[Goanet-News] Mining awareness tours... in the Goan hinterland
The GoaMAP (Goa Mining Affected People) and GXE (Goenche Xettkaranche Ekvott) along with other concerned citizens and youth will conduct the 5th free bus tour along Goa's Mining Belt in the hinterland of Goa. This is approximately a 100 Km tour. Just seeing is believing! In the name of development, hills, forests are wiped away and water aquifers charging the ground water tables destroyed. So far, four tours have been conducted on Sundays only, as there is no movement of mining trucks. Otherwise it would be chaos during the week. 1st tour on 18th April with several journalists on board. Joaquim Fernandes (Times of India) who took this tour wrote an article. http://m.timesofindia.com/PDATOI/articleshow/5951450.cms 2nd tour on 2nd May with concerned citizens. 3rd tour on 9th May with a group of Dhempe College 2nd Year Geology Students, one journalist and some concerned citizens 4th tour on 16th May with youth from in and around Margao. The FIFTH tour on Sunday - 23rd May 2010 leaves from Panjim KTC bus-stand at 7:30am and returns to the same point by 6pm latest. Please carry some drinking water and some food/snacks. If you or your family/friends would like to join the tour, please let me know, so that I can give co-ordinators your names. All the above trips have been sponsored by concerned citizens of Goa, which will be announced in the bus. Please also spread the word of this Picnic with a Difference. Thanks SMS or call 9850871608 (Lisa) SMS or call 9766453080 (Andrea) SMS or call 9421280798 / 9850116114 (Terence) or email terencejorg...@gmail.com ndrea_pere...@yahoo.co.in * * * A COMMENT FROM AMITA KANEKAR: These are pictures of a ‘Mining Tour’ in Goa (May 9, 2010) organised by environment and anti-mining activists like Hartman de Souza, Rama Velip, and others. The tour (by bus and foot) started in Margao, moved through the talukas of Quepem and Sanguem in south Goa where mining has just begun in the last three to four years, and then northwards along the ‘mining corridor’ of Usgaon and Sanquelim to the oldest areas of Bicholim -- with its 14km long mining range -- right up to the village of Sirigao in Bicholim and the 40-year-old mine of the Chowgules. All along we were shown the dead landscape of dusty roads, mud-heap hills, eviscerated springs and poisoned streams, all the more shocking for the bright green slopes and sparkling streams just a few metres away -- awaiting their doom! All along were also the bright signboards of those responsible: Dhempes, Salgaonkar, Chowgule, Alemao, Vedanta, etc, etc. Much of Goa remains lush and green even in the height of summer because of the hundreds of springs originating in the western ghats and flowing through the year, except in the mining regions. Sirigao, the home of a goddess, Lairai, apparently traditionally worshipped as a pot of water, is a good example of the havoc wreaked on this luxuriant ecosystem. All the streams in the village -- and there were once many -- have dried up and the village is now dependent on water supplied through mining tankers. The huge mining pit explains why, for as you stare down the stripped, cut and blasted faces of the hills to the lake at the bottom -- apparently 27 m. below sea level -- you can see amidst the variegated hues of raw rock, many thin little trickles of water draining out into the lake below. These are the last remnants of the ancient aquifer inside the hills of Sirigao, blasted open by the miners and left to empty itself into the pit, from which three pumps work around the clock to pump this ‘waste’ up and out of the pit and onto the hillside where it runs away into nothing. While the village remains thirsty... (These tours are going to be held every Sunday through the next few months, to make people aware of the catastrophic situation. All are welcome to join!) See photos at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=235305id=612188205ref=mf Login needed, via Facebook.
[Goanet-News] Man goes ... Goa goes ... mangoes (Miguel Braganza, Herald)
Man goes ... Goa goes ... mangoes Tips to take care of a tree yielding delightful fruit By Miguel Braganza braganza.mig...@gmail.com THE FLAVOUR of the season is mango. Even the Amul ice-cream we ate to celebrate my father's birthday was of fresh 'Alphonso Mango' pulp. My friends, Yogita Mehra and Karan Manral, together with the Chorao Farmers' Club facilitated by Premanand Mahambrey with support of NABARD and Central Bank of India, have already made a hit with Aamche mangoes with their strict quality control and after-sales service. If by chance, one of the mangoes was not to your satisfaction, you received an immediate replacement. I wish I could have got that kind of service with the dozen Devgad Alphonso mangoes, three of which had spongy tissue locally known as 'lashem'. Obviously, the mangoes were not harvested in the cool hours of the morning as is recommended to avoid spongy tissue problems. The Devgad Alphonso is supposedly better than the Ratnagiri Alphonso because it is grown on rocks and consequently has less fibre and an early crop. However, exposure to heat at maturity and harvest time predisposes the Alphonso to enzyme malfunction leading to the spongy tissue. The starch is not converted to sugar and the patch remains white as in a raw mango. Spongy tissue or not, Mac Vaz is a worried man ever since reports started percolating that the Government of a neighbouring state wanted to get a G.I. for 'Alphonso' mangoes after threatening to bottle cashew feni for which Goa already has a Geographical Indication like Tequila of Guadalajara Province of Mexico. Many years ago, I had read Jay Dubaxi's comment on people and mangoes. There are only two kinds of people in this world, he wrote, those who love mangoes and the others who are slightly touched. It is almost impossible to think of a sane person who does not love mangoes. They drive me insane with their colour, flavour, juiciness and even just the aroma of ripening mangoes. The Malcurada, Malgueso, Alphonso, and Kesar mango season is almost over. Now it is time for the Manga Hilario, Fernandina, Xavier and Monserrate mangoes to make their presence felt. Incidentally, the Hilario is named after the father of our former Minister for Education, Raul Fernandes, and Monserrate is the surname of the incumbent minister. Mangoes are educative. Those who want to know more about Mangoes of Goa can buy an illustrated book of that name from ICAR-Goa library for just Rs. 50 a copy. Mango trees respond to care and affection as do people all over the world. Thank the tree for the good crop with a little manure and lots of water. If the crop was poor because the tree was neglected last year, make amends with some care now. A K-GAP, or Konkan-Good Agricultural Practice, is to dig a ring two feet (60 cm) wide and one foot deep along the 'drip circle', i.e. the outer ring of the tree canopy along which rain water would drip from the tree if it was an umbrella. The active 'feeding roots' of the tree are located here to take maximum advantage of the rain water and also to balance the weight of the extended branches of the tree. The soil from the trench is heaped like a berm or 'mer' on the outer side of the ring. Manure is applied in the trench, half the soil is shoveled back to cover it, and the tree is provided with 200 litres of water in one go. What manure is applied depends on the soil reaction or pH and whether one is doing sustainable organic farming or still having a 'Green Revolution' hangover. Organic farming avoids manufactured chemicals, even if they are 'organic' chemicals like urea and DDT. Rock Phosphate and Muriate of Potash, which are extracted from mines as we extract iron ore in Goa, are permitted and necessary in the soils of Goa which are poor in phosphorus and potash. Where possible, these mineral elements should be obtained from bone-meal, fish-meal, wood ash that are locally available. Use of green manure, fish solutions, phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) and Panchagavya are strongly recommended. The first dose of manure can be 5 kg neem cake, 2 kg. rock phosphate and 1 kg muriate of potash along with 2 gamelas (half of an empty cement bag) of compost, dried biogas slurry or sewage sludge can be applied for one bearing mango tree above ten years of age. Take care to cover the manure with soil and then irrigate in the trench. To get best results, remove any loranthus parasite (bendhul) with an iron hook (bendhullem) and apply diesel or liquid tar with a brush on the cut ends to prevent it from sprouting afresh as well as rotting of the wood due to exposure to rain. The best time to do this is immediately after harvest of the mangoes from the trees. For Malcurada trees do it now. By the time you need to manure the Fernandina mango trees, watering
[Goanet] Benefits of eating Avacado
The Benefits of eating Avocado. From HSI C http://hsibaltimore.com/2006/06/19/benefits-of-eating-avacado/
[Goanet] Daily Grook #703
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Re: [Goanet] The Goanese Fusion Flavours - cookery manual
Dear Readers The Goanese Fusion Flavours - ISBN 0951901931 Recently, I have received several telephone requests for the above cookery book published in 2005. Anyone interested in purchasing it can contact Waterstone bookshop in your vicinity. Most of the Waterstone branches in the UK do stock the book. The attachment will give further info. Alda Figueiredo
[Goanet] Portuguese language.
I appeal to you after reading an article in Goanet to divulge the possibility of Portuguese speaking scholars and researchers meeting a high level delegation of academics, next year around April 18, when the Colóquios da Lusofonia going to its XV Colloquium (this time to be held in Macao) make a stopover to hear the Goans and share with them the latest changes to Portuguese language. We have currently no contact with any Portuguese speaking Goans but would be interested in organising a one day Seminar for them, if there is local interest in such a meeting Best Regards -- O Presidente da Comissão Executiva, Colóquios da Lusofonia, Dr. J. CHRYS CHRYSTELLO, A NOSSA DIVISA É “NÃO PROMETEMOS, FAZEMOS “ Telefone:(351) 296446940,Telemóvel:(351)919287816/ 916755675 E-fax (faxe):+ (00) 16305631902 Correio eletrónico: coloquioslusofo...@gmail.com , lusofo...@sapo.pt ; lusofoniazo...@gmail.com , * *Todos os colóquios: http://www.lusofonias.net * (próximo) XIV Colóquio: http://www.lusofonias.net/lusofonia%202010/index.htm Tudo sobre o Acordo Ortográfico http://www.lusofonias.net/acordo%20ortografico/index.htm Cadernos/Estudos Açorianos http://www.lusofonias.net/estudos%20e%20cadernos%20a%C3%A7orianos/index.htm * PATRONOS Malaca Casteleiro Academia Ciências de Lisboa e Evanildo Cavalcante Bechara Academia Brasileira de Letras * Protocolos e Parcerias: ACADEMIA GALEGA DA LÍNGUA PORTUGUESA, GALIZA CAMARA MUNICIPAL DA LAGOA (AÇORES) Direção Regional das Comunidades da Presidência do Governo Regional dos Açores UNIVERSIDADE DO MINHO, BRAGA, PORTUGAL ESE, INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE SETÚBAL, PORTUGAL ESE, INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BRAGANÇA, PORTUGAL ESTH, INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DA GUARDA, PORTUGAL LICEU LITERÁRIO PORTUGUÊS DO RIO DE JANEIRO, BRASIL UNIVERSIDADE MACKENZIE DE SÃO PAULO, BRASIL
[Goanet] Fwd: Fw: Wolves in sheep clothing (Reply to Lies of Churchill Alemao)
*Refer: Churchill backs Raheja’s projecturchill backs Raheja’s project* * http://www.oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Churchill-backs-Raheja-rsquo-s-project/37006.html *http://www.oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Churchill-backs-Raheja-rsquo-s-project/37006.html -- Forwarded message -- From: Orlando Silva orlandodasi...@rediffmail.com Date: 20 May 2010 08:54 Subject: Fw: Wolves in sheep clothing -Bledy goan politicos To: arwinmesqu...@gmail.com Carmona Panch Orlando answers to Churchils Bab lies. While appreciating that the PWD Minister at last realized that the state of Goa requires a Policy on Mega Hosuing projects in the state and that at present Goans cannot afford housing in their own land, Mr Da Silva informed that Churchil press briefing on the Carmona project is full of blatant lies. He say that Mr. Churchil should first lay his hands on the official records of the Carmona Panchyat Minutes books, and ascertain for himself the factual reports rather than relying on the parrot sarpanch installed by him in the Carmona panchayat. To put facts rights Mr. Da silva pointed out that the Rahejas has purchased the property in the year 2007 and that there was no shadow of Rahejas in Carmona in the Year2005. At that time it was the original owners of the property M/s Aurora family from Margao who has applied for development permission for subdividing their property into 71 plots of average area of 350 to 400 square meters. Considering there was shortage of developed plots in the village to meet local demands, I as a responsible ward member consented to the sarpanch Mr. Sony Noronha that permission could be given to the owners since the owners orally promised the Sarpanch and me to give first preference to the locals for purchase of these plots. Mr. Sony openly declared at the gramsabha dated 30.03.2008 that It was not his body which granted the permission to the Rahejas but license was issued to the owners after taking consent of ward member. Regarding the ministers submission that he is the right hand men of his bet noir shri Luizinho Faleiro, Mr Da Silva submitted that Mr. Alemao himself was also a close lieutenant of faleiro who now has forgotten that it was Faleiro who has introduced him to Goan politics and prominence and that this a fact that Mr Alemao made Faleiro the Kupar. Mr. da Silva said that he wants to tell Mr. Alemao that he never personally was a supporter of Faleiro but he was and heis a supporter of the Indian National Congress party which Mr Alemao time again accused and abused of working against the interest of the Goans. Mr. Alemao recent turncoat of the Save Goa party is glaring proof of what Mr. Alemao preaches and practices. Whenever Mr. Alemao was fielded as a candidate of the Party he as an obedient soldier worked for the party candidate. Mr. Alemao only succeeded in buying the balance Panch members and not him and the people of Carmona opposing this lopsided development. Mr. Da Silva also pointed out that People of Carmona are supporting the Raheja project is a dream Mr. Alemao is dreaming and the unanimous resolution dated 30.03.2008 is a documentary proof in the records of Carmona Panchayat and that a writ petition is already filed to challenge the provisional NOC issued at the behest of Mr. Alemao. It was the Sarpanch who proposed this unanimous resolution sensing the mood of the gramsabha. The news report dated 22.03.2010 published by a section of the press that Carmona gramsabha dated 21.03.2010 approved the Raheja project is a false and a mischievous briefing by the Sarpanch and this fact can be checked from the observers report obtained by him under the RTI act and the Gram sabha resolution of date 21.03.2010 recorded by the secretary. Mr. Alemao submission that people of Carmona has even confronted Da silva for opposing the Rahejas project is also a blatant lie and if at all there was a confusion created it was a law and order problem that was created by relatives of the minister. At Gramsabha dated 30.03.2008 villagers who gathered were assaulted and that these persons are facing criminal charges in the court of law. If Mr. Alemao can prove me wrong on any one of his above submission he will resign from his Panchyat membership and so also social activities, otherwise he expect Mr. Alemao to do the same and even suggest retirement. Mega Housing projects does not mean development of local people, Locals are robbed of their purchasing power and only the Minister benefit by such projects. Orlando S. A. Da Silva Member V. P. Carmona -- Please post your comments on my Blog: http://goanidentity.blogspot.com/ Please also see below: 1. Benaulim Village Action Committee: http://www.bvacbenaulim.blogspot.com/ 2. Rape of Goa : http://www.parrikar.com/blog/the-rape-of-goa/ 3. MAND - an adivasi-rights resource centre : http://mandgoa.blogspot.com/ 4. EVERY GOAN SHOULD SEE THIS VIDEO:
Re: [Goanet] First person account of events at Porvorim Secretariat on Monday, May 17th
Ever since the scrapping of the contentious RP 2011, the hopes of ordinary Goans have been kept alive on a diet of empty promises and assurances by the Digambar Kamat government, even as they painstakingly sat together and came up with suggestions for each of their villages for the proposed RP 2021. Two years later, the assurances and promises keep coming, laced with excuses and evasiveness in lieu of the immediate and decisive action that the present dire situation calls for. RP 2021 still remains a pipe dream. In the meantime, the decimation and plunder of the land continues unabated. Hills are ruthlessly cut, paddy fields are filled, eco sensitive zones are treated with total disrespect and the woes of the people in the mining belt continue to overflow, while their tears go unheeded by the ruling dispensation. Goa’s sorry plight motivated groups from villages all over the state to come together on the platform of VILLAGE GROUPS OF GOA in an endeavour to try and protect our little homeland from the assaults of vested interests. The newly constituted Village Groups of Goa decided to approach Chief Minister Digambar Kamat at the Porvorim Secretariat on May 17th, to put forward the longstanding and legitimate concerns and demands of the people of Goa and to make known to him that this time the people expected action instead of mere assurances and promises that were never implemented. A group of around 100 or so of us, some of whom were equipped with passes, wended their way to the Ministerial Block in the Secretariat, passed through the metal detector and were stopped by the Security. While the people were explaining their mission, a police inspector whose name tag pronounced him to be Devendra Gad, pushed passed me to the front and began shoving the people to the back. I felt a growing sense of unease as I stood to one side and watched the manner in which he was touching and handling the women in the group. In a couple of minutes, PI Gad had succeeded in evicting the people from the building and he stood on the steps with his arms across his chest guarding the entrance against the people. The group requested that they be allowed to meet the CM since it was the day when he heard public grievances. Finally PI Gad agreed to let 5 persons up to meet the CM, provided they were all women. The delegation of five ladies came back from their mission extremely disappointed with the CM’s comment that he did not need our votes. The people vociferously expressed their displeasure at this offhand dismissal of Goan votes by the CM. Needless to say, the CM's attitude left the people with no other option than to present these issues of crucial importance for the survival of Goa and Goans before the Leader of the Opposition, since he would be better equipped to take up the opposition role in these issues that the people have been trying so hard to perform for so long now. When contacted telephonically, Leader of the Opposition Mr. Manohar Parrikar explained that he was around 25 kms. Away, but assured us that he would turn around and come back to the Secretariat. In the meantime, PI Gad who had called for a further posse of policemen armed with lathis and a police van, suddenly swung into action. He began pushing and jostling the people roughly and ordered them to leave the Secretariat immediately, even though they explained that they were only waiting for the Leader of the Opposition to arrive. My husband and I were standing around 6 metres from the crowd observing the ugly situation with a growing sense of alarm and wondering what would be the best course of action under the circumstances. Suddenly PI Gad strode up to my husband unprovoked and began physically assaulting him while screaming that he was under arrest. I instinctively put my arm between them and implored him to stop. In what I felt was a very crude and insulting manner, PI Gad grabbed the front of my blouse and flung me against the wall behind. I hit my head on the wall and blacked out for a while. When I came to, two of my co villagers were throwing water on me and I could hear PI Gad scream to the women constables who must have arrived in the interim and were now standing around with lathis to arrest me and put me in the van. The women constables lifted me and were moving towards the police van, when the Leader of the Opposition arrived. On seeing him, they put me down and moved back. Mr. Parrikar heard us out and then, as I was not feeling too well, some of us, along with a number of media persons went to his chambers, where someone was kind and humane enough to provide me with an ice pack to place on the bump on my head. In the meantime, PI Gad had apparently shanghaied the rest of the villagers into the van, allegedly roughing up many in the process and I am told, allegedly touching and tearing the blouse of a lady who was coming towards me when I was unconscious. The manner in which
Re: [Goanet] ResearchLink: History and the (un)making of identifications in literary representations of Anglo-Indians and Goan Catholics (Marian Josephine Gracias)
On the subject of Godfrey's piece, the issue went from East Indians to Anglo-Indians. i happen to come across a piece by a Toronto-based scholar Megan Mills who got her Ph.D with her these on the Anglo-Indian community in Bengal in my collection. It is in a journal edited by an old friend under the title, The Anglo-Indian -- an Ongoing Community of Bengal. She writes, Misunderstanding abounds on question of the Anglo-Indians' origins. Other Indians and westerns can share most assuming notions of Anglo-Indian descent from illicit relationships between Indian women of humble origins and unsavoury Europeans. Certainly, these were not more prevalent than convention alliances in the 17th and 18th centuries witnessing the rise of the greater part of Bengal's Anglo-Indian population. Moreover, it is seldom realized that the term Anglo-Indian in use since 1911 is rather a stunnng misnomer, for the community's European ancestry is simply not very Anglo (word in italics). Bengal's Anglo-Indians possess a great many Scottish and Irish progenitors in keeping with different 'colonial cocktail' populations to emerge elsewhere in the early British empire. In the debased and hate-infused racial and communal conflict in Indian society, the Anglo-Indians were called the bastard children of the British empire. It must be said that both the British and Portuguese powers in India promoted the marriages of their men with local women. The Portuguese had a settlements in Satgoan and Bandel de Hoogly in the Bengal and many of Anglo-Indians in Bengal could be of Portuguese blood. In some parts of India where the Anglo-Indians were in substantial numbers, particularly at railway junctions, they were also known as Indo-Britons. Other Indians saw the Anglo-Indians as pro-British and felt that they enjoyed a special status. They had access to good jobs and were higher than other Indians. But they were also subject to discrimination from the British because some British clubs would not give them memberships. Remember, the notorious Dogs and Indian not allowed signposts that hung at the entrance of some exclusively British clubs? Closer home to Goa, we has the mestizos (spelling?), those born of Portuguese fathers and Goan mothers. There is a word, mestizaje, which means the mixing of Amerindians and Europeans though I am not sure if the word also refers to offsprings from these two races Mestizaje is a word that comes up often in the discussion of post-colonialism, just as the word mestizo comes in the debate on the children of Portuguese-Goan sexual relations. In some quarters of today's Goan society, the mestizos are thought to be of a privileged class and in some quarters as the leftovers of Portuguese rule. Both the Anglo-Indians and the mestizos are the product of colonial hybridity. When cultures come together , more so during the colonization of one country by another, creolisation takes place. The creolisation of the Caribbean is one good example. The Anglo-Indian and the mestizo created their own unique sub-culture in the societies they lived. In postcolonial Goa, the mestizo culture lies submerged in the dominant local culture. We find it hard to locate the mestizo culture in the mainstream Goan society and could be ideally found to live in some parts of Panaji, notably Fountainhas. Colonialism has shaped Goa's history and its identity to the extent that Portuguese strands run into our cultural, literary and social streams. The anti-colonial struggle created another class of its own, disowning the Portuguese language and contribution and embracing everything Indian. Indian nationalism spread largely among the Hindus and to a little extent among the Catholics. During the Portuguese reign, the lowly-placed Hindus and the Catholics should have their voices heard. In post-Independent Goa, these sections of society are vociferous and demanding. If not allo, but many of the political powers that rule Goa come from this sections of society. Their muted silence during the Portuguese presence in Goa has now become a crescendo. Goans in Goa today live in a post-structuralist society. From being postcolonial subjects, Goans now in position to determine their own future. We are still a fragmented society, and may be so for a long time. The differences among the communities will not go away but the process to mend and blend the differences into a progressive force could be undertaken on both the idealogical and political planes. It is in the pursuit of the common good that those who still have colonized minds can be free. There should be no cultural hegemony of one community over another. Tolerance must be the norm, and each community must have the right to be different. Modern Goa must reconcile the past with the present. Eugene Correia
[Goanet] Attempted suicide: Hem ‘Girlfriend ’ konnachem? (Which high profile Politician from So uth Goa?)
Attempted suicide: Hem ‘Girlfriend’ konnachem? (Which high profile Politician from South Goa?) Whose girlfriend is she? I mean, who the high ranking politician? If the name of the girlfriend can be disclosed, why not the politician’s? Apna Khas aadmi hai kya? 17.5.10 - TOI I think I read it for the first time on TOI on Monday the 17th May 2010 Under captions ‘POLITICIAN’S Lady Friend attempts suicide’ A 28 year old lady believed to be close to prominent South Goa politician allegedly attempted suicide on Saturday evening ( May 15). The woman had returned from an overseas trip along with the politician recently and had later gone into a depression. ..Shifted to a Delhi-based hospital on Sunday, earlier, late Saturday, she was rushed to Bombay based hospital with the politician accompanying her. GOA POLICE in Mumbai to probe eve’s poisoning (H) 20.5.10 TOI A case was registered by Maina Curtorim Police on 19th May? for attempted suicide . Special Executive Magistrate has already recorded statement at Jupitor Hospital Mumbai. ‘I consumed Ratol mistaking it for toothpaste’ says the girl in her statement.. However, at Apollo Victor Hospital in Margao, where she was earlier admitted, Medical records reveal that she consumed the entire tube of Ratol (Rat Poison) see pic... indicating her act was deliberate and not accidental registered an offence of attempting suicide- PI Sidhant shirodkar of Maina Curtorim PS. Nadia Dourado is now been charged under section 309 of IPC Case of attempted suicide Filed - NT 21.5.10 Sanguem PI to probe case of attempted suicide - TOI PI Shirodkar who is also incharge of Margao (to cover PI who was on leave) filed the complaint on behalf of State. Complainant cannot be investigating Officer hence the case handed over to Sanguem PI Raju Raut Desai. Loutolim Eve Case Transferred – H Attempted suicide case handed to Sanguem Police – NT ..they are investigating as to who paid the bills of the hospital in Goa and other related issues were also being investigated. Police sources also said that she has links with a high ranking politician in South Goa. It also referred to ‘Nadia Torreado’ in NT today and on 20.5.10 it was ‘Nadya Torodo’ Mystery of suicide by politoco’s gal lingers – GT The mystery involving the case of the attempted suicide by a ‘girlfirend’ of top south Goa politician deepened as it was shifted out of Maina-Curtorim.. .. a case registered on Tuesday night against the Loutolim based paramour of a top politician In Goa it changed two hospitals before shifting to Mumbai. Police had to return empty handed a second time after learning that the girl was again shifted to Mumbai. The visible difference between a toothpaste and the Ratol http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukextras/4626336130/ Tem konnacheim-i ‘girl friend’ zaum We wished her speedy recovery I think, I remember the 3 South goa ministers who return from a foreign trip recently are: Churchill, Joaquim and Mikky But they are all happily married men 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] PARRIKAR to bathe in PWD office?
Around 80 people with empty buckets in hand, mostly residents of Porvorim, Socorro and Guirim, gathered outside the PWD office at Altinho, Panaji on Thursday protesting the shortage of water in their villages. The protesters sought to meet principal chief engineer A M Wachasundar, but in his absence placed their demands before chief engineer J Chimulkar. Opposition leader Manohar Parrikar who was leading the protest said that if the issue is not settled by May 30, he would go to the chief engineer's office on May 31 and take a bath there. _ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969
[Goanet] Need for developing credibility in activism
Once again Soter, Rajan and their group have been accused of slander by a celebrity architect. An editorial in one of the local corporate mouthpieces mentions campaigner disunity. Why is Soter attacking the poor architect (before this it was the poor doctor) has been the question asked to Soter's friends but not to Soter. Some others express fear that such exposures will embolden the corrupt political establishment and must not be done in larger interest. Whose interest we do not know? Goa is a small place and if one is observant then double standards in activism gets noticed very easily. Whether these are mere contradictions or betrayals is left for the people of Goa to decide. In some cases it is not less than an irreversible sell out. Activists sometimes have no inhibitions in receiving awards instituted by agencies with controversial or dubious reputation. To err is human but what about these double standards which get marketed as normal and beneficial to the community? These contradictions are something like one consuming poison and also telling others to keep away from the poison. It is a contradiction where corruption by politicians is condemned by professionals but corruption in their own professional dealings gets marketed as entrepreneurship. This contradiction is of a type where one participates (directly or indirectly) in an activity that destroys the environment and at the same time also claims to be an environmental campaigner. This contradiction is of a type where a campaigner demands upholding the freedom of expression by the government but supports the suppression of truth in the media. And while all this goes on, anyone who exposes this contradiction or duplicity gets quickly accused of slander. They get accused of fostering disunity. This double standard club is no small club. Like the politicians, it has influence over the information machinery to distort the truth and portray villains as angels and angels as villains. This is a class that create their own publicity as impeccable champions of the masses. When their contradictions are pointed out it becomes slander. When they expose the double standards of others it becomes a social change campaign. Just as exposing corruption strengthens the nation, similarly exposing double standards of campaigners can only help develop the credibilty of social movements. If not, social activism will also become the refuge for scoundrels which appears to be the case today. -Soter
Re: [Goanet] Digu to Goans - Get lost, I don't need you
We have verbs that arose from place names--as in Sodomized, Shanghaied and also Bangalored. The latter is expressed in a neat piece by Michael Quinion on his World Wide Words sitehttp://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-ban1.htm. (http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-ban1.htm) So, will we soon have Goa the place lending itself to a verb construct. If so will it be Goaized, or Goaed. Or should we use the Zulu stem enz and come up with Goaenz (to do a Goa). -enz-to make, to do; Goaenz (to do a Goa) -enzan-to do something together; Goaenzan (as in the for and against talking about doing something together for/ to Goa) -enzek-to be doable i.e. possible; Goaenzek (as in what more is possible, for/ with/against Goa, Goanity) -enzel-to do something for someone; Goaenzel (to do a Goa (allegria, bhav-bhoinponn) for someone) -enzis-to bring someone for doing something; Goaenzis (bring Goan political AANDs to power) -enziw-to be made, to be done; Goaenziw (time to pass the rag (water and vinegar) on the hissop; made into a swamp, slums) I am trying not to get too close to the fact that Zulu is a Bantu language and any lingusitic associations stemming from that fact. Also, will Digambar and Diggu both become allusions?! Try thinking of what they would allude to. Imagine if someone dumped a load of feces on the shitheads' head. At least imagine that. All, please start sending me your favorite images of our Goan Tyrannus Potissimus Minister. venantius j pinto From: George Pinto georgejpi...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Goanet] Digu to Goans - Get lost, I don't need you Goa, RIP (Rest in peace). George --- On Wed, 5/19/10, Rajan P. Parrikar parri...@yahoo.com wrote: Is anyone surprised at Digu asking you Goans to vamoose?? Why? Many moons ago I had reported here how the Deputy Mayor of
[Goanet] In Goa - Upas Nagar, Ram Nagar, Indira Nagar etc - how many more?
Please add more if you know any Zuari nagar – Birla/Sancoale Ulhas/upas Nagar – Birla/Sancoale Jairam Nagar – Panjim- Bhatulem/Mala Funkat Nagar –Mapusa/Sancoale Azad Nagar - Margao Ram Nagar –Betim Shanti Nagar –Porvorim Indra Nagar –Chimbel Amruth Nagar – Margao-Fatorda 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] MAOIST's FARMER's TRIBAL's v/s INDIAN GOVERNMENT CORPORATE LOBBY.
Dear Goanetters What should the marginal farmers, peasants and tribals do when inspite of peaceful demonstrations the government is hell bent on taking over their lands and pass on the lands to the corporate lobby – builders lobby – mining lobby ? What should the environmentalist do who daily face threats from the goons hired by the builder – mining – sand and other lobbies ? Why do the right wing facist hindu terror groups ( rashtriya swamyamsevak sangh, vishwa hindu parishad, bajrang dal and their 100 other different terror networks ) NEVER target the corporate – builder – mining lobby ? What can the native stock ( tribals, dalits, other backward class/castes ) who have a mixture of brown-dark complexion and less IQ do to challenge the indo aryans ( upper castes and Brahmins ) who have a fair complexion and better IQ ? What should the common man whose value is only on the voting day do to decimate the brasht neta and babus i.e. corrupt politicians and government servants ? What should the Indian Government do to abolish caste based reservations and replace it with a economic based reservations so that an individual irrespective of which caste or religion he/she belongs to can get government jobs and facilities based on his/her economic backwardness ? What should the Indian Government do to control the population which is soon going to overtake China’s population ? What should the Indian government do to stop Hindus from indulging in female foeticide / infanticide ? Dara Singh (real name Ravinder Kumar Pal) committed a gruesome crime in 1999 by making Tandoori of One Australian Protestant Missionary Graham Staines as well as his two children Timothy Philip. Afzal Guru masterminded the mission of making Tandoori of Indian Politicians in the Parliament Attack of 2001 but only succeeded in bumping off a few security personnel. Ajmal Kasab bumped off a few police officers and some 50 innocent civilians in 2008. FIFO First in First out. The Indian govt. should first hang Dara Singh and then Afzal and then Ajmal. The Congress led United Progressive Alliance controlled Indian Government has taken serious measures to decimate Maoists, Naxalites and Islamic Terror Groups but no measures to decimate the right wing facist hindu terror groups. Under such circumstances it is the responsibility of the United Nations Security Council to deploy an International Military force into India to decimate the right wing facist hindu terror groups. Rajiv Gandhi (when he was alive) had said that out of every 1 Rupee sanctioned to serve poor people only 15 paise reaches them. The UPA/Indian Govt. claims that the purpose behind the Biometric / National Population Register / Unique Identification Number / Census PROJECT is to serve the poor people better. What Nonsense. If the UPA/Indian govt. wanted to serve the poor people better then why it is not tracking down the politicians and govt. servants in whose pockets the 85 paise out of every 1 Rupee sanctioned to serve poor people goes. The real purpose behind the Biometric- National Population Register- Unique Identification Number - Census PROJECT is to track down tax evaders, criminals, anti-social elements, terrorists, maoists, naxalites, underworld, illegal migrants whistle blowers the sad part is honest and law abiding citizens are going to loose their privacy. Apart from the Union Home Minister ( who was ready to resign on the bad handling of the maoist issue but whose resignation was opposed by the hindu nationalist party BJP which is happy with the union home minister going soft on hindu terror groups ) which are the other ministers who came up with the idea of setting up the Biometric- National Population Register- Unique Identification Number - Census PROJECT which is going to cost billions of dollars of tax payers money ? People in India voted the Congress merely because there was no alternative. With price rise, invasion of privacy, forcible acquisition of lands of farmers tribals the people of India have realized what type of government they have elected. Fortunately for the congress there are no national elections for the next four years and hence they can do whatever they want without being challenged by common man and civil liberties groups. The entry into politics by One Italian woman brought curse on Christians in India. The day she entered politics the right wing facist hindu terror groups began their campaign against Christians in India. That Italian woman does not attend church service in any church in delhi neither she has been seen celebrating Christmas and Easter. Either she is ashamed to disclose her christian/catholic faith just like some coward christians who operate with Hindu names or either she has abandoned the christian/catholic faith. Unlike some muslim ministers and politicians who have demanded reservations in govt. jobs for muslims the Italian woman has never demanded reservations in govt. jobs for Christians. She would be
Re: [Goanet] Attempted suicide: Hem ‘Girlfriend ’ konnachem? (Which high profile Politician from S outh Goa?)
Another article in the Mid-day Newspaper http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/may/210510-viola-fernandes-goan-businesswoman-suicide-accident-critical-state-mumbai-news-bigamy.htm --- On Fri, 21/5/10, JoeGoaUk wrote: Attempted suicide: Hem ‘Girlfriend’ konnachem? (Which high profile Politician from South Goa?) Whose girlfriend is she? I mean, who the high ranking politician?
Re: [Goanet] Attempted suicide: Hem 'Girlfriend ' konnachem? (Which high profile Politician f rom South Goa?)
-Original Message- Attempted suicide: Hem Girlfriend konnachem? (Which high profile Politician from South Goa?) Whose girlfriend is she? I mean, who the high ranking politician? If the name of the girlfriend can be disclosed, why not the politicians? == Response From Goan Voice 21 May 2010: Suicide bid or accident? 21 May: MidDay. Viola Fernandes (27) who has been admitted in critical state to intensive care unit of a Mumbai hospital, Goan businesswoman had been named by 'Mickky' Pacheco's wife in a case of bigamy the reason she consumed rat poison in the first place still remains a subject of controversy Mickkys wife, Sara, had alleged that the minister had left her penniless and even married Fernandes 426 words. http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/may/210510-viola-fernandes-goan-businesswom an-suicide-accident-critical-state-mumbai-news-bigamy.htm
[Goanet] Devanagri
Ref: Konkani in Devnagiri script will kill Konkani Message-ID: snt108-w281377aa27893ad855d664c4...@phx.gbl Mr Camilo, Learning Konkani in Devanagri is not for you and Me, but it is for future generation. If we want our children and grand children just to talk Konkani then its ok. If you and me wants them to learn konkani, then Devanagri is must. I want to send my sondex to every family, first to talk in your house in Kankani. Teach your child to talk in Konkani. Mog assundi Peter Fernandes
[Goanet] Ignore This Super Fruit at Your Own Peril!
Humble Apple.a super fruit?? Keep reading. 'Healthier Talk' Con http://www.healthiertalk.com/ignore-super-fruit-your-own-peril-1721
[Goanet] Workshop for Tiatr Artistes
Workshop for Tiatr Artistes Tiatr Academy Goa has organized a workshop for writers of scripts of tiatr lyrics of songs on Monday, 07th June 2010 from 10:00 am onwards at TAG’s Conference Hall, Campal Trade Centre, Campal, Panaji Goa. The workshop will deal with the correct method of writing in Konkani in Roman script. It is a fact that in the present times, no tiatr artiste has taken formal education in Konkani in Roman script. This is the main reason why different script writers and lyricists write Konkani in Roman script in different ways. TAG aims at bringing uniformity in the writing of Konkani in Roman script among the tiatr artistes by organizing series of workshops to that effect. The first workshop scheduled on 07th June will be conducted by Shri. Tomazinho Cardozo, President of TAG. Tiatr artistes interested in attending the workshop should confirm their participation by informing TAG by writing or through phone nos. 2230738/2230739 on of before 04th June 2010.. TAG requests the tiatr artistes to take benefit of the workshop so that the standard of writing Konkani in Roman Script is improved. Victor de Sa Member Secretary
[Goanet] Attempted suicide: Hem ‘Girlfriend ’ konnachem? (Which high profile Politician from So uth Goa?)
lokmat grafiti ‘aajacha buzz’ has disclosed the name bice way it reads like this. Pahili sodun dusari asataana, tisarine ‘rattol’ pilyachi batami ahe disney cha undarache an ;hyanche’ naav mhane ekach ahe. Vishal Pai Kakode. When there is second after leaving first the news is the third has drank rattol Name of the Rat in disney and this guys name is same Shrikant Vinayak Barve
[Goanet] Goan author to present in Montreal, Canada
Goan-American author and researcher will be among 60 invited specialists on science and spirituality who will present at the 35th Conference of the Int'l Institute of Integral Human Sciences in Montreal in July 2010. Photo: http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/EgUFCLA4WaSD8jSo3utQBA?feat=directlink The power systems relay engineer Nelson Abreu, whose parents are from Chorao and Bardez, is currently a faculty member of the International Academy of Consciousness in Miami, USA. He will present scientific and personal perspectives on the Out-of-Body Experience and other thought-provoking phenomena. Readers can learn more about his work at the June 8th presentation, the book Filters and Reflections: Pespectives on Reality (ICRL Press, 2009) or the homepage, Facebook, or Youtube sites of the International Academy of Consciousness, a non-profit research and education organization dedicated to the study of the human consciousness. Conference Details: http://www.iiihs.org/conf2010/speakersdirectory2010.htm http://www.iacworld.org/ IAC - International Academy of Consciousness Florida Office 7800 SW 57 Ave – Suite 207D • Miami, FL 33143 Telephone: (305) 668-4668 • Fax: (305) 668-4663 www.IACworld.org References: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2006-May/129903.html
[Goanet] INVITATION - Workshop on Tobacco Control and Role of the Media
VOLUNTARY HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF GOA (Registered under the Societies Act, Reg. No. 223/Goa/2001) Models Residency, Bldg. No. 3, Flat No. T – 1, Opp. St. Inez Church, St. Inez, Panaji – Goa 403 001 INDIA.Tel. No.: +91 0832 2221012, Email: *vha...@gmail.com* vha...@gmail.com Website: *www.vhag.net*http://www.vhag.net/ 14th May 2010 *Sub:INVITATION - Workshop on Tobacco Control and Role of the Media* ** Dear Sir / Madam, The Voluntary Health Association of Goa (VHAG) in collaboration with GOACAN, the Goa Union of Journalist (GUJ) and the International Centre Goa (ICG) is organizing a workshop on Tobacco Control and the Role of the Media. The workshop will examine the role of the media in the context of the 'Global and Indian scenario of Tobacco Control advocacy and current Tobacco Control Legislation in India Goa.' [image: Your browser may not support display of this image.] The workshop also seeks to draw up a Media plan of Action keeping in mind the health effects of consumption of Tobacco products and the importance of effective control on their Promotion Sales. The details of the Workshop are as below: *DATE*: Tuesday 25th May 2010 *VENUE: * International Centre Goa, Dona Paula *TIME: * 9.30am – 5.30pm There is no registration fee. Resource materials, Refreshments and a working lunch will be provided to the participants. To register your names for the Workshop please phone 0832 2221012 and also send an Email to *vha...@gmail.com* vha...@gmail.com with your name and the contact number. Please register early as seats are limited. We look forward to your positive response to our invitation. Thanking you. Yours faithfully, Dr. Cynthia Pinto Executive Director (VHAG) -
[Goanet] Can anyone help
Dear cyber-friends, The governmenent of Pakistan on the behest of the mullahs have banned Facebook, You tube, Flickr, Wikipedia and many other websites that use the same port. Could any cyber expert tell me how to bypass the filters. Many thanks, Mike
[Goanet] Flat Owners of Salcete call for legislation to protect their interest.
--- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help other CONSUMERS to be better informed. - Flat Owners of Salcete call for legislation to protect their interest - At a largely attended meeting held in Margao, Flat Owners of Salcete Taluka expressed their determination to become self-aware of the rules and procedures applicable to themselves and spread the message of unity amongst other Flat owners in their localities. The meeting held at Loyola High School Hall Margao was the second in the series as part of the Awareness Campaign organised by GOACAN and drew an enthusiastic response from men, women and Senior Citizens from various parts of Margao and the surrounding villages of Salcete. In his welcome address, Roland Martins, Co-ordinator GOACAN gave an overview of the purpose and scope of the Awareness Campaign on the Rights of the Flat Owners. He stated that while there is a need for Flat Owners to have a State Level Association, it is also important that a Salcete Taluka Association is set up to deal with the issues of Water Supply, Electricity, Garbage Management, Parking, Sewerage Sanitation as well as the Outline Development Plans (ODP’s), Taxation by the State Govt. local self-governing bodies. He stated that the Registrar of Co-operative Societies must play a pro-active role in the defense of the Rights of the Flat Owners and that Government needs to put in place a legislation to protect the interest of the Flat Owners in Goa. He also stated that in view of the forthcoming Municipal Elections, Flat Owners, Residents Associations and Housing Societies must see themselves as active participants in making Democracy work at the local level. He assured the gathering that GOACAN and the Civic and Consumer Forums will extend all the support in this very important movement of Flat Owners for their Rights. Mr. Vijay Kapoor, a concerned Flat owner from Zuarinagar made a presentation on general guidelines for Flat Buyers and Owners. The points he covered were things to do before buying a flat, after deciding to buy a flat, after the purchase of a Flat and what to do in case of problems. He also tackled queries related to the flat owner’s rights to parking facilities which is a bone of contention for the residents once they occupy the flats and use the building premises. Anil C Devulker of Vailankinni Hsg Complex in Fatorda described the ordeal he and other flat owners had to go through. Although full payment for the flats was made, much of the incomplete construction had to be undertaken by them using their own personal funds. Amin Jiwani of Rijim Classic, Malbhat nr. Hari Mandir described in detail the problems of flat owners that arise when a builder is a family member or a relative. He further cautioned the other participants that many a time a builder might negotiate to install a mobile tower on the terrace of the building without consulting the Flat Owners. Manohar G. Naik of Kurtarkar Avenue, Aquem described the various attempts to undertake the formation of society by preparing the forms and documentation required but was bogged down by the forms are not filled correctly due to technical errors. Sameer Dessai of Sapana Heritage, Margao pointed out to the participants that being a well informed flat owner through self awareness is very crucial for obtaining justice. He narrated the scenario in many a case where there is a mis-match in the number of car park facilities to the number of flats and he cautioned the flat owners to ensure that every flat is provided a car park facility. Maurice Colaco of Damodar Chambers Hsg Society, Margao highlighted the inequalities of the maintenance charges wherein some flat owners find themselves paying for facilities that they do not use on a day to day basis. He cited the example of lift services to one part of the building which has 5 floors while the other part of the building has 3 floors but no lift services. He reminded the participants that builders most often turn parking facilities meant for flat owners into shops and godowns. Agnelo Lobo of Rosary Commercial Arcade Bldg, Navelim narrated the issues that arise in a commercial complex where the number of shops are twice the number of resident flats and maintenance issues of toilet facilities and cost of water supply etc. give rise to constant disputes between the Housing Society members. Sanjay Dalvi of Aquem gave a detailed account of his seven year long battle in the District Consumer Dispute Redressal Forum over the deficiencies in the building. He reminded the participants that litigation against the builder is a very arduous and long haul struggle which many times may end with a negative result for the
Re: [Goanet] ResearchLink: History and the (un)making of identifications in literary representations of Anglo-Indians and Goan Catholics (Marian Josephine Gracias)
Hi Eugene, I very much appreciate your post on Anglo-Indians. We Indians, to include we Goans--have a lot of internal conflicts that we have not managed to resolve and perhaps never will as a collective. But I like it that you applying your acumen to present informative material that also helps one self-reflect. I have always seen this as your strength. Keep at it. We do things and see in ways leaning towards creating images of ourselves which make us feel better in the limited sense of comprehending spirit; permitting us to face another day with some hope--albeit a false and shallow one. There are others who withdraw into themselves for the better, but more often for the worse. I have encountered much rancour, and bile from even those I have studied with, and almost all of them are no small fry. These are our stalwarts, who women admire as mard/ dadlo and of course emasculated men too. I will leave the women out of this one. But really, whats with mere gender? Thank you. venantius j pinto From: Eugene Correia gene_corr...@yahoo.com To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] ResearchLink: History and the (un)making of identifications in literary representations of Anglo-Indiansand Goan Catholics (Marian Josephine Gracias) (del) In the debased and hate-infused racial and communal conflict in Indian society, the Anglo-Indians were called the bastard children of the British empire. It must be said that both the British and Portuguese powers in India promoted the marriages of their men with local women. The Portuguese had a settlements in Satgoan and Bandel de Hoogly in the Bengal and many of Anglo-Indians in Bengal could be of Portuguese blood. In some parts of India where the Anglo-Indians were in substantial numbers, particularly at railway junctions, they were also known as Indo-Britons. (del) (del) Eugene Correia
[Goanet] Goa's new blockbuster teatok of 17th may
The issues raised by villagers as on 17 May 2010 are definitely genuine and extremely important just like the concerns of November 2006 when the RP 2011 got notified. The picture of that supper with the judases, scribes and pharisees sitted at that table are still fresh in some of our minds. In 2006 it was Babush Monseratte who was the 'monster rat' systematically constructed by the politician-press combine. Then it was Babush who was the traitor responsible for real estate development and cause of the migrant influx in Taleigao and Panjim. Anger of Goans towards the mass-scale environment destruction and their political alienation was simmering beneath. The time was just favourable for the politician-corporate combine to exploit the emotions of the people. It just took a cutting of a mango tree near Madhuban complex in St. Inez for the opening scnene of a superhit thriller teatok (tiatr and natok) that was to unfold. The scenes of a screaming lady activist and a former student activist trying to prevent the cutting of the mango tree being dragged by police and thrown into a waiting police van with excerpts of the Taleigao MLA stating I know what is best for my constituency kept rolling on the local TV channels for days. Emotions were running high, 'Babushachi xacuti zaalach pahije!' The Goa Bachao Abhiyan was born on 3rd December 2006 at the Don Bosco oratory hall in Panjim. A Jhansi ki Raani and a Shivaji were reborn to take on the onster Rat. The movement recieved a boost with support from the church bodies. The show down on 18th December 2006 brought back memories of the Konkani agitation. It revived the confidence of the Goan people that a second liberation movement was to happen. This was followed by a mamoth rally at Lohia Maidan in Margao in January 2007. The government was forced into revoking the RP 2011 as the Assembly polls were due in just a months time. GBA was to be the new liberation army of the Goan cause. Pressure to field candidates was systematically mounted on the GBA but to the misfortune of the political architects their designs gotfrustrated. GBA insited that it is apolitical. This saved the elections for the Congress which managed to cobble together the required numbers to form the government. A bolt from the blue saw Digambar Kamat ascend the throne of the Chief Minister of Goa in June 2007, a fact hard to bite for the BJP which saw him as a traitor. But from there on GBAs script of the unfinished task on the final rites of RP 2011 and the process of putting in place a new RP began to expose the script writers of the entire 'teatok' producers from the mango tree till the elections. We shall reseerve those larger socio-political truths of 2006-2007 for another day. The 17th May 2010 backdrop of a Secretariat complex with screaming women and police brutalities with the repeated publicity of the CMs remarks, I do not want Goan votes is the opening scene from a new block buster teatok that seems to be hitting the political theatre in Goa. It is on similar lines of the earlier teatok staged beneath the falling mango tree in St. Inez. Digambarchea batatwada karnarich pahije! seems to be the new refrain for 2012. He is the new sacrificial lamb upon whom is cast the burden of Goa's woes. Except that this time the script writers are different. This time the cement and pastry king with his jolly boys are in no mood to act as they are preoccupied in playing footsie with their paramour chief minister. The climax of the teatok is being systematically built up with Goan emotion rousing media coverage. There are some interesting and popular veteran politician teatokists amongst the supoporting cast. However, attempts to once again give a seal of church endorsement to this teatok by dragging the name of Fr. Maverick, head of CSJP into the supporting cast has not yet materialised. That Fr. Maverick has denied press reports about his association at the meeting on 17th May is bound to draw accusations of him being a spoil sport. The cover page of a stray thought migrant mouthpeice which was the key player in the 2006-2007 teatok has already begun to blackmail of the church by portraying the Archbishop on his cover page. With emotions running high the ever gullible goan is once again in no mood for rationality and any attempts for a rational approach is bound to meet with outright allegations about causing disunity and the favourite icing coat of goan crab mentality. There is absolutely no doubt that Digambar Kamat, Churchill Alemao and several of the politicians are anti-goan and should be brought to book for their crimes against the Goan people. But without a long-term scientific approach for a lasting solution to the problems of the Goan people, the future could be no different then the post-election scenario of June 2007 when GBA began dancing footsie. We Goans have been cheated again and again,. be it the Konkani
[Goanet] Soter 'woosh ingacho
The reason is very simple. Because Soter has no credibility at all. The women who sell stale fish at the Margao bus stop have more credibility. After maligning the GBA, then Oscar Rebello, he starts on Dean D'Cruz. It is good to see Zarina D'Cunha in the news on the front-lines. Where was Soter with his Panchayat Raj, when Zarina was single-handedly battling Panchayat woes? Soter was no where to be seen. Neither on the front-lines nor the battle-zone. Soter should first give us a list of how many panchs are honorable men in Goa and how he has worked to make the institution transparent and accountable to anyone other than themselves. Nobody should listen to Soter, Rajan Parrikar and Anil Desai's nonsence on this mailing list. For these people we have a word in Xatti. Woosh inga'che. Ghar vos. Best, Selma
Re: [Goanet] Need for developing credibility in activism
It is a fact that the architects go by the rules of the road, a hand-book of do's and don't. As far as I am concerned, this is the Bible for the profession. There was an instance reported to me [ during the RP2011 ongoing agitations]. A certain Delhi Party had acquired the approval of plans to develop an entire hill side at Arambol, facing the Arabian Sea. This Delhi party approaches this architect to plan a spread for him. When the architect was told that it was a hill-side, he wanted to see the place he was going to develop. That done, the architect, having found that the slope was more than 25 degrees, wanted the contour plan done. No need, he was told. You go ahead and do the sketch so that we can sit down and check it out. Therefore the architect did do the sketch, limiting himself to 33 per cent in view of the more than 25 per cent gradient. The party gets infuriated to see this and tells the architect that he has to utilize 100 per cent of the space as he has the clearance from the highest authority (meaning Babush Monserrate). That he is being paid handsomely to do the job, and what was his problem. This architect guy tells him to go f**k himself. To get the plans done by some one else. That he values his Goa more than the money his is going to make and/or his license to operate. And in so doing, he returns the file to the high and mighty Delhi party and it would seem that this was the end of the story. However, Patricia Pinto got the marketing brochure of this place and through she saw to it that this project was halted. However, I had no knowledge at the time about the dealings of the Delhi Party with the architect. This, I came to know only when this project was questioned and halted. It was done because sensitive members of the Goa Su-Raj Party from the area contacted me and for my part I sent one of our executive members from Siolim to check this out. However, I am not sure if this project has been revived or not as the people in the vicinity have not reported to me to the contrary, whom I have instructed to be on guard for these beautiful hill slopes for 100 per cent development. If the rule book say 33 per cent, then it must be 33 per cent. I wonder if more architects do the things that this champion of Goa's cause has done. At a time when it is required and proper, I shall openly felicitate this dear Goan architect for a job well done unto his motherland. And I do hope more architects do the same, including architect Dean D'Cruz, who I am sure is doing his very best to preserve Goa for posterity especially since he is the GBA and the Goan gullible people will want to place full trust in him and people like him. Cheers floriano.l...@gmail.com from PPS to PPS 9890470896 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM www.goasu-raj.org - Original Message - From: soter so...@bsnl.in To: goa...@goanet.org Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 10:41 PM Subject: [Goanet] Need for developing credibility in activism Once again Soter, Rajan and their group have been accused of slander by a celebrity architect. An editorial in one of the local corporate mouthpieces mentions campaigner disunity. Why is Soter attacking the poor architect (before this it was the poor doctor) has been the question asked to Soter's friends but not to Soter. Some others express fear that such exposures will embolden the corrupt political establishment and must not be done in larger interest. Whose interest we do not know? Goa is a small place and if one is observant then double standards in activism gets noticed very easily. Whether these are mere contradictions or betrayals is left for the people of Goa to decide. In some cases it is not less than an irreversible sell out. Activists sometimes have no inhibitions in receiving awards instituted by agencies with controversial or dubious reputation. To err is human but what about these double standards which get marketed as normal and beneficial to the community? These contradictions are something like one consuming poison and also telling others to keep away from the poison. It is a contradiction where corruption by politicians is condemned by professionals but corruption in their own professional dealings gets marketed as entrepreneurship. This contradiction is of a type where one participates (directly or indirectly) in an activity that destroys the environment and at the same time also claims to be an environmental campaigner. This contradiction is of a type where a campaigner demands upholding the freedom of expression by the government but supports the suppression of truth in the media. And while all this goes on, anyone who exposes this contradiction or duplicity gets quickly accused of slander. They get accused of fostering disunity. This double standard club is no small club. Like the politicians, it has influence over the information machinery to distort the truth and portray
[Goanet] Churchill backs Raheja's project
Anil Desai : I have every sympathy with residents of Carmona in particular and Goans in general but the Mantra is: *Corruption is better than communalism.* Congressmen and women can recite this at every election and get Churchillbab and his brother and now even his daughter elected. We will wake up when every inch of Goa is 'developed' by this Congress government. Digu has already told Goans that he does not need their votes because he knows that Catholic vote bank and ghanti vote bank is securely in his pocket. He can laugh all the way to dear Soniaji. Response: Given the dilemma the goan voter faces- being driven between the devil and the deep sea, one must commend the goan voter for voting wisely under the given circumstances. The opposition BJP is as much too blame for the present mess. Have you seen or heard much opposition to the bad policies from the BJP? They are silently playing footsie with the ruling party and benefitting from the corruption. The role of opposition is being played by various individuals and NGO's. Look at Karnataka, once a placid, peaceful state, now riven by violence and religious discrimination. Here is one more trailer of how things can go awry when the reins of power are placed in the wrong hands: Drill Them All Into Line http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?265435 Here is another example from Maharashtra, where the BMC is ruled by the BJP-Shiv Sena combine http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Mumbai/BMCs-Hindutva-diktat-upsets-schools/articleshow/5955898.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Saffron-roots-for-Hindu-touch-in-missionary-schools/articleshow/5951252.cms When the choice before the voter is communalism + corruption vs corruption, the alert and wise voter is bound to choose the lesser evil. Of course, Floriano has offered another choice, his SuRaj Party. The time is now ripe for the voters to test this party and rally round it before it is too late. Regards, Marshall
Re: [Goanet] anglo-indians-Goan Catholics
Corretions: In the first line, ...Ph.D with her these on the Anglo-Indian community in Bengal in my collectionthese on the Anglo-Indian community in Bengal The word these should be thesis. Eugene
Re: [Goanet] ResearchLink: History and the (un)making of identifications in literary representations of Anglo-Indians and Goan Catholics (Marian Josephine Gracias)
On 21 May 2010 04:36, Eugene Correia gene_corr...@yahoo.com wrote: On the subject of Godfrey's piece, the issue went from East Indians to Anglo-Indians. i happen to come across a piece by a Toronto-based scholar Megan Mills who got her Ph.D with her these on the Anglo-Indian community in Bengal in my collection. It is in a journal edited by an old friend under the title, The Anglo-Indian -- an Ongoing Community of Bengal. She writes, Misunderstanding abounds on question of the Anglo-Indians' origins. Other Indians and westerns can share most assuming notions of Anglo-Indian descent from illicit relationships between Indian women of humble origins and unsavoury Europeans. Certainly, these were not more prevalent than convention alliances in the 17th and 18th centuries witnessing the rise of the greater part of Bengal's Anglo-Indian population. Moreover, it is seldom realized that the term Anglo-Indian in use since 1911 is rather a stunnng misnomer, for the community's European ancestry is simply not very Anglo (word in italics). ... Eugene Correia COMMENT: Well that was as good a rebuttal was I have ever seen; assumptions were made, probably by those who were jealous of the Anglo-Indians higher than the Indians status -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
[Goanet] COLUMN: The missing link of Goa’s d rug trade chain
The missing link of Goa’s drug trade chain By Nisser Dias nisserdias at gmail.com SMS to 9422437029 From the beginning of this year, the police displayed some spine in going after some of the big drug dealers in the state, whatever their intention may have been either to clear the field for bigger players for bigger stakes for themselves or with noble intentions to rid the state of drugs is yet to be seen as time passes by. But what has been revealed so far is that, there does exists a nexus between the families of politicians, police and drug dealers in the drug trade in the state. Unfortunately, our Home minister is on record saying that drugs are not being sold in Goa, when one of the kingpins of the nefarious trade along the north Goa coastal belt is alleged to being a minister’s son. That apart, after the Home minister’s statement, police netted David alias Dudu Dirham - one time a top drug dealer. Subsequently, a Swedish model Lucky Farmhouse – a former girlfriend of another Israeli drug peddler Yaniv Benahim alias Atala blew the lid on the drug trade by posting spycam recording of Atala boasting about his links with a ring of policemen including police inspector Ashish Shirodkar on Youtube.com. It is from here that the entire saga of drugs in the state gets very interesting. The police arrested some of their colleagues including a PI and as investigation progressed, there were alarming disclosures that drugs seized for the last 10 years were not destroyed, that the rogue policemen used to rob drugs from the godown and push it back into the market and that drugs attached in the court as mundemal property were also siphoned back into the market, casting a shadow on the judiciary. That apart, CID Crime Branch have been entrusted with the investigation, but so far the approach adopted by the investigation team does not seem to evoke much pride, simply because they could not nab one constable Sanjay Parab, who managed to elude arrest for two months and finally made the crime branch team look like kindergartners by surrendering at the NDPS court. Besides that, for sometime now the prime witness who exposed the trade has been saying that a son of a powerful politician is involved, but the police have not shown much enthusiasm in probing this aspect. However it is not the first time that the name of this politician’s son has surfaced. It was making rounds during the death of English victim - 15 year old Scarlet Keeling, Infact it was Fiona Mackeown – mother of the victim, who has first uttered it in public. For me it is difficult to believe that the police had not heard it of it earlier. Of course, it is not the first time that the son of this politician is in illegal or shady business. Somewhere around 2004, one young girl was nabbed by the then South Goa SP Indra Dev Shukla near Holy Spirit for moving around alone during the dead of the night. On questioning her, led the police to a flat in the vicinity of old Kare College of Law, wherein another girl was rescued from the hands of the rapist, who ironically happened to be journalist. It was during this investigation too that the name of the same politician’s son had surfaced as having procured the girls, but the police did not show any inclination of pursuing the matter. And the accused too was acquitted by the court for lack of evidence. Similar is the situation now, the police are not very enthusiastic about investigating the allegations being made that a politician’s son is the kingpin in the drug trade. Of course truth is an open secret, but till the time police establishes it as a fact, it will remain a rumour, ironically though, it is said that a rumour too has an ounce of truth in it. Lucky Farmhouse through an interview made a bold statement that she has evidence of a powerful politician’s son being involved in the drug trade in Goa; question is why is she holding it back. Why does she not post it on the YouTube, so that the media can pick it up and air it across the country? In this manner, there is all likelihood that the minister would be forced to step down and clear the way for the police to investigate the matter more meticulously and get to the bottom of the matter. And if at all, it turns out that there is truth in the rumour, the politician’s son would have to be sent behind bars, which again would reduce the risk of threat to life of Lucky Farmhouse. Or could it be that after creating ripples in the state with her previous posting on the YouTube, that mysterious model is trying get back at her boyfriend Atala for threatening her or could it be that she is bargaining a ransom from the politician’s son. Furthermore, why is it that the police with all its resources cannot get in touch with her, whereas journalist can easily contact her over the phone or electronic mail? Why is it that the Crime Branch personnel try to undo the damage to their
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Re: [Goanet] Need for developing credibility in activism
Dear Floriano, We also are in the know of a professional who rejected a tempting offer for consultancy from a prominent architect for a mega project in one of South Goa's villages as his principles do not permit him to undertake such development in the Goa's villages. In konkani there is a saying, nak bond kelear tondd ugttem zata. and yet another one Zogzogta titlem-i bhangar nhoi. So let us keep it at that or else our group may yet again be accused of a slander campaign on goanet by Goa's fair and lovely. -Soter
[Goanet] BMC's 'Hindutva' diktat upsets schools
MUMBAI: In what appears to be a medieval fatwa, the Sena-BJP-ruled BMC has sought to make it mandatory for the 150-odd missionary-run schools in the city to promote 'Hindutva traditions'. The municipal corporation's education committee will now write to the state education department seeking permission to enforce its widening list of demands. The move has caused widespread anguish among both parents and the academic community, with experts pointing out that these diktats have no legal standing. The missionary schools have threatened to go to court if they are made to toe the parties' line. On Tuesday, the saffron combine had proposed that these institutions allow their students to wear their 'Indian-ness' in the form of bindis and bangles. A day later, it hardened its stance, with demands like more holidays for Ganpati and Diwali, a corporators' quota in these schools similar to that given to MLAs, a school notice board prominently displaying the names of corporators in the education committee, and all communication to the BMC to be written in Marathi. While reviewing proposals from BMC-aided schools, we came across many missionary schools who had written to us in English. And many corporators observed that while these schools approach the BMC for aid, they do not adhere to Hindu traditions. If these missionaries come here to impart education, they should adhere to Hindu traditions as most of the students are Hindus. Why should they forbid girls from wearing bindis or bangles or even using mehendi? What is the need for such rigid discipline? asked education committee chairperson Rukmini Kharatmol. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Mumbai/BMCs-Hindutva-diktat-upsets-schools/articleshow/5955898.cms *‘Saffron ideology goes against the Constitution’ * *TIMES NEWS NETWORK * Mumbai: The Shiv Sena-BJP ruled BMC’s proposals to make it mandatory for missionary-run schools to allow “Hindu traditions’’ may not stand the test of laws in the country and would violate fundamental rights, say legal experts across the city. Article 30 of the Constitution of India, gives linguistic and religious minorities the right to “to establish and administer educational institutions of their choice’’. This right allows minority communities to set up schools and colleges without government interference. “The Constitutional right is not a special law to favour minorities, but it has been enacted to ensure that they are not discriminated against,’’ said a lawyer who practises in the Bombay High Court. While a private unaided minority educational institutions stand on a different footing, the state can exercise some control over aided minority establishments, according to lawyers. “Minority institutions that receive state aid are required to follow the rules laid down by the government,’’ said lawyer Mihir Desai, adding, “Various Supreme Court judgments said that the state can make regulations for minority aided institutions with a view to achieve the aim of academic excellence.’’ These can include rules about the ratio of number of teachers to a classroom, qualification criteria for the faculty or with regard to the syllabus. The lawyer added that the authorities would have to show how these proposed rules which are to be introduced would fulfil the objective of attaining excellence in education. This view was seconded by advocate Uday Warunjikar. “Under the Constitution, linguistic and religious minority schools are accorded special protection to ensure that they can preserve their traditions and culture. The state has some control on minority institutions that receive grant in aid from the government, but even this is limited,’’ said Warunjikar. The advocate further said that it would have to be seen what shape the final BMC resolution, if any, will take and if they are serious about rules requiring that missionary-aided schools allow their students to wear bindis and bangles. “If the rules are meant to improve educational standards then they may have some merit, but if the norms are going to concentrate on mere ornaments and appearances, then it would be hard to defend it in a court of law or show that such regulations have any nexus with purpose of education,’’ added Warunjikar. http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Daily/skins/TOINEW/navigator.asp?Daily=TOIMshowST=truelogin=defaultpub=TOI
Re: [Goanet] Soter 'woosh ingacho
If I may apply a little shine on Selma's quote: For these people we have a word in Xatti. Woosh inga'che. Ghar vos. [For these people we have a word in Xhasti - Voss inga'che' - Vaxim-bhor] Cheers floriano.l...@gmail.com from PPS to PPS 9890470896 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM [the battle at kruger] www.goasu-raj.org - Original Message - From: Carvalho elisabeth_...@yahoo.com To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 7:14 PM Subject: [Goanet] Soter 'woosh ingacho The reason is very simple. Because Soter has no credibility at all. The women who sell stale fish at the Margao bus stop have more credibility. After maligning the GBA, then Oscar Rebello, he starts on Dean D'Cruz. It is good to see Zarina D'Cunha in the news on the front-lines. Where was Soter with his Panchayat Raj, when Zarina was single-handedly battling Panchayat woes? Soter was no where to be seen. Neither on the front-lines nor the battle-zone. Soter should first give us a list of how many panchs are honorable men in Goa and how he has worked to make the institution transparent and accountable to anyone other than themselves. Nobody should listen to Soter, Rajan Parrikar and Anil Desai's nonsence on this mailing list. For these people we have a word in Xatti. Woosh inga'che. Ghar vos. Best, Selma
Re: [Goanet] Churchill backs Raheja's project
Yes, Marshall, You have said what needs to be said. But then we at ground zero know that the choice is not a simple one. To galvanize into motion from scratch is a difficult proposition. And we goans have been used to ready-made options/solutions. But we will not work towards making that option/solution available to us. As I have said umpteen times, this is a well prepared, all angles sorted-out, party which is not merely floating in name. We have also not gone into setting up organizing the grass-roots because the people at large has not found the urgent need for an alternative, yet. But the time is coming to that fast. Example: I do not care for your vote aka let them eat cake And when the time is ripe, Goa Su-Raj , whether in that name or in any other name but for its prepared-ness and its principles waiting in the corners with the entire system of before' and after elections' in readiness, can be a forest fire that is difficult to put out untill everything is charred. Only in time Goans will realize the fact and take off their hats to respect it for its meticulous planning for Goa's future. And we have said it before and we shall say it now. It is difficult to please all the people at the same time. But it is easy to do for Goa what needs to be done, whether some people get hurt or not. And the percentage of people getting hurt cannot be more than 10 PC, by all means. That is for sure. :-) Cheers floriano.l...@gmail.com from PPS to PPS 9890470896 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU8DDYz68kM [the battle at kruger] www.goasu-raj.org - Original Message - From: Marshall Mendonza mmendonz...@gmail.com To: goanet goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 10:34 PM Subject: [Goanet] Churchill backs Raheja's project Anil Desai : I have every sympathy with residents of Carmona in particular and Goans in general but the Mantra is: *Corruption is better than communalism.* Congressmen and women can recite this at every election and get Churchillbab and his brother and now even his daughter elected. We will wake up when every inch of Goa is 'developed' by this Congress government. Digu has already told Goans that he does not need their votes because he knows that Catholic vote bank and ghanti vote bank is securely in his pocket. He can laugh all the way to dear Soniaji. Response: Given the dilemma the goan voter faces- being driven between the devil and the deep sea, one must commend the goan voter for voting wisely under the given circumstances. The opposition BJP is as much too blame for the present mess. Have you seen or heard much opposition to the bad policies from the BJP? They are silently playing footsie with the ruling party and benefitting from the corruption. The role of opposition is being played by various individuals and NGO's. Look at Karnataka, once a placid, peaceful state, now riven by violence and religious discrimination. Here is one more trailer of how things can go awry when the reins of power are placed in the wrong hands: Drill Them All Into Line http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?265435 Here is another example from Maharashtra, where the BMC is ruled by the BJP-Shiv Sena combine http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Mumbai/BMCs-Hindutva-diktat-upsets-schools/articleshow/5955898.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Saffron-roots-for-Hindu-touch-in-missionary-schools/articleshow/5951252.cms When the choice before the voter is communalism + corruption vs corruption, the alert and wise voter is bound to choose the lesser evil. Of course, Floriano has offered another choice, his SuRaj Party. The time is now ripe for the voters to test this party and rally round it before it is too late. Regards, Marshall
Re: [Goanet] While researching Kenya, she found shocking truths
Read this article with interest. It takes an American historian to report these accounts. This report appears while English speaking European, especially British, historians are busy reporting and writing about Black Legend history. This latter history is obviously not too politically sensitive for a writer or publisher in Englsh. Yet it is tragic that these historical archives are available in their own country or former colonies and historians should be discussing these at their national and regional meetings. Goanet is often bombarded with accounts of tortures of the Inquisition in Goa and elsewhere, (in the 17 and 18 century). Yet the English (writing and reading) historians and history buffs (with names like Driscoll) will overlook / ignore / are ignorant of hundreds of stories of tortures committed in worst of these camps, some in grisly detail: castrations, clamping of women's breast with pliers, fatal beating. Equably compelling is her account of the British denial of the truth, which extended form local colonial officials right up though Winston Churchill and his successors, Antony Eden and Harold Macmillan. The intellectual crime TODAY is the cover-up by current British historians of events in their own backyard in the 20th century. These archives should be easily accessible to them. The same can be said of Dutch historians who would rather investigate Spanish-Portugese atrocities in Iberian colonies (which should be reported) than Dutch atrocities in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and Indonesia; or Jewish historians who hate talking and writing about Israel's CONTEMPORARY atrocities within its borders and in its own colony of Gaza and West Bank. Regards, GL Frederick Noronha wrote: While researching Kenya, she found shocking truths about the British empire. Caroline Elkins won a 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her book Imperial Reckoning. (Janet Knott / Globe Staff Photo). ``I was strongly urged by colleagues not to undertake this project, for two reasons, Caroline Elkins said in an interview at her home, not far from the campus. ``One, they felt it was too politically sensitive. Two, they said there wouldn't be enough information. So, me being me, I decided those were good enough reasons to undertake the project. By Elkins's calculations, as many as 320,000 men and women were held in the camps, and as many as 50,000 were killed. Elkins uncovered hundreds of stories of tortures committed in the worst of these camps, some in grisly detail: castrations, clamping of women's breasts with pliers, fatal beatings. Equally compelling is her account of the British denial of the truth, which extended from local colonial officials right up through Winston Churchill and his successors, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan.
Re: [Goanet] BMC's 'Hindutva' diktat upsets schools
--- On Fri, 5/21/10, Marshall Mendonza mmendonz...@gmail.com quoted: While reviewing proposals from BMC-aided schools, we came across many missionary schools who had written to us in English. And many corporators observed that while these schools approach the BMC for aid, they do not adhere to Hindu traditions. If these missionaries come here to impart education, they should adhere to Hindu traditions as most of the students are Hindus. Why should they forbid girls from wearing bindis or bangles or even using mehendi? What is the need for such rigid discipline? asked education committee chairperson Rukmini Kharatmol. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Mumbai/BMCs-Hindutva-diktat-upsets-schools/articleshow/5955898.cms Are the allegations made in the above quote true? Or are they just the usual fabrications of politicians and over-zealous activists? Do these schools really forbid girls from wearing bindis and bangles and mehendi? Also, what are the Hindutva traditions referred to in the following quote? It is not clear from the rest of the article. I would like to request Marshall or someone else in the know to inform us. Cheers, Santosh --- On Fri, 5/21/10, Marshall Mendonza mmendonz...@gmail.com wrote: MUMBAI: In what appears to be a medieval fatwa, the Sena-BJP-ruled BMC has sought to make it mandatory for the 150-odd missionary-run schools in the city to promote 'Hindutva traditions'. The municipal corporation's education committee will now write to the state education department seeking permission to enforce its widening list of demands.
Re: [Goanet] Konkani - devanagri or Romi?
Dear Borges, Thanks for your response. Although I was surprised to find that you did not understand my message, Anyway, what I meant was that I was curious to find out how different the devanagri Konkani and Romi Konkani is. Who better to show the difference than professor borges ( earlier I wrote it as dr borges). You question me as to where you have mentioned your strong love for devanagri. Well if you go thru goanet for the last few years, you will find out. And all the other writers who question you or have debates with you, on this are not blind to see that love you have for devanagri. I simply have asked you to write your replies to such correspondants in devanagri Konkani using ( abcdefghijklmnopqursuvwxyz) instead of the devanagri, as maybe goanet does not support the devanagri fonts, and maybe lots of people cannot read the devanagri script. See to it that the phonetics are as the devanagri Konkani should be. Hope you understand. If not here is an example in hindi I write. Tumara nam kya hai? Or Apka nam kya hai? Romi script but hindi words J Romi Konkani is what I understand, where as devanagri Konkni or accent is what the TV presenters speak, which goes flying over my head. Hope you understood. But than you say the Konkani spoken in Church is beyond your understanding, and it took you years to understand what was happening. Where as me, without even being taught Konkani ( as Marathi was the optional language for us than) read my first Konkani book written by Reginald Fernandes called Arabeska. I was in my 6th or 7th standard than. And that’s when I started hunting high and low for all books of Reginald Fernandes, a very good writer also called Kunvor Konkani romanshincho. The writers I read were Boniventure Peitro and also remember some other names like Caridad and Joao Inacio,. Recently I have been reading some writers on the net and you too must have come across them and mind you this all without learning Konkani in schools. Hope to read your Konkani or Konkni as is said in devanagri, in devanagri language, where by I want to see if I can really understand it at all. J Cheers Jerry Fernandes Subject: Re: [Goanet] Konkani - devanagri or Romi? Message-ID: 819923.73626...@web113309.mail.gq1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Dear friends, Discussion on this topic has indeed been going on for a long time. Yet, regretfully, abysmal ignorance thereon persists unabated; in fact, because of the non-serious participation on the internet, it has become extensive as well. The present post is a sample of this situation. Let us analyse some of its salient contents. the Romi is the real Konkani of Goa. 1. To the best of my knowledge, Konkani is the name of the language spoken by people living in a part of the western coastal belt of India called Konkan. Like any other language it has many dialects which are spoken in certain localities or by members of certain groups, like professions, ethnicities etc. 2. Now, is this Romi a language? If yes, where is this name recorded? I cannot claim to know the name of every language in the world but must confess that I have not heard of this one. Is it a dialect of Konkani? If yes, where is it SPOKEN (like Aldona, Agonda, Satari, Sanguem) or by which community (like fisherman, carpenter, brahmin, charddo, kunnbi, velip, Christian, Hindu etc.)? 3. What characteristics or attributes make it real as against others which may be unreal? Borges ... has been writing endlessly, his strong love for the devanagri Konkani Could I please see a sample or two from my endless writing wherein I have expressed my strong love for the devanagari Konkani whatever the last two words might mean? his correspondence is mostly in romi (not the writing) but the pronounciations What is this supposed to mean? Is there something called 'romi pronunciations'? Could I be favoured with a sample of this as well? I was under the (mistaken?) impression that romi stands for a script which is used for WRITING; but here Jerry qualifies it with not the writing. Hence my curiosity. Trust Jerry will help. 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) What is the meaning of this? How can I use romi script to write in devanagari? Would it be too much to expect a clarification? Most of what is being said on doordarshan TV, ... just flies over my head and makes me wonder if that is the Konkani or Marathi or whatever language it is. Most of what I heard being read in the Church also flew over my head, as it is not in the Konkani language I speak at home or in the local marketplace. I too wondered whether it was Latin or Greek or whatever language. But years of dinning into my captive ears has made it intelligible; my cerebral computer has now become adept at translating the Church medium into my domestic lingo. So, if Jerry were to stick to the doordarshan TV long enough, he would
[Goanet] Mining awareness tours... in the Goan hinterland
The GoaMAP (Goa Mining Affected People) and GXE (Goenche Xettkaranche Ekvott) along with other concerned citizens and youth will conduct the 5th free bus tour along Goa's Mining Belt in the hinterland of Goa. This is approximately a 100 Km tour. Just seeing is believing! In the name of development, hills, forests are wiped away and water aquifers charging the ground water tables destroyed. So far, four tours have been conducted on Sundays only, as there is no movement of mining trucks. Otherwise it would be chaos during the week. 1st tour on 18th April with several journalists on board. Joaquim Fernandes (Times of India) who took this tour wrote an article. http://m.timesofindia.com/PDATOI/articleshow/5951450.cms 2nd tour on 2nd May with concerned citizens. 3rd tour on 9th May with a group of Dhempe College 2nd Year Geology Students, one journalist and some concerned citizens 4th tour on 16th May with youth from in and around Margao. The FIFTH tour on Sunday - 23rd May 2010 leaves from Panjim KTC bus-stand at 7:30am and returns to the same point by 6pm latest. Please carry some drinking water and some food/snacks. If you or your family/friends would like to join the tour, please let me know, so that I can give co-ordinators your names. All the above trips have been sponsored by concerned citizens of Goa, which will be announced in the bus. Please also spread the word of this Picnic with a Difference. Thanks SMS or call 9850871608 (Lisa) SMS or call 9766453080 (Andrea) SMS or call 9421280798 / 9850116114 (Terence) or email terencejorg...@gmail.com ndrea_pere...@yahoo.co.in * * * A COMMENT FROM AMITA KANEKAR: These are pictures of a ‘Mining Tour’ in Goa (May 9, 2010) organised by environment and anti-mining activists like Hartman de Souza, Rama Velip, and others. The tour (by bus and foot) started in Margao, moved through the talukas of Quepem and Sanguem in south Goa where mining has just begun in the last three to four years, and then northwards along the ‘mining corridor’ of Usgaon and Sanquelim to the oldest areas of Bicholim -- with its 14km long mining range -- right up to the village of Sirigao in Bicholim and the 40-year-old mine of the Chowgules. All along we were shown the dead landscape of dusty roads, mud-heap hills, eviscerated springs and poisoned streams, all the more shocking for the bright green slopes and sparkling streams just a few metres away -- awaiting their doom! All along were also the bright signboards of those responsible: Dhempes, Salgaonkar, Chowgule, Alemao, Vedanta, etc, etc. Much of Goa remains lush and green even in the height of summer because of the hundreds of springs originating in the western ghats and flowing through the year, except in the mining regions. Sirigao, the home of a goddess, Lairai, apparently traditionally worshipped as a pot of water, is a good example of the havoc wreaked on this luxuriant ecosystem. All the streams in the village -- and there were once many -- have dried up and the village is now dependent on water supplied through mining tankers. The huge mining pit explains why, for as you stare down the stripped, cut and blasted faces of the hills to the lake at the bottom -- apparently 27 m. below sea level -- you can see amidst the variegated hues of raw rock, many thin little trickles of water draining out into the lake below. These are the last remnants of the ancient aquifer inside the hills of Sirigao, blasted open by the miners and left to empty itself into the pit, from which three pumps work around the clock to pump this ‘waste’ up and out of the pit and onto the hillside where it runs away into nothing. While the village remains thirsty... (These tours are going to be held every Sunday through the next few months, to make people aware of the catastrophic situation. All are welcome to join!) See photos at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=235305id=612188205ref=mf Login needed, via Facebook.
Re: [Goanet] Konkani - devanagri or Romi?
On 22 May 2010 00:23, Jerry Fernandes jerry...@gmail.com wrote: Hope to read your Konkani or Konkni as is said in devanagri, in devanagri language, where by I want to see if I can really understand it at all. J Dialect is different from script, though they do get intertwined in the Goa of today. FN
[Goanet] First person account of events at Porvorim Secretariat on Monday, May 17th
First person account of events at Porvorim Secretariat on Monday, May 17th thanks. “I felt was a very crude and insulting manner, PI Gad grabbed the front of my blouse and flung me against the wall behind” THAT REALLY CONDEMNABLE “The manner in which he (PI) allegedly touched her she said, triggered feelings of deep outrage and humiliation in her and she turned on him and tried to defend herself” THAT SOMETHING UNDERSTANDABLE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES But how some one will justify this? Could not see any mention of this incident in the report http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukextras/4618646874/ Sorry, I am not taking sides, although it may appear that way I feel, a person of this type of temperament should not be a part of any future Morchas. 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] Workshop for Tiatr Artistes
Dear Victor This is a very good initiative will help the artists. Saying that I also feel that TAG must also look at reaching out to people not only physically located in Goa but to also those who are outside Goa. With the modern age of video conferencing, video training and online education TAG must think in those lines to cater globally that will help talented artists to improve their Konkani skills. The goal is to educate people to write in Roman script and that’s anyways easily available in Goa if one is determined to learn, so it would be great if this service could be extended globally with the use of technology. Best Wishes Agnelo -- From: Tiatr Academy Goa tiatracad...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 9:10 AM To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Workshop for Tiatr Artistes Workshop for Tiatr Artistes Tiatr Academy Goa has organized a workshop for writers of scripts of tiatr lyrics of songs on Monday, 07th June 2010 from 10:00 am onwards at TAG’s Conference Hall, Campal Trade Centre, Campal, Panaji Goa. The workshop will deal with the correct method of writing in Konkani in Roman script. It is a fact that in the present times, no tiatr artiste has taken formal education in Konkani in Roman script. This is the main reason why different script writers and lyricists write Konkani in Roman script in different ways. TAG aims at bringing uniformity in the writing of Konkani in Roman script among the tiatr artistes by organizing series of workshops to that effect. The first workshop scheduled on 07th June will be conducted by Shri. Tomazinho Cardozo, President of TAG. Tiatr artistes interested in attending the workshop should confirm their participation by informing TAG by writing or through phone nos. 2230738/2230739 on of before 04th June 2010.. TAG requests the tiatr artistes to take benefit of the workshop so that the standard of writing Konkani in Roman Script is improved. Victor de Sa Member Secretary
[Goanet] CONTROVERSY: Campaigning, in style (Herald)
Campaigning, in style Campaigner and former student leader Aires Rodrigues won a round in another of his public battles, with prosecutor Winnie Coutinho's resignation on the weekend. Coutinho was apparently in line for a high court judge's post, which makes the case a serious one. Aires and a section of the media have been gunning for Ms. Coutinho, though it can be easy to get carried away by allegation and insinuation and to indulge in a 'trial by media'. Serious issues of propriety in public life, conflict of interest, or worse, need to be tackled by an effective State mechanism, which works to keep public life accountable and transparent in an on-going manner. We clearly lack the institutions and processes. We are unlikely to get them in the near future. But all this does not justify the media taking on itself the role of playing judge, jury and executioner in a campaign of public innuendo and bitter charges. In the Coutinho case, even if the charges are found to be true and relevant, the unfair aspect of the campaign was more than clear to anyone reading between the lines. All kinds of personal and unrelated issues were dragged into the debate, as if any means whatsoever were justified once the target was decided on. Another relevant question comes up here: who decides whom to target and when? While Advocate Aires has taken up a number of campaigns in the past, the focus for targetting individuals -- rather than the wider issue involved -- is cause for more than a little concern. We may hardly agree with Aires Rodrigues' campaign against compulsory helmets in Goa -- the orthopaedic surgeons and doctors at the Goa Medical College mortuary have the statistics to tell us why. But, beyond that, one can question also whether he is doing the apt thing in targetting a single individual rather than a wider malaise. In the case of a church in Ribandar, Aires Rodrigues focused on an individual priest. In the plethora of allegations and counter-allegations, the rest of us are left wondering whether this was a single scapegoat, whether sex-abuse by men of the cloth is a wider issues that needs to be tackled, and whether whether it was fair to attack one individual in the first place. With all the oratory at his command, an intelligent man like Aires Rodrigues is bound to be convincing. Which makes it all the more confusing when he lurches from being a strong supporter of Manohar Parrikar, to being his bitter critic, and then going back to his side of the ship. Political stands are hardly irrelevant in today's Goa, since quite a few campaigns have been used, misused and abused for political purposes. Not too long ago, the lawyer-campaigner took up a campaign against the son of a politician, a young man who perhaps earned part of the flak he got because politicians are so unpopular in today's Goa. Some saw this as well deserved; after all, controversial politicians deserve to be beaten with just about any stick which comes our way. But, after many headlines and a long campaign, is it fair to drop such a case without even a credible explanation? One cannot but wonder whether others involved in a similar case would get the same treatment. Even as Aires Rodrigues targets one public prosecutor -- assuming his charges are found to be accurate and justified -- campaigners in other parts of India are raising wider questions. For instance, some are comparing the process of appointment of judges in India and the USA and highlighting systemic failings. It is fine to tackle individual cases of wrongdoing; that could be a starting point. But we would certainly fail if the wider picture is lost sight of. Secondly, campaigners need to assure that their issues are not randomly selected, or worse, chosen with bias. It is time campaigners also spent some attention to ensure that society has enough self-correcting checks-and-balances in place, rather than rushing to get justice in the easy-to-manipulate court of public opinion. http://oheraldo.in/newpage.php?month=5day=17year=2010catid=15
[Goanet] Soter woosh ingacho
Dear Netters Atleast I think more people read Soter thoughts on Goanet than Selmas heart bleeps on goan voice Regds Beny Pereira Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone from du
[Goanet] Workshop for Tiatr Artist
Subject: [Goanet] Workshop for Tiatr Artistes Message-ID: 4bf68636.3050...@gmail.com Zan'tteano toxem Nen'tteano, It is not enough if parents provided us books and we can graduate. It is necessary for us to attend school and college in order to complete graduation. Same way any body can compose a song and sing but to become a professional artist education is required and education is a must. Here is an announcement from Tiatr Academy: Tiatr Academy Goa has organized a workshop for writers of scripts of tiatr lyrics of songs on Monday, 07th June 2010 from 10:00 am onwards at TAG?s Conference Hall, Campal Trade Centre, Campal, Panaji Goa. The workshop will deal with the correct method of writing in Konkani Roman script. I wish all who have talent of writing Stories for Tiatrs, talent of composing songs for Tiatr, will attend this workshop. Never mind if you think you are an actor by by profession, take a chance of attending this workshop and see how much you can improve further. Mogacheam bhavano, Tiatr, mhaka dista ho xobd TI ART so mhonn karann thoim ek-ekleachi Kola pollounk mellta mhonn. Tiatran kola mhonntlear, hansoupachi titlench rodoupachi. kitem sot kitem fott tem dakoun diupachi. Kiteim zaum ami Tiatr mhunnon eileaum mhonntoch Tiatruch mhunnoea ani hea workshopan bhag gheun kitem xikunk mell'ta tem xikhon gheumea. Tumche ani Tiatr Academiche upkar attoun Peter Fernandes
[Goanet] Xabas Selma!
Xabas Selma! It is definitely good news you give all of us about your new found prodigy Zarina who is an authority on Panchayati Raj. We require more and more of Zarina's in Goa. I hope you have kept her informed about your latest public comparison about me and her. Could you please make her contact number public so that we can put needy people in touch with her. This will definitely reduce our burden and give us some privacy. My contact is splashed all around and sometimes it becomes quite taxing for us. Probably Zarina also has my contact number. The fact you request everyone not to read the views of Rajan, Anil and myself is definitely a compliment to us. We feel priviledged to be among those writers that warrant a public notice from Selma appealing not to read our views. Hope your tribe flourishes. Selma bai, konknnint ek oparuch asa; Udkant mhos, bhair mol. -Soter
[Goanet] Points to Ponder
“I’m used to delivering on promise. I’m used to working with civilized people. Unfortunately, in public life in India, these are not attributes that you see.” N R Narayana Murthy, Chief Mentor, Infosys
[Goanet] Attempted suicide: Hem ‘Girlfriend ’ konnachem? (Which high profile Politician from So uth Goa?)
Attempted suicide: Hem ‘Girlfriend’ konnachem? (Which high profile Politician from South Goa?) Thanks. I am even more confused now.. Looks like there is a third one... (?) 2 years ago... “Mickky has now married Viola Fernandes and has three children with her,” Sara said in her complaint of bigamy (Sara is First wife) One week ago.. Meet the chief guest - Viola Pacheco http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauktiatr4/4626097035/ If she is also a wife then why everybody say ‘girlfriend’? Hope I am not acting too nosy. quote I lokmat grafiti ‘aajacha buzz’ has disclosed the name bice way it reads like this. Pahili sodun dusari asataana, tisarine ‘rattol’ pilyachi batami ahe disney cha undarache an ;hyanche’ naav mhane ekach ahe. Vishal Pai Kakode. When there is second after leaving first the news is the third has drank rattol Name of the Rat in disney and this guys name is same Shrikant Vinayak Barve II “Viola Fernandes (27) who has been admitted in critical state to intensive care unit of a Mumbai hospital, Goan businesswoman had been named by 'Mickky' Pacheco's wife in a case of bigamy … the reason she consumed rat poison in the first place still remains a subject of controversy..” MidDay 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] Village delegations, RP2021 etc
To Goanet - Let me get one thing out of the way - why did the village delegation think that Digambar Kamat is the guy to approach to address their problems? I mean, here is a guy WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MESS, who has given the keys to Goa away to the miners and the builders and the migrants. And the villagers go to him asking for help? What the eff !! Can someone explain to me why you would go knocking on Digu's door hoping that he would help you when he is Mr. Narakasur himself? What were these ladies thinking? The excuse that he is the elected head of govt doesn't wash. When the govt actively works against its own people it has lost its right to govern. This has been an illegitimate govt for a long time now. My second point - Goans must reject the RP 2021 outright. You don't have to read even a word of it to know that it will be a rotten deal for Goans. Look at who is involved in its crafting. Mr Wise Guy Architect, the preening glib talker who has positioned himself as the go-to guy for everyone seeking enlightenment on matters Goa and Goan, who also has a bone in the game. Then there is the Margao builder cum pastry king who fancies himself as a 'thinker' (I call him stinker) and a social worker. These are then the people drafting your RP2021. Why would you walk into this trap? REJECT RP2021 and flush it down the toilet. Regards, r
[Goanet] Goa news for May 22, 2010
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Sushmita Sen at 'I AM She 2010' event in Goa - Sawf News et-sen-speak-693usg=AFQjCNFJC1gtMC1yfYe0vXkHYdclgnoRZwSush! Let Sen speak http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Rsa=Turl=http://www.sawfnews.com/Bollywood/63953.aspxusg=AFQjCNH4jCZ3EWDlGcS3AFz_yRmQsEE-oQ *** Pune connection in Goa blast chargesheet - Expressindia.com ovt-refuses-ban-on-sanstha-till-home-ministry-examines-charge-sheet_1384676usg=AFQjCNEFVKgkt-jwAkPLe3JULSHU5Hv__AGoa govt refuses ban on Sanstha till home ministry examines charge sheet http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Rsa=Turl=http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/pune-connection-in-goa-blast-chargesheet/620701/usg=AFQjCNFW_hnosN-B_n9VMhL-5PSFSXrQVg *** Devgn fined for smoking on film set - Asian Age obacco organisation upset with Ajay Devgn for smoking in public http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Rsa=Turl=http://www.asianage.com/newsmakers/devgn-fined-smoking-film-set-219usg=AFQjCNEUmTlqzjt1NQRga3kASKv7Jv61Gw *** So who's the Goan politician linked to the drugs mafia... - digITal Goa So who s the leading Goan politician who has links with the narcotics mafia in Goa? Here sa few more clues dropped by 33-year-old Swedish ... http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Rsa=Turl=http://www.digitalgoa.com/ca_disp.php?id=1176usg=AFQjCNF48e9oeTtubBh_n_jv6-vZxNlR-Q *** South Maharashtra beaches no threat to Goa yet: Official - Times of India nvolved-with-drug-mafia-should-not-be-spared-tourism-industry_1385875usg=AFQjCNHEeyvGVTjWWUbGpma_xlBxiSuKAQCops involved with drug mafia should not be spared: Tourism industry http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Rsa=Turl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Goa/South-Maharashtra-beaches-no-threat-to-Goa-yet-Official/articleshow/5957957.cmsusg=AFQjCNG0ieLJU1TP6cjsx1BJLiZHq6P_gg *** Goa chargesheet is a wake-up call - Asian Age ews/2010/0521/In-India-Hindu-and-Muslim-men-make-a-meal-to-heal-the-religious-divideusg=AFQjCNFi35N_XM-fG6AcuO_s-1_teu0K7gIn India, Hindu and Muslim men make a meal to heal the religious divide http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Rsa=Turl=http://www.asianage.com/editorial/goa-chargesheet-wake-call-005usg=AFQjCNF34cuUtLXDPyML4gXGcMa04KZpoQ *** Goa, Be Kind. Rewind - Tehelka BsQAgPmM http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Rsa=Turl=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main45.asp?filename=Ne290510frederick_noronha.aspusg=AFQjCNEYzb_aOnWgesUJTQ5tpLvzyNZRPw *** Top Trades: Sesa Goa, Jaypee Infra - BloombergUTV oombergUTVMUMBAI: Sesa Goa, Jaypee Infra and ICICI Bank are some of the stocks seeing action in early trade today. IPO Price: Rs 102 per share (lower band of IPO), ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Rsa=Turl=http://www.bloombergutv.com/stock-market/stock-market-news/52294/top-trades--sesa-goa--jaypee-infra.htmlusg=AFQjCNF3rPdpS1IOc_4c4q-pbVGZ7E0jYA *** Goa plans law on realty sector - Times of India 8yc299Mand more » http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Rsa=Turl=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Goa/Goa-plans-law-on-realty-sector/articleshow/5960341.cmsusg=AFQjCNEB13PttbbXQCNuR6Q_myXNNNC7nw *** 'Do not buy Sesa Goa, Renuka Sugar, Tata Steel and realty stocks' - Economic Times onomic TimesIf you can comment on the stock and then sectorally, what's going on, which is Sesa Goa, Renuka Sugar and Tata Steel? Well, Sesa Goa and Tata Steel roughly ...a class= http://news.google.com/news/url?fd=Rsa=Turl=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/views/recommendations/Do-not-buy-Sesa-Goa-Renuka-Sugar-Tata-Steel-and-realty-stocks/articleshow/5957922.cmsusg=AFQjCNGMXExV7W8cl8CJAsS2eVbfylcKng Compiled by Goanet News Service http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php
Re: [Goanet] Konkani - devanagri or Romi?
Jerry, a small correction: Reginaldo Fernandes was 'Romansincho Patxai' (King of Konkani novels) and not 'Romansincho Kunvor' (Prince of Konkani novels), as you wrote. Dev borem korum. Moi-mogan, Domnic Fernandes Anjuna, Goa Mob: 9420979201 And that’s when I started hunting high and low for all books of Reginald Fernandes, a very good writer also called Kunvor Konkani romanshincho. _ South Cinema This Decade http://entertainment.in.msn.com/southcinemathisdecade/
[Goanet] Mining awareness tours... in the Goan hinterland
This is a really very positive step taken by GoaMAP. Seeing is believing. People living in towns and on the periphery are often ignorant about what goes on in the hinterland. That is why we get comments like, Development is needed, someone has to sacrifice and so on. The Government tours will show the glowing side of the story. The horror aspect in the story will be concealed. Being forced to inhale dust day and night to choke the lungs is even worse than the 26/11 terrorist strike in Mumbai. The only difference that death in the Mumbai attack was instant but here it is slow torture and ultimately death. Who beneifts? Goa's rich paupers. Keep it up GoaMAP! -Soter
[Goanet] First person account of events at Porvorim Secretariat on Monday, May 17th
But how some one will justify this? Could not see any mention of this incident in the report http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukextras/4618646874/ Sorry, I am not taking sides, although it may appear that way I feel, a person of this type of temperament should not be a part of any future Morchas. -- You said it Joa First person account of events at Porvorim Secretariat on Monday, May 17th thanks. “I felt was a very crude and insulting manner, PI Gad grabbed the front of my blouse and flung me against the wall behind” THAT REALLY CONDEMNABLE “The manner in which he (PI) allegedly touched her she said, triggered feelings of deep outrage and humiliation in her and she turned on him and tried to defend herself” THAT SOMETHING UNDERSTANDABLE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES But how some one will justify this? Could not see any mention of this incident in the report http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukextras/4618646874/ Sorry, I am not taking sides, although it may appear that way I feel, a person of this type of temperament should not be a part of any future Morchas. Joegoauk at yahoo.co.uk Shrikant Vinayak Barve
[Goanet] Many Feared Dead in India Plane Crash
Many Feared Dead in India Plane Crash NEW DELHI - An Air India Express plane crashed at Mangalore airport Saturday morning, with major loss of life feared among the more than 160 on board, according to reports. The plane, arriving from Dubai, overshot the runway at the southern Indian airport at about 6 a.m. local time, and burst into flames, according to television reports. There were believed to be a few survivors. Firefighters try to put out the fire on the smouldering Air India plane. The plane, reported to be a Boeing 737 about five or six years old, overshot the runway while landing in the southern Indian city of Mangalore. This is a major calamity, said V.S. Acharya, home minister for the state of Karnataka, on CNN-IBN TV. Television pictures showed rescue workers struggling to deal with the wreckage in a small valley near the airport. Television reports said there were six survivors taken to hospital from the crash site as authorities sought to establish what happened. The crash is believed to be the first major crash of an airliner in India since July 17, 2000, when an Alliance Air Boeing 737-200 crashed into houses during a second landing attempt at Patna, killing 51. Civil aviation minister Praful Patel was reported heading for the crash site later Saturday. The plane, reported to be a Boeing 737 about five or six years old, was cleared for landing and the problems appear to have surfaced once it was on the ground, according to NDTV, a New Delhi-based television channel. Some 25 ambulances were reported at the scene. Air India has been struggling to overcome the global recession, payments for new aircraft, an entrenched staff, a botched merger and increasing competition from private carriers. In the year ended March 31, its parent company National Aviation Company of India Ltd. is estimated to have posted losses totaling about $1.2 billion, making it one of the global industry's most unprofitable carriers and a major financial problem for the Indian government. Chairman Arvind Jadhav has been trying to turn the airline around by seeking to cut employee ranks, increase cargo on long-haul flights and persuade the government to inject about $2.2 billion in funds. The airline's origins date to 1932, when Indian industrialist and aviation pioneer J.R.D. Tata founded Tata Airlines. It later became government-owned Air India. In 2007, Air India was merged with Indian Airlines, the state-run domestic service. But the merger has only been partially completed. In the meantime, Indian private carriers such as Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. and Jet Airways have eaten into its domestic market share. And international carriers have begun flying directly from abroad to Indian cities beyond Delhi and Mumbai. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870485200457525927204642258 4.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories More at: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/05/21/india.plane.crash/?hpt=T 1 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/10141297.stm ~(^^)~ Avelino
[Goanet] While researching Kenya, she found shocking
I am one of those Goans who lived through the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya. I lived in the Capital ,Nairobi. These were very scary times and I distinctly remember people going to sleep with Police whistles under their pillows.Many people were attacked by gangs of Mau Mau terrorists who robbed people of the entire contents of their houses. A friend of the Family one L.G. Pereira who worked in the East African Railways Harbours and lived in the railway quarters where I lived with my Aunt, had some guns and he and some of his sons used to carry them for fear of being attacked by the Mau Mau Terrorists. Although initially the rebellion was not consider as a freedom movement, on the arrest and detention of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, a Kikuyu, who was an up and coming politician and later Kenya's first President by association turned into a freedom movement. My Aunt owned a Grocery store called The Kenya Oriental General Store on Juja Road (now Muranga Road) which she operated for a number of years. The store was burglarized numerous times even though there were security Guards ( Askari's). One could not blame these guards because they carried on guns but only Pangas( Machetes) and were outnumbered by the Mau Mau who carried guns some home made using Bicycle parts as barrels and came in gangs.I clearly remember one incident which occurred one night when, after closing the shop, we were on our way home carrying the days takings, when we were waylaid by a gang of Mau Mau who beat my aunt and went away with the bag containing the proceeds.After this, my aunt sold the shop as this incident frightened her very much as it nearly cost her her life. Home invasions by gangs of Mau Mau terrorists was a common occurrence and steel gates and large shackled padlocks were a common site.People organized Security Groups which patrolled the areas around their houses and were armed, but these were however largely ineffective. I remember Dr Fitz DeSouza who was a brilliant lawyer and together with A. R. Kapila and a British lawyer defended Kenyatta at his trial. I also remember Pio de Gama Pinto another prominent Goan who was also a freedom fighter and who was a member of the Kenya parliament and was subsequently assassinated. A cousin of mine, Mr. Chrispine De Souza who was a district clerk in Thika was also attacked and was slashed by a panga ( machete) on the back of the neck and whose home was polished of all his worldly belongings and narrowly escaped death. When I say scary, I mean scary and the Indian Community including the Goan community bore the brunt of the attacks. The white people had Home Guards ( armed) and were relatively more secure besides having trained 'Mbwa Kali' (guard dogs) and armed askaris (Watchmen). Those were the days and things never ever returned to normal thereafter. After independence, gangs of robbers terrorized and looted shops, they broke into and ransacked houses and even in broad daylight, one could be attacked and robbed of ones valet, watch, and other valuables. Jewelry was scarcely worn or kept at home. Most people kept their jewelry in their Safety deposit boxes at the Banks taking it out on rare occasions and then making sure it was returned to the safety Deposit Box as quickly as possible. I lived in a semi detached house in Nairobi West after independence in a middleclass neighborhood where a number of Africans owned houses. It was not uncommon for the robbers to break into the homes of the African occupants as well and polish them clean. We had two dogs and a steel Gate which separated the downstairs from the bedrooms besides being ringed by a 7 foot compound wall with a steel gate. At bedtime,we used to lock the exterior gate and lock The interior steel gate with two huge padlocks with hardened shackles, it was like a prison. A house two doors from us had its front door bashed in with a huge rock and was invaded by over 10 people. The occupants were terrified as the invaders had guns and pangas and even if one had a gun, how can one contend with a hoard rushing in. I was attacked once at around 6:30 pm while shopping at a place called Ngara. The two attackers had simis ( Swords) One placed the sword on my shoulders while the other one took off my watch and ransacked my pockets taking my wallet. Another time, around Divali, a colleague had brought some Divali sweets and parked her car in my driveway so I had to park out on the street. After she had left, I went to bring my car into the compound and lock the exterior gate, I was attached by 4 people right in front of my door. one had a gun and another had a simi (Sword) They ransacked my pockets, took my car key, started the car and drove it away. I was very lucky as previously they had shot dead an Ismaili person who had refused to hand over the keys to his car.My daughter called the police (999) they said they could not come as they had no police car and asked me to come and
[Goanet] First person account of events at Porvorim Secretariat on Monday, May 17th
It seems to me that the Goa Police in particular have little comprehension as to how to handle a grievance. The GP asked the protesters to disperse. Once cannot simply do that, and I do not care if your are an IGP, an SP, some IPS freak, or the State Secretary. In a situation such as this it is the duty of the highest officer, (and I am pretty sure of this) to have the politician (including the CM) accede to a request if it is seen as a just request. In a democracy and considering all factors a protest meeting to the House of the Politicians is just occasion to raise awareness when avenues are consistently being narrowed and people marginalized. The same would be akin to a women's group going to shame a wife-beating CEO at company HQs. It seems clear that there is nothing cohesive and no process in the Goa Police. What do these guys learn? I mean what are they taught? It also seems clear from all images that I have seen that they are not trained to defend. Look at that body language. What would they do if further protests go on the offence starting with boo. All this reminds me of something akin and as simple as the flank manoeuvre which not part of Kshatriya savant hood who were used to charging headlong into battle. If I am not mistaken we learnt this from outside--the Turks, the Mughals, Tells you something!. Point being that we are quick to take umbrage and want quick resolution--the police in this case dealing with the protesters in fury. This is one reason why I have never said anything against violence, since its outright rejection and dismissal is a construct designed to stop any protest in its tracks. One must always hold that option in escrow. There is apparently a lot more dynamics which I am sure astute Goans are aware than meets the eye in all of this. There is shit flying in Thailand, and WATCH HOW THEIR FORCES MANAGE TO CAJOLE, fallback, interact with the protesters. If we had 1/10th of that situation we would be seeing bodies by now. If there is some retired IPS, ot some security expert on this forum lets hear it bro/sis. venantius j pinto Message: 7 Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 19:30:59 + (GMT) From: JoeGoaUk joego...@yahoo.co.uk To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] First person account of events at Porvorim Secretariat on Monday, May 17th (del) ? But how some one will justify this? Could not see any mention of this incident? in the report http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukextras/4618646874/ Sorry, I am not taking sides, although it may appear that way ? I?feel, a person of this type of temperament should not be a part of any future Morchas.
[Goanet] Air India flight crashed near Mangalore Airport
*Air India Express flight Crashed Check ICARE Live for Exclusive photos and Report http://icarelive.com/news/news.php?cat_id=2article_id=1035*
