[Goanet] Daily flight from Goa to Dubai
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org Daily flight from Goa to Dubai NT Network Posted on 2009-01-03 PANAJI- Come January 14, the passengers travelling from Goa to Dubai would have the option of taking direct flight to the city of magnificent architecture everyday as the Air India management has decided to operate daily flight to the Dubai. The station manager of Air India, Mr Anil Kaul told The Navhind Times that the flow of air traffic to Dubai has increased considerably and that Air India decided to press daily service to that Gulf destination to meet growing demand. The Air Indian had initially started service to Dubai from Goa by operating two flights per week but chose to increase it to three flights subsequently. Seeing potential in the growth of air traffic to the region the flight schedule was increased to four. In October the Air India raised the number to flight from Goa to Dubai to five and was operating flights on all days except Wednesdays and Fridays. However, taking into consideration the huge growth in the sector it decided to raise the flight to seven per week, operating one flight a day all the seven days of the week from January 14. The flight to Dubai leaves Dabolim Airport at 1.45 p.m. (local time) and reaches Dubai at 1510 p.m. (local time). The return flight from Dubai leaves at 4.15 p.m. (local time) and reaches Dabolim at 8.25 p.m. (local time). http://www.navhindtimes.com/story.php?story=2009010319
[Goanet] Stirring the communal cauldron
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org --- On Fri, 1/2/09, Goanet Reader goanetrea...@gmail.com wrote: THE TOLL According to editor turned Christian campaigner John Dayal, the anti-Christian violence between August 24-Ocober 2, 2008 had the following toll: I wonder if Frederick has checked the accuracy of the toll numbers he has listed here with a Muslim, a Buddhist or some other non-Christian campaigner. As a journalist, I understand it is his responsibility to have at least two independent sources for any factual information he provides his readers. Cheers, Santosh
[Goanet] Fomentos claim Rs.500 Crores as damages for defamation at Calcutta High Court
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org Goa's Fomento mining company has filed defamation suit against Sebastian Rodrigues for his online writings claiming Rs.500 Crore as damages. For more on this log on to www.mandgoa.blogspot.com Warmly, Seby _ Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/photos.aspx
[Goanet] President Patil signs her three-fold salary hike bill
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org GULF-GOANS e-NEWSLETTER (since 1994) Presented by Ulysses Menezes, www.goa-world.com Moderated by Gaspar Almeida President Patil signs her three-fold salary hike bill New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has given her assent to the law enabling a three-fold hike in her salary from Rs.50,000 to Rs.150,000 per month. While signing her own salary hike bill on Dec 30, Patil also assented to another law providing for Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari's pay to be raised from Rs.40,000 to Rs.125,000 per month. The two laws amending the salaries of president and the vice-president were notified in the government's official gazette Dec 31. Although Patil and Ansari would start getting enhanced salaries from the current month, they would be deemed to have had their pay hiked from January 2006 itself. So the president and vice president will be getting a tidy sum of Rs.3.6 million and Rs.3.06 million in arrears. The salary hike has been extended to former presidents and vice presidents as well. The President's Emoluments and Pension (Amendment) Act 2008 and the Vice President's Pension (Amendment) Act 2008 also provide for a quantum rise in their pension and other post-retirement benefits. Accordingly, former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam will get a pension of Rs.75,000 per month instead of Rs.25,000. Similarly, former vice-president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat will get a pension of Rs.62,500 instead of Rs.20,000. As per the new law, former presidents would also get two telephones, one with Internet connectivity, and one mobile phone with national roaming facilities. As of now, the law provides for a rent-free furnished residence along with one phone and a motor car to former presidents. The new law has also raised the total number of secretarial staff and peons for the former presidents from three to five. The total emoluments for the former president's secretarial staff has also been raised from Rs.12,000 to Rs.60,000. The new laws on the pensions for former president and the vice-presidents also take care of their spouses after their death. The law provides for furnished residence, a telephone and a car besides the support of three secretarial staff to the spouse of a late president. The law has also upgraded the provision of an unfurnished house to the spouse of a late vice president to that of a fully-furnished house along with its maintenance cost to be borne by the government. The bill seeking raise of salary and pensions of the president and the vice president was passed by parliament Dec 16. IANS Goa World Goa Mog Goa SuRaj Super Goa (em Português) TGF Writers' Sketchpad www.colaco.net www.goa-world. .com/goa/ music/ - The Online Music Station for KONKANI Mahableshwar http://www.mahables hwar.com St. Mary's High School - Mt Abu, Rajasthan India http://www.abusms. com
[Goanet] KONKAN CURRY: Affirmative Action
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org Affirmative Action Konkani Amchi Mai, Konkani Amkam Zai! Miguel Braganza Happy New Year, 2009. May Goa be blessed with everything good in this year. We deserve to be happy in our own simple way. Not for us are the Rave parties or drugs, and not for us are the gated enclaves and casinos. Let us put the raves and rapes behind us and retreat to our traditional simple ways. May our Government give power to the Gram Sabhas and Gram Panchayats to plan the development of simple lives for the simple people in our simple villages. May the people of Goa speak their mother tongue, Konkani, with genuine, heart-felt pride. Let the world come and see us in all simplicity. Fellow alumnus from St. Britto HS, Frederick Noronha, wrote an article on New Year's eve entitled Rethinking Language in Goa. It got me thinking. What did a man, who knows very little Konkani and still less official Konkani, have to say on the script controversy and the leadership of the two camps that I did not already know. I have had my children learn in primary school a dialect that seemed as removed from my mother tongue as Bhojpuri or Haryanvi and yet manage to get distinction marks before dumping it to take up English studies as ordained by the Goa Government. I have read and re-read the definition of Konkani in the Goa, Daman Diu Official Language Act, 1987, to see if my mother tongue fits in there somewhere. I have read the Sahitiya Akademi resolution of 1975, the Advisory Board recommendation of 1981 and the 71st Amendment to the Constitution of India of 20 August, 1992. So, what is new that Frederick writes about? Writes Frederick Noronha quite matter-of-factly, In Goa, the language [controversy] gets fueled by suspicion and communal, or caste, based divides. Not surprisingly, therefore, it took two decades for the Romi Konkani supporters to realize that their script and dialects were languishing due to the Devanagri-alone official approach. When I left Goa for my post-graduate studies in December, 1987, the controversy was only between Konkani and Marathi. At the behest of the then Agriculture Minister, now South Goa MP, the Agriculture Officers' Association had translated half of the technical matter in the Agri Diary 1986 from Marathi into Konkani , both type-set in Devanagri script. The Marathi protagonists in Sattari, who could read Devanagri, detected the Konkani portion in the Diary and burnt a few copies in protest just before the OLA, 1987, became a law. The Roman script reading farmers in the South Goa complained that the entire Diary was in Marathi. Among the majority of the Konkani readers in Salcete in 1987, Devanagri script and Marathi were synonymous. The possibility that Devanagri script was also used for Konkani had not registered in their minds even though their children might have learnt it in that script at school since 1960s. Publications in Konkani in the Roman script were more or less a parochial domain. The regular publications, Vavreaddeancho IXTT weekly, Dhor Mhoinneachi Rotti and the GULAB monthly magazine, were controlled by Catholic priests. Other publications like Uzvadd, Undentiche Noketr and others shone for some time and faded away. Secular thought in Konkani set in Roman script perhaps began with the Goencho Ulo tabloid and established itself with JIVIT monthly magazine that recently celebrated two years of publication. Other publications got the courage and the motivation to make their presence felt. Konkonn Divo published by Ashok Chodankar, and Prabhakar Tendulkar's Goykar revived and published by Tomazinho Cardoz, need to be mentioned in this context. Serafin Cotta and Vincy Quadros are two prominent persons with catholic background who are still seen in the Executive Committee of the pro-Devanagri Konkani Bhasha Mandal [KBM] that was founded by a Correia-Afonso from Benaulim. There are others, no doubt, but these two names are easily identifiable in Goa. In a marked shift from the normal, Michael Gracias, the former Secretary of the pro-Romi Dalgado Konkani Akademi [DKA], chose Vincy Quadros as the Editor of his magazine, JIVIT. This action, in spite of knowing that Vincy's links in the KBM for almost a decade, came as a surprise to many. That they have been able to work in tandem for almost two years is a positive sign,
[Goanet] Remo Fernandes and the Gypsies
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org Remo Fernandes and the Gypsies http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1068602697ref=ts#/pages/Remo-Fernandes-The-Gypsies/5647959554?ref=mf -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490
Re: [Goanet] Fomentos claim Rs.500 Crores as damages for defamation at Calcutta High Court
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org The first thing that comes to mind after going through the DEFAMATION SUIT FOR RS. 500 CRORES as presented in the mandgoa blog is. MOIRA the land of WISE FOOLS. The big question is: Has the Plaintiff in the said Defamation Suit, viz. Shri. Sujay Gupta, acquired the WISE-FOOLNESS of the great MOIDEKARS in such a short time from taking up residence in MOIRA??? It must be noted that the respondent in the above defamatory suit, Shri. Seby Rodrigues is the Life Member of the Goa Su-Raj Party which has its head office just a couple of hundred meters from where the Plaintiff Shri. Sujay Gupta has taken his residence. Rs. 500 Crores are appealingly welcome to this 'hamlet' and shall be ever so appreciated. GOD SPEED goasuraj - Original Message - From: sebastian Rodrigues sebydesio...@hotmail.com To: goa...@goanet.org Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 4:14 PM Subject: [Goanet] Fomentos claim Rs.500 Crores as damages for defamation at Calcutta High Court Goa's Fomento mining company has filed defamation suit against Sebastian Rodrigues for his online writings claiming Rs.500 Crore as damages. For more on this log on to www.mandgoa.blogspot.com Warmly, Seby
Re: [Goanet] Talking Photos:Empty Miramar Beach, Empty Bunkers, Empty chairs on the new year's nite
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org Either our friend, JoeGoaUK has got a new job with the Herald or the Herald has taken note of JoeGoaUK's various complaints of acts of plagiarism of his photos. http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=14905cid=1 Either wayJoeGoaUK has been published in Goa's daily. Well done, Joe!! - B
[Goanet] Goan surnames-2: HERALD(Goa), Jan 4, 2009
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org GOAN SURNAMES-2 By Valmiki Faleiro If Goan Catholic surnames are sometimes confusing, Hindu counterparts are truly confounding! Hindu surnames were rooted in India’s ancient four-Varna caste system, which was based on people’s traditional occupations. Some, however, believe that the Indo-Aryan caste stratification was founded not on occupations but on one’s skin colour – ‘Varna’, in Sanskrit, literally means colour. Of the four Varnas (castes), the ‘top’ three – Brahman (learned), Kshatriya (nobleman) and Vaishya (farmer/trader) – comprised of fairer-skinned Indo-Aryans, while the fourth, Sudra (serf, ordained to serve the other three) was of non-Aryan, darker-skinned locals. A fifth, Avarna, of classless people like tribals and ‘untouchables,’ was added later. We find old Goan surnames in 16th century Portuguese records. Cited here, largely, is a sampling from Salcete. The most common generic Gaud Saraswat Brahmin (GSB) surnames were Nayak/Naik, Pai/Poy, Prabhu/Porob and Xennai/Shenvi/Sinai. Naik (spelt ‘Naique’ by the Portuguese), as we shall see in the sequel next Sunday, is an egalitarian surname that traverses not just Hindu castes but goes beyond creeds. Xennai/Shenvi revolves around the legend that Lord Parshuram settled 96 (‘xennai’ in Konknni) families in the land he reclaimed from the sea – 66 (‘sashast’) in Salcete and the balance 30 (‘tis’) in Tiswadi. This legend, as we know, is just that – a legend. By the way, the mystic ‘96’ is not a monopoly of Goans or of GSBs. Maharashtra’s principal Kshatriya clans collectively are also known as ‘Xannav Kuli’ (96 families). Interestingly, Goa’s Sattari/Bicholim self-regarded ‘superior’ Kshatriyas (as against native Kshatriyas) – the Ranes/Dessais/Sardesais – claim to be part of the ‘Xannav Kuli’ – even if no ‘Panchang’ (Hindu almanac) would list them among the 96, nor any Maharashtrian aristocrat would admit them as such. But since our Pratapsing Rauji Rane Sardessai was free Goa’s longest serving Chief Minister, who knows, they might now be regarded as part of Maharashtra’s Kshatriya ‘Xannav’ … as much as a Goan Vani, one of Goa’s leading business family today, is believed to have been ‘admitted’ into the GSB caste by an earlier Swamiji/Pontiff. Sardesais and some Prabhudesais, though, are original Kshatriyas, taken into the GSB fold after a long ritual. The stand-alone original surnames, Prabhu/Porob, Pai/Poy and Shenvi/Sinai, came to be used as prefixes to later-day Goan GSB family names, as in Poy Raiturcar. Some of those who settled in coastal Kanara at the height of Portuguese persecution changed the Xennai/Shenvi surname to Shanbhag. But any Xennai/Shanbhag in Karnataka’s coastal region would be, without doubt, a thoroughbred Konknni. Who proudly uses his original language and reveres his ancient deities in Goa. Even if, honouring a promise at the time of the exodus, he refrained from replicating the deity’s temple in his new land of domicile, though he could well afford to do it. Other coastal Karnataka Konknnis changed the Xennoi/Shenvi surname prefix usage to, of all things, the largely Kshatriya ‘Rao’ – as in Vassantrao or Vaikunthrao Dempo. (I once jokingly started calling myself ‘Valmikirao’ Faleiro. Like the Dempos, I was also a south returned ‘Sulcho’ … but stopped doing that when I met a future friend, ‘Radharao’ Gracias!) There are rare and known GSB surnames in early Portuguese records, like: Barbu, Bhandari, Botto (Bhat), Camotim (Kamat), Dalvi, Dangi, Egdo (Hegde), Quenim (Keni), Mazo (Mauzo), Mahale (some who migrated from Benaulim to South Kanara later changed it to Mallya), Pariar (Padiyar), Sardesai, Shama – as in Krishnadas Shama, the learned man from Quelossim-Cortalim, perhaps Konknni’s greatest man of letters, who lived around the time Afonso de Albuquerque conquered, and then re-conquered, Goa in the year 1510. GSB surnames were also associated with occupation. Shenvis, like their counterparts Nadkarnis at the district level, usually worked as village accountants. As did Dubashis. Dalvis were commanders. A learned person was Pandit. Physicians were Vaidyas. GSBs – remember the term includes only those Indo-Aryan Brahmins who resettled in Goa and, from here, dispersed to various parts of the Konkan coast and elsewhere for diverse reasons (like economic opportunity, plagues or religious persecution) and
[Goanet] The Portuguese in the East: A Cultural History of a Maritime Trading Empire
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org Check out this new book from Dr Shihan Desilva shihan.desi...@sas.ac.uk Portuguese in the East: Cultural History of a Maritime Trading Empire (London: I B Tauris Academic Publishers, 2008) The author's contacts are: Dr Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, FRAS Senior Fellow Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London 28 Russell Square London WC1B 5DS England Just thought of sharing this... FN -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490
[Goanet] JUSTICE FOR THE JUDICIARY
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org While our Legislators and Executive have been ruling the roost, India has not been shining for the Judiciary. The recent hike in salaries of Supreme Court and High Court judges was long overdue. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court will now get paid one lakh a month. It is however an irony that India's highest paid Advocate General in Goa, Mr. Subodh Kantak, is still earning five times the salary of the Chief Justice of India. Accepting the position of a judge is a very big challenge. One has to sacrifice one's personal liberty to a great extent. While Politicians have bags loaded with money delivered to their home, Judges get bags loaded with files which they have to read through in the evening in preparation for the next day. The Government should now act expeditiously and also hike the salaries and improve the benefits of Subordinate Court Judges, Public prosecutors, Assistant Public Prosecutors and other Government advocates. Today some Judges are travelling by buses and there is a need to provide vehicles to all judges for their personal security and convenience. Better benefits need to be given to Court staff too. It has to be ensured that only persons with good knowledge of law and a good insight to interpret and dispense it should be entrusted the responsibility as Judges. Government should ensure good pecuniary benefits to all the judicial officers so that the judiciary attracts nothing less than the best and the brightest. Only persons with sound knowledge of law should be selected even at the entry level as Judicial Magistrate First Class. The selection of subordinate court judges has to be very meticulous as persons who cannot interpret the law damage the justice delivery system. In times when money and muscle power is solely determining the heights our politicians can reach, the task of the Judiciary becomes all the more pertinent, crucial and vital. Aires Rodrigues Ribandar
[Goanet] Goa news for January 4, 2009
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Tourists flock Goa beaches - Hindu [Dec 31, 2008] Panaji (PTI): Tourists flocked the beaches in Goa to usher in the New Year, jamming the lanes approaching the coastal belt this Wednesday evening. ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/3-0fd=Rurl=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200901010331.htmcid=1285828509ei=CgNgSareB5vOMoa2sJACusg=AFQjCNHLhhvyMo0tZp1OuEtj62tgq_21Rw *** CBI to hand over Scarlett\'s organs - Times of India [13 hours ago] British teenager Scarlett had died on Goa's shore on February 18 last year. The suspicious death was confirmed as a rape and murder after two autopsies were ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/2-0fd=Rurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Goa_CBI_to_hand_over_Scarlett_organs/articleshow/3931197.cmscid=1286634474ei=CgNgSareB5vOMoa2sJACusg=AFQjCNF3Lo7XQzAMJH0LJllyJNlT1zxuag *** Brazilian-style football academy in Goa - Indopia [21 hours ago] Panaji , Jan 2 The Goan footballers have got a shot in the arm with the lauching of' Brasil Futebol Academiaaposwhich will kick start from first week of ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/7-0fd=Rurl=http://www.indopia.in/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/467578/National/1/20/1cid=1286551865ei=CgNgSareB5vOMoa2sJACusg=AFQjCNG0wJ5ni27sTQgNSz1-3gQ3v4PXHQ *** Barreto And Beto Launch Football Academy - Goal.com [7 hours ago] Mohun Bagan star Jose Barreto and Dempo hero Beto have decided to launch their own football academy in Goa for the development of young and aspiring ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/9-0fd=Rurl=http://www.goal.com/en-india/news/136/india/2009/01/03/1039181/barreto-and-beto-launch-football-academycid=0ei=CgNgSareB5vOMoa2sJACusg=AFQjCNHSyTgHPgZyQTTzUY8IWJqgWb17gg *** Ailing Borim bridge is victim of improper grouting - Times of India [1 hour ago] Conceding the point, KG Gupta, head of the civil engineering department, Goa Engineering College said, Though it is not part of the curriculum, ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/8-0fd=Rurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Goa/Ailing_Borim_bridge_is_victim_of_improper_grouting/articleshow/3932428.cmscid=1286773035ei=CgNgSareB5vOMoa2sJACusg=AFQjCNG5t_-f9JrzX53woWDiUtD_YcmJJQ *** NCP top brass take note of Mickky\'s behaviour - Times of India [3 hours ago] Sources said that Sharad Pawar is likely to take stock of Goa's political situation andwill also consider fielding its candidate for the North Goa Lok ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/6-0fd=Rurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Goa/NCP_top_brass_take_note_of_Mickkys_behaviour/articleshow/3932374.cmscid=0ei=CgNgSareB5vOMoa2sJACusg=AFQjCNFW5YjdS14uslDACpGaP-c2yTEmOg *** Goa assembly session to begin from Feb 2 - Times of India [Jan 2, 2009] 2 Jan 2009, 1729 hrsIST, PTI PANAJI: The first session of the Goa legislative assembly this year will be held from February 2 to 6, officials said on... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/5-0fd=Rurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Goa/Goa_assembly_session_to_begin_from_Feb_2/articleshow/3926064.cmscid=1286435376ei=CgNgSareB5vOMoa2sJACusg=AFQjCNFjsXcrYFCeN-KL0A749MoC7VakwA *** Undefined roles overlap work between ZPs, p\'yats and MLAs\' - Times of India [3 hours ago] PANAJI: Thanks to the step-motherlytreatment accorded to it by the government, Zilla Panchayats (ZP) in Goa have no powers, no funds and the lack of ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/4-0fd=Rurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Goa/Undefined_roles_overlap_work_between_ZPs_pyats_and_MLAs/articleshow/3932383.cmscid=0ei=CgNgSareB5vOMoa2sJACusg=AFQjCNGcjYpe-KZ61yXlZBVdPqW1hV1BrQ *** Govt sets up Goa Cancer Registry - Times of India [Jan 2, 2009] The announcement came at the inauguration of the Goa Cancer Registry jointly set up by the Directorate of Health Services and the Tata Memorial Hospital, ... http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=Tct=us/1-0fd=Rurl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Goa/Govt_sets_up_Goa_Cancer_Registry/articleshow/3928592.cmscid=0ei=CgNgSareB5vOMoa2sJACusg=AFQjCNH0QChwz_YzqDHYd3An6XkeXrmubA *** Goa minister\'s wife files bigamy complaint - Times of India [16 hours ago] PANAJI: A bigamy complaint has been filed against high profile Goa Tourism Minister Francisco Pacheco by his estranged wife, who has provided
[Goanet] They came by sea, but ‘disappeared ’ later... From Herald of January 4th
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org From the Herald internet edition. They came by sea, but ‘disappeared’ later... CANACONA, JAN 3 Five men carrying heavy bags alight from a fishing trawler near the Nuem-Khola coast and move around suspiciously in the area. The event bears an eerie resemblance to the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks, but the similarities stop there. While vigilant residents claim they had handed over the five men to the police, there has been virtually no further information or details on the ‘suspects’. Speaking to Herald, some anxious residents from Nuem and Khanaguinim, who spoke on condition of anonymity, claimed to have corned five men carrying heavy bags, after they had alighted from a fishing trawler near the Nuem coast and entered the village about a fortnight ago. “Some of our locals noticed a fishing-type trawler dropping anchor and a dingy boat reaching the five men ashore at Gawal, which is between Cabo-de-Rama fort and Nuem-Khola village,” a resident said. “The men, who spoke broken English and a little Hindi, were first noticed asking for rooms on rent. After entering a residential area, they were seen loitering in these remote residential areas.” The locals who first noticed the trawler drop anchor off the Gawal coast then alerted other residents, who also became suspicious of the five men, who could not be identified. “Our fears became stronger when we were reminded of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, specially since the terrorists had also arrived in a trawler and had carried heavy bags,” said a local. The sight of the five men moving with large bags towards Canaguinim caused further apprehension among locals, who followed them and eventually stopped the men near the Canaguinim church. “One villager then phoned the police and a police team reached the site and took all five men in their custody,” the local added. Several people from the locality, including Khola Sarpanch Biva Velip, have corroborated to the reported “capture” of five men with heavy bags. “The men, who arrived in a trawler off the Nuem Coast, were first apprehended by locals and later handed over to the police,” Velip told Herald. Since then, the locals have had no information regarding the five men who were taken into police custody. “Who are these men? Have they been arrested or have they been released,” asked another villager, as other villagers were keen to know details regarding the five men. Incidentally, both the Cuncolim police station (under whose jurisdiction Nuem/ Khanaguinim falls) and the Coastal police, which also has jurisdiction along the coast, have not released any details to the public regarding the five men supposedly in police custody. This has fueled speculation among the locals that the five men may have had some terrorist links and that, they were quietly shunted out from the public eye for reasons best known to the police or other authorities. When contacted, Cuncolim police feigned ignorance in the entire episode. “We have no knowledge of any such developments which are reported to have taken place in our jurisdiction,” a policeman said. Naguesh Bhatcar sgbhat...@hotmail.com
[Goanet] Aitaracheo Katkutleo: Novea Vorsant Bhitor Sortanam
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org Novea Vorsant Bhitor Sortanam Anik ek Novem Voros 2009 mhoje jinnent favo kelem mhonn mhojea Rochnnar Bapak argam di-it dev-mondirantlo bhair sorlom. Ghora paupak irlexe vatteruch astanam tondda-purto (tonddant vollkotam, nanvan nhoi) ek ixtt bhettlo. Tannem hanstem tondd korun mhaka Novea Vorsanchim porbim dilim ani hanvum-i taka Novea Vorsanche bore anvdde anvddetanam tacho mobile fon vazlo. “Vorsache survatekuch ponvotticho fon. Voros piddear” Mobile fonank polloit tannem mhollem ani fon kannank laun fuddem uloilo, “Hello…..Happy New Year tukai……….” Konnacho ani khoim thavn taka fon ailolo tem zannam zavpachi goroz mhaka nasli. Punn vorsache survatek tacho mood off zal’lo hi sulus mhaka zali. Fon korpi monis tacho kitlo lagsorlo vo poisul’lo ani tanchem natem (relationship) kitlem asa hachi mhaka khobor nam khori tori astanam tacho sobhav dakholl kortalo taka fon korpi monis naposont (dislike) aslo mhonn. Hanv matxe gaborlom. Thoddea vella adim hanvemnui mhojea lagsorlea soireank, ixtt-mitrank Novea Vorsachim porbim diun fon keleat. Az-kal mon’xanchem mon vollkun ghevpak khup moskil zait veta. Kallzan porian vochun ravlear tujea pattlean monis kitem uloitole hem sangpak aichea mhellea vattoronachea dhongi somazan kothinn zalam. Tujea gholleak fullanche har ghalun pattlean suri top’pi dor ek chanttek mellpi monis disandis vaddot vetat hem hanvem sangcheli goroz asa? Zalear ami konn khorelo soiro, ixtt, xezari mhonn amchea kallzachea darar tankam samballche? Kaim pavtti amchi chuk nastanam ami trasant poddtat tednam, vo mottorik obseag ghoddun yeta vo anik her kosli-i ghoddni favo nhoi tea vellar ghoddli zalear amche lagsorlea mon’xank gombhirtayen ti kollit kortanam tujem vo tuka kan diun aikotole/aikotolim soroll mhonttat. “sokall fuddench konnachem tondd pollelem re/go?” Xezareak aslolea dusmanachea ghorabeantlo konna ekleak sokallcho polloilo zalear thu-thu korun tonddantli thipi bhair udovpi az meren sudorlolea somazan khotte somzonnicher adarlole vo ‘achar’ (superstition) manddpi lok asat mhunn aikupak tuka vichitr distolem? Borem mon samballun ani Rochnnar Bapak anik ek dis pollounk favo kelo mhonn khativelo utthanam argam di-it utthlo zalear tujer yetlim vaitt-vignnam pois zatelim mhonn tuka bhorvonso asa? Zalear, tujea noxibant vaitt ghoddnni ghoddlear tuka sokall fuddench disti poddtolo vo vorsache survatek fon kortolo monis ponvotti? Sudorlolea sonvsarant vixall monache (broad minded) zaunchea suvater kaluki monanchem kiteak zaunchem? Apurbay asli dekhunuch tannem vo tinnem mhoje tondda-purtea ixttak fon korun Novea Vorsant 2009 bhitor sortat mhonn Devachea nanvan un-unit porbim dilim. Punn ho mhozo ixtt taka/tika kitlo meren durvas (hate) korta tem dollebhor mhaka disun ailem. Ani hanv hem niallit cholun ghorche vatter astanam 3 vorsanchi fattli gozal mhojea dollea samkara aili. Tea vorsa Natalache Disa sokallchim 9 voram zatat mhollear mhojea mobilar 8 SMS sondhex yeun bhorle. Tankam uprant fon korun wish kortolom ani mhojea kamant gul’l astanam mhaka anik ek SMS sondhex ailo. Ani to zaun aslo mhozo xezari ixtt zo dor disa don vo tin pavtti fon khorun hem ani tem vicharpi. Goroz poddlearui mhojea ghora yeun sotavpi. Tannem, Natalanchi khuxallkay uktavpak mhaka sondhex kel’lo polloun mhojea mendvak, mhoje sorun ghel’le jinnent yeunk nam tittli tiddok tea vellar choddli. Fattleo 8 SMS topasleo ani tattuntleo 5 SMS Inglixinle sondhex ekuch bhaxen asle. Mhonnchem, Mr. X-an daddlolo toch sondhex Kumari Y-ant daddlolo. Aplea khas sobdamni boroupak konnui eklean iont kele nant. Ek lhanxea prathant vo ekuch desant ravpi ani sumanant ek pavtti tori fon korun khobor gheupi hea mhojea mogall soire-mitranchi khornnim mhojea monam posont bhaili aslelean hanvem ekuch torecho xinn korun tankam fon korun sanglem. “Tuzo sondhex mhaka pavlo. Natalachea disa, mhozo ugddas kela tea khatir Dev borem korum ani tuka-i Kristachi zolmachi porob anvddetam. Disantlean vo choddan chodd mhollear sumanant ek pavtti tori tum mhaka porxim fon korta. Punn az hea vhodd disa sondhex patoilolo polloun mhaka khup vaitt dislem mhonn tuka spoxttponnim sangtam. He toren daddlolo sondhex mhojea ixttagottik naposont vo pois korunk sodta mhunn tum kollit korta.”
[Goanet] Transfer of Vasco police officers (over madrassa incident) kicks up dust
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org Would any of these agitating residents feel the same if this happened to one of their female relatives? Some of the comments passed by the police at the madrassa were uncalled for. Young women obviously are soft targets. Everyone should do their jobs. But they should know their limits. Feeling demoralized is one thing, but not staying within limits is another. HJS is trying to give these incidents a religious orientation. What is their business here? Jen == Transfer of Vasco police officers kicks up dust HERALD REPORTER VASCO, JAN 3 http://www.oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=14917cid=26 The two police officials who were shunted from the port town in connection with the recent detention of schoolgirls of a Madrassa have now received support from a large number of residents from Vasco. Hundreds of residents from Vasco and surrounding areas gathered outside the Mormugao Deputy Collector’s office on Saturday, where a memorandum was submitted to demand the reinstatement of DySP Deu Banaulikar and PI Harish Madkaikar. The memorandum warns of an agitation by residents of Vasco if the transferred police officials are not brought back to Vasco. Some people also addressed the gathering to express solidarity with the two police officials. “The memorandum has nothing to do with any particular religion, but it is against the government’s decision to transfer DySP Deu Banaulikar and PI Harish Madkaikar,” said an artist, Mahesh Navelkar. Former Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) chairperson Rama Honawarkar said the government’s decision to transfer top police officers would demoralize the police force. “It was a normal and routine operation of police to demand verification details after Mumbai terror attacks and the management of the Madrassa should not have taken the issue so seriously,” added Honawarkar. Prakash Naik and Ulash Pujari claimed that if the management of Madrassa had completed all the necessary formalities and had submitted identify details of the schoolgirls, the problem would have not arisen. Meanwhile, Hindu Janajagruti Samiti has deamnded reinstatement of shunted police officers Dy Sp Deu Banaulikar and PI Harish Madkaikar to their earlier posting in Vasco. Addressing a press conference HJS Convenor Jayesh Thali said that the transfers of the two police officers were political motivated. Thali questioned whether it was unlawful to interogate the students.Is the madarassa management not bound by law to provide information demanded by the police within the stipulated time, he asked? Thali claimed that the local minister Jose Philip D’Souza had also protested. Capt (retd) Dattaram Sawant who was also present at the press conference warned of an agitation if the government failed to reinstate the officers within 15 days. Ramesh Naik and Tinaikar also spoke on the occassion. In other development All Goa Congress Pradesh Member Tahir Daud Carol has alleged that a politician is trying to gain mileage by polarizing the society in connection with the recent transfer of the police officials. Without naming the politician in his press note, Carol, who is also the president of the Vasco-based Madrassa, alleged that the politician wanted to give a communal colour to the transfer of DySP Deu Banaulikar and PI Harish Madkaikar. “Religion has nothing to do with failure of the police officers and some politician wants to take political mileage out of whole issue by polarizing the society,” said Carol. “We respect other religions and people from different faiths in Vasco are united. No one should try and disturb this peaceful environment,” said Carol. He alleged that the politician was trying to gain mileage in the issue, in view of the delimitation of the constituencies in Mormugao taluka. Revocation of cops' transfer order demanded NT NETWORK Posted on 2009-01-04 http://www.navhindtimes.com/story.php?story=200901048 VASCO- Over 200 people, including women, demonstrated in front of the office of the deputy collector and sub-divisional magistrate, Vasco on Saturday evening to protest against the transfer of two police officials alleging political interference. The people have demanded with the government to revoke the transfer order immediately. The two police officers � deputy superintendent of police, Vasco, Mr Deu Banaulikar and Vasco police
[Goanet] CROSSFIRE on HCN on 04 and 05 January 2009
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org Dears, The HCN will telelcast now 10.00 A. M. IST, a programme WHY THE CONTROVERSY OVER KONKANI'S SCRIPTS? . It will be telecast again on Monday at 9.00 P.M.. The debate is anchored by Mr. Juino De Souza from Porvorim and has recorded for CROSS-FIRE on 02 January, 2009, inspired by the the announcement of the Goa Government nominees for the Goa Konkani Akademi headed by Mr. N. Shivdas [Shivdas Naik] and including Vincy Quadros, Damodar Mauzo and Prof. Sebastiao Mariano Borges. The CROSSFIRE features 1. Mr. Premanand Lotlikar, President of DKA 2. Mr. Tomazinho Cardoz, former Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly 3. Dr. Kiran Jayant Budkuley, Reader in English, Goa University 4. Fr. Mousinho de Ataide, Lecturer in Theology, Rachol Seminary and leader of Catholics For Devanagri and 5. Miguel Braganza, Freelance Editor, Columnist and Social commentator. The issues discussed include 1.Why the script controversy? 2. Language v/s script 3 Language v/s Medium of instruction 4. Official language v/s Mother tongue. 5. Unity of people v/s single script. 6. What will happen if dual script is accepted. 7. Is the Official Language Act, 1987, Acts sacrosanct like the ancientLand Aquisition Act, 1894 or can it be amended like the TCP Act, 1975? 8. Should the Official Gazette of Goa be published in its sole Official language or not? The Member-Secretary of GKA is a Goa Public Service cadre officer and one member is ex-officio President of Akhil Bharatiya Konkani Parishad. The other five members will be selected from among the various Konkani organisations and individuals. Mog asundi Miguel Also read my article has appeared in the GT on 02 January, 2009, and Mr. Vincy Quadros's clarifictaion in the Letters to the Editor of GT dated 03 January, 2009 Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/
Re: [Goanet] Skin-deep understanding of secularism
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org --- On Sat, 1/3/09, Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca wrote: Santosh, What on earth is a Marxist intellectual? I did a goggle of the term and it seems like only two people have used it before. Hi Mervyn, When I did a Google search for Marxist intellectual I got 14,100 hits. Please see: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=%22Marxist+intellectual%22btnG=Search Cheers, Santosh
[Goanet] Goa Sudharop awards, Jan 6, 4pm
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org Dear all, You are cordially invited to the annual GOA SUDHAROP awards on January 6, Tuesday, from 4:00-5:30pm at HOTEL MANDOVI, Panaji, Goa. There is no cost to attend and all are invited. Goa Sudharop is a Goan diaspora, non-profit, volunteer NGO working for the betterment of Goa and Goans worldwide. We do not have paid staff or paid facilities (rent). All monies donated to Goa Sudharop go to Goa and Goans. Thanks to all the donors, volunteers, supporters and well-wishers. GOA SUDHAROP (www.goasudharop.org) P.S. I will be in attendance and look forward to seeing you on Jan 6.
[Goanet] Mining --- think about alternatives and propose them to mine owners
* * * * * * * * * ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET * * * * * * * * * Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or f...@goa-india.org Instead of taking extreme positions, I suggest Goan experts/expats come up with concrete business proposals by which mine owners can diversify into other areas and get out of mining in due course of time. That seems like one of the ways in which the imbroglio can be resolved. Food parks, plantations, fishing, eco-tourism, IT, packaging industry, media --- these are some of the alternates. However, the path is not going to be easy. None of these industries make as much money as easily as just selling the earth. But then, this much needs to be done for Goa. regards, Samir
