[Goanet]Aitaracheo Kaskutleo: Tumche Vichar Amchi Zap
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Quiz - Papaya / Banana eating| |Competition.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- Tumche Vichar, Amchi Zap Sonvsarachea konxea-konxeanim ximpund poddlolea Goemkaramcho husko dakhoun ani tanche gombhir prons sutave korun nanv zhoddillo amcho ixtt LAPIT, aiche Aitarachea Kaskutleant tumchea vincharank zabab dita. Kuwait-chea desant choddan chodd Goenkar aslelean he khepek tanche prons xikun soroll zap dilea. Tumche vichar dhaddche e-mail:. [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Boroita Lapit(ji), Kuwaitche Konknni machier thodde tiatr digdorspi aplea tiatranim nhessunk Goeam thavn khas kolakorank haddtat. Kaim soire kolakar Kuwait thavn Goeam pavtokoch Goemchea paper-ancher fottacheo martat. Tiatrachea vosreant sadde-paimxim boska bhorum nastana bhorleat mhonn aplea lekhan boroun vachpenak kiteak fottovchem? Sot uzvaddak haddpak konnank bhietat? ZABAB: Portrakar bab, tujea vicharant mhojea nodrek nigut disun ailam fattlea sumanantlea V. Ixtt-ar Bonaventure DPietro baban ek lekh boroilolo, (Mhoji Kuveittchi Bhonvddi Oxi Zali) tacho ullek kela. Sarkem nhoi? DPietro babachea lekhan kitlem sot, kitli fott asa, hem mhaka zoborxem poddunk na. Ponn ekuch sangpachem mhollear to poilo kolakar zaun asa apleak poilech pavtti Kuwait vhorun thoimche Konknni machier apli kola Kuwaitchea Goenkaram modem pavo sarki keli mhonn upkaranim bhorunk. Orxim Kuwaitan, xemboreamnich Goeamche kolakar ievn-vhochun astat khoim. Zoxem Bonaventure baban boroilam toslem borovop hea adim konnench borounk na mhollear fott tharchi na. To ek vhodd boroinar mhonn tachi tust korina ponn ek kortovea palli mhonn taka xebaski ditana dusrea soirea kolakaranim tachi dekh ghevnchi mhonn vinoitam. ** (2)[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Boroita Lapit Bab, Adim, chukoi nastana Soor moidanar football khell pollevnk vetalom. Ponn halinchea disanim mon vitte sarkeleo ghoddneo ghoddunk lagleleak hanvem football khell polloupachem soddun dilam. Illexea chukik ek Goenkar khellgoddi dusrea Goenkar khellkoddea bhavachea angar vetat zalear refreecheru-i hat uklunk fattim nant. Hacher KIFF Managing Committee niontronn (control) dovorunk xekonant kiteak? ZABAB: Mar-Pet bab, Soor moidanaveli ghozal aichi vo kalchi nhoi. Tea moidanar football khellan zolm gella te meren tem aiz pasun borelech monis dusman zaleat, ani heach khatir masungechea monxeanim tem moidan soddun dilam khoim. Kosloi khell khelltolo zalear taka nem ani kaide astat. Bore khellgoddi sporting spirit he nem palltat ani tancho pongodd (team) zoitivont asta. Visit-ar aille kodden hanv Soor moidanar pavon sortam. Khell cholltana thoim zomille thodde somorthok (supporters) astat tanchea tonddanlean pozddi commentary sadovta ti, thoimsor hajir aslelea lhan bhurgeamchea kannar poddta ani tim ghora pavlim mhonnttoch mhonntat khoim, mummy what ghe, daddy zo*. Kuwait aslelea Goenkaranchi bhurgim iskolant toxem ghorant English uloitat ani mullavi (basic) Konkani, Soor moidanar xiktat mhonn avoi-bapaimcho husko vaddla.. KIFF Managing Committee aple vatten koddok xist samballta, ponn khell ani khellgoddi ximea bhair pavo meren tannim ogeaponn dovorunk favo na. ** (3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boroita Hello Lapit, Hea disanim tuvem Navhind Times-disalear vachlam astelem. Adle Sobhapoti, xikxok, tiatrist Tomazinho Cardozo xikxonnachea molar nivrutt (retired) zaleat mhonn. To sodeak Dalgado Konkani Academic hanche odhex asat, mhonntoch Romi Konknni khatir vavurtele mhonn bhas dilea. Kuwaitchea Soor moidanar khellpi nivrutt vo retired zatoch kitem kortele kai? ZABAB Candolimcho Shri Tomazinho babachem vevsaik (profession) ek xikxok, tiatr ek chhond (hobby) ani politik ek somazik vaur aslo. Khuxechi ghozal mhollear Romi Konknni khatir to vavurtolo khoro punn tumchea oslea Konknni mogeamcho taka sohokar zai. Zaun vangddi DKA hacho vo dudvamchi dengi divn. Kuwaitchea Soor moidanar thodde football khellpi Goeam, Super League-n nanvaztea klubanim distale. Hangasor tancho hobby koxo zala. Hea khellpeam modem tiatr digdorspi, kolakar, banker, unchle post ghevn aslele officer, dhonddekar (business man) adi, adi asat. Curiosidade bab, tujo husko he khellghodi nivrutt vo retired zatoch kitem kortele kai mhonn? Sodeak hanvem katrechea monxea koddlean aikolam tea pormonnem Soor moidanar khellpi, ek famad football khellghodi retire zavpache toddir asa ani to aplea rikhamea vellar kovita rochtta mhonn. Khell-moidanar lokam koddlean oputt protsahon
[Goanet]Re: GOA, A LAGGARD IN AVIATION
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Quiz - Papaya / Banana eating| |Competition.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- I am convinced that Dabolim is inefficiently used currently and has room for additional civilian flights.[George Pinto, May 7] This is a major understatement! Unfortunately the Navy at Dabolim seems blissfully oblivious of what is happening in Indian civil aviation and the acute travel and tourism needs of Goa at Dabolim. How to establish communcation channels with those guys to get them to ease up at the earliest at Dabolim is a major challenge! But the efforts will continue. They have to!
[Goanet]NEW BOOK: A Spoke in the Wheel
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Quiz - Papaya / Banana eating| |Competition.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- Amita Kanekar, of Goan origin and a teacher of architectural history and comparative mythology in Mumbai, has just come out with her first novel. It's titled A Spoke in the Wheel: A Novel about the Buddha (ISBN 81-7223-574-7). An excerpt: It is 256 BCE. Almost three hundred years after the death of the Buddha and four since the terrible battle of Kalinga Upali, a monk and an embittered survivor of the war that made the Emperor Ashoka overlord of the whole of India, hates the Emperor with all his heart. Yet it is to him that Ashoka, the self-proclaimed Beloved of the Gods, entrusts the task of putting the Buddha's life and teachings down for posterity. For the Emperor is set on a new conquest -- that of Dhamma This is a story about the Buddha and his disciples, among them an ordinary monk, one of the questioners, and an extraordinary king, who seemed to have all the answers. While I've known Amita for some time, and have met both at Mumbai and Goa (she's related to the family of ex-Panjim MLA the late Madhav Bir), the book is a pleasant surprise. It is published by HarperCollins India under its historical fiction genre and is priced at Rs 395 for its rather bulky 447 pages. History was never my favourite subject; maybe that has to do with the monotonous and meaningless way it's thought in schools in this part of the world. One might be wrong, but just ten pages into the book, this indeed seems to be a rather well-narrated tale woven around values and people whom you and me could easily identify with, over 2200 years later! That the book was published by HarperCollins India also perhaps is another hint. Amita writes in the acknowledgements: The interpretation of the Buddha's enlightenment is completely owed to Iqbal Singh's 'Gautama Buddha'; I read and reread this absolutely lyrical rendering of the Buddha's message in the course of this project, and warmly recommend it to all those interested in the Buddha as well as those who just love great writing. She also acknowledges the work of another often-forgotten great Goan, D D Kossambi, saying: To the last indeed, I am indebted for opening my eyes to the endless fascination of Indian history. Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat SALIGAO GOA India Freelance Journalist TEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks fred at bytesforall.org http://www.bytesforall.org
[Goanet]Re: GOA, A LAGGARD IN AVIATION
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Quiz - Papaya / Banana eating| |Competition.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- --- Philip Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In recent times, all the south Indian states seem to have got onto the bandwagon of aviation development...Meanwhile Goa continues to dither on the aviation front both at Dabolim and at Mopa. Philip: I am not an aviation expert or remotely knowledgeable about airport matters. But I am convinced that Dabolim is inefficiently used currently and has room for additional civilian flights. The option of Dabolim and/or Mopa seems to be reasonable. But in terms of moving population to less populated areas, economic growth in the hinterland, land usage cost of construction would it make more sense to have small domestic airports in Sanguem or Valpoi to serve the North and South population, respectively? Dabolim can then truly be an international airport, not just for chartered flights. I realize that access to railways is important and outside of Tivim, Vasco, Margoa there is no direct Konkan or SC Railway access. But the overdevelopment along the coast will only be exacerbated with coastal airports. As I mentioned I am not an aviation expert and I am probably very wrong. Regards, George
[Goanet]Mons. Dalgado's 150th birth anniversary
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Quiz - Papaya / Banana eating| |Competition.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- DALGADO KONKNNI AKADEMI A Brief Note. Date: 06. 05. 05 150th Birth Anniversary 150th birth anniversary of Mgr. Sebastiao Rudolfo Dalgado will be celebrated on 8th May, 2005 at 4.30 p.m. at Caritas Hall, near Caculo Island, Panjim, Goa by Dalgado Konknni Akademi which is named after Mgr. Dalgado. Rev. Filipe Neri Ferrao, Archbishop Patriark will be the Chief Guest and Dr. Nandakumar Kamat wil be the Guest of Honour. Mgr. Dalgado Puroskar-2005 On this occasion Mgr. Dalgado Puroskar 2005 instituted by Dalgado Konknni Akademy will be conferred on Fr. Vasco de Rego S.J. for his valuable contribution to Konkani language in Roman script. Mgr. Dalgado Puroskar 2005 carries a Shawl, a Citation a Memento and Rs. 50,000/- . Literary Competitions Prizes for various competitions in Konkani in Roman script organized by Dalgado Konknni Akademi such as Short Story writing Competition, Poetry Competition and Essay Competition will also be distributed on the occasion. Mgr. Dalgado Road In Assagao, the village of birth of Mgr. Dalgado, a road passing in front of the collapsed house of Mgr. Dalgado, will be named as Mgr. Dalgado Road. Naming of the road ceremony will take place on 8th May, 2005 at 10.30 a.m. at Assagao. The Sarpanch of Assagao, Mr. Victor DSouza, will formally declare the road as Mgr. Dalgado Road. Mgr. Dalgado Year The year 8th May 2005 to 8th May 2006 will be observed as Mgr. Dalgado Year through out Goa and elsewhere. The purpose of observing Mgr. Dalgado Year is to create awareness among the Goans about the importance of Konkani language and Goan Identity. Numerous activities such as seminars, discussions, publications of books, DKA website, cultural programs, various competitions for students in schools and colleges, etc are planned. These activities will be organized in the villages of Goa with the collaborations of lovers of Konkani in Roman script in these villages. Dalgado Konknni Akademi There are hundreds of writers and thousands of readers of Konkani in Roman script. After Konkani became the Official language of Goa, writers and readers of Konkani in Roman script suffered. Sahittya Akademi did not consider any literature in Roman script for the Sahitytya Akademi awards. In Goa, our own Kala Akademy stopped giving awards to literature in Roman script Konkani. There was no financial support to writers of Konkani in Roman script from any quarters including the Government and other Government agencies. Writers and readers of Konkani in Roman script, who played the major role in achieving Official language status to Konkani, were totally neglected. Publications of books in Roman Script Konkani decreased because of no financial support from the Government. This was a sort of murder of the creative literary talents of the writers of Konkani in Roman script. There was no other option other than forming an organization, to look after the interest of writers and readers of Konkani in Roman script. Thus Dalgado Konknni Akademi was formed in order to support the writers and readers of Konkani in Roman scripts. The Akademi was named after one of the greatest sons Goa has ever produced Mgr. Sebastiao Rudolfo Dalgado. Mgr. Dalgado (1855-1922), was a brilliant Goan diocesan priest, a domestic prelate of the Pope and missionary of the Padroado (Portuguese Patronage) in the East, having served fruitfully as Vicar-General in Sri Lanka and Bengal, and worked in Sawantwadi; a superb scholar of international renown, master of many languages, who had contributed substantially and scientifically to Konkani in two massive dictionaries Konkani-Portuguese Portuguese-Konkani studies of Konkani grammar and proverbs; with outstanding works on influence of Portuguese on Indian and other Asian languages a Luso-Asiatic Glossary. He was Professor of Sanskrit in Lisbon University and elected Member of : the prestigious Society of Geography; and Academy of Sciences, Lisbon; Institute of Coimbra; Royal Asiatic Society, London; and conferred with many honours from scientific institutions. The Akjademi is registered under the Societies Act. Aims Objectives of Dalgado Konknni Akademi i. To promote the study and development of Konkani language in Roman script. ii.To establish, organize and recognize schools, other educational institutions and activities for the promotion and development of Konkani language, literature and culture. iii. To promote research of the past and present literary production in Konkani language and in all
[Goanet]GOA, A LAGGARD IN AVIATION
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Quiz - Papaya / Banana eating| |Competition.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- In recent times, all the south Indian states seem to have got onto the bandwagon of aviation development. 1. Maharashtra is working on several airport projects. Besides the privatisation and modernisation of Mumbai airport, there are plans for a greenfield Rs 3K cr airport at Navi Mumbai as well as similar smaller ones at Nagpur and Pune. 2. Kerala already has three international airports and is planning a fourth one (at Kannur). The new Air India Express is providing connectivity in a big way to the Kerala airports vis a vis the Gulf countries. Even this is not enough so Kerala is going in for a chartered airline of its own. 3. In Karnataka, work on Bangalore's new Rs 1.5K cr International Airport is due to begin anyday and the facility is expected to be commissioned by 2008. 4. In Andhra Pradesh, a new airport in Hyderabad is getting the necessary clearances in quick time and is practically neck and neck with Bangalore which was mooted a few years earlier. 5. Chennai is also in line for a new international airport with a repor of the state government recently gifting land for this purpose. 6. Madhya Pradesh is consdering the reduction in sales tax on aviation turbine fuel (ATF) to attract more airlines to the state for tourism purposes. It was recently able to hold a conclave under CII auspices to brainstorm about its aviation needs. Meanwhile Goa continues to dither on the aviation front both at Dabolim and at Mopa.
Re: [Goanet]Re: WAR ON IRAQ - WHO WOULD KNOW BETTER
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Quiz - Papaya / Banana eating| |Competition.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- --- maurice dmello goanet@goanet.org wrote: As far as I believe, democratic constitutuin does not draw from any particular religion. You may be aware of 'christian' majority countries, or the republic of India. Mario replies: What you believe does not matter to the Iraqis unless you are a citizen of Iraq. What business is it of anyone else's what kind of constitution they choose to have as long as it is done democratically and the interests of minorities are protected? Are you aware that Britain is officially a Christian country? Maurice writes: Demecracy should come from within, not under duress. Mario replies: Under the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussain, where a person from a less than 20% minority community controlled over 80% of the people by force, by torturing and killing hundreds of thousands of their adversaries, how did you think that democracy could come to Iraq from within? You obviously prefer a brutal dictatorship, especially for Iraqis. But I doubt you live in such a country. Maurice writes; Sometimes freedom fighters are termed as terrorists, depending on who terms them as such. (Manachem Begin was termed such). Mario replies: There is a vast difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist. A terrorist tries to achieve their goals by targeting and killing and terrorizing innocent civilians. If Menachim Begin did that then he was a terrorist. Freedom fighters attack the government they oppose and it's forces, not innocent civilians. Maurice writes: When one stirs a hornet's nest, the result is expected, however one is prepared for it, is bound to take some hits. Mario replies: If you are talking about Iraq here, the US was fully prepared to take whatever hits were necessary. You obviously would have preferred to let Saddam Hussain continue to torture, kill and loot his people. Maurice writes: One should know the motive. Mario replies: I have no idea whose motive you are talking about here. Maurice writes: Why not liberate some more rouge nations and democratize them? Mario replies: Maybe you are not aware that the US has a new policy where they are proactively going to support people who want to live in freedom and democracy. You don't seem to understand that the US never intervenes until the UN, who is supposed to be responsible for such things, has tried and failed. It took 12 years of letting the UN try and fail in Iraq before the US intervened.
[Goanet]NEWS: Sporting Clube de Goa consolidates hold on national league
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Quiz - Papaya / Banana eating| |Competition.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- http://web.mid-day.com/sports/national/2005/may/108782.htm All down to the wire By: A Mid Day Correspondent May 5, 2005 East Bengal's ambitions of completing a hat-trick in the National Football League (NFL) suffered a severe blow as they lost to Mahindra United 0-1 at the Cooperage ground yesterday. The defending champions, who won the title in 2003 and 2004, failed to come up with a reply to Abhishek Yadav's 75th minute goal. The loss left East Bengal on 40 points after 20 matches and they now need to win their two matches to have an outside chance of winning the title. League leaders Sporting Clube de Goa consolidated their hold at the top with a 2-0 win over bottom-placed State Bank of Travancore in Kozhikode. Sporting now are on 45 points with a match in hand. If they win their last match against Mahindra United, Sporting will be through. Second-placed Dempo, 41 points, have to win both their remaining matches, against East Bengal and Tollygunge Agragami, and hope Sporting slip up in their last match. A dream is killed. I don't see much hope now, said a dejected East Bengal coach Subhash Bhowmick after the heart-breaking result. The 10 per cent champions' luck was not with us this time, Bhowmick added. Sporting rise like a phoenix Sporting Clube de Goa's performance in the NFL is a fairytale. Coach Clifford Chukuwama has indeed worked a miracle to put Sporting in the position they are in - just three points away from the title. A low-budget team, they started the league as rank outsiders. Then, came the tragic road accident after their third match of the competition. As many as 11 members of the Goan club were injured when their airport-bound team bus overturned on the way back to the Kolkata airport after playing against Mohun Bagan on January 26. Five players - Sandeep Colaco, Jhonny Barreto, Ajay Diwadkar, Jose Pereira, Peter Pereira -- suffered serious injuries. It seemed their campaign had ended before it had begun. Joe and Peter returned to action after an eight-week lay-off. The other three are still out of action. We think we are good enough for the championship, said coach Chukuwama from Kozhikode yesterday. It's all because of our hardwork, he added. Striker Dudu Omagbemi has been absolutely sensational and has won Sporting many matches single-handedly. He leads the goalscorers chart with 21 goals. What's wrong with Bagan? These are gloomy days for Mohun Bagan supporters. The oldest club in Asia, founded in 1889, along with East Bengal are the only teams to have won the NFL title thrice. Now, they are fighting a battle against relegation. Bagan have to win both their remaining two matches to stay in the premier division. Four teams will be relegated this season and Bagan are placed fourth from bottom. Placed above them is Churchill Brothers, and the Kolkata side needs to win against city rivals Tollygunge Agragami (today) and Churchill Brothers to survive. Bagan's problems have been self-inflicted. The club's current condition is because of the internal politicking between two groups, general secretary Anjan Mitra and assistant general secretary Balaram Chowdhary. Before the start of the 2003-04 season, Kolkata High Court appointed three special officers to run the football team. One of the special officers, Shyamal Kumar Sen, the ex-chief justice of the Kolkata High Court, is currently running the team. Sen has entrusted all powers to Balaram Chowdhury and the consequences have been disastrous. In the current situation, sources say the coach is not getting the freedom he needs and hence the debacle. Bagan were under threat of relegation last season as well but just about survived. Bagan honours: 3 National Football Leagues 1997/98, 1999/2000, 2001/02 11 Federation Cups 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1986, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1998, 2001 16 Durand Cups 1953, 1959, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1974, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1994, 2000 14 Rovers Cups 1955, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1976, 1977, 1981, 1985, 1988, 1991, 1992, 2000
[Goanet]On the issue of gender discrimination...
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Quiz - Papaya / Banana eating| |Competition.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- Bollywood: Is The Approach To Nudity Gender Biased April 25, 2005, 12:00:36 It is a well documented accusation that attitudes to nudity and semi nudity are very much biased in the favour of men. It is illegal in many countries for women to go topless, even up until recently the US, but in all those countries the same rule excludes men. India is very strict on the morals concerning nudity and no where is this more apparent than on the silver screen. Many scenes that raise the voice of protest would not raise a flicker of disgust in mainstream Hollywood movies. With the recent releases of Bollywood movies that challenge these rules and constantly try to push the boundaries back, what do women think about nudity on screen, and is Bollywood biased towards female nudity by portraying women as sex objects. India as a nation could be said to have become prudish in its outlook towards women, they are seen as 'less than men' when shown on screen. In the vast majority of advertisements for instance it is a female body used to promote the product, to sell something, or to try and entice male audiences through the box office. The females sex appeal is extremely captivating it does attract attention not only from men but from other women, you only need to look at many top female actresses that are idolised by both genders. But it has to be said, the male body does not come into the same category, which in one respect enforces the presumption nudity is gender-biased. Other experts in sociology feel that males are no better off in regards to nudity and sex exploitation than women, men are regularly stripping in clubs and now in movies and and in advertisements, Calvin Klein for instance use male sex appeal to sell. The problem is in general people like watching women more than men, Indian society though is relaxing its attitude to nudity becoming more open about it now, after all five years ago Girlfriend would not have reached the box office and ether is now a plethora of dare to bare actresses making a mark on screen, on the male side how many times has John Abrams revealed his toned torso on screen. The only protests have been from audiences are that films containing nudity become less appealing to the family viewer, but then as in mainstream Hollywood different movies for different categories will have to be produced. In will privately admit they accept and even enjoy nudity whether in remix videos, movies or ads, but their is so much hypocrisy still in society, but this is changing. It must be said though that early attempts to portray nudity in movies was poorly done and often quite offensive. Nudity is a part of Indian culture and if you look at adverts or on the fashion catwalk males are stripped just as readily as females when promoting like for like products such as swim wear or underwear so it cannot be labelled gender-biased. Many believe that nudity is a class biased rather than gender biased, nudity, whether male or female, is something to be desired and appreciated, thus someone who is comfortable with their body will be comfortable when naked, and most likely just as comfortable seeing films that contain nudity. Opinions will always remain that the female body is definitely better to look at, and as previously stated both men and women when asked a majority of both sexes said the female nude form was better to look at than the male. This though does continue to enforce the fact that it is gender biased but their seems to be no way round this. So the conclusion is that Bollywood will continue to push the boundaries of what is acceptable in the cinema and with nudity becoming part of everyday life then it is sure to become more prevalent at the box office, the challenge will be how to avoid it being obscene. -- Source: http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/43342004.htm
[Goanet]Sunday Time pass
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Quiz - Papaya / Banana eating| |Competition.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- A Goan Indian dies and goes to hell. He thought there was a pugatory but there was none. He feels cheated and discovers it is too late now! But lands in hell and then finds that there is a different hell for each country. He goes first to the German hell and asks, What do they do here?' He is told First they put your in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on a bed of nails for another hourr. Then Hitler comes in and whips you for the rest of the day. Then they lay you upon a bed of nails for another hour The man does not like the sound of that at all, so he moves on and tries the other hells of other countries and discovers they are all more or less the same as the German hell. Then he comes to the Indian hell and finds that there is a very long line of people waiting to get in. Amazed he asks; What do they do here? He is told First they put you in an electric chair for an hour. They lay you on a bed of nails for another hour. Then the Indian devil (you could use your imagination as to regards his name) comes in and whips you for the rest of the day. But that is exactly the same as all the other hells says the poor Indian sinner, but why are there so many people waiting to get in? Because maintenance is so bad like the GMC and here the electric chair does not work, someone has stolen all the nails from the bed, and the devil is a former politician and his assistant a Government servant, so they come in, signs the register and then go to the canteen... X.B.Moidekar
[Goanet]New GOA AIRPORT
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Quiz - Papaya / Banana eating| |Competition.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- Why don't we request to name the new Goa Airport to be called Dr. T. B. d' Cunha Goa International Airport.[Carlos, May 7] Pls clarify as to which new airport you are referring to? Do you suppose that this airport will have scheduled international flights or just chartered international flights (as at Dabolim today)? If only the latter then what is the point of calling it an international airport? Btw, Dabolim too is known as Goa International Airport! So kya ho raha hai?
[Goanet]NEWS: Motorsports: Goa becomes hub of motorsports
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Quiz - Papaya / Banana eating| |Competition.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- http://www.ndtv.com/sports/showsports.asp?sportname=Motorsportsstory=Goa+becomes+hub+of+motorsportsid=22475 Motorsports: Goa becomes hub of motorsports If you aspire to be a motorsport daredevil, then Goa is the place to be. The state is fast turning into a hub of motorsports with a large number of enthusiasts and tourists at hand to witness the excitement. Perhaps the most popular event is the Motocross, where motorcyclists go through six rounds on the muddy terrain of Goa. The brain behind the event is Ashley Gomes, the first Indian to officiate motocross world championships outside the country. The importance of the event, he says, is in uncovering fresh talent every year. Last year, we had a fantastic response. Every single champion has ridden here. It is the safest track in the entire country, at par with any international racing track and this year, we have dedicated the event only for Goan riders to promote fresh blood, said Gomes, President, Goa Motorsports Association. Enthusiastic response Indeed, it is the daredevilry and speed on display that has drawn a chunk of spectators. Watching acrobatic somersaults at more than 90 kmph has been like a breath of fresh air for many of them and might help motorsports become the most popular sport in the state. This sport is catching up a lot in Goa after football, and it's really catching up with a lot of youth. The sound of the motorbike is really thrilling. I brought my wife and children, it's beautiful, said a Goan. India slowly breaking into the top echelons of motorsports internationally might be the boost that this event needs even as it seeks to change the image of Goa from a land of sun-and-sand to a land of speed-and-thrills.
Re [Goanet] WAR ON IRAQ
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Quiz - Papaya / Banana eating| |Competition.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- Christianity is a Religion of Love. It has inspired democracies in the world. It has still a role to play in the struggle for human rights. Ivo da C.Souza
[Goanet]Goanet News Bytes * May 7, 2005 * Internet scam cheats thousands
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Quiz - Papaya / Banana eating| |Competition.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] G o a n e t - N e w s B y t e s MAY 7, 2005 DATELINE: GOA ... . ... .. ... .||.Founded in 1994 || || .| '|. '' .|| || || .|...|| || by Herman |'' || || .|' || || || || || Carneiro '. '|..|' '|..'|' .||. ||. '|...' '|.' http://www.goanet.org .|' To unsubscribe from this list, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you find this ezine useful, please recommend it to your friends and others from Goa. To sign-up http://newsfromgoa.swiki.net http://www.goanet.org * http://www.goanet.org * http://www.goanet.org [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] IN TODAY'S EZINE: An Internet scam in Goa... and did you believe you could earn ten thousand rupees from just typing in a few names and numbers into a computer hooked to the Net Goa is currently seeing fruit and wine festivals. Summer's here, and so are the fruits! Can a Goan team win the national football league? INTERNET SCAM AFFECTS thousands of Goa investors. Salient Online, a Chennai-based network, sold many Goan youngsters that they could earn upto Rs 10,000 per month by just typing in a few names and numbers via the Internet. Over the past few months, one could see several dozen youth, sitting behind cybercafe terminals, keying in Western-sounding names and numbers. Each had to pay Rs 3000 to get an 200 names to type in each day. Many thought of buying multiple accounts, to earn a decent 'wage' each month. On Friday, investors reaching the company's office at the Unitech City Centre in downtown Panjim were shocked to find the office closed and the website not functioning. There was no news of the CEO Rajesh Sunder. Police said they sent a team to arrest Sunder in Chennai. They claimed Sunder had duped his employees of between Rs 70 to 90 crores (Rs 700-900 million), Herald reports. But details figures or a break-up were not available. Some 500 individuals gathered outside the company office in Panjim and Herald says tens of thousands of Goans had invested, and faced a bleak future. Reports said the fury of the crowd was so much that the angry mob broke into the locked office, damaged five computers and scattered files in search of cash that was to be repaid to them. Police said they were acting on a complaint of Ashley Afonso of Quepem. See http://www.salientonline.net GONE GOA: Defaulting operators may cripple Goa charter market, warns Gomantak Times. It reports that a second operator joins the default queue after the Transhow honcho dies. Earlier reports cited the suicide of a prominent Russian charter operator, who owed 5-7 crores of rupees to Goa. (GT) o Panjim-based Anthony Lobo, known as 'Dr' Tony, was arrested for molestation and unnatural sexual offences around 11.30 pm on May 5.(H) Residents at Nirancal, Bethoda punctured the tyres of a garbage truck and man-handled the crew, protesting the garbage dumping in their area.GT o Convict Maruti Tirumali, 40, originally from Belgaum, jumped to his death at the Aguada jail. (GT) o South Goa electoral officer to act tough against code violations. (H) o Goa Congress elects 5 vice-presidents and treasurer un-opposed. The VPs are Jitendra Deshprabhu, MK Sheikh, Domnic Fernandes, Agnel Fernandes and Dr Wilfred Mesquita. Moti Desai has been elected treasurer.H o Parrikar to blame for the Goa Common Entrance Text mess (for admission to professional colleges), alleges Pratapsing Rane. (H) o Vasco police nab 10 sex workers. (H) o Konkani books in Roman script dwindling, says Tomazinho Cardozo. (H) o Transport Department suspends licenses of two motor driving schools. (H) o Fr Agnel Pilar selected for free coaching classes for minorities to face competitive exams. (NT) o Frequent overflow of underground sewage irks Baina residents. (NT) o Soulmate, from Shillong, performs live at Sweet Chilli, Sinquerim. TIPS FROM THE KONKAN FRUIT FEST: Did you know that a ripe banana could be used for preventing wrinkles, pimples and softening skin? And that coconut milk applied all over the scalp and massaged into the hair roots is beneficial in the treatment of hair loss? For
[Goanet]Evangelization etc.
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- Kevin Saldanha wrote: THANK YOU! Cecil for posting the Humanist's worldview. It may not be everyone's cup of tea but it works for me. However I was intrigued by your concern for Catholics leaving 'the religion of the community you were raised in'. Does it affect the quality of your worship if your numbers decreased? Could it mean that more and more of them are being turned off the high-handed approach which will eventually just leave the fundamentalists? -- Dear Kevin, Just to clarify. I am not a Humanist in the strictest sense of the word because I DO have a deep belief in the existence of God. Nor am I trying to get others to join Humanism. I just posted that because I find it interesting. Religion is a personal private choice and should be that way. I do not believe in evangelizing others to see my point of view regarding religion. To each his own. My concern for the exodus from Catholicism is because it was the religion of the community that was most dominant in my growing years and hence is largely responsible for my currents set of ethics (morals are relative). I continue to function (to the best of my ability) as a member of the Catholic Community despite not being able to practice the religion. In a recent discussion with Santosh Helekar, on these matters, this is what he had to say. I quote below with his permission, and hope to be able to emulate his thinking, as it closely parallels mine. quote from Santosh e-mail to me --- If humanism is practiced on an individual basis, then I have no problem with it. But if you are talking about creating a religion or a uniform set of rules of living, around humanism, then I would be highly reluctant to be associated with it. The reasons for this view of mine are as follows: 1. The freedom of thought that I espouse prevents me from being tied to any kind of organized movement or school of thought. I want complete freedom in the way I think. I want to be able to change my mind if evidence contradicts my point of view. I like to be around people who disagree with me. Sycophants make me uneasy and suspicious. 2. All organizations which offer guidance on how to conduct oneself in life based on some set of beliefs, whether religious or not have a cult-like tinge to them. This is true, for example, of political ideologies and parties, activist movements, multi-level marketing networks, followers of health, motivational and management gurus, new age and alternative medicine movements, self-help groups, rock star fan clubs, etc. They lead to an entrenched and captive mentality, which is quite repulsive to me. 3. I don't like to preach to others, and I don't want others to preach to me. I just want to voice my views. Let others think for themselves and decide whether what I say makes sense or not. And I always want to reserve my right to disagree with them, when they express their own views. --- unquote --- As you can see I am still in the process of formulating my beliefs and therefore discuss these matters with those whose views I respect. Cheers! Cecil = --- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * --- Make your mother in Goa happy on Mothers' Day. http://www.goa-world.com/goa/expressions/mothersday/ Limited Mother's Happiness packages. First come, first serve. ---
[Goanet]Re: Gomantak Times questions NGOs
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- All, NGO's and non-profits should be held to the highest standards, just like the media and other institutions. However, in the last 10 years or so, it has become fashionable to bash NGO's, something which started in America with Newt Gingrich and the American right, often hiding behind faith and religion. They go after anything which challenges their views, the latest attack is against judges in America who do not share their narrow view. Traditional NGO's non-profits side with the poor, suffering, diseased, under-developed, etc. - in short those who fight multi-national corporate interests and the rich for their fair share. Hence, they become the target of media and political campaigns attacking them. This is a pattern now occuring world-wide. However, the rich, elite have now started their own NGOs to serve their own special interests and fight traditional NGOs for market share. One never see these NGOs attacked publicly mostly because the rich own the newspapers, television stations, movie and entertainment companies. Most of the Christian right in America today has an unholy alliance with capitalism and does not speak out against exploitation when it occurs unless it serves their interests. Not that capitalism is evil, but its excesses are well known. The Catholic Church has historically also had a cozy relationship with the rich and powerful. Pre-conclave, Cardinal Ratizinger in his homily attacked a number of isms (relativism, liberalism. Marxism, etc.) but was silent about Capitalism. His known opposition to liberation theology which sides with the poor and his omission of capitalism makes one wonder whose side he is on. The attack on traditional NGOs is part of a larger plan of taking sides in the ongoing, age-old economic battle - rich versus poor. Regards, George --- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * --- Make your mother in Goa happy on Mothers' Day. http://www.goa-world.com/goa/expressions/mothersday/ Limited Mother's Happiness packages. First come, first serve. ---
[Goanet]Why Some Goan Hindus Rob Flowers - by Cecil Pinto
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- The year was 1665. The Great Plague was sweeping through Europe. They didn't have vacuum cleaners then, so sweeping was still considered cool. Thousands were dying. Cats were feeding on diseased dead rats and dying.Dogs were feeding on these diseased dead cats and dying. These dead cats and dogs were piled up in huge heaps at the side of the road to localise the contamination. When it rained heavily the dead bodies of the cats and dogs used to float in the gutters and people used to say, It's raining cats and dogs!. All this has absolutely nothing to do with the Goan legend that follows but it sure is a great way to start a story. Or is it? Damodar Naik had no male heir. He had no hair either but that is irrelevant to this story. Or maybe it is. Damodar was one of seven brothers and four sisters. Remember this was the 17th century and families were big, as survival was tough. Female infanticide had not yet been thought up but it was not uncommon for fathers to kill their grown-up daughters if they were particularly ugly and huge dowries were being demanded - even though the prospective groom was even uglier. Damodar had four good looking daughters but no son. Every morning he cursed his wife Mogrem for not begetting him a son. Why don't you beget me a son?, he would wail every morning. Mogrem would just continue sweeping the floor in bewilderment. She didn't understand English. She was fed up with the wailing, and the sex. Damodar would sit in the small shed by his fields everyday, smoking his beedies, and ask passing by fathers of sons for the secret of their success. These cruel men would see the desperation in Damodar's eyes and suggest to him the most arcane sex postures, weird herbal concoctions and chants for ensuring a male progeny. All of these Damodar tried on, or with, Mogrem, to no avail. One early morning as Damodar was going off to water his fields he came across a seer. Hey seer. What do you see?, asked Damodar thinking himself very witty. The seer wasn't in a particularly good mood that morning as had got off on the wrong side of his bed and stepped on a rusty nail (please note that it is a myth that Hindu holy men sleep on beds of nails). The seer thought Let's teach this smart alec a lesson. What is you username and password?, he asked. Quite befuddled our Damodar replied Damodar Naik, spelt with a 'i' and not a 'y'. Damodar didn't know what was the relevance of this but had heard his paternal uncle saying it and had adopted the phrase as it sounded quite profound. Many centuries later whether you were a Naik or Nayak would be as important as whether you wore Nike, Puma or Bata but at that time designer footwear was still the domain of the lower castes. You are the Damodar of the four daughters and no son?, said the seer. Holy mackerel!, thought Damodar, Is there anyone who doesn't know my situation? Goa sure is a small place. The last sentence was also a phrase he had appropriated from his paternal uncle who was quite a bundle of phrases as you can well imagine. The grass is always greener on the other side, said the seer with his best seer-like attitude. Thy neighbour's rose she blooms much better than that of thou! Oh! Quit the cliches already and tell me what you actually mean. I've bought the T-shirt on these mysterious sayings. The seer by now had decided that he better attend to his sore foot and without any further explanation just hobbled off. Damodar pondered what the seer had told him the whole day as he watered his fields and fed his cattle and did all the typical 17th century things that Goan men did. In the evening as he watched Mogrem prepare the chappatis for him he asked her What do you think the seer meant by that and repeated what the seer had said. The grass is always greener on the other side. Thy neighbour's rose she blooms much better than that of thou! Whaddya make of that?. Mogrem just shrugged. Let us not forget she couldn't understand English. But the name Rose did spark of a bit of recognition in Mogrem's eyes and gave Damodar the look which said, in any language, Let me so much as even catch you looking at Rose and you will wish you were never born! You see Rose was the next door neighbour's nubile twenty two year daughter. The neighbours had converted to Christianity a few decades back and had already started pretending they did not know Konkani and only spoke Portuguese - with the most atrocious accents. They dressed in the latest Western styles
Re: [Goanet] Scientific equivalent of faith
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- Mario Goveia wrote: As long as the mathematical description remains unsupported by objective physical evidence, it remains a hypothesis. This seems to be the dilemma that Prof. Antony Flew, a lifelong defender of atheism, faced, when he grudgingly conceded that it was equally reasonable for others to believe an alternative hypothesis of a higher being. In case it is not clear, let me state that the intent of my last post on this thread was simply to demonstrate the falsity of the charge that the current formulation of the Big Bang hypothesis is similar to religious faith a charge that was explicitly made earlier. As for Flew using the Big Bang hypothesis as a reasonable justification for a higher being, I have the following things to say: 1. This argument is not new. It has been known in philosophy as the God of the Gaps argument. Whenever a gap has become apparent in the scientific understanding of anything, believers have pointed it out as the reason why we need a god. The history of science is replete with instances of how steady and progressive bridging, filling or narrowing of these gaps has forced believers to shrink the role of their deity claim increasingly smaller territory in his name, so to speak. Indeed, there is a classic anecdote about Napoleon asking Laplace why God does not figure in his theory of celestial mechanics. In response, Laplace is believed to have said, Sire, I have no need for that hypothesis. 2. The proposal that one needs a god to explain something, can be justified on any number of purely philosophical grounds. However, it can never be justified on scientific grounds. That is to say, positing that one needs a deity to explain something can never be regarded as a scientific hypothesis (unless, one cheats and modifies the definition of god to include pantheistic concepts, such as a divine universe, or something which is impersonal, non-anthropomorphic, and does not possess sentience and intentionality e. g. a unified field/force or law of nature, such as quantum gravity), because such a hypothesis is not testable. 3. The Big Bang cosmology, as it is conceived today, has within it an ingenuous scientific explanation for how something emerged from nothing, spontaneously. To someone who has read about modern physics and cosmology, and understood a little bit of it, it seems highly plausible and eminently testable. It falls out of the equations of quantum mechanics. A universe emerging spontaneously from a quantum fluctuation is a much simpler and more economical explanation than one requiring any kind of creator with a mind, modeled on the human psyche, requiring consciousness, intelligence, perception, memory, thought process and intentionality. The principle of parsimony or Occams razor excludes any kind of complicated explanation involving a creator god, whose existence would, in turn, require a new and separate explanation. 4. The quantum mechanical concept of something emerging from nothing, or the idea of zero-point energy or vacuum energy, has been experimentally tested, and shown to be true, by many physicists, including Steve Lamoreaux, now at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and his student Dev Sen. 5. Therefore, the idea of a creator god can only be justified on grounds of faith, or by any philosophy that is based purely on faith, or by modifying the concept of god to mean any kind of fundamental physical process. The latter god would have nothing in common with the Biblical, Christian, Islamic or Hindu God. So no apologist for any of the major religions of the world can honestly claim to have been vindicated by postulating such a god. In summary, science does not require the postulation of the supernatural concept of a traditional anthropomorphic god or superhuman, to explain any observed natural process in this universe. Postulation of such an entity for arbitrary reasons, for emotional reasons, for God of the Gaps reasons, or for reasons based on faith, can never be regarded as a scientific hypothesis. Such a hypothesis is not satisfying, parsimonious or useful from the scientific standpoint. It certainly cannot be tested or falsified by scientific observation or experiment. We have heard our share of platitudes about this issue in this forum from many people, including me, and we are likely to hear more from the usual suspects, packaged in recycled quotations, forwarded chain letters, prayers, blessings, real and fictitious anecdotes, etc. However, the only platitude that appears to be true is:
Re: [Goanet]Fraud
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To begin with - may I sugest that you sign your full name and address if you have one , this might help us to get to know who you are .. thanks rene -- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| | | | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- Dear SIr, I'm a resident of Goa, I had paid Rs. 36,000/- for a BPO (work at home) job named Salient Online Solutions, supposedly having a head office at Chennai and branch office at Panaji, Citi Centre Building. Now these people have collected crores of rupees from investors and dissapeared in thin air duping all the goans to the tune of crores of rupees. Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html --- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * --- Make your mother in Goa happy on Mothers' Day. http://www.goa-world.com/goa/expressions/mothersday/ Limited Mother's Happiness packages. First come, first serve. ---
[Goanet]Gomantak Times questions NGOs
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- Yesterday's Gomantak Times (6th May) had a letter from Claude Norma Alvares and a reply from the Editor of Gomantak Times. Reproduced below. Interesting. Cecil - letter from Alvares - Dear Editor, We are both immensely saddened and distressed by your wholly inappropriate and unjust labeling of Jan Ugahi as a 'non-giving organisation'. What are the facts on which GT has based this evaluation? A street child dies while running away from police custody. Jan Ugahi, as an organization long working with slumdwellers, tries to help. They organize meetings and get the press to highlight not just this tragedy, but the general callousness of society towards street children, and the need for reform in the system. They ask the mother to help as well in the campaign. They came to us for legal advice. We saw the case was difficult because of the nature of the FIR filed by the police and the fact that there was no intention on the part of anyone to kill the child. But the activists said they would keep on trying nonetheless at least for compensation. They haven't succeeded as yet. But they are still trying. Now the mother feels they have let her down. The GT uses the mother's words (and some of its own) to run the organization down as if they are a worthless bunch. Was it a mistake for Jan Ugahi to have even tried to help? If GT were interested in a proper evaluation of the work done by Jan Ugahi, surely it could have done a far better job. Greg and Bernie who founded Jan Ugahi in 1996 have worked with the abject poor, even before they came to Goa. For the past eight years they have worked among the people of the several slum settlements of Margao and Salcette. They run non-formal education and adult literacy classes for children and women in their center, with vocational training (including tailoring, embroidery, batik and tie-dying, paper bags and utility items) for generating income among self-help groups. They introduced group savings schemes for women and children and a counseling center for women in crisis situations. They try and obtain government schemes for deserted women, widows, scheduled castes and other backward groups. They also conduct awareness sessions and health camps for reproductive and fertility awareness for girls and women. The organization was instrumental in the arrest of Colin John Middleton, a notorious pederast, in March 2001. They have worked hard to investigate cases of child sex abuse on the beaches of Goa. In all this they have pursued neither money nor fame. Trying to get the press to highlight a moral issue can hardly be construed as self-publicity. Bernie and Greg are neither fancy vehicle owners nor merit any of the other unsavoury accusations GT has made against them. They are simple people who have long ago decided to do something different among people whom no one cares about. And your paper calls them a 'non-giving organisation'! What a travesty! GT has become a great paper under your editorship and is probably today one of Goa's best. We are writing to protest because the article was entirely out of character. The last thing we know you want to do is kill good work since there is so little of it around. We feel you owe the organisation an apology. I hope you will be generous enough to concede that. You could have roundly criticized them if they had not taken up the case, but you can hardly blame them because they (and all of us, the press included) tried and failed. The failure is not theirs alone, but our society's as well, because we still have to work and live under an administration that does not believe a mother should be compensated even when her child died while technically in police custody. Claude and Norma Alvares -- end of Alvares letter --- ++ --- letter from GT Editor - Dear Mr and Mrs Alvares, Thank you for taking some time off from your busy schedule to write in with your comments. Our report on Jan Ugahi's involvement with the case, as part of our series 'Non-Giving Organization', was not an attack on the organization's work as a whole but on its handling of the Kalia case in particular. Also the entire article was based on the mother's comments to our reporters. In addition, Bernie D'Souza of Jan Ugahi was informed about the mother's tirade and her comments in response were duly - and prominently - published in a separate box. Your comment questioning whether Jan Ugahi made a mistake by trying to help is itself surprising.
[Goanet]Bernice Coelho crowned Young Goans Club's May Queen in Bahrain
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- Bernice Coelho crowned Young Goans Club's May Queen in Bahrain (Goa-World.Com News Flash): Bahrain, May 5, 2005: Former student of Bahrain's Indian School Bernice Coelho was crowned Young Goans Club's May Queen 2005 last night during the May Queen Ball held at the Palace Inn Hotel. Bernice Coelho hailing from Goa, is the daughter of the Vice President of the Konkan Singers Club, Benny Coelho. She is pursuing her studies in fine arts at the Bharati Vidyapit University Pune, and is currently in Bahrain during her summer holidays. She beat 16 other contestants for the title. The May Queen Pageant is one of the major events of the Club. The contest was open to women of all nationalities aged 16 to 30. The Pageant was compered by Anand Lobo and local band Sheer Magic provided live music. The show was sponsored by Indian Airlines and Bahrain Ferro Alloys. GR Crasto/Bahrain http://www.goa-world.com/goa/ WHAT'S ON IN KUWAIT MAY BALL 2005 Date: Thursday, 12-05-05 Organized by Goan Welfare Society (GWS)-Kuwait Venue: Safir Palace Hotel, Riggea Bands: Stepping Stones City Limits. Compere: Lloyd D'Souza Coordinator: Julio Cardoso Highlights: Crowning of the MAY QUEEN 2005. --- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * --- Make your mother in Goa happy on Mothers' Day. http://www.goa-world.com/goa/expressions/mothersday/ Limited Mother's Happiness packages. First come, first serve. ---
Re [Goanet] WAR ON IRAQ
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- Christianity is a Religion of Love. It has inspired democracies in the world. It has still a role to play in the struggle for human rights. Ivo da C.Souza --- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * --- Make your mother in Goa happy on Mothers' Day. http://www.goa-world.com/goa/expressions/mothersday/ Limited Mother's Happiness packages. First come, first serve. ---
[Goanet]Fraud
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- Dear SIr, I'm a resident of Goa, I had paid Rs. 36,000/- for a BPO (work at home) job named Salient Online Solutions, supposedly having a head office at Chennai and branch office at Panaji, Citi Centre Building. Now these people have collected crores of rupees from investors and dissapeared in thin air duping all the goans to the tune of crores of rupees. Their website address is http://www.salientonline.net once you open this site we have to enter our ID and password and start working daily 50 entries (names and numbers) were to be done. I were charging Rs. 3000 for 1 ID, I had taken 12 ID's with a hope of doing / getting some extra money per month. The news is wide spread Navhind Times have come up with a full page (front page) news about these fraudsters. All the investors are wild and angry since they have lost lakhs of rupees. The rumour mill is working wild saying that IT Department have raided their office in Panaji. etc...etc.. Have a read at http://www.navhindtimes.com/ about this sorry story (or click on this link http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=newsStory_ID=050726) As of now I know only this much...My request is to nab the fraudsters and make them give the money back to all the investors as soon as possible. Please help us out if possible from your side...anything absolutely anything give us some suggestions, hints clues etc...what to do abt it.. Anyways that's all frm my side will keep u posted of the latest status. Bye for now STK_TDR You are what your deepest desire is; As you desire, so is your intention; As your intention, so is your will; As is your will so is your deed; As is your deed, so is your destiny -The Upanishads --- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * --- Make your mother in Goa happy on Mothers' Day. http://www.goa-world.com/goa/expressions/mothersday/ Limited Mother's Happiness packages. First come, first serve. ---
[Goanet]Re: *** Goanet News Bytes * Internet scam cheats thousands
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- INTERNET SCAM In Portugal we call this kind of procedures as conto do viga'rio. Some decades ago someone sold the Central Station in Lisbon to a newcomer in downtown for the equivalent of Escudos 30,000.00 Pay atention to all those smart guys that explore innocent people. Free press is very usefull for this kind of alerts. Henrique Salles da Fonseca / Lisbon --- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * --- Make your mother in Goa happy on Mothers' Day. http://www.goa-world.com/goa/expressions/mothersday/ Limited Mother's Happiness packages. First come, first serve. ---
[Goanet]Konkan Fruit Fest
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- Hearty congratulations to Miguel Braganza, well-known GoaNetter for organizing the superb Konkan Fruit Festin Panjim. I have attended the Fruit Fest for the third year in a row, and have also attended all the annual Plant Utsavs organized by Miguel and his associates in the Botanical Society of Goa. A lot of work goes on behind the scenes to put up these shows, and one can learn a lot by attending them. I always come back enlightened, and with bags heavy with plants and other produce. It is a joy to interact with the folks manning the various stalls. They are very knowledgeable and one gleans a lot of useful information. Thank you Minguel and your band of volunteers. A great job as usual. --- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * --- Make your mother in Goa happy on Mothers' Day. http://www.goa-world.com/goa/expressions/mothersday/ Limited Mother's Happiness packages. First come, first serve. ---
[Goanet]NRI in the White House ?
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- I am glad that Mr Khanna, an NRI is the Chief Financial Officer at the White House. We also have a Goan in the White House in charge of all the Information Technology . Conrad Ribeiro, a pukka Goenkar ! Perhaps someday, we will have someone in the White House as the President ? --- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * --- Make your mother in Goa happy on Mothers' Day. http://www.goa-world.com/goa/expressions/mothersday/ Limited Mother's Happiness packages. First come, first serve. ---
[Goanet]Dr. T. B. d' Cunha Goa International Airport
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- From: Frederick Noronha (FN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] How to stem the rot in Goa ... By Eduardo Faleiro - Syndicate Features The leader of Goa Freedom Movement was Dr. T.B. d'Cunha. At the time of his death in 1958, in a condolence resolution the Indian National Congress described him as the Father of the Goan Liberation Movement. Why don't we request to name the new Goa Airport to be called Dr. T. B. d' Cunha Goa International Airport. (to the few Anti- Liberation guys on the net - Sorry to make this proposal). Jai Hind! Carlos --- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * --- Make your mother in Goa happy on Mothers' Day. http://www.goa-world.com/goa/expressions/mothersday/ Limited Mother's Happiness packages. First come, first serve. ---
[Goanet]Happy Mothers Day
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- Wishing all those Wonderful Mums a very Happy and Peaceful Mothers Day this sunday. From Joy and the Club de Goa, Brisbane committee in Australia. --- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * --- Make your mother in Goa happy on Mothers' Day. http://www.goa-world.com/goa/expressions/mothersday/ Limited Mother's Happiness packages. First come, first serve. ---
[Goanet]Eduardo Faleiro... on how to stem the rot in Goa
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- http://www.asiantribune.com/show_article.php?id=2366 How to stem the rot in Goa ... By Eduardo Faleiro - Syndicate Features [EMAIL PROTECTED] The leader of Goa Freedom Movement was Dr. T.B. d'Cunha. At the time of his death in 1958, in a condolence resolution the Indian National Congress described him as the Father of the Goan Liberation Movement. On this occasion, Prime Minister Nehru said what is worth remembering is that a small territory had produced a relatively large number of men and women who have sacrificed much for the struggle. Among them the name that stands out is that of Dr. T.B. Cunha. I have requested the Speaker of Lok Sabha who is the Chairman of the Committee for Installation of Portraits of national leaders in Parliament House complex to display the portrait of Dr. T.B. Cunha in Parliament House. I request all political parties to support this move so that the portrait of Dr. T.B. Cunha is displayed in Parliament in the course of this year alongside other stalwarts of the national Freedom Movement. The greatest benefit of Independence was democratisation of the Goan society. Moving away from a colonial and feudal set up, the vast silent majority acquired a voice and participated in governance. For more than a decade (1963-1977) there was no presence of any national party either in the Legislature or even at the local level of Panchayats or Municipalities. Goan politics was entirely dominated by two regional parties each claiming to represent the interests of one of the two major communities -Hindus and Christians. In 1977, I won a Lok Sabha seat exclusively on the Congress ticket. This was the first election at any level won by a national party on its own strength. In 1980, the first Congress Government was formed in the State. For the first time, representatives of both the communities were represented in one Party. The Congress rule provided a much faster development with emphasis of rural areas and for the benefit of economically and socially weaker sections. The 20 Point Programme was implemented in letter and spirit. For the first three decades (1963-1990) Goa had just 3 Chief Ministers. Over the last 15 years, however, there have been 15 Chief Ministers some for a few days, others a few months and none for the full term. There are only 40 seats in the Goa Assembly, about 20 thousand voters in each constituency and defection of a single MLA may bring down the Government. The rise of the BJP in Goa was the result of engineering splits in the Congress Legislature Party, supporting Governments of Congress splinter groups for a few months and then withdrawing support and finally forming a BJP led Government with splits of splits and individual MLAs. Having come to power by engineering successive defections mainly from the Congress Party, the BJP has no reason to complain. Those who live by the sword die by the sword. The collapse of the BJP Government would have happened much earlier. It remained in power for a little longer only because of the machinations of the NDA Government at the Centre. One of the Governors appointed during the NDA rule told me clearly that if the BJP led Government lost its majority he would dissolve the Assembly but would in no case allow a Congress government to take over. The present Governor is now being blamed. What else could he do? On the day of the no confidence vote, the Congress combine had 18 MLAs and the BJP front 17 MLAs. The BJP had obviously lost its majority. The then Chief Minister should have submitted his resignation rather than resorting to all these histrionics. In Goa and in some other small States defections have become endemic and acquired respectability. Petitions for disqualification submitted to the Speaker of the Assembly have turned into a farce. There is no time limit provided for a decision and sometimes a decision is given by the Speaker within seconds and at other times never. The collapse of the BJP led government in Goa was due to disgust of the electorate with its policies and in particular with - i) widespread corruption and wasteful expenditure on glitzy extravaganzas e.g. the recent International Film Festival and such other events. The CBI should investigate some of these cases. ii) Neglect of rural areas and blatant unconcern for the backward classes and weaker sections. iii) Deliberate and systematic communalisation of the administrative machinery, including the police and civil services, and iv). Rampant
[Goanet]HOW MP IS BOOSTING AIR CARE
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- http://www.expresshotelierandcaterer.com/20050509/talkingpoint01.shtml Air Care For Madhya Pradesh Capital View Rabindra Seth Madhya Pradesh must be the first state to draw the nation's attention to its poor air connectivity through an aviation conclave sponsored by CII. A background paper circulated at the one-day deliberations held in the capital on April 19 pointed out that of the 125 operational airports managed by the Airports Authority of India only four are in Madhya Pradesh. And of these, regular flights are available only in two, the capital Bhopal and Indore. The premier tourism destination Khajuraho has only thrice-a-week service! And, all this for a state which is the largest in size spread over some 400,000 square kilometres. ... --- --- * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * --- Make your mother in Goa happy on Mothers' Day. http://www.goa-world.com/goa/expressions/mothersday/ Limited Mother's Happiness packages. First come, first serve. ---
[Goanet]Goanet News Bytes * May 6, 2005 * Russian suicide and Goan tourism
-- | 3rd Annual Konkan Fruit Fest, Goa - May 6-8, 2005| || | Today's Events include Fruit Carving - Decor - Watermelon eating | |Fancy Dress.Check out http://konkanfruit.swiki.net | -- [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] G o a n e t - N e w s B y t e s MAY 6, 2005 DATELINE: GOA ... . ... .. ... .||.Founded in 1994 || || .| '|. '' .|| || || .|...|| || by Herman |'' || || .|' || || || || || Carneiro '. '|..|' '|..'|' .||. ||. '|...' '|.' http://www.goanet.org .|' To unsubscribe from this list, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you find this ezine useful, please recommend it to your friends and others from Goa. To sign-up http://newsfromgoa.swiki.net http://www.goanet.org * http://www.goanet.org * http://www.goanet.org [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] IN TODAY'S EZINE: Goan tourism faces a shock, following the suicide of a key Russian tour operator, whose firm reportedly owes Goa between 50 to 70 million rupees. A suicide at the Mandovi turns to be a hoax. Lots of other reports from cyberspace... including some reports exclusive to Goanet. GOAN HOTELIERS IN TROUBLE after the death of Russian tour operator. The news of the death of a major Russian tour operator has sent the local tour, travel and hotel industry into a tizzy. The total payments due to Goan hotels could be between Rs 50 to 70 million. According to information percolating from the tourism industry, Gagin, the proprietor of the major Russian charter operating firm, Transshow, committed suicide by shooting himself on April 28. The firm used to operate at least one flight a week, and sometimes two. WINNABILITY, LOYALTY IS BJP'S MANTRA FOR BYE-ELECTIONS. BJP's national general secretary in-charge of Goa, Pramod Mahajan, said one has to learn lessons from the past. Otherwise, one never becomes wise clearly indicating that the BJP doesn't want to repeat what it did over the last four-and-half years to grab and stay on in power. (Herald) A SUICIDE THAT NEVER WAS: City abuzz over girl jumping off Mandovi Bridge. Everyone in Panjim today could be seen and heard discussing very animatedly the news of a girl committing suicide by jumping off the Mandovi bridge. But, ironically, in what appeared to be a script from a Bollywood blockbuster movie -- probably never written till date -- the purported suicide never did occur.(H) FRUITS, grafts, and useful information on offer at the Konkan fruit fest, May 6-8 opposite the Old Goa Medical College Building, Panjim. (H) o Sabotage ruled out in Merces food-poisoning case. (H) o Margao builder gets seven days to raze buildings at Fatorda, which came up without the mandatory conversion 'sanad'. (H) o Judgement in the disqualification petition against BJP MLAs Dayanand Mandrekar (Siolim) and Rajendra Arlekar (Vasco) to see its judgement on May 27. (H) o BJP to fight Goa bye-elections on 'stable government' plank. (NT) o Fuel pumps located in the heart of Margao city may face closure if they do not shift to the outskirts. (H) o Code of conduct brings life to a standstill in Goa. Inaugurations, laying of foundation stones are postponed, demolitions kept in abeyance, and works remain un-tendered due to rules which don't allow such activities after an election has been called for. (H) o Consultancy-fee fraud is only the tip of the International Film Festival of India scam, says Nationalist Congress Party. (H) o Discharge duties in the interest of people, Governor tells officials. o Madras Regimental Centre, Wellington has a few vacancies for enrolment into the army as infantry soldiers. Only sons and brothers of ex-servicemen and war widows will be considered. (H) o Taxi-stand for yellow-and-black taxis set up at Poinguinim. (H) o Laxman Kavlekar was elected president of the Gomantak Dhangar Samaj Onnati Mandal. Dhangars are one of Goa's neglected aboriginal communities. o Business quiz to be held on May 6 at Kala Academy 5.30 pm onwards. (H) o Mining pros and cons debated at Sanguem. (H) o Velsao July 2004 beach rape accused sentenced. (H) o Salcete BDO office in a pathetic state. (H) o Panjim doctor held for raping two girls, both his employees. (NT) o Vasco police arrested five women for being involved in the sex trade near the Kannada Galli, Baina beach this evening. (NT) o Three Russians were arrested for over-staying in Goa without a valid visa.
