[Goanet] Talking photo: 5 for 100
re-sending third time Talking photo: 5 for 100 http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2425104242/ And you will not get cheaper than this ..(at least for this season) __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
Re: [Goanet] Pope's Final Day in New York, USA
Now if only - Fred would limit his rants to the confines of that pub ! My own space on the Bowery is long gone, a gift once from the Salvation Army for a lithium study on that unique population. I may be able to spare an old supply of the salt - it does not deteriorate with time. eric. CORNEL DACOSTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gilbert I take my hat off to the Pope for acknowledging (in the article you submitted), the sexual crimes committed by the clergy. In time, I hope that other serious failings of and in the Catholic Church will also be acknowledged. Cornel --- Gilbert Lawrence wrote: Today was the Pope's final day in USA. His visit ended with a thunderous reception and mass at New York's famed Yankee stadium. For more details please click on the site below from Yahoo. - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
[Goanet] Soter D'Souza on Goans Awake and Goans Lost
To Goanet - I recall the very early days of Usenet (late 1980s, early 1990s) when traitorous Indians (i.e. Marxists) and Pakistanis claimed that there is no such thing as India let alone Indian Identity. The 'debate' about Goan Identity is a non-debate. As for the anti-Goan droppings by the blue-eyed dud, the Konkani phrase bhonkaar khont comes to mind. Warm regards, r ** http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=2950cid=13 Goan identity Soter Dsouza, Socorro The debate about Goas fast disappearing identity is not about being Goan or anti-Goan. It is about Goans awake and Goans lost. Goas problem begins with those Goans lost in the presumption that they are the sole possessors of Goas knowledge economy. Influenced by the latest market trends in global jargon from the Internet, these Goans sell us clinical concepts like Goas identity is kaleidoscopic or there can be no Goan identity or that all Goans are migrants, and so on. The threat to Goas identity begins with this disconnect with Goan reality from some elite urban Goans, many of whom are busy selling their knowledge outside Goa, but are imposing their views on us. The reality is that the Marathi, Gujarati, Kannadiga, Bengali, Keralite, Tamilian, Andhraite, Delhi-ite and other -ites that have migrated into Goa are far from kaleidoscopic. We have another world within Goa that conciously asserts its independent identity as Bengali Samaj, Gujarati Samaj, Kananda Samaj, Marathi Samaj, Malyalee Samaj, Andhra Samaj, Bihari Samaj everything other than a Goan Samaj. Are, Amcho Oscar goykar mure! Utt re Goykara! or Konknni amchi bhas re! is what Goan identity is all about. It is the use of the egalitarian salutation re that immensely disturbs the Marathi Manoos and the north Indian. This is Goan identity, and so shall remain. To our lost Goan brethren, we pray that one day we can say like the father of the prodigal son, He was lost, and has now been found. But till then, please stop chopping our forests, plundering our land, cutting our hills, infesting our social life with drugs and crime, converting Goa into a Mumbai or a Delhi and redefining our Goan identity, and leave our susegado Goans in peace! *
[Goanet] Talking photo: Please identify this beautiful...
Talking photo: Please identify this beautiful spot http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2432538330/sizes/l/ another Close-up Christ the King http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2431725371/sizes/l/ Tips: -It's in North Goa -Overlooking Arabian sea [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Goa NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For Goan Video Clips http://youtube.com/joeukgoa or http://is.rediff.com/profilevisitor.php?mem_id=48419 __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
Re: [Goanet] Diversity, Castism and Communalism
Welcome aboard Celina, Goa should be proud of her daughter. Ten solid minded and patriot Goans, and we can take Goa to the height it needs to be. B/rgds and thank you floriano goasuraj www.goasu-raj.org ( comments on news reports) - Original Message - From: cpe0257u Dear Floriano I am glad we think alike. I would love a job in Goa.. Celina Pereira
[Goanet] Goa crime branch to probe MMS scandal
Goa crime branch to probe MMS scandal PANAJI: The Goa government has transferred the investigation into the MMS sex scandal to the State Crime Branch from the local police, police said on Monday. A month ago two college girls had allegedly committed suicide in Ponda, but the police had not registered a case then. Following a demand from opposition leader Manohar Parrikar, Ponda police registered a case only on Sunday against unidentified persons for abetting the suicide and snapping of obscene pictures of the girls. Parrikar alleged that the two girls committed suicide following blackmail and circulation of their obscene pictures through MMS mode. Since one of the two girls was below 16-years-old, the case was also registered under the Goa Children's Act. Parrikar had told a news conference that he had submitted a CD comprising the obscene MMS to Director General of Police B S Brar and Chief Secretary J P Singh and demanded an investigation into the crime. Parrikar had alleged that both the girls were being blackmailed for sexual favours. Incidentally, both the girls had participated in a beauty contest. Parrikar had also said that he was suspecting the role of a travel agency in the crime. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Goa_crime_branch_to_probe_MMS_s candal/articleshow/2968954.cms ~(^^)~ Avelino
[Goanet] Heartfelt condolences to FN
Dear Fred Please accept my heartfelt condolences on the demise of your mother. It is like losing your roots. It means an added responsibility for you towards future generation. Teotonio
[Goanet] LIMERICK FOR THE DAY 76 - A POEM IN MEMORY OF SCARLETT KEELING
A POEM IN MEMORY OF SCARLETT KEELING Dear Scarlett, your anguish I do share But I am afraid I would hardly dare To claim as you seem to have done That you've done no wrong under the sun. The world of drugs and ecstasy May have helped you realise your fantasy, But for a teenager it would have been best If you had given up this unwholesome quest. You chose to enter where angels fear to tread And that is why today you are in the end, dead - Shanti Dhoot RE: Message: 11 of 19 Apr 2008 From: VaNiTa K [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] A poem in memory of Scarlett Keeling .. All you men, I ask you fair A child I am, in mother?s care What wrong did I, what crime of mine Someday you?ll cry in his court divine
[Goanet] INTERFACE 2008 IN BICHOLIM - A PLATFORM FOR JOB SEEKERS
-- Samir Umarye BICHOLIM, April 22: Interface 2008 An industrial cum consumer fair will be jointly organised by the Goa State Industries Association (GSIA) and the Bicholim Industrial Estate Industries Association, at Heerabai Zantye Hall Complex, Bicholim from May 8 to 10. The event is being organised for the first time outside the capital city and is directed towards providing a marketing platform, exposure to new schemes and growth strategies for the micro, small and medium enterprises, entrepreneurship development, improvement in employability and employment matchmaking for employment seekers. In addition, the fair will also provide the people from Bicholim and nearby talukas in North Goa an opportunity to participate in the fair. The GSIA executive committee member and event co-coordinator, Mr Rajkumar Kamat, addressing a press conference, this evening said that the final year students of Government Polytechnics, Industrial Technical Institutes and other vocational colleges would also be involved in the event. “Our main focus is to make available employment facilities for the employment seekers, final year students and also for the ITI students by providing training in soft skills, and assist in matchmaking,†he added. Mr Kamat further said that seminars would also be held to help various entrepreneurs. “Exposing them to latest schemes, regulations and growth initiatives, interaction with concerned government departments and providing them with a marketing platform would form part of the event,†he maintained. The three-day event will be divided into two parts, taking care of both the industry and the consumers, it was informed. The GSIA president, Mr Atul Pai Kane, speaking on the occasion said that the main focus would be given to potteries, besides electronic items, household items and so on. The central government undertakings like DRDO, NTPC, Konkan Railways are expected to paticipate to source products from Goan industries, in addition to the large engineering industries like ACGL, IFB and so on, Mr Kane informed. “This, therefore would be a good opportunity for small scale industries to display their ability and discuss first hand with the large units to develop products required by them,†he pointed out. Mr Kane also said that the ACGL and the IFB generate large employment directly as well as indirectly through small-scale ancillaries and vendors that too with a potential to absorb workforce even with lower education. The fair will include industrial products, industrial services, consumer durables, two wheelers, electronics fitness equipments, home decoration products so on, which would be available for sale with attractive offers.
[Goanet] Condolences to FN
Dear Frederick, I heard of your Mum's passing away through our mutual friend(Tony), and send you my deepest sympathy. From what I've heard, your mother was a larger-than-life woman, and I have no doubt that the many happy memories shes left behind,will sustain you and your loved ones in the days ahead. May she receive the reward she has so richly earned. Take care. Mervyn
Re: [Goanet] Remo holds free concert to create awareness on global warming
On 21/04/2008, Mario Goveia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mario responds: As I have said before I know more than some, less than others. Gabe Menezes gabe.menezes at gmail.com Mon Apr 14 23:50:02 PDT 2008 RESPONSE: Okay, so you say; kindly inform us who on Goanet knows more than you, or you know less than who? Mario responds: OK. You win. You were right. I was wrong. After researching the Goanet archives there is no one on Goanet who seems to know more than me about the furious debate going on among CLIMATE scientists around the world on the causes and extent of global warming:-)) RESPONSE: I did not put it to you on 'CLIMATE', I put it to you on the whole array of subjects. So you have made my day by informing Goanet that I indeed generally know more than you; after all you have just conceded that I was right and you were wrong. Amen. -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England
[Goanet] Goa native sues gov. agency
Goa native sues gov. agency By KARA BECKER A Goa native and former employee of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency at Boston is suing the agency and the Department of Homeland Security for roughly $10 million. Edward Furtado alleges that he was discriminated against by the agency's Boston port director, Lorraine Henderson, who works at the Logan International Airport division. Furtado, who now lives in Georgia and works for UPS, claims he was singled out on account of his race while working at the agency, which is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Furtado states that he was told he was a GI Joe and that the United States government owns him, and that when he is asked to jump, he must jump, according to his complaint filed in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts late last month. Theodore Woo, a public affairs officer for the Boston office of the agency, confirmed Furtado's employment, but would not comment on the allegations. Henderson was unavailable for comment. Furtado and his attorneys Michael Goldstein and Jeffrey Mazur also cite in the legal complaint incidents where Furtado was allegedly asked to stay late and perform miscellaneous tasks for which he was never compensated. In addition, Furtado alleges that he was verbally threatened by agency supervisors and forced to quit for no apparent reason. All of my Irish coworkers told me that this is only a place for the Irish, and that it wasn't meant for people from other countries, said Furtado, who said he fled to Georgia with his wife and 6-year-old son out of fear in 2007. The port director said, 'You don't have friends here.' In other words she told me, 'Go away,' he said. Last summer, when Furtado first announced he would sue the agency, he also told INDIA New England that he was physically abused and dragged by the ear for several yards in front of fellow agency employees. This claim, however, was not included in his lawsuit, which contains mistakes, including a statement that Furtado speaks fluent Indian. There are also typos in the complaint, including of the word secretary, which is misspelled when referring Homeland Security secretary, Michael Chertoff, whose name is also misspelled in the complaint as Chernoff. Last month, Furtado e-mailed INDIA New England, seeking publication of his story. Please, he wrote, do all you can to represent the voice of the voiceless community in the United States. http://www.indianewengland.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=nm=type=Publishingmod=Publications%3A%3AArticlemid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791tier=4id=7715F39FF01F49BFB2B39616EC5852BA -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England
[Goanet] violations in Goa in normal growth against govt. norms.
Pleae go through the themes stated below and imagine where do we stand ? Is it called free and fair judgement ? Up to you dear readers Dear Team of Herald, Greetings. I want to help our child to grow. to develop and be a good citizen of India. But our environment and people who is the pillar to it have been seen to be acting on the old fashioned processes and acts like orthodox. They don't understand child psychology and do not try to understand also. Please find some factual details which are pasted below: I shall be glad if you can make a cross check for the same and I am sure that you will be able to understand this matter and drive the media in right way to develop the nation of tomorrow. Dear Friends, Good day. I want to draw your attention to the fact of child abuse. This is been happening since long back but most of the children did not protest much of it and the incidents one by one went on , sometimes in the form of asking illicit question , probing into some ones personal matter., or scolding the children with very rough and abusing language, or sometimes catching by neck till the child cries in pain , or sometimes by abusing the child in front of other students and giving bad name , or sometimes by throwing abuses towards the parents with their character in front of the child Friends, just think, if this kind of teaching we the elder give to the children, where will be our nation in future? Just imagine what damage and what destructive message we are injecting to the coming generation. Also we have forgotten about the Governments directive towards children by implementing Children right act. Friends this act has been adopted by the Goa Govt. on 2003. This clearly opposes the misbehavior with children. Strongly against physical torture also teachers in various field is supposed to take care of the childs psychology and no abuse and so on. But are we rationally thinking about it. I will give you few incidents in Goa; names will be replaced for purpose. Case 1: A girl of 13 years, Lina, practicing diving, Coach calls her, asks her why have you failed this time? Lina replies: I did not get much time to study. Coach: I see. How many friends have you? Line: I have many. Coach: I mean to say, how many boyfriends do you have? Lina: Sir, I am that type of girl. Please do not ask such question. Coach: You must have spoiled time with your boy friends and now giving excuses. Line: Sir, I am going, I do not like such talk, please. Coach (shouting): You enjoy and it is hard to hear. Case 2: One boy of 11 years, Shambhu. Coach: Shambhu beta , Come here. Shambu comes to the coach: Coach says: I have given you the simple dive and you are not able to do it . Do you have anything in your brain? Shambhu: I could not understand Sir. Coach: (repeating the same in rough tone) then how others are able to do it? You are a dam idiot chap and you will be ZERO. I will slap you and you will not forget the dive (showing the act of slapping and shambu shivers in fear) Coach goes and stands there for the full evening. Shambu could not understand the situation and stands in the same place. Coach comes running with abusing: you rascal, lost hearing or what idiot go and stand there, dont move. You are like your mother, empty brain. Shambhu stands whole the hours doing nothing and could not understand why and what to do now. He felt crying and after the end of the class when shambhus mother takes him out of the pool complex, Shambhu pleads mother: Mummy, I will not come to pool again. Mummy thinks: It may be as he has not done properly; coach scolded him and said OK I will tell coach not to scold you. Next day Shambhu gets a slap too as prize from coach but before the slap he got the cause also: Tell me who is the coach, I or you mom? Why you have gone to you mom the foolish lady? Does she know anything about swimming? IF anything you do further or complain anywhere else, I will dip you into water and stop you for ever. Shambhu is now confused: Coach is right or mom, what to do he does not know. Mother asked Shambhu what happened dear. Shambhu replies nothing mom. After sometime Shambhu comes to Mom and asks: you know swimming? Mom nods head and says yes I know. Shambhu: Then why coach is telling you are foolish lady doesnt know anything about swimming and I am idiot like you. Mom says: He is co ah, may be he knows: Shambhu: Then why he shouts a lot? I do not know Case 3: A Girl: 8 years old: Linda, sister of Lina: Coach: Linda, listen. Why your sister failed. Linda: I dont know Sir. Coach: What does her at home? Linda: Study, what else. Coach: She must have lots of boy friend; watch carefully, you will find it. Thats why she fails. Linda: Sir, I dont know Sir.. But why are asking me all those? Ask her. She will be able to answer. Sir. Please dont ask me for others. Coach: Dont follow your sister; otherwise you will be dull one. Linda: I dont know Sir. I am going. Linda goes
[Goanet] SECRETARY Vacancy
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Re: [Goanet] Valmiki : Sage, Scribiner.
...and, so say all of us! Verilly...verilly it befits one great guy to heap kudos upon the other.. Humbly, Alfred Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:14:54 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Valmiki : Sage, Scribiner. Our Valmiki takes after his namesakes, naturally. The original thinker/writer dates to around 1000 BC. Legend has him commanded by Brahma, the Supreme Creator, to sing the praises of Ramah, and as long as there are stars in the heavens, so long will thy song be sung . His epic, the Ramayana, runs into 24,000 verses, four times the length of the Iliad ; The seven sections or cantos include the memorable Arayan Kanda. Valmiki is also revered for his authorship of the Yoga Asistha. Valmiki in Margao has a fitting Patron. eric. _ News, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. Get it now! http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx
Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 3, Issue 452/ Condolences
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Obituary: Felicia Maria Coutinho de Noronha(Frederick 'FN' Noronha's mother) To: Goanet [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Fred, My deepest condolences to you and your loved ones on the loss of your mother. We are very much in spirit with you at this difficult time. with much love Filomena (Giese) Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
[Goanet] Churchill Alemao on private visit to Kuwait
Churchill Alemao on private visit to Kuwait A Goan Cabinet Minister Churchill Alemao accompanied by his wife Fatima Alemao arrived Kuwait on a private visit on 21st April 2008. They were welcome with warmth at the Kuwait International Airport by friends, well-wishers, his daughter and son-in-law. We wish a pleasant and enjoyable stay in Kuwait. (Photographer: Rewon Gomes) www.goa-world.com - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
[Goanet] Sun, sand, sex and stupidity
Needless to add, this piece is contextually applicable to to Goa although it does not say so here. But the underbellies are being exposed a wee bit more in the media. More power to the women, stupidity too, and with it undeniably -- flagrant exuberance's. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=561156in_page_id=1879 venantius
[Goanet] The World celebrates Earh Day Today - Earth Day Tips for Home
*Earth Day Tips for Home* Plant a tree that will shade your house as well as reduce the need for air conditioning. Participate in your community's recycling program and recycle all you can. Combine short car trips, or use a bicycle or walk instead. Improve your home's energy efficiency by adding insulation and caulking, and regularly cleaning heating and air conditioning filters. Compost yard trimmings and food waste in a backyard compost bin. Don't bag grass clippings - either leave them on the lawn or compost them. When buying paint, cleaners or other chemicals, buy only what you need and use what you buy. Practice water conservation - install a low flow shower head or make an Earth Day pledge to take shorter showers. Use compact fluorescent lights to conserve up to 75 percent of the energy consumed by incandescent bulbs. Purchase durable goods and choose products made with recycled materials and with minimal or recyclable packaging. Have a nice day edu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Goanet] eclassifieds + Petition form - for Indian Airlines direct flight services between Goa and UAE
Dear Benedict, Thanks for all the efforts to restore the Indian Airlines Flight to Goa. However as I mentioned in my email to goanet sometime before, I will NOT prefer IC back again as their service/aircrafts/arrivaldeparture/basic courtesy of informing passengers has NOT improved since ages. It is like electing the same.. like our Goan 40 politicians and we know what is happening to our GOA. So I will NOT VOTE for IC, I have already decided to FLY KINGFISHER ONLY. I am tired of INDIAN AIRLINES. Best Regards Mario Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:53:44 +0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: eclassifieds + Petition form - for Indian Airlines direct flight services between Goa and UAE From: Benedict Lobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Apr 16, 2008 9:37 AM Subject: Goa Flights To: Benedict Lobo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Friends, Abrupt ending of Indian Airlines flight services between Goa and the UAE has caused a lot of inconvenience to Goans in the UAE We all like to see the flights restarted, If you are a Goan living in the UAE. Please let the authorities know that we would want the flight services back. Don't stop there ! ask your friends to write in too. To help you do that we have launched a petition form at http://www.radiogoa.net. Please do fill it up if you want to have the flights back. A copy will be automatically sent to Indian Airlines authorities, a Hard copy each will be submitted to the Indian Consulate in UAE and The NRI Commission in Goa. We have also started a signature campaign in Dubai, you can contact Remy,Rosario friends if you like to participate... Please do forward this to your Goan Friends in the UAE. Together we can make a difference Thank you for your kind consideration -- RadioGoa.net For the love of Konkani Abrupt ending of Indian Airlines flight services between Goa and the UAE has caused a lot of inconvienience to Goans in the UAE We all like to see the flights restarted,If you are a Goan living in the UAE Please let the authorities know that we would want the flight services back. Dont stop there ! ask your friends to write in too. To help you do that we have launched a petition form at http://www.radiogoa.net , Please do fill it up if you want to have the flights back. A copy will be automatically sent to Indian Airlines authorities, a Hard copy each will be submitted to the Indian Consulate in UAE and The NRI Comission in Goa. We have also started a signature campaign in Dubai ,you can contact Remy,Rosario friends if you like to participate. Please do forward this to your Goan Friends in the UAE. Together we can make a difference Thank you for your kind consideration -- RadioGoa.net For the love of Konkani
Re: [Goanet] Obituary: Felicia Maria Coutinho de Noronha (Frederick 'FN' Noronha's mother)
Please accept my heartfelt condolences on the loss of FN's mother yesterday. Eternal Rest grant unto her O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon her; May her soul rest in peace. Amen. Chris Fernandes
Re: [Goanet] Obituary: Felicia Maria Coutinho de Noronha (Frederick 'FN' Noronha's mother)
My heart felt sympathies to Mr. Fredrick Noronha and rest of the family members. May the departed soul rest in peace in heaven. B.M.Viegas
Re: [Goanet] Obituary: Felicia Maria Coutinho de Noronha (Frederick 'FN' Noronha's mother)
Dear Frederick and Pamela Please accept my compliments of deep sympathy for the death of your loving mother. I know how your hearth are suffering. In this moments it is difficult to say the proper words to comfort. But we ask GOD in our pray to take His Holy Soul in Their Hands and give the comfort for all family for this earthly lost. My condolence for all family, silvia
Re: [Goanet] Obituary: Felicia Maria Coutinho de Noronha (Frederick 'FN' Noronha's mother)
Dear Rico I am sorry to learn about the death of your mum. My condolences to you and all the members of the extended family. May her soul rest in peace. Mario
Re: [Goanet] eclassifieds + Petition form - for Indian Airlines direct flight services between Goa and UAE
Dear Mario, Something is better than nothing, I cant think of taking two flights or changing airlines to reach a destination. As the other airline yu are talking about has not yet got its permission to fly out and not got its landing permission in Dubai as of now. In August there are some possibilities. Thanks Cynthia
Re: [Goanet] Obituary: Felicia Maria Coutinho de Noronha
my heartfelt sympathy to you all at home
Re: [Goanet] Remo holds free concert to create awareness on global warming
As per e-mail, congratulations to Remo for being the only Internationally,well-known Goan to take the initiative to sing at the concernt on Global warming in Goa. Please let me know if there are other Goans, who have done the same, I will thank them also. Regards, Jane
Re: [Goanet] Obituary: Felicia Maria Coutinho de Noronha
My dear Rico Pamela, Riza, Aren all family, Please accept our deepest condolences on the sad loss of a beloved mamma grandma. We join you in praying for rest for her soul. Eva Alfred
[Goanet] Rapes, Murders and Suicides in Goa
Rapes, Murders and Suicides in Goa Is Goa -- in a state of lawlessness...? It is quite evident that Goa is in a total state of lawlesness...just recount the recent spate of murders, rapes and suicides in Goa... What is the government doing? Is this what the AAM AADMI asked for? Don't the victims of rapes, murders and suicides come under the aam aadmi category? What is the home minister doing? I guess this is the state of affairs when the elected reprsentatives are busy running to Delhi to work out dispensations, secure kodels and take a sanction to loot and plunder... It is time Goans wake up and rise to ensure Goa sees law and order, if not the future of our coming generations is bleak... Regards Cedric da Costa Dubai Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
[Goanet] Konkani song from the albun Bangarache Goem
*WELCOME TO EDU'S MUSIC COLLECTION* ** *Konkani song from the albun Bangarache Goem* *click the link below* ** ** *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBxUtb7QKegfeature=related*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBxUtb7QKegfeature=related *edu [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Goanet] POEM: SCARLETT KEELING (Herald - April 21/08)
Bosco, Great poem. I am shocked to read, that many male Goans, even some on this website, are very happy to state that Scarlet - deserved it, especially when there are many 15-year old, Indian, young girls, who out of poverty, are being forced into prostitution or beg on our Indian roads, dressed in badly torn clothes. Does any female, whatever the circumstance, deserve to be raped, murdered, tortured, physically abused, burnt etc. in India, whether Indian or foreigner? If the answer of any male Goan is YES, to my above question, then, he definitely needs psychiatric treatment, because this not HUMAN behaviour. Regards, Jane
[Goanet] Talking Photos: Purely seasonal and wild
Talking Photos: Purely seasonal and wild From tis season, from this month http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2432544120/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2432543498/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2431730643/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2431729609/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2431727319/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2431726817/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Goa NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For Goan Video Clips http://youtube.com/joeukgoa or http://is.rediff.com/profilevisitor.php?mem_id=48419 __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
[Goanet] Mother of mine..
Mother of mine.. How lucky are those who still have their moms with them!! I lost my Mother about 8 years ago but I still feel I lost her last month. People keep saying I did everything to her - a son could possibly do.. But deep down, I know, my conscious tells me that I could still do more. Yes, I know, there was something else I could do but I kept on postponing and my mother suddenly died... If you want to show your love to your dear one/s, please do it today as tomorrow may be too late. We live just once http://youtube.com/watch?v=9WgeGRNeCdY Mother of mine you gave to me, All of my life to do as i please, I own everything i have to you, Mother sweet mother of mine. Mother of mine when i was young You showed me the right way Things should be done, Without your love where would i be, Mother sweet mother of mine. Mother you gave me happiness, Much more than words can say, I pray the lord that he may bless you, Every night and every day. Mother of mine now i am grown And i can walk straight all on my own, I'd like to give you what you gave to me, Mother sweet mother of mine. http://youtube.com/watch?v=9WgeGRNeCdY == Dedicated to FN who just lost his mother. __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
Re: [Goanet] eclassifieds + Petition form - for Indian Airlines direct flight services between Goa and UAE
Dear Cynthia, Well I hope your decision is good. But I prefer to have NOTHING in the short term and get a good AIRLINE once and for all for long term. Best Regards Mario Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:25:01 +0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Mario, Something is better than nothing, I cant think of taking two flights or changing airlines to reach a destination.
[Goanet] IA has let us down in the past
I fully agree to Mario's views, the IA flight from shj has let us down several times in the past...and also the high handed attitude of the manager's at the sharjah airport was quite questionable... its time we get a private airline, with a high level of professionalism... I think the best bet is Jet or Kingfisher... Kind regards Cedric --- mario rodrigues wrote: Dear Cynthia, Well I hope your decision is good. But I prefer to have NOTHING in the short term and get a good AIRLINE once and for all for long term. Best Regards Mario
[Goanet] CHIMBEL BANK DEPOSITORS CHEATED
Hundreds of Chimbel residents who had deposited their savings over the years at the Chimbel branch of the Mardol based VPK Urban Co-op Credit Society were in for a rude shock on learning that the bank’s pigmy collector Mrs. Menakshi Chudu Shirodkar had vanished with their savings. It is estimated that the total amount involved would be over Rs 30 lakhs Utt Goenkara activists today visited the bank to demand immediate action against the culprits and that the money of the banks depositors is returned. Bank Chairman Mr. Surya Gaude and the Branch Manager Mr. Vaman Gaude have been urged to order a thorough probe in this serious fraud on the Chimbel residents. One wonders as to how the Pigmy collector Mrs. Shirodkar who is now absconding was able to issue forged pass books and herself withdraw money from the depositor’s accounts without the connivance of other bank officials. Bank officials have to explain as to why they had not immediately brought to the the attention of the Registrar of Co-operative societies and the police such a serious fraud. The intervention of Superintendent of Police incharge of the Economic offences cell Mr. Melwyn Fernandes in the matter has been sought. Aires Rodrigues Spokesman Utt Goenkara __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html
[Goanet] Blessed Joseph Vaz
April 21, 357th birth anniversary of Blessed Vaz. From the JOSEPH NAIK VAZ INSTITUTE Berkeley, California, USA Blessed Joseph Vaz died Jan 16, 1711. This great Goan has not received the honor he deserves. Goans, Goan clergy, and Goan organizations have done little to honor their native son. Little is known about our own Goan-born saints with the emphasis typically on European saints who came to Goans through colonial history. Please request your church leaders to honor great Goans like Blessed Vaz and Venerable Fr. Agnelo and make them saints. Please share this message with your children and grandchildren as they honor their Goan roots and take pride in Goan achievements. Please also forward this message to your family and friends. BLESSED JOSEPH VAZ was made Patron of the Archdiocese of Goa, Daman, on Jan 16, 2000. Pope John Paul II on the occasion of the Beatification I came to Sri Lanka above all to honor Blessed Joseph Vaz. Like a star shining in the Asian sky, this great spiritual guide teaches us many lessons about the goodness of the human person and the nobility of our destiny as human beings. January 21, 1995 Life of Blessed Joseph Vaz Apostle of Kanara and Sri Lanka (1651-1711) 1651 Born in Benaulim, Goa, India, on April 21. 1676 Is ordained a priest. Shortly after, volunteers to go to Sri Lanka where the Dutch were persecuting Catholics and had banned all priests from entering the island. The Chapter of Goa refuses his offer because the mission would have meant certain death for him. 1681 Is sent to rescue the almost extinct mission in Kanara, present-day Karnataka in India. Rebuilds the Church in Mangalore and Kanara, establishes missions, tends to the sick, ransoms prisoners. 1684 Returns to Goa and joins a band of native Indian priests who formed a community. 1685 Founds the Indian branch of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, on September 25. 1686 Leaves Goa secretly and sets out for Sri Lanka. 1687 Arrives in Jaffna in the Tamil region of Sri Lanka, with a servant, John Vaz, both disguised as coolies. He works with a price on his head.1691 Is almost captured by the Dutch and is advised to go to Kandy. Is brought into Kandy in chains and imprisoned as a Portuguese spy by the Buddhist King, Vimaladharma Surya II. 1693 Works a miracle of rain during a severe drought. The King releases him and gives him protection and freedom to preach in his kingdom. As in Goa and in Mangalore, is often seen in ecstasy in prayer. The people call him Sammana Swami or Angelic Father. 1697 Is joined by three of his Indian Oratorians from Goa. During a small-pox epidemic in Kandy, the King and the people flee the capital. Fr. Vaz and Fr. Carvalho, tend to the dying and abandoned victims for almost two years. 1705 Dedicates the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu. 1711 Dies in Kandy on January 16, after 23 years of arduous missionary work in Sri Lanka. The Work of Blessed Joseph Vaz His missionary work was not colonial, not helped, authorized, associated with conquest by a colonial power. He gained the protection of a non-Christian King, Vimaladharma Surya II of Kandy, a devout Buddhist. He used inculturation as a missionary method. He founded a Catholic para-liturgy and literature using the two languages and cultures of Sri Lanka, Tamil and Sinhalese; he practiced and taught Meditation. He educated his servant John Vaz, a member of the Indigenous tribe of Kunbis, and sent him back to Goa with a letter of recommendation to the priesthood. At that time, the Portuguese Church Councils reserved the priesthood only for the two higher castes in Goa. He founded the miraculous Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu, one of the five officially crowned Marian Shrines of the Church, crowned in 1924, before Fatima. He is the first non-European native in modern times to found a Mission and Church in a Third World country; to found a fully native Catholic Religious Congregation; and to be given the official title of Apostle (of Kanara and Sri Lanka) by the Church, for his work in rescuing the Church there. His Indian Oratorian Mission is the only fully native, non-European Catholic Mission of our colonial era. The Church he re-founded in Sri Lanka was persecuted and survived isolation from Rome for 140 years: Here is a country in which the faith was first preached, and a Church founded with great success to flourish for over a century, by missionaries who, being afterwards forced by the political failure of their nation to abandon the field, left this island for good and their converts... without churches or priests and under the heel of a persecutor; and a single priest (Joseph Vaz) from another country, came here of his own accord..and laboring heroically with a price upon his head, revived the faith and made many conversions in the teeth of persecution, imprisonment and hostility..(no) subsequent political, social, and ecclesiastical changes in the country were
[Goanet] Soter D'Souza: The silence of GBA is frightening
This is indeed a cause for concern. Has the GBA been compromised or bought out for 30 pieces of silver ? If Soter who is a core member of the GBA does not know what is going on, who does ? Where are all the other stalwarts of the GBA ? Sad indeed. - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
Re: [Goanet] Obituary: Felicia Maria Coutinho de Noronha (Frederick 'FN' Noronha's mother)
Dear Fred, My heart felt sympathies to you and your family. May the departed soul rest in peace in heaven. Sincerely, Eustaquio Santimano
Re: [Goanet] POEM: SCARLETT KEELING (Herald - April 21/08)
On 22/04/2008, jane gillian rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bosco, Great poem. I am shocked to read, that many male Goans, even some on this website, are very happy to state that Scarlet - deserved it, especially when there are many 15-year old, Indian, young girls, who out of poverty, are being forced into prostitution or beg on our Indian roads, dressed in badly torn clothes. Does any female, whatever the circumstance, deserve to be raped, murdered, tortured, physically abused, burnt etc. in India, whether Indian or foreigner? If the answer of any male Goan is YES, to my above question, then, he definitely needs psychiatric treatment, because this not HUMAN behaviour. Regards, Jane RESPONSE: Not fair, in your mind's eye...please mention at least one Goanetter who stated she deserved it? For that matter please mention at least one Newspaper that stated she deserved it. Whatever you are drinking Mario and I need it, like yesterday! -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England
[Goanet] Two great, pious leaders -- too santimonious too
I read the following and have begun Saiba bhogos(ing) till the closing of day. Kitem tem Jezun Kalvarichea dongrar nimno usvas sartana mhuntlelem? Aah, voi voi-- eli eli (eloi eloi) lama sabachthani! ([My] God, [my] God why hast thou abandoned me! http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/83071/ From above piece: In remarks greeting the pope at the White House, Bush called the United States a nation of prayer. Bush was interrupted by applause as he said, In a world where some treat life as something to be debased and discarded, we need your message that all human life is sacred and that each of us is willed. Benedict responded by praising the role of religion in the United States. From the dawn of the republic, America's quest for freedom has been guided by the conviction that the principles governing political and social life are intimately linked to a moral order based on the dominion of God the creator, he said. venantius
Re: [Goanet] Condolences to F.Noronha
Dear Fred, Please accept my sincere condolences on the demise of your mother. Armando Felin Pereira
[Goanet] Daily Haiku #81
DAILY HAIKU #81: _ BASILICA INSCRIPTION _ here lies our francis xavier, first prize for holy behaviour. _ http://2008goanconvention.com/blog/index.php No, I don't mind the public boo's - I drink anything! Churchill. _ _ Try Chicktionary, a game that tests how many words you can form from the letters given. Find this and more puzzles at Live Search Games! http://g.msn.ca/ca55/207
[Goanet] LIMERICK FOR THE DAY 76A - SALIGAO VILLAGERS UNITE AGAINST MIGRANT INFLUX
SALIGAO VILLAGERS UNITE AGAINST MIGRANT INFLUX The citizens of Saligao have taken matters into their own hands From outsiders' depredations to protect their precious lands I wish them all success in their brave undertaking And hopes it proves to be a wider effort in the making Of a vigilant people, ever ready to unite and frustrate evil plans. - Shanti Dhoot RE: Message: 6 of 20 Apr Subject: [Goanet] Saligao citizens express concern over influx of migrants in village PANJIM, APRIL 19 - Saligao citizens vociferously protesting against the massive influx of migrant labourers at the recent Gram Sabha meeting held recently, warned that the peace of the village would be threatened if the antecedents of these labourers were not checked. Protesting against the presence of these migrants, Tony Remedious, speaking at the recent Gram Sabha pointed out that many of the migrant labourers consume alcohol in large quantities and on getting intoxicated cause disturbance in their neighbourhood, due to loud shouting and fighting. Carlos Fernandes, accused some of the village elected representatives in the Saligao panchayat of assisting some of these migrants to settle down in the village by illegally issuing them ration cards, keeping their vote bank in mind.
Re: [Goanet] United Nations says meat-eaters contribute to global warming
Dear Mario, The offer to attend the 2008 International Goan Convention was to give you the opportunity to delve into mainstream scientific opinion and not exercise your googling capabilities. The Pope is on the bandwagon... http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2007/07/24/religious/#6 Methane from ruminant digestion is more damaging than CO2 so carnivores would be better to lay off the beef, mutton, goat and lamb - red meats which are already enjoying notoriety in personal health issues. Kevin Saldanha Mississauga, ON. -- http://2008goanconvention.com http://www.multiculturalcanada.ca/ecp/content/goans.html
[Goanet] GWS - PRESERVING GOAN IDENTITY - ANNUAL MAY QUEEN BALL 2008 ON MAY 8, 2008 - HELP THE NEEDY
The Goan Welfare Society is delighted to announce plans for its Annual Grand Event – May Ball, to be held at the grand Istiquilal Ballroom, Hotel Ramada, Riggae, on 8th May, 2008, from 9.00 pm, onwards. The highlights of the glamorous event are undoubtedly, the crowing of 'May Queen 2008'. Participants, vying for the prestigious crown, are urged to get set and make sure they are among the select few, competing in the mega beauty pageant, which will be supported by a panel of eminent judges to ensure impartiality. 'Bandwagon', a leading Goan band, which is making waves in Goa, over the last few seasons, through their magical music, will arrive with a rendition of their scintillating nostalgic music which you will love to cherish. If that is not enough, we also have Kuwait's top band– 'Deep Impact' to take you to the top and regale you with their brand of music, which has a spice of the local flavour. To take you through the evenings proceedings and to make sure you have a great time we have the experienced, vibrant and fresh voice of McCloud D'Souza. For more information and bookings please call after 5.00 pm on these Tel. Nos. Wilson Coelho- 2429435 / 7065878 , Rabindra Pimenta- 4317423, Sharon De Sousa – 5642160 / 6662734, Philo Rebelo – 5658661 Or send us an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Discover the new Windows Vista http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vistamkt=en-USform=QBRE
[Goanet] Goa news for April 23, 2008
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** \'\'The Hills\'\' recap: Lo steps up - Entertainment Weekly [8 hours ago] Cue Heidi rummaging through her own closet discussing what to wear with Stephanie, whose claim that ''literally everyone goes [to Goa] on Thursdays'' ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/5-0fd=Rurl=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20193934,00.htmlcid=1153192221ei=_HQOSPqjCo-SrAOn7MGKAQusg=AFrqEzfKvRMl7vLA1vLLGRUOPiQP7WJjqA *** Goa United SA demolish DBO 8-2 - Navhind Times [Apr 21, 2008] Mapusa, April 21 Goa United SportsAcademy scored an emphatic 8-2 win over Don Bosco Oratory, Panaji in the quarter-final of GFA U-16 match at Duler stadium ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/8-0fd=Rurl=http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=042232cid=1152561598ei=_HQOSPqjCo-SrAOn7MGKAQusg=AFrqEzfcRfPWh8KzbOxLBf2mMugHbkAXQg *** Goa crime branch to probe MMS scandal - Times of India [Apr 21, 2008] PANAJI: The Goa government has transferred the investigation into the MMS sex scandal to the State Crime Branch from the local police, police said on Monday ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/4-0fd=Rurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Goa_crime_branch_to_probe_MMS_scandal/articleshow/2968954.cmscid=1152091002ei=_HQOSPqjCo-SrAOn7MGKAQusg=AFrqEzdDDAjmJZdouOw6LmS-3Zxvu40sLA *** Goa Carbon posts Rs 1548.98 lakh profit - Navhind Times [1 hour ago] The Board of Directors of Goa Carbon Ltd (GCL), a part of the Rs 1200 crore Dempo Group and the second largest manufacturer ofcalcined petroleum coke (CPC) ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/3-0fd=Rurl=http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=042334cid=1153227772ei=_HQOSPqjCo-SrAOn7MGKAQusg=AFrqEzeUgYoAqPPQplpkVl4eTO9_3_fhXQ *** First international baseball tie to be held in Goa today - Navhind Times [2 hours ago] Goa will have the privilege of hosting the 1st baseball match with the American team drawn from warship USS Cole taking on Goa state team at Jawaharlal ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/0-0fd=Rurl=http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=042314cid=1153226508ei=_HQOSPqjCo-SrAOn7MGKAQusg=AFrqEzeaPLW7BHs-EoO06rE505xbfE14jA *** Goa Electronic Media triumph - Navhind Times [Apr 21, 2008] PANAJI: Goa Electronic Media beat O Heraldo in the finals of 2nd all-Goa inter-press/media tennis ball cricket championship at Campal. ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/9-0fd=Rurl=http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=042230cid=0ei=_HQOSPqjCo-SrAOn7MGKAQusg=AFrqEzdqEkPm0-WND5uO2a3Asl3if3eihA *** Radio Mirchi launches campaign for greener Goa - Navhind Times [Apr 21, 2008] The on-air campaign includes green Goa alerts, wealth-out-of-waste contests, messages by Goan environmentalists focused on #152;Committing to conserve a green ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/7-0fd=Rurl=http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=04225cid=0ei=_HQOSPqjCo-SrAOn7MGKAQusg=AFrqEzcnf7t8_NhEpHxq_i53mIWlrY-0lg *** South Goa taps not to run dry this May? - Herald Publications [19 hours ago] BY HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, APRIL 21 South Goa residents have a good news in store for them this scorching summer. According to senior Public Works ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/6-0fd=Rurl=http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=2937cid=10cid=0ei=_HQOSPqjCo-SrAOn7MGKAQusg=AFrqEzez2Ty7si2zWH15Z36D7krl4-0r1Q *** NREGA on the right track in Goa - Navhind Times [1 hour ago] The National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme which came into force in Goa on April 1, is making good progress with jobs worth around Rs 2 crore in six ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/2-0fd=Rurl=http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=042352cid=0ei=_HQOSPqjCo-SrAOn7MGKAQusg=AFrqEzdDedMTNjJ9I50j7A1Sgi_XO4Eo9Q *** Goa charity couple\'s burglary heartache - Lancashire Telegraph [2 hours ago] Ken Burrows had saved hundreds of pounds to set up a charity fund for orphans in Goa but lost it all when thieves targeted his former home in Alexander ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/1-0fd=Rurl=http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.2217223.0.goa_charity_couples_burglary_heartache.phpcid=1153219699ei=_HQOSPqjCo-SrAOn7MGKAQusg=AFrqEzfOojJMrwfEghEbB9mmsGXnDnjtgw Compiled by Goanet News Service http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php
[Goanet] WEBSITE OF ALDONA BACHAO ABHIYAN GOES ON-LINE
The website of the Aldona Bachao Abhiyan is now on-line. The URL is http://savealdona.wordpress.com/. Do check it out. Pasted below is an extract from the website which gives some information about it. --- Note This is a very basic website, put up by a team of volunteers. It has been done at short notice, and will be updated as and when possible. Watch this space! One problem is that basic accounts at Wordpress.com and flickr.com have some limitations. Help is needed to upgrade these accounts, and supporters of the Aldona Bachao Abhiyan, particularly based overseas, should please leave a comment in the 'Comments' section at the bottom of this post with their contact details and we will be in touch with you. Also, please do report any broken links, and give us any suggestions you may have regarding this effort in the 'Comments' section. If you want to follow developments on this front on a regular basis, please send a blank email with 'Subscribe' in the subject line to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Those interested in joining a mailgroup with a more general focus on Aldona should send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], giving their reasons for wishing to join that mailgroup. -- Question everything -- Karl Marx
[Goanet] The Vulgarians
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 The Vulgarians India's Emergent Lowbrow Culture After a cool and relaxing week in Goa, I flew back to Delhi on a Spicejet flight. It was then that the new reality slapped me in the face. My experience on the plane made me turn monkish, in the hope I would avoid hell when the time comes for me hand in my dinner pail, kick the bucket, breathe my last, expire, die. The two-hour journey tested me so much that I forgot about my fear of flying. Even though we had a bumpy flight, my white knuckles were overshadowed by the sheer frustration I felt at the uncouth behavior of some fellow passengers. I realized that, just in case there is heaven and hell, I certainly don't want to go to Satan's estate in the event I find all the crude people there that were on the flight. To that end, I have sworn to exercise more and do good turns, even if I have to drag old ladies across the street; or eat sickly sweet offerings from temples or face Mecca and bow several times a day or go to confession in a Catholic church. Heck, I am even prepared to eat health food. Coming back to the flight, I was granted my request for an aisle seat by a pleasant staffer at the check-in counter. Not just that, I was pleased as punch to note that the middle and window seats remained empty as the doors closed. This was truly fortuitous because these low-cost airlines pack people in like sardines. I thought I would have a pleasant, undisturbed flight. I pulled up the hand rests and prepared to stretch my legs across the two empty seats once the seat belt sign was switched off. No sooner than the doors closed, the guy in the row behind me loomed over me, gesturing at the window seat in my row. Politely, I got up to let him through, figuring I would still have an empty seat in between. He had four seats.three where his wife and two sons sat and him across the aisle. When I got up, he hurriedly blocked me and got his two sons to move into the two seats next to me while he moved across the aisle to sit with his wife. Stunned by this display of uncouth behavior, I told him what he did was unfair. He was not conversant with English and his breath was foul so I let it go and buried myself in my book. As the plane took off and when the seat belt sign was switched off, an obese guy in the seat in front of me pushed his seat back as far as it would go, leaving no room for my legs and my book. I asked him to straighten his seat and he launched into the air equivalent of road rage. You don't own the airline, he told me in his convent English. If you have a problem, move to another seat. Or fly another airline. Stunned by the man's rude outburst, I kept silent and wondered at the hectoring culture of this new and crude India. He was fat and out of shape.clearly a crass Delhiwallah with black money, the type that resident Goans abhor. I asked the steward to move me to another seat. For the record, I have been a cheerleader for this upwardly mobile, emergent middle class that poses a challenge to the privilegentsia: the clutch of academics, bureaucrats and sundry others who feed off the trough of the state. The privilegentsia proved a thorn in the side of the international community; their pretentious outlook proved offensive to many in the West and left India bereft of friends in the liberal world. But the emergent culture of 21st century India that seeks to replace the elitist lot can only be called vulgarian. Much of it is reflected in the popular culture: on television and in Bollywood films; also in the ostentatious celebration of age-old rituals like Diwali and Holi and in the re-awakening of misogynist festivals like Karva Chauth and criminal practices such as dowry. Talk about the devil and the deep blue sea! http://rajivndesai.blogspot.com/search/label/vulgarian
[Goanet] K-06. Abortion - Konkani song
WELCOME TO EDU'S MUSIC COLLECTION K-06. Abortion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3k18ow7WE8feature=related edu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Goanet] Accommodation for a couple of months
Hi Goanetters, Two student friends of mine -- a girl and a boy -- are coming to Goa to do their internships and will be here for at least a month, maybe two (May-June). They are looking for accommodation and, being interns, they can't afford to spend too much. I was thinking some sort of paying guest arrangement might be the best. The closer to Porvorim, the better. Any suggestions from anyone out here? Warm regards, Aniruddha Sen Gupta Porvorim Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
[Goanet] Multi Purpose National Identity Card
MULTI PURPOSE NATIONAL IDENTITY CARD 16:33 IST LOK SABHA The first phase of the implementation of the pilot project on Multi-purpose National Identity Cards (MNIC) has been completed on 31.3.2008. More than 12 lakh identity (smart) cards have been issued to those of 18 years and above in the pilot areas in 12 States and one Union Territory in the country. 20 MNIC Centres set up one in each tehsil/block of the pilot areas, will remain functional till 31.3.2009 for maintenance and updating of database. Besides, they will be providing services to the identity card holders as well as those who could not be verified in the first phase. Meanwhile, the Planning Commission has accorded 'in principal approval' to the scheme for preparation of National Population Register (NPR). The scheme envisages collection of information on specified items of each individual at the time of population enumeration during census 2011. This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Dr. Shakeel Ahmad in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today. OK/NR/SAK http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=37723
Re: [Goanet] Rapes, Murders and Suicides in Goa
Cedrico, You have missed out on illegal constructions and the supply of illegal electricity connections as well as selling Goa to migrants. It is believed that our CM has no other work than to meddle in local Panchayat affairs and exert enough pressure on the Electricity department to give electrical connection to notified illegal structure by the local BJP wig (Moira) through the 'Health Dept' since the Panchayat had blocked it at the Elec. dept. The question is: Is Digamber Kamat a Congressman or a BJP stooge? I have personally recorded my written objection to this construction at the Panchayat as well as the Elect. Dept. Another issue is that the 'Housing Board of Goa' is dishing out plot to Migrants at Cunchelim-Mapusa. No sooner did this come to my attention, I have dashed the following to the 'GHB' under the 'RTI' Act. Floriano C. Lobo S-08, Karekar Building - Angod - Mapusa - Ph: (0832) 2266111 - (m) 9890470896 Date: April 21, 2008 To, The Managing Director, Goa Housing Board, Porvorim -Goa. Sir, Subject: Request for Information Under Sec. 6 of the Right toInformation Act, 2005. Kindly furnish the following information as regards the development of the 'Cunchelim -Mapusa' Housing Board project with respect to the developed plots therein:- 1.. Total area to be developed. 2.. Total number of developed plots along with the square meter area of each plot 3.. Total number of application received, names and addresses of the applicant thereof. 4.. Total number of short-listed applicants and their names and addresses thereof. 5.. The cost per square meter and the mode of payment i.e. either lumpsum or in installments. If installments, the sum payable per installment. 6.. The copy of the plan to scale of the project identifying each plot and its area. 7.. Final closing date for the allocation of plots. 8.. Criteria for selection of applications. 9.. Percentage reserved for applicants of Goan origin. 10.. Mode of advertisement. If through newspapers, kindly give copies of such advertisements. If through official gazette notification, kind give the relevant official gazette copy. Thanking you, Yours faithfully, Sd/- (Floriano C. Lobo) Also this to the MMC in furtherance of the movement to clean-up Mapusa and Mapusa Market in particular. Floriano C. Lobo S-08, Karekar Building - Angod - Mapusa - Ph: (0832) 2266111 - (m) 9890470896 Date: April 21, 2008 To, The Chief Officer, Mapusa Municipal Council, Mapusa - Bardez - Goa. Sir: Subject: Request for information under Sec. 6 of Right to Information Act, 2005 Kindly provide on very urgent basis the detailed structural 'sketch' plans of the following with suitable identification markings of the existing structures: 1.. Mapusa Municipal Market Complex with all its structural modifications and additions as they exist as of today. 2.. The Fish Market Complex - Its new plan incase the existing one is intended to be demolished and re-built. 3.. Newly constructed vegetable market. 4.. The Market Complex 'Yard' as it exists behind the Mapusa Municipla Market. Thanking you, Yours faithfully, Sd/- (Floriano C. Lobo) ** B/rgds floriano goasuraj - Original Message - From: cedrico dacosta [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:08 PM Subject: [Goanet] Rapes, Murders and Suicides in Goa Rapes, Murders and Suicides in Goa Is Goa -- in a state of lawlessness...? It is quite evident that Goa is in a total state of lawlesness...just recount the recent spate of murders, rapes and suicides in Goa... What is the government doing? Is this what the AAM AADMI asked for? Don't the victims of rapes, murders and suicides come under the aam aadmi category? What is the home minister doing? I guess this is the state of affairs when the elected reprsentatives are busy running to Delhi to work out dispensations, secure kodels and take a sanction to loot and plunder... It is time Goans wake up and rise to ensure Goa sees law and order, if not the future of our coming generations is bleak... Regards Cedric da Costa Dubai
Re: [Goanet] Obituary: Felicia Maria Coutinho de Noronha
Dear Frederick, Our heartiest condolences to you and your entire family. We pray to God that your mom's soul may rest in peace. Regards Anita Bale Mississauga, CANADA
[Goanet] Non-Goan Marathi wags his finger at Goans
To Goanet - See - http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=2975cid=14 My remarks: As I have recorded here on Goanet earlier - soon they will be claiming that Goa's beauty, prosperity, civil manner etc etc etc are all due to migrants. But once Goa turns into a sea of excrement - then the Marxists will step in and release a book with the title, 'Re-imagining Goa where it will be claimed that the beauty and character of Goa and Goans was always a myth, that no such thing existed, that ghatis have made Goa and given Goa its nuance diversity and vibrancy. By the way, purely out of curiosity, who is Mandaar Gajananrao Waghmare (assuming he exists)? Regards, r
[Goanet] OUR SYMPATHIES
Dear Fred, We were sorry to hear of the sad loss of your dear mother. My family joins me in expressing our heartfelt sympathies to you, your Dad and all your dear ones in your grief. May He give you all the courage to bear the loss and may the soul of your respected mother rest in eternal peace. Yours sincerely, Leo sent by: C A L M A X CRUZ VADDO, ARRARIM, SALIGAO 403 511, GOA, INDIA TEL: 91-832-2278334 EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
[Goanet] Ladies Special
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