.org.uk, which gives relevant differential diagnosis within seconds once one puts in a set of clinical features. 2. Article and photograph of Dr Britto 17 June at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_2049000/2049248.stm 3. The web tool referred to is at http://www.isabel.org.uk/ Understandably, it is available for health professionals only. However, do check the site for information about isabel. Eddie Fernandes == Frederick Noronha writes: > >From IndiaCyberMed mailing list... > > -- Forwarded message -- > > Anyone tried this? > http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7352/1478/c > A paediatric online diagnostic tool called Isabel was launched at the Royal > College of Physicians in London this week. > > The tool has been developed by a charity, also known as Isabel, which was > launched by Charlotte and Jason Maude, whose daughter Isabel almost died > at age 3 years of necrotising fasciitis as a complication of chicken pox, > after it was missed by a series of doctors. The diagnostic tool was set up > with help from paediatric intensive care consultant Joseph Britto at St > Mary's Hospital in London, who helped to save Isabel's life. > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
RE: [Goanet] judeo
-Original Message- From: gilbert menezes Sent: 24 June 2002 03:07 Folks, for possibly hundreds of years, there was a tradition to burn a "Judeo"(made of cloth and stuffed with straw and fireworks) on the feast of Sao Joao , which is today. I think the church was mainly responsible for putting an end to this custom. Does anyone know how this custom originated, and did the judeo signify Judas, or a Jew? regards--Gilbert. *** Source: The Jerusalem Post. 12 July 1995 Headline: India cancels 'antisemitic' festival Text: The Indian government has withdrawn funding from the Christian celebration of Judeo, a local custom which has antisemitic overtones. Judeo is traditionally celebrated on June 23 every year. But the "Clube Nationale" in Panaji, Goa, didn't mark the event this year. Club president Francisco Martins said that several Goan citizens had protested against the celebrations. While pointing out that most people were unaware that the festival was antisemitic, Martins said: "We feel this is a positive step as we do not have anything against the Jews." Judeo's origins go back to Portugal's 450 years of colonial rule over Goa. On the eve of the feast of John the Baptist, a procession would consign a straw-and-cloth effigy to a bonfire amid cheers. Local political sources speculate that India's decision is due to the recent normalization of ties with Israel. *** No idea of the origin of the custom but I gather that it was the practice to burn the effigy with cries of Kill The Jew! This was obviously not PC. It is possible that discreet pressure was brought to bear to end the ceremony perhaps someone in Goa could ask Francisco Martins. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Evening Standard (London): 30 months for teenage drug smuggler.
Headline: 30 months for teenage drug smuggler. Source: Evening Standard (London) 21 June 2002, at: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/top_story.html?in_review_id=61986 9&in_review_text_id=589728 A teenage girl given a 30-month sentence for drug smuggling kept a diary detailing her dreams of love and making a fortune as a courier. The Swedish 15-year-old, from Uppsala, near Stockholm, was arrested as she came through Manchester Airport on April 11, having flown in from Bombay. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty at Manchester Youth Court to importation of 646 grammes of the Class A drug diamorphine - heroin - and was sentenced to 30 months in youth custody. She had been persuaded to act as a courier by "Henry", a 23-year-old Nigerian, who she described in her diary as her "boyfriend", the court heard. It was in this diary that details of her plans to "never have to work in her entire life" were revealed. Brian Cummings, prosecuting, said the girl wrote about the fees she would earn from the "mafia" in India and described her feelings for Henry, whom she had just met. While waiting for her connecting flight from Bombay to Manchester via Zurich she wrote: "Me and Henry will make big money from that one. I miss him like mad". The couple met in September last year after a plan to open a restaurant in Goa with her mother was thrown into disarray by the September 11 terrorist attacks. Peter Wetherby, defending, said "Henry" had dubious connections and had taken advantage of his young client. He said: "She was clearly besotted with Henry and a young, honest and decent girl fell for the lure of romance, easy money and worldwide travel. She did not have a genuine contemplation of the seriousness of it all." === The tabloids tomorrow are likely to carry far more lurid details. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] GOANET-UK Newsletter, Jun. 21 2002: Some highlights
Sonia Fernandes, 27, fleeing from a crazed knifeman was stabbed on the doorstep of the police station in Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire, after finding it was closed at around 7pm on 16 May. She ended up being saved by hairdresser Ian Reijs who leapt on to the knifeman's back, toppling him. She spent two weeks in hospital. A 29-year-old man has been charged with attempted murder. Report (654 words) & photograph in Daily Mail 15 Jun. Merton Goan Senior Citizens' Association celebrated the Queen's Golden Jubilee with music and dancing at the John Innes Youth Centre. Members toasted Her Majesty's health and sang the National Anthem. Wimbledon Guardian 14 Jun. Text and group colour photograph at http://www.wimbledonguardian.co.uk/news/display.var.597928.html The Ulster Hockey Coaches Association rescheduled its workshop last Sunday ... one of world hockey's top coaches, India's Cedric D'Souza, conducted the seminar and many signed up for the occasion. 14 Jun. Belfast Telegraph The Guardian, 17 June, carried the first Western obituary of Francis Newton Souza. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4434936,00.html Peter Fernandes, 36, has been appointed General Manager of Grants of Croydon. Text and photograph at: http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/search/display.html?nwid=593498 >From Rene Barreto: LONDON DAY. You can nominate someone to attend the London Day Evening Reception, to be held on 3 July 2002, by filling in the form at http://www.ntlworld.com/data-feeds/editorial/microsites/londonday/ by Tuesday 25 June In CanIndia News Weekly, 24 May, Eugene Correia has a comprehensive illustrated article on the new Board of the Goan Overseas Association, Toronto. Roque Barreto, the new Chairman, was on the Committee that founded the Association 30 years ago! Neves Menezes was the outgoing Chairman. CanIndia News Weekly, 31 May featured, with photographs, the annual walkathon organised by the Goan Charitable Organization and held at Lakeshore Promenade, Mississauga on Jun. 2. $7,000 was raised and this goes to help the poor in the Community. Alan Bundy, Chairman of the Cricket League has forwarded a proposal to International teams for a cricket tournament in Goa in January/February 2003. It will be known as the Margao Cricket Tournament and played over a period of two weeks. Three grounds in Goa will be used. The tournament will comprise of eight International teams. Full details at http://www.cricket.org/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/CURRENT/018789_ SPCL_18JUN2002.html Portuguese Consul General Vera Maria Fernandes leaves Goa with happy memories. By Cyril DSouza. Her successor is Miguel C. Veloso. Times Of India 19 Jun. 710 words. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=13401813 Goan students in for a PC bonanza. By Sandesh Prabhudesai. Rediff 20 Jun. http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/jun/20goa.htm *** IN THE NEWS: 14 Jun. The Mirror. Sex Demands Made Me Quit Bollywood. British Girls Who Found Dark Side Of India's Dream Factory By Barbara Davies Helen Brodie who once spent her days tending a sausage machine in Safeway was catapulted to superstardom and whisked away to Goa to start filming Monsoon, the Bollywood blockbuster. Full text at: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=11951519&method=full&; siteid=50143 *14 Jun. O Globo (Rio, Brazil). Guildo Antao, the chef at the Natraj serves authentic Goan food. Rain is the only element missing from the décor. http://oglobo.globo.com/arquivo/colunas/20020614/tempero.htm 14 Jun. Press Association. Southwark Crown Court (UK) issued a warrant for the arrest of a high-society drug dealer who claims to be dying after contracting HIV. Old Etonian Quintin Leatham, 39, fled to Goa to die, breaching a probation order, but is thought to have been back in the UK recently In Sept. 2000, The Evening Standard revealed in Sept 2000, that Leathan who is HIV positive and has hepatitis C, was described as a "time bomb" because of the risk of infection to others." http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/top_story.html?in_review_id=31360 3&in_review_text_id=257705 16 Jun. The East African Standard (Nairobi). Few Happy Departures At the Top. By Mathayo Ndekere. With the imminent demise of Moi from Kenyas political scene, Ndekere waxes forth eloquently on the integrity of Joseph Murumbi and of his friend and fellow Goan in the system, Nominated MP Pio Gama Pinto who had served as an armourer of the Mau Mau. Full text at: http://allafrica.com/stories/200206170830.html 17 Jun. Express Computer. World Bank looks to Indian software initiatives to fight poverty. By Frederick Noronha http://www.express-computer.com/20020617/indnews2.shtml 18 Jun. Daily Record (Scotland). Headline: Sun, Sand And Sex Beasts; Rise In Rapes Abroad Sparks Safety Fears. Excerpt: Joeleen Sketchley, 23, of Bournemouth, was gang-raped on a beach in
[Goanet] Cristina Odone spots a sex tourist in Goa
Source: New Statesman (UK), June 10, 2002 Headline: Cristina Odone spots a sex tourist; In Goa, the loner among the hotel guests squats and talks to the boys on the beach reports Cristina Odone BY: Cristina Odone Full Text: As holiday snaps go, it wasn't a happy one. The hotel in Goa was made up of a dozen independent wooden huts overlooking the sea. May is considered off-season, so fewer than half of the huts were occupied. But you couldn't help but get to know your fellow guests, as you bumped into one another in the restaurant and by the pool. But one guest kept resolutely to himself. He was the first to appear for his meals, and had wolfed them down by the time the rest of us reached the restaurant; he never came near the pool; and we could see him lolling about in his sarong on the patio outside his hut. Every now and then, we would see him flagging down some of the beach vendors - young boys selling silver jewellery and wicker baskets - and when they drew near, he would squat and talk to them. Once I saw him hand over a packet of Marlboros to one delighted youth. I asked the manager about him. He shrugged, his expression neutral: 'He's an Englishman. He asks me to change about a hundred sterling every week. We think he's buying favours.' Buying favours is big business in Goa. For decades, western tourists flocked to this region to buy sex with children. It was easy: they didn't need to haunt bordellos or slums. They didn't even need to deal with the 400,000 or so children who, according to a 1994 Unicef study, are involved in India's sex industry. No, in a region where the average annual wage is among the lowest in the world, you can pick up children on the street, as they make their way to school or the fields where they work. And you don't need to worry about their parents turning you in to the authorities, either: many poor Indian families have turned a blind eye to foreign paedophiles molesting their children. Sex can mean survival. Recently, the Goan authorities have been trying to crack down on the whole sordid business: huge billboards warn that sex tourism 'does not guarantee a prosperous future for Goa'. There are no statistics for British sex tourists - Britain has refused to copy Australia, Germany and the US, which have recently passed laws that allow prosecution of child sex tourists upon their return home. But it does seem ironic to think that here, people wish for a Fortress Britain that can keep dirty foreigners out; abroad, they wish for a fortress that would pen dirty Britons in. End of article Cristina Odone, [EMAIL PROTECTED] returned last week from her holiday in Goa. In fact I tried to call her recently but she was then at a lunch party she was hosting. Last Sunday she appeared in the David Frost TV programme. She is Deputy Editor of the New Statesman and is a high profile UK journalist known for her staunch Roman Catholic views. Check some of her articles by doing a search at www.google.com for Cristina Odone. Her portrait is at http://www.npg.org.uk/live/room_detail.asp?mkey=mw15465 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] PTI: Parrikar to take oath as Goa CM on Monday
Press Trust of India Panaji, June 2: BJP legislature party leader Manohar Parrikar will be sworn in as Goa Chief Minister on Monday after his party, which has emerged as the single largest group, secured the crucial support of regional allies Maharashtravadi Gomantak Party (MGP) and the United Goa Democratic Party (UGDP) and scampered to majority in the 40-member Assembly polls which produced a fractured verdict. Parrikar was on Sunday invited to form government after he met Governor Mohamad Fazal along with four MLAs of MGP and the UGDP taking the total strength of BJP, which has 17 MLAs and is the largest single group, and its allies to 22, including an Independent, one more than majority mark. The MLAs of MGP and UGDP told reporters that they have extended support to BJP to form a coalition government in the state. Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party's Sudin Dhavlikar said he along with party MLA P. Madkaikar has submitted a memorandum to the Governor declaring support to a BJP-led government. Dhavlikar was the chairman of the Economic Development Corporation of Goa in the Parrikar's 17-month-old government. UGDP's Mickey Pacheco, a recruiting agent, said his party has extended an unconditional support to the BJP-led government. It will be a coalition government, he said adding party's another MLA Babush Monserrate was also present at the Raj Bhavan with him to assure full support to Parrikar. === Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Parrikar drives to Raj Bhavan to stake claim to form the government
Parrikar elected Goa Legislature party leader; stakes claim PTI Mumbai, June 1 Caretaker Goa Chief Minsiter Manohar Parrikar was unanimously elected leader of legislature wing of BJP which on Saturday emerged as the single largest party bagging 17 seats in the 40-member assembly. The newly elected party MLAs held a meeting in Panaji after the results of the May 31 assembly election were announced. Parrikar later drove to Raj Bhavan to stake his claim to form the government, though the party failed to muster the absolute majority, party spokesperson Subhash Salkar told PTI. The party contention was that since it has emerged as the single largest party it should be allowed to form the next government. The BJP MLAs at the meeting authorised Parrikar to hold talks with all non-Congress party MLAs to solicit their support for the next government. MGP-UGDP has bagged five seats, independent Philip supported by BJP-NCP bagged one seat. Party sources claimed that UGDP "was willing to support a BJP government" since there were several chief ministerial aspirants in the Congress paving way for potential instability. === Don't forget - you saw it on Goa-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 !!
RE: [Goanet] Goa Assembly Election Result - Congress likely to win
Thank, Cip. One result still to come: Valpoi Constituency Last time round Venkatesh Desai (Congress) won with 4177 votes Runner-up Narahari Haldankar (BJP) polled 3323 votes Both are standing again so the odd are on Congress to win and to have the first crack at forming the next Government. The real election winner was Sandesh Prabudesai with http://www.goanews.com even though he let his BJP sympathies show through a few times. His coverage was quicker and more accurate than the Navhind Times or Herald. Eddie -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of C Fernandes Sent: 01 June 2002 09:58 To: Goanet Subject: [Goanet] Goa Assembly Election Result Election Result as show on http://www.goanews.com/ RESULTS IN DETAIL IT'S HUNG ONCE AGAIN BJP- 16, Cong- 16, UGDP- 3, NCP- 1, MGP-2, Ind - 1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Rudy Otter on The UK Asian Chaplaincy. From The Universe.
I am forwarding Ciril de Quadros post as he had problems doing so. Your attention is drawn to the plight of the nurses here in the UK who have been recruited from India. Ciril is attempting to obtain more details. Eddie Fernandes. This is an article which appeared in 28th April issue of the Catholic weekly 'THE UNIVERSE', which I felt would be of interest to Goans everywhere, and especially those based in the UK. The Asian Chaplaincy quarterly magazine 'CONTACT' as mentioned in the article provides a good mixture of interesting stories, cooking recipes, pilgrimages, matrimonials etc. For info please get in touch with Fr Oliver at [EMAIL PROTECTED] best wishes Ciril de Quadros Raia & Slough = Article for The Universe . by Rudy Otter "I wish," said Fr Oliver Antao of the UK's Asian Chaplaincy, "that we could have a place of our own. I'd like to set up an advice centre -- this is our most pressing need." We were sitting in a small basement office at St Augustine's Priory, Hammersmith, insulated by two doors from the rumble of Fulham Palace Road's incessant traffic. As we spoke, Fr Oliver's secretary, Olga Carvalho, a volunteer worker, took a stream of calls from people wanting to renew their £5 annual subscriptions for the Asian Chaplaincy's quarterly magazine, Contact, which goes to 2,000 people across the world, who in turn, widen its circulation by passing it on to an estimated 8,000 readers.. Many callers asked to see 33-year-old Fr Oliver privately for his advice on marital or family problems, or wanted to invite him to this or that event. The office is crammed with bookshelves displaying such titles as Prayer for World Peace, Our Lady of Massabielle, Jesus of Nazareth and the Catholic Directory. It also houses an altar, a donated computer, filing cabinets, and a couple of chairs for visitors. There are more religious books stored in a cabinet in the narrow passageway leading up to ground level. Rented from St Augustine's at £225 a month, the accommodation includes use the church and church hall to hold the chaplaincy's monthly English and Konkani (Goan language) services, and for the congregation to meet socially afterwards. The Asian Chaplaincy started life in the early 1980s when the late Cardinal Basil Hume felt there was a need for such an organisation to help integrate the then influx of refugees from Burma, India, Pakistan, Malaysia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka into British society. Refugees needed help and advice with securing jobs and accommodation as well as social matters, and the Asian Chaplaincy, founded by Fr Arthur Moraes in its former premises in Victoria, central London, "played a tremendous role in fulfilling those needs," said Fr Oliver. Fr Oliver took over the Asian Chaplaincy in August 2001 from Fr Andrew Fernandes (who had succeeded Fr Anthony Furtado) and served seven years in the post, moving to Purley, Surrey, as assistant parish priest to help spread the Christian message in local schools. In his farewell message in Contact, Fr Andrew wrote that running the Asian Chaplaincy was a "very important chapter in my life, spiritually and socially...a bewildering mixture of joy and sad moments." A total of £4,000 a year is contributed by Westminster and Southwark dioceses to help fund the Asian Chaplaincy, which continues to look after Asian immigrants' needs. Money is also raised through Asian Chaplaincy's pilgrimages which this year will span Fatima, Bruges, Knock, Paris's Rue du Bac, Beauraing in Belgium, Krakow in Poland, Kevelaer in Germany and Aylesford. Raffles and bring-and-buy sales held in Hammersmith help boost funds, although one of the main source of income is the magazine 'CONTACT', which is edited and produced by Francisco D'Souza who has a printing business. One of the volunteers, Michael Lobo, comes in to help computerise the chaplaincy's manual records. Previously a redundant accountant, he decided to keep in touch with the working world and offered his services free to Fr Oliver. Now he is back in an accountancy job but still pops in to help. Fr Oliver's duties include going to Liverpool and Southampton once a month to hold Masses in English for Asian Christian ship workers, as well as to Swindon where there is a large Asian community, for Konkani Masses. He also attends meetings with around 20 other ethnic religious communities every three months to exchange ideas and experiences. He is looking forward to the 17th annual multi-cultural mass on May 26, followed by a party in which various Asian countries will provide ethnic fare, complete with singing and dancing entertainment. Fr Oliver, an accomplished singer, is expected to join in the fun. One of the chaplaincy's commitments is to work towards a "better and fuller integration of
RE: [Goanet] Goan Scientist Shines in USA
Seby,
Check out People Magazine, 15 Apr. 2002 for the article and photographs.
Also check:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&q=Pocketpaks+D%27Souza&btnG=Google+Search
Eddie
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>From GoaNet-UK weekly newsletter Issue 2002-15. Apr. 12, 2002 at
www.goacom.com/goanet-uk
15 April. People Magazine. Dr Richard W. D'Souza wasn't up for an award on
Oscar night. But he became one of the evening's big winners after Sandra
Bullock stopped for a television interview on the red carpet, held up a
package of the Cool Mint Listerine PocketPaks D'Souza invented, and
announced, "I love these!" Inspired in 1996 by an edible paper he had seen
in Japan, D'Souza, a Pfizer vice president who immigrated to the U.S. from
Pakistan in 1978, spent 18 months with a team of dozens of scientists
creating the strip. "First it stuck to the roof of our mouths," he says.
"Then it was too brittle, and at times it was so strong people's eyes would
tear up." Today D'Souza, 47 lives in Randolph, N.J., with his homemaker
wife, Venetia, 46, son Russell, 17, and fraternal twins Adrian and Alicia,
16. Full text at:
http://people.aol.com/people/magazine/tableofcontents/0,10713,,00.html
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of Bradley n Clive
Sent: 19 May 2002 04:18
To: GoaNet
Subject: [Goanet] Goan Scientist Shines in USA
If anyone has more details please do share but here is
what I just found out.
Richard W. D'souza, { who is a Goan origin } and
migrated to the US, from Pakistan in 1978, invented
the Cool Mint Listerine Pocketpaks and lauched it in
October 2001.
Pocketpaks has become the fastest selling mouth
freshner generating more than $100 million in sales.
D'souza was the VP of Pfizer.
D'souza lives in New Jersey with his wife Venetia, son
Russell and fraternal twins Adrian & Alicia.
D'souza is also nicknamed as " Cool Dad "
Seby Mascarenhas
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Maryland, USA.
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Re: [Goanet] Goa's Central Library sans computers -- DigITal Goa's cover story
From: "Niraj Naik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The Central Library of Goa ... is untouched by the Information Technology revolution... The successive governments' have shown scant regard towards modernising this biggest resource of information in the state. I wonder if the article by Niraj Naik was written before the PTI announcement - see below: From: The Hindu 11 May. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/02111807.htm Electronic libraries in 10 states. New Delhi, May 11. (PTI): The Centre will soon set up electronic libraries, which remain open round-the-clock to help decrease the digital divide, in remote areas of the 10 states, which have enacted library legislation, Minister for Culture and Tourism Jagmohan said today. The pilot project of the Rs 200 crore proposal to establish 18950 Electronic Doorway Libraries (EDL) all over the country will be started in the "10 states which have a Library Act and will be funded by the Centre," Jagmohan said at a seminar on 'Electronic Libraries in Rural India' here. Electronic libraries, currently non-existent in rural region, have documents in digital, soft copy of electronic form that is video/audio recordings, multi-media computer files, full text databases etc and is Internet-based. Jagmohan said the Centre will allocate more funds for the 'li brary movement' adding that he has asked all the MPs to set aside Rs 15-20 lakhs from Rs one crore MPLAD scheme for setting up libraries in their respective constituencies. Library facilities in the 10 states - Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Manipur, Kerala, Haryana, Mizoram and Goa - are inadequate, Developing Library Network (DELNET) Director H K Kaul said. Each EDL would offer access to local level information in local languages and Government generated information apart from the general content on health, education, law, agriculture and small scale industries, he added. The country has only one library for every 16,000 people when the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions prescribe one for every 3,000, Kaul said. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] UK Xacutti and other snippets...Survey!
Please respond to the Survey! Please let goanet-admin know if you prefer to have news items: a. in summary format as below b. in full format as individual items posted on GoaNet and GoaNet Digest c. if you would prefer not to have any news posted to this list. d. Indicate any other preferences you may have: Reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not to GoaNet. Thank you. .. The Observer 12 May 2002 at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4409283,00.html Headline: It's curry, but not as we know it. By: Geraldine Bedell. 4201 words. Excerpts: .In the last half-century, curry has become more traditionally English than English breakfast. Robin Cook believes that chicken tikka masala is now our national dish. It was entirely fitting that David Beckham celebrated scoring the goal that qualified England for the World Cup at Manchester's Shimla Pinks, with what we are told is 'his favourite' chicken korma. .Waitrose has been selling a Goan dish called Xacutti for about three years. You might have found this in one of the very few restaurants specialising in Goan food (such as Cyrus Todiwala's Cafe Spice Namaste at Aldgate East and Battersea) but never in your local curry house. [Note: Waitrose is a UK Supermarket chain, part of the John Lewis Department Stores group. Xacutti has been on sale at the delicatessen counter in a few of their stores for about five years now.] .. San Francisco Chronicle 12 May. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/05/12/IN.DTL Excerpt: .During the Gulf War a decade ago, Iraq might have found it easier to have won acceptance for its view of the invasion of Kuwait as a post-colonial vindication, analogous to India's capture of Goa. .. Khaleej Times (Dubai) 7 May. Headline: Goa beckons Arab tourists with monsoon packages. 597 words. Full text at: http://www.khaleejtimes.co.ae/ktarchive/070502/uae.htm#story6 Excerpts: Goa is making a big presence at this year's Arabian Travel Market (ATM) as part of its aggressive campaign to woo tourists from the Middle East.the Goan delegation of tourism officials, hoteliers and travel trade professionals will be offering information and conducting networking with the regional players. Nearly 20,000 Arabs, including UAE nationals, visited Goa last year .Goa is not a place, but a way of life. Goa has opened its doors to NRIs for investments as well. A Canada-based NRI has recently approached us to set up a Sentosa Island-style facility in Goa. . THE Hindu 11 May. Electronic libraries in 10 states. http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/02111807.htm New Delhi, May 11. (PTI): The Centre will soon set up electronic libraries, Minister for Culture and Tourism Jagmohan said today. The pilot project of the Rs 200 crore proposal to establish 18950 Electronic Doorway Libraries (EDL) all over the country will be started in the "10 states which have a Library Act and will be funded by the Centre.Library facilities in the 10 states - Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Manipur, Kerala, Haryana, Mizoram and Goa - are inadequate, Developing Library Network (DELNET) Director H K Kaul said.The country has only one library for every 16,000 people when the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions prescribe one for every 3,000. . Deccan Herald. 12 May. Headline: Behind the sun & sand: Goa is much more than sea, sand and spirits. The place has an identity of its own, jealously guarded by its people, writes Viswas D Paul Karra. 943 words. Full text at: http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may12/sh6.htm . Times of India 11 May. Headline: Goa in the throes of major water crisis. 947 words. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_Id=9499144 . 8 May Agência Lusa (Portuguese). Headline: Goa - Igreja católica apela para rejeição de candidatos fundamentalistas hindus. 302 words . Canadian NewsWire May 10. Headline: Teen Science Projects Show Promise. 1011 words. http://www.newswire.ca/releases/May2002/10/c4263.html Excerpts: Crystal Pinto, an OAC student at Francis Libermann Catholic High School in Toronto, has won the $5,000 first prize in this year's Aventis Biotech Challenge (ABC).the ABC Intermediate competition for Grade 9 and 10 students was won by Kory Benvenuto-Whitman, Rohit Barreto, Sara Dolcetti and Priscilla Mendonca of St. Elizabeth Catholic High School for their project on reducing micro-organisms commonly found in hamburger meat. . Gulf News (Dubai) 12 May at http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=50761 Excerpt: UAE Xchange (Chinchinim) won their match against Kerala Boys in the ongoing Panasonic Gold Cup Expatriate football tournament. The match was closely fought as both teams had international players from Goa and Kerala in their respective sides. .. Gulf News (Dubai) 12 May at h
[Goanet] "Free" Indian Mangoes in the UK
Headline: Indian flavours for Britain, this time it's free mangoes By: Sanjay Suri (IANS) Source: Hindustan Times 11 May at http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/110502/dlfor23.asp London, May 11 --- After a deluge of Bollywood and cricket from India, London residents are in for a tangy treat -- they are due to eat about five tonnes of free mangoes by this weekend. The mangoes have been brought over by India's Agricultural and Processed Food Products Export Development Authority (APEDA) to promote the fruit to coincide with the promotion of Bollywood films and cricket already under way. "We are distributing the mangoes to several upmarket Indian restaurants and to the Selfridges department store," APEDA secretary DB Sabbarwal told IANS. Under the promotion, APEDA is distributing about 400-500 kg of mangoes to Selfridges, which is hosting a Bollywood festival, and to 11 Indian outlets that will be offering mangoes free to customers until May 12. The four-day promotion began May 9. "Some of the restaurants are also making special mango dishes and serving them complimentary to customers to promote Indian mangoes," Sabbarwal said. But it is Selfridges that has made the most of the mango delivery. They got about half a tonne of mangoes free from APEDA, but instead of distributing freely, decided to sell them. The fruit, mostly Alphonso mangoes, are being sold by the store at £1.25 each. But APEDA has no plans to charge Selfridges for the mangoes it gave them for free. "The idea had been free distribution to promote the mangoes," Sabbarwal said. That Selfridges chose to sell them "is still promotion of Indian mangoes." The mango promotion is part of a promotion of Indian food in Britain, Reena Pandey, commercial counsellor in the Indian High Commission in London, said at the launch of the mango festival Thursday. "Of every one pound spent on food in Britain 30 pennies are spent on curry," she said. "We'll be very happy to see those pennies go further." APEDA has already held mango festivals in Dubai, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Kuwait. After London, APEDA will launch its last mango festival of the season in the German city of Frankfurt. Europe is the second biggest market for Indian mangoes after the United Arab Emirates. About 10,000 tonnes of Indian mangoes are sold in the European Union every year. That's too little, APEDA believes. Britain has been identified as a promising market to boost sale of exotic mangoes from India. By exotic is meant fibreless mangoes, Sabbarwal said. India produces about half the world's mangoes. World production is about 10 million tonnes a year. Alphonso mangoes are currently selling at about £6 a dozen. A meal at an upmarket restaurant costs at least £20 per head. Hardly worth going there especially for a free mango. Nor is it worth buying them from Selfridges. On the other hand we can discuss if they should be called Alphonse! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] Goa Police: Forthcoming UK TV Programme
>From Goanet-UK Weekly Newsletter 10 May 2002 issue: Tue. 14 May. Channel 4 TV. 11:40pm to 12:05am. Tourist Police: Goa. Law enforcers who have to deal with troublesome holidaymakers. Tony from London, Mark from Manchester and Head Constable Pollyeka are all on the hunt for illegal raves on the Goan beaches. Meanwhile, during daylight hours, police patrol the beaches trying to persuade female sunbathers to put their tops back on. For the complete picture see www.goacom.com/goanet-uk =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] FT: Pat Buchanan replies to Dinesh D'Souza
The letter below is a response to Dinesh D'Souza's "lecture" which can be
found at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goanet/message/20971
Headline: Missing the meaning of being American
Source: Financial Times; May 7, 2002
By PATRICK BUCHANAN
Sir, In his lecture to the French on how to deal with Arab immigration
("The melting pot's lesson for France", May 1), Dinesh D'Souza helps us to
understand why, in his student editor days at Dartmouth, he was known as
"Distorta Da Newsa".
D'Souza calls me a "nativist", a reference to the Know-Nothing party of
the 1850s, which violently resented Irish Catholic immigrants. Can he not
know that I am myself of proud Irish-Catholic immigrant descent?
He claims that I charge immigrants with "corrupting American values". But
in my book The Death of the West, the only immigrants I accuse of
undermining American values are the Cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt
School. My summary view is stated on page 143: "Most of the people who come
to America, whether from Mexico or Mauritania, are good people, decent
people. They seek the better life our ancestors sought when they came. They
come to work; they obey our laws; they cherish our freedoms; they relish
the opportunities the greatest nation on earth has to offer."
My concerns about present immigration are these. First, it is huge and
increasingly lawless. There are 8m-11m illegal aliens in the US today.
Second, this giant wave of immigrants is coming from countries and cultures
whose people have never before been assimilated into any First World
nation. We need time to do this. That is why I urge a moratorium on
immigration, such as America had from 1924 to 1965.
D'Souza, who hails from India, believes that America is about "making
money". He calls America "fundamentally a commercial society". Yet, as
Alexander Solzhenitsyn writes: "Nations are the wealth of mankind, they are
its generalised personalities: the smallest of them has its own particular
colours and embodies a particular facet of God's design."
Solzhenitsyn was speaking about France and the America I grew up in, a
country that people like D'Souza would convert into a commercial mall for
all mankind, what Teddy Roosevelt called a "polyglot boarding house for the
world". Anyone who could write what D'Souza wrote does not know what it
means to be an American.
Patrick J. Buchanan, McLean, Virginia 22101, US
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[Goanet] Tourism in Goa hit by Gujarat violence
Headline: Tourism in Goa hit by Gujarat violence Source: Hindustan Times 7 May 2002 at http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/070502/dlnat10.asp By: KSR Menon (PTI) Dubai, May 7 Hit by Gujarat violence and fighting in Afghanistan, Goa is planning roadshows in the Gulf countries to attract Arab tourists, a senior Tourism officials said. "Fifteen percent of domestic tourists to Goa are from Gujarat and there has been a dip in arrivals from the trouble-torn state recently", Goa Tourism Director, N Suryanarayana told PTI. The roadshow, organised to promote Goa tourism, to Arabs who may find it attractive to travel eastward in view of the tighter security checks on Arabs and Asians in the Western countries, he said attending the Arabian travel market exhibition here. Chartered tourist flights recorded 40 per cent drop after September last year but was showing signs of revival", Joao Xavier Miranda, Director, of Cicerone Air Transport Services, Margoa, has said. Suryanarayana said foreign tourist arrivals fell at least ten per cent last year down from three lakhs in 2000-2001 to 2.65 lakhs the next year. Even though, Goa was more than 2500 kms away from Afghanistan, many foreign tourists dropped plans to visit the state fearing security problems. ** >From Gulf News 7 May: Headline: Tourist arrivals decline in India Excerpt: Tour operators, airlines and hotel managers say religious violence in the western state of Gujarat state has prompted many to cancel holidays. Full text at: http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Articles.asp?Article=22474&Sn=BUSI ** Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
Re: [Goanet] O Heraldo's (?) Raul quotes Eddie & Jose re: Dabolim(:-?)
Dear Jose, Thanks for bringing to bringing to light the Herald article. However, I do not agree with you on taking issue with Raul for not signing the article. Policy with regard to this will vary from one newspaper to another. Even within a newspaper it varies according to the status of the writer and other factors. Journalists will generally prefer to sign their articles except when they are criticising goons and politicians because then they risk life and limb. They have my sympathy for having to operate in an intimidating environment. However, the article you have reproduced highlights two contentious issues: 1. The article was largely based on a posting I made to GoaNet. No acknowledgement was made of this source. If I quote an article from the Herald or New York Times, I not only give the name of the writer (when it is provided!) but also quote the name of the publication. The electronic discussion lists are free resources and need publicity, particularly in the print media. Neither GoaNet nor your website are named in the article. Is it too much to expect? 2. The consistent practice of the Goa journalists to copy works from elsewhere and pass it off as their own. In this case I had not only quoted you but also given the url of your website. This was dropped from the article. I had provided the information about the Daily Telegraph survey and I had posted the data about the Condor flights to GoaNet a few days earlier. A quick check of the article revealed: Length of article: 989 words Attributed to me: 135 words My contribution: 397 words I am copying below my posting of 19 March 2002 to GoaNet. Eddie Fernandes From: "Eddie Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Frederick Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 2:16 PM Subject: [Goanet] Re: NEWS: Goa's lone airport, Dabolim, trying to flap its wings The main problem is, as Fred points out, the narrow slots granted for civilian use at Dabolim leading to congestion. However, Charter flight passengers have additional problems. ARRIVALS: Immigration procedures are bureaucratic and painfully slow. The serpentine queue stretches not only in front of the counters but also up the stairs, along the corridors, down the stairs and on to the tarmac. Inching one's way in the blazing sun when over-dressed and with hand luggage is no pleasure after a gruelling 10-hour overnight flight. Since all tourists have provided full details when applying for visas, why can't the system be computerised so that the particulars are shared with Immigration officials on arrival? Currently each passenger has to fill in a lengthy form. This is meticulously checked, by an Immigration official, line by line against the passport. The Passport is then stamped but later checked by another Immigration official. With a computerised system all that should be necessary is the visa number. The Baggage reclaim procedure is chaotic with the luggage haphazardly split in two areas. The porters and taxi drivers are aggressive in touting for business. DEPARTURES Charter flight passengers are expected to check in AT LEAST THREE HOURS before departure. Most of the flights are at weekends and the departure lounge cannot cope with the 1000+ passengers for several flights. The waiting room resembles the refugee camp of a riot torn city. It is impossible to find seating so people squat on the floor and obstruct the movement of others. The toilets are inadequate and the sole topic of conversation is how bad conditions are. === Dr Jose Colaco wrote: - see: http://www.colaco.net/1/passage.htm As we stepped out on to the Dabolim tarmac in the gentle December sun, we were signaled to stop by a set of rather shabbily attired policemen. We waited patiently in order to allow an Indian Airlines Airbus to depart. Then...it was time to march on with our khattli-pottlis to clear Immigration & Customs. The less written about the Immigration & the Baggage collection area, the better. What a shabby welcome at an airport which serves as a portal to some of the most widely advertised tourism stop in India. Goa's Dabolim airport could easily outclass any Third World airport as the Very Worst! End of quote. === It is the very worst, Dr Colaco! Last year the Daily Telegraph (UK) conducted a Travel Survey. Readers were asked for their nominations in a number of categories. The results were published in the issue of 20 October 2001. Travel Awards. Best airport in the world: Singapore. Worst airport in the world: Goa. Eddie Fernandes =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing
[Goanet] New York Times: Goa Portuguesa, Bombay: Restaurant Review
Headline: A Bombay Mosaic From Around India Source: New York Times 5 May 2002 at http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/travel/05TAB.html?pagewanted=2 Goa Portuguesa The state of Goa, south of Bombay, on India's Malabar coast, is a former Portuguese colony; its cuisine encompasses Portuguese dishes, such as caldo verde (vegetable soup) but is also characterized by strong flavors (fiery vindaloo is Goan) and tropical notes, such as lots of coconut. It also makes exuberant use of many New World ingredients such as cashews that first entered India through the port of Goa. This splendid Goan restaurant is about 10 miles from the heart of tourist Bombay, halfway to the airport, and our midweek dinner there on the way to our night flight made a delicious and diverting farewell to the city. There was hardly anyone in the brightly lighted dining room with a tropical theme (a second room, with bar, is entered through a passageway). But a roving guitarist in flowered shirt and straw hat, and a television set, suggested that a busier night might be a three-ring circus. We were coddled by a pleasant staff in loose shirts and sarongs. The menu (or menus, including a children's menu, a South Indian menu and a Goan menu, which we stuck to) is a long page-turner. There is also a wide choice of exotic cocktails and the same handful of Indian wines we'd met elsewhere. Goan food can be fiery, but our pomfret curry, in a rich, red coconut-based gravy, served with lots of rice, was mild and flavorful. We each had two magnificent tiger prawns, rubbed in spices, grilled and beautifully moist. The three sauces presented with them (garlic butter, a Portuguese brown sauce and a Goan masala) seemed like gilding the lily. But cashew coconut suke, in which soft strips of coconut are delicately spiced and sautéed with tomatoes and green onions, was outstanding. A moist dark jaggery cake tasted deliciously of raw sugar (jaggery), and the Goan classic sweet, bibinca, was a wonderful sticky multilayer cake made with coconut and banana. This was a restaurant to return to again and again, we decided, to savor its layers of flavor. Like the bibinca. Like Bombay itself. Prices, at 50 Indian rupees to the dollar, are for a meal for two, without drinks except where noted. With the exception of Goa Portuguesa, the restaurants are all in downtown Bombay. For additional restaurants and tips on getting around, look for an excellent guidebook, "Bombay Indian Travel Guide," by Farah Baria, a local journalist, published by Kamlesh Shah in Bombay. [List of restaurant reviewed in article:] Khyber Restaurant, 145, Mahatma Gandhi Road, Fort; (91-22) 2673227 or 2673228, fax (91-22) 2673122. Open daily for lunch and dinner. Meal for two with a bottle of Indian wine, about $55. Reservations are recommended. Trishna Restaurant and Bar, Birla Mansion, Sai Baba Marg, Kala Ghoda, Fort; (91-22) 2614991 or 2703213. Lunch and dinner served daily. Meal for two with a bottle of Indian wine about $60. Reservations recommended. Samrat, Prem Court, J. Tata Road, Churchgate; (91-22) 2820022 or 2820942, fax (91-22) 2825811. Lunch and dinner served daily. Meal for two, $7. Reservations recommended, especially on weekends. Britannia and Company Restaurant, Wakefield House, 11 Sprott Road, 16, Ballar Estate (Pier); (91-22) 2615264. Open for lunch, snacks and drinks Monday through Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., but lunch only 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Closed Sunday. No reservations or credit cards. Meal for two about $4.50. Goa Portuguesa, Kataria Road (Shivaji Park), near Hinduja Hospital and opposite post office, Mahin; (91-22) 4440202 or 4440707. Lunch and dinner. Meal for two with a bottle of Indian wine, about $46. Reservations are recommended. = Dont forget you saw it on GoaNet! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Goa's NRI Facilitation Centre
Headline: NRIs expect something real from facilitation centre Source Navhind Times Sunday 5 May 2002 at: http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=05058&session_ID=6983fab71c44ab87e97f799eb1ea2a2e By A Staff Reporter PANAJI, May 4: Setting-up of a NRI Goa Facilitation Centre by the present Goa government has met with a mixed response, with Goan NRIs seeking genuine concrete decisions arising from this cell instead of mere assurances on paper. The NRI Goa Facilitation Centre was established by the present government on August 15, 2001, with a view to strengthening the cultural roots of Goans residing or working abroad and mobilising their resources and talents for the development of the state. The NRI Goa cell in its recent meeting on Thursday, May 2, at the EDC House, Panaji received the following suggestions from the twenty odd NRIs attending the meet. The compilation of a Directory of NRI Goans residing or working in the Gulf and Western countries and the vigorous expansion of a membership drive to include NRI Goans through the help of Goan associations abroad. The services of talented NRI Goan professionals in the fields of medicine, engineering, architecture, etc could be utilised for the development and progress of the state when these professionals decide to settle down in their homeland. Besides, schemes of providing insurance cover, housing plots through the Housing Corporation to the NRI Goan members and their families are being deliberated upon, informed the NRI Goa Facilitation Centre chairperson, Mr Chandrakant Keni. The NRI Goa cell has also proposed certain projects it intends to implement with the aid of the government and various Goan associations abroad, like the establishment of an Old Aged Hospice, a working womens hostel and a Hospital. While such beneficial schemes and projects are welcomed by the NRI Goans, they criticise the lack of implementation of these schemes/projects in the interest of the Goans residing/working abroad and their families. Mr Aires Rodrigues, a former NRI returned to his roots, said that such schemes or projects remain merely on paper with lack of implementation by the government. He strongly denounced all the governments who headed the state, (including the present) of simply boasting of their achievements but not initiating any action in the genuine interest of the community. = I do wonder at the optimism of being able to compile a Directory of Overseas Goans. A couple of years ago I was involved in such a project to produce a Directory of UK Goans. It was decided to launch the scheme at the UK Goan Festival, which is attended by about 3,000 Goans. 1,000 forms were printed asking for brief details of each person and handed by winsome young lasses to those arriving. A travel firm offered free two weeks holiday accommodation in Goa for the winner of the free prize draw. The MC at the event continually cajoled those attending to fill in the forms. At the end of the day, the total number of completed forms handed in was nil :-( Eddie Fernandes =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Nairobi: Dr. Ribeiro Goan School /Parklands School ex-students
I have been asked to publicise the information below. Please forward this message to anyone you know who is likely to be affected. Thanks, Eddie Fernandes >From Mr. Z. Malik of the Dr. Ribeiro Goan School Ex-Students. P O Box 40713, Nairobi, Kenya. Fax 332796 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Ex Student Re: Parklands Secondary School Nairobi (Formerly Dr. Ribeiro Goan School) I am writing to you in regard to our old school and to the suggestion that the Parklands School reverts the name bearing Dr. Ribeiro's name. There is the desire on the part of members of the Board to revert to the previous name. This desire corresponds to the aim of giving due credit in general to the initial owners/sponsors and managers of the school, (i.e. the Goan Overseas Association); and in particular to the major donor the late Dr. A.R. Ribeiro. I would be grateful if you could kindly consult members of your club or society, members of the Goan Community and especially former students of the above school. Please send your proposals for a name to me. Please note that the final decision regarding the change of name will be made by the Ministry of Education. Also, kindly note that there is a decree prohibiting the use of tribal or community names for educational or social institutions. In adition the change of name will not imply any change in the current ownership, sponsorship nor management of the school. The best possible suggestion for the name is that the school be named Dr. Ribeiro Secondary School. I would like you to circulate this letter to as many of the ex-students worldwide as you are aware of with a request for all written proposals to be sent to me by or before 31st May 2002, so that I can place the matter before the next meeting of the Board of Governors sometimes in the second half of June. With best wishes Yours very sincerely Zahir Malik (year 1947) [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] San Jose Mercury News: Indian jet crashes into office building
Headline: Indian jet crashes into office building AIR FORCE PILOTS EJECT SAFELY, BUT AT LEAST 8 ARE KILLED By Sandeep Sharma Associated Press EXCERPT: AMRITSAR, India -- An Indian air force jet crashed into a bank building in northwestern India today, starting a fire that killed at least eight people and injured 20. The Soviet-made MiG-21 nose-dived into the two-story building in the Basti Adda neighborhood of Jullundur, a witness told the Associated Press. The building and two adjacent houses caught fire. Full text at: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/3189209.htm =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Dinesh DSouza: Assimilation of immigrants in the West.
Dinesh DSouza has been in the news this week. He has just had a new book published 'What's So Great About America,' (Regnery, April 2002). The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. carried a review. See: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0426/p11s01-coop.html For more info about the book or for DSouzas biodata and photograph, go to http://www.dineshdsouza.com/ More photographs of him are at: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Dinesh+D%27Souza&btnG=Google+Search ... Dinesh DSouza has written a provocative article in the 30 Apr. issue of Financial Times (UK) entitled European countries struggling to assimilate immigrants should look to the US for ways to minimise ethnic tensions. Full text: The uproar over Jean-Marie Le Pen in Europe has most Americans intrigued but not worried. America has its own Le Pen. He is the author, television personality and sometime presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan. Unlike Mr Le Pen, however, Mr Buchanan commands the support of only about 1 per cent of the American people. The reason for this is that the US has found a more successful model for dealing with immigrants than most European countries. The French, in particular, can learn a lot from the US's way of attracting people from all over the world and then allowing them to "become American". "Becoming American" is, I admit, a strange concept. Many countries would find the very idea incomprehensible. For instance, an American could come to my native country of India and live there for 30 years. He could even take Indian citizenship. But he could not, in any meaningful sense, "become Indian". You become Indian by being born in India to Indian parents. By contrast, millions of people have come to the US over the years and they have become Americans. This process takes time: in some cases assimilation does not happen until the second or third generation. This was true of the Irish, the Italians and the Jews who came to America a century ago and it is also true of the Koreans, the Pakistanis and the West Indians who come to America today. The reason why assimilation works is that America has a common culture that is not defined ethnically and is, in principle, open to all. In addition, America has found a formula for deflecting ethnic consciousness and steering the energies of people towards something else. That something else is commerce. America is fundamentally a commercial society. The only "right" mentioned in the original constitution prior to the addition of the Bill of Rights is the right to patents and copyrights. The American Founders did not want to import into their new nation the religious and ethnic battles that had divided and nearly destroyed Europe. Drawing on the teachings of John Locke, they arrived at a novel solution: to focus the daily lives of citizens not on denominational controversy or ancestral disputes but on bettering their condition and making money. The American approach is expressed in Samuel Johnson's remark: "Men are never as harmlessly occupied as when they are getting money." The basic logic is that people who are saving to make an addition to their kitchen, who are planning for the weekend or for their annual holiday, who are watching their port-folios, are not going to waste their time duelling over religion or ethnicity, or over whether someone else's ancestors wronged their ancestors. Of course, this portrait is somewhat idealised. Racial and religious tensions do erupt in America. Many African-Americans feel excluded from the top echelons of commerce and their activists want financial reparations for historical wrongs. Still, the commercial experiment in America continues to work remarkably well. Look at New York City. It is a place teeming with racial, religious, linguistic, stylistic and even moral diversity. One might expect it to be a cauldron of conflict. In reality it is a peaceful and prosperous place. A second reason for America's success is that it is a merit-based society in which who you are is much less important than what you can do. Another way to put this is that Americans usually judge people, as Martin Luther King put it, "not by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character". Once again, I am not suggesting that this American ideal is always respected in practice. Discrimination is a reality - but what distinguishes America is the supreme effort that the country has made to reduce the scope of nepotism and discrimination and to increase the scope of opportunity and merit. Mr Buchanan and his fellow nativists allege that the US has too many immigrants. They say that immigrants take the jobs of native-born Americans because they are willing to do the same job for less. This is undoubtedly true but America's low un-employment rate shows there is plenty of work for everyone. Moreover, the relatively cheap labour of immigrants allows consumers to benefit from cheaper products. American
[Goanet] Indo-Portuguese-Canadian film project with a Goan backdrop
Headline: Week-long Canadian film festival from May 9. Press Trust of India. 30 April 2002 New Delhi, Apr 30 (PTI) A week-long festival of Canadian cinema, showcasing films made by directors of South Asian origin and others, opens here next week. The festival, organised by the Canadian High Commission and the Indo-Canadian Films International will open on May 9 with Indian born Nisha Pahuja's debut film 'Bollywood Bound', Gautam Hooja, president of Indo-Canadian Films International said on Tuesday. The festival was an attempt to bring Indo-Candian ties closer through the medium of cinema, he told reporters at a media preview of the festival. "Canada and India are on the verge of signing a co-production treaty and the Information Minister, Mrs Sushma Swaraj has been very positive about it," he said. The treaty, if signed, would allow exchange of talent and technical expertise by both countries. Canada has signed such treaties with 50 countries in the world. The Canadian model of movie funding had been appreciated internationally. An Indo-Portuguese-Canadian project with a Goan backdrop was also in the pipeline, he said. The festival will screen films like Danny in the Sky, Between the Moon and Montevideo by award winning Director, Attila Bertalan and Protection by Bruce Spangler and conclude on May 15 with 'Fade to Black' directed by Rohan Fernando, who is of Sri Lankan origin. Don't forget - you saw it on GoaNet! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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: Mangoes
Dear Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha, You wrote: 1. "Coloration" and "colouration" are both found in an > English dictionary, so they are both acceptable 2. ..."mankurad" ... has entered the current > Konkani (and, by way of it, also the current English) vocabulary Thank you! Eddie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
Re: [Goanet] Re: Mangoes
Dear Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha, >OK, agreed that recent literature refers > to "malcorada" as "mankurad"; but this doesn't mean that "mankurad" is > correct, does it? *Yes, it does, particularly as there was incorrect description in the first place as even you have agreed. Democratic choice of the people! A Bloodless Revolution! Small wonder that malcorda got changed to mancurada and then to mankurad. > Yes, I did find it. But there are also other names which are distortions > from the original Portuguese names like "mussarat" instead of "monserrate", > "fernandin" and "furtad" instead of "fernandina" and "furtado", "malgesh" > instead of "malgessa", "culas" instead of "colaco" (2nd "c" with cedilla) > and "sakri" instead of "sacarina". So what? As English is now more and more > a "global" language, perhaps we must eventually bow to whatever aberrations > (like the above) crop up in this language, in detriment to the purity of the > original Portuguese words. I have no blinkers whatsoever. *Thanks for proving my point that language adapts to phonetic variations and local practices. It is what keeps language alive or we would be writing in Middle English here! > > You wrote previously: > > >The correct term is "mal corada" = "poorly coloured" or "ill > coloured" > > and nobody seems > > >to know why such a name was given to it, as both inside and outside > its > > colour is good. > > I not only accepted that it was called malcorda but offered an explanation > > why this was so. Do you accept that as plausible? > > > No problem about the explanation offered by you: it is plausible, yes, > although I don't believe that the yellow colour (as opposed to the red one) > has anything to do with it. *A Google search revealed at: http://www.marketag.com/ma/bulletins/ph/mangoes.stm this: "Successful sales of mangoes can be achieved only with acceptable stages of ripeness for consumption, uniform size grading and stages of ripeness, and absence of disease or damage. In some markets, such as the United Kingdom and the United States, a red blush typical of the Florida-type varieties is preferred; other markets, such as France and the Asian in the United Kingdom, prefer mangoes that ripen to green to yellow coloration." *Note the last word, "coloration." Is ir correct? Is it acceptable? Best wishes, Eddie Fernandes =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
Re: [Goanet] Re: TIMES: Balcony View
Dear Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha, Good, we are making slow progress . The question is what that variety of fruit is commonly called in English today. We are not disputing the quality of the product. Sour fruit, indeed! We are agreed that the Portuguese called it Malcorada but all references to it in the recent and particularly scientific literature, refer to it as Mankurad. You have quoted from "A Treasure Trove of Goan Mango Dishes" by Nilima M. Kamat). Excellent! If you care to check page 10, you will find it called mankurad. Then, on pages 125-126 there is a list of some 100 Goan mango varieties, including mankurad. So cast aside thy blinkers! You write: >Prior to 1961, Konkani speaking people always referred to it as "malcurad" >and I never remember hearing "mankurad". Are you therefore agreeing that it is now called mankurad? Check the Proceedings of the International Mango Conferences or the Indian Horticultural Society publications or any modern English study. Since we are communicating in English in 2002 let us keep to that and not switch to 17th century Portuguese! Language evolves. Where does one start? The Portuguese term manga is derived from the Tamil mangay. Does one therefore challenge the Portuguese for corrupting the word or are they too exalted? You wrote previously: >The correct term is "mal corada" = "poorly coloured" or "ill coloured" and nobody seems >to know why such a name was given to it, as both inside and outside its colour is good. I not only accepted that it was called malcorda but offered an explanation why this was so. Do you accept that as plausible? It was interesting to stumble across an article by Fred Noronha in The Week, May 17, 1998... poor shelf-life makes a variety commercially less attractive. One such is Mankurad, originally called Malcorado by the Portuguese, meaning 'poor coloured'. So he knew the answers all along :-) Eddie Fernandes = - Original Message - From: "Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eddie Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Goa-Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:37 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Re: TIMES: Balcony View Sorry to say that "Mankurad" does not mean "bad colour". "Malcorada" does. The most that "Mankurad" can mean is "Mangkurad" (Konkani corruption of the Portuguese "manga curada") i.e. "Cured Mango", which is most unlikely. Prior to 1961, Konkani speaking people always referred to it as "malcurad" and I never remember hearing "mankurad". Just to clear that idea that the Portuguese are not the "poor souls" referred to sometimes by those to whom the grapes - or is it mangoes in this case - may taste sour, let me cite the following: [Portions deleted by Eddie Fernandes] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
Re: [Goanet] Re: TIMES: Balcony View
Folks, here are my attempt to resolve some of the issues in the ongoing discussion: 1. Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha writes: >The correct term is "mal corada" = "poorly coloured" >or "ill coloured" and nobody now seems to know >why such a name was given to it, as both inside >and outside its colour is good. In the West, great emphasis in placed on the external appearance of food and the preferred colour for the mango is red. Asian mangoes are yellow and are therefore not stocked by the mainstream Supermarkets. They are sold by ethnic outlets as Asians are known to prefer yellow mangoes. The Portuguese named this variety on the basis of what they conceived to be an imperfect colour. Poor souls! Good that they are not competing with us for our mangos and pushing prices up. Good job too that someone changed the name to Mankurad - bad colour indeed! 2. Someone wanted to know why the mankurad fruit was not exported and why the trees are not generally found outside Goa. The answer seems to be that the alphonse has superior keeping properties and is therefore a better commercial proposition. It reminds me of the availability of tomatoes in the UK. The variety available in the shops has excellent shelf life, colour, shape, . and indifferent taste! 3. Sunila wanted Tariq to tell her the name of the mango species exported from Pakistan to the Gulf. He is playing hard-to-get. I think it is called Chausa. They are long, elongated, pale yellow exterior, strangely variable in size but exceedingly sweet, However, they lack the rich wholesome taste and fragrance of the alphonse or mankurad. They are in season from June - Aug. Right, Sunila? So to a new problem. What is the best way to eat a ripe mango? (though VM seems to eat them by the dozen at each sitting). I have lost the reference I saw to advice given by an Englishman in the 19th century that to enjoy the mango it is necessary to strip off completely, sit in a bath and lick your arms as the juices runs down them. Perhaps a fitting finale to the dinner party! Indian mangos that are exported are relatively free from fibre and I learned the trick from a real life butler to an aristocratic family. Here is what he did. Cut the mango in half against the stone along the "equator." Twist the two halves against one another. One half will come apart - keep it aside. Twist the stone of the other half, coaxing it away with sharp knife if necessary. Gnaw the stone if no one is looking. Place the halves in wine goblets. Provide spoons to scoop the fruit. You can fill the hollow in the fruit with your choice of whipped cream, liquor, diced fruit, etc. OK Paulo, now your turn :-) Eddie. PS Check out the new issue of GoaNet-UK which has just been posted to www.goacom.com/goanet-uk =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
Re: [Goanet] Re: TIMES: Balcony View
Hi Paulo, Thanks for the response. I smell a trap. Do you want me to challenge you to find the word "malcurad" in a Portuguese dictionary? Well, I am not going to walk into that one! We are talking about mangoes (or mangos!) here. Not Ambea or Mangas. I have shown that, in English, the term mankurad is in common usage today for that variety. The key references are the papers presented at the 5th Mango Symposium in Israel and at the 6th Mango Symposium, Thailand. I have given you the urls. Unfortunately I am not qualified to speak about the Konkani or Portuguese appellations for this or the other words you mention. Certainly, no dictionary I have looked at lists the varieties of mangoes, so you have set me an impossible task! However, I will concede that we were talking at cross-purposes. I was discussing current English practice and you were concerned about the origins. Regards Eddie - Original Message - From: "Paulo Colaco Dias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 2:12 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Re: TIMES: Balcony View > Eddie, I will not disagree with you as long as you prove it through an > accredited Konkani dictionary that those words are Konkani words. > > The portuguese words you mentioned (caril for curry, cha for tea, manga for > mango, etc) are indeed included in any Portuguese dictionary. > > If you can find "Mankurad", "sucegad", "vistid", "jurament", etc in an > accredited Konkani dictionary, I will stand corrected. > > Best regards, > paulo. > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
Re: [Goanet] Re: TIMES: Balcony View
Hi Paulo, This is fascinating! Pity we did not discuss the subject when we spoke at length at the weekend! What I meant to convey is that all languages adapt and evolve. Though the Portuguese called the variety Malcurada, there is nothing wrong in the use of Konkani variant of Mankurad. Are you suggesting that the Americans are dishonouring the English language by the use of the word honor? The two example you quote, "Rua Abade Faria Road" and "Hospicio Hospital" are both semantically wrong, rather like asking someone for their PIN number. The other examples you quote of corrupted Portuguese words in Konkani. But there probably are a greater number of corrupted Sanskrit and Hindi words in the Portuguese language caril for curry, cha for tea etc. Coming back to the mango: According to Hobson-Jobson (1886), the origin of the word is mangay and is Tamil. The Portuguese corrupted the word to manga. Hobson-Jobson has references to the fruit in manuscripts going back to 1328 (go to http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/260/frameset.html and search for mango). In 1563 Garcia de Orta wrote that the best varieties of the fruit were to be found in Gujarat and Ormuz. It was after this that the Jesuits introduced better varieties through grafting. Besides Hobson-Jobson, there are two books you will find particularly useful, both by S.R. Dalgado: 1. Influencia do Vocabulario Portugues em Linguas Asiaticas, 1913. 2. Glossario Luso-Asiatico. 2 vols. 1921. Both have extensive references to the mango. Regards, Eddie Fernandes == From: "Paulo Colaco Dias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:51 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Re: TIMES: Balcony View > Hi Eddie, > > What language development are you talking about ? > Konkani or Portuguese ? > If Konkani, is there a new Konkani dictionary with the inclusion of these > words ? > > The truth is our catholic Konkani is invaded by Portuguese and English > words. Catholics in Goa talk a kind of Konkani which is not pure Konkani > but includes lots of Portuguese and English words all mixed up. > > One needs to understand some of these words are not Konkani words. > > Our Konkani of today includes loads of English and Portuguese words but it > appears that our Goans know very well the correct English spellings but > definitely fail to spell correctly the Portuguese words. It is perhaps > natural since they are nowadays more in contact with the English language. > Hardly anybody speaks Portuguese anymore. > > Of course languages develop but in this particular case, I am of the opinion > these are > corruptions of the original words and not new words introduced in Konkani. > > It is true that malcorada is commonly known in Goa as "mankurad". > In the same way, the Afonso or Afonsa mango is sometimes known as "Aphus" or > "Hapus" (corruptions of Afonso) and internationally by "Alphonso". "Pairi" > is also a corruption of Pires mango. > > "vistid", "sucegad", "jurament", "sorpatel" or "sarpotel", "vindalo" or > "vindaloo", etc., are all corruptions of Portuguese words. Or are you going > to tell me these are new Konkani words ? > I don't think so. > And we could go on and on about the corrupted Portuguese words in our spoken > and written Konkani of today. > > I say there is lack of detail in the sense that nobody actually cares about > looking for the correct spelling or meaning. > That is why we sometimes read in Goa: "Rua Abade Faria Road" or "Hospicio > Hospital", etc. > > Nobody actually cares anymore if it makes sense or not. > This is what I mean when I refer to the current lack of detail in Goa. > > It is good for a laugh ! Sadly. > > Best, > Paulo. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
[Goanet] News Snippets 22 April + Feedback required
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[Goanet] Re: TIMES: Balcony View
Paulo has a point but language, just like fashion, cuisine, customs, behaviour, Windows etc. are part of an evolutionary process and develop. So we have: Sunila: Mankurado >crap compared to the Goan Mankurado. Anyone want to debate that ??? *After all she was quoting from the Times of India article which read: >This year, the Mankurado mango is far beyond the reach Gilbert: Malcurada >malcurada, which is a corruption of the portuguese "malcorada". Paulo: Malcurada >Hi Gilbert, you're absolutely right about the corruption of "malcurada". "Mankurado" >is absurd! Fred Noronha: Mankurad > Mankurad originally called Malcorado by the Portuguese, meaning 'poor coloured'. See: The Week May 17 1998 http://www.the-week.com/98may17/biz2.htm Fred also wrote: > For Nandkumar M. Kamat, a microbiologist, mangoes are an obsession Joel D'Souza agrees with Gilbert: Malcurada the succulent king of fruits--malcurada mango see www.goacom.com/goanow/2000/may/edwords.html delicious malcurada see www.goacom.com/goanow/99/may/editorial.html However, the commonly used term seems to be Mankurad. Two scientific articles: Cardozo Mankurad - A Breakthrough In Mango Selection www.actahort.org/books/455/455_31.htm Variation In Physico-Chemical And Morphogenetic Characters Of Some Mango Varieties Of Goa. www.actahort.org/books/509/509_25.htm Just to be different, The Herald had Mancurad on 12 Apr 2002 at www.oherald.com/Archives/fri_12apr.htm .. And rava fried prawns are on the prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's wish-list,during his three day stay in Goa, with mancurad mangoes However, I think that the Goa mangoes are over-rated. If they are that good, how is it that they are not cultivated in the rest of India? Why are they not exported? I far prefer the alphonso or is it the alphonse? Eddie Fernandes === Paulo Colaco Dias writes: > Hi Gilbert, you're absolutely right about the corruption of "malcurada". > "Mankurado" is absurd! > But then, Goans of today are ignorant of Portuguese language and suffer from > a tremendous lack of detail in most spellings. > So it is a lost cause to even argue about correct spellings (especially of > Portuguese words). > > Most of us are too much sossegado to even know the difference. > (mind the correct spelling of the word "sossegado" Some of us still > know it !!! :-)) > > Best regards, > Paulo Colaco Dias. > > > >From: "gilmen30" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: re: Re: [Goanet] TIMES: Balcony View > >Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 10:44:38 - > > > >--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Sunila Muzawar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Oh for the joy of eating a Mankurado mango !!! That Ratnagiri Aphonso > >is > >crap compared to the Goan Mankurado. Anyone want to debate that ??? > >;-) > > > >.. > >Youre dead right. Ive tasted mangoes in Brazil and various parts of > >Africa, and no mangoes can touch ours in Goa---this includes the > >dasseri and langda which the north Indians swear are the best in the > >world. btw, I always thought that the mango you refer to is called > >the malcurada, which is a corruption of the portuguese "malcorada". > >cheers--Gilbert. > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet === For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
Re: [Goanet] LOOKING FORWARD -------> ANCESTRAL HOME REMEDIES
Pat and Sunila aroused my interest regarding ancestral home remedies. I have the 1964 reprint of a book, written by Garcia de ORTA in Latin in 1563 entitled Coloquios dos Simples e Drogas da India. The reprint also has a Portuguese translation. An English translation appeared in 1913 but the only location appears to be the National Library of Medicine, Washington, D C. Jessica Houdret wrote an article on Goan herbal remedies in the Herb Society (UK) periodical: HERBS, 1999; Vol.24, issue 3. See: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/herbsociety/goa.htm .. Excerpts: One of the smallest and most prosperous of Indian states, Goa is also rich in the abundance and diversity of its plants. The medicinal and other uses of these were first brought to the attention of the West in the mid-sixteenth century by the Portuguese physician, Garcia da Orta. Three common spices Pungent cinnamon, often said to be 'good for colds'. Pepper has long been used in Ayurvedic medicine for digestive disorders Turmeric, 'the best antiseptic in nature.' It also makes a good facial conditioner. Orta's book:1891 edition two-volume version, in Portuguese. There are several copies in the Central Library of Panaji A sampling of Orta's comments on: Coconut. Oil from the copra, is a very good medicine for the nerves. Betel Nut. The head and stomach are cleared and the gums and teeth strengthened. Cardamom. It draws out inflammations from the head or stomach. Pepper. It is a very good medicine and is given to those who have cholera. Cinnamon. A very mild medicine for the stomach, or to remove the pain of colic... Turmeric. Medicine for all sorts of things. End of quote .. Other useful links: GOA TODAY. July 1998. Preserving Goa's Medicinal Plants The healthful herbal wealth of Goa needs to be cashed in. By G A de Souza. http://www.goacom.com/goatoday/98/jul/feature.html Alfredo de Mello on Garcia de Orta at: http://www.saudades.org/garciadeorta.html I have a few books of relevance: 1. RAO, R.S.: Flora of Goa. 2 vols. 1985. (mentioned in the Goa Today article). 2. BRITTO Books of Plants. 1975. (Britto High School, Mapusa). 3. ANDRADE, L.P. Plantas de Goa utilisaveis na terapeutica da Lepra. 1926. Garcia de Orta's book "was the third European work published in the whole of Asia." If you must get a copy of the original, there is one for sale at: http://www.forum-hes.nl/fairs/beurslijst%20barcelona%202001.html If the cost of around US$ 42,000 puts you off, I might be prepared to negotiate the sale of my 1964 reprint for a wee bit less! Do keep those home remedies trickling in. Eddie Fernandes === - Original Message - From: "Sunila Muzawar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If you have a bad cold/cough drink this potion before going to bed at night > and you will wake up feeling much better : > > Boil a glass of milk and while boiling add a pinch of turmeric, a couple of > roughly mashed cloves, freshly ground pepper - 3 pods. Strain it and drink > it as warm as possible. > > Works like magic !!! > > Cheers, > Sunila =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Abbe Faria & The Count of Monte Cristo new film.
Headline: The Big Picture: The Count of Monte Cristo Source: The Independent (UK) 19 Apr. 2002 at: http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/reviews/story.jsp?story=286737 Released in the UK today: The Count of Monte Cristo. Extract from the Independent Review: Richard Harris plays Abbé Faria, a prisoner whose escape tunnel has taken a wrong turn into Dantès's cell. While the pair get digging together, Faria schools Dantès in economics, philosophy, swordsmanship and the delicate cuisine of flambé rat, instruction that the younger man believes will equip him for cooking up revenge. But Faria warns him that the dish mightn't be as tasty as he expects. For a photograph of Richard Harris as Abbe Faria, go to: http://movieweb.com/movie/countmonte/ Not having read the book, I do not know if the flambe rat is the departure from the original but I am intrigued by the prospect that it might be based on the practice I have heard of - field rats (bandicoots?) being eaten in Goa. Joel D'Souza wrote at http://www.goacom.com/village/candolim/ Candolim is the birth place of Fr Jose Custodio de Faria, the famous Abbe Faria, the discoverer of Hypnotism and animal Magnetism. He was influenced by the 18th century Pinto's Conspiracy, which was a frustrated reaction of Goan native priests and laymen in the Portuguese colonial set-up. According to A Short History of Goa(1957) by C.F. Saldanha, S.J., "Fr Jose Custodio de Faria, of Candolim, had won a certain amount of influence at the Court of Lisbon, but on the failure of the conspiracy he escaped to France, where he made a name for himself among the fashionable and intellectual salons of Paris, by his theories on the occult sciences, which later developed in the science of Hypnotism, also known as Mesmerism." Abbe Faria got sucked in the vortex of the French Revolution, till he came to be imprisoned, and died of a stroke of apoplexy. He has been celebrated by the French novelist, Alexander Dumas, as Abbe Faria, in the novel, The Count of Monte Cristo." Dont forget you saw it on GoaNet! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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] Bristol Evening Post: Their smiles drive me on
For the El Shaddai Trust website go to: http://www.elshaddaigoa.com/ Source: Bristol Evening Post April 18, 2002 HEADLINE: Their smiles drive me on; Ted reaches target to buy home for Indian orphans - but will keep fund-raising By SUZANNAH MARSH Text: Longwell Green fund-raiser Ted Moreman's dream of creating a new home for 45 penniless Indian orphans should soon be a reality. The children in the care of the El Shaddai Trust in Goa are being forced out of their orphanage by their landlord who wants to reclaim the building. The 79-year-old was so moved when he heard about their plight that he decided to step in. In 1999 he set about raising thousands of pounds through talks, collections and selling 1,500 copies of a booklet about his experiences on a sponsored walk from Bristol to Ilfracombe. Ted's total currently stands at 39,000, which has paid for the purchase of a building named The House of Kathleen in memory of Ted's wife who died in 1997. But he wants to increase the fund to 40,000 to pay for essential repairs to the building, which will house all 45 children. He said: "It needs a new kitchen big enough to feed them all, bunk beds, showers and some kind of sanitation because at the moment there's absolutely nothing. "I lived for Kathleen for all 53 years of our marriage and when she wasn't there anymore I couldn't just sit back and do nothing." "I had to have a purpose and I feel that this cause was what I was meant to put my energy into. She is still with me. It's all worth it to see the children's smiles." Ted hopes to reach the 40,000 total by the end of this year. If you would like to make a donation, please send a cheque, made out to El Shaddai TMC, to 5 Sheridan Way, Longwell Green, Bristol BS30 9UE. Ted has been covering all his fund-raising expenses and all proceeds go to the orphanage. ++ El Shaddai Charitable Trust C Block, 2nd Floor, St. Anthony Apartment, Mapusa Clinic Road, Mapusa, Goa 403507 Phone: 0091-832-253371/264798 FAX : (0832) 253371 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile : Mathew Kurian - (Managing trustee): 98230 85642 Anita Edgar - (Chairperson ): 9823023244 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-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 !!
