Re: [Goanet] Trouble in Cuncolim - GBA X'POSED

[Rajan P. Parrikar]

To Goanet -

Soter D'Souza wrote:
>The latest news is that Cuncolim is 
>on the boil once again. A permission granted for a residential project to one 
>Dubai based Tariq Chauhan of Dharul Khalil, Aligarh U.P. by the Cuncolim 
>Municipal Council is now suspected by villagers to be more of a madrasa 
>with the toilet specifications itself being as big as a bedroom. Several 
>violations have been observed. When residents spoke to the said Chauhan in 
>Dubai 
>over phone, he challenged them to do whatever they want as he has the full 
>support of Chief Minister Digambar Kamat and Urban development Minister 
>Joaquim 
>Alemao. What fuelled even more anger is the realisation that the project has 
>been designed by a firm Mozaiq-Archnova which people allege to be that of 
>Arch. Dean D'Cruz and is signed by one arch. Poonam Verma all of Goa Bachao 
>fame.  Coincidentally, Dean D'Cruz is also involved in 
>designing the market project at Cuncolim for SUDHA. The Cuncolkars are 
>now gearing up for a show down. 
 
 
Dear Soter-bab,

The GBA douchebags have been 'naagde' for a long time.  
The only new development is, the XXX-rated GBA porn is now 
up on the public YouTube for all Goans to see.  I have written
about the games played by these architect rascals, Goan
as well as bhaile, on Goanet before.

As for the Tariq Chauhans and the Dharul Khalils, Goa is now
a brothel that any bhailo can check into for a quickie.  It tells you 
the kind of worthless refuse that Goans have become.  I surmise 
Goa will be the next bastion of the Taliban.  Commie Gadgil and boy
'academic' Fernandes will be howling for a fresh tranche of muslim
rights for the soon-to-be-registered Goa Taliban.  Frederick Noronha
can then be counted on as their dutiful coolie.

Why do Goans even bother - simply hand over Goa to the outsiders
and the ghatis and be done with it.  That Goa going to soon be another
Indian sewer is a fait accompli.


Dr. Anil Desai wrote:
>This was reported in Oherald today. Goans should be grateful to their 
>upright, honest and sincere Chief Minister who will promise anything to 
>save Goa. Should the GBA now disband and apologise to the people 
>of Goa for this fraud perpetrated on them or should they pretend to act 
>and threaten Digu who  by now knows that GBA can bark but not bite ?
>
>http://www.oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Where-are-your-promises-CM-questions-GBA/36856.html


What is this, Reboni Saha now fancies herself as Miss Sherlock H?  
Gee, thanks for telling us that the Digu govt is not what you thought 
it was.  By the way, Reboni who?

As for "intensifying" your "agitation" - is that a new methane bubble 
forming up GBA's colon?  Not for nothing do we say that the GBA has
been the biggest flatulent joke on the people of Goa.  I bet Digu is
trembling and reaching for his mask at this ultimatum from GBA like
he did the last time the GBA threatened him.  See -

http://www.parrikar.org/images/samples/gba-stink.jpg



r

Re: [Goanet] England T20 World Champions!

[Nascy Caldeira]

Hey Gabe,
I feel that England 'bribed the Aussies in kind' and the friendly Aussies 
generously gave in. :-) :-)and thus England won their first ICC tournament in 
four decades. Nevertheless the England team performed very well, and they 
deserve the Victory!

Nascy Caldeira, Now in Goa!


--- On Mon, 17/5/10, Gabe Menezes  wrote:

> England thrashed Australia with 18
> balls to spare to claim their first
> global tournament after 18 years and 35 attempts
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/may/16/world-twenty-20-final-england-australia
> 
> -- 
> DEV BOREM KORUM
> 
> Gabe Menezes.
> 

[Goanet] Our Corrupt Politicians Have Tarnished Goa's Image

[manuel tavares]

Freddy, I wholeheartedly agree with you. These scoundrels should be prosecuted 
and all their illegal doings  should be publicized for all to see. Then all 
their ill-gotten gains should be repaid to the government, and their remaining 
assets whether got by fair means of foul be confiscated and forfeited to the 
state. This will act as a deterrent to stop future politicians who wish to 
enrich themselves at the expense of Goa and Goans to think twice for the same 
fate will befall them should they wander into such corrupt ways.

I therefore throw this challenge to all Goans to unite in the face of these 
atrocities and first and foremost vote these thieves and robbers out of 
parliament. The only way we can do this is to register one and all as voters 
and then turn up in force on election day and vote in dedicated, honest, 
trustworthy and selfless people to represent us in parliament. People who will 
have Goa's and Goan's interests at heart and not their own. People who value 
their name and who will be seen by their deeds to be people of integrity. This 
is the only way we can ensure that there will be a place called Goa, not in 
name only, but truly representative of our traditional views and values.

Come on Goans, we are facing a crises. If we don't unite now and stem the 
advance of these corrupt politicians, then we will only have ourselves to 
blame. We have to show them that we are not cowards! 

WE HAVE BEEN MEEK AND HUMBLE FOR TOO LONG AND ALLOWED EVERYONE TO WALK ALL OVER 
US. WE MUST FIGHT BACK AND REGAIN WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY OURS AND GUARD IT WITH OUR 
LIVES, ONCE ACHIEVED.

Manuel ( Eddie) Tavares.

[Goanet] Shadows of time

[Goanet A-C-E!]

Shadows of time
Published on: May 17, 2010

MARGAO: International Museum Day, celebrated all over the world on the 
May 18 since 1977, provides for museum professionals to meet the public 
and alert them to the challenges that museums face.


And each year, a theme is decided on by the Advisory Committee of the 
International Council of Museum (ICOM).


Museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of 
cultures, development of mutual understanding, co-operation and peace 
among peoples. As a definition by ICOM says, a museum is "an institution 
in the service of society and of its development".


Now complying with the theme, Museum for Social Harmony, Goa Chitra, an 
ethnographical museum, situated in Benaulim, has opened its door to all 
senior citizens of the state this year.  The curator and founder of the 
museum, Victor Hugo Gomes reiterating his passion for preserving the 
past to enrich the future says that the genesis of the museum began many 
years ago when he started collecting old, discarded implements and tools 
from attics and storerooms because he was saddened to see reminders of a 
way of life disappear.


This project has been recognised as an international product and has 
been the recipient of two International awards - The Fundacao Orient 
scholarship 2009 (Portugal) and the VX Verodiano Award 2009 (USA) - for 
persons who preserve the well being of mankind through individual 
advancement in the field of art, music, literature, science, medicine or 
humanities.


As a tribute visitors from the home of the aged across Goa are invited 
for a free and special tour of the museum on the May 18. Special tours 
will be conducted personally by the curator and collector Victor Hugo 
Gomes at 10 a.m., 12 noon and 4 p.m.



http://www.navhindtimes.in/iexplore/shadows-time


Goanet A-C-E!
Arts ~ Culture ~ Entertainment

[Goanet] Jacinta Luis - Concert Review

[Mervyn Lobo]

JACINTA LUIS 
by Mel D'Souza

Like the weather that evening, the recital at the Al Greene Theatre in Toronto 
on May 8, 2010 could have been described in one word - COOL! But whereas it was 
a cold front coming in from the west that dropped the temperature rapidly to 
zero, a different kind of ‘cool’ came in from the east in the form of a jazz 
trio from Montreal led by Jacinta Luis. The music was a refreshing change from 
the popular generic music that caters to the tastes of the diverse cultures 
that make up the cosmopolitan city of Toronto.

Jacinta opened the show with her version of the classic standards “I Believe” 
and “You’ll Never Walk Alone” followed by “Shine”, a tribute to her late 
brother, Ian, who wrote the lyrics for which Jacinta wrote the music. For the 
rest of the evening, Jacinta entertained the near-capacity audience with her 
own compositions and her jazz interpretations of works by the great songwriters 
of our time, such as Cole Porter, George Gershwin and Paul Anka, to name a few.

Jacinta Luis is the ideal exponent of jazz. A combination of her musical 
training and rich cultural background provides all the necessary elements to 
bring out the best in her performance. 

Jacinta is a versatile and dynamic vocalist and pianist whose warm voice and 
natural ear for music, reinforced by her training in classical piano, 
contribute immensely to the listening pleasure of her performances. 

Her cultural background also plays a significant role in the variety of her 
repertoire. Jacinta was born in Dar es Salaam in East Africa to parents who had 
their origins in Goa, India, when it was Portuguese territory. Her father was a 
member of the city’s most popular dance band, and as a child, Jacinta would jam 
with her parents and siblings, all of whom either sang or played at least one 
musical instrument. It was in Africa that she acquired a love for the beat that 
is at the heart of African and Latin American music. 

In 1971, Jacinta’s family immigrated to Canada and settled in Montreal. It is 
in this most European of Canadian cities that her Portuguese heritage tweaked 
her interest in studying classical piano. She pursued music courses in Dawson 
College and Concordia University, and acquired an MA in Music Education at the 
University of Victoria where she developed her interest in vocal jazz, 
arranging and composing.

Jacinta’s family and musical background reveals itself in her performances. Her 
rendition of the Swahili classic “Malaika” (Angel) and the South African “Pata 
Pata”, made famous by Miriam Makeba, was delivered with underlying African 
‘spirit’. Likewise, her “jazzed” version of the Goan traditional folk song ‘Aum 
Saiba’ (abbreviation of “Aum Saiba Poltoddi Vetam”) - about a woman crossing 
the river with trepidation – incorporated creative phrasing without deviating 
from the original theme.

Backing up Jacinta on vocals were her fellow Quebecers Stephane Crete, bass, 
and Michael Dennis, percussion, who exuded that joie de vivre of Montrealers 
that brought a warm glow to a cool evening. 

By Mel D’Souza
Author, illustrator and former columnist 
for Downhome Magazine.

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: Bleddy Goans ... and all that (FN, Herald)

[floriano]

Dear Caroline,

You are, perhaps, one of the most rare two-legged creatures around who want 
to call a spade a spade.
Yes, modernity has taken away our sense of balance and for which our 
posterity will be the sufferer.


Thank you for coming on record to say that the  the letter to Bleddy Goans 
by Godfrey Pereira, the supposedly East Indian Bugger has made an 
irreversible impact on Goa and Goans. What happened yesterday at the 
Secretariat with people protesting at the doors of Powers that be  could be 
attributed partly to this sane sounding the Goans got from an East Indian 
bugger.


Well appreciated, your concerns for Goa's lopsided development.

Cheers
floriano
from PPS to PPS
9890470896
floriano.l...@gmail.com
www.goasu-raj.org


- Original Message - 
From: "sydromeo" 

To: 
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 8:12 AM
Subject: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: Bleddy Goans ... and all that (FN,Herald)


This is one of the few articles that has really captured my interest. I'm 
not going to pretend I live in Goa or can even understand the totality of 
the issues. However I certainly understand the message being conveyed 
through the article ... reclamation of the environment, looking beyond 
differences (religious and class), need for a unified commitment at all 
levels to our land and its people; and the creation of sustainable social, 
political and environmental practices that will benefit Goa today and 
tomorrow.


Whenever non-Goans gush about Goa, usually about its 'otherness' in 
relation to other Indian states, I'm quick to retort that the land is 
being desecrated for short term gain. In villages across Tivim, family 
homes and land are giving way to developments that are incongruous with 
the natural environment; no 'environmental impact statements' are 
considered prior to any such developments [even at its most basic level]; 
increasing reliance on cars has given way to a looming health crisis in 
our village where women [at least ones I know] are moving towards obesity 
with little understanding of its health impacts; no preservation of 
historic sites in villages.


Modernisation is good but we don't have to lose our sense of self.

Regards
Caroline

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Reader: Bleddy Goans ... and all that (FN, Herald)

[Therese Almeida]

Perhaps what is not considered is that Goa emerged in 1961 from a 
ruthless dictatorship and were just as intimidated by the new authority 
which confused people who did not know how to react particularly when 
any vistage of 'western influence' invited negative reactions and such 
Goans labelled as 'dogs.'Any leadership that could be depended upon did 
not emerge from among the people.When  Goans took charge they had no 
vision for their future, a great deal of opportunity was wasted in 
legislations that could have waited, while the problem of education, of 
land administration and the decision to maintain what was essential and 
precious was ignored.What the Goan totally misunderstood was the close 
connection to land, a symbiotic relationship that was the only 
inheritance that remained unrealized.


Goa was made by human effort. Its low lying Khazans were wrested from 
the sea, its bunds  and terraced hills, its kullagars and salt pans and 
its complex administration were a peoples effort. Its agronomists 
nurtured its many fruits and its fish and fowl and water bodies were 
seasonal celebrations to be shared.And all this was achieved with 
minimum technology and an understanding of nature.
When I came to Goa what hurt was the rejection of things Indian by 
ordinary people obssessed by foreign goods.
The outlook was toward western shores. The needs of the land were 
ignored and it was replaced by greed. The land was not understood as a 
sustainable resource, it changed instead to a commodity with an ever 
expanding price and so we have lost our salt pans, our forests,our water 
bodies and our fields. The landscape is hidden by billboards of 
unacceptable proportions which are an affront to my visual freedom. The 
buildings are symbols of egotistic "ME TOO", The police dance to the 
tunes of whoever pulls the strings and our only ' Instrument ' of Public 
Good  which is the elected Government is itself involved in a host of 
self serving activities squandering public money for personal gain.Clean 
up the Garbage, Stop the Mining lobby manned by politicians, Get a 
sensible regional plan that empowers ordinary people, improve the 
disgraceful state of schools,reduce the land sharks who descend on Goa 
with the wherewithall to buy up the gullible native and his panchayat as 
well...the list is long and the fighters few.


All Goans want to leave and every other Indian thinks Goa is the new 
Dubai.We are glamourous, well endowed and capable of the Good LIfe. We 
are the lifestyle mecca of India and this illusion is perpetuated by our 
newspapers and the media. Come the rains and we can have Jumping 
Chicken, and the old lores,superstitious beliefs and practices
are perpetuated with hundreds of articles extolling their long forgotten 
reason for being.And our event managers will use anything for an event 
of great short lived consequence which our Politicians attend with much 
awaited gusto from their adoring fans.
Are we ready to fight? It costs to stick your neck out, If you stand up 
to be counted immediately a slander or a scandal is cooked up about you 
and the papers are full of the dirty rotten stink  created on your 
behalf.We are very good at that kind of thing.So, we don't have the 
land, we don't have its enduring love and we are standing on the street 
corner demanding a sale.





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[Goanet] Selma who cares the bleep

[Bernado Colaco]

It is believed that the Chinese was found sailing towards Macau  on a make 
shift raft with a slanted mast! :)))
 
BC
 
 
 
Years ago, a Chinese sailor had hacked his captain to death while the ship
was off Goan waters. So when the ship berthed at Mormugao, the sailor was
promptly arrested and incarcerated in the local jail. He languished in jail
for a number of years because there was no one who could understand his
language to communicate with him. So he was kept in a kind of legal limbo.

This went on for quite a number of years till the print media got wind of it
and blew it up. The man was released after a number of years in jail.

The strange thing was that a few days after his release, he disappeared and
has never been heard of again.

[Goanet] BOOK REVIEW: “The Dreaming House” by Tanya Mendonsa reviewed by Martine Corina Meijer

[Goanet A-C-E!]

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
The poetry of Tanya Mendonsa, by Martine Meijer


“I woke up after my first night in Moira, sat down and wrote a poem. It 
has not stopped since”, says Tanya Mendonsa. In Moira she found she 
could do what she was born to do - all the poems in her first volume 
entitled “Dreaming House were written in the two years after she came to 
live in Moira.


In 1995, after spending 19 years in Paris, Tanya returned to India with 
a prayer in her heart - to paint and write again, surrounded by green. 
In Goa, the spirits of nature bestowed this boon upon her and because of 
this she has dedicated her first volume to the community of Moira. 
Together with them she is engaged in a valiant and ongoing campaign to 
preserve its river, its waters, is trees and all the life in them.


Tanya’s poetry is born from consciously living the conflict of our 
times: that, as humans, we are both modern and natural. As in these 
lines from “Divorced from Green:


One has no forewarning,
in the days of the fish and the dragonfly,
that this will not be forever.
(….)
The demands –
of a world you never knew existed
hang weights

on limbs
that yesterday
had no idea they were any different
from tree branches or the haunches of a deer.

The feet meet cement,
and are forever divorced from green.

The author returned to green but on her morning walks along the river in 
Moira she found her views blocked by construction sites, and she 
stumbled over rubble and garbage.


The relentless encroachment of a one-sided humanness stirred up pain, 
anger and bewilderment. The conflict forced her inside of herself, to 
that place of nature within us - that place where, if we only dwell long 
and deep enough, something new and earlier unknown will show itself 
between the opposites. What came to her from there is a new way of 
seeing and the words to make us see anew too. She quotes one of her 
favourite poets, Mary Oliver: “ Whoever made music of a mild day?”


In Tanya Mendonsa’s poetry nature is not just a pretty backdrop to a 
life full of only human concerns, not just matter that humans can bend 
to their will, but spirit redeemed - nature once again as essential to 
us. When asked about the meaning of redemption for her she quotes 
Shelley: to preserve oneself from the “contagion of the world’s slow 
stain” , and thus to delight in something saved .


“Dreaming House” is not the work of a beginner. It is informed and 
inspired by a long life of reading. Tanya says she has practically read 
a book a day since she was 10 years old. Growing up in an English 
speaking environment in Calcutta, the book fairs there were a delight, 
and her mother Gilda ( herself a writer of cookbooks ) bought her books 
constantly. After moving to Paris at the age of 21, she had to earn a 
living there, but the reading never really dried up; nor the writing of 
poetry.


Which brings us to the poet’s precursors, some of whose lines, with a 
little guidance, we can find hidden in a few of her poems: W.B. Yeats, 
Wystawa Szymborska, Gerald Manley Hopkins, Mary Oliver and George 
Herbert ( a priest and poet from the 16th century). The last three are 
her favourites because of the way they marry complexity to a clarity of 
expression, and because they are always unexpected in their use of 
language.


Indeed “Dreaming House” shows Tanya’s mastery in combining original ways 
of seeing with a clear language, alternating between earnestness and 
frivolity:


“Staying Single”
To sleep till noon
and, summoned by the
moon through an open window,
go out to dig and plant
in her company.

Letting the dishes pile up in the sink;
to stand, elbows on a wall,
in the cool wind,
eating a sandwich
of hot boiled egg and salt
at 3 am.

The scope of “Dreaming House’ is wide. Once in Moira Tanya could look 
back in a different way at her varied experiences and from that 
wellspring came the first part of the book called “ The Voyage Out”: 
about maturing, about people real and imagined , about love and loss, 
about a life away from India. In the poem “Staying Home “:


(…)
The blood and the guts of life
are better engaged with
when your feet can feel the earth;
(…)

The second part of the book, entitled “The Country Beyond” speaks of the 
infinite love that has grown in her soul for Moira, its landscapes, its 
people. The two parts are united under the one roof of a “Dreaming 
House” by the sensuousness of their language. This poetic language 
reminds one of the language of dreams, saying exactly what it has to say 
in its own unique form, creating a direct connection with that fabled 
world within us - our psyche, which is Nature itself.


Reading her poems, whether they speak of nature, people or inner events 
moves us to see differently for a moment, and brings about the aliveness 
that comes from feeling connected to something larger, when the ordinary 
becomes extra-ordinary.


From “Staying Home”
Every day, the same landscape shifts.
Every day, the same face a

Re: [Goanet] Introducing a new service on GoanVoice

[Jim Fernandes]

Is there some sort of SWAPS deal going on in here?

On one side of the deal, you have Ms Carvalho sending stuff on behalf of Mr 
Fernandes - example, the note below. 

While on the other side, you have Mr Fernandes, sending out Ms Carvalho's 
writings.

Interesting observation, isn't it? But hey, who the bleep care's . :)

Jim F
New York.
  
-- Original message --
From: Carvalho 
>
> Dear Members,
Eddie Fernandes has introduced a brand new service on GoanVoice UK. Now, you 
can 
put out a personal ad, anything from advertising a business service, to an 
event 
such as a book launch, exhibition, sale of furniture or birthdays, 
anniversaries and public thank you notes, for just 5 UK pounds. Details are 
> here:
> 
> http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/
> 
GoanVoice UK has a world-wide audience which spans from the Goan Diaspora in 
...
...
...

[Goanet] CM’s help to be sought to save Goan c lubs in Mumbai

[Goanet News Service]

CM’s help to be sought to save Goan clubs in Mumbai

HERALD REPORTER
MARGAO, MAY 17

The Federation for Goan Clubs (kuds) in Mumbai will approach Chief 
Minister, Digambar Kamat to assign a Minister for the kuds and work in 
tandem with the Federation and the office of the Archbishop to save the 
age-old clubs from being taken over by land sharks in the metropolis.


Federation vice-President, David Joseph said the time has come for the 
Goa government to stand out and reach out to these clubs in Mumbai, who 
are villagers, but owning assets and properties worth thousands of 
crores of rupees.


Joseph was in Goa in connection with a dispute wherein a club was 
reportedly sold to a real estate developer in Mumbai. “The Federation 
will soon make a representation to the Chief Minister to assign a 
Minister for Clubs. That Minister would be working in tandem with the 
Federation of the Clubs and the Archbishop House. These bodies for no 
selfish motive. We are only interested that the benefits of the clubs 
should come back to the villagers in terms of beautiful accommodation, 
which will take care of rooms for the families and individuals”, he said.


“Our forefathers had a vision. They took these assets so that Goans 
visiting Mumbai need not have to stay in hotels. We all should protect 
these assets, whose value today runs into thousands of crores”, Joseph 
added.


Saying that the Federation is actively working to safeguard the interest 
of Goan clubs in Mumbai, he said only 243 clubs are existing today out 
of 341 clubs in Mumbai, while calling for united efforts to save and 
protect the traditional clubs.


Referring to the disputes involving the clubs with the real estate 
developers, he said the managers of the clubs do not understand the 
complicated mindset of the land sharks, who are waiting to grab these 
valuable assets .


Replying to a question, he said the awareness program initiated by the 
Federation has so far succeeded in making 70 clubs to register themselves.



http://oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/CM-rsquo-s-help-to-be-sought-to-save-Goan-clubs-in-Mumbai/36932.html

[Goanet] Goanet Reader: Bleddy Goans ... and all that (FN,Herald)

[sydromeo]

This is one of the few articles that has really captured my interest. 
I'm not going to pretend I live in Goa or can even understand the 
totality of the issues. However I certainly understand the message being 
conveyed through the article ... reclamation of the environment, looking 
beyond differences (religious and class), need for a unified commitment 
at all levels to our land and its people; and the creation of 
sustainable social, political and environmental practices that will 
benefit Goa today and tomorrow.


Whenever non-Goans gush about Goa, usually about its 'otherness' in 
relation to other Indian states, I'm quick to retort that the land is 
being desecrated for short term gain. In villages across Tivim, family 
homes and land are giving way to developments that are incongruous with 
the natural environment; no 'environmental impact statements' are 
considered prior to any such developments [even at its most basic 
level]; increasing reliance on cars has given way to a looming health 
crisis in our village where women [at least ones I know] are moving 
towards obesity with little understanding of its health impacts; no 
preservation of historic sites in villages.


Modernisation is good but we don't have to lose our sense of self.

Regards
Caroline




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[Goanet] Konkani Rosary site needed protection

[Oscar Lobo]

Dear All

Here is a link to the rosary in Konkani sent to me by Michael from Canada
who has pioneered this project with the help of like minded people. 

What a great initiative to keep our Konkani language alive.

Kindly pass the link to all Goans who believe that Konkani is our mother
tongue.

Regards

Oscar C. Lobo.



-

The access to Konkani Rosary site needed to be protected 

 

Step1  http://www.konkanirosary.org/

 

Enter the following

 

User Name:konkani

Password :goa$$2010

 


Case sensitive


 

[Goanet] Summer Splash Art Exhibition

[Goanet A-C-E!]

Summer Splash Art Exhibition

MARGAO: A Summer Splash Art exhibition is being held at late Berta’s old 
colonial Portuguese house near Holy Spirit Church in Margao. This art 
festivity will be open for the general public from 17 to 20 May between 
9 am to 7 pm.  This is a must see art exhibition for all art lovers. The 
overall theme is goan traditional art.


Senior goan artists of repute who have organized and participated in 
this mega event are David Flaviano, Bemvinda, Dr. Madora Dias and Helen 
Sardinhia but to name a few.


The organizers of this art exhibition are renowned goan artists well 
known in the art world. This is the first time they have organized this 
kind of an exhibition and have planned to hold similar art exhibition 
once every year at different locations all over Goa.


SOURCE: Amar Kantak


Goanet A-C-E!
Arts ~ Culture ~ Entertainment

Re: [Goanet] Were colonial Goans, sour grapes ?

[Frederick Noronha]

Why implausible? Even when it emerged from colonialism, Goa was in the 
top five or six States/Union Territories in terms of literacy.


There may have not been much access to higher education in Goa in those 
times, but literacy was (and still is) regarded as the ability to sign 
one's name.


So why does this figure sound implausibe? Curious... FN

Antonio Menezes wrote:

FN on May 14 quotes Fatima de Silva e Gracias from her book -- Health and
Hygiene in Colonial Goa
1510 - 1961 -  '' The literacy rate increased from 10.91 % in 1881 to 31.23%
in 1960 for the whole of
Goa. Since Old Conquests ( Ilhas, Bardez and Salcete) had the highest number
of literate and
educated persons. it would appear that actually in 1960 the literacy rate
among Catholics was much,
much higher than 31.23% ,   which would appear to be highly implausible.

[Goanet] Churchill launches development works

[Goa World]

Churchill launches development works

Published on: May 17, 2010

More in:
News

Story Summary:

The PWD Minister, Mr Churchill Alemao poses for a photograph after being 
greeted by the Chief Minister, Mr Digambar Kamat on the occasion of his 
birthday at Varca on Sunday. Also seen are Ms Asha Kamat, Ms Fatima 
Alemao and Ms Valenka Alemao.


MARGAO: Several development works were launched by the PWD Minister, Mr 
Churchill Alemao in the Navelim constituency, on the occasion of his 
birthday, on Sunday.


A large number of supporters and well wishers visited Mr Alemao at his 
residence since Sunday morning and wished him.
Mr Alemao’s supporters from various parts of the constituency such as 
Navelim proper, Carmona, Davorlim, Aquem-Baixo, Cavelossim, Rawanfond, 
Orlim, Dicarpale, Varca etc arranged various programmes to mark the 
birthday of their MLA.


At 2 p.m., the PWD  Minister laid  the foundation stone for a community 
hall at Cavelossim, tailoring classes were inaugurated at Cotto Moll, 
Aquem-Baixo  at 5 p.m while a water  reservoir was inaugurated in 
Carmona at 3 p.m.


During the day several transformers were put into operation to supply 
flawless electricity to the coastal areas.


The PWD Minister also laid foundation stone for the extension of 
panchayat ghar at Davorlim and development of Coldem football ground. 
Besides this, foundation stones were laid for the development of nullah 
and development of children’s park at Dicarpale.


He  also laid foundation stone for development of football ground at 
Davorlim.


Mr Alemao visited old-age homes, distributed cheques to vegetable 
vendors, inaugurated decor lights at Mobor, Rawanfond and Varca.


The minister was available at his Varca residence from 9.a.m. to 
1.p.m.for those who came to wish him at his residence. A labour welfare 
centre has been inaugurated at Navelim.


In the morning, Mr Alemao was greeted by the Chief Minister, Mr 
Digambar Kamat, Cabinet Ministers, MLAs, Secretaries to Government, 
heads of departments, ZP members and people from all walks of life.


Most of the supporters of Mr Alemao were of the view that lot of 
development works in the constituency have been carried out by Mr Alemao 
within a very short spell of time.


Speaking to ‘The Navhind Times,’ the PWD Minister said that people are 
his strength adding that it is with their help that he has been able to 
do so much in the Navelim constituency within the shortest possible 
time, adding further that Navelim constituency will see much progress as 
never before.


www.navhindtimes.in

[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (18May10)

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[Goanet] Come closer to the fascinating world of Roald Dahl

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[Goanet] Awareness Meeting for FLAT OWNERS at Mapusa on Sunday 23rd May

[Goa Desc]

 ---
Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your
family members, relatives, neighbours and friends.
Help other CONSUMERS to be better informed.

---
GOACAN to hold meeting for Flat Owners at Mapusa
--
GOACAN has decided to hold the third meeting of
Flat Owners at Mapusa as part of its ongoing
Awareness Campaign on their Consumer Rights.
The Awareness Meeting for Flat Owners will be
organised by GOACAN on Sunday 23rd May
at Raikar Hall near Laxmi Narayan Temple,
Behind Suraj Bookstall Mapusa from 10am to 1pm.

It may be noted that over the past two years
GOACAN has been receiving many complaints
directly and through the village based Consumer
Forums from Flat Owners with regards to their sale
agreements, non-maintenance of the buildings & non
formation of Housing Societies although payment
has been made to the builder, poor service of
electricity & water supply, no proper parking facilities,
conversion & sale of open spaces, lack of garbage
management & sanitation and taxation issues with
Municipal Councils & Village Panchayats.

With the lack of proper legislation, poor monitoring
by various Government Agencies, and most importantly
lack of awareness of their consumer rights, Flat Owners
across the State of Goa have been facing umpteen
number of problems that have resulted in unnecessary
litigation, large scale expenses, agony and mental tension
for families interested in having a decent home and a
peaceful life. Many senior citizens have also lost their
life savings due to problems related to purchase of flats.

The recent initiatives by the Jairam Complex Residents
Association in Panjim and the Chowgule Gardens
Welfare Association in Zuarinagar to organise them
-selves to respond to issues faced by them is a positive
sign for Flat owners in Goa.

GOACAN is convinced that unless Flat owners
understand their Rights & Responsibilities, stop
agonising & start organising, identify the various
agencies that are part of the problem and involve them
in the solution, unite at Building & Town level, the
problem will continue to persist and reach gigantic
proportions.

In this context GOACAN has held meetings at Vasco
and Margao and proposes to hold similar awareness
meetings in the towns of Ponda and Panjim so as to
provide an opportunity and a platform for Flat owners
to narrate their problems, express their opinions on the
possible solutions and chart out a course of action
for the near future.

GOACAN proposes to facilitate the process for the
setting up of a Bardez Taluka Flat Owners Association
to protect the interests of the Flat Owners in the
Taluka.  In this direction it will develop a charter of
demands which would include lobbying for legislation
with the members of the Goa Legislative Assembly
from the constituencies in Bardez as well as guidelines
for action by the Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC)
as a local self governing body before the forthcoming
Municipal Council elections.

GOACAN calls upon individual Flat owners and
prospective Flat Owners, Co-operative Housing
Societies, Housing Maintenance Societies, Housing
Associations from Mapusa and surrounding areas
in Bardez who would like to attend and actively
participate in the Awareness Meeting to write in to
GOACAN Post Box 187, Margao Goa 403 601
or email goa...@gmail.com during the week.
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GOA CIVIC AND CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK
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promoting civic and consumer rights in Goa
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[Goanet] Goa news for May 18, 2010

[Goanet News Service]

Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org
Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories.

*** NIA books eight Sanatan Sanstha men for Goa blast - Economic
Times
last--NIA-names-11-Sanatan-Sanstha-men/620108&usg=AFQjCNE6GOte2mipB4uJgMnKNGczikoLvA">Goa
blast: NIA names 11 Sanatan Sanstha men
http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/NIA-books-eight-Sanatan-Sanstha-men-for-Goa-blast/articleshow/5942645.cms&usg=AFQjCNHqQwoWTTo2Hj9-8twatiAGB7szUw

*** Police-drug peddler nexus: Crime branch won't probe threat
issue to Lucky - Daily News & Analysis
rug peddler nexus case. ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_police-drug-peddler-nexus-crime-branch-won-t-probe-threat-issue-to-lucky_1384114&usg=AFQjCNGaoYjbrTkEgLfmmHRp3ZB-yOr9rw

*** Katy Perry to get married in Goa? - Hindustan Times
erry-russell-brand-wedding-170510.html&usg=AFQjCNFh_uRppz4qs6QDGffx-UCdoFwvuw">Where
Is Katy And Russell Heading For Wedding?
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*** DTE Goa CET 2010 Results GCET Results 2010 - Rudefox
ews/goa-common-entrance-test-gcet-results-2010-available-online-1186/&usg=AFQjCNGydE8wPoUJUj7paW8O02brd3ntKQ">Goa
Common Entrance Test (GCET) Results 2010 Available Online
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*** Govt suspends 'green nod' to firm for Goa mining - Press
Trust of India
ess Trust of IndiaNew Delhi, May 17 (PTI) Government today
suspended the environmental clearance given to the mine of Anil
Agarwal Foundation in North Goa, making it the ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://www.ptinews.com/news/657040_Govt-suspends--green-nod--to-firm-for-Goa-mining&usg=AFQjCNEWd_na4yq4lE9GFVE-ixmPExwPQw

*** Goa HSSC Class 12 Results 2010 on May 18 - IndiaEduNews.net
Class 12 examination results 2010 on Tuesday, ...
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*** Goa to refurbish brand image - Economic Times
LloJmWKfVtgEgFQ">Goa's Tourist Security Force receives a fleet
of vehicles from World Travel ...
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*** Sell Sesa Goa; target of Rs 355: IIFL - Moneycontrol.com
ata-steel-targetrs-525-iifl_458357.html&usg=AFQjCNHeKgHXIeJmqf1hKRLQ0-ohnqlOyQ">Sell
Tata Steel; target of Rs 525: IIFL
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*** Goa ups fee for technical education by 10-20% - Times of
India
eats-may-be-increased/articleshow/5942686.cms&usg=AFQjCNHMSGiKLidPlORWd1wi4l4-XNimQA">'Engineering
seats may be increased'
http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goa-ups-fee-for-technical-education-by-10-20/articleshow/5942669.cms&usg=AFQjCNEMkNAgGLRAgWL8rg3tWFvjKhcogg

*** Lifeguard cover for 99% beaches - Times of India
mes of IndiaPANAJI: Almost 99% of Goa's beaches will receive
lifeguard cover by May 30 with 118 lifeguards to be commissioned
within the next couple of weeks as part of ...http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=R&sa=T&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Goa/Lifeguard-cover-for-99-beaches/articleshow/5942682.cms&usg=AFQjCNGv5_HmjaPsJ2YWOpNT6SMwE0OdAA


Compiled by Goanet News Service
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[Goanet] Of Portuguese crosses, Indian swords and Goa

[Bernado Colaco]

Instead of building a musuem for Inquistion there should be a list of Goans who 
have made remittances to the Indian coffers for the past 48 years.
 
 
BC

[Goanet] Konkani - devanagri or Romi?

[Jerry Fernandes]

Dear Netters,



This Konkani Romi / devanagri discussion has been going on for quite a long
time with no way the devanagris agreeing to accept that the Romi is the real
Konkani of Goa.



Dr Borges the staunch supporter and the main correspondent on goanet for
devanagris has been writing endlessly, his strong love for the devanagri
Konkani, but what amazes me is that his correspondence is mostly in romi (
not the writing) but the pronounciations, and I wonder why he does not write
his mails in devanagri,(he may use the romi script as goanet does not
support the devanagri font) , and I am curious to read and see if I can
understand the devanagri Konkani.



Most of what is being said on doordarshan TV, in the short time allotted to
Goa, just flies over my head and makes me wonder if that is the Konkani or
Marathi or whatever language it is.





Cheers



Jerry Fernandes

Re: [Goanet] Catholic Land Scam: Parishoners want Bishops defrocked!

[floriano]

Today, 17 May, 2010, seems to be a day of many surprises.
For one, our CM boldly says he does not need votes from Goans. Perhaps he 
can win the seat on the strength of the migrant cultivated vote-bank.
And ladies get dragged with impunity and almost beaten in the august 
precincts of the Goa Vidhan Sabha.


But this is not the surprise that I am talking  about. At Verna's Blue Berry 
meeting venue, I met a guy known to me, after a very long time. And as we 
got talking about things, we lapsed into the the idle talk of sex scams, 
land scams, secularism and communalism etc. And he asked me if I have been 
to Diwar. "Ofcourse", I said. "Diwar, Malar, St. Matias is all I know plus I 
know about the Bonderam festivals". "Why are you asking?"  I asked.


"Do you know that there is an island called 'Vaxim' admeasuring 
approximately 4 lac square meters at Diwar?" he asked. "No" I said. "Never 
heard of it"
"Well", he said. "It belonged to Santa Monica estates controlled by the 
Church of Goa". "And just like the Church has sold out other properties kept 
in its custoldy, i.e Canon Souto Maior property in Caranzalem, or,  Santa 
Monica property at Corlim, Goa leased out to the corrupter and master 
polluter Sinzenta, Vaxim island has been sold by the Church for peanust [37 
lacs] some 4-5 years ago to Vijay Mallya" he said. "And the go between agent 
to sell this off to Mallya was Architect Mahendra Gaonekar" he said. When I 
looked surprised, he added,  "that is not all". "the guy who signed the sale 
deed is your fellow Moidekar"


"Oh My!"  I said. Only if I knew, I could have been the owner of an entire 
island, far away from the hustle and bustle of every day dirty  and dry 
life"  And perhaps I could have set up the headquarters of PPS there on this 
island. What a pity"  I said.


Cheers
floriano
from PPS to PPS
9890470896
floriano.l...@gmail.com
www.goasu-raj.org






- Original Message - 
From: "Gabe Menezes" 

To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" 
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:51 PM
Subject: [Goanet] Catholic Land Scam: Parishoners want Bishops defrocked!



Sex scandals abroad, land scams in India; Bishop Agnelo was aware two or
three weeks ago, the deal was signed. Bishop Penha in talks to regularise
sale of Church Gardens in Mahim. Parisoners want Bishops transferred,
defrocked. People leaving Church - no confidence in the Church 
Authorities -

who like Goldman Sachs are doing God's work?

''For the moment, Marinagar residents appear relieved that that the bishop
is no longer passing the buck of the land deal on to Father Hugh.''

See the video through the link below:-

http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/may/160510-bishop-agnelo-gracias-marinagar-land-deal-father-hugh-st-michaels-church-mumbai-news.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mdnews%2Fmumbai+%28Mid+Day+Local+News+-+Mumbai%29

--
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes. 

Re: [Goanet] Birthday Wishes For Churchill Alemao

[Tony de Sa]

Saving Goa was the raison d'etre of the Save Goa Front.
Looks like somewhere down the line saving Goa got lost from the list of
priorities and looking after number one became the most important
preoccupation.
Now it appears that the whole family seems to be wanting a finger in the pie
of the state.
So why not let the children, the nephews and the rest of the family join the
band wagon? There is lot's of room at the top for sundry family members and
friends.
The poor Goan sots are ready to be taken for a ride once again!
Way to go Mr. Minister!

-- 
  \\\
Tony de Sa
tonyd...@gmail.com
M   : +91 9975 162 897
Ph. : +91 832 2470 148

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Re: [Goanet] How to catch JoeGoaUk? *booth, booth*

[Pandu Lampiao]

Yes indeed Joe, the argument of having proof of payment was silly if
not theatrical. It went on endlessly as though the future of the
tiatre depended on it. Really silly and a waste of time hearing this
at the Academy.
The tiatrist should remember  that it does not hurt their business in
any way and copy write.what do they know about copy wright?

Now to the jucy part..I think Joe de Utorda is a booth,
g*ost...who comes in and disappears, haunting all events tiatre. Don't
you agree? I have seen him, pictured him (the picture is missing from
my album).
Aye, I hear someone outside...*saarki bo-oi dista*


==
How to catch JoeGoaUk?

It?s very easy.
Here is how..

On Tiatr Day i.e. 17th April 2010, at Tiatr Academy Conference Hall,
 two amateur Tiatrists (?) proclaimed  that ?JoeGoaUk demanded
compensation from Times of India
for stealing his Tiatr stage photo and using it in the daily.
And that TOI   paid  him Rs.8,000 as compensation.
of which they even claimed to have seen a proof  of receipt from TOI office?

Re: [Goanet] Selma Carvalho: Who the Bleep cares about Goans abandoned in the UK?

[Tony de Sa]

>I can't help wondering how many other elderly or hapless Goans there are,
>lying in some God-forsaken nursing home or hospital or worse, jail.

Reminds me of something that happened in Goa. I can't pinpoint exact details
as age has dimmed memory.

Years ago, a Chinese sailor had hacked his captain to death while the ship
was off Goan waters. So when the ship berthed at Mormugao, the sailor was
promptly arrested and incarcerated in the local jail. He languished in jail
for a number of years because there was no one who could understand his
language to communicate with him. So he was kept in a kind of legal limbo.

This went on for quite a number of years till the print media got wind of it
and blew it up. The man was released after a number of years in jail.

The strange thing was that a few days after his release, he disappeared and
has never been heard of again.

-- 
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Tony de Sa
tonyd...@gmail.com
M   : +91 9975 162 897
Ph. : +91 832 2470 148

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Re: [Goanet] Tolpona Kanaginim scam

[tony martin]

Dear Mr Kakodkar
We appreciate your concern. I meeting of like minded people is scheduled to
be held within seven days. I will keep you posted.
Regards

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:36 PM, rajendra kakodkar
wrote:

>   Dear Tony
> I fuuly agree with u. Can someone arrange a visit of all of us to these
> areas to express our solidarity with locals? Thanks.
> Rajendra Kakodkar
>
>

Re: [Goanet] Of Portuguese Crosses, Indian Swords & Goans.: HERALD(Goa), May 16, 2010

[Valmiki Faleiro]

Dear Mr. Barve,

You are obviously discussing the issue from ill-informed premises.
None (repeat, NONE) of the Goan names mentioned in any of my
four articles on the subject are of any Goan-origin defence officers
in India's defence services who served the Portuguese administration
prior to 1961 -- and then were absorbed in Indian services, as you
seem to suggest. NONE of the names in the next two articles to follow
will similarly be of Goans who served the Portuguese (though it wasn't
a crime to serve in the colonial administration!) ALL names are of
those brave officer rank men who served India, or call her Bharat or
call her Hindustan. Whatever your personal choice.

Instead of merely trying to search for cracks in what I wrote (and I can
assure you I have taken maximum possible care to avoid errors), why
don't you contribute positively -- you may know of some Goan names
that I have missed so far. Tell me about them.

But do remember that in the defence services, every officer regards
himself/herself as Indian first, then Goan/Bengali/Punjabi/etc., then maybe
Hindu/Muslim/Christian/Sikh/Parsi/etc. -- and last perhaps as a veg. or
non-veg by diet and other predilections. Open your mindset with a
wide-angle lens and please talk further.

Thanks and regards, v


- Original Message - 
From: "SHRIKANT BARVE" 

To: ; "goanet" 
Cc: "Valmiki Faleiro" 
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Of Portuguese Crosses,Indian Swords & Goans.: 
HERALD(Goa), May 16, 2010


I may be totally wrong ...however there is every possibility when exceptional 
figure are presented.
I feel that All the Goan officers serving for Portuguese may have joined the Indian Defense service after liberation (just like 
civil servant).


Shrikant Vinayak Barve



--- On Sun, 16/5/10, Valmiki Faleiro  wrote:


From: Valmiki Faleiro 
Subject: Re: Of Portuguese Crosses, Indian Swords & Goans.: HERALD(Goa), May 
16, 2010
To: "SHRIKANT BARVE" 
Date: Sunday, 16 May, 2010, 8:35 PM
Dear Mr. Barve,

Will you kindly tell me who has given this "interesting
news"
-- and "again and again" -- before? I must be foolish to
think I was
attempting something like this for the first time...

Will you kindly also disclose the rank/name of all other
Goans
(who you obviously imply I left out -- deliberately or
otherwise) who
served India as commissioned/ranked defence officers??

Will you also come to terms with the fact that I was on
Indian
defence officers of Goan origin, who are NOT recruited by
way of
"recruitment drive in Goa" -- but by an all-India
competitive entrance
exam for the NDA/IMA/etc?

And finally, will you stop thinking that I am some walking
encyclopaedia on defence officers of Goan origin? If you
need to
know the date of commissioning of any officer, you can
jolly well
search the official defence website www.bharatrakshak.com

Or, if the shoe pinches, face facts, and keep your trap
shut.

Rgds, v


- Original Message - From: "SHRIKANT BARVE" 
To: ;
"goanet" 
Cc: 
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 3:07 PM
Subject: Of Portuguese Crosses, Indian Swords & Goans.:
HERALD(Goa), May 16, 2010


"My far-from-complete lists of Goan commissioned officers
in India's armed forces feature 286 names - Army 144, Navy
36 and IAF 106. Of the 286 Goans who helped defend the
nation's borders and honour, 263 (or 92%) are the MGP's
"unpatriotic, anti-national" Goan Catholics, who comprise
30% of the population. 65% of Goa's Hindu population, in
all, accounts for 23 defence officers."

This is an interesting news to be told again and again.

In last few Defence recruitment drive in Goa passing
percentage is single digit.

I am also interested 'and if author could provide us'
the date of joining of these 286 Goan commissioned officers
in India's armed forces feature.

Shrikant Vinayak Barve

[Goanet] Subject: Re: Of Portuguese Crosses, Indian Swords & Goans

[Jerry Fernandes]

Dear Barve,



Amazing that it may sound, but well as you have said, maybe the Catholics on
Valmaki’s list may have served the Portuguese. Does it mean, only they were
educated Catholics of than? What happened after Goa became part of India,
did the Catholics suddenly loose their interest in joining the forces? I
wonder why.



As Goans we should be proud of the achievements of our fellow Goans, who
ever they may be. Its great that Valmaki brought the list forward, and you
could have supported him by joining more names from Hindu community to make
it more complete instead of being critical.



Cheers



Jerry Fernandes


From: SHRIKANT BARVE
http://f4mail.rediff.com/prism/writemail?&mode=mail_to_individual&email=shri8...@yahoo.com&els=bb77d5ec6674a8c330e6c77042606472>
>
To: 
goa...@goanet.org,
goanet 
http://f4mail.rediff.com/prism/writemail?&mode=mail_to_individual&email=goa...@lists.goanet.org&els=bb77d5ec6674a8c330e6c77042606472>
>
Cc: Valmiki Faleiro
http://f4mail.rediff.com/prism/writemail?&mode=mail_to_individual&email=valmi...@gmail.com&els=bb77d5ec6674a8c330e6c77042606472>
>
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Of Portuguese Crosses,   Indian Swords & Goans.:
   HERALD(Goa), May 16, 2010
Message-ID: <592182.83413...@web65709.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

I may be totally wrong ...however there is every possibility when
exceptional figure are presented.
I feel that All the Goan officers serving for Portuguese may have joined the
Indian Defense service after liberation (just like civil servant).

Shrikant Vinayak Barve



--- On Sun, 16/5/10, Valmiki Faleiro
http://f4mail.rediff.com/prism/writemail?&mode=mail_to_individual&email=valmi...@gmail.com&els=bb77d5ec6674a8c330e6c77042606472>>
wrote:

> From: Valmiki Faleiro 
> http://f4mail.rediff.com/prism/writemail?&mode=mail_to_individual&email=valmi...@gmail.com&els=bb77d5ec6674a8c330e6c77042606472>
>
> Subject: Re: Of Portuguese Crosses, Indian Swords & Goans.: HERALD(Goa),
May 16, 2010
> To: "SHRIKANT BARVE" 
> http://f4mail.rediff.com/prism/writemail?&mode=mail_to_individual&email=shri8...@yahoo.com&els=bb77d5ec6674a8c330e6c77042606472>
>
> Date: Sunday, 16 May, 2010, 8:35 PM
> Dear Mr. Barve,
>
> Will you kindly tell me who has given this "interesting
> news"
> -- and "again and again" -- before? I must be foolish to
> think I was
> attempting something like this for the first time...
>
> Will you kindly also disclose the rank/name of all other
> Goans
> (who you obviously imply I left out -- deliberately or
> otherwise) who
> served India as commissioned/ranked defence officers??
>
> Will you also come to terms with the fact that I was on
> Indian
> defence officers of Goan origin, who are NOT recruited by
> way of
> "recruitment drive in Goa" -- but by an all-India
> competitive entrance
> exam for the NDA/IMA/etc?
>
> And finally, will you stop thinking that I am some walking
> encyclopaedia on defence officers of Goan origin? If you
> need to
> know the date of commissioning of any officer, you can
> jolly well
> search the official defence website 
> www.bharatrakshak.com
>
> Or, if the shoe pinches, face facts, and keep your trap
> shut.
>
> Rgds, v
>
>
> - Original Message - From: "SHRIKANT BARVE" 
> http://f4mail.rediff.com/prism/writemail?&mode=mail_to_individual&email=shri8...@yahoo.com&els=bb77d5ec6674a8c330e6c77042606472>
>
> To: 
> http://f4mail.rediff.com/prism/writemail?&mode=mail_to_individual&email=goa...@goanet.org&els=bb77d5ec6674a8c330e6c77042606472>
>;
> "goanet" 
> http://f4mail.rediff.com/prism/writemail?&mode=mail_to_individual&email=goa...@lists.goanet.org&els=bb77d5ec6674a8c330e6c77042606472>
>
> Cc: 
> http://f4mail.rediff.com/prism/writemail?&mode=mail_to_individual&email=valmi...@gmail.com&els=bb77d5ec6674a8c330e6c77042606472>
>
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2010 3:07 PM
> Subject: Of Portuguese Crosses, Indian Swords & Goans.:
> HERALD(Goa), May 16, 2010
>
>
> "My far-from-complete lists of Goan commissioned officers
> in India's armed forces feature 286 names - Army 144, Navy
> 36 and IAF 106. Of the 286 Goans who helped defend the
> nation's borders and honour, 263 (or 92%) are the MGP's
> "unpatriotic, anti-national" Goan Catholics, who comprise
> 30% of the population. 65% of Goa's Hindu population, in
> all, accounts for 23 defence officers."
>
> This is an interesting news to be told again and again.
>
> In last few Defence recruitment drive in Goa passing
> percentage is single digit.
>
> I am also interested 'and if author could provide us'?
> the date of joining of these 286 Goan commissioned officers
> in India's armed forces feature.
>
> Shrikant Vinayak Barve

[Goanet] Blueberry hill to Porvorim hill

[soter]

>From Blueberry Hill to Porvorim Hill only to face the fury of the Porvorim 
>police and probably sign a bond of good behaviour. We were given to understand 
>that enough is enough. No more talking with Digambar Kamat, only action that 
>gets wide publicity on TV channels which would make everyone across India sit 
>up and take cognisance of the plight of Goans. Then why the hell was everyone 
>back to Digambar on a monday morning?  Could someone tell us who is this 
>Crydon Madeira that fervently appeals to our emotions? 

It is not that we are slaves of politicians but that our minds are enslaved to 
politicians. Parrikar could be seen smiling on his way to meet the visiting 
delegation from Blue berry hill that was ill treated by the Porvorim police.

-Soter

[Goanet] A report on Verna's Blue Berry Meet and the scuffle at the Secretariat, Porvorim

[floriano]

A report

There were approx a hundred people gathered at Blue Berry, Verna, mostly 
village groups who are fighting filling of agricultural fields, sewage 
spilling into fields, mega projects, mining and its woes etc. etc. Prominent 
among those present were Dr. Wilfred Mesquita, Fr. Eremito Rebello, Fr. 
Bismarque Dias, Edwin & Diana Pinto, Judith Almeida, Laurie Abranches, John 
Philip Pereira and his wife Olinda, young  Neri Fernandes, not forgetting 
Prince Jacob and many more.


After a while of various addresses and even a song dedicated to Goa sung, 
the crowd tracked it out to the Secretariat at Porvorim to hand a memorandum 
of demands (as posted earlier) to the Chief Minister, especially as today 
was the day of CM listening to the grievances of the people at his office at 
the secretariat.


Permission was refused for the people to see and submit the memorandum to 
the CM and the police bandobost was quickly arranged. After much arguments 
with the police (Inspector Devendra Gad) a five member delegation of women 
were allowed to see the CM. The purpose of this delegation was to request 
the CM to come out and meet/address the people at the front gate of the 
Minister's complex. It is believed that the CM was rude to the women 
delegation even to the extent of telling them that he does not need their 
votes when told that he has been elected by the people -  when he refused 
point blank to meet and hear the grievances of the people. "I will not see 
the rowdy people - You can do what you want" is believed to be his answer to 
the delegation.


There were bad scene of scuffles between the police and the people when 
police forced the people to disperse. Diana Pinto suffered a minor head 
injury when she was pushed by the inspector of police Mr. Gad  to load her 
into the police bus to be transported to the Porvorim Police station. Also 
inspector Gad had a scuffle with Olinda Pereira  trying to pull her into the 
police bus with Olinda's blouse having been torn and in the bargain Olinda 
de-commissioning the inspector of both his shoulder stripes and chain in one 
jerk.


At the police station, the leader of the opposition ( who was summoned by 
the agitators) along with a delegation of the agitators saw the SP (North) 
Mr. Arwind Gawas. Later the agitators were allowed to go after signing 
personal bonds,  much after 3 p.m.


The entire episode at the secretariat and the police station was very well 
covered by the electronic media and the detailed footage is presently 
running on all the local channels at this very moment, especially the  INGOA 
channel.


The PPS was much promoted from Verna to Porvorim and the agitators have 
realized that PPS is perhaps the right forum to get under to cleanse the 
dirty politics of money and disregard to the environment, ecology and sanity 
of Goa by the perverted politicians of the day.


Yours sincerely, in his address to the crowd at Verna related the unity 
story of the Battle at Kruger which Dr. Ferdinand dos Reis Falcao was kind 
enough to make available. The story as well as its context was well 
appreciated by one and all present.



Cheers
floriano
from PPS to PPS
9890470896
floriano.l...@gmail.com
www.goasu-raj.org

PS: All the agitators have gone home with at least one (paid)  PPS sticker 
if not more.







It is not ENOUGH that GOOD, HONEST citizens  contest elections.
It is not ENOUGH that GOOD, HONEST  citizen voters elect good, honest 
representatives.

GOA urgently needs  'GOOD, HONEST, DISCIPLINED SYSTEM of GOVERNANCE'.
Wherein, even a dishonest person is forced to be good, honest n disciplined, 
or to QUIT.


Only through PPS can such 'good, honest n disciplined system of governance' 
be identified and accepted.


PPS GOA =PEOPLE for POLITICAL SANITY = PEOPLE'S POWER SYSTEM
for a date in 2012

Display the 'PPS' sticker on your vehicle today, to reject political madness 
tomorrow. 

[Goanet] Talking Photos: 3 Fish curry rice plates: You fancy which one?

[JoeGoaUk]

3 Fish curry rice plates:  You fancy which one?
 
1.
Utorda with Rechard Bangdda and Bangdda curry ( New)  Rs.40
In thali (also served  in plates)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk_fishcurryrice/4599062942/
 
2
Panjim with Mudoxi fry Rs.45
Served in thali
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk_fishcurryrice/4614410227/
 
3.
Cansaulim with Bangdda portions (fry and in curry)
Served in plates
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk_fishcurryrice/4606878205/

2. abv
Panjim/Junta House/sub-registrar office
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk_fishcurryrice/4616107260/
 
1. abv
Utorda, main Road
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk_fishcurryrice/4598446711/

Bonus dish
Mixed Fried Rice at Temptation, Miramar Rs.110
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk_fishcurryrice/4607489912/


mackerel lady-fish 


joego...@yahoo.co.uk 

for Goa & NRI related info... 
http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ 

For Goan Video Clips 
http://youtube.com/joeukgoa 

In Goa, Dial  1 0 8 
For Hospital, Police, Fire etc

[Goanet] Searching for: Marian Josephine Gracias

[Frederick Noronha]

Would anyone know the contacts of Marian Josephine Gracias who did a PhD 
thesis on History and the (un)masking of identifications in literary 
representations of Anglo-Indians and Goan Catholics at UBC University of 
British Columbia in 2000? Thanks in advance, FN


Frederick Noronha
+ 91-9822122436
+91-832-2409490

An old cat will never learn to dance. -- Moroccan proverb

[Goanet] Garcia de Orta (Panjim municipal garden) – Status 17/5/10

[JoeGoaUk]

Garcia de Orta (Panjim municipal garden) – Status 17/5/10
 
Garcia da Orta
Status as on 17th May 2010
 
CCP commissioner (Elvis Gomes) on 31st March 2010 said 
it will be ready by end of April 2010
Today, its 17th May
(Earlier, the garden missed several other dates)
 
the pics
The Main entrance/Gate
  ttp://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk25/4614401655/sizes/l/
 
Left side
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk25/4614402903/sizes/l/
 
Right Side
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk25/4615022144/sizes/l/




joego...@yahoo.co.uk 

for Goa & NRI related info... 
http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ 

For Goan Video Clips 
http://youtube.com/joeukgoa 

In Goa, Dial  1 0 8 
For Hospital, Police, Fire etc

Re: [Goanet] Kieth Vaz

[floriano]

Selma, thanks.

floriano


- Original Message - 
From: "Carvalho" 

To: 
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 6:31 PM
Subject: [Goanet] Kieth Vaz


Floriano Lobo wrote:
So far I have not seen any write-up or protests against such behaviour of
Keith Vaz from our Goan Diaspora community.
-

Keith Vaz works for his constituency and not the Goans of the UK. He is as 
irrelevant to Goans as the Queen.


The last thing you want to do Floriano is get involved in the politics of UK 
Goans. If you think you have it hard in Goa, then the politics of UK Goans 
will make your head spin. I have kept away from it all for the past 2 years, 
concentrating on my writing instead. I keep my personal opinions to myself, 
don't ally with any particular group and as a Goan writer I always try to 
portray the community in a positive light. I wouldn't be able to survive in 
the UK otherwise.


Best,
Selma

[Goanet] Were colonial Goans, sour grapes ?

[Antonio Menezes]

FN on May 14 quotes Fatima de Silva e Gracias from her book -- Health and
Hygiene in Colonial Goa
1510 - 1961 -  '' The literacy rate increased from 10.91 % in 1881 to 31.23%
in 1960 for the whole of
Goa. Since Old Conquests ( Ilhas, Bardez and Salcete) had the highest number
of literate and
educated persons. it would appear that actually in 1960 the literacy rate
among Catholics was much,
much higher than 31.23% ,   which would appear to be highly implausible.

[Goanet] Aitaracheo Katkutleo: Poilem Tantem vo Kombi?

[jose fernandes]

Lino-bab,

 Porbim! Boroup khub avoddlem... monantlean hans-hans-hanslom.

Salu

[Goanet] Catholic Land Scam: Parishoners want Bishops defrocked!

[Gabe Menezes]

Sex scandals abroad, land scams in India; Bishop Agnelo was aware two or
three weeks ago, the deal was signed. Bishop Penha in talks to regularise
sale of Church Gardens in Mahim. Parisoners want Bishops transferred,
defrocked. People leaving Church - no confidence in the Church Authorities -
who like Goldman Sachs are doing God's work?

''For the moment, Marinagar residents appear relieved that that the bishop
is no longer passing the buck of the land deal on to Father Hugh.''

See the video through the link below:-

http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/may/160510-bishop-agnelo-gracias-marinagar-land-deal-father-hugh-st-michaels-church-mumbai-news.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mdnews%2Fmumbai+%28Mid+Day+Local+News+-+Mumbai%29

-- 
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] OMVN - Purmentachem Fest (Panjim)

[JoeGoaUk]

OMVN - Purmentachem Fest (Panjim)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DovOyhUB15w

 
OMVN = One Minute Video News



joego...@yahoo.co.uk 

for Goa & NRI related info... 
http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ 

For Goan Video Clips 
http://youtube.com/joeukgoa 

In Goa, Dial  1 0 8 
For Hospital, Police, Fire etc

[Goanet] Tottewada’s mangrove trees in eco-sen sitive zones gone? Goa CM’s eco-sensitive promise co mes a cropper

[Goa World]

Tottewada’s mangrove trees gone?
CM’s eco-sensitive promise comes a cropper
By Franky Gracias
PANJIM, MAY 14

Chief Minister Digambar Kamat’s verbal assurances to the Goa Bachao 
Abhiyan of not allowing cutting of mangroves in eco-sensitive zones has 
come a cropper as a 500-metre stretch touching the banks of river 
Mandovi at Tottewada, Naroa in Bicholim have been felled for a 
commercial project while the authorities concerned have turned a 
Nelson’s eye to the wanton destruction.


Journalists who visited the spot on Friday walked the stretch and got to 
see for themselves the felling of a huge number of mangrove trees in the 
eco-fragile area and also witnessed alleged illegal hill-cutting for a 
road that will facilitate the commercial project.


Inquiries with some of the villagers revealed one Captain Mehta of 
Panjim-based Sea Scan Marine Services had cleared the pristine mangroves 
on May 2, 2010, in order to construct a dry dock and a farm house. The 
villagers revealed Mehta had visited the villagers’ houses promising 
employment to locals once the dry dock was built.


Villager Sandip Naik who claimed he lost around 1,800 square metres of 
his property to the hill-cutting said the activity for building the 
approach road more than a kilometre long has been going on in a portion 
which is a reserved forest since last year.


“When I approached Captain Mehta and brought to his notice the 
encroachment and destruction of jackfruit and cashew trees in my 
property I was told that the activity was legal and he could do what he 
wants,” Naik maintained.


Captain Mehta has also anchored seven tourist boats on the banks of the 
river where a miniature ramshackle jetty has been made of bamboo stands.


When press persons accompanied by social activists approached the Naroa 
Village Panchayat, the Sarpanch, Laxman Malvankar, said no permissions 
were issued for any of the activity carried out by Mehta but also 
admitted there was no written complaint made by him for legal action.


Malvankar expressed helplessness to many of the ills going on in the 
village. “I went to the Bicholim block development officer after 
learning of the mangrove cutting but got no cooperation from him,” he 
observed. The panchayat secretary is on leave from March 3, 2010 and 
till date I haven’t got a replacement, he mentioned.


But when asked whether he had conducted an inspection of the spot and 
compiled a report after the mangrove cutting came to his knowledge the 
sarpanch again admitted he had not carried out any such activity which 
has brought up a question mark on the functional capability of the 
village panchayat.


It is just today, nearly two weeks after the cutting and burning of the 
mangroves, the sarpanch drafted a complaint and filed it before the 
Bicholim police which stated they were verifying the ownership of the 
property where the violations has taken place before registering a case.



http://www.oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Tottewada-rsquo-s-mangrove-trees-gone/36866.html



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[Goanet] Fwd: [SAVE What is Left of Goa: *Village Groups of Goa*

[Arwin Mesquita]

Public meet to highlight govt’s failure on various fronts today

MARGAO, MAY 16


The Village Groups of Goa are holding a public meeting on the May 17 at 10am
near Blueberry Hill, on Verna Plateau to protest against the failure of the
Government of Goa to act on all the illegalities such as hill-cutting,
filling of paddy fields, construction activity in eco-sensitive zones,
illegal mining, land grabbing by the Government, Collapse of law and order
in the state etc.


Cyrdon Madeira informed on Sunday that the meeting is open for the people of
Goa to come and join hands to save what is left of Goa, for the future
generations.


He said till date many NGO’s and village groups have been fighting mini
battles to achieve justice in their own areas, with no outside support or
helping hand.


Madeira said many village groups have joined hands and are united for the
first time in the history of the state of Goa, adding this by itself says a
lot and that being the sons and daughters of the soil are fed up and have
lost all their patience.


“They feel neglected, cheated, disgusted and angered at the state of affairs
as they are in the state. With the Government having no regard for it’s
people the only option left is to meet and get as many people into the fold
and proceed with a future course of action”, he added.


The group has appealed to the people to stop being slaves of politicians and
sell their conscience for a few pieces of silver. “This is the mother of all
public meetings and it is in the best interest of every Goan to lend their
support by attending this meeting. As children we all owe our motherland the
protection she deserves in times of need. Let us save our motherland from
turning into a concrete jungle and from a green Goa we knew to a brown Goa
we would not want to be associated with. Let us stop being greedy as when
everything deteriorates and dies money cannot and will not be able to feed
us”, he added.

http://www.oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Public-meet-to-highlight-govt-rsquo-s-failure-on-various-fronts-today/36915.html



VIVA GOA

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[Goanet] Celebrating Goa's Ministers

[Arwin Mesquita]

I am as guilty as many of my other Goan Colleagues; as I was part of
associations celebrating Goa's Corrupt Ministers, a few years back. But I
have come to my senses and hope that my fellow Goans, would do the same as
well. Goans are honoring Goan Ministers in Canada, USA, Europe, Gulf, Goa
etc and I really need to ask the question; Why?  Are we honoring the very
people who are responsible for the sorry state of affairs Goa is in today.
These corrupt MLA's that we are honoring, have and are today actually
seriously damaging Goa, its land, its Identity and are continuing to do so
with all of our blessings. Following are some facts which these MLA's or
Ministers are guilty of; on some or all of them:

(1) Using the Konkani movement to enter Politics and then using Power to
gain illegitimate wealth and pull in respective family members into politics
and further damage Goa & Its Identity; what is the status of Konkani today?

(2) Liaising with powerful Non-Goan companies to sell of Goan Land or bring
in un-wanted mega-projects e.g. in Carmona. And these very people had
hypocritically floated political parties to Save Goa!!

(3) Supporting Migrant vote-banks, issuing ration cards to migrants and
supporting Parties that encourage migrant vote-banks; leaving no stone
un-turned  to gain as much power & wealth as possible.

(4) Excessive Corruption, Faulty Employment & Industrial policies done
mainly in personal monetary interests, forcing Goans to go overseas; and
many of these Overseas Goans ironically reciprocate by honoring them?

(5) Illegal Land Conversions, Hill-cutting, filling of fields, contamination
of land & water etc

(6) Using scarce taxpayer’s money for their selfish exploits with absolutely
no accountability; then use a small percentage of their loot for bags of
rice, sugar, alcohol, meals etc so as to buy off gullible voters!!



Surely the above are only some facts and there are much more. So again, I
really would like to know why Goans are celebrating these people; who if
allowed to continue, will spell doom for our beautiful land & our prized
identity!! Many Overseas Goans in particular complain, that they are too far
away to do anything for Goa; well then please at least stop
honoring/entertaining the very people who are destroying Goa & Goans. Let
them know that they are not our heroes but are actually the enemies of Goa &
Goans!!

Arwin Mesquita (UAE)

[Goanet] Talpona golf course update

[Freddy Fernandes]

In response to:

Message: 3

Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 23:51:27 +0530

From: tony martin 

Subject: [Goanet] Talpona golf course update

 

Goa is become a land of "scams a galore".  The TPC and the Panchayat bodies are
just pawns,  that are moved around carefully in arithmetically calibrated moves
by the builders lobby, fearing repercussions the poor corrupt souls provide
provisional NOC's to start work without the approval of the gram sabha, so, does
the Gram Sabha has any meaning ? That's the reason why our Government is not for
the 73rd and 74th amendment. They can easily manipulate, the panches, Sapranches
and the Secretaries. 

 

By now a lot of goanetters must be aware of the fight of the people of
Kanaguinim against the food park and the auxiliary services project in their
back yard, it was just another scam by the local MLA. All the sea front plateaus
in Goa have fallen prey to the greed of the builders, who know the weaknesses of
our politicians, their penchant for plethora of wealth. The actual plan was a
golf course and over 800 housing units and had nothing to do with food park. We
are still up in arms and fighting hard against this project.

 

Cabo de Rama plateau was another scam where communidade land was sold to a five
star consortium, but we the villagers of our area fought and won against the
perpetrators.   

 

CRZ is yet another scam by which the billion dollar hotel industry is
facilitated and we Goans are harassed, our government is not just interested
about the well being of the public, they are only interested in fulfilling the
wishes and the dreams of money bags the world over in return for rewards in cash
or kind. It just doesn't matter to them, if Goans are pushed into oblivion in
the process.

 

In this case I would strictly advise a strong unity of the citizenry and the
involvement of the youth is very very important. If the people are together one
in mind and spirit then nothing can prevail over them and I am talking from
experience. 

 

People of Talpona be united and don't waver and you'll will be successful.

 

Freddy Agnelo Fernandes


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[Goanet] SON?VARACHIM SUNGTTAM: Amche ?Self-styled? Som?padpi! - II

[Sebastian Borges]

Ixttamno,
Kaim boroinnarank utranchi bhairi sutt'tta; te magir xirkeo marit nachtat. 
Khanddibhor boroilem ki zalem; tatunt pailibhor orthabhorit bhat asuddlearui 
mellona zalear koslich porva na. Kaim zonnank aplo lekh ek metralhador vo 
'machine-gun' oxem dista; magir polkea gulliancho pavs varear, choim voxim 
sorbhonvtim, soddit te bhonvtat. Teo gullio omkeach dusmanacher mhunn te zokhun 
marinant. Ti kulpigullianchi koronday aikun, lokak dista hannem khub dusmanank 
zokhmi keleat astole. Konnak zai tannem teo apnnak laun ghetlear upkarta. 
Magir, chodduch zalear, "are, tuka lagli mista, hanvem ti tujer mhunn marunk 
na, sori-am!" mhonnunk melltta. Hanchech pongtintlo amcho Jose Salvador 
Fernandes (Salubab).

<> oxem sangun tannem konna tori onamik (unnamed) 
masik-mhoinalleanchea sompadpeancher far soddla.  Punn sompadpeanchim zaum 
masikanchim nanvam nant tem zalench, tea 'sot naslolea gozalincho', 'onklolea 
vikhacho', 'xevttilolea fatrancho' ek tori nomuno diuncho aslolo! Apunn kitem 
boroita tacher vachpeamni dolle dhampun visvas dovorcho, oxem taka dista kai?

<>
DKA-chea Amontronna vixim hanvem halinch <> oxem boroilem. Hanvem jem boroilolem 
tem fokot ekach Tomazinho babak lagu zata, ani tedna ho vixoy cheorchent-ui 
aslo (aizui asa!). Tor Salubaban oso prosn kelo: <>  Zalear, atam toch Salubab tea 'opangull zalolea' mon'xanchim nanvam 
diunk koso visorlo? Tachem kalliz sanddlem kai?

<>.
Lolipopanchi khobor fokot sompadpi korinant, herui kortat.  Hanche modem 
sorgest Profesor Olivinho babachem-i nanv aspavta. Fattlea Romi Konknni 
Sommelona vellar Fr. Pratapan, aplea peporachea xevottak, hich khont 
porgottailoli. Taka jedna, cheorche vellar, mhozo ganvbhav Anthony D’Silva 
baban tenko dilo, tedna Sommelonacho Odheokx Tomazinho baban soroll sangun 
uddoilem: hem Sommelon ami sorkarachea khustar ubem kelam; tedna ho vixoy hanga 
cheorchent haddunk zaina; punn tumkam zai zalear, rokhddich ek khas boska 
gheum-ia ani hacher cheorcha korum-ia. Hacho-i orth toch mhu? Tor fokot 
sompadpeank duxonnam kiteak? Itle sogott lok fott uloitat? 

<>
Romi lipientlean kosleo karyavolli zatat kai?  Kotha, Kovita, Nibond bi 
borovpachim 'workshop'-am? Oslim tor halinsorak DKAn ayojit kelinch nant. 
Bhaxechea vachpa-borovpantuch lipicho upeg zata nhoi?Halinsorak jeo karyavolli 
zaleat teo 'bhah-blah' ani 'tarara'. Hea boddboddpachea ani gavpachea 
karyavollink lipi kiteak lagta? Konnui ek monis hea sonvsarant asa kai zo 
omkech eke lipintlean uloita ani gaita? Mhaka dista hea College panvddear 
Konknni xikovpi Salubabak lipi mhonnttat ti vost kitea borobor khatat tench 
khobor na.

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Romi lipintlean Konknnicheo tisteo-vadreo konn korta kai? Konknni bhaxek 
veakoronn (hanga lipi yech na!) asa mu? Konknni xikovpeak tachi vollokh asunk 
favo nhoi? Hanvem tor hea adim-i tachi he vixinchi, veakoronn khunttalleak 
lavpachi, koramot uktaddar haddlea.  Atam anik ek nomuno polleyat: "Karyavoll", 
"addkholl" osleach utram sarkem, nimnnea O-cho uchchar dhampto 
aslolem, "chollvoll" hem-i utor mhu? Zalear "chollvollechi" hem utor 
("karyavollichi", "addkhollichi" hanche porinch) "chollvollichi" oxem zaunk zai 
kai naka? Padrinuch aplo sermanv  kiteak poilim pallcho nhoi? Salubabanuch, 
ponvxel'lea sungttancho dhondo soddun, 'vibrant journalism'-achi survat kelear 
borem zaunchem naslem?  

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Romi Lipi Rajbhas Kaideant ghalpachem kam' khoim zata kai? Azad Moidanar, 
masik-potrancher vo Goy Vidhan Sobhent? Vidhan Sobhent bhoumot naslear, voir 
sanglam titleancho-i ekvott kiteak upkarot kai?  Salubaban Vidhan Sobhechem 
'arithmetic' pollelam, 'analyse' kelam? Thoim chearantle tin vantte Hindu Amdar 
asat mhu? 1987 vorsa jedna Rajbhas Kaido pas kel'lo tedna legun oslich (punn 
odhik bori) poristhiti asloli.  Punn tedna sorgest Rajiv Gandhicho danddo (don 
'observers' hea rupan) Vidhan Sobhent hajir aslo. Xivay Devnagari lipi ani 
Moratthik Sohobhaxecho dorzo him lolipopam tankam dakhoilolim. Aiz toslem 
kainch na. 
Xivay, sogleant poilim apli chiptti bhorun DKA-chem vangddiponn melloilolea 
padreaban, PUDDHARI Moratthi disalleak dil'le mulakhotint, svota oxem sanglam: 
Purtugez Goyant yeunche adim Goykar Moratthi bhasoch boroitale ani Konknni 
fokot uloitale; Evropi Kristanv misionarimni Konknni bhaxek Romi lipint borpi 
rup dilem. Hem zanna zaun, konn Hindu Amdar aplo dhorm sambhallunk adar dil'le 
Moratthik kuxin dovrun Padrimni toyar kel'le lipik tenko diunk raji zait? 
Moratthikoi Rajbhaxecho dorzo diunk prostav fuddem haddlo zalear (Parrikar 
baban hea adim oslo prostav manddlolo asa, hem visorchem nhoi!) kitle Hindu 
Amdar taka virodh kortole? Oxem korunk tankam khoinchean noitik bollgem (moral 
strength) mellttolem? Hacher Salubaban vistaran uzvadd ghalcho. Tedna porian, 
lolipopam khait khuxal ravnchem.

Kherit chotray: Sungttanchi mukhel bazarpetth mhollear Akhati Goenkaracho G-G 
tintto; thoincheanuch (GW hache vorvim) tim hea thollar pavtat. Tea tintteacho 
mukhel tabedar dedd mhoineache rojer aslolo tedna palvi 

[Goanet] Trouble in Cuncolim - GBA X'POSED

[soter]

The latest news is that Cuncolim is on the boil once again. A permission 
granted for a residential project to one Dubai based Tariq Chauhan of Dharul 
Khalil, Aligarh U.P. by the Cuncolim Municipal Council is now suspected by 
villagers to be more of a madrasa with the toilet specifications itself being 
as big as a bedroom. Several violations have been observed. When residents 
spoke to the said Chauhan in Dubai over phone, he challenged them to do 
whatever they want as he has the full support of Chief Minister Digambar Kamat 
and Urban development Minister Joaquim Alemao. What fuelled even more anger is 
the realisation that the project has been designed by a firm Mozaiq-Archnova 
which people allege to be that of Arch. Dean D'Cruz and is signed by one arch. 
Poonam Verma all of Goa Bachao fame.  Coincidentally, Dean D'Cruz is also 
involved in designing the market project at Cuncolim for SUDHA. The Cuncolkars 
are now gearing up for a show down. 


-Soter D'Souza

[Goanet] GRB formulates rehab scheme

[Mauricio Pereira]

The Goa Rehabilitation Board (GRB) has formulated a scheme at a cost of Rs 11.6 
crore for rehabilitation of persons likely to be displaced by the acquisition 
of land for the remaining part of the 4-lane NH 17-B from Varunapuri to 
Mormugao port. 

"The Board will allot 32 sq m to each of the displaced persons irrespective of 
the area encroached upon," Surendra Sirsat, board chairman said. The GRB has 
constructed 256 tenements through the PWD for rehabilitation. Called the Goa 
Rehabilitation Scheme (Rehabilitation of 4-lane NH 17-B displaced persons), it 
has been notified for objections and suggestions for two weeks from the 
publication of the scheme in the official gazette. 

A map with boundaries of the area proposed to be acquired for the road passes 
has been kept for inspection at the Board office. 

The deputy collector, Mormugao has been requested by the Board to draw up a 
list within 30 days of persons likely to be displaced by the construction of 
the highway. 

"The list will be published in the media, setting aside four weeks for 
representations, if any," the source added. 

The allotment of the units of shelter to those displaced will be done according 
to the serial order in the list. "If the oustee accepts the allocation, the 
Board will issue an order of grant. But ,if he does not accept the Board's 
initial offer or fails to take possession of shelter after issuance of the 
order on the appointed date, the Board will not be further responsible to 
rehabilitate him," Sirsat said. 

The displaced person's economic conditions will also be taken into account 
while considering him for allotment. 
  
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[Goanet] Daily Grook #700

[Francis Rodrigues]

DAILY GROOK #700

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[Goanet] Do we have White Goans?

[Gabe Menezes]

Race under fire: Is being white something you can learn?

What does it mean to be white? An explosive new book by an American academic
argues that whiteness isn't biological at all – in fact, it can be learned.
Precious Williams disagrees..The Conservative Party's first-ever black
female MP, Helen Grant, has just been elected. And across the pond, there is
a black man in the White House. Or is there? A controversial new book, The
History of White People, claims that Barack Obama is, to all intents and
purposes, white

Full read @

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/race-under-fire-is-being-white-something-you-can-learn-1974929.html


-- 
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] Tar On Goan Beaches Has Become Seasonal

[Freddy Fernandes]

Tar On Goan Beaches Has Become Seasonal 

 

In Goa a lot of things are seasonal, Goan weddings too are mostly preferred
during the holidays, Diwali, Christmas or the summer Holiday. So also
harvesting, and the conventional fruits too have their seasons, so do dogs,
apart from all these, during the end of the summer, April, May we have another
season for tar balls to make way to the shores, I have been a witness to this
absurd phenomena for a couple of decades and as time goes by the amount of this
unhealthy and unwarranted residue just keeps on increasing. 

 

The whole year round we have visitors from all over the world visiting Goan
beaches and our coastline, although our beaches are far from being what they use
to be, they are still accessible, but come April, May we are stuck with tar
deposits all along our coast, in our village because of the smallness of the
seafront it's appalling to see four to six inches of tar all along our beach
front making a mess of our beach, the only option we have is to set fire to it
late in the evenings, otherwise we have to wait for the heavy monsoons to come
and wash it away.

 

During this particular season every year this aberration makes it's presence
felt, affecting sea life, birds and us humans as well.  Most of us in the
village like to have a dip in the sea before we proceed to the spring which is
just a few steps away from the sea, but during this particular time, if you
venture into the sea, you could have a tan that the Africans could envy, and the
tar even reaches the spring, making it unusable. 

 

Though our authorities have been notified about the tar deluge no action has
come forth. What can be the source of this highly pollutant chemical compound ?
>From were does this tar come ? Can it be the ships, barges, oil tanks or even
the Zuari Agro-chemical factory ? This particular phenomena occurs year after
year without fail.  So there must be some one or some people, who do some
process which results into the pollution of our beaches and our environment. Our
Authorities have to find this source and stop this deadly deluge. 

 

Although year after year this particular problem is highlighted by the media,
our authorities have not taken any action nor have they come up with any action
plan to stop this aberration. Countries like Japan, Singapore and the USA have
placed stringent law against defaulters polluting their water, and even a stain
or a blob in the sea by the vessel, will immediately invite repercussions that
will give the defaulting companies or the owners, sleepless nights and burn a
huge hole in their finances as well. 

 

Why can't we have these stringent laws in place to protect our beaches and our
environment ? If one visits the Cutbona jetty in south Goa, it's appalling to
see oil and diesel spilled all over the floor as well as the water and nobody
cares, over the years, the shell fish, cockles, mussels, snails and oysters have
all but disappeared from this area, even the crabs smell of oil. When will our
authorities wise up or will they ever ?

 

Freddy Agnelo Fernandes


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[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (17May10)

[alexyz fernandes]

"It's Killing! It's Killing!"

"Who? What?"

"The Heat!"


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Re: [Goanet] Sandwich generation– monday muse (1 7 May’10)

[Gabe Menezes]

On 17 May 2010 05:02, Pravin Sabnis  wrote:

> MONDAY MUSE (17 May 2010)
>
> SANDWICH GENERATION
>
> Upon completing his training in restoration and conservation, Victor Hugo
> Gomes returned to Goa to take charge as curator of the Musuem of Christian
> Art at the Seminary of Rachol. His research made him realise that years of
> accumulated wisdom in agrarian practices, traditional implements, tools,
> arts, crafts and the valuable artefacts in and around the state, was being
> neglected or left to decay.
>
> Victor went on to embark on an arduous and remarkable journey of visiting
> and collecting items of Goa’s rich cultural heritage. His ethnographical Goa
> Chitra museum is not just a fantastic collection of ancient artefacts.
> Adjacent to the museum is a 3-acre field that has been created using
> traditional organic farming methods and allows visitors to actually use some
> of the implements on display within.
>
> It all began for Victor with an awareness of being part of a sandwich
> generation. A sandwich generation is the crucial link between major
> transitions in society. It stands on the threshold of time, as an increasing
> dependence on technology and mass manufactured products push out
> time-honoured tools and practices. The real loss, as Victor says, is about
> losing evidence of the sustainable lifestyles of our forefathers.
>
> Victor and his wife Aldina, inspire us to be better at carrying on the
> legacy of long-established wisdom and practices. It is up to us in the
> sandwich generation to ensure that the collective wisdom of sustainable
> living, acquired over the ages, is not lost to the future generations due to
> wrong choices in our lifestyles. If cannot add, may we at least maintain the
> worthy legacy of forefathers and pass it on to the next generation.
>
> It will BE BETTER if the sandwich generation…
> Will make the connect with sustainable action!
>
> - Pravin K. Sabnis
>
> Check out http://www.goachitra.com
>
>
>
> World Cup football/soccer is almost here  you can get involved with the
excitement and help a good cause at the same time.

I am personally organizing a fund-raising contest to benefit Goa Sudharop
and Goan Chitra museum. After prizes, potentially USD $980 (approximately
44,000 rupees) will be raised. Goa Sudharop will donate the money to benefit
the incredible Goan Chitra museum which showcases Goan culture, see
http://www.goachitra.com/museum.html.

Here is how the contest works and is open to anyone. 64 tickets will be
sold. Only USD $20 per entry; there are 32 teams participating in the World
Cup, let us try and get 64 entries i.e. two entries per team. Winners of the
World Cup (two tickets) get USD $100 each and runner-up of the World Cup
(two tickets) get USD $50 each.

After confirmation that all 64 tickets have been sold, I will sit down and
do a draw from a hat and assign a World Cup team to each ticket. Please note
you cannot pick a particular team, a team will be assigned to each ticket by
random drawing.

To buy a ticket through PayPal, click on the DONATE NOW button at
www.goasudharop.org (home page, bottom left hand side). Each ticket is USD
$20. Or you can mail a check for the number of your tickets payable to "GOA
SUDHAROP", and mail to ACARIA ALMEIDA, TREASURER, P.O. BOX 6144, MORAGA, CA,
94570, USA.

See the teams at the official Web Site :-
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/teams/index.html

Good luck and let's have some fun rooting for a team! If you wish you may
buy more than one ticket (highly encouraged!). Please help a good cause.

Please pass this message on to your family and friends. Thank you in
advance.

Tickets purchased so far:-
So far
1. Gabe Menezes
2. Liam Pinto
3. Aidan Pinto
4. Acaria Almeida
5. Shilla Almeida
6. Filomena Giese
7. Filomena Giese
8. Filomena Giese
9. Filomena Giese
10. E DeSouza
11. E de Souza


-- 
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.