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Silver lining on a gold horizon
Jamal Shaikh
Thursday, December 15, 2005  20:04 IST


Now its official. The party of the year isnt just to bring in Vijay
Mallyas birthday. It is, in fact, to celebrate a year of acquisitions,
successes and a frame of mind that spells being high on life.

Starting today, Goa will play host to a spectrum of celebrities, from
filmstars and industrialists to politicians, all of who will be in the
beach paradise to attend Dr Vijay Mallyas 50th birthday celebrations.

Several of Dr Mallyas international guests, mainly corporates, will
arrive on Friday while the whos who of Indian high society will trickle
in from Saturday, after Fardeen Khans big wedding reception tonight,
informed a source.

Insiders say that the lavish celebrations reflect Dr Mallyas state of
mind. The Shaw Wallace acquisition, the continued success of the UB
Group, the launch of Kingfisher Airlines and the subsequent capture of six
per cent of the national air traffic has left the Chairman of the UB Group
a very happy man, stated a source.

Incidentally, this year also marks the start of Dr Mallyas 25th year as
Chairman, and the party on Friday is to celebrate that. It may be
recalled that a 26-year-old Dr Mallya took over the helm of the Group
right after his father Vithal Mallya passed away.

For the main party on Sunday night, over 800 people are expected to
attend. Two Kingfisher jets have been pressed into service to ensure the
party of the year happens in truly great style.

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[Goanet] Liberation musings...

2005-12-19 Thread Valmiki Faleiro


ALL n SUNDRY
By Valmiki Faleiro


Liberation musings...

This day, 44 years ago. Early morning, two Indian Air Force planes strafed the 
*Emissora de Goa*, the powerful radio transmitting station, at Bambolim and 
the civilian airfield at Dabolim. The previous night, mechanized columns of 
the Indian Army had crossed the international border and now advanced towards 
Panjim, as retreating defenders dynamited bridges to delay their advance. An 
Indian Navy fleet, led by INS Brahmaputra, sailed up the Zuari estuary to take 
on a lone frigate berthed at Mormugao and, unexpectedly, on a spirited sea 
observation post at Sada Headland, Vasco da Gama.

Goa's *Second Liberation* was well and truly underway. Achieved, like the 
first in her checkered modern history, by military might, but mercifully, with 
little bloodshed. The *Third Liberation*, with any hope, shall come about 
bereft of brute force.

Lest my multiple *Liberation* theories be summarily dismissed as FF (flights 
of fantasy) by Goa's extant FFs (Freedom Fighters) -- yes, extant, and heaven 
bless, they will remain so for another two and three-quarter centuries! -- may 
I elucidate.

But not before noting an oddity. *Freedom fighters* did not accomplish 
Liberation. Operation Vijay' staged by the Indian Armed forces, did. Under 
the command of a Goan, Air Vice Marshall Erlich Pinto, of Porvorim's 
illustrious Pinto do Rosario stock. Have *tamarapatras* been doled out to the 
families of Naval sainiks and Army jawans who lost their lives at Mormugao, 
Nani Daman and Anjediva?

Goa's *First Liberation* had come precisely 451 years before, almost to the 
month, on 25th Nov. 1510. Unable to bear the confiscatory taxes and other 
crushing miseries heaped upon Hindu Goa by Muslim Bahamanis from 1469 and by 
Adil Shahis from 1498, our ancestors conspired to throw them out. And awaited 
deliverance. By *firangis* from distant shores, as foretold by a soothsayer.

The only bulwark to the ascendant Muslims -- the Hindu Vijayanagar Empire -- 
was crumbling in the face of the onslaught. They could barely hold fort around 
their home base in Tamil Nadu. Far-flung territories like Goa had fallen to 
the Muslim sabre and lay forsaken.

Beaten but not broken, a Vijayanagiri sea captain lay licking his wounds in 
Honavar. Our Hindu ancestors approached Thimmaya to canvass help from the 
Portuguese, by then established on the Malabar coast.

On 17th February 1510, Thimmayya guided Afonso de Albuquerque's small fleet up 
the Mandovi. The assault was vicious, but the victory brief. On 23rd May 1510, 
Ismail Adil Khan, the ruling prince of Goa, fending off Marathas with 60,000 
soldiers, pushed out Albuquerque and his ragtag band. The *firangis* anchored 
off Penha de Franca/Aguada, where Hindus of Taleigao helped them with 
provisions, and thence, in August that year, with receding monsoons, to the 
isle of Anjediva. Awaiting reinforcements.

It was a long wait. Sail vessels took five months to reach India from 
Portugal. Food and water were soon exhausted. Every rat on board was hunted 
and relished. When rats were extinct, Albuquerque and his men chewed on 
leather and abominable stuff, to stave off starvation. Sails were laid out to 
collect rainwater.

A buoyant flotilla of six vessels finally arrived. Captain Thimmayya urged 
immediate attack, while Ismail Adilcao was again away. By dusk of 25th 
November 1510, after three days of fierce battle, Albuquerque had 6,000 
Muslims put to the sword. The streets of Old Goa turned into rivulets of 
blood. But Goa was Liberated! As *liberated* as the eventual need for a 
*Second Liberation*.

It's beyond this column's space to dwell on the 451 years. Be it only clear 
that I've grown by the advice: keep the windows open; retain what is good, 
chuck what is not.

>From 1787, our ancestors attempted to chuck the Portuguese. Goans, some now 
converted to Catholicism -- but not, as ignorantly perceived, to anti-
nationalism -- clamoured for freedom (see box, below.) Goa's pro-Portugal 
fringe was not a Catholic monopoly, if you please; anti-nationalism, if so it 
can be dubbed, transgressed barriers of creed and embraced those of class, 
like the largely Hindu mineowners and the landed gentry. But that's beside the 
point.

Goa could have been freed two centuries before, but neither Marathas nor the 
Peshwas obliged. In 1668, Shivaji tried but gave up easily. In 1683, Sambhaji 
surrounded vital forts and almost went for the jugular. But as the Portuguese 
viceroy lay supine before St. Francis Xavier's relics, the Moghuls 
unexpectedly attacked the Marathas and Sambhaji retreated. In 1739 the Peshwa, 
BhajiRao-I strategized a three-pronged attack: by Jayrama Sawant Bhonsle from 
the North, Rajah of Sondha from the South and his own Maratha general Venkat 
Rau from the East. Venkat captured most of Salcete but when within striking 
distance of the capital of Portugal's empire in the east, trade

[Goanet] Vasco hold Salgaocar to a goalless draw

2005-12-19 Thread D'Souza, Avelino

Vasco hold Salgaocar to a goalless draw 
20 Dec 2005 - UNI 

Panaji, Dec 19: Defending champions Salgaocar Sports club and Vasco
sports club played out a goalless draw and split the points in the Hutch
Goa Professional football league championship match, played at Duler
ground, Mapusa today.

In a dull and drab encounter, though both the teams made some desperate
attempts for the match winner, but no penetrating moves were initiated
from both sides during the major part of the match. 

Salgaocar could have won outright had Samson Singh utilized the gilt
edged opportunity before him towards the close of the match.  Now,
Salgaocar has 15 points from ten outings while Vasco also has an equal
number of points with one match less.  Salgaocar's Sachin Gawas was
today adjudged the man of the match for his fine performance.

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[Goanet] MYTHS ABOUT GOAN CULTURE - By Ben Antao

2005-12-19 Thread Goanet

MYTHS ABOUT GOAN CULTURE


"If Goa was ruled for over 450 years by Portugal, is it not reasonable to 
expect and accept that the Goan way of life would be influenced by the foreign 
rule? Why make a big deal about Goa's Portuguese past when the Goa state and 
the Indian governments are pushing tourism in Goa precisely because of its 
Latin flavour?" The debate on the Goa-Portugal link continues... BY BEN ANTAO.


MYTHS GALORE have been perpetrated about Goan culture over the past 30 years, 
myths that are directly forged by Indians from outside Goa and mostly from 
northern India. One such myth widely circulated by the tourism industry is 
that Goa is a fun place for sun, sand, sea and sex, booze and drugs, music, 
dance and good food. Another myth about the Goan way of life is generated by 
the Bollywood industry that continues to churn out movies showing Goan women 
as easily available floozies and men as pimps and drunks.

Yet another myth concocted by writers of Indian origin - Salman Rushdie, 
Rohinton Mistry, Nirad Chaudhury, and V.S. Naipaul - has projected Goans not 
only in a bad light, but also in a pejorative manner designed to invite 
ridicule and derision.

Take the tourism promotion of Goa. Who has been writing the publicity material 
emerging from the Goa government's publicity department? Most of it, if not 
all of it, is written by non-Goan Indians with axes to grind and make hay in 
the tropical Goan sun.

Can you imagine the state of West Bengal or Tamil Nadu or Maharashtra giving 
the job of promoting their respective cultures to Goans? No way! Then why is 
the Goa government allowing non-Goans to project distorted images of Goa in 
the name of tourism, both domestic and foreign?

DISTORTED IMAGES

IN the 80s the tourism ads and billboards showed Goan women in see-through, 
half-naked forms that clearly insulted the women and degraded their dignity. 
In the Punjabi Village restaurant in Toronto that I used to visit in the early 
80s, a Sikh waiter said to me with a lewd smile, "I've heard Goan girls are 
hot and easy." I shook my head negatively and told him he'd more likely find 
such women in Toronto. He never mentioned it again.

There are many reasons for such negative images of Goa and Goans. But I don't 
wish to go into detail in this article, except to say the fault lies with the 
successive local governments that have encouraged this, beginning with the 
first CM Dayanand Bandodkar, who wanted Goa to merge with Maharashtra. Soon 
after assuming power in the 1963 elections, Bandodkar began recruiting 
Maharashtrians and other Hindu Indians to manage the government departments of 
the then Union territory. Even the head of the publicity department in 1963-64 
was a non-Goan when qualified Goans were available.

Bandodkar, with a pedigree of the kolvontam clan, was dead set against the 
Kshatriyas and Brahmins, both Hindus and Christians. Thus began the non-Goan 
invasion in the civil service, and today, 40 years later, the population of 
native Goans in the state is reported to be only 25 percent.

Rane, the present CM, is an inspired Maharashtrawadi and was the CM in the 80s 
when the false and seductive images of Goa and Goans were projected in the 
name of boosting tourism. The wrong and banal images of Goa are still being 
publicized. What action, if any, did the freedom fighters take to correct such 
erroneous images? Did the editor Lambert Mascarenhas rage and rant against 
those tourism ads? Did the journalist Flaviano Dias lead a morcha through the 
Fontainhas area to the Azad Maidan and protest against the betrayal of Goan 
womanhood and correct the lies written by writers like Chaudhury, Naipaul, 
Rushdie and others?

Instead, so many Goan writers and journalists seem to have accepted the 
malicious propaganda of these writers. As recently as two months ago, I was 
engaged in dialogue on the Internet with the well-known journalist Fredrick 
Noronha of Saligao on the issue of publishing.

Fred wrote: "Having worked with the outstation media (mainly for news though), 
I appreciate how much of an uphill struggle it can be to get a story published 
*just* because it comes from Goa. On the other hand, people sitting in Delhi 
can afford to write books and get it published on just about any topic!"

I replied as follows: "Yours is not only a perception but a reality. 
Personally I feel there is a prejudice against Goa stemming from the 
mainstream Hindu mentality that views Goa as a place for fun, sex and a good 
time. Sadly this prejudice has been fueled by the successive governments in 
Goa since Liberation and the tourism industry (remember the sexual tourism ads 
of the 80s?). So much of the Goan identity has been shaped by non-Goan writers 
from Delhi and other places as if they know Goa better than resident Goans 
themselves. Pity!"

Fred replied: "Ben, I won't blame any mainstream Hindu mentality' here. It's 
just that cultural minorities tend to get misunderstood, reg

[Goanet] Philomena SanFrancisco's Book 'Mhojo Disttavo' Released

News -- Goa: Philomena SanFrancisco's Book 'Mhojo Disttavo' Released
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>From Sanjay Borkar in Margao for Daijiworld News Network - Goa

Margao, Dec 15: Mhojo Disttavo, a collection of 95 short stories written
by Philomena SanFrancisco, was released by Fr Moren D'Souza, editor of
'Rotti monthly magazine, at a function held in the Goa Konkani Academy
premises in Panaji, on Thursday.

Philomena SanFrancisco is well-known writer and columnist of Gulab,
Goan Review, Rotti and other monthly magazines. Thursday was a golden
day in her life, as her first book of short stories came in light. For
this reason she drove all the way from Mumbai to Goa.

Fr Moren DSouza releasing the book Mhojo Disttavo, as (from left)
author Philomena Sanfrancisco, GKA President Pundalik Naik and
Priyadarshani Tadkadkar look on

While expressing her feelings of that moment, she said that she had had
faith in her writings that one day it will see the light of the day and
the light was was possible through the Goa Konkani Academy under its
Pailo Chavar scheme.

She also said that one should not write for the sake of publicity but
should write with an aim to give a good message to the people.

She pointed out that Goan women, mostly Christian, felt shy to speak in
their mother tongue Konkani and for this reason they always spoke in
English. But by doing this the Goans had been losing their identity. They
should work to preserve their sweet language or else it would face
extinction some day, she added.

Speaking on the occasion, Fr DSouza said that Philomena possessed good
writing skill and also good command over writing of spirituality-related
and religious stories. He also invoked blessings on her.

On the occasion, GKA president Pundalik Naik revealed some schemes for
Konkani writers in Romi script, and also said that Academy would always
try to boost the Romi script writers, as development of Konkani was much
needed in this era.

Apurbai Prakashan has published this book with the help of GKA.

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[Goanet] Hotel tariff zooms up by 20 % in Goa

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Hotel tariff zooms up by 20 % in Goa
Sreejiraj Eluvangal / Mumbai December 19, 2005

Goas five-star hotel rates are likely to scale a new peak next fortnight,
say industry sources. With increased air-connectivity and increasing
number of Russian tourists, room-rates are higher by around 20 per cent
from last year, with deluxe rooms going for around Rs 20,000 per night and
five-star rates hovering around the Rs 15,000-mark.

Traditionally, between October and December, ahead of the New Year rush,
the room rents almost double in Goa hotels. This year is no exception. The
20 per cent hike is on top of that.

Park Hyatt, the biggest five-star deluxe resort in the country, has
increased its list-rate to Rs 25,000 for the last days of the year, up
from around Rs 12,000 in the month of October.

Kenilworth resorts, one of the oldest players in the five-star segment,
too have seen rates shoot-up from Rs 7,000 three months ago, to Rs 14,000
for the last week of December.

The rates have been increasing for the last two years, says R S Singh,
Kenilworths general manager for the state, adding, and this year, the
rates are around 20 per cent higher than last year in the four, five and
five-star deluxe categories.

Goa, which has around 1,800 hotel rooms in the three segments,
traditionally sees a rush for rooms towards the year-end, but high-end
visitor numbers have been on the rise throughout the year, says Singh.

The biggest change has been, the Russians. From a small group, which
landed here in 2002, they today make up around a sixth of all visitors to
the state. Today, if you look at the five-star hotels in the south of the
state, 30 per cent of the rooms are occupied by Russians, he says.

We sense an increase of 25 per cent in the number of foreign visitors
this year, agrees Anirban Sengupta of the Park Hyatt, which has rolled
out a huge entertainment zone at its 45-acre compound at Cansaulim in
South Goa.

The zone, divided into six traditional Indian atmospheres, is targeted
almost wholly at foreign tourists, who are expected to make up most of the
guests during the high-priced days of the year-end.

Kenilworth, with their normal rates of around Rs 7,000 a night, usually
has 90 per cent guests from inside the country. This time of the year, it
is just the reverse, with domestic tourists making up only around 10 per
cent, says Singh.

While bookings for the Christmas-New Year season was already over by the
beginning of December itself, industry officials point to a more
flattening trend in arrivals in last two years. A couple of years ago,
it used to be mainly a winter business. Occupancies in April to September
were in the range of 30 to 40 per cent and gradually picking up after
that, says Sengupta.

This year, thanks to better connectivity by air, except for a month and a
half during the peak monsoon season around June, occupancies have been
around 70 to 75 per cent through out. Now, instead of the four or five
flights a day three years ago, there are 25 flights.

Meanwhile, hotels in Mumbai too, reported an increase in the year-end
bookings. From the traditional 60 per cent range, most hotels, especially
the ones known for big year-end bashes, reported slightly better rates
this year.

We have noticed a marked increase in the number of bookings by Indians,
said Julian R Groom, general manager, The Royal Meridian.

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[Goanet] State's Largest Handicrafts Exposition 'Aparant Maand-05' Opened at Navelim

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State's Largest Handicrafts Exposition 'Aparant Maand-05' Opened at Navelim

Report and pics from Sanjay Borkar for Daijiworld News Network - Goa

Margao, Dec 18: A three-day event of Goas biggest handicraft, art and
cultural exposition, named as Aparant Maand-05, was inaugurated by state
chief minister Pratapsingh Rane, on Saturday evening 9.30pm, at Dr
Francisco Luis Gomes Mantap - Navelim.

During the inaugural function Goan artists presented their indigenous art
and music on the stage. The gala event mixed with handicrafts, art and
culture, attained a special colour as CM Rane said that the state
government was wooing Information Technology and Environment friendly
industries to solve the problem of unemployment. Once these industries
came into reality on the Goan soil, many of the sons of the soil would get
jobs. Though the government was doing its best to achieve all these goals,
still self-help groups could be formed to create self-employment, as
GHRSSIDC had many schemes.

Through this event unemployed youths would find a ray of hope for
self-employment, as state government departments' officers are present to
explain the schemes of self-employment, he added.

The man behind organizing the show Aparant Maand-05 at Navelim is local
MLA and industries minister Luizinho Faleiro, who says that the Navelim is
a hub of education. On the occasion he announced that soon the second
state art library would become a reality in Navelim for the welfare of
people as they will get all the facilities of keeping themselves informed
about all fields through this library.

CM Pratapsingh Rane lighting the lamp, along with industries minister
Luizinho Faleiro and GHRSSIDC chairperson Victoria Fernandes.

Many of the self-help groups have showcased their handicrafts, made of
coconut, wood, etc. Also the women self-help group have showcased with
their sewing work, sweets and pickles.

On December 18, governor S C Jamir was to felicitate some senior citizens
for their life-long achievement. Also as part of the event, usual health
camps will be held for senior citizens on December 19 from 8.30 am in
association with Apollo Victor Hospital.

Goa legislative assembly deputy speaker and GHRSSIDC chairperson Victoria
Fernandes and CM's wife Vijayadevi Rane were present on the function.

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[Goanet] Flesh trade racket busted in Goa

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Flesh trade racket busted in Goa
Goa | December 18, 2005 7:10:01 PM IST

During a raid conducted in a hotel yesterday, Goa Police arrested seven
girls, including two models involved in a flesh trade racket. Two kingpins
of the trade were also arrested.

The raid was conducted following a tip-off that some persons were running
a flesh trade racket from the hotel.

Vishram U. Borkar, Superintendent of Police, CID and Crime Branch, Goa,
said: "We have registered a case against them. We have arrested two male
kingpins who supply girls and seven girls during the raid".

"We sent a decoy customer with which the deal was tracked. Accordingly,
the raid was conducted and all the persons involved were arrested," Borhar
added.

The arrested girls are from the age-group of 20 to 30 years and none of
them belong to Goa.

Among the models, one was from Chandigarh and the other one was from
Assam. A male kingpin, Gopal Krishna Kumar, is from Kerela while the other
kingpin, Vishal, was Goa based. (ANI)

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[Goanet] International IT meet begins in Goa

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International IT meet begins in Goa
Panaji | December 18, 2005 8:15:06 PM IST

Academicians, industry professionals and students from India and abroad,
including successful non-resident Indians (NRIs) assembled here Sunday to
deliberate on the latest developments and improvisations in the field of
information technology.

The 12th Annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance
Computing (HiPC 2005) opened at a Goa beach resort and the deliberations
for the next four days will lay emphasis on the design and analysis of
high-performance parallel, distributed and networked systems and their
scientific, engineering and commercial applications.

"The conference will also witness highly technical deliberations on
logistical and other problems faced in securing global linkages for high
performance computers used by the scientific and research communities in
weather forecasting, space research and bio-technology," said Manish
Parashar, general chairman of the conference.

"Almost half of the 300-odd delegates at the conference are professionals
and academicians from North America," Parashar, himself a professor in the
department of electrical and computer engineering at Rutgers University,
New Jersey, told IANS.

The conference has for the last eleven years been organised at different
Indian cities, offering local students and computational science
communities an opportunity to mingle with the world's best in the
business.ar/zmn (IANS)





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[Goanet] Dr Reddy's sells Goa plant to US co

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Dr Reddy's sells Goa plant to US co
Friday, 16 December , 2005, 18:13

New Delhi: Hyderabad-based pharma major Dr Reddy's Laboratories has sold
off its manufacturing plant in Goa to US pharma company Watson
Pharmaceuticals Inc for an undisclosed sum.

"We have signed an agreement to this effect with Watson Pharma sometime
back," a company spokesperson told PTI from Hyderabad confirming the
development. |Read more Finance news.|

The financial details cannot be shared because of the confidentiality
clause, the spokesperson said, adding that the USFDA approved site at Goa
was used for manufacturing generic solid dosages formulations for export
to the US market.

The company's move to sell off its Goa plant is a part of its strategy to
reassess formulations manufacturing keeping the taxation strategy in mind.

"We have a new plant coming up at Baddi, which would absorb the capacity
of the erstwhile Goa plant," the spokesperson said, stressing that selling
of the Goa would not affect its productions.

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[Goanet] A Goan in Antarctica (by Helga do Rosario Gomes)

This article along with a couple of pictures appeared in the Times of India
(Goa Plus Supplement) on Friday, 16th December 2005.
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A Goan in Antarctica
by Helga do Rosario Gomes

Novices in the intricate world of US scientific funding, my husband Joaquim
Goes and I set out on what for us was a big adventure - a trip to Washington
DC to attend a workshop on the US Antarctic Program and learn about the
complex mechanisms that govern getting dollars out of the National Science
Foundation (NSF), the biggest supporter of Antarctic research.

Little did we know that this trip would take us into a magical world of
icebergs that resemble ruined castles, penguins that look you in the eye, 24
hours of blinding light, ice parties as well as the nastiest of storms and
the most brutal of temperatures! With the largesse of the NSF we have just
finished a three-year program where we along with scientists from five
organizations in the USA, studied the impact of Ultraviolet radiation on
marine biota in Antarctic waters.

In one of the biggest man-made ecological disasters ever, humans have pumped
chemicals such as Chlorofluoro carbons used in refrigerants into the
stratosphere destroying the blanket of ozone that envelopes our earth and
absorbs harmful UV radiation. The largest of these ozone holes is located
over the Antarctic. As a consequence people in the Southern hemisphere are
at risk to skin cancers and the marine food chain in the Antarctic is
susceptible to irreversible damage.

For three years we have taken the NSF's finest ice breaker, the Nathaniel
Palmer to the Ross Sea, hacked through miles and miles of the thickest of
ice and researched into various aspects of this problem - DNA damage from UV
radiation, production of noxious green house gases, winds and turbulence and
the loss of food to marine life. We visited McMurdo, the US base camp which
in summer houses almost 2500 people and supports another camp much further
south as well as a neutrino detector, the Ice Cube buried deep into the ice.

We watched from the library of the Crary lab, one of the most well equipped
laboratories with a spectacular view of snow capped mountains, as
helicopters constantly ferried scientists and engineers into the remotest of
the Dry Valleys. And of course we spent time at the three bars, the one shop
that has everything and even tried to get free haircuts! But most of all on
a visit to British explorer Scott's almost intact hut, we had a glimpse into
the world of courageous explorers whose passion for finding new worlds
surpassed all else. With trappings of high technology we digitized their
half eaten seals and sheep carcasses, tins of powered chocolate and
biscuits, their clothes and tools.

Our return trip on a US Air Force plane was uncomfortable and we nearly lost
our expensive equipment which almost got swallowed by ice floes. Everyday is
an adventure.

Interested in more information?
Check out Helga's illustrated online diary (or blog) at
http://goantoantarctica.blogspot.com.

Helga do Rosario Gomes and Joaquim Goes are researchers at the Bigelow
Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine, USA.

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Re: [Goanet] Global climate change and Goa: questions from a village called Moira

2005-12-19 Thread Mario Goveia

--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Bogus Claim 1
> >
> >Nature Magazine recently reported one scientific
study that 
> Europe was facing a mini ice age over the next
hundred years, 
> while another article warned that Europe was going
to warm 
> over the next hundred years.
> 
Mario responds:
>
Such comments by Santosh must be taken in the context
of his ideological framework and bias.  He is clearly
an extreme environmental activist who wants to blame
human activity for whatever global warming is taking
place, whereas I agree with those scientists who
believe that blaming human activity is nonsense.
>
My opinion is based on three simple common sense
issues.
>
1. Global warming and cooling of significant
magnitudes have taken place before human activity
could be blamed, even by Santosh. 2. The dreaded CO2,
at a miniscule 0.036% of the Earths atmosphere, is far
too small a percentage to have any significant effect
on anything, leave alone a "greenhouse effect", which
is a clever advertising image the activists like to
promote to scare the rest of us. 3. The computer
models that supposedly tell us what is going to happen
decades from now, cannot even predict the weather NEXT
WEEK accurately as we all know.
>
All this is far too iffy as a basis for demands of
mandatory curbs on the industrial economies of the
western world, especially when the ideologues then
turn around and demand that the two fastest growing
economies of India and China, who have NO
environmental controls of any significance, be
exempted.  Sounds more like a ploy to bring the
western economies down to the lowest common
denominator to me.  Why else would any rational and
serious group exempt India and China if the situation
were so perilous?
>
Regarding Santosh's biased claim that my comment above
is bogus, here is an independent view of the Nature
Magazine article from a major British newspaper which
can hardly be described as "right wing", as one of
Santosh's tactics is to attack the source of
information he dislikes:
>
"The British newspaper The Independent, for example,
reported in its Nov. 30 article about the Nature study
that the real evidence does point to a possible one
degree Centigrade cooling over the next two decades.
But the newspaper reported in another same-day article
that, the [record hot] summer of 2003 was triggered
by global warming caused by man-made emissions of
greenhouse gases. Such contradictory reporting
casually ignores the reality that greenhouse gas
emissions cant simultaneously cool and warm Europe."
Source:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,177380,00.html
>
Santosh continues:
> 
> Bogus Claim 2
> >
> >The web site www.junkscience.com is an excellent
source of 
> information from several sources showing the lack of
common 
> and scientific sense in the claims of the extreme 
> environmental activists.
> 
Mario responds:
>
Goanetters should visit the aptly named
www.JunkScience.com and see how they debunk the Junk
Scientific claims of the extreme environmental
activists, now desperately trying to achieve through
the back door what the socialists and communists
failed to achieve through more direct means, bringing
western economies down.

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[Goanet] : Life I learned

2005-12-19 Thread Cynthia Fernandes


Don't force a fit. If something is meant to be, it will come together
naturally.

When things aren't going so well, take a break. Everything will look
different when you return.

Be sure to look at the big picture. Getting hung up on the little pieces
only leads to frustration.

Perseverance pays off. Every important puzzle went together bit by bit,
piece by piece.

When one spot stops working, move to another. But be sure to come back later
(see above).

The creator of the puzzle gave you the picture as a guidebook.

Variety is the spice of life.  It's the different colors and patterns that
make the puzzle interesting.

Establish the border first. Boundaries give a sense of security and order.

Don't be afraid to try different combinations. Some matches are surprising.

Take time to celebrate your successes (even little ones).

Anything worth doing takes time and effort. A great puzzle can't be rushed.



Cynthia

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RE: [Goanet] Re: MOPA Airport

2005-12-19 Thread Nasci Caldeira

Goa does not need another airport at Mopa! All it needs is a 'Bigger Airport 
at Dabolim" and this is feasible at less cost and can be done in much less 
time too!


The author has spoken about big Cities having airports at one end of town. 
True! But Goa is not a big city, nor will it be so in the near future.


Goa already has a great location at Dabolim and in the 'centre of town'.
So even when Goa does claim big City status; it will have a world class 
airport in the heart of town.
So why do you want to drag 'Our Airport" in the Centre of Town to the 
northern end of town and create more and more transport and logistics 
prblems??


Please threfore support Dabolim Airport only! Dabolim forever! Mopa never!

Naasci Caaldeira
Goa



From: "Philip Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Re: MOPA Airport
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:25:03 +0530

[J.Fernandes]

Reminds me of a beautiful cartoon by the famous R.K.Laxman of TOI  in which
a bureaucrat is telling his Minister:

"This project will be highly beneficial to the people but we should not
implement it because there is bound to be corruption etc involved."

Instead of analysing costs and benefits sensibly (i.e. purely from Goa's
perspective), corruption-proofing projects, and tackling  any problems of
locational skewing at the inception (instead of nearly ten years after the
fact) we make a hue and cry late in the day over Mopa which "signifies
nothing"! Our efforts should be focused on getting the Union Cabinet ruling
about Dabolim reversed instead of trying to cut out Mopa to spite the face
of Goa as Laxman was humorously highlighting.





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[Goanet] URGENT - SECOND LIBERATION OF GOA NEEDED

2005-12-19 Thread godfrey gonsalves

What do Goans think this 44th Liberation Day?  Well,
they unanimously, look forward to yet another
LIBERATION DAY from the forces that took over since
19th December, 1961. In short a Liberation from
"Ghantianchem Raj" a sobriquet for governance under
the style of "Indian rule " (essentially dictated  by
British law of divide and rule, besides legislations
(laws ) under the India Code  which are synonymous to
an undergarment filled with holes only increasing the
backlog in the Courts of Justice)  

After Portuguese rule( 25.11.1510 to 19.12.1961) 451
years -- Old Conquests Salcete, Mormugao, Bardez,
Tiswadi, (Ilhas) 1510 to 1961 and New Conquests Ponda,
Quepem, Canacona, Sanguem, Pernem, Bicholim, Sattari
1763 - 1961 -Liberation or call it Conquest
Annexation,  if you wish, -

The first blot post liberation was that the Caste
or "Varna" or "Jati" System as ordained by Manu in his
scriptures "Smritis" was put in force albeit in a
sublime manner, (actually it commenced clandestinely
in 1925 with the formation of the Rashtriya Swamsevak
Sangh and also  the Goa Hindu Sabha) in this then
Union Territory of Goa Daman  Diu,  as prevalent in
the rest of the country, which got its Independence on
15th August, 1947 from two hundred years of erstwhile
British Rule.

This meant a "social engineering" wherein  a) Brahman,
b)Kshatriya, c) Vaishya, d) Shudra, and e) Harijans. 
Not that such profession . traditional occupation
based divisions do not exist elsewhere, but in India
this social engineering depending on ones vocations by
birth put humans on a VERTICAL  ladder. Merit by worth
became extinct and those performing lower jobs were
scorned at and expected to be subservient to the needs
of those at the top

Thus the priestly caste the warriors the merchants the
artisans labourers the untouchables "harijans"
children of a lesser gods were all according to their
placement on the ladder of heirarchy expected to serve
the priestly caste. Christians too suffered the same
though the church preaches a casteless society. But
given the facts the Catholics in Goa are essentially
converts there is no escape of the caste syndrome.

Unfortunately till this date the indigenous people of
Goa the "niz goenkars" the Gawdas Kunbi Velip and
Dhangars have still not found their numbers
represented in the Goa Legisaltive Assenbly while the
Scheduled Castes from outside the State have found
representation and even jobs in Government.

This being the FIRST blot on POST LIBERATED GOA it can
and needs to be eliminated totally only by economic,
social empowerment and representation to those at the
lower rung of the ladder and the ST
**
The last Portuguese Governor General Mr Manoel Vassalo
e Silva on 15th April, 1961 signed a historic
declaration wherein it was finally established that
all the over 221 Comunidades (Gaunkaries)in Goa, were
to become "absolute owners of their lands"  without 
element of State Grant or Land Tenure which simply
meant these village republics being self sufficient --
permitted a "susegad" lifestyle unlike the present
stress ridden times due to maladministration and
divide and rule policies of the government--are
private and are not owned by the State even after
Liberation on December 19, 1961, to be succeeded by
any Government.  

Under the U.N.Charter for protection of Indigenous
People  &   in terms of Article 26 of the Draft
Declaration on " Rights of the Indigenous Peoples"
--"quote ---Indigenous people  have the right to
own, develop, control and use the lands and
territories including the total environment of the
lands, air, waters,sea-ice coastal seas,flora and
fauna and other resources which they have
traditionally owned or otherwise occupied or used.
This includes the right to the full recognition of
their laws, traditions and customs, land-tenure
systems and institutions for the development and
management of resources and the right to effective
measures by states to prevent any INTERFERENCE  with,
ALIENATION  of or ENCROACHMENT upon their rights.

It is therefore clear that following Liberation of Goa
the Union of India or thereafter the State of Goa is
NOT the owner of the Communidade (Gaunkari) land as is
 envisaged in Article 294 and 295 Chapter
III.-Property. Contracts, Rights, Liabilities,
Obligations and Suits. and  31A. Saving of laws
providing for acquisition of
estates(ref:http://indiacode.nic.in/coiweb/welcome.html).Therefore
the the then Goa Daman & Diu Village Panchayati Raj
Act 1963 the Goa Daman and Diu Agricultural Tenancy
Act, 1964, the Goa Daman & Diu Land Revenue Code 1968
( a photocopy of the Bombay Land Revenue Code of 1879
) made applicable to the land owned by the Comunidades
without ANY State land tenure relationship with them
is unconstitutional and a fraud by successive
Governments in Goa, viz; the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak
Party the Indian National Congress Party and the
Bharatiya Janata Party which

[Goanet] Conversational Konkani - Part Two - now online



http://www.goacom.com/joel/konkani/ulo-2/amchibhas.html

Earlier episode archived at:
http://www.goacom.com/joel/konkani/ulo-1/amchibhas.html

Please forward these links to anyone wishing to learn simple conversational 
Konkani.


Cheers!

Cecil

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Re: [Goanet] Global climate change and Goa: questions from a village called Moira

2005-12-19 Thread Marlon Menezes

--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> There are SEVERAL scientists who believe that
> whatever
> global warming is taking place cannot be blamed on
> human activity.  Other scientists report opposing
> research findings.  Nature Magazine recently
> reported
> one scientific study that Europe was facing a mini
> ice
> age over the next hundred years, while another
> article
> warned that Europe was going to warm over the next
> hundred years.  This should amuse everyone who is
> not
> a scientist looking for grant money from gullible
> donors to do more research on the subject.
---
Mario,
The Nature article you quote says that there may be
some parts of Europe that may get cooler due to the
overall global warming effect. Specifically, global
warming may change some ocean flow patterns in around
parts of Europe, thus affecting these local regions in
the opposite way. It does not in any way refute the
general conclusions about global warming and if
anything, it higlights that there may be unpredictable
consequences of climate change. Local cooling effects
should not be confused with global warming effects.
The current state of the art in weather climate
prediction does not have the resolution to make
affirmative conlclusions on what may happen within
specific local regions, thus leading to disagreements
about specific regional changes - just as todays
regular weather reports cannot provide exact wind,
temperature and solar conditions any specific square
inch of land I may be standing on at any particular
time of the day.  Scientists may reach different
conclusions on local effects, but the global or
overall average effects are not in disagreement.

Next, about the issue of several scientists who deny
global warming: The issue that must be looked at here
is the "reputation" of the scientists for and against
global warming. The reputation of a scientist is
primarily the result of his or her publications in the
appropriate referred journals and as importantly, the
number of citations his papers receives from the
scientific community. There is no ambiguity in this
reputation metric. When one looks at this metric, it
is clear that almost all reputable scientists accept
that global warming is real and is correlated to green
house emissions. Many in the present US administration
have stacked the cards in congressional panel
discussions, by giving the allusion that there are
significant diagreements in the global warming debate
by bringing on board individuals who do not have
quality publications or the necessary level of
citations.

> There is no common sense or scientific sense
> whatsoever in the claim that the percentage of a
> gas,
> CO2, that is only 0.036% of the Earth's atmosphere
> can
> be appreciably increased or reduced by destroying
> the
> economies of the west while exempting the two
> fastest
> growing economies of India and China, both of whom
> have no environmental controls to speak of.
---
This issue has already been discussed. 0.036% is
significant. CO2 has a large multiplier effect in
impacting the heat loss mechanisms to outer space.
Though not accurate in mechanism, think of the thin
reflective coatings on windows in buildings. These
coatings may be as thin as 0.01% of the thickness of
the underlying glass, but they can reduce heat
transmission by 20-50%. In terms of the changes in
heat dyanmics of the earth, the net change is closer
to a few percent - which is much smaller than the
impact of the thin coating of glass.

Finally, WRT India and China, again, the point is that
on a per capita basis, the US pollutes 5-10x more than
China and India. Hence the issue of China and India
being given preferential treatment is false. In fact,
the Kyoto treaty called for the phasing in of
regulations for these two nations as they developed
and began to achieve emission rates similar to that of
the US.

If anything, one of the reasons many of China's
products are so price competitive is that besides low
cost labor, many of their spanking new, mass scale
factories have incorporated the latest energy
efficient technologies that have enabled them to out
compete even lower labor cost competitiors in Vietnam,
India etc.

Marlon

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[Goanet] Another sting: 7 MPs caught on camera -- from the Times of India

2005-12-19 Thread Nagesh Bhatcar


Another sting: 7 MPs caught on camera
[ Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:01:25 amTIMES NEWS NETWORK ]

NEW DELHI: Its sting season. Elected representatives had barely recovered 
from Operation Duryodhan, which exposed 11 MPs taking bribes in exchange 
for raising questions in Parliament, when a television channel on Monday 
unveiled "Operation Chakravyuh."


The latest sting operation exposed MPs asking for cuts ranging from 5% to 
45% for sanctioning funds under the MP Local Area Development Scheme 
(MPLADS) a kitty of Rs 8,000 crore to be spent at the discretion of members 
of both Houses.


The sting, which comes at a time when the political class is already reeling 
under the aftermath of the cash-for-query scam, also featured lacklustre 
names with the exception of the flamboyant and controversial former Goa 
chief minister and south Goa MP Churchill Alemao of Congress. BJP once again 
had a higher head count of MPs from Mandla (Madhya Pradesh) MP Faggan Singh 
Kulaste, Sidhi MP Chandra Pratap Singh, who has already been tainted in 
"Operation Duryodhan", and Ramswaroop Koli from Bayana in Rajasthan.


Sakshi Maharaj, who owes his current Rajya Sabha term to Samajwadi Party, 
started out as a saffronite. SP, however, was represented by an authentic 
Samajwadi in Parliaments new hall of infamy in Paras Nath Yadav from 
Jaunpur. Also included was Bahajun Samaj Partys Isham Singh from 
Saharanpur.


Outrage was instant. Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, who incidentally 
had launched a strong campaign to whittle down the discretion of MPs in 
implementation of MPLADS, said he was ashamed. SP, which escaped unscathed 
from the previous sting, promptly asked Paras Nath Yadav to resign. BJPs 
Arun Shourie demanded action against his party colleagues embroiled in the 
latest embarrassment to Parliament.


MPLADS funds provide Rs 2 crore annually to each MP. The money is required 
to be spent in the development of the MPs constituency. Though the funds 
are not directly handed to MPs, they have a decisive say in the 
identification and execution of the schemes, in many cases handed over to 
contractors of choice. While there are many examples where the fund went for 
genuine schemes-such as the development of the Biotechnology Centre at IIT 
Kanpur from Arun Shouries corpus, there have been growing allegations of 
MPs collecting hefty cuts from contractors.




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[Goanet] Churchill Alemao named in TV-sting operation...

Congrats Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, one of our young and intrepid colleagues
from Goa... who incidentally has had to face harassment from editors in
this state too for some of his earlier endeavours in Goa! 

Unfortunately, in Goa, many viewers have probably this story on STAR TV,
since the channel is currently not being shown in parts of the state due
to some dispute over broadcast rights and payments. --FN
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 
Another sting exposes scam in use of
MPs' funds

By Indo Asian News Service 
http://in.news.yahoo.com/051219/43/61m32.html

New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) A week after a sting operation exposed 11 MPs
who took cash to raise questions in parliament, a TV channel Monday
aired footage showing parliamentarians discussing kickbacks to release
officials funds for developing their constituencies.

The Star News channel claimed its reporters were able to obtain
assurances from several MPs - including Chandra Pratap Singh of
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Churchill Alemao of the Congress and
Parasnath Yadav of Samajwadi Party - that they would provide money from
the MPs Local Area Development scheme to fake NGOs for a 'commission'.

Responding to the expose, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee, a
stickler for rules, said he was 'ashamed' at this latest revelation of
corruption among MPs. Last week, Chatterjee had said he was saddened by
the cash-for-questions scam, a sentiment also expressed by Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh.

Members of both houses of India's parliament can provide up to Rs.20
million a year under the scheme to fund projects in their constituencies
like building of roads and schools and setting up of computer centres.

Alemao, who represents Mormugao constituency in Lok Sabha and is a
former chief minister of Goa, was shown in secretly filmed footage
saying he would release Rs.1.5 million - if he was paid a commission of
Rs.300,000 - for setting up a Konkani library in his home state by a
non-existent NGO called Ashraya Abhiyan. 

But Alemao later became suspicious of the reporters involved in the
sting operation and refused to go ahead with the plan.

Chandra Pratap Singh, one of the 11 MPs exposed last week in the
'cash-for-questions' scam, was shown allegedly accepting Rs.25,000 from
Star News reporters for similarly releasing funds to a fake NGO.

He was told by the reporters that the payment was part of the '20
percent commission' demanded by him for releasing Rs.500,000 from the
development funds.

The reporters were also shown having discussions on similar lines with
Ramswaroop Koli of the BJP (who represents Bayana in Rajasthan in the
Lok Sabha), Isam Singh of the Bahujan Samaj Party and Sakshi Maharaj of
the Samajwadi Party (both Rajya Sabha members from Uttar Pradesh), and
Faggan Singh Kulaste of the BJP (Mandla-Madhya Pradesh in the Lok
Sabha).

Parasnath Yadav of Samajwadi Party was shown getting angry after the
reporters apparently failed to make a payment of Rs.50,000 he had
demanded.

Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh said in an immediate
reaction to the sting operation that Yadav had been asked to resign from
the party. Amar Singh urged other parties whose MPs were named in
Monday's expose to act against them.

There were also MPs like Tufani Saroj of Samajwadi Party (who represents
Saidpur seat of Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha) who steadfastly refused
to accept the kickbacks offered by the reporters, and asked them to
visit his constituency to discuss what development projects they could
carry out.

Star News said it had conducted the sting operation over the past six
months.

The Rajya Sabha has suspended the lone member of the upper house
involved in the cash-for-questions scam uncovered by Internet portal
cobrapost.com and Aaj Tak news channel, while a Lok Sabha panel will
decide on the action to be taken against 10 members of the lower house
involved in the scandal.


More MPs caught taking bribes on camera

Onkar Singh in New Delhi | December 19, 2005 20:20 IST
http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/dec/19bribe.htm


Hardly had the furore over Operation Duryodhan by Cobrapost.com, in
which 11 MPs were caught on tape taking bribes for asking questions in
the Parliament, died down another sting operation by Star News channel
is likely to create another storm in Parliament on Tuesday.

Operation Chakravyuh organised by two journalists Jamshed Khan and
Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, both former tehelka.com journalists, has caught
several big politicans off guard while demanding commission for getting
work done or showing undue favour to an NGO, which had floated fake
projects for developmental works in their respective constitutencies.

Amongst those who had been shown were Shakshi Maharaj and Paras Nath
Yadav, Samajwadi Party MP from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh.

While Shakshi Maharaj wanted a commission of up to 45 per cent, Yadav
even wrote a letter to a district magistrate which he withdrew later
since he was not give

RE: [Goanet] RE: Mopa Airport

2005-12-19 Thread Nasci Caldeira


Well, well, Eric,

You have just written 'utter nonsense' and biased on your own backyard in 
Goa??
Job creation and development has to be done on basis of several other 
criteria; not by creating airports, at one end of the Territory, and more 
so, when there is already a great airport area in Dabolim.

Some persons are qualified to speak with "their eyes wide shut"?

Nasci caldeira.
Goa.



From: Eric Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] RE: Mopa Airport
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:58:09 -0500

Sir,

I wish those who are opposed to the new airport at Mopa that they are short
sighted and also looking after their own backyard.

A new airport will NOT only generate jobs in an area where employment Is 
much
needed but will force the government to improve the infrastructure to 
support

the site and regenerate the surroundings. This combined with all the new
technologies will attract not only new skills but also new industries to 
the

area as a whole.

So come on please open your eyes!!!

London,UK.
Eric Pereira

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[Goanet] Goanet Reader: A world-famous artist and his small home region -- FN Souza and Goa

2005-12-19 Thread Goanet Reader

A WORLD-FAMOUS ARTIST AND HIS SMALL HOME REGION: F.N. SOUZA AND GOA
By Maria Aurora Couto

  There can be little doubt that F.N. Souza's Goan
  cultural tradition has been as much a source of his
  deepest anguish as of his best work. The landscape
  into which Souza was born remains much as he
  describes it: "A beautiful country, full of rice
  fields and palm trees; whitewashed churches with
  lofty steeples; small houses with imbricated tiles,
  painted in a variety of colours. Glimpses of the
  blue sea. Red roads curving over hills and straight
  across paddy fields. Morning is announced by the
  cock crowing; the approaching night by Angelus bells".

Like most of his compatriots, Souza refers to Goa as his
'country' which implies that the region is an entity
separated from the mainstream because of its history. It is,
in fact, as many would no doubt argue, a small politically
insignificant, culturally rich and diverse region of India.

The truth is that Goan nationalism has to do with Goa, its
villages, its language -- Konkani -- and its way of life. As
it was in the times of the Rashtrakutas of Ellora fame, the
Vijayanagar Empire, and then during the Bahamani period, the
Goan has always been a part of the mainstream of Indian
culture and even through the transformations effected by the
conversion process, the convert held on to traditions.

This Goan culture and the mainstream of Indian life such as
Souza lived and derived his sustenance from in his years in
Mumbai constitute the dynamic of his art. Indeed Souza's
uniqueness has been his ability to absorb the special
qualities of his grassroots experience in Goa into an
intellectual and cultural tradition, which has shaped
national life since Indian independence.

Souza's autobiographical writing is peopled by a family,
alternately and simultaneously devoted to drink and to the
church: by vicars, choirmasters, village characters for whom
the chapel, the wayside shrine and the church of the village
are the very pivot of existence.

All these elements are directly linked to the cultural
influence of four hundred and fifty years of Portuguese rule
in Goa. Indeed it is these special elements which distanced
Goa from the rest of then British India -- politically,
economically and culturally -- and bred in the Goan community
both a distinct culture and a sense Goan identity.

The arrival of Christianity in Goa is generally attributed to
the Portuguese and there is a general lack of awareness of
its antiquity which dates as far back to the Apostles of
Christ, in particular St Thomas, and to a lesser extent, St
Bartholomew. The Christianity of the Apostles had strong
Judaic elements. Tradition has it that they came in search of
the lost tribes of Israel, the evidence of which is in
Cochin, one of the oldest pristine Jewish establishments in
the world. It was therefore, Christianity that retained its
original Jewish tradition. Christianity in Goa has singular
elements and their influence on Souza are evident in his
work.

  Jewish elements were reinforced by adherence of the
  early Christians to the Syriac branch of
  Christianity with Chaldean ritual governed from
  Antioch, and professing what the Roman Catholic
  church called the Nestorian heresy. These
  Christians were a part of the Hindu mainstream in
  dress, habit, speech customs, manners, traditions
  and way of life -- as they still are in Kerala.

Christianity was a religion which was accorded its place in
the Hindu pantheon. It was a religion rooted in the soil: the
festivals marking the seasons, the sowing of paddy, the
harvest and the gifts of coconuts and oil to village deities,
the Chaldean cross which festooned the countryside -- all
these were maintained.

Christianity in Goa was also a religion that retained the
folklore of spirits, both good and evil. The evil spirit was
particularly effective in granting favours. He, it was
believed, wanted to win man's soul.

After the favour was granted he had to be assuaged or fobbed
off by incantations by hereditary mediums or 'distikhars'
(hereditary priests with powers to remove the evil eye or to
exorcise evil spirits). So the village was inhabited by
powers, spirits and deities, who spoke to mediums or to old
women who lived in forests, on hills, and in the red and
black laterite passes of the countryside.

They knew secret practices in medicine and healing, the
mantras to be recited over the sick, and the herbs used to
treat even serious ailments -- both of mind and body.  The
Portuguese found a strange and errant type of Christianity --
Christians with Brahminical tufts and worshipping a strange
type of Christ, iconic and pale in the Nestorian tradition.
They reconverted the Christians and established the
Inquisition with all its rigors and the auto-da-fe to blot
out heresy, and against recen

[Goanet] First online test... with a Goa link

This had come up in recent months, and the item has a Goa-link too:

FIRST ONLINE TEST: For the first time ever in India, the Birla Institute
of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, conducted computer-based
online tests for all its integrated first degree programmes offered at
its Pilani and Goa campuses. A total of 48,235 candidates, including
11,611 girls, from all over the country took the three-hour test, which
comprised Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, English and logical
reasoning. Students got to know their results immediately after the
test. Computers at the centres were linked to the data server at Pilani
through which the tests were done. (NEWS & EVENTS, Aug 2005)

While on this subject:

* Any comments on how BITS-Pilani Goa centre is functioning. What
  do we see as the positive fallouts for Goa (if any)? Can we
  evaluate the worth of institutions such as these to Goa *beyond*
  just moaning about how few students from here actually make it
  in national-level exams?

* What is Goa specifically doing to help students compete in such
  tests? Obviously, there's a lot of preparation that could go into
  making of successful candidates...

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[Goanet] Recent inter-racial riots in Australia

2005-12-19 Thread cornel


Hi Fred,
Gilbert's brief post on the recent inter-racial riots in Australia, which 
now has a growing Goan population, prompted me to do two things: a) provide 
a brief commentary about and akin to the situation, and b) attach an article 
I wrote and got published in the Herald about eighteen months ago. I believe 
that what I wrote then, still seems relevant today. I do not believe it 
appeared on Goanet before and hopefully will appear now but I regret I am 
unable, in this instance, to generate the font Goanet normally requires.


The situation as seen from the UK about Australia's racial clashes is best 
epitomised by Germaine Greer, who is of Australian origin but domiciled in 
the UK.


With reference to the supremacist 'Anglos' battling it out with 'bloody 
Lebs' on Cronulla beach near Sydney, this is what she quoted in reporting 
statements from some Australian whites: "We are the Sons and Daughters of
the Anzacs. We cannot expect our treasonous government to protect us in 
these times, they are the ones that brought us to this very place. With 
150,000 Arabs entering our nation 'legally' each year, it is time 
Australians stood and were counted. For we are the Sons and Daughters of the 
Anzacs, the men who protected us from threat and invasion in years gone by. 
Now it is your turn, OUR turn, the guard has changed , the times have

changed, but true patriots will never be silenced."

Greer adds: "So runs the latest communique of the commanders-in-chief of the 
"Anglo" side in the south Sydney beach wars, summoning me and and other
"Australians" to Cronulla next Sunday to do battle with the foreign invader. 
Under freshly invoked emergency powers the Australian who sent it to me 
could incur a fine of A$5000 (£2130). Meanwhile, Arab-Christian and
Arab-Muslim organisations are desperatly trying to impose a curfew on their 
communities; Lebanese mothers are being asked to use their authority in the 
family to keep their sons at home next weekend.


The "can-Australia-really-be racist?" approach of the British media to 
reportage of the battle of Cronulla is gratuitous and silly. Australia is as 
racist as Britain, no more, no less. Australian racism derives from the same
bottomless source as British racism--from universal ignorance and 
working-class frustration, reinforced by an unshakeable conviction of 
British superiority over all other nations on earth, especially the swarthy 
ones. If Australia had been colonised by any other nation but the British,

it would be less racist. As it is, it is dying hard."

Greer, goes on subtly to question Australian 'success' at multiculturalism 
and refers to the redneck mindless beach culture on the Gold Coast and 
suburbs of Perth which could generate a bloody summer in Australia.


To my mind, there is a sad inevitability that, initially the entry of any 
visible minorities in any society raises fears and tensions among the more 
established groups. Irrespective of the need for new labour, the local 
people are inclined to believe that the new people are stealing their jobs 
and women, undercutting wages and putting pressure on accommodation and 
other resources. Unfortunately, the significant contribution that the 
newcommers make to a society is invariably overlooked. Government policy to 
alleviate such tension is critical and so is the work of goodwill 
'ambassadors' across  racial divides to alleviate developing animosities.


The above view can equally apply to Goa where tensions have been created 
consequent to the entry of much needed labour from other parts of India. But 
before Goans are inclined to see racism everywhere except at home, it is 
worth reminding ourselves that significant numbers of Catholic Goans are 
archaically steeped in the provenance of Hindu casteism which is even more 
insidious than racism as widely understood. The paradoxical absurdity is 
that, such casteists delude themselves, and others, in simultaneously 
purporting to be devout practising Catholics when the two positions 
(casteism and Catholicism) are distinct and
totally incompatible. I therefore use this opportunity to humbly ask if this 
is an illustration of sheer stupidity in an otherwise intelligent people?


The attached article is titled Knotty Conundrums Down Under: A Personal 
View.

Cornel


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Re: [Goanet] Lessons from Muslims in the West

2005-12-19 Thread Mario Goveia

Gilbert,
>
Your sermao below is based on an assumption that the
Arabs in Australia that are involved in the riots are
"...Lebanese who (my hunch is) are most likely
Christian immigrants rather than Muslims."  As you may
know, there have been some Arabs in Australia that
have been detained on suspicions of terrorist
connections and plots, including a plan to assassinate
Prime Minister Howard.  Are these likely to be
Lebanese Christians?  I don't think so.
>
Perhaps some Goanetter in Australia can confirm or
debunk your hunch as to whether the Arabs involved in
the riots are Christians or actually Muslims, as the
news reports have alleged. 
>
By the way, I agree with you that it is the
responsibility of immigrant groups to educate those
natives around us in the communities in which we live,
and way beyond our colleagues, neighbors and friends,
who are likely to know us anyway.  I believe the
Indian community has successfully done so, with very
few exceptions, across the US.
>
You may agree that Americans were generally quite
unfamiliar with Indians some 35 years ago when some of
us first came here.  Having been exposed over the
years to the numerous Indian physicians, engineers, IT
experts, business people, restaurants and temples, not
to mention the Indian kids that seem to be top
performers at every American school and college, this
is not the situation anymore.  Whenever I meet a
native today they almost immediately try to impress me
by asking about all the Indians they know, having been
exposed through one or more of the activities I have
mentioned above.  And their reaction today, at least
in the mid-west, is invariably positive.  
>
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> Nearly all must have seen the racial riot (or
> near-riot) situations across Europe affecting recent
> immigrants, Muslims and non-Europeans.  Now in
> Australia we see on TV, the clashes between the
> "Muslims" and the European natives of the country. 
> In fact the situation in Australia is with the
> Lebanese who (my hunch is) are most likely Christian
> immigrants rather than Muslims.  The problem - the
> facial expression and often the behavior pattern is
> no different among all the Asians.
> 
> How do Asians in the west adress this issue and more
> importantly preempt it?  Our current attitude of
> apathy and "it is not us" attitude will get us
> nowhere.  If we Indians and Goans do not take the
> trouble to teach our surrounding community
> (colleagues, neighbors and friends) about us, any
> extremist anywhere can cause utmost problem for us
> and our children. It is amazing that we "rich
> Indians" do not appreciate what is at stake for us,
> our children and our community.   
> 
> Kind Regards, GL
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[Goanet] CONGRATS MAYABHUSHAN, More MPs caught ...

2005-12-19 Thread Valmiki Faleiro

http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/dec/19bribe.htm

More MPs caught taking bribes on camera

Onkar Singh in New Delhi | December 19, 2005 20:20 IST

Hardly had the furore over Operation Duryodhan by Cobrapost.com, in which 11 MPs were caught on tape taking bribes for asking
questions in the Parliament, died down another sting operation by Star News channel is likely to create another storm in Parliament
on Tuesday.

Operation Chakravyuh organised by two journalists Jamshed Khan and Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, both former tehelka.com journalists, has
caught several big politicans off guard while demanding commission for getting work done or showing undue favour to an NGO, which
had floated fake projects for developmental works in their respective constitutencies.

Amongst those who had been shown were Shakshi Maharaj and Paras Nath Yadav,
Samajwadi Party MP from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh.

While Shakshi Maharaj wanted a commission of up to 45 per cent, Yadav even wrote a letter to a district magistrate which he withdrew
later since he was not given the promised money. "You do not have the guts to leave Rs 50,000. Bring the rest of the money to get
the letter," he is quoted a saying on the tape.

The expose promises to expose a former minister in the National Democratic
Alliance and a Congress member as well.

"The team has been working on the sting for the last six months. One former NDA minister, one former chief minister of Goa, and five
Members of Parliament have been caught on camera," Milind Khandekar of Star News told rediff.com.

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Re: [Goanet] Global climate change and Goa: questions from a village called Moira

2005-12-19 Thread Santosh Helekar

The same disinformation regarding global warming and
atmospheric science is being repeated over and over
again in this forum. The following assertions among
many others have been shown to be false. Please see
the Goanet archives:

Bogus Claim 1
>
>Nature Magazine recently reported one scientific
study that >Europe was facing a mini ice age over the
next hundred years, >while another article warned that
Europe was going to warm over >the next hundred years.
 
>

Bogus Claim 2
>
>The web site www.junkscience.com is an excellent
source of >information from several sources showing
the lack of common and >scientific sense in the claims
of the extreme environmental >activists.
>

Cheers,

Santosh

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[Goanet] Contemporary Goan Acronyms


Tongue in Cheek
By Cecil Pinto

As a teenager I often used to get confused by acronyms like WASP and JAP 
that often appeared in American humour publications. Much later in life I 
realized what they stood for, and it took me a lot of reading before I 
could fully comprehend the stereotypes represented by White Anglo Saxon 
Protestant (usually a member of the upper social class in America) or a 
Jewish American Princess (regarded as being pampered or overindulged). 
Despite George Bush, in the course of just a few years, having taken the 
USA from being a most-admired to a most-despised nation, we cannot deny 
that the Americans in general have a healthy habit of being able to laugh 
at themselves. That they currently are making a laughing stock of 
themselves with their warped international politics is another matter 
altogether.


We Goans too are admired worldwide for our sense of bonhomie and being able 
to admit, accept and laugh at our idiosyncrasies. And we have a lot of 
those for sure. I suggest that we too have some acronyms of our own. Of 
course we do already have some that have unofficially become part of our 
collective lexicon through usage. For example calling someone JV suggests 
that, like the character the late Jacinto Vaz used to portray, he is a bit 
of a village simpleton and not well versed in civilized (read Western) 
behavior. Or BBC which refers to Bad Bekar Company for someone who is 
perennially unemployed and a wastrel. And LLTT for the squint eyed, Looking 
London Talking Tokyo.


Below are some suggestions for modern acronyms which reflect the 
stereotypes we see around in Goa.


PHOC:  Party-Hopping-Often-Confused (mostly used as a prefix to a politician).
Example of usage: The PHOC MLA did not realize his gaffe, despite the 
belligerent silence from the crowd, when he announced that the IFFI was a 
total waste of money.


WANGAH: WANnabe Goan in A Hurry. Non-Goans who are so anxious to be 
accepted as Goans that they go overboard in cultivating arcane Goanisms.
Example of usage: Pedro the barman poured himself another vodka as he 
bemusedly watched the WANGAH quickly down three pegs of neat Caju Feni in a 
row.


GWACA: Goan With A Caribbean Accent. Mostly waiters and vendors on the 
coastal belt who put on a supposedly 'foreign' accent when speaking English 
to white tourists.
Example of usage: Kenneth stared dumbfounded at the GWACA who had just 
described pomfret reichado as "issa bigga flatta fisha cookeda in verri 
spaicee maisala".


TCG: (pronounced Tee Cee Gee) Techno Challenged Gulfee. Usually blue-collar 
Goan worker returned from Persian Gulf with electronic equipment which he 
can't quite understand or use.
Example of usage: Not only couldn't the TCG figure how to send SMS from his 
Infrared-Bluetooth-WAP enabled mobile, he had also not questioned the logic 
of buying a 16 CD changer when he owned only 12 CDs.


MCG: Mobile Call/College Girl. Characterised by constantly either sending 
messages from, or speaking on, her mobile. Usually attired in slightly 
flared denim trousers and tight tops.
Example of usage: Veronica resumed kissing her lover and pitied the MCG 
sitting with her boyfriend on the parapet, who was busy messaging her 
friends while the boyfriend bravely smiled, forlorn and frustrated.


ATC: Adlea Tempailo Curser. A person who always curses the progress in Goa 
and harks back to the olden times ('adlo temp' in Konkani) and claims we 
were better off then.
Example of usage: How many ATCs does it take to change a lightbulb? None! 
We don't need lightbulbs. We were better off with petromaxes. The 
Electricity Department is corrupt! This didn't happen in Portuguese times...


MOTI: Matter Of Time Immigrant. Young men who take great pleasure at being 
derisive of Goans settled abroad but who will instantly make the jump given 
a good job opportunity.
Example of usage: As he leaned back on the bar counter and told the room in 
general how his friend in Toronto was cursing the weather, and the job 
situation there, the MOTI was cautious not to let it be known that he was 
secretly processing his papers for Portuguese citizenship - just in case.


FAKNAT: FAKe NATionalist. ( pronounced faak naat) Member of fundamentalist 
party who curses everything Western but secretly indulges in the same.
Example of usage: Sister Maria, Principal of Orange Rosary High School, was 
flabbergasted by the number of admission requests from FAKNATs.



CHEWAA- Confused Heritage Environmental Wildlife Animal Activist. Usually 
upper-middle class person who sincerely wants to make a difference by doing 
the right things, in the politically correct way, but is a bit muddled 
about where he stands.
Example of usage: As he picked up some big PET softdrink bottles for his 
daughter's birthday, the CHEWA wondered whether having a Barbie Girl theme 
was appropriate or should just take the kids to the circus to watch the 
dancing bears.


TRUCFIL: TRade Union Crowd FILler. One of

[Goanet] Appreciation of Art Installations


Appreciation of Art Installations
Footprints in the sands of ignorance
By Cecil Pinto

Last Sunday, like most Panjim residents, my wife and I had enough of the 
IFFI festivities and so we decided to check our Subodh Kerkar's Beach 
Installations at Candolim. My awareness about the nature and significance 
of Installation Art is rather limited. As we were meandering along among 
the impressive, though bewildering, installations I noticed just ahead of 
us an interesting group. There was this fortyish looking guy of the arty 
type surrounded by a gaggle of four college type girls. He was dressed in 
typical art activist garb which consists of faded blue jeans, long sleeved 
kurta and a khadi sling bag. Clean shaven and sporting a shock of long grey 
hair. The girls, like any college girls today, wore the standard trousers 
flared at bottom, tight top and Lance Armstrong bracelet. Thank goodness 
that they were actually talking and not messaging each other from their 
mobiles - as all post-pubescent girls these days seem to be doing. The 
gaggle of girls looked adoringly at their 'guru' as he explained the 
meaning of the installations and kept referring to him as 'Sir'. I would 
expect the arty type to insist that they refer to him by his first name, in 
the spirit of modern egalitarianism, but he seemed to revel in the 
reverence and adulation. My wife and I decided to tag along behind this 
group so we could get the benefit of a free explanation of Installation Art.


Blue Tank Top Girl: "But Sir, I remember reading on Subodh's website that 
he referred to his installations as Gurudakshina."


White Haired Sir:  "Yes. But that was when he installed in Miramar. This is 
Candolim. Dakshin means south. Candolim is to the north of Miramar so he 
can't call it Gurudakshina this time."


Adoring Doe Eyed Girl: "And Sir, what is it called this time? And why"

Sir: "This time it's called Kalpavriksha. Kal means yesterday - hence time. 
Pav refers to bread - hence sustenance. Riksha is a tribute to the 
rickshaws ferrying delegates at the IFFI, which are three wheeled - hence 
the Holy Trinity that pervades all religions. So in effect Subodh is saying 
that the triumvirate movement forward through the space time conundrum 
needs sustenance for the soul."


At this point Thin Black Jeans Girl read a small sign near a huge 
installation, and exclaimed, "Sir. The board here explains that 
Kalpavriksha refers to a legendary wish fulfilling divine tree. This 
installation is a tribute to the coconut tree."


Sir: "That's what I just said. The coconut tree provides us with sustenance 
and is a metaphor for divinity. Have you ever seen a rickshaw without a 
holy picture in the dashboard?"


Thin Black Jeans Girl looked a bit puzzled but mumbled understanding anyway.

Short Green Shoes Girl: "Sir, how does installation art differ from normal 
three dimensional art, like sculpture?"


Sir: "A very good question. Installation Art is of a temporary nature. Once 
the work is un-installed it no longer exists, unless you took photographs 
to sell later."


Adoring Doe Eyed Girl: " But Sir I've seen these Hanging Saris at almost 
every of Subodh's installations. So how can they be called temporary?"


Sir: "An interesting observation indeed. We have discussed that at the last 
meeting of Goa installation artists, which as you can guess wasn't a jam 
packed event. The matter of squeezing out publicity from the same piece of 
work over and over again was discussed. Subodh has agreed that at his next 
installation he will have sections called New, Same As Last Year, Modified 
Version Of Old and Permanent Fixtures so regular fans of his work don't 
have to walk over miles of sand to see the same things over and over again 
- and can just go straight to the new works."


Blue Tank Top Girl: "This installation is definitely new. Sir, what is the 
significance of these beach beds stretching on and on for kilometers on 
either side?"


Sir: "This is definitely a new work of Subodh's, but easy to interpret for 
a qualified eye like mine. See how he has cleverly put the beach beds one 
on top of another in pairs. See how the beds on top are overturned? What is 
the obvious connotation when you see legs on a bed reaching skyward?"


Adoring Doe Eyed Girl: "Sex?!"

Sir: "No! No! It is the total human surrender of humanity to the forces of 
nature. See Subodh's work is always influenced by the sea. This beach bed 
installation shows how thousands are helpless victims of nature when a 
tsunami strikes. You must have noticed how Subodh has made the shacks in 
the background also part of his installation. Notice how the chairs in the 
front are all facing seaward. No tables just rows of reclining chairs. That 
is a statement of how the unaffected Westerners were just mute voyeuristic 
spectators of the tsunami tragedy. Subodh is certainly getting bolder in 
his statements every year. "


Short Green Shoes Girl: "And Sir, that ship in the distan

[Goanet] Xmas at Porvorim

Some details from the Holy Family & Holy Cross Chapels at Porvorim that
come in from Fr Anand da Gama Pais:

Monday Dec 19: 3.30 pm Christmas tree party for children upto 12 at Holy
Cross Chapel, Alto Betim.

Saturday Dec 24: 11 pm Christmas prayer service conducted by MaryAnn
Fernandes, Alysha Lobo and Sanford Facho.

Sunday Dec 25: 8 am Eucharist Celebration in Konkani at Holy Family
Chapel, and at Holy Cross Chapel.

Monday Dec 26: Star and crib competition, open for all ages. 

Tuesday Dec 27: Christmas tree party for children upto 12 at Holy Family
Chapel. 

Thursday Dec 29: Three-a-side breaker competition open to all
parishioners.

Sunday Jan 01: Mass at Holy Cross Chapel at 7.30 am and Mass in English
at Holy Family Chapel at 8 am. 

Currently, Porvorim has its regular meetings for altar servers (2nd and
4th Sunday of the month, after catechism), youth group (Sundays, after 8
am mass), Legion of Mary (Monday's at 5 pm), Couples for Christ (Tuesday
at 7 pm), Charismatic prayer group (Tuesdays at 6.30 pm), Christian
family movement (second Monday of the month), zonal representatives
(first Wednesday at 6.45 pm), intercessory prayer group (Thursdays at
6.30 pm), marriage encounter movement (fourth Wednesday at 7 pm).


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[Goanet] 25th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica on Dec 22

2005-12-19 Thread D'Souza, Avelino

25th Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica on Dec 22 
18 Dec 2005 - UNI

Panaji: The silver jubilee Indian Scientific Expedition to Antarctica is
all set to be launched from Cape Town onboard Israeli vessel "MV
Paardeberg" on December 22, under the overall coordination and
supervision of the National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research
(NCAOR), Goa. 

For the first time, some talented post-graduate students have been
included in the expedition, with the authorities deciding to provide
those pursuing professional courses an exposure to Antarctic research.
The 50-member expedition team to the icy continent would be led by Dr L
Prem Kishore, a scientist from the Hyderabad-based National Geophysical
Research Institute, with vast experience in Antarctic wintering, a NCAOR
source told UNI here today.

The summer component of the 25th Indian Antarctic Expedition (IAE) and
winter component of 24th IAE expedition is expected to return to India
by March/April next year. 

The team comprises 23 winter component members and 27 summer component
members drawn from 24 research institutes. The other representatives are
from Geological Survey of India, CSIR laboratories, Indian Army,
Indo-Tibetan Border Force, defence organisations, DRDO laboratories, and
various universities.

The expedition members will be given a formal farewell tomorrow at the
Vasco headquarters of the NCAOR, from where they will fly to Cape Town
in South Africa to join the expedition vessel of M/S Dynamic Shipping
Services (DSS) Ltd for their onward voyage to Antarctica.

As the nodal agency, the NCAOR is mandated by the Department of Ocean
Development (DOD) for the overall planning, coordination and execution
of the national Antarctic expedition, besides undertaking specific R&D
activities in polar sciences. 

The agency is also responsible for the maintenance of the Indian
research station 'Maitri' in Antarctica.  Many developed and developing
countries are active partners in Antarctic research under the umbrellas
of various international governing bodies like ATCM, COMNAP, SCALOP and
SCAR. 

India too is engaged in establishing the third permanent base in
Antarctica before the existing Maitri base outlived its utility.  Indian
Antarctic Programme involves five major themes focused on Meteorology
and Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences and Glaciology, Biology and
Environmental Sciences, Human Physiology and Medicines, Engineering and
Communications.

So far, 24 annual expeditions to Antarctica (excluding three special
expeditions to the Southern Ocean and one Total Solar Eclipse
Expedition) have already been launched. 

Significantly, the first ever visit of the ministerial delegation to the
Antarctica was led by the Union Minister of State for Science and
Technology and Ocean Development Kapil Sibal, in February this year.

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[Goanet] Let's play Weeweechu

One beautiful December evening Pedru and his girlfriend Rosita were sitting 
on the sand at Benaulim Beach


There was a romantic, full moon, when Pedru said, "Moga mhojea, Weeweechu 
khyovya?."


"Atam naka. Kai boro chondrim asa. Ami chondrimak polovya", said Rosita.

"C'mon baby, let's you and me play Weeweechu. Tum zannoi hanv tujea mogan 
asam. Vho vel sarko asa. Let's play", Pedru begged.


"Nam! Mhaka fokot tujo hat dhorunk zai ani chondrimak polounk zai."

"Please, mhojea darling. Just once, play Weeweechu with me."

Rosita looked at Pedru and said, "OK, one time, we'll play Weeweechu."

Pedru grabbed his guitar and they both sang.




"Weeweechu a Merry Christmas,
Weeweechu a Merry Christmas,
Weeweechu a Merry Christmas,
and a Happy New Year!!!"




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Cheers!

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[Goanet] CLASSIC CHRISTMAS ROAST TURKEY

2005-12-19 Thread kenneth fernandes

WHISKING UP THE GRAVY Some people make gravy in the roasting pan some use a saucepan; it really doesn't matter. What is important is to make sure you scrape up whatever has stuck to the bottom of the roaster - those caramelized bits will add lots of flavour to your gravy. CARVING IT UP Don't carve the turkey as soon as it comes out of the oven. You'll lose all the terrific juices. Instead, put it on the counter, away from drafts, and let it '"rest" for 20 to 30 minutes. During this time, the turkey's juices, which will have come to the surface during the roasting, will settle back into the meat, and the turkey will be easier to carve (not to mention juicier and even more delicious). Resting the bird also gives you some time and oven space to cook or heat other food.
THE NUMBERS GAME These guidelines will help you decide on the size of the bird and how long to cook it. Roasting times are approximate for unstuffed birds cooked at 180 degrees centigrade/ 350 degrees Farhenite. Add half an hour extra for stuffed turkeys. Number of guests Size of turkey Cooking time -- 8 people
12 - 14 pounds / 6 - 7 kg 2.5- 3 hours -- 10 people 15 - 16 pounds / 7.5 - 8 kg 3.5 hours -- 12 people 18 - 20 pounds / 9 - 10 kg 4 hours -- 14 people 21 - 22 pounds / 10.5 - 11 kg 4.5 hours -- 16 people 24 pounds / 12 kg 5 hours -- CLASSIC CHRISTMAS ROAST TURKEY (Serves 8, with leftovers) 1 Turkey (medium), about 4-5.9kg 1 lemon 2-3 fresh bay leaves 1 onion, peeled and cut into quarters 50g butter, melted Preheat the oven to 180C/400F. Remove the giblets and thoroughly rinse the turkey under cold water, then pat dry using kitchen paper. Season inside the turkey with a little sea salt and plenty of fresh ground black pepper. Finely grate the zest of the lemon and reserve,
then cut the lemon into quarters lengthways. Tear the bay leaves in half and place these, with the lemon and onion quarters, inside the turkey's main cavity. This will flavour while the bird is roasting. Transfer the Turkey to a large roasting tin, breast-side up. Brush generously with the melted butter and season the skin with sea salt, freshly ground black pepper and the lemon zest. Place a square of foil loosely over the turkey to protect the breast and legs. Roast, in the preheated oven, for the calculated cooking time, basting with the juices every hour. About 30-40 minutes before the end of the cooking time, remove the foil then return the turkey to the oven. Check it is thoroughly cooked by inserting a skewer into the thickest parts of the breast and thighs: the juices should run clear and there should be no pink meat. if the juices are still pink,
return to the oven for a further 15 minutes, then test again. Transfer the cooked turkey to a warmed serving dish, cover tightly with buttered foil and keep warm. Allow to rest in a warm place for at least 30 minutes (it will stay hot for up to an hour if tightly wrapped in foil). Resting the turkey will allow the meat to relax and become firm, making it easier to carve and more succlent. Serve with roast potatoes, vegetables and all the trimmings. Clever twist - After seasoning the bird, make a quick herb and lemon butter to go underway the turkey skin. combine 100g butter with 10g fresh thyme, chopped, 20g fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped, and the finely grated zest of 1 lemon. Lift the skin from the neck of the turkey and use
your fingers to make a pocket separating the skin from the breast meat. Push the butter evenly underneath the skin to coat the meat, then smooth the skin back down. Gourmet secret - Make a herb, lemon and harissa butter and use as above. Combine 100g softened butter with 10g fresh thyme, chopped, 20g fresh thyme, chopped, 20g fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped, the finely chopped peel of 3 pickled lemons, and 1 tablespoon harissa (chilli paste).Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

[Goanet] AICHEA DISSAK CHINTOP - Dezembrachi 19vi, 2005!

2005-12-19 Thread domnic fernandes

Torne piraer ami avgoddaianim poddtat; matharponnar, avgoddaieo amchean 
poddtat.


(In youth we run into difficulties; in age, difficulties run into us.)

Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA

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[Goanet] Goencho Ulo - 3rd edition - AMCHO LOK

2005-12-19 Thread Miguel Braganza

AMCHO LOK

Jayanti-k Konknnitn PhD podvi
Jayanti Naik ek boreantli bori Konknni borovpi asa ani xodh lavpachea vavrant 
tinnem namnna zoddlea. Jayanti mhontto, "Eke bailek monachi svotontrai mellona 
zalear orthik svotontrai mellon faido na. Hi svontontrai mellpak tinnem 
veovosthit toren xikxit zavnk zai." Konknnintlean poilich Goa Universitintlean 
PhD podvi mellovpacho man Jayantin zoddlo. Tichea xodhacho vixoi aslo "The 
image of women in Konkani folklore: A socio-cultural study", zo tinnem Dr 
Olivinho Gomes, adlo Goem Vidhiapitacho Vice-Chancellor, hachea margdorxonnam 
khal keolo. Aiz pasun tinnem 12 pustokam boroileant ani Athang pustokak tika 
Sahitia Akademich Award favo zalo. Lhan kotha borovpan ti ekdomuch huxar. 
Goenchea lokvedachem khup pixem, ani hem mhonnchem amchea samajik ani 
sonkskrutik prokaramnim bailancho kitloso vantto asa ticher Jayanti khup bhor 
ghalta. Dhalo, Dinllo, Katyo, logn-gitam ani her prokarant ostoreamnim aplem 
vhodd daiz dovorlam ani hakach lagon ho lokved sambhallun dovorpachi vhodd 
goroz asa.

Anna osli khellgoddi hea fuddem mellonk kottin

Dezembrache 5ver Goenchea khellamollar ek vhodd dukhichi goddni ghoddli. 
Girvoddea Bardezant ravi 56 vorsanchi Anna Figueira, 56, ji Customs Khateant 
Superintendent asli ti sonvsarak ontorli. Dezembrache 7ver tichi kudd matiek 
laili, punn Annachem Goenchea khellachea itihasant sodanch bhangaracheao 
okxerani boroilelem astelem. Khellantlean melloilem iesantlem tinnem gorv 
kednanch mandlemnam, punn sodhanch khaltikain ani mogan heram khellgoddeam 
thaim vagli. Hacho ugddas korunk aiz passun tiche boroborchim dukachem suskar 
kaddttat. Xallent tem kolejint pasun tinnem apli kopxi dakhoili ani man zoddit 
ravli.  Ti Bharatachea Hoki pongddak khell'li ani xekim 1975 vorsa tika Goem 
serkarachem Jivbadada Bakshi Bahaddar pod favo zalem. Uprant zantteanchea 
khellamnim ti ontor'raxttrik namna zoddunk pavli.

Prabhuk Kullagar Puroskar

Moddgonvchem Kullagar Prakaxonn vorsachea vorsa Konknnichem soglleant borem 
korpeank aplo puroskar bhettoita. Hea vorsacho Kullagar Literary Puroskar 
Dezembracher 18ver 12.30 vorancher K Gokuldas Prabhu hankam ditelet Gokuldas 
Prabhu, on December 18, at a special function at Institute Menezes Braganza, 
Panaji, at 12.30 pm. Hi ek khas kariavoll asteli, oxem Kullagar Prokaxonnacho 
Satyawan Kunde sangta. Hea 50,000 rupianchea puroskara borobor ek citation ani 
memento asa, zo Prabhun Konknni bhas, literature ani sonkrutichea vavrantlean 
melloila.

Konknni Machier

Tiatr: Sakrament Sambhall
Borovpi-Digdorspi: Mini Mario
Vantto ghetat: Joana, Sonia, Mario de Vasco, Lawrie, Agostinho, etc.

Mini Mariochea Sakrament Sambhall tiatrachi bhonvddi sompot aili, punn 
Konknnint mhonntat nhoi? "Samar somplear kitem zalem, tache potiecho pomoll 
azun vochonk na".

Mini Marion hache poilim zaite non-stop show boroileat. Tannem rochlelim gitam 
ruchik ani tallo rosall. He khepe tannem aplea penacho tiatr machier haddunk 
panvl marlem zalear vhoddlemxem nhoi.

Tiatr vixim ulovn sorgest Pri Freddy J D'Costa sodanch mhunttalo, "Tiatr 
mhunnlear Goenkaranchem ek unique entertainment sadon. Tantuntle mukhi kannie 
xivai ani kitlexech vixoi side-show vo bhazucheam gitamnim aikunk melltat." 
Mariochea tiatran kaim kantaram choltana porddeacher chitram distat. Victor 
Jezucher ek kantar gaita tedna porddeer dista Jezuchi kudd, chabkanim fafxitat 
ti, tache toklek kantteanche mukutt khenchoitat, khandar khuris gevun Jezu, 
adi. "Reddeancheo 

Dhirio" kantaran monzaticher koso zulum zata tache dekhavo porddear 
distat. "Tsunami" kantarakui Indonesiacher ailolo aikantacho vellacher niall 
kela. Heam kantaram modhem chodd avddichim laglim tim Lawrychem Mumboint 
Buddtti ani Sonaiachem Vhann.

Tiatrachi kotha porompore pormonnem ghorabean ghoddta toslea samajik 
proxnnacher adharlea. Kolejik vochpi tornattim kuddintlea rogtachea bollar, to 
cheddo konn, khuinchea ghoranneantlo hacher vichar korinastana, tachea rupak 
ani bhopkeak bhultat ani osleam vatt-chuklealeam vattsurancho xevott bholtoch 
zata tem nazuk toren chitrailam.

Dor eka kolakaran ap-apli bhumika bhov huxarkaient kelea punn tanchea modhem 
Willy Silveiran hea tiatrak kherituch rong haddla, hem soglleanchem mot.

HANKAM OLLKHOTAI? - 2

Khailea chitrar dog famad tiatrist distat. Tanchi tumim navam sangchim, ani 
D'PIETRO PUBLICATIONS, Anjuna, hannim dovorlelem inam jikchem. Zabab hea 
pot'tear dhaddcho: Diamond Publications, Miriam Bldg, Rua de Natal, 
Fontainhas, Ponnje, Goem. Nimnni tarik: - 2005. Jikpeachem nanv 
fuddlea ankar vachunk melltelem.
Gele pavttichea chitrailea dogaim tiaristanchim nanvam divn chitti aileat 
tanchim navam oxi asa


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[Goanet] Re: GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND GOA: QUESTIONS FROM A VILLAGE CALLED MOIRA

2005-12-19 Thread Sebastian Rodrigues

Nazar da Silva is making very important point here, not only the struggle
against petroleum company BPCL in Moira  prompted by the archaic law
Petroleum Act,1934 but also the the open and blatant bulldozing of all the
democratic norms in Toto. In fact lots of our laws in India were formulated
by British colonial administration and they have remained as they were.
Petroleum Act, 1934 is one more example on the same. This law touches upon
the lifeline of the global economy: Petroleum, and  the inheritors of the
nation in 1947 in their wisdom continued them unaltered. The is easy to
decipher: the pact with the to be inheritors were in no mood to disturb the
the dictatorial laws and democratize the structure including the economic
structure in any way.

So in a way Nazar and People of Moira in Goa are beginning to address the
unfinished agenda of the decolonization process that began in 1947. They
deserve support from each one of us concerned about Democracy and anti -
imperialist struggles world wide I invite you for a discussion and debate on
this theme which may lead to clarity and action in Moira and elsewhere.

Sebastian Rodrigues,
New Delhi.

On 12/13/05, Goanet Reader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND GOA: QUESTIONS FROM A VILLAGE CALLED MOIRA
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> By Nazar da Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> BINGO! The world's biggest polluters are laughing all the way
> to the bank. (B.I.N.G.O. is now the accepted acronym for Big
> International Non Governmental Organisations). As natural
> calamities continue to make distressingly frequent headlines
> the world over, there is one class of individuals who gloat.
>

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[Goanet] Xitt-kodi, feni and football

2005-12-19 Thread Joel Moraes

Viva,Goa.
 
The true life of a real, typical, goemkar is, xitt-kodi, feni and
football. The recent win in the Santosh Trophy, proved that football is
still alive in our blood and it will never die. Although Goa has lost a
lot as far as nature and beauty is concerned not forgetting the
fenni, which is very difficut to get nowadays in it's own traditional
style, it's really good to see that the traditional football is still
alive in our blood. One thing, I can say Goa might lose, the remaining
soon, as far as the nature is concerned but in no way our football can be
robbed. The the traditonal bakers(panvalle) lost their bakeries to
migrants, the toddy tappers on the verge of losing their profession, the
only identity seen to be properly alive is the like and love to footabll. 
Although niz goemkars not been able to save goa as far as nature and beauty is 
concerned, full cheers goes to the goenkars for continuing their love for goan 
football, once again, viva Goa, I love you and miss you a lot.
 
Joel Morais

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