Re: [Goanet] The tragic accident in USA
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Sir, I would like to express my heartfelt sympathies to the family of this young couple and their loving Son, and ask God to help them bear this great loss. My wife and friends living here in Kuwait are deeply touched by this tragedy. In times such as these, words are poor comforters, the heart knows its own sorrow and in such sorrows we are always left alone. God grant Mekson, Sharina, and Nash Eternal Peace. I also pray that these rash drivers, are brought to book immediately. Living in Kuwait, I know at times how these rash drivers can play with innocent lives.May the local community work to bring justice to this crime. Joseph Anthony D' John Kuwait ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] Of top secret recipes and grandma's weather forecasts
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. See essay below submitted for the GOA SUDHAROP GOAN SENIORS E-BOOK. Thank you for your support. Goa Sudharop ** REMINISCENCES OF MY GOAN YOUTH By LORETTA ANDRADE Listening to family stories and reminiscing about the past can be healing both physically and emotionally. People feel good telling their life stories, their meaningful life experiences, talking about their relationships. Remembered stories rekindle thoughts of love and connection with others as well as helping distance todayâs concerns and worries. Memories are what theyâre made of. My childhood memories take me back to Anjuna. Often, I visited the ancestral house of my grandparents. Every holiday, the passage home was a mix of adventure and some anxiety of not being on time to catch the last ferry-boat. We crossed over when the ferry-boat (gasoline) came, walking past the new Mandovi Hotel becoming intrigued with the scene depicted by the Abade Faria statue. We walked along the road with our trunks in hand and stood near the Adil Shah Palace with some apprehension of the sentry on guard duty. After an hours wait we took the âcamihaoâ. Before we got home, word would have reached home that you were coming. It felt so good to have come home. The walls of the large-sized hall were almost fully covered with photographs behind each glass faces frozen in time in groups, as couples or alone. They sat or stood besides a tall stool or with a vase of artificial flowers. Some preferred to pose from outside standing proudly in the balcao or against the backdrop of trees. Often I watched them but never worried about so many silent eyes looking at us all the time we stayed there, awake or sleeping. My grandpaâs favorite game was guessing the identities of the people in the photographs. It was not easy even for me. They looked a lot different from the naked, squirming toddlers held firmly in front of the camera by an adult. The clothes these people wore were too old fashioned. The women wore blouses with frills or puffed sleeves and tucked the pallu of their saree firmly at the waist. The men wore baggy pants and small round framed spectacles were common to both sexes. I remember very vividly going shopping to the Mapusa market on Fridays. My grandmama would purchase spices and loads of chillies to pound fresh masalas ay home. The recipe was top secret it is never divulged to anyone, except the daughters of the house. It has been so for generations, the recipe passing from mother to daughter, and so on to me. Every time I hear the Spice Girls singing, the unsung ones of my childhood come to my mind. Childhood summer vacation in Anjuna, meant swinging from the tamarind tree near the well, battling hordes of squabbling parakeets to get to the guavas first, knocking raw mangoes or gathering juicy jambools near the stream. A nag champa tree grew on the other side looking like a 1,000-headed serpant guarding a shivling. Around the stream there were large pits of coconut husk soaking at the edge of the water. Women could be seen threshing the cured husk and turning the fiber into coir ropes. The stream was always full of water and in a few spots where migratory birds stopped on the flight. Barely visible from there, was a little hill with a cross atop it. It was customary for the church, to announce the hour of the mass by pealing the church bells in different tones. Other lasting sound impressions were from the trumpet like car horn, also the poderâs horn and the bullock cart stacked with hay trundling down the muddy pathway. For me, there was an element of magic in these sounds. They helped to spread a little extra sunshine and cheer in my life and those of others. And surprisingly, the scent of this childhood magic still lingers on. In the Anjuna village we did not depend on the weatherman to know when the monsoon will arrive. Our grandma was a better forecaster. She looked at the signs nature provided. The sound of waves breaking in the rough sea, the fireflies (glow worms) which lights the nights, the insects which flirt with light and the best the croaking frogs were signs that the monsoon winds had touched Goan shores. Various sounds associated with nature evoke nostalgic memories. Early in the morning, the chirping of birds. They had been the alarm clock for me to wake up.
[Goanet] DNA and Goans
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Eddie Fernandes says: "Anushka Asthana, 25, responds: My parents are Indian, my grandparents are Indian and as far back as they know, all their relatives are Indian. So these results certainly came as a surprise. The European connection less so, because my mum's family are from the north Indian state of Punjab, where the population is extremely fair and I have been told there was considerable movement there from Europe in the past. I was more surprised by the east Asian connection - I have certainly never identified myself as Chinese, Japanese or Vietnamese, yet according to the results these are 25 per cent of my origins. While I think it is fascinating I am not convinced by this high figure. I love the fact I could be a melting pot of so many diverse cultures". Affra Says:- Europeans have 'Thalasaemia' in their blood, Especially Greeks have it. North of India was invaded by the Greeks, most of the warriors settled down in the North of India, because they could not be bothered to go back, others had intermarried. NOW 25% of Punjabies have Thalasemia due to this Greek mixture. Now people in Goa have Thalasaemia too! may be due to Portuguese (European) mixture? Afra. ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] Frank Moraes on Pakistan
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. >From his "Witness to an Era", 1973. Jinnah had set up practise befre the Privy Council; he took chambers in King's Bench Walk and bought a house in Hampstead. There was a spruce, burnished quality in his appearance, i had heard tales of his rudeness, to me over fifteen years he was never anything but considerate, often kind. At the time i was president of the Indian Students Association in London, there were afternoons when i spent an hour or two with him. One evening, over dinner at Shaffis' on Gerrard St., i heard Sir Mohammed Iqbal speak: it was during a Round Table Conference, and he was a Muslim Delegate from India. He advocated the partitioning of India, and mentioned the word Pakistan. It was the first time i had heard it. I told Jinnah about it the next day: amused, he threw his head back, "my dear boy", he chuckled, "don't you know Iqbal isn't a politician ? He's a poet. Poet's are dreamers." (A Bombay native, Jinnah later gifted his stately home on Malabar Hill to his old country, India leases it to Britain, and it serves as the High Commissioner's residence.) ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] KATOR RE BHAJI: Sequeira Signs Off
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. 'Kator re Bhaji!': Sequeira Signs Off (1930-2006) On a rain-swept evening on 29 July this year at the Secunderabad Sailing Club I met with Sir - he was always 'Sir' to me - for the last time. To the tempest of the angry Hussain Sagar lake in the background, Sequeira was to introduce me on behalf of the Poetry Society of Hyderabad to read from my debut volume of poems 'Last Bus to Vasco: Poems from Goa' (2006). In some ways Sequeira's life was pretty poetic itself. The youngest of 5 children, he lived on his own terms, did what he most enjoyed - made a career of it, in fact - and was loved and respected by one and all. Though he hailed from Sequeira-vaddo in Saligao, Goa, Sequeira was born in Abids, Hyderabad on 5 Jan 1930. All his life he travelled widely. 'He was a true humanist, a teacher, multifaceted and rare,'says Professor Rana Nayar, University of Panjab. At ease in Latin which he quoted that evening, Sequeira would often regale us in the ASRC auditorium, Hyderabad, in its heyday in the 90's, with passing quotations from Italian, Greek and Portuguese. From there it was a short distance to his whipping out his mouth organ and playing a blues tune, for the by-now unforgettable lecture-dems on American music. Though he had over 80 research articles to his credit it was his book 'Popular Culture: East and West' (1991) which best defined him in the scope of its discussion from the Goan carnival to Bob Dylan. He had the gift of making you believe in yourself. His twinkling eyes made everything seem alright. He spurred you on to what you could become - to perfect yourself. In Chandigarh for the MELUS conference at Panjab University in March 2005, after playing for him the customary Goan dulpods which he loved, he pointed out that my guitar recital of a Giuliani 'Andante' needed brushing up. He was a connoisseur of the arts and everything of taste. Sequeira was a father-figure for so many of us. And on the 29th evening he quipped that he had now achieved 'grandfather' status since he had taught Professor Lakshmi Chandra, CIEFL Hyderabad, my own PhD supervisor, back in '71 at the Nizam college, Hyderabad. 'His dedication to the ASRC, his willingness to listen and to help,' are fondly remembered by Professor Chandra. 'An era ended with him. He was a person of the first magnitude, an institution by himself,' says Ms. Tanutrushna Panigrahi, Fulbright scholar and Assistant Professor of English, Bhubaneshwar. 'Books, music and food, these were his loves - in that order. He used to encourage people who wanted to study and helped them financially too,' recalls Mrs Marie Sequeira, wife of Sequeira's nephew Hector. 'On Sunday mornings he was part of the church choir; in the afternoon he would visit the Widow's Home to spread the sunshine of his bonhomie,' reminisces Manju Jaidka in her moving tribute on the net ( http://dearer.blogspot.com/). And on the 29th I left the company of those partaking of the banquet of snacks and hastened into the plush hall. I wanted to compose myself for the reading from my poems which he had enjoyed immensely for the 'sights and sound of Goa.' There in the vast hall was Sir, a lone figure, in his light grey safari, proud in his ideals and life long values, already sitting on one of the chairs. Always conscious of time, Sir was there before time near the dais. Alone-ness, however, was no stranger to Sequeira - he remained a bachelor. I seized those precious moments with him and he asked me about my work. I told him about my poetry reading in Calangute, Goa the week before. And of the earlier reading at Cafe Literati of 'Kator re Bhaji'. He was saddened by the dwindling numbers who actually spoke or understood Konkani these days. So full of his joie de vivre, he once more urged me on to write more and continue what I was doing. And after a pause he burst out in Konkani 'Kator re bhaji!' the colloquial idiomatic expression to roughly mean 'Carry on! Press ahead with what you are doing!' (I am most grateful to Daniel F de Souza of Vasco for his insight on the expression.) Sequeira would mean that for all us who knew him, to realize our dreams as he would want us to. The partial lunar eclipse on the night he left us on 7 September must yield to a new day imbued with the spirit of his vision and his values. Brian Mendonça [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9818432507 New Delhi ___
[Goanet] Shalini Mardolkar - Tichi suadik talleachi modurai ani 'bhou natural' bhumika korpi ostori
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. SHALINI MARDOLKAR Konkani palkar bhou natural bhumika korpi ostori ek Shalini Mardolkar. Shalini Aogostachea 15ver, 1939 vorsa, Mardol, Goem zolmoli. Shalinink Konkani palkar 'professional' tiatrant Anthony Franklin, hannem aplea 'Bhau' tiatrant mukhi partint haddleli. Bhurgechponnim than Shalinichea rogtant nattok kola asli. Ticho 'Shalini Songit Mandal' mhunn khas pongodd aslo. Hea pongddanctlea nattkamnim tika bhurgeacheo (lhan cheddum vo cheddo) bhumika ditale. Tancho pongodd chodd so Zatreak, Morathi nattkam sabar ganvamnim palkar haddtale. Survatek tem Morathi ani Gujaratti nattkamnim bhumika kortalem dekhunuch Shalini ekdomuch nizacheo bhumika korta. Morathi ani Gujratti nattkamnim 'perfection' polloitat, ani digodorspi aplea kolakaram koddlean ekdom nizacheo bhumika korun ghetat, ani hacheach vorvim Shalinichem machier vagop, uloup ani paulam marop ekdom somik (natural). Franklin, hanchea 'Bhau' tiatrant Shalinin, C.Alvares-achea sangatak mukhel part kel'li. Hea tiatrant Anthony Mendes, Souza Ferrao, adi. Osle voznadik tiatrist asle. Shalinin, Anthony Mendes-a vangdda hea tiatrant ek comedy duett gailem. Tea upranta taka C. Alvares, hachea 'VOJEM' tiatrant bhag gheuvpak soeg meulo, ani hea tiatrant Shalini vhodd fank zoddunk pavlem. J.P. Souzalin, hachea ' SAT DUKHI' tiatrant Shalini Saibinnichi bhumika keli ani tea uprant Souzalin-achea soglleam tiatranim bhag ghevpak tika soeg favla. Tea xivai Shalinin anink khup digdorspeancheam tiataranim bhag ghetla zoxe porim: Jacint Vaz, Robin Vaz, Anthony D'Sa, Prem Kumar, M. Boyer, Alfred Rose, adi. Gitam gavpantui Shalini huxear. Anthony Mendes, hachea vangdda tem khup pavtti komik duettam giatalem. Te xivai M. Boyer, Master Vaz, Robin Vaz, Jacint Vaz, hachea vangdda duettam, trio, chouke gaitalem. Punn jednam tem Souzalinchea tiatraant 'character role' kortalem, tednam tem kednanch side-show-ant vantto ghenaslem khuim, karann 'character' pirddear zata dekhun. Shalinichea suadik talleachi modurai amkam 'Nirmonn' filmantlem 'Dhol Mhojea Bai' hea gita vorvim kollta, jem azunui amkam aikon xem dista. NIRMONN ani MHOJI GHORKARN, heam donui Konknni filmaamnim Shalinin mukhel bhumika keleat. 1966 vorsa taka NIRMONN filmak 'Best Actress' puroskar favo zalo, zo tika, adli Prodhan Montri Smt. Indira Gandhi, hechea hatantlean bhettoilolo. NIRMONN film kaddlem teach vorsak Shalinichem logn tea filmacho digdorspi ani nanvosto Hindi cholchitr digdorspi, A. Salaam, hache laguim zalem. A.Salaam, hannem-i Konknni kolek khup dilam. 1963 vorsa tannem AMCHEM NOXIB digodorxit kelem, zalear 1955 vorsa NIRMONN ani uprant MHOJI GHORKARN cholchitram tor tannem aplea khasgi 'finance'-an kaddlelem. Shalini atam Konknni tiaramnim khup komi dista, ani hachem karann mhollear atam kuttumbak lagon taka titlo vell gavonam. Te xivai tem apunn korta tea tiatrachi bhumika pollelea bogor digdorspeak kednanch utor dinam. Somplolea C. Alvares, hannem kaddlealea FAXI MOGACHI konknni video filmant tem borem porzoll'lam. Tachem hit Hindi film mhollear TAQDEER, jem NIRMONN, hea Konknni filmacher attaplelem. Gelea vorsant Shalininin Goeant aplo tiatr SOUNSARCHO GADDO machier haddlolo, punn heam proigam vixim tem khoxi zalem nam, karann sangati kolakarancho boro sohokar mell'lo nam dekhun. Shalinin anikui tiatr boroileat, punn machier haddunk nant, karann tika 'perfection' zai, ani Konknni palkar aiz-kal, don-tin ensaio marun tiatr machier haddtat, tem tika bilkul mandonam. Ani halinch tannem Goeant tiatr dakhoilolo, tacher tem odhik xiklam.. Adleam tiatristam porim atam sangati tiatrist kainch sohokar divpi nhoi, ani hatak hat dhorun cholpi munis nhoi, hem sot tika pottlam. Shalini aplea kuttumba sangata Bombaim, Khar jieta. Courtesy: Tiatr & Tiatrists - by Fausto V. Da Costa This publication is available to view on www.goa-world.com under special arrangement by Gaspar Almeida with the publisher. Visit www.goa-world.com/goa/tiatr&tiatrist/ ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] Book Review: Penance - a Novel By Ben Antao
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Penance - a Novel By Ben Antao Published by Goan Observer Private Limited, 2006 Panjim-Goa, India, pp 333 Rs 200, $25 PENANCE is Ben Antao's second novel. In this novel the author excels in the art of story telling. The story moves gracefully in a precise well-written prose until it ends up in a tragedy. As the plot unfolds gently, the readers have a chance to have a bird's-eye view, as it were, of various nature scenes that he depicts with minute details--Toronto landscape, like that of Niagara Falls and others. At the same time, the readers can reflect upon the nuances of the doctrines of the Catholic Church, which have the capacity to control the lives of her adherents. Wisely, the author stays away from passing any judgment of his own on the teachings of the Church. The individual reader is left to make up his/her mind on such theological issues, if they want to. The plot of this novel as it evolves explores the relationships of the two couples that are brought up in conventional Catholic traditions. Both the couples draw their spiritual sustenance from the teachings of the Mother Catholic Church. James Kennedy and Alice marry after falling hopelessly in love; and they firmly believe that their Catholic faith is their towering strength that cements their love and marriage. Out of this wedlock, they have a son, Sean, the pride of their joy and faith. They both are very devout Catholics--a very dedicated family. The other couple in this novel is Karen McNulty and Donna Thistle. They too are deeply in love and consider themselves very much married. They explore each other sexually and their relationship is very much akin to the married kind; but they hide it from the public eye and the Church, knowing very well the societal taboos on the same-sex relationships. Karen and Donna, who were raised up spiritually as Catholics by their respective parents, also draw their spiritual sustenance from the teachings of the Church. Both these couples attend church services at a newly built church in Willowdale in the North York district of Toronto. After Mass, that Sunday in November - the feast of All Saints --these two couples happened to meet by chance in the Church hall over a cup of coffee. As James was surveying the scene when his wife had left to bring him a cup of coffee, his eyes fall on Karen - a brunette with a charming, oval face. He is drawn to her like a moth to a flame. Karen too had felt the strong pull of attraction towards James who was dressed in his tailored brown woolen suit and silk tie. At that very instant when they were drawn to each other, the seed of tragedy was sown into their destiny. James is a teacher in a secondary school, and Karen teaches in the elementary panel. Fate brings them together; but this time, without the presence of their respective partners or spouses. This chance encounter happens when they attend the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the teachers' union. As Karen was glancing through this gathering, 'a bolt of electricity' passes through her body, seeing James entering the room. Later, twice the same weekend, they consummate their illicit passion that was itching their libido in Karen's room at the Regal Constellation Hotel on Dixon Road, where Karen had checked in to attend the AGM. Karen, who had never had sexual intercourse with a man before, 'felt fulfilled in a way she had never been fulfilled with Donna'. But their love also being beyond physical, Karen felt that she had betrayed Donna; a feeling of guilt traumatizes her being. James, who had never slept with any other woman besides his wife, Alice, is conscience-stricken; he has committed adultery. How is he going to face Alice? Strong emotional tsunamis assault their moral virtues nurtured by their faith. They are torn between their physical passion of their lust and their binding commitment to their spouses. Finally, when Alice discovers that James had cheated on her with Karen, she is so hurt that she escapes with her son, Sean, to her parents. Alice, who prayed rosary with her parents as a child - the family that prays together stays together - and who had knowledge of the meditations of Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, reflects upon her marriage. As she reflects, it comes to her mind the passage that the priest had read at her nuptials. It was a passage from Corinthians by Paul the Apostle. It read
Re: [Goanet] JOAQUIM ALEMAO BEATS ABOUT THE BUSH : SGF
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. The Goa Su-Raj Party, while CONGRATULATING the efforts of the 'SAVE GOA FRONT', and in particular, the efforts put in by Adv. Aires Rodrigues, in exposing the Sonsodo Garbage Tender to 'HYQUIP' scam, seconds the Front's call of the resignation of the Urban Development Minister. Let the Minister first resign until such time that the Inquiry into the scam is conducted. Let the inquiry exonerate the Minister of any wrong doing in the understanding the "YOU ARE GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT' and then, and only then, the people of Goa will raise the Minister back to his honoured position as the Minister, with due apologies. Let us see the setting of some meritable precedents for once. As far as the Bainguini Garbage Treatment site is concerned, let the Government of Goa, and not the Urban Development Minister, who is a mere holder of the portfolio, give and undertaking to the people of Goa that this site is chosen with full and expert knowledge of the consequences that may arise due to this site, especially, when this chosen area is the home to world famous heritage monuments. In so doing let the Governemnt be responsible for this decision, fully acknowledging that whether in power or out of power, the key people in the government responsible for taking this decision will be held accountable for any disastrous consequences. The people of GOA will no longer tolerate dereliction of duties and responsibilities by their elected representatives in the government for any disastrous decision they take that will affect the lives, social and economic well being of the posterity. Sd/- Floriano Lobo (m) 9422060347 Spokesperson goasuraj - Original Message - From: "airesrod" The Save Goa Front today said that there was no point in entering into issues with either Urban Development Minister Mr. Joaquim Alemao or Goa State Urban Development Agency (GSUDA) member Secretary, Mr. Daulat Havaldar as regards the Sonsodo tender multi-crore scam. The Front states that there was nothing in Mr. Joaquim Alemao's statements yesterday that answers the specific queries raised by the Save Goa Front about the Sonsodo tender multi-crore scam. ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] Sequeira's 'Arietta' : Hearing the Silence
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Sequeira's 'Arietta' : Hearing the Silence Spending a quiet morning in Delhi in memory of my mentor and friend. Going down the years thinking how much he meant to me. Helping me through are Beethoven's last 3 piano sonatas (Rudolf Serkin, pianist). How much Sequeira would have enjoyed listening to them. As the notes cascade over each other I realise Sequeira was an interpreter of life like Serkin is of Beethoven's music. Music moved him, pushed him, challenged him towards the absolute. 'Beethoven's thirty-two sonatas were written over almost 30 years, in the manner of a gigantic clash between Beethoven and his instrument, in which his creative genius expressed itself condensed, decanted, like nowhere else,' writes Andre Tubeuf. Sequeira's life too was a constant encounter with music, whether seeing similarities between music and literature, teasing out the jazz forms of Vachel Lindsay, or speaking on the cadence of an urdu nazm or ghazal. On October 10, 1991 I shared the dais with him at the Golay Memorial hall at the University of Poona, Pune. He was to speak on 'Literature and Music' and I on Mozart. This was to commemorate the bicentenary of Mozart's death in 1791. Though we did play the sprightly opening movement of Mozart's '40' i.e. Symphony Number 40 in G minor, Isaac's favourite was always Albinoni's stately Adagio for strings and organ in G minor. In my MPhil days when he breezed in to the Department of English of the University of Poona to speak at the refresher courses, he strode like a colossus, having a distinct penchant for that deep blue shirt of his. He filled the room with his presence. Awed by his deep appreciation of music as an elixir of life -- I used to pick up cheap cassettes of compilations of western classical music from Alurkar music house, Karve road, to listen to, in a bid to develop my fledgling interest. When I showed one of these to him he rubbished my purchase saying I should listen to the entire work, not fragments of it. We somewhat made amends by taking in 'Ghasiram Kotwal' when it was staged at Nehru Memorial hall, Pune after which we settled down to hearty sizzlers at 'The Place' (Near Manneys) with Sequeira holding forth on the finer points of venison and lamb. In Hyderabad he helped me with my paper on 'The Use of Music in TS Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral' (CIEFL Bulletin, 6.1 June 1994). At one of the various sessions discussing the role of the Chorus in the play he promptly started singing the 'Dies Irae' (Day of Wrath) in Gregorian chant in Latin with the emphasis at the appropriate places: doh si doh la si sol la la QUAERENS ME SEDISTE LASSUS He took a keen interest in opera. But his attempts to cultivate a liking for this form in his students met with little success as he recounted to me. All he got once after a sublime aria was a shocked silence among the class and a brave voice which perked up and said 'Sir, yeh aurat kyoon chillah rahee heh?!' When I moved to Delhi in 2000 and worked Sundays as an announcer on AIR I used to host the 'Music for Leisure' slot in the afternoon. Oftentimes if we were broadcasting a piece I knew he'd enjoy, I used to call him up and press my mobile to the playback speakers in the studio. Vivified and in a hearty post-prandial mood he would hold forth on the piece in question - Wagner, Delius or Brahms - and garnish it with an anecdote. Though I had begun my working life, our interaction never waned. Whenever I used to buzz down to Hyderabad I would make it a point to see him. And take a photo with him. And lately I noticed, depending on which side of him I was standing, his arm used to reach behind me holding me close to his side. Yet taking the utmost care that his hand was not caught on camera. The infinite vision of Beethoven's Arietta of Sonata No.32 in C minor, Opus 111 (CD, Sony 5128692000) helps me cope with the absence. In its melding of polarities, from the limpid to the ethereal, it is the work of a genius. Roughly 18 minutes, it seems to span a lifetime of purpose. A heroic statement, a bridge across the river of time, a meditation on the lanes, between this world and the beyond: Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when the earth shall claim your limbs then shall you truly dance. -Kahlil Gibran 'The Prophet' brian mendonca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Goanet] Press Release: IFFI 2006
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Press Release: Entertainment Society of Goa launches the 'All India Poster Competition' for IFFI 2006 In an effort to support and encourage creative participation locally and nationally, the Entertainment Society of Goa proposes to moot an `All India Poster Competition' open for all. The competition aims to explore creative interpretation of the film festival theme, while providing a platform for participation. The Theme of the contest is Celebrating International Film Festival of India, Goa, 2006. The competition is open to all participants. Winner of the `best poster' will win a trip to Goa with a cash prize of Rs 21,000 and a chance to attend the star-studded National Press Conference in Goa. Top 100 entries will be exhibited at the Kala Academy, Goa during the 37th Film Festival of India, Goa, 2006 from Nov 23rd to Dec 4th 2006. Each participant will have to submit one poster only per entry. The posters will have to be of a minimum A3 size. The medium of the competition will be colour. Judges will select winning entries and the prize winning poster based on criteria such as: * Artistic interpretation * Visualization of theme * Creative strength * Relevance to theme The Entries will have to be submitted in hard copy essentially. However, soft copies in jpeg format will be accepted temporarily due to paucity of time, provided hard copies are dispatched soon. Only original designs will be accepted and the participant will have to give an undertaking that the design is original and not copied. Employees and relatives of the Entertainment Society of Goa and Brilliant Entertainment Networks Pvt Ltd., will not be eligible to participate. Results and decision of the Entertainment Society of Goa will be final and binding. Vulgar and indecent entries will not be accepted. Entries will close by Oct 10, 2006. Send your entries to: The Entertainment Society of Goa, Old GMC Heritage Precinct, 1st floor, Old GMC Building, Panaji-Goa. 403001. For further information: Saieesh at 0832 2428113 / Ethel Da Costa 9822121012. Or email us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: www.iffigoa.org ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
Re: [Goanet] Distortion of posts on Goanet
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Dear Santosh, The problem in arguing with Gilbert is that the "point" of his posts keeps changing(now it happens in the same post, amazing!), that is why I once warned you against it. He is completely incapable of arguing point-counter point, and chooses instead to launch into long sermons interspersed with self patronising comments, bigotry and the occasional inapt use of Konkani phrases(as we have seen in the past use of bhamto, petoita muree, fugdi, etc). This time around everyone was first informed (quote) often "Old grandmothers' observations" are on or close to the mark. While their explanations for the observations may be unknown or not necessarily be correct, only a pseudo-scientist will disregard their observations.(unquote) In the very next line, following the description of the mice study/experiment we are further informed(quote)Thus the grandmother's observation was accurate.(end of quote) We were later warned (quote) So "old grand-mothers' tales" are not to be ignored except at our own peril! (end of quote) In between these two preaching's was the only informative part of the post which was (quote) The current explanation for this (statistical significant) observation is that the surgery depresses the immune system, allowing the tumours to now behave and grow even more aggressively. Hence cancer surgery has undergone and is undergoing significant shift. (end of quote) To a lay person there were clearly TWO points, no distortion at all !. The first was regarding latest cancer treatment(very informative). The next one was regarding the validation of a long standing "grandmother's observation" by a scientific experiment(pure nonsense!). It was clearly this second point you wanted to contradict and I have clearly seen that as has anyone with a half-decent command of the English language. Regards Sunith Velho Santosh writes: I humbly request Gilbert not to put words in my mouth or to point to Frederick's or anyone else's mischaracterization of my views. And I ask readers not to rely on someone else's opinion of what I said or implied. I trust Gilbert would try to understand and respect this simple principle of any public discourse. ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] Campus-Radio Career Guidance Series to be aired from 1 October 2006
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Campus-Radio Career Guidance Series to be aired from 1 to 10 October 2006 The first ever Campus-Radio Career Guidance Series organized by All India Radio, Panaji, in association with Plus Publications, publishers of the forthcoming publication Careers: The Complete Guide, will be broadcast daily on 105.4 FM Rainbow from 1st to 10th October 2006, from 9.00pm to 10.00pm. This unique 'land to air' series was conducted in 10 select colleges of Goa and will now benefit the larger student community in the State. Career experts including Dr Vaman Naik, Abhijeet Naik, Pravin Sabnis, Mervyn Sequeira, Vishal Agarwal, Suhas Pai, Naguesh Sardessai, Vidya D'Silva, Ranjana Kakodkar and M.A. Sundaram will feature in the programme. Also, well-known personalities like financial consultant Rajesh Chheda, entrepreneur Kirit Maganlal, A grade mountaineer Prasad Joshi, event manager Richard Dias, founder-president of Disability Rights Association Avelino de Sa, Editor- Gomantak Times Derek Almeida, Jt Secretary (Budget) Suresh Shanbhogue and leading LIC Agent Pradeep Joshi will also share their success stories. Relevant questions posed by students in various colleges and their enthusiastic interaction with the RJs and speakers will also be part of the one-hour capsule. The colleges covered by the Campus-Radio Career Guidance Series include Dempo College, Altinho-Panjim (1st October); Rosary HSS, D Paula (2nd October); PES, Ponda (3rd October); Dempo HSS & Dhempe College, Miramar (4 th October); St Xavier's College, Mapusa (5th October); St Xavier's HSS, Mapusa (6th October); Chowgule College, Margao (7th October); Rosary College, Navelim (8th October); Carmel College, Nuvem (9 th October) and Damodar College, Margao (10th October). ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] St. Xavier's Alumni
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. It has been our endeavour to keep in touch with our ex-students over the years. Unfortunately, not many of them do so. This is an appeal to all Xavierities to email us giving us details of which batch they passed, department through which they passed, their jobs and designations and postal addresses. Thanking you. Marina Monteiro St. Xavier's College of Arts, Science & Commerce Mapusa, Goa 403 507 0832-226-2356 ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] Free Musical Performance on Ramayana
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, GOA Goa University Road, Dona Paula Post Office, Dona Paula, Goa - 403 004, INDIA Tel: +91 832 2452805-10 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Presents FREE MUSICAL PERFORMANCE on Ramayana Ramayana, the travel of the prince of Ayodhya from a mortal prince to the immortal incarnation of Vishnu is narrated in Bhojpuri with inceptions in English. In this venture we have opted for fusion in both the presentation and music. The dance forms used here Bharatnatyam, Yakshagana and folk. You are cordially invited to enjoy the important episode of Ramayana Directed by: Dr. Sharmila Rao Date: September 29, 2006 Time: 5:30 pm Venue: The International Centre, Goa, Dona Paula, Goa For Registration & Inquiries contact: Ms. Freda Coutinho at 2452805-10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] KONKAN CURRY: Crime and Punishment
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Crime and Punishment. Sometime back, half a dozen Gaur or Wild Bulls were electrocuted in Sanguem taluka. The forest Department swung into action. So did the Goa Police. There were arrests and investigations, including custodial interrogation of the accused. How could the fence be electrified with 230V power connection when it is legal only to use battery power of low voltage to give only a mild shock to the animals without causing mortality of even a field rat? Animal rights activists and protectors of public morality went to town about the cruelty to the poor animals that happen to be Goa's "State Animal." Contrast that with what some feel about the recent electrocution of three young boys in their twenties and a Tiger Prawn farm in Siolim. Wrote one educated, Net-savvy person, "God's way of punishing offenders. Quick justice." The three boys, after everything is said and done, did go to steal their neighbour's prawns. So were their electrocution deaths 'Divine Retribution' or criminal intent of the owner of the farm? Fortunately the owner of the farm and the three victims belonged to the same village, community and perhaps even the caste. If not there could have been a riot. Perhaps, there should have been a riot anyway. Who takes notice of such incidents otherwise? In a few days time , even the police will not be interested in investigating this matter regarding a petty crime of stealing a few prawns. The Shrimp Farm owner will be wealthy enough to aid the amnesia. The dice is loaded against the dead. Some time back the Hizbollah in Lebanon kidnapped two Israeli soldiers. The Israeli government set its military might against the Hizbollah and Lebanon. It killed thousands of innocent Lebanese civilians, destroyed towns and residential houses and lost a 168 soldiers of its own in the effort to find the two soldiers. Does it make sense to lose 168 persons in search of two? Does it make sense to kill thousands of unconnected persons to find just two persons? To the Israeli Prime Minister, it does. It makes sense even when they did not find the two soldiers for whom they were supposed to be searching for. As long as one does not get killed in the process, the death of anyone else makes sense. It is for this reason that Mark Twain once wrote, "Man is the only animal that blushes.or needs to." Such is our vanity and stupidity. The cause of action and the action need to have some proportion. It is a matter of scale. Like Manu Sharma is alleged to have done, one cannot shoot to kill because one feels that he has been insulted. One cannot put the lives of many persons at risk of death because someone is stealing his tiger prawns. It is stupid enough that the Indian military machine risks the lives of many to protect a piece of ice called Siachin and that both, India and Pakistan, claim victory at Kargil. Is killing young men in the prime of their lives to prove one's point, a Victory of nay kind? Is killing of three young men to protect one's prawns any different? Wrote another Goan, "Well, when some people don't have money they rob from the bank, pickpocket, etc. But robbing prawns? For what? It is such a petty crime? Unbelievable.." It is equally unbelievable that one would kill men to protect prawns. Contrast this again with the news item in the local newspapers, "Goa's Rajya Sabha member, Mr Shantaram Naik, today appealed to the Union Minister of Water Resources, Mr Saif-Ud-Din Soz, to immediately direct Karnataka to refrain from undertaking any project that would divert water from the Mhadei basis to the Malapraba basin." We are not talking about a tonne of prawns or loss of biodiversity alone. The Mhadei river water diversion may well mean that there will be no water to drink, let alone have bath, in the entire North Goa from the month of February each year. The Goa Government is happy with making a telephone call or sending a FAX message to the centre. Another newspaper put it succinctly, "Goa's lethargic attitude in putting forth its case regarding the disputed Kalsa-Bhandura Water Diversion project before the Supreme Court could well have delighted the Karnataka government. The Karnataka government had already announced its intention to lay the foundation stone for the project on Friday, while the Goa government had pinned its hopes on a petition filed in the Supreme Court, which was to come up for
[Goanet] Viva Gandhi Jayanti
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Why 2nd October is a dry day? It's Gandhi Jayanti,it's a dry day all over India and it's really a shocking news for goans as most of the goans celebrate even the smallest function of their life with liquor around and how's that our father of the nations Birthday goes dry for us legally.Anyway It's India, if people like me wants to overload ourselves with Beer or something more stronger it should not be problem. Mera Bharat Mahan. Joel Morais ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] Aitaracheo Kaskutleo: Undir Mhojea Mama
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Undir Mhojea Mama Jen, khuim asa tum? Kopdde haddunk visorlo hanv Nhannient thavn aple bailek ulo marun Ben-an sanglem. Ti laginch asli. Tinnem aikolem. Kuddant vochun bed-ir dovorlele kopdde hatant kaddtana, thoimsor tinnem mov sarkeli khanddar marun vhorcheli kes (soft carrying case) polleli. Dolle motte korit, bott laun chiddun pollelem zalear, bhitor asleli vost kodok lagli. Ghorkarak vicharlea xivai, tachea vostunk keddnach meklli korun ti polle nasli. Kopdde vhorun tachea hatant ditana tinnem vicharlem. Ben, bed-ir asa tem kitem Sorry darling. Tuka sangonk vichorlom. To zaun asa Laptop. Laptop? Mhonnchem? Poilim mhaka kopdde nhesun nhannientlo bhair sorum di. Uprant tuka sogllem sangtam. Tea mhonnosor mhojo glass, soda ani kazu toiar dovor. Ankvar astana vo Jen-a thaim kazar zaumchea adim tannem whiskey ghonttchi asli. Kazar zalea uprant Anjuna-Kainsua vaddeantle sasu-main, iexvori toair kellem vokhod (divine concoction) kazu feni, aplea zanvoi-nk pavtti korchi ani te meren Ben kazu fenicho gulam zanvcho. Tannem glass-an feni votoili. Tatunt illoso limbu ross pilllo, soda mixol kelem ani ek motto ghontt ghetlo. Komponnichea business-a khatir hanv bhair astam tenna mhaka, amchem komponnichem utponn (product) koslem asa ani koxem chollta tem dakhovpak, hea laptop computer-achi ekdom goroz Sohokar korpea (co-ordinate) thaim portean-portean fon korun hem ani tem vicharchea bodla ho laptop computer (carrying case-sintlo bhair kaddun) mhojem kam sompem korta, ani tannem nhidche khuddan laginch aslelea bailechea dressing table-ar Laptop dovorlo. Itlo lhan? Bhurgim vapurtat to kompuittor kitlo vhodd ani hem kitem lhan Disan dis 'electronic'vostu lhan-lhan zait vetat. Poilincho landline fon ani atancho mobile, kitlo forok? Haka mhonntat, 'the miracle of modern technology'. Ben-an kazu-cho dusro ghontt ghetanam adhunik tontrvidea-chi tust korun uloilo Khoreanim Devan ghoddloleo soimbik vostu modim chomotkar asa to, monxanim ghoddlelea vostunk na. 'Computer magic' chollta fokot monxan aplea gineanacho upeog kela ani tovui zalear Devache podven. Hea vixim ojap zauncho nikalus na. Kompuittor iontrvideachi (computer engineering) hatunt 'physical', 'chemical' ani 'mathematical' chall vapurlea mhunnonuch to ek bhou upkarnni (device) zaun ghelam. Jen-an, apleak thoddi bhov zanvikai asa mhunn dakhol kelem. Khorem mhollear, hanv soddanch chintalom mhoji bail 'only home department' (ghoracho) karbhar samballpi mhunn. Pollounk ghelear dusrea-i kamani huxar asa mhunn aiz kollun ailem. Ek sang. Ghorant asa tea PC (Personal Computer) ani hea laptop-a modim kosli ontor? Jen-an prosn kelo. Jedna kompuitter itihaskarank (computer historians) pustoka sarkelea 'laptop' ghorantle/offisantle PC bhoxen kam choloitolo vo na choloitolo ho prons aillo. Punn khorem mhollear vhodd ani lhan hanchea modim ontor dovri nastana, monis pranni, aple mander (laps) dovorun akkho sonvsar choloitoli mhunn hi khatri tankam asli. Ontor itlich, 'laptop computer', tujean zai thoimsor vhorunk zata ani bizli nasun 'battery pack'-ar chollounk-ui zata. Hi ek itihas . Borem baba. Tujo itihas-bitihas mhollear vell zatlo. Laptop koso cholta tem sang? Tum mhoje bazun vo 45 'degree angle' ubem ravlear LCD-cher nitoll dischi na. LCD mhonnchem 'Liquid Crystal Display'. Ghorant asa taka Monitor mhonntat. Hi tuka khobor asa. Mhonntoch odik borem tunvem mhoje mander boslear. Kiteak nanvuch suchoita nhoi? Laptop? Thodde pavtti Jen-ank osle lag vo mirovnneo zai astat. Vhodd khuxen Ben-achea zangddar bostana Jen-an vicharta. Ben, undir khuim asa re? 'Mouse' ani 'mouse pad' diso naslelean Jen-an auchit vichar kelo. Jen, 'be serious'. Moskoreo nakat. Urdir aplea zagear asa. Tacho vell pavlo mhonntoch to bhair ietlo. Sodeak tachea suvater hem touch pad toiar kelam. Hangasor tujem bott dovor ani susegad 'feather touch' bhoxen voir sokoll voch ani tuka zai thoim 'click' kor. Undrachem kam atam 'touch pad' korta Ani mhojem hoddddem, tujem touch pad zalam kitem? Ben-acho dhavea hatachim bottam tichea chater choltalim tem polloun Jen-an vichar kelo Somzaitam tuka 'feather touch' mhonntat tem kitem poi tem. Ho mouse nhoi. 'Touch pad'. Zata titli zotnai ghevnk zai. Oxech toren tuka, gelea pavtti kompuitter xikoitalom. Punn tujem dhean xikpacher n
[Goanet] Free Checkup for the Elderly
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. FREE CHECKUP FOR THE ELDERLY The centre for studies and support, St. Xavier's College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Mapusa, Goa, is organising a Free Health Camp for Senior Citizens on October 1st, 2006, on the occasion of World Elders Day. Testing of Blood Sugar, Blood Pressure and a general checkup will be done. The camp is being held in association with Biocon, and a team of doctors from G.M.C., headed by Dr. Edwin Gomes. Those wanting to check blood sugar levels are requested to come on an empty stomach. The camp is being held at St. Jerome's Church, Mapusa, from 7:30 am. onwards. It is open and free to all senior citizens. ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] Aitaracheo Kaskutleo: Undir Mhojea Mama
zalam kitem? Ben-acho dhavea hatachim bottam tichea chater choltalim tem polloun Jen-an vichar kelo Somzaitam tuka feather touch mhonntat tem kitem poi tem. Ho mouse nhoi. Touch pad. Zata titli zotnai ghevnk zai. Oxech toren tuka, gelea pavtti kompuitter xikoitalom. Punn tujem dhean xikpacher nhoi punn hanv kitem kortam tacher vheta. Sodeak tum mhojo xikxok vo teacher. Ani hanv tujem student. Xikxokanim apli rit-mansugi xikpeam thaim samballchi asta. Xikxokan choli vidhearticher vonoibhong (molestation) ani be-vagnnunk (misbehavior) kortat mhunn dispotim newspaper-ar khobro vachunk melltat. Punn, hanv tujo ghov. Ti khobor asa mhaka. Punn, eka innocent bhurgea porim mander bosoun laptop computer xikoitana, hanv tujem student oxem tunvem somzun .Ben!!! Bhievkutem (nervous) zaun Ben-achea zangddar boslele kodden, Jen-an aple kulle voir kaddle. Kitem zalem? Laptop computer-ak khoreanich mouse na? Sanglam nhoi? Tache zagear touch pad bottan cholovnchem asta mhunn? Hum!! Atam somzolim. Kedov tunvem mhonnlelem, vell pavtoch undir bhair ietlo mhunn. Dista mhaka undracho vell pavloso, ani Jen ekuch zottkean Ben-achea zangddavelem uttha ani fuddem mhonnta. A teacher should not suppose to do this. Either you take care of your exposed mouse or postpone this lesson for the next supercomputer. Ani tem chollot bhitor vheta. Lino B. Dourado http://www.goa-world.com/goa/poems http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=gulf-goans_yahoogroups_com&restrict=&exclude=&words=Lino+B.+Dourado - Stay in the know. Pulse on the new Yahoo.com. Check it out. -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/attachments/20060930/8f502042/attachment.html ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] Public Sins, Private Lucre
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PUBLIC SINS, PRIVATE LUCRE, GOA DAMNED
By Valmiki Faleiro
Goa’s stink would put a skunk to shame. Never was the awful stench of
corruption in public life so overpowering, so intense, so pervasive.
Originating from ministerial chambers in the State Secretariat,
bribe culture permeated down to the lowest rung of Government functioning.
So rampant it today is that we, the people, have accepted it as ‘A way of life.’
If corruption has become institutionalized, it is thanks to our politicians.
And, in a roundabout way, to us.
Bureaucracy is steeped in corruption because the top itself is.
It’s not just a case of setting a bad example. Instances show that our
elected honourables actually initiated field officials into corruption.
For starters, how do you imagine the poor official will recover the lakhs
he paid to the minister to secure his job?
Leave alone the individual ‘scoops’ for favours and licences granted by
bending or breaking the law. Forget the by-now-conventional ‘percentage’ on
all government spending. Ministers have developed ‘Regular Income Plans.’
A fixed amount every month collected by the department for the minister.
The lucre is not confined to RTO check-posts, gambling, petro-adulteration,
narcotics and rave parties. Newer rackets are hatched and choreographed
from the top.
Take the case of Sub-Registrars. Times were when Sub-Registrars like
Floriano Barreto, Vishnu Sinai Priolkar or Egidio Fernandes might have
actually dug into their own pockets to help a needy person rather than
demand, expect, or even accept a bribe. As corruption seeped into the
corridors of the Palacio do Adilcao, Sub-Registrars began demanding
money for not referring ‘undervalued’ Sale Deeds for adjudication.
Then a Mapusa advocate became Law Minister. Based on average
transaction volumes and values, he fixed a monthly ‘quota’ for each of
Goa’s eleven sub-registries. Even the few fairly decent Sub-Registrars
had to fall in line.
Corruption was unheard of during the first government of Dayanand B. Bandodkar,
1963-66. Bandodkar of course was smart in knocking off money for every
"donation" he announced in Chief Guest appearances. He got it from his
Richie-rich brother mine -owners. He knew to deal with defaulters -- he knew
how they under-invoiced ore exports, which foreign accounts they stashed
away the difference, and how they abused impex incentives to smuggle in gold.
But corruption (as we know it today, for personal enrichment) was anathema
in that era.
The first signs of the malaise surfaced after his daughter, Shashikaka Kakodkar,
took over. There were published reports that Gurudatt, her husband, abused
position to black market commodities then in severe shortage. Opposition leaders
like Dr. Jack Sequeira, Madhav Bir and Babu Naik screamed "corruption,
nepotism!" In fairness, corruption but in a few places then, was not a whisper
of
what it turned out to be in the post-1980 Congress regime. It galloped,
horizontally.
Corruption zoomed vertically, at the turn of the century, after the BJP assumed
power (even if, it must be said, Parrikar kept corruption at the bureaucratic
level
in some semblance of control.) Parrikar and his boys (not all from his party,
some were from coalition partners) gave corruption a new dimension, a new
sophistry. Gone were days when Congress ministers accepted small change
for a bribe. The lowest denomination was half-million, a crore in bigger
swindles.
Routine kickbacks on government spending skyrocketed to a new high of
eight/ten percent.
Corruption today has wriggled into a vicious circle. Thanks to we, the people.
Unless the elected politician makes pots of money, he cannot hope to win the
next election. To win, he must bribe the voter. And, once elected, recover it
and
make more. ("I didn’t win on your vote, I won on my money," a minister told
his constituent grudging to pay.) Whether the politician corrupted the voter or
whether the voter corrupted the politician will remain a dilemma like which
came first, the chicken or the egg.
Politicians have minted scores of crores. They will deploy them to perpetuate
a corrupt electoral system. The vicious circle will be broken only if Goans turn
smart enough to partake of the loot but vote with their conscience. But then,
the politician is prepared for a Goan reformation: in several constituencies,
migrants bring up half the electoral roll, or at least in sufficient numbers to
sway the ve
[Goanet] AICHEA DISAK CHINTOP - Outubrachi 1li, 2006!
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Jitli vodik chakri kortanv, title vodik suki ami zatanv. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become. Moi-mogan, Domnic Fernandes Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] Cancer: Today's "latest research", Tomorrow's Myth?
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Hi Santosh, Thank you for your polite response. I fully concur with your statement below about the "self-corrective nature of science". The question I have for you (and others) is: Are not other fields like religion, politics, history, government etc. also "self-correcting" over time? So we cannot condemn medicine / science for its past mistakes, because it self-corrects. Yet, can we keep constantly condemning religion, other fields and major institutions for their historical mistakes, as you and a few Goanetters tend to do. I do not want your rebuttal. I just request your consideration of this point when you (and others) stand on the soap-box. I am sure you realize, that until medicine self-corrects, perhaps in a decade or so, a lot of patients are the victims of flawed treatments and recommendations in the interim. Just look at the large number of drugs that have been pulled off the shelf or the changing medical practice patterns in various diseases. So medicine / science, as well as we physicians and scientists, do not have a monopoly on self-righteousness and wisdom. Mario quoted you verbatim (with web links) in his response to Filomena. Hence, my line of reasoning was not your exact words; but rather what an unbiased reader understood from your parsed writings? Either our intelligent Filomena had a problem understanding your English / writings. Or she was demagoging the subject and me by implying, that I was promoting that, we should do away with surgery in cancer management. In fact, you were so good in your writings on this subject that I was confused by what you were trying to say. You condemned me for reporting on the mice experiment that suggest surgery alters the immune system and making the cancer behave more aggressively. To quote you, I was: "Propagates dangerous myths and misinformation regarding cancer treatment in this public forum." Then you went ahead and directed readers to many references on exactly similar findings (of suppressed immune markers after surgery) in humans. So this supurlo Goenkar (moi) did not know whether to laugh or to cry. Similarly you provided a link about the near-absolute need to do a biopsy to diagnose / confirm a new cancer. This is something that one did not need a rocket scientist to validate.:=)) That is why it looked to me like a "fuggdi". :=)) Kind Regards, GL Santosh Helekar I have written extensively on the self-corrective nature of science over the years. ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] Pending Posts
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Netters - Some of you might be wondering why your posts haven't shown up yet on Goanet. Currently we have thirty-two pending posts - twelve of them are not formatted in Plain Text and will be delayed until next week when Bosco is home and can reformat them. Two are "cut and pasted" articles which most likely will not be approved for distribution via the List. One is clearly off-topic and will be sent back to the sender today. Another two are "top posts" - that is, a one sentence response posted on top of a Digest - these two will have to wait for Bosco to be fixed and approved. The remaining fifteen posts will be approved in the next day or two or returned to the senders for various reasons. If you want your posts to be distributed within a few hours of sending them to us, please format them in Plain Text, and edit off some, most or all of the message to which you're responding, keep them Goa-related and if you want to send an article, just send the link and a para or two from it, NOT the entire article. Following these guidelines will ensure that your posts are distributed quickly, while they're still current. Thanks - Viviana ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] We Are All African
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Dear RKN, "We are all African" Excerpt from link below 'Considering fossils, migratory patterns, tool and material manipulation patterns, and the National Genographic Project, Dr diCarlo says that all evidence clearly points to a common ancestry, from Africa.' http://www.humanistperspectives.org/issue154/we_are_all_african.html http://www.humanistperspectives.org/issue156/index.html The National Geographic Genographic study atlas https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html Kevin Saldanha Mississauga, ON. - Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:01:30 +0530 From: "Radhakrishnan Nair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Why is a Hindu temple ?/response to Sachin <> That's puzzling, Eddie! How can the fact that the family came to Britain via Africa explain the presence of traces specific to a sub-Saharan ethnic group? Will the mere fact that a family stayed at a certain location for a period of time change the genetic markers of its members? Or does it impute something else? Cheers, RKN mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] GOAmerican jazz
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. JaZZ all NIGHT Date: Wednesday 4th October 2006 Time: 9:00 pm onwards Where: Starters & More Churchgate Phone: 66315871 On the first Wednesday of next month its time for the next JaZZ NIGHT at Starters & More. Returning to her roots, singer/percussionist/lyricist Paula Jeanine will be presenting an evening of JaZZ at Starters & More on October 4, 2006. Framed by an ensemble led by Goan bassist Colin D'Cruz, Jeanine will do a program of New York-style JaZZ. Mixing Latin and Swing with a drop of funk, Jeanine's sophisticated vocals and earthy conga drumming reflect the cultural diversity of JaZZ from the west. Raised in a jazz household, Paula has been singing since childhood. She took up the Conga drums as an outgrowth of her dance background, and is affiliated with the prestigious Alvin Ailey Dance Center in NYC. When asked about her third trip to India she replied, "It's my destiny to keep returning to Mumbai. This beautiful place is a power center for my creativity, and it couldn't be more true!" This will be the first jazz gig of Paula's current stay in Mumbai. She recently completed an Indian tour presented by Mumbai's American Center in which she did material from American Ghazal, her fusion project. Jazz lovers, not a night to miss for sure! So head to Starters & More on Wednesday 4th October 2006 from 9.00 pm onwards for Starters, JaZZ and More! No cover charge. Call Carmo on 98216 35055 or Prema on 98211 40611 to reserve your table. >>> live jazz promoted by http://www.jazzgoa.com <<< __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
Re: [Goanet] Why is a Hindu temple ....?/response to Sachin
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. On 29/09/06, Radhakrishnan Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > < Africa, which explains the presence of traces specific to a > sub-Saharan African ethnic group.>> > > That's puzzling, Eddie! How can the fact that the family came to > Britain via Africa explain the presence of traces specific to a > sub-Saharan ethnic group? > > Will the mere fact that a family stayed at a certain location for a > period of time change the genetic markers of its members? > > Or does it impute something else? > > Cheers, > RKN RESPONSE: Now,now, nowyou know pretty well, someone got rogered, in Kenya! -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] Tiatr will survive at least for next 100 years (A report on KA Tiatr competetion)
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Tiatr will survive at least for next 100 years (A report on KA Tiatr competetion) Kala Academy Tiatr Competition 2006 (18th Sept. to 3rd Oct. 2006) -Total of 11 groups/Tiatr participated -All tiatr were going better and better day by day -More and more new and talented child/teenage actors seen in every tiatr -Many people/kids shown on stage as Extras too. Like School/College premises, playground, funeral, Parish council meeting, beach/drugs parties etc etc -Almost all the Tiatr were 100% houseful but some were up to 130% -Although most shows were house full even a day before, auditorium was looking half empty at 7pm this is because our Goan sucegadponn by 7.15 it was over packed. However, shows always started on time i.e. 7pm -Kala Academy Hall seems too small to accommodate too big crowd. -People seen standing/sitting all over the corridors/alleyways and even seen sitting on the steps near the dais / stage and thye dummy windows interiors of the auditorium. -One could buy tickets only 3 days in advance but some were declared housed houseful two days in advance. -One tiatr from Merces Club, PMHD, all tickets were gone by noon (or earlier) of the first day of booking (3 days before the show). It was later on understood that the over 600 tickets were taken by the Merces Club leaving most regulars tiatr goers disappointed. -There were some talks that some people were selling tickets in black, small small groups were seen selling tickets but could not ascertain whether they were actually selling ticket in black. -KA should review it policy so that no Tiatr group is given more than 10% of the total tickets. -Judges amongst the others were CD Silva, Anthony San. Tomazin Cardoz also seen. -Also seen Premanand Lotliker, Irene Cardoz etc as guest of honour. - Some tiatr were with majority of professionals and sang songs which were already sung by them in some other tiatrs viz.Lawry Travasso, Roshan, Osvy Viegas, Xavier Gomes, T Briton, Child Actors etc - On two occasions, I heard people sitting/standing back rows greeted some tiatrists with Usshh viz. When some one sang a song partly in favour of Mr.Parrikar for his developmental work during IFFI and at the time when there was a funeral shown on stage. I am surprised, to see such people/Audience acting this way even now. Shame on them!!! Perhaps, Rs.15 tickets were too cheap for such cheap people. They could even be from the rival groups/competitors. Ok. Lets go briefly here tiatr by tiatr (with photos link) OSADD by Derrick DMello/Britona Dramatic Gorup. Live Fashion show on Stage. Plenty of Kids/Teens etc See some pics here (these pics were bought from a local cameramen there who was doing brisk business by selling Rs.20 per copy (4x6size) normally, Rs.5/per copy. Mostly bought by tiatrists and their friends and family. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk/256036334/ UDVADDAN BHORLEM by Cyril Almeida/Quitula Again, with plenty of Kids singing. Also with professional like Sharon, Agnes, Lawry, the two comedians etc See pics here http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk/250216232/ ZOBORDOSTI by Minino Mario Araujo/St. Cruz Plenty of School/college Students with uniform shown on stage (school/College building entrance also shown) Professional actors like Aplon, Buska, Rosario Botelho. Rosarios acting as a father, was the best so far. The other title I would have suggested was Mobile Phone as the whole story revolves round it (mobile Phone). See pics here.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk/250216233/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk/256000799/ GORV by S. Salvador Fernandes/Karmalli It is a typical story of two brothers, where they are united and firm before getting married and then separated and divided after the marriage due to elder brothers wife dominant rule See pics here http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk/250216229/ 5. PISSOLIM by Alfred Fernades/Alfi Production Divar. This is the one which is still my No. 1. After his wife dies, his life is shattered and 3 children scattered every where. The father sticks to drinking only does not even bother he has 3 children to look after. One of them is Blind and she is always indoors and her only companion was her Electric Organ and the father does not even spare here organ when it come to drinking/money. The youngest (about 7) run away and never comes back, the eldest about 14 dies of snake bite
Re: [Goanet] Custom tours
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cecil, > I do a motorcycle/van tour of Panjim for $84 (USD). 1) Is the motorcycle "hot" or is it all legal? 2) Does the pillion rider wear a helmet or bandanna? > Tour starts at 10.30 am on my motorcycle. Client > sits pillion. Does a dig in the ribs mean: 3) Go faster? 4) Go slower? > We break at 2 pm for beers and lunch which client > pays for. Then we have a short siesta at > my apartment in Miramar. 5) Do you own a hammock? > After free tea and pattisis > we take off in my Omni van and do the rest of the > tour. I drive while client sits shotgun. Wife and > sons sit in back seat and provide accompanying > commentary. 6) Is this where the flowers come in? > We finish off at Dona Paula where all of > us have dinner which client pays for. Please book > well in advance. Saturdays - 50% > extra surcharge. Sundays - Panjim is dead!! 8) Is there anywhere I can get testimonials about this tour? Has anyone survived? > 1) Custom tours can be arranged as per your > interests. Please specify and I will get back with > a quote. 9) Where do I go to win a two day tour? Mervyn3.0 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
Re: [Goanet] Meet this Tiatrist: Mr. Sheikh Amir
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Sheikh Amir prem kumar anil kumar ulhas Tari Ulhas buyao Roshan anil pernakar Sartavan Tari ( dance for Pascoal rordigues Ulhas tari bro. from stephen (muscat --- JoeGoaUk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * > F * I * E * D * S * > > Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA > from November to May > There is no better, value for money, guest > house. > Confirm your bookings early or > miss-out > > Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for > details/booking/confirmation. > > Meet this Tiatrist: Mr. Sheikh Amir > > As the same says it, Mr. Sheikh Amir is a Muslim and > yet doing very well on stage/Tiatr. > Every time he sings, he get louder public applause. > E.g. His commendable role imitating our > past and present tiatrists (their Styles & Voices) > like Jancinto Vaz, Kid Boxer, C DSilva, > William de cutorim, Marcelin de Betim, Anthony San > (including Rajiv Gandhi) etc etc > > Congratulations to Mr. Sheikh Amir > > Keep up the good work. > > > Please meet Mr. Sheikh Amir here ( Mr.Anil Pednekar > also seen) > http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk/252615562/ > > Mr. Sheikh amir presently acting in Anil-Olga Tiatr > > > Homework: > Can you name some other non-christians tiatrists ? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > for Goa & NRI related info... >http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ > > Konkani Songs, Goan Photos, Tiatr/Film VCDs, Bank > interest rates etc etc >(for updates etc click below) > http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/files/ > > > > > > > ___ > > All new Yahoo! Mail "The new Interface is stunning > in its simplicity and ease of use." - PC Magazine > http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > ___ > Goanet mailing list > Goanet@lists.goanet.org > http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] PERMIT FEAST OF ST FRANCIS DE ASSISI AT ANJEDIV ISLAND
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. 30/09/2006 Shri Shantaram L Naik, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, NEW DELHI Respected Sir, You are kindly aware that the Feast of St Francis de Assisi celebrated on 4th October, every year at the Anjediv Islands, near Karwar was stopped following the partial collapse of the Chapel. The Church of Our Lady of Springs "Nossa Senhora de Brotas" which was in similar condition was repaired on 18th May 2004 following persistent demands by this writer. Unfortunately the Chapel continued in a dilapidated state despite our protests, against its desecration by the INS KADAMABA Sea Bird Project Karwar. Following your mention in June 2005 in Parliament to permit the celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of Springs "Nossa Senhora de Brotas" on 2nd February at the Church at Anjediv and the Feast of St Francis de Assisi on 4th October, strictly in terms of the conditions precedent to allowing the Sea Bird Project on the Island, the people of Canacona, Karwar and almost all Goans world wide were delighted at the prospect of restoration of both the Feast on 4th October and 2nd February. Last fortnight there have been frantic telephonic messages received by me to confirm whether the Feast of St Francis de Assissi will be celebrated this year on 4th October. They have been assured of positive steps in that direction and accordingly have made all preliminary arrangements for the Feast at short notice, Kindly note that they are interested in celebrating the Feast on 4th October, even in the half dilapidated structure, which can be partially restored and cleaned up in a day. The undersigned therefore humbly requests your kind self to take up the matter with the Defence authorities on a priority basis to permit the devotees to be allowed on the Island a day before for making the arrangements and on the Feast day. You are kindly aware that with Vice Admiral Suresh Mehta , AVSM a close relative of late Dr Jack Sequeira family at the helm of affairs his good offices could help in resolving the issues once for all in the interests of the devotees and the people of Goa. All activities will strictly be restricted to prayer and worship and the devotees would move back to the land before 1600 hrs. They can be subjected to strict security checks, and the Navy could provide for drinking water and transportation to the devotees. Kindly advise the action taken in the matter. With sincere regards and thanks in anticipation of a favourable reply. GODFREY J. I. GONSALVES, BORDA, MARGAO, 403 602, GOA. (INDIA) +91 98221 58584 (24 HRS) [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] Of food to the sick and needy
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. See essay submitted below for the GOA SUDHAROP GOAN SENIORS E-BOOK. Please send your submission to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is no deadline. Thank you for your support. Goa Sudharop * GIVING BACK TO GOA AND GOANS By LORETTA ANDRADE All my roots lie embedded deep in the fragrant soil of Goa. Though I was born and brought up in Mumbai, I spent most of my summer holidays in the old mansions of my ancestors and relatives in the remote villages of Goa. As a child I often watched my grandma and later my mother cradling a bowl of hot soup or kanji. This meant that someone- a relative, a friend, a neighbour, was down. It didnt matter whether it was a fever or old age. Having heard the cocks crow, grandma tied an old apron and started banging the soup pots and morkee. For nearly half a century my grandma was known as the food carrier for family, friends and those in mourning. Sitting at the kitchen, I saw grandma coax the fire to cook the toughest beans and tubers into soul-stirring infusions. I sat at the kitchen table as she ladled her elixirs. My mother Catherine, had in her turn become the food carrier. She dispatched thick chicken soup to the old and sick. During festivals she cooked a number of goan dishes and sweets for family and friends. In grandma's kitchen I saw how a cake could bake on hot ashes and embers with a tin sheet of live coals for a cover, she would fan the tin in the midst of her other chores. I watched her make her frilly paper handles to crumb chops which came to table as frilly oars, in a boat of creamed mashed potatoes. She called it her âdeckrishinâ. She would decorate her puddings and jellies equally well. Cashew nuts and cherries topped her caramel custards and went around it like a moat and castle pudding was tall and spiked with almonds and raisins. And I grow nostalgic-as my mother did when she talked of the old cook whom she had watched as a child and imitated. For the ambulatory, our own kitchen was a spice-scented confessional. My mother would cook, and folks talked as they had warm sips of pez of coffee. Extras of whatever we were having-fish curry, sorpetel or meat balls was sealed in aluminum cans and delivered to the old and infirm to their houses. In hindsight I should have seen this coming. Even as a child I found myself carrying food parcels and food products from the home to relatives and friends in need. It was when my aunt delivered a baby boy that I adorned the apron my mother wore. I prepared a sooji porridge that mother used to send to new mothers, loaded with nutrition. My aunt who was famished and weak devoured it and complemented me for my kind thought. Since mother was keeping her company in the hospital it was my very own thought and preparation. It was then that I knew that I had it in me. In Goa I tried to keep up the good work I learnt from my grandma and ma from example rather than from preaching. Now I realize that this is missionary work. The impulse springs from a hungry heart and is quite selfish in its way. I just like to have people around and serve those flayed by the brutalities of real jobs and the old and infirm. A pretty fair feed or good food can make you really happy. Makes you want to talk, be with people. So I still deliver food to the sick and needy. Remembered stories rekindle thoughts of love and connection with others as well as helping distance todayâs concerns and worries. ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
Re: [Goanet] Why is a Hindu temple ....?/response to Sachin
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Hi Eddie, Here are answers to your questions: --- Eddie Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. I assume that the liaisons between upper class >males and pretty lower class females produced both >male and female offspring. Why should the DNA >results be different for the sexes? > There are at least two reasons for this: 1. The sex-determining Y chromosome is only inherited from the males. Since the fathers of upper class males are always from the upper class, there would not be any lower class Y chromosomes among the upper class males. The upper class females on the other hand would have a mixture of upper and lower class X chromosomes. This difference would be reflected in the DNA because, as you know, chromosomes are comprised of DNA. 2. The second reason is perhaps because of an asymmetry in the assumption of the higher-class status between males and females upon marriage. Females could assume a higher-class status upon marriage with a higher class male, but the converse was not true. Therefore, in each generation there would be a pure lower class DNA input on the female side, but not on the male side. > > 2. What kind of results emerge from DNA tests of >different castes? > I had posted some material on this several years ago. The findings are that the upper castes are genetically more related to the East Europeans or West Eurasians, and the lower castes are more related to the Asians. > > However, if one believes reports, the higher the >Indian caste, the greater the percentage of Aryan >stock and therefore the more mongrel background? > This would not be an accurate way of describing the results for the simple reason that there has been a great deal of admixture in all castes and tribes. > >Thank you Santosh for informing us of Dr Pragna >Patels research using molecular genetics but will >this study use DNA techniques? > Yes. Molecular Genetics is a field that deals primarily with DNA. Pragna is using cutting-edge DNA technology in her work. > >What kind of information could be available using >DNA techniques? > It would tell us about our ancestry and genetic history, and how we are related to each other. From a practical standpoint, more extensive and focused studies would tell us which disease genes we might be inheriting, and from whom. > >Selma claims that "DNA has been used to prove that >genetically there is no difference between human >beings of different races." > Please see my response to Selmas post: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2006-September/048961.html Cheers, Santosh ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] MASS HANGING OF TERRORISTS TO ERADICATE SCOURGE OF TERRORISM
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. FAST-TRACK JUSTICE FOR MUMBAI BLAST TERRORISTS With the arrest of Mohammed Sajid, Mohammed Shafi, Wajihuddin Shaikh and Mohammed Majid Shaikh in connection with the 7/11 Bombay blasts, a fast-track Justice System should be implemented and all the accused ahould be convicted expediently and sent to the gallows along with Parliament House attack convict Mohammed Afzal who is sentenced to die by hanging on Sept 30 at 6 am at Tihar Jail and all the 1993 Terrorist Bombing Convicts should be hung along with them too. Only after a widely televized mass-hanging at Tihar Jail can India effectively curb the current scourge of Terrorism and Terrorists who are Terrorizing the country ! If these guys are hung one at a time at remote locations, the deterrence factor will not be as effective and they will have more sympathizers who will probably carry out copycat terrorist activities. Dr. Carmo D'Cruz INDIAn Harbour Beach, Florida. ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] Afzal To Be Hanged On Oct 20, He Needs Company As He Goes To The Gallows !
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Almost five years after the Parliament attack, a special Pota court on Tuesday fixed October 20 for the hanging of Mohammad Afzal, the main convict in the case. Additional sessions judge Ravinder Kaur issued Afzals death warrant and ordered that the Jaish-e-Mohammed militant sentenced to death in the December 13, 2001 Parliament attack case be hanged at 6 am on October 20 in Tihar jail. I read with interest the death seatence by hanging of Afzal and all the tamasha surrounding his sentencing. I sincerely believe that Afzal needs company as he goes to the gallows. In the name of justice, all those convicted in the 1993 Bombay blasts should also be hung beside him in a widely televised public hanging to rid the country of this scourge of terrorists and terrorism. Thanks to ALLAH THE MOST MERCIFUL, the above convicts will breathe their last in the relatively luxurious private confines of Tihar Jail. If they had carried out their terrorist crimes in Goa - where a lot of the population is demanding "Biblical Justice" for terrorist crimes and murders, these guys would be publicly crucified upside down in a public maidan. So all you prospective murderers and terrorists out there, you now know what fate awaits you if you ply your trade in Goa. Dr. Carmo D'Cruz, INDIAn Harbour Beach, Florida ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
[Goanet] Dubai Soccer - Aldona beat Morjim
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Aldona United hammer Morjim 4-1 on Friday's 1st Match held at the Iranian Sports Stadium on Tuesday. The tournament is organised by All Star Entertainment in association with United Goans. Aldona's Andrew walk away with the Man of the Match award. In the 2nd Match between Colva-Jebel Ali Hotel and St.Anthonys Pernem, played goaless draw. Today Matches (30-09-2006):- 1st Match- F.C.Siolim V/S CAC Cansaulim (4pm) 2nd Match- Zuari V/S Fr.Agnel Pilar (EKFC) (5pm) borge. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
