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Re: [Goanet] George Menezes and The Goa Book Club

[Eugene Correia]

Just as Roland found George's talk uninteresting, I too was
disappointed. Since the clip is perhaps just a small part of the talk,
it is not known if George regaled with his witticism further into his
talk. I second Roland in saying that George should have inspired young
writers. However, in the clip I don't see many youngsters so the talk
could have been tailored to the audience. Let's give George the
benefit of the doubt.
For those who really like to know George they should pick up his Sugar
and Spice book as well as read his pieces in Goa Today. His humour is
not pointed but subtle. He does not overwhelm the reader but guides
the reader gently.
I still remember him creating a big laugh in a group that had many
women when he visited Toronto for the 1988 First Goan International
Convention. He said that  it is only in Toronto that he found gravity
defies the law, referring to the women who wore strapless gowns.

Eugene

Re: [Goanet] A secular Governance?

[Santosh Helekar]

I hope this is the last time I am driven to respond to someone to whose 
original claims in this thread I had absolutely no interest in responding to. 
As I had said before, my initial response in this thread was to Floriano. The 
fact that Falcao's post was appended to the end of Floriano's post is simply 
because I replied to the latter post without bothering to delete any of the 
trailing material. This should be obvious to anyone who reads the following 
links to Floriano's post and my response to his post:

http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2011-July/210465.html
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2011-July/210478.html

The text of my response to Floriano should also make this clear. 

Furthermore, as stated earlier, my focus was boorish religious chauvinism, 
sectarianism and communalism. However, if anyone actually makes the effort to 
read one or two of the articles that I have mentioned, he/she would also find 
references to communal violence, in terms of destruction of lives, property and 
places of worship for communal reasons.

Cheers,

Santosh

--- On Tue, 7/5/11, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão  
wrote:
 
> On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:10:06 -0700 , Santosh Helekar wrote
> :
> << below by truncating
> what I said in response to Floriano (not Falcao), and what
> my responses in this
> thread were all about. Here is my correct quote from my
> prior post: QUOTE From
> my parents and grandparents, and from the history that I
> have read I have
> learned that the situation was much worse in the past than
> it is today. For one
> thing, today the power is shared equally by politicians of
> both communities
> elected by the people of Goa.UNQUOTE .Santosh
> Helekar…>
> 
>  
> 
> RESPONSE : If Santosh now states that his response was to
> Floriano’s
> post and not to mine, may I ask Santosh why he has
> reproduced my post below
> this comment of his? 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg78411.html
> 
> According to Santosh, when he quotes that “I have learned
> that the situation
> was much worse in the past..”, and produces history from
> some 4 authors who
> only write about religion and caste based communalism, but
> absolutely no
> mention of any communal violence, it only proves that his
> information is bases
> from the other sources he has mentioned above. And that he
> cannot reproduce
> from any source that there ever was communal violence among
> the Hindus,
> Catholics or Muslims in Goa.
> 
> 
> Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão. 
> 
>  

[Goanet] Goa Original Treatyof surrendender not with Govt. of Goa

[Gerald Fernandes]

 
It is entirely possible,natural ,credible & explainable that the Instrument of  
Offer to Surrender signed by General Vassalo, Governor-General of Goa,followed 
by the Acceptance of the Offer to  Surrender signed by Brig.Dhillon, and the 
final Instrument of Surrender signed by General Vassalo for Portuguese Forces 
and Major General Candeth for the Indian Armed Forces would not be in the 
possession of the Govt. of Goa, since Goa then in 1961 was not a State of the 
Indian Union. It appears logical that these Instruments would have been in in 
the possession of the Indian Army or now be with the National Archives  or the 
Ministry of Defence under the Union Govt. of India. 
 
A number of old Officers who have been Members/Honorary Members of the Station 
Signal Officers Mess at Altinho, Panaji, Goa, next to the Bishops Palace would 
easily recollect that the said Instruments/Documents were displayed just 
inside the Main Entrance in the said Officers Mess ,neatly and carefully framed 
in a glass "cage".Next to the said documents was also a  hand written letter 
from the then Prime Minister Shri. Jawaharlal Nehru to General Candeth, 
congratulating Gen.Candeth and all men under his command for liberating Goa in 
a swift, humane manner. Similarly the Portuguese Flag which was lowered from 
the Headquarters of the then Portuguese Military Junta (which is now the said 
Officers Mess) was displayed in a glass"cage' in the Anteroom of the Officers 
Mess.
 
Recently when I visited the said Officers Mess , the said Instruments  just 
inside the Main Entrance were found to be facsimiles of the Originals, whilst 
the Portuguese Flag earlier displayed in the Anteroom was not found displayed.
 
Knowing that the Station Officers Mess was substantially renovated for the 
Centenary Signal Regiment celebrations ,could it be probable that these 
invaluable items of our National History have been moved to the National 
Archives? A simple RTI query with the  National Archives and the Ministry of 
Defence should be able to shed further light.
Regards,
Gerry 

[Goanet] MLAs, Sao Joao and boat show (Siolim)

[JoeGoaUk]

MLAs, Sao Joao and boat show (Siolim)
 

If not into politicians, one can skip the first part by jumping to 03.05 
for boat show footage with Com. Brain singing in the background.

In the first part, view of the crowd, copels etc also shown besides 
Mickky’s view on MoI.
Mickky is invited here as chief guest for last few years except 
last year, he tells or reminds you why? Also, a top benefactor, this
year it was 45K

St. John the Baptist or Sao Joao Batist (John de Badem) also seen.
John comes here every year to keep up with the tradition
 

MLAs, Sao Joao and boat show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7H1sCzVNVQ
 

a part of Sao Joao Celebrations at Siolim
 

Local MLA Dayanand Mandrekar also seen.

John de Badem as ‘Sao Joao Batist’
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk41/5866747633/


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] A secular Governance?

[Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão]

On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:10:06 -0700 , Santosh Helekar wrote :
<<

 

RESPONSE : If Santosh now states that his response was to Floriano’s
post and not to mine, may I ask Santosh why he has reproduced my post below
this comment of his? 
http://www.mail-archive.com/goanet@lists.goanet.org/msg78411.html

According to Santosh, when he quotes that “I have learned that the situation
was much worse in the past..”, and produces history from some 4 authors who
only write about religion and caste based communalism, but absolutely no
mention of any communal violence, it only proves that his information is bases
from the other sources he has mentioned above. And that he cannot reproduce
from any source that there ever was communal violence among the Hindus,
Catholics or Muslims in Goa.




Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão. 




  

Re: [Goanet] Bring back the British!

[Santosh Helekar]

Mr. Nunes,

Thanks for the PLoS One paper, and for this good discussion. Please note that 
the discrepancy in the sex ratio numbers is because of the difference in the 
exact type of measurement, as I had implied earlier - sex ratio in the entire 
population according to the 2001 census, which is what I had given, versus sex 
ratio at birth in 2005 and prior years, which is what is given in the PLoS One 
paper. There is no government manipulation there. Incidentally, there is some 
confusion about the reporting of the sex ratio in the 2011 census by the 
popular press. According to the raw census data, the ratio is supposed to be 
940 females for every 1000 males, or a male:female ratio of 1.063. The popular 
press, however, is misreporting 940 as 914.

Regarding the plight of women and the problem of female feticide and 
infanticide, of course, I agree that they are an outrage. But there are no easy 
solutions. As the PLoS One survey itself indicates neither laws nor religious 
strictures have made any difference.

Cheers,

Santosh
 

--- On Mon, 7/4/11, lyrawmn  wrote:
> 
> Dr. Helekar, 
>  
> I am skeptical of your referenced sex ratio of India (1.08)
> and  (China (1.21).  
> Governments are known to skew embarrassing census data by
> under- or misreporting statistics, or misclassifying.  
> After all female - infanticide and feticide - are morally
> repugnant.  
>  
> I refer you to this PLOS article (May 2008) where the study
> authors found a sex differential not in keeping with the
> figures you quoted, and concluded that the Pre-natal
> Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse)
> (PNDT) Act of 1994 which made antenatal sex determination
> and sex selective abortion illegal in India, was
> ineffectual. 
>   
> 'Missing Girls in India: Infanticide, Feticide and
> Made-to-Order Pregnancies? Insights from Hospital-Based
> Sex-Ratio-at-Birth over the Last Century'. 
> Mohit Sahni1, Neeraj Verma1, D. Narula1, Raji Mathew
> Varghese1, V. Sreenivas2, Jacob M. Puliyel1*
>   1 Department of Neonatology and Pediatrics, St.
> Stephens Hospital, Delhi, India, 2 Department of
> Biostatistics, All India Institute of Medical Science, New
> Delhi, India
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002224
>  
>  In Indian society  which is still mainly rural and
> agrarian, where women are marginalised  - viewed as a
> liability, a drain on the family assets - would not having
> been born be merciful and compassionate a fate than having
> to endure in later life being trafficked and sold into
> prostitution,  subjected to domestic violence, burnt and
> killed  for dowry?
>  
> India reports about 8,000 dowry deaths  a year – an
> underestimate. This despite the 1961 Dowry Prohibition Act.
> 
>  
> 
> I think you will agree that until the role of women in
> Indian society changes violence against them will continue.
>  
> Best,
> I. Nunes
>

[Goanet] P.C.TRust awards 2011

[Nelson Lopes]

PEOPLE OF CHINCHINIM TRUST
S.S.C.E. Prizes for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, students, first & second in
subjects, first boy and girl, 1st Boy, in Konkani, & first in (A.V.C)
Maths & Science combined, std XII Arts/Science, Scholarships to
complete Science & Commerce degrees.
S.S.C.E. March 2011
1.      Ms Malaika F.Lacerda   SMA first with  88.50% gets Rs.9972.
2.      Ms.Juhaina Fernandes ASSMPT.second with86.83% Rs  8510.
3.      Ms. Abigail Fernandes   SMA        third     with85.17% getsRs.5066.
4.      Master  Elroy Lopes         ASSMPT First Boy in A.V.C. & Sarzora
with 498/600 gets Rs.4850.
5.      Master.  Afonso Clenton Fernandes  MMHS gets Rs. 300.
6.      Ms. Malaika Lacerda SMA  First student in A.V.C.with 531/600
gets Rs.7000/
7.       Other students awarded prizes in subjects are  Carolina Lopes,
Mayble Fernandes , Kristina Rodrigues, Relita Fernandes all from S.M.A
II. Science Scholarship for past students of Chinchinim school to
complete science degree course.
a)      Dr. Vilberto Mascarenhas Rs. 700 each
1)      Ms.Malaika Lacerda.2) Hazel Colaco 3) Ms. Cleofina Furtado. 4) Ms.
Belinda M. Fernandes .
b)      SMA-8 Rank Holders scholarship Rs. 420 each
Mrs. Ashok Chari, Mr. Meckwin Colaco
c)      Mr. & Mrs. Antonio Evaristo /Carolina Mello Scholarship of Rs. 700 each.
Ms. Juhaina  fernandes
d)      Mrs. Philomena Falcao Scholarship of Rs. 700 each
1)      Ms. Steffy Furtado 2)Darius D. Baretto
e)      Mr. & Mrs. Caracilo-Luiza Pereira & Mr.& Mrs. Romeo /Jane Menezes &
Scholarship in Commerce   1Unclaimed    2 Unclaimed
f)      Mr. & Mrs. Caracilo –Luiza Pereira Scholarship in Engineering Rs.
1680.00 SMA
1)      Ms. Zanshila Rodrigues
g)      Eng. Gabriel Rodrigues S. Rodrigues Science Scholarship Rs. 1750.00
Ms. Benita M. Fernandes
h)      Mr. & Mrs. John/Cynthia Dias & Mr. J.P.D’Mello & Eng. Gabriel
Santan Rodrigues sports prizes for  Rs. 5350.00 two students (BOY &
GIRL) from each of the school.
i)      Mr. J.P. D’mello & Mr. & Mrs. Rogaciano/Jacinta Fernandes prizes
Std. XII Science,  Rs. 210 Unclaimed
Unclaimed (First among Applicants Ex. Students of Chinchinim Schools)
j)      Mrs Alba Falcao PrizeStd XII  Arts Rs.210  Unclaimed (I, j) highest
amongst the applicants of past students of Chinchinim  schools only.)
k)      Teacher Award
1)      Mr. 7 Mrs. Nelson /Leena Lopes, Mr. & Mrs. Fideles /Aruna Pereira
2)       Memorial Prizes Prof. C.A. Gomes 3) Mr. Constancio D’Costa (2).
3)Mr. Dominguito Jordao Almeida.( Primary Teacher) AC
Teachers from Mount Mary`s High School this year
Besides the Trust also provides aid for Uniforms ,Medicines
,beneficiaries of S.V.P.Text Books ,Dictionaries,  Note Books ,
atlases to all the high Schools of Chinchinim

Nelson Lopes
Founder Chairman
People of Chinchinim Trust
Date: 01/09/2010

Re: [Goanet] Bring back the British!

[lyrawmn]

Dr. Helekar, 
 
I am skeptical of your referenced sex ratio of India (1.08) and  (China 
(1.21).  
Governments are known to skew embarrassing census data by under- or 
misreporting statistics, or misclassifying.  
After all female - infanticide and feticide - are morally repugnant.  
 
I refer you to this PLOS article (May 2008) where the study authors found a sex 
differential not in keeping with the figures you quoted, and concluded that the 
Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) (PNDT) 
Act of 1994 which made antenatal sex determination and sex selective abortion 
illegal in India, was ineffectual. 
  
'Missing Girls in India: Infanticide, Feticide and Made-to-Order Pregnancies? 
Insights from Hospital-Based Sex-Ratio-at-Birth over the Last Century'. 
Mohit Sahni1, Neeraj Verma1, D. Narula1, Raji Mathew Varghese1, V. Sreenivas2, 
Jacob M. Puliyel1*
  1 Department of Neonatology and Pediatrics, St. Stephens Hospital, Delhi, 
India, 2 Department of Biostatistics, All India Institute of Medical Science, 
New Delhi, India



http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002224
 
 In Indian society  which is still mainly rural and agrarian, where women are 
marginalised  - viewed as a liability, a drain on the family assets - would not 
having been born be merciful and compassionate a fate than having to endure in 
later life being trafficked and sold into prostitution,  subjected to domestic 
violence, burnt and killed  for dowry?
 
India reports about 8,000 dowry deaths  a year – an underestimate. This despite 
the 1961 Dowry Prohibition Act. 
 

I think you will agree that until the role of women in Indian society changes 
violence against them will continue.
 
Best,
I. Nunes
 
 
On Sun, 7/3/11, Santosh Helekar  wroteMr. Nunes,

>>>The male:female ratio I have given is for the population as a whole, as far 
>>>as I know, not at birth or at any particular age. The greater lopsidedness 
>>>of the male:female ratio in China indicates greater sex selection in 
>>>abortions and infanticides. This problem has afflicted many countries, 
>>>including South Korea and Japan, in addition to China and India. China's one 
>>>child policy is immoral. India banned sex determination by ultrasound in 
>>>1994. China did not ban it until 2004, after more than 40 million female  
>>>babies were determined to have been lost.<<<

--- On Sun, 7/3/11, lyrawmn  wrote:
> 
> Dr. Helekar,
>  
> I am curious.
>  
> Is not your referenced  M:F ratio derived from live
> births? 
> Therefore there would be no way in India especially of
> knowing how many female fetuses were sex selected for
> abortion.  
> Sex determination ultrasound scans are widely available in
> major Indian cities.  I assume similar availability
> of tests in China in view of her  1 child population
> control measure. 
> The population 2010  (in billions) for China
> is 1.3, India 1.2, the World 6.7.
>  
> Immoral policies  of China you say? 
> I am not so sure. 
> India and China combined account for ~40% of the world's
> population today.
> best
> I. Nunes
>

Re: [Goanet] George Menezes and The Goa Book Club.

[floriano]

I saw the video too. And I thought that George is really getting old and 
limping.

Pity.
And, you are right about the ants.
:-)

Cheers
floriano
GRA/GSRP
PS: One thing is now clear. I had always wondered how George could stretch 
his feet to maneuver  the controls of the fighter plane.

  Now I know. 'Pilot officer' means a 'desk' jockey.


- Original Message - 
From: "Cyprian Fernandes" 

To: "maciel" 
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 5:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] George Menezes and The Goa Book Club.



Dear Roland, Don't know the subject, but enjoyed your comments. Cyprian
> From: roland.fran...@gmail.com

To: goanet@lists.goanet.org
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:56:56 -0400
Subject: [Goanet] George Menezes and The Goa Book Club.

Dear Joel,

Saw the You Tube snippet. You invited comments and therefore my post.

Pity George Menezes spoke about comparatively inane things like how he
joined the IAF and his college days and girl friend in Dharwar.


Next time somebody should get some ants to crawl in the pants of the 
sedate,

morose and humorless audience that I saw on You Tube at the Book Club and
give them the energy to wake up their speakers with loaded questions and
push them out of their apparent monotony and lethargy.

Roland.
Toronto.


http://www.flickr.com/photos/52243088@N00/5884917063/in/photostream




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[Francis Rodrigues]

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==
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==
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a magician who'd sink
through the floor-cage,
is just, when you think,
going through a stage!




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[Goanet] Channelizing energy in hyperactive children

[Goanet News Service]

Channelizing energy in hyperactive children
TNN | Jul 4, 2011, 12.03am IST


PANAJI: Early from infancy Harvey was a child relentlessly on the go, 
all through the day. "Like a little rocket, exhausting," narrates his 
mother Helene Menezes. Friends reassured Helene there was nothing amiss, 
and that the toddler's bubbling energy was comparable to other boys of 
his age.


Harvey was not able to stay seated for more than 40 seconds. Though 
non-violent, he was uncontrollable and constantly on the move, besides 
being prone to answering out of turn.


His persistent restlessness left him susceptible to being punished and 
ridiculed by teachers. One even went to the extent of inhumanely taping 
his hands and mouth, recalls Harvey's mother.


"Luckily he was a very popular boy, but exhausting and tedious. His 
behaviour had nothing to do with bad parenting," says Helene, a writer 
by profession.


Physically too, Harvey possessed tremendous stamina and could swim for 
hours without tiring.


After consulting various paediatricians and changing playschools three 
times, six-year-old Harvey and his exhausted mom needed serious help.


Dr Nandita de Souza of Sethu was their light at the end of the dark 
tunnel. "She was a fantastic support for both of us, providing continual 
help and exemplary patience."


Harvey-blessed with a high IQ-was diagnosed as being affected by 
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Specific Learning 
Disability ( SLD).


"After much research we decided to try medication. It made a huge 
difference giving him the ability to focus before doing something," said 
Helene.


Now 15, Harvey is a typical teenager who is learning to channelize his 
energy and excels in academics, drama and sports. Conducive schooling 
experience in Tamil Nadu now sees Harvey produce A grades.


While many shy away from discussing such sensitive subjects, Helene 
graciously agreed to speak to TOI in the hope that "more people 
understand ADHD and those affected by it". "ADHD is not something you 
can cure or beat out of a child. But it can be managed with the right 
support," says the mother.


Her advice to parents facing similar woes remains: "Focus on the good 
things about your child not the bad, besides getting professional help. 
And importantly, never give up on your child!"



http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Channelizing-energy-in-hyperactive-children/articleshow/9092133.cms

Re: [Goanet] George Menezes and The Goa Book Club.

[Cyprian Fernandes]

Dear Roland, Don't know the subject, but enjoyed your comments. Cyprian
 > From: roland.fran...@gmail.com
> To: goanet@lists.goanet.org
> Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:56:56 -0400
> Subject: [Goanet] George Menezes and The Goa Book Club.
> 
> Dear Joel,
> 
> Saw the You Tube snippet. You invited comments and therefore my post.
> 
> Pity George Menezes spoke about comparatively inane things like how he
> joined the IAF and his college days and girl friend in Dharwar.
> 
> George was a leading Goan luminary on the Bombay scene back in the day. As
> everybody knows he was a Director of Personnel in an MNC as well as a humor
> columnist in the print media. He was also invited to join the BJP by AB
> Vaypayee himself but left soon thereafter. Not forgetting that he is the son
> of the late Prof Armand Menezes head of the English Dept at Dharwar
> University, and a well known Goan author and personality in his own right.
> 
> With experience and a pedigree like that, it is a pity that all the Goa Book
> Club could get him to talk about was how his girl friend rejected him and
> how he joined the IAF. He has repeatedly written and spoken about his IAF
> days as a Pilot Officer, which by the way is the lowest ranking commissioned
> officer rank in the IAF even though he was a junior air-attache at the
> Indian Embassy in Paris.
> 
> A lost opportunity to get George to talk about more cerebral matters like
> suggestions for Goan youth in the corporate world or to make entry in
> politics in order to clean the dirt abounding there. He must have had access
> to leading Goan personalities like Julio Ribeiro and many others on the
> national scene and he would have had a choice of so many little known facts
> and stories to tell without violating the Official Secrets Act, ha ha!
> 
> Next time somebody should get some ants to crawl in the pants of the sedate,
> morose and humorless audience that I saw on You Tube at the Book Club and
> give them the energy to wake up their speakers with loaded questions and
> push them out of their apparent monotony and lethargy.
> 
> Roland.
> Toronto.
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org
> [mailto:goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org] On Behalf Of joe...@gmail.com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 3:42 PM
> To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!
> Subject: [Goanet] HAPPENINGS AT GOA BOOK CLUB
> 
> GEORGE MENEZES SENDS EVERYONE IN SPLITS AT GOA BOOK CLUB:
> 
> "Sugar and Spice" author George Menezes drew up a bumper crowd of writers
> and book lovers at the June 2011 meeting of the Goa Book Club at Broadway
> Book Centre in Panjim, Goa, on June 29, 2011. He sent everyone in splits as
> he narrated how he got into writing and stuck to it till today. Menezes also
> read one of his articles (on his father) published in English monthly
> magazine "Goa Today", besides poems and anecdotes from his life.
> 
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/52243088@N00/5884917063/in/photostream
> 
> 
> 
> 
  

[Goanet] Evidence "increasingly against" phone cancer risk

[Goanet News Service]

Evidence "increasingly against" phone cancer risk

By Ben Hirschler
LONDON | Fri Jul 1, 2011 7:02pm EDT
(Reuters)


Despite a recent move to classify mobile phones as possibly 
carcinogenic, the scientific evidence increasingly points away from a 
link between their use and brain tumors, according to a new study on 
Saturday.


A major review of previously published research by a committee of 
experts from Britain, the United States and Sweden concluded there was 
no convincing evidence of any cancer connection.


It also found a lack of established biological mechanisms by which radio 
signals from mobile phones might trigger tumors.


"Although there remains some uncertainty, the trend in the accumulating 
evidence is increasingly against the hypothesis that mobile phone use 
can cause brain tumors in adults," the experts wrote in the journal 
Environmental Health Perspectives.


The latest paper comes just two months after the World Health 
Organisation's (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) 
decided cellphone use should be classified as "possibly carcinogenic to 
humans."


Anthony Swerdlow of Britain's Institute of Cancer Research, who led the 
new review, told Reuters the two positions were not necessarily 
contradictory, since the IARC needed to put mobile phones into a 
pre-defined risk category.


"We are trying to say in plain English what we believe the relationship 
is. They (IARC) were trying to classify the risk according to a pre-set 
classification system," Swerdlow said.


Other things deemed by the IARC to be possibly carcinogenic include 
items as diverse as lead, pickled vegetables and coffee.



Entire article at:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/01/us-cancer-phones-idUSTRE7606GX20110701


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http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php

[Goanet] MoI controversy - All about Pockets and Power?

[SOTER]

It looks like the MoI controversy is stemming more from business concerns of 
private English medium primary schools than all the crap of threats to the 
mother tongue. Unfortunately Goa's mother has two tongues with one lashing out 
at the other and in the end both will land up cutting off each other. The 
mother tongue never perished during 500 years of Portuguese rule as it was kept 
alive in the homes and will not succumb to English as long as Goans use it. 
The decision of diocesan schools to opt for primary instruction in the mother 
tongue had opened up a minefield for private operators to commercialise and 
politicise education. Parents leave their village schools to travel long 
distances to give their children an English education and often land up paying 
pay hefty sums. If the diocesan schools revert to English as the medium of 
primary education there is a fear within the managements of private schools 
(many of which also have political patronage and other motives) that their 
numbers will dwindle considerably.  These commercial interests are being 
camouflaged as 'Love for Mother Tongue and its survival' and exploited 
politically by BJP-MGP combine. The PTAs in private schools are often happy 
hunting grounds for aspiring politicians. A cocktail of Communalism and 
Politics is being systematically hired to protect commercial interests. The 
controversy is all about Pockets and Power, isn't it?

-Soter D.

[Goanet] Free Technical Education for disabled - [www.disabilitygoa.com]

[Goanet Careers]

Dear Friends,

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[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (5Jul11)

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***  Nadal Noodled!  ***

"Djokeovic has his 1st Laugh!"


To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com
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[Goanet] P.C.Trust awards 2011

[Nelson Lopes]

P.C.TRUST AWARDS 2011
Meritorious students from Chinchinim,who excelled in the recently
conducted S.S.C.E and other exams have been awarded prizes and
scholarships by the Trust.Ms Malaika Lacerda.St Marys convent, first
student with 88.5% gets Rs18172,including Eng.Filipe Nery Rodrigues
Prize for the first student of A.V.Chinchinim  Ms Juhaina Fernandes
Assumpta convent , second student with 86.83%,  gets Rs8510.
Ms.Abigail Fernades, St Marys Convent with 85.17%,gets  Rs.5066.
Master Elroy Lopes ,Assumpta Convent,. the first Boy in A.V.Chinchinim
/Sarzora with 498/600 gets Rs 4850. Including Mr Benjamin Silva award.
Master Clento Fernandes Mount Marys, and Ms Carolina Lopes Ms,Kristina
Rodrigues, Ms Mayble Fernandes Ms Relita Fernandes  S.M.A receive
subject prizes.
Scholarships to complete Science Degree courses are awarded to Ms
Malaika Lacerda,Ms. Juhaina Fernandes, Ms Hazel Colaco, Ms Cleofina
Furtado,Ms Belinda Fernandes ,Mr Ashok Chari, Mr.Meckwin Colaco,,Ms
Steffy Furtado,Mr. Darius Baretto,Ms Zanshila Rodrigues,Ms Benita
Fernandes.
Sports Prizes are awarded to Boy and Girl from each school. Teacher
award to primary and Secondary teachers by rotation to schools
Besides the Trust also provides financial aid for uniforms medical
help,and beneficiaries through S.V.P.Scool text Books ,Dictionaries,
atlases ,compass boxes,Note Books are also supplied to the students
Mr Nelson Lopes
Chairman P.C.Trust
9850926276

Re: [Goanet] Query: Renovating a house...

[Victor Rangel-Ribeiro]

My dear Frederick and Pandu Lampiao,
The old-style Goan houses did not have red Mangalore tiles. Well into 1961, 
they 
had the old curved tiles, that were placed in special rows, one row inverted 
over the other, forming hundreds of channels, so that even the heaviest rain 
found its way off the roof and on to the ground.
Of course, if a kir dropped a large seed on to the roof, or a child threw a 
stone or aimed at a bird with a catapult, the tiles would get damaged, and the 
rain would then finds its way inside the house. I remember, as a child, I and 
my 
brother and sisters would have to run from room to room during a rainstorm, 
placing pots and pans on the floor where a leak had developed in the ceiling 
directly above. That is the reason why the tiles had to be replaced by hand 
every year, and that is why we now have red Mangalore tiles in place.
Regards to all,
Victor




From: Pandu Lampiao 
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" 
Sent: Mon, July 4, 2011 2:47:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Query: Renovating a house...

Your home-town, Mangalore.
They still make them there and are available on order.
Take the 2:40 from Margao

2011/7/3 Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
:
> A friend wants to renovate an old-style Goan house, and is looking for
> the old red tiles that used to be in the past (so as to retain the old
> look). Would anyone know where these are available? Many thanks, FN
> --
> FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org
> Saligao Goa IN http://fn.goa-india.org Skype: fredericknoronha
>

[Goanet] BBSM dares politicians backing regional language to step down

[Goanet News Service]

BBSM dares politicians backing regional language to step down
TEAM HERALD
teamherald@ herald-goa.com

BICHOLIM: The Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch (BBSM) on Monday 
challenged the politicians to step down if they are in support of the 
regional language.


BBSM along with several other organisations organized a protest 
programme at Shivaji Maharaj Maidan, Bicholim, which was attended by 
several people who expressed protest against government’s move to 
undermine the regional language.


Speaking on the occasion, Subhash Velingkar told the politicians not to 
make show over the issue and stand by it if they are against English.


“The politicians who are in support of regional language should step 
down in the interest of the people and not just merely spread word 
through their supporters,” said Velingkar.


“People should start their transaction in regional language and restore 
and keep the status of regional language intact even if the government 
tries to curtail it,” he added.


Calling Congress government as the murderer of Goan language, Velingkar 
said that this is another struggle to keep their freedom intact.


Freedom fighter Nagesh Karmali tried to make people aware about the 
situation and their consequences.



Source: Herald, Goa, July 5, 2011

[Goanet] Goa’s original treaty of surrender not with govt?

[Goanet News Service]

Goa’s original treaty of surrender not with govt?

Historians claim original displayed at Army’s 2STC office in Panjim

PTI PANJIM: In a startling revelation, historians in Goa have claimed 
that it is the Indian Army, and not the Goa Government that possesses 
the original historic ‘treaty of surrender’ that was signed 50 years 
back between the Indian Army and Portugal Government at the time of Goa 
liberation.


Sanjiv Sardesai, a historian, said that the original copy is displayed 
on a wall at the Indian Army’s 2STC office in Panjim.


The historians, who researched incidents that took place on December 19, 
1961, when Goa was freed from the shackles of the 450-year long 
Portuguese rule, have said that the original treaty remains to be out of 
bound of State Government.


“What we are showing to the public as a treaty of surrender is not the 
original one”, he said.


Sardesai pointed out that the State Government’s official diary has 
printed an unsigned letter by the then Portuguese Commandant of Armed 
Forces General Manuel Antonio Vassalo e Silva, as the treaty.


The confusion over the treaty continues as a different letter in 
Portuguese, signed by Silva, is displayed in the Goa state museum 
gallery on ‘Goa Freedom Struggle’. Sardesai said that the original 
treaty has signatures of Major General K P Candeth, who led Operation 
V©¦ay to liberate Goa.


The original document also carries the signature of Silva.

“It is in Portuguese and the same text is translated in English below 
it”, he explained.


Another historian, Rohit Falgaonkar said, “The original copy should have 
been displayed in the Goa state museum, so that people know about it”. 
Falgaonkar said that State Government should do activities that would 
bring people closer to the history of the State.


Director of Goa State Museum, Radha Bhave said that the copy on display 
was a facsimile from the book on a freedom struggle, which was put as an 
exhibit since 2004.


“If there is an original copy available, which is different from that, 
we will surely try to procure it”, she said.


Confusion over the events preceding Goa’s liberation has also percolated 
to the students.


As per the Secondary School Certification examination book titled 
‘History of Goa’, the treaty was signed between both the parties below 
the headlights of car of the Governor in Vasco-da-Gama, whereas 
historians claim that the treaty was signed in Panjim.


“The document of surrender was signed at 7.30 pm on a street at Vasco- 
da- Gama under headlights of the Car of Portuguese Governor General and 
submitted to Brig K S Dhillon”, the para in the book reads.


Sardesai, pointing out at the original treaty, has said that it was 
signed in Panjim and that too at 8.30 pm. PTI



Source: Herald, Goa, July 5, 2011

[Goanet] Goa news for July 5, 2011

[Goanet News Service]

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

*** Goa: Film on Scarlet shot without permission, authorities
say - IBNLive.com
NLive.comPTI 
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHxhgMyaSCZreDTA91NyB3Ow6hbTw&url=http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/goa-film-on-scarlet-shot-without-permission-authorities-say/746755.html

*** Goa beaches 'too contaminated for swimming' say scientists -
Daily Mail
fter beach destinations for British tourists, is unfit for
swimming or fishing, scientists have warned. Beaches in the
'party state', which attracts nearly 2.6 million tourists
annually, are contaminated ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHFPXTIu2hcKDUWWnQDggWFQ8x1ww&url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2011148/Goa-beaches-unsafe-Scientists-say-contaminated-swimming.html

*** Big cats find a new home ” Goa's Mhadei sanctuary -
Hindustan Times
ndustan TimesYour leisure trip to Goa will soon have an added
advantage ” tracking wild tigers. Over 35 tigers have been
found residing in Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary in north Goa, about
60 to 90 kms from hot tourism hot spot beaches such as Anjum,
Bombolin and ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHZ64JBIulxUZFViq8_Akk1BSaLdQ&url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Big-cats-find-a-new-home-Goa-s-Mhadei-sanctuary/Article1-716511.aspx

*** Ancient traditional fishing booms in Goa - indiablooms
ay ban on mechanized fishing. The jetties across the state have
shut their businesses while the mechanized trawlers have already
been anchored at the ...
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFShqFUe53lA6N9Itr25sNZHIPewA&url=http://www.indiablooms.com/NewsDetailsPage/newsDetails040711e.php

*** Mining industry in Goa be nationalised: INTUC - IBNLive.com
NLive.comPTI 
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEueoArf34vB9N-aL_sIgbvoet0Qw&url=http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/mining-industry-in-goa-be-nationalised-intuc/747699.html

*** ''Goa govt does not have Goa''s original treaty of
surrender'' - IBNLive.com
NLive.comPTI 
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHqGaS8fGKpPvZdbmVSoe-8fkr1zg&url=http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/goa-govt-does-not-have-goas-original-treaty-of-surrender/747504.html

*** NCP leader accused of illegal mining - TwoCircles.net
oCircles.netBy IANS, Panaji : The Nationalist Congress Party
(NCP) will summon the party's national secretary Jeetendra
Deshprabhu who has been indicted by the Goa government for
largescale illegal mining. Speaking to reporters Monday, state
party president ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFqGexk6-Au3w53rZsuvDRTog3bJg&url=http://twocircles.net/2011jul04/ncp_leader_accused_illegal_mining.html

*** CRZ structures: HC seeks explanation from panchayats - Times
of India
mes of IndiaPANAJI: The high court of Bombay at Goa on Monday
directed all the coastal village panchayats in the state to file
an affidavit explaining their decision to withdraw the
demolition notices issued to 422 structures in CRZ areas. ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFekIC5oKebPR6BnW9mctTR3ikDqg&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/CRZ-structures-HC-seeks-explanation-from-panchayats/articleshow/9105232.cms

*** Clean Goa is the call after clean Ganga - Times of India
mes of IndiaNature has given Goa scenic spots in abundance, the
waters, a lush green land, serene views, et al. The Portuguese
left behind some very cute buildings. But we have not been able
to handle it over a period of time. We have wasted an
opportunity. ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFFBPSa0-EY5HEG0bSTd8sxpWlGRw&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Clean-Goa-is-the-call-after-clean-Ganga/articleshow/9092198.cms

*** Ministry hunts for space to house 2 water tribunals - Times
of India
mes of IndiaOne will look at settling a row between Orissa and
Andhra Pradesh over the Vansdhara river waters, and the other
will deal with a dispute among Maharashtra, Karnataka and Goa
over the Mahadeyi river. Both tribunals are expected to be set
up by the ...http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEHxp_38-qGAlNVobVnZIm9X-aadQ&url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Ministry-hunts-for-space-to-house-2-water-tribunals/articleshow/9105943.cms


Compiled by Goanet News Service
http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php

[Goanet] Meet Mr. Vijay Nair

[JoeGoaUk]

Meet Mr. Vijay Nair

(Singer, Mimicry, Jokes in konkani etc)

I must have seen him performing for the last 6-7 years particularly 
during IFFI, Shigmo etc.

I also see him compering programmes/events such as 
bollywood orchestra etc

Mr. Nair originally from Kerala.
 

Meet him here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqWCZM5OuEM
 
 
a pic
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk41/5866867089/

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] George Menezes and The Goa Book Club.

[Roland Francis]

Dear Joel,

Saw the You Tube snippet. You invited comments and therefore my post.

Pity George Menezes spoke about comparatively inane things like how he
joined the IAF and his college days and girl friend in Dharwar.

George was a leading Goan luminary on the Bombay scene back in the day. As
everybody knows he was a Director of Personnel in an MNC as well as a humor
columnist in the print media. He was also invited to join the BJP by AB
Vaypayee himself but left soon thereafter. Not forgetting that he is the son
of the late Prof Armand Menezes head of the English Dept at Dharwar
University, and a well known Goan author and personality in his own right.

With experience and a pedigree like that, it is a pity that all the Goa Book
Club could get him to talk about was how his girl friend rejected him and
how he joined the IAF. He has repeatedly written and spoken about his IAF
days as a Pilot Officer, which by the way is the lowest ranking commissioned
officer rank in the IAF even though he was a junior air-attache at the
Indian Embassy in Paris.

A lost opportunity to get George to talk about more cerebral matters like
suggestions for Goan youth in the corporate world or to make entry in
politics in order to clean the dirt abounding there. He must have had access
to leading Goan personalities like Julio Ribeiro and many others on the
national scene and he would have had a choice of so many little known facts
and stories to tell without violating the Official Secrets Act, ha ha!

Next time somebody should get some ants to crawl in the pants of the sedate,
morose and humorless audience that I saw on You Tube at the Book Club and
give them the energy to wake up their speakers with loaded questions and
push them out of their apparent monotony and lethargy.

Roland.
Toronto.


-Original Message-
From: goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org
[mailto:goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org] On Behalf Of joe...@gmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 3:42 PM
To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!
Subject: [Goanet] HAPPENINGS AT GOA BOOK CLUB

GEORGE MENEZES SENDS EVERYONE IN SPLITS AT GOA BOOK CLUB:

"Sugar and Spice" author George Menezes drew up a bumper crowd of writers
and book lovers at the June 2011 meeting of the Goa Book Club at Broadway
Book Centre in Panjim, Goa, on June 29, 2011. He sent everyone in splits as
he narrated how he got into writing and stuck to it till today. Menezes also
read one of his articles (on his father) published in English monthly
magazine "Goa Today", besides poems and anecdotes from his life.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52243088@N00/5884917063/in/photostream

[Goanet] SFX Unity Cup 8-a-side Football Tournament - Season 2

[Goa World]

SFX Unity Cup 8-a-side Football Tournament - Season 2


It's up for grabs again!  The SFX Unity Cup Trophy!

We, the St. Francis Xavier Boys in Kuwait, would like to thank all our 
sponsors, participating teams, press, IFRA referees and all football 
lovers for making the first SFX Unity Cup Tournament 2010 a grand success.


We feel proud and in high spirits to bring before you the Season 2 edition.

The 8-a-side Football tournament will commence on the first weekend of 
the holy month of Ramadan at Digital Ground, Kuwait City.


For further details contact: Joe Pereira – joepereira...@hotmail.com


www.goa-world.com

Re: [Goanet] Konkani Word A Day: E, ea, ea adim, ea fuddem, eanni....

[jose rodrigues]

Dear Frederick
Wonderful sugestion!  Very important to our children etc who have been 
brought up overseas thru no fault of their own . A BIG THANK YOU ! !


Joe Rodrigues.

> From: f...@goa-india.org
>
> Learn one or more Konkani word a day:
>
> E the fifth letter of the Roman Alphabet
>
> EA this
>
> EA ADIM ere this, before
>
> EA FUDDEM henceforth



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Re: [Goanet] Query: Renovating a house...

[Pandu Lampiao]

Your home-town, Mangalore.
They still make them there and are available on order.
Take the 2:40 from Margao

2011/7/3 Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
:
> A friend wants to renovate an old-style Goan house, and is looking for
> the old red tiles that used to be in the past (so as to retain the old
> look). Would anyone know where these are available? Many thanks, FN
> --
> FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org
> Saligao Goa IN http://fn.goa-india.org Skype: fredericknoronha
>

Re: [Goanet] A secular Governance?

[Santosh Helekar]

Falcao is misrepresenting me in his material below by truncating what I said in 
response to Floriano (not Falcao), and what my responses in this thread were 
all about. Here is my correct quote from my prior post:

QUOTE
From my parents and grandparents, and from the history that I have read I have 
learned that the situation was much worse in the past than it is today. For one 
thing, today the power is shared equally by politicians of both communities 
elected by the people of Goa.
UNQUOTE
.Santosh Helekar

Please note the phrase "from the history that I have read" above, which Falcao 
conveniently ignored in his fixation. I have now provided some of those history 
articles. The "worse situation" refers to boorish religious chauvinism, 
sectarianism and communalism among the Hindus and the Catholics (which 
obviously includes the Portuguese). Here is the pertinent quote in that regard:

QUOTE
Boorish religious chauvinism, sectarianism and communalism, combined with 
crackpot nascimentality, have always existed in Goa in equal measure among the 
Hindus and the Catholics for as long as I can remember.
UNQUOTE
.Santosh Helekar

As far as whatever extraneous material Falcao has found in Wikipedia or in his 
own imagination, is concerned, I have no interest in responding to it. I have 
all the historical articles and books that I want, if I want to re-read Goan 
history.

Cheers,

Santosh
  


--- On Mon, 7/4/11, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão  
wrote:
> 
> RESPONSE : I would advise Santosh to read my posts on this
> thread
> right from the first one. I am talking of communal violence
> which have occurred
> in India till date with deaths occurring in a community. I
> have even provided a
> site giving how many people killed and which community. 
> 
> Here Santosh talks that during the Portuguese regime it was
> worse as
> told to him by his parents and grand-parents. And now he
> cites 4 books here
> written by some authors, mainly on Portuguese regime,
> communalism and caste
> system. In fact one of the books by Robert S. Newman states
> thus: QUOTE: Caste--The
> unhappiest inheritance of our pre-Portuguese past is the
> caste system. Due in
> great measure to mass conversions, and to a missionary
> policy which was
> tolerant in this regard, the Goan convert brought to
> Christianity, preserved,
> and even developed his caste and its loyalties, though its
> excesses were curbed
> and softened. UNQUOTE.
> 
> So where does this lead to? From where has this ‘caste’
> system come
> that is the root cause of communalism the author speaks
> about? And the author even goes to the extent to say"though
> its excesses were curbed and softened". Goa had just one
> communal violence,  like the one that happened at
> Sanvordem some 4 or 5 years years back.
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis
> Falcão.  
> 
>       
>  

Re: [Goanet] Konkanis and History of Bhatkal etc.

[Gabe Menezes]

On 3 July 2011 15:21, M.D  wrote:

> 1. KONKAN THE LAND
> nists. They hope to set up a centre in town for this purpose.
> (Source not available now on the net.)
> MD.
>
>
EXCELLENT: Your input is very much appreciated.



-- 
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] A secular Governance?

[SOTER]

Can someone tell me what the word "kirke' used by several Goan Hindus means? 
Who does it refer to? One hears it being used quite often in BJP and HJS 
circles.

-Soter D.

[Goanet] Keeping Goan culture alive in Qatar

[Doha Goans Sports Club]

Keeping Goan culture alive

Doha Goans at the Sports Club annual general meeting
The first annual general meeting of Doha Goans Sports Club (DGSC)
since its revival was held on June 24 at the Mercure Hotel.
The DGSC has always encouraged and motivated the youth of the
community to assist in community service, and Queenie Fernandes was
the first to tread along this path by hosting their first annual
general meeting.
The chairman, Joe Carvalho, welcomed the gathering and specially
thanked all those who co-operated and helped the club during its
revival, and requested all to further support and strengthen the club.
The president, Ambrosio Dias, began with an quote of Dalai Lama: “Our
prime purpose in life is to help others and if we can’t help them, at
least, do not hurt them”, thus emphasising the objective of the club
which is to help the less fortunate and keep alive the tradition and
culture of Goa in Qatar. The President then concluded by presenting
the annual report and expressed his sincere gratitude to his team, all
the members, sponsors and well-wishers for their contribution towards
the success of a number of events hosted by the club in a short time.
Ambrosio Dias was declared president (unopposed) for a period of two
consecutive years, 2011-2013, since the only other nominated candidate
did not show up.
During the open forum a number of concrete and constructive decisions
were taken by the gathering in the interest of bettering the club.
The gathering bid farewell to one of its committee members, Paul
Fernandes, who will leave Qatar for good.
Prizes for a lucky entry draw were awarded to the winners: Joaquim
Pereira and Joao. F.B D’souza.


 
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=444825&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16

[Goanet] Asian Educational Services (Wikipedia)

[Frederick Noronha]

Asian Educational Services

>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Asian Educational Services (AES)
Type Publishing house specialized in antiquarian reprints
Industry Books, publishing
Founded1973
Founder(s)Jagdish Lall Jetley
Headquarters New Delhi (India)
Area servedWorldwide
Key peopleGautam Jetley
ProductsBooks
Employees37
Websitewww.asianeds.com

Asian Educational Services (AES) is a New Delhi, India-based
publishing house that specialises in antiquarian reprints of books
that were originally published between the 17th and early 20th
centuries. Founded by Jagdish Lall Jetley in 1973, the selection of
titles are over 1200 in number.

This firm has a very active publication programme that aims to
preserve knowledge, in the form of old books, from being lost. An
extensive list of about 200 travelogues gives a vivid picture of India
specifically, and Asia generally. Many of the big names in Asian
exploration and in the field of history have been reprinted.W. W.
Hunter, H. H. Wilson, Max Muller, Rhys Davids, H. H. Risley, Edgar
Thurston, G. Forrest, G. B. Malleson, Nicholas Greenwood, William
Muir, Vincent A. Smith, Emerson Tennent,Wilhelm Geiger,
Monier-Willams, Sven Hedin, Richard F. Burton,Francis Younghusband,
William Moorcroft, M. Auriel Stein, Marco Polo, Heuin Tsang,
Al-Beruni, William of Rubruck, and many more share this shelf space.
Travelogues of people who, in the Middle Ages, frequented India such
as F. Bernier, J. B. Tavernier, John Fryer, N. Mannuchi, Abbe Carre,
J. Ovington,Alexander Hamilton, J. Neuihoff, P. Baldeaus, Father
Monsarrate, Ippolito Desideri, etc., have been given a new lease on
life.

Language aids for over 40 Asian, European and African languages in the
form of dictionaries (classical, and popular), Polyglots, grammar
aids, and self-taught series are part of the AES programme for
language studies. All major languages of the Indian sub-continent have
been covered, along with semitic languageslike Amharic and the
Arabic-Persian family of languages.

Apart from India, other areas of publication activity involve: Sri
Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Himalayas,Central Asia, Burma/Myanmar,
the Indian Ocean. Subjects deal with: History, Customs and
Manners,Religion, Buddhism, Numismatics, Anthropology, Art,
Architecture, Castes and Tribes, The Indian Revolt/Mutiny of 1857,
Natural History, gazetteers, guidebooks, etc.

AES was awarded the National Award for Excellence in Publishing in 2005.

AES has been featured regularly in newspapers and TV shows, that
highlight its re-publication programme. The newspapers that have
carried stories on AES include the national dailies like The Hindu and
The Indian Express. Among the channels that have features AES are the
National Channel of India (Door Darshan 1) and the CNN/IBN network in
India.

After the death of the founder in 2005, the firm is being run by the
surviving family.

[edit]External links

Relevant links to print press sites that carry an article on AES are:

http://www.hindu.com/2006/01/03/stories/2006010305300200.htm
http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=152144

link to the official site of Asian Educational Services: http://www.aes.ind.in

SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Educational_Services

[FOOTNOTE: AES has a number of Goa/Portuguese linked reprinted books
as obvious from their website.]

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

[Goanet] Weekend Theatre Playshops Dates & Details @ Gallery Gitanjali

[Gitanjali Gallery]

 Hi

Gallery Gitanjali in collaboration with Caathayatra is planning on having
Weekend  Theatre Workshops through the monsoons .
*Registrations  are now open for the same . *

Involved with Comedy and Community theatre ,Delhi-based thatre Group ,
Cathaayatra ( www.caathayatra.com ) is looking for the people to get
involved with their playshops, plays and community projects.


The  details & dates of the first set of playshops for :
kids ( age 12-17 : Monsoon Discovery Playshop )
 &
adults ( Lotus Eaters Playshop ) are attached .


To register /for further queries do call at 9823572035 or write in at:
gallerygitanj...@gmail.com


-- 
Thanks & Regards
Miriam Koshy
Gallery Gitanjali
E-212,31st January Road,
Fontainhas,Panjim,
Goa-403001
India
www.gallerygitanjali.com
00919823572035

[Goanet] POSCO: take land but give life-CSE's Bulletin (July 4, 2011)

[CSE]

===
CSE's Fortnightly News Bulletin (July 4, 2011)
===
What is this 'development' and 'growth' basket that India's planning
mandarins seem to be putting all their eggs into? We bring you more on the
battle for Posco and the question of sustainable growth, with Ms Narain's
editorial, a special report and a reporter's diary on the issue.
CSE's media team is also adding to the debate, with a media briefing being
planned in Visakhapatnam later this month on the subject of how 'growth' is
threatening the country's water wealth... Read on.

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EDITORIAL: POSCO: take land but give life by Sunita Narain

The sight on television was heartbreaking: children lying in rows in the
searing sun to be human shields against the takeover of their land for
Korean giant POSCO’s mega bucks project. Facing them were armed police sent
by the state government to assist in the operation.

The steel plant and port project, located in a coastal district of Odisha,
has been in a six-year-long eyeball-to-eyeball battle with people whose land
will be acquired. Now with clearances coming through the state government
wants the land acquired, at whatever cost it seems. It has put a financial
offer on the table, which even pays for encroached government land. It
believes this is a lifetime offer people should now accept. Move on, let the
project be built and precious foreign investment come to the shores of this
poor state.

The question we need to ask once again is why people who look so obviously
poor are fighting this project. Why won’t they accept the financial
compensation, which gives them an opportunity to start a new life and spare
their children the drudgery of growing betel nut? Is it growth and
development versus environment or just uninformed, illiterate people or even
politically motivated agitators? Is it really as simple as that?

I am afraid not.

POSCO is about growth versus growth. People here are poor but they know that
this project will make them poorer. This is the fact that we in the modern
economy find difficult to comprehend. This is an area of betel farming done
on mostly forestland belonging to the state. Of the 1,620 ha needed for the
project 90 per cent, or 1440 ha, is this contested forestland.

When the project site was selected, government did not consider it would
have to pay compensation for this land—it was encroached upon by the people,
and government would simply take it back for the steel giant. But it was
forestland and the people who lived there had cultivated on it for as long
as they could remember. This then raised the tricky matter of the conditions
under the Forest Rights Act that require people to give their consent to the
project. The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests overruled its own
dissenting committee to say it would have to trust the state government’s
version that all procedures were followed in determining that people in
these villages were not entitled to this right to decide because they were
not traditional forest dwelling community.

With this sorted, environmental and forest clearance was granted. Land
acquisition for the project could proceed. But people who were not asked
still said no.

Why? After all, the state government says it has accommodated all demands in
its offer. It has agreed to limit the acquisition of private dwellings and
village land. People will still have homes; they will only lose livelihood.
But even that will be compensated. It has agreed to pay for the loss of the
use of forestland, even though technically people have no rights over it.
The farmers will be paid, according to field reports from Odisha, some Rs
28.75 lakh for each ha of “encroached” betel farmland. Then the package
includes provision for payment to wage earners, who will lose livelihood
when betel farms go. The severance pay has a sweetener. The government will
pay a stipend, limited to a year, for the period people look for “jobs”. In
addition, the 460-odd families who lose homes will be resettled in colonies.
So why is the generous offer being rejected?

Is it only because of the obduracy of a few people, namely the leaders of
one gram panchayat, Dhinkia? This village has locked out the administration
for the past three years. All roads to it are barricaded. It is a mutiny,
fierce and determined. This village holds out alone because its gram
panchayat covers some 55 p

[Goanet] Clean Goa is the call after clean Ganga - Times of India, Goa

[Camillo Fernandes]

 

Clean Goa is the call after clean GangaTNN | Jul 4, 2011, 12.09am IST

 












 
 
AHMEDABAD: A place is judged by its hygiene level for its cool quotient. Nature 
has given Goa scenic spots in abundance, the waters, a lush green land, serene 
views, et al. The Portuguese left behind some very cute buildings. But we have 
not been able to handle it over a period of time. We have wasted an 
opportunity. Blame it on ourselves, or blame it on tourists, the state's ugly 
patches come up now and then as you drive through some of the most picturesque 
spots. 

There is garbage strewn all over the roadside. Suddenly, the ugly patches hit 
you in the eye. As you drive through, you wonder who is responsible for this 
mess. What will move our society and our panchayats to get their act together 
and rid the stretches of garbage? Who is dumping there? Why no action? Who is 
to bell the cat? A thought comes, why not we dump the garbage in the chief 
minister's house and see if the authorities will take some action? Probably 
then the municipalities and panchayats will go and collect it from there. 

The state urgently requires garbage dump yards and garbage treatment plants 
covering all locations. Garbage collection and segregation is an important task 
of the civic agencies. There are several officials who are drawing huge 
salaries from the public fund to ensure that this work is done properly. Goa is 
a small state and should serve as a model state for the country to follow. If 
we cannot, who else can? Why has it taken such a long time to identify 
permanent garbage dumps in the state? Why is there no will among our 
bureaucrats and babus down the line to set this problem right? The common 
answer one finds from people in high society is that politicians do not have 
the will. Is it only a politicians' responsibility? Is it not the right of the 
citizens to fight for this issue? Politicians will act if they know that their 
citizenry is having an issue with the garbage piling up. So, it's up to us 
citizens to take on the government on the issue. 

We do not have appropriate garbage dumps in the state. Look at what we have and 
the problems associated with it. The Sonsoddo garbage dump in Margao has been 
there for more than a decade. The Mapusa municipal council has been dumping 
garbage at Assagao Plateau for more than a decade for want of an appropriate 
place. It has turned into an eyesore on the picturesque Assagao Plateau. Panaji 
has no dumping ground, so CCP has usurped the now non-functional quarry at 
Taleigao plateau and made it its dump yard recently and is seeking to make it a 
regular dump yard much to the consternation of the residents around. 

In Vasco, Mormugao municipal council has a landfill and garbage treatment plant 
at Bogda. But MPT complained last year that it causes a nuisance. They went to 
court. The high court of Bombay at Goa has ruled that the garbage treatment 
plant is fine, but has asked Mormugao municipal council to shift the landfill 
to another location. So effectively, most areas of the state do not have 
appropriate dump yards. 

Many apartments have started coming up in Goa. But infrastructure to cater to 
the increasing number of residential properties and flats is not in place. Even 
the sewage pipelines and storm water drains are not going to be adequate to 
cater to the future requirements of the state. It's time that the government 
come up with a comprehensive plan to deal with these issues and implement them 
quickly without waiting for too long. Already, National Institute of 
Oceanography (NIO) has a report which has found that sewage being let out into 
the river Zuari and river Mandovi has contaminated the waters and during 
monsoons, many spots in the beaches are contaminated with E.coli, making it 
unsafe. 

It's time to clean up Goa, and so citizen forums too have an onus to fight. 





  

[Goanet] Konkanis and History of Bhatkal etc.

[M.D]

1. KONKAN THE LAND
Konkani stands out among Indian languages by its multi-directional, 
multi-caste and multi-dialectal character. Today, it is represented by 
no less than 3 religious groups that include more than 20 castes, 
sub-castes and sects, each speaking a distinct dialect of its own - a 
remarkably large spread in proportion to the population (approx. 5 
million). The origin of the name of the language Konkani has to be 
traced back of Konkan which is the name of a distinct tract of land, by 
and large on the western part of the Deccan peninsula, India.

KONKANI PEOPLE THEIR ORIGIN AND MIGRATION
The Konkani people are migrants of Aryan origin, from Central Asia. 
There is evidence to suggest that around 4000 B.C. they were among the 
people who settled to an agrarian life on the banks of the river 
Saraswati which was a tributary possibly of the river Indus. Sometime 
around 2500 B.C., the Saraswati river either went underground or changed 
its course causing its inhabitants to migrate to Trihotraputra 
identified as modern Tirhoot in Bihar state of India. The Saraswat 
Brahmans who were among the people who had migrated into Trihotra 
responded to the behest of Parashurama and moved to Konkan on the 
western part of the Deccan peninsula, India. Another cycle of migration 
is believed to have taken place around 1000 A.D. this time in search of 
greener pastures. There were two groups. The one that retains Konkani 
even today landed in Gomantaka (now Goa) on the Konkan coast; while the 
other moved east in Bangla (now Bengal) where in the course of time they 
assimilated the Bengali culture. The striking similarities between some 
aspects of Bengali and Konkani languages and cultures probably bear 
witness to this historic link. Goa was chosen mainly for its fertile 
soil where Konkanies with their expertise in farming reaped three crops 
in a year. Their coming down to Goa gave them one valuable inheritance - 
their name Konkani meaning the people of Konkan.

MAIN COMMUNITIES TODAY:
The most important of the Konkani speaking communities are:
Konkani Shenvi or Saraswat/Gaud Saraswat Brahmins
Non Brahmins such as Sonars, Bhandaris
Muslim Navayats
Catholic Christians of Goa, Kanara and Ratnagiri
The Shenvi or Saraswat Brahmins and Divajna Brahmins.

The Saraswat / Gaud Saraswat Brahmins form the subject of an interesting 
episode in the Mahabharata. It is stated that on the banks of Saraswati, 
there lived Rishi Dadichi's son, Saraswat. While a severe famine raged 
in Bharat country (India). for 12 years, Saraswat weathered the famine 
by feeding on the fish of the river Saraswati till it dried up. His 
example was followed by 60,000 (Shatsahasara) Brahmins who were his 
disciples.


Parashurama is stated to have brought sixty six families of Brahmins 
from Trihotra with their family deities and granted them the land 
reclaimed from the Sea. These families spread themselves over the 
districts of Bardesh, Pedne, Kudalmahal and other parts of Goa and South 
Konkan. They came to be known by the names of the villages and the names 
of their districts like Bardesh, Shenvis being those who settled in 96 
villages.


The first inroad into the territory, life and traditions of the Brahmins 
settled in Goa took place in 1351 A.D. when Hasan Gangu Jaffar Khan, who 
founded the Bahmani Kingdom, invaded Goa. Though Muslims were driven out 
of Goa in 1366 when it became a part of the Vijaynagar Empire in 1469, 
Goa was reconquered by Mohammmad Gawan.


Cruelties against the inhabitants of Goa mounted during its 
administration by a Turkish favourite of Yusuf Adil Shah, the King of 
Bijapur. On the 26th February 1510, Goa fell to Portuguese with the 
surrender of the Muslim intruders. The Portuguese rulers let loose their 
extreme fanaticism and started a reign of persecution against the Hindus 
of Goa. This forced a large number of Saraswat families to migrate from 
Goa into Malvan, Vengurla, Ratnagiri and other districts of Maharashtra, 
Coastal Karnataka (Kanara) and even into Kerala. In fact some of the 
families who had converted to the Catholic faith left Goa to settle with 
their Hindu kinsmen in Kanara as the Portuguese Viceroy had passed a law 
forbidding Christians of Goa from continuing to observe traditional 
customs and practices to which they were habituated while they were in 
the Hindu fold.


Konkani Non-Brahmin Hindus.
Konkani Non -Brahmin Hindus who formed professional castes left Goa, 
some time after it was taken by the Muslims and others after it came 
into suzerainty of the Portuguese. These include Kalavanths (Dancing 
Girl families), Sonars (Goldsmiths), Konkani Vanis (Traders), Sheragers 
(Messengers), Sutars (Carpenters), Konkani Kunbis, Bhandaris 
(Palm-tappers or liquor distillers), Konkani Kharvi / Kolis (Fishermen) 
or Mahars, Hulsavars or Palits who are labourers by profession.


The Konkani Muslims or Navayts.
The Navayats are believed to be the descendants of the Muslims who are

[Goanet] Hands off the treasures that belong to Lord Vishnu

[D'Souza, Avelino]

Hands off the treasures that belong to Lord Vishnu
By R Vaidyanathan

The news has been splashed from Auckland to Alaska. The temples of India 
contain several billion dollars worth of treasures. The opening of the vaults 
in the Sri Padnamanabhaswamy temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, according to 
a court order comes at a dangerous time for our polity.

The mainstream media continues to sensationalise the size of the treasure. One 
of them gushes that "treasures tumble out of the temple" - as though this is 
illegal money stashed in the Cayman Islands. Let's be clear: these treasures 
were donated by the temple's devotees over centuries, and rightfully belong to 
Lord Vishnu, who cannot even be fully seen from any angle by devotees. He  is 
the true owner of this wealth and this truth should be internalised.

It is unfortunate that this discovery should take place in Kerala, where the 
percentage of idol-worshippers is a minority - if one excluded Muslims, 
Christians and Marxists from the fold. The mere act of opening up the vaults 
and tunnels is thus fraught with significant dangers for Hindu society and our 
ancient civilisation.

The present times are most inappropriate to try to list the billions of rupees 
worth of diamonds and rubies and sapphires owned by our temples. We all know 
that a significant portion of our politicians have a criminal background and 
even parts of the judiciary are corrupt. The bureaucracy is compromised by a 
saga of loot and plunder.

In this context, where government finances are completely out of alignment with 
revenue realities, the temptation will be to use these invaluable treasures to 
fulfill the insatiable personal and political greed of our politicians to fund 
populist schemes like "food security" for all with resources belonging to Lord 
Vishnu. Already more than 80% of the incomes of major temples is used for 
"secular" causes rather than for "sacred" purposes.


The opening of the vaults in the Sri Padnamanabhaswamy temple in 
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, according to a court order comes at a dangerous 
time for our polity. Reuters
It is not improbable that some jholawala economist will calculate - by dividing 
his mobile number with the pin code - that more than 70% of the people below 
poverty line can be lifted out of poverty if only this money is available to 
the government. The unaccountable civil society group under Sonia Gandhi - also 
called the National Advisory Council -  might formulate a bill (since they are 
the law framers in the present dispensation) to open up all vaults from the 
Amarnath to Ayappa temples and from Somnath to Kamakhya.

There will be half-baked debates about using it for "social justice". The only 
people who can have some say on this wealth are those who visit the temple on a 
daily basis and who can chant, in this case, the Vishnu Sahasranamam. I am not 
even sure if those who are counting these treasures are eligible to deal with 
the "sacred" on the orders of the "secular". One can say that this is the last 
battle waged by Nehruvian secularists against the 'sacred" even though, in this 
particular case, it might appear to be a simple case of counting.

Actually counting, enumerating and documenting are secular ways of dealing with 
sacred treasures in our temples, since the sacred is never documented but just 
observed and meditated upon.

Some imported white or brown non-resident Indian expert will suggest a way of 
leveraging these billions and even propose investing a part of it in our stock 
markets to propel second generation reforms.

Wall Street bankers, with colorful ties and multiple lies, should be 
tremendously interested. The wealth seen in temples becomes a target for jehadi 
terrorists and Wall Street bankers - who are no different except for the kind 
of killing they go for. The memories of the plunder of Somnath are embedded in 
the brain cells of every citizen of this country.

Let us be clear. The town and the temple are already marked by global 
terrorists. The Kerala home minister says he will increase the number of 
pot-bellied constables to protect the treasures, as if the global jehadis can 
be handled by them.

Quite clearly, this is the most inappropriate time to be listing the Lord's 
wealth. When a street is full of thugs and dacoits, no woman would venture out 
wearing her jewels and finery. One wonders why the courts have got into this, 
when they should have been focusing on the Hasan Alis, Rajas and Kalmadis of 
the world.

It is puzzling why the acharya sabhas or Hindu organisations are silent on this 
issue. They may not have understood the full import of what is happening.

For the sake of Dharma and for God's sake, our courts and powers should stop 
digging for treasures in our temples.

R Vaidyanathan is Professor of Finance, Indian Institute of Management, 
Bangalore, and can be contacted at vai...@iimb.ernet.in. The views are personal 
and do not reflect that of his organisatio

[Goanet] Konkani Word A Day: E, ea, ea adim, ea fuddem, eanni....

[Frederick Noronha]

Learn one or more Konkani word a day:

E the fifth letter of the Roman Alphabet

EA this

EA ADIM ere this, before

EA FUDDEM henceforth

EANNI f. huckster-woman, fish woman (fig) a quarrelsome woman

ECA CALLACHO contemporary

ECA GAUNCHO fellow countryman

ECA JINSACHO alike

ECA ROGTACHO consanguineous

ECA SANGATACHO associate

ECA VOGTAR happily

ECACHE ECVIS ZAUNC to increase and multiply

ECADEA at times, perhaps

ECAENNEM entirely, wholly

ECA-MECACHO, -I, -EM, mutually, co-operative

ECA-MECAR one above the other

ECA-MONACHO resolute

ECAN-EOC one by one

ECANNEM altogether

ECBAT m fast.

[Source: Konkani-English Pocket Dictionary/Concanim-Inglez Dicionar. First
published (authored probably by Dacho Furtado) in 1930. Republished in 1991
and 1999 by the Asian Educational Services, Rs 195 in India. Also in a
Broadway reprint. Somewhat difficult to purchase currently.]

Text is from a 1930 dictionary, and written style may have changed since.
Feel free to share this with anyone who might be interested. Copyleft.
Circulated via Goanet
[http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/]

Re: [Goanet] A secular governance? JC.

[Gerald Fernandes]

 
False modesty as also superciliousness always sucks. Could I ask the simple  
Simon Doctor the reason why adenomas/fibroids develop or why the common cold is 
yet not amenable to medical treatment? When causes are not known , medical 
treatments cannot be reliably devised said an eminent Goan Physician currently 
practising Internal Medicine as a Consultant at Bombay Hospital, India. Another 
renowned Surgeon ,also practising at the same hospital echoed the same views. 
A Nobel laureate, no less than Pauling, accepted that whilst he had no proof, 
he felt that Vitamin C could hold a cure for the common cold. Unfortunately Dr. 
JC does not find himself in the company of these humble men of medicine.Rather 
he  is inclined to force down his penchant for non-medical views masquerading 
under the rigor of medical science.Perhaps it is time for JC to wake up and 
smell the coffee. Social sciences by their very nature are vastly amenable to 
different criteria than
 the Medical Sciences.
 
To come to the point, it is a sociological axiom that the ruler imposed his 
religion.(Cuius regio,eius religio) This occured not only in India,but also in 
Europe and in other parts of the world.Yes, even the Hindu religion known for 
its tolerance wiped out Jainism and even built over Jain temples in India.
 
May I at this stage quote a renowned Goan origin ,Indian citizen, Jesuit 
sociologist Fr.Rudolf Heredia to express and  elucidate the point. Referring to 
Samuel Huntingtons book titled The Clash of Civilisations, Dr Heredia, YES DR. 
ALBEIT OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL VARIETY, NOT MEDICAL ETIOLOGY writes 
 
"... barbaric violence is fuelled by wounded memories and unresolved grievances 
from a long gone past,colonial and pre-colonial. All too often, these are 
deliberately kept alive by vengeful zealots to nurse injured collective egos. 
However, when it comes to religious violence,there are no precision-guided hate 
bombs.Rather with such 'chosen traumas' there is a sense of self-righteousness 
and self-justification that legitimizes horrors in the name of 'the cause'. Yet 
to think in terms of 'teaching them a lesson' when the initial assumption is 
precisely that 'such people never learn', exposes the inconsistencies in this 
madness without method." 
 
Despite the well-known academic rigor of the Jesuits, Dr. Rudolph Heredia. S. 
J. does not cite research papers previously published in peer reviewed other 
Journals to make his point. It is his conviction based on the way he 
experiences the world that he expresses.
 
 We must hasten to thank God for bestowing on us the human faculties of 
critical thinking so as to enable us not to solely depend on previously 
published,peer reviewed Papers in Journals, as the simple Simon Dr. JC would 
lead us to believe .
 
A question to the simple Simon medical Doctor. Please prove to me that "the 
whole is greater than the part,or that the part is lesser than the whole". 
Perhaps Simple Simon Doctor may succeed where Euclid did not.
 
Come on dear simple Simon doctor. Live life .Have fun. Can we be of help to 
bring you down safely from your ivory tower.We are ready to deploy a team of 
native Goan Lashkars( colonial labourers)  to attend to you.
 
Gerry 
 

Re: [Goanet] A secular Governance?

[J. Colaco < jc>]

[1] Santosh Helekar wrote:  In all fairness, Jose should have also
asked Floriano for evidence to support the following blood examination
conducted by him:

[2] Frederick FN Noronha advised: As the learned doctors should know,
Phlebotomy is a different department :-) FN

--

No Frederick No. Even a Wikipedia-researching journalist would realise
that Phlebotomy is NOT a department.

jc
Not from the Daman bridge

[Goanet] Enough of cricketin India? Now baseball

[Eugene Correia]

>From rural India to the major leagues

NEW DELHI—Young men all over India are flexing their muscles in the
hope that a strong arm will carry them into a money-spinning career in
professional baseball in the United States.

Despite the lack of a baseball tradition in India, the dream is not an
impossible one, as Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel proved in a tale that
is being immortalised in a Walt Disney film.

Singh beat 35,000 rivals three years ago in a talent-hunt in India
dubbed The Million-Dollar Arm (TMDA) and is tipped to break into Major
League Baseball (MLB) after a spell with the minor-league Pittsburgh
Pirates.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/article/1016381--from-rural-india-to-the-major-leagues

[Goanet] How to Naturally Prevent, Lessen and Eliminate Wrinkles

[Con Menezes]

http://www.healthiertalk.com/print/4218

[Goanet] Clean Goa is the call after clean Ganga

[SOTER]

AHMEDABAD: A place is judged by its hygiene level for its cool quotient. Nature 
has given Goa scenic spots in abundance, the waters, a lush green land, serene 
views, et al. The Portuguese left behind some very cute buildings. But we have 
not been able to handle it over a period of time. We have wasted an 
opportunity. Blame it on ourselves, or blame it on tourists, the state's ugly 
patches come up now and then as you drive through some of the most picturesque 
spots. 

There is garbage strewn all over the roadside. Suddenly, the ugly patches hit 
you in the eye. As you drive through, you wonder who is responsible for this 
mess. What will move our society and our panchayats to get their act together 
and rid the stretches of garbage? Who is dumping there? Why no action? Who is 
to bell the cat? A thought comes, why not we dump the garbage in the chief 
minister's house and see if the authorities will take some action? Probably 
then the municipalities and panchayats will go and collect it from there. 

The state urgently requires garbage dump yards and garbage treatment plants 
covering all locations. Garbage collection and segregation is an important task 
of the civic agencies. There are several officials who are drawing huge 
salaries from the public fund to ensure that this work is done properly. Goa is 
a small state and should serve as a model state for the country to follow. If 
we cannot, who else can? Why has it taken such a long time to identify 
permanent garbage dumps in the state? Why is there no will among our 
bureaucrats and babus down the line to set this problem right? The common 
answer one finds from people in high society is that politicians do not have 
the will. Is it only a politicians' responsibility? Is it not the right of the 
citizens to fight for this issue? Politicians will act if they know that their 
citizenry is having an issue with the garbage piling up. So, it's up to us 
citizens to take on the government on the issue. 

We do not have appropriate garbage dumps in the state. Look at what we have and 
the problems associated with it. The Sonsoddo garbage dump in Margao has been 
there for more than a decade. The Mapusa municipal council has been dumping 
garbage at Assagao Plateau for more than a decade for want of an appropriate 
place. It has turned into an eyesore on the picturesque Assagao Plateau. Panaji 
has no dumping ground, so CCP has usurped the now non-functional quarry at 
Taleigao plateau and made it its dump yard recently and is seeking to make it a 
regular dump yard much to the consternation of the residents around. 

In Vasco, Mormugao municipal council has a landfill and garbage treatment plant 
at Bogda. But MPT complained last year that it causes a nuisance. They went to 
court. The high court of Bombay at Goa has ruled that the garbage treatment 
plant is fine, but has asked Mormugao municipal council to shift the landfill 
to another location. So effectively, most areas of the state do not have 
appropriate dump yards. 

Many apartments have started coming up in Goa. But infrastructure to cater to 
the increasing number of residential properties and flats is not in place. Even 
the sewage pipelines and storm water drains are not going to be adequate to 
cater to the future requirements of the state. It's time that the government 
come up with a comprehensive plan to deal with these issues and implement them 
quickly without waiting for too long. Already, National Institute of 
Oceanography (NIO) has a report which has found that sewage being let out into 
the river Zuari and river Mandovi has contaminated the waters and during 
monsoons, many spots in the beaches are contaminated with E.coli, making it 
unsafe. 

It's time to clean up Goa, and so citizen forums too have an onus to fight. 
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Clean-Goa-is-the-call-after-clean-Ganga/articleshow/9092198.cms

[Goanet] Song for the day

[Gabe Menezes]

 Helen 
Shapiro
-
Move Over Darling - a Doris Day original.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiWylm0HyLA&feature=fvst

doris day
move
over darling with cliff richard pics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q2htTs8dqk&feature=fvwrel
-- 
DEV BOREM KORUM

Gabe Menezes.

Re: [Goanet] A secular Governance?

[Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão]

On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 22:32:56 -0700, Santosh Helekar wrote :
<<>>

 

RESPONSE : I would advise Santosh to read my posts on this thread
right from the first one. I am talking of communal violence which have occurred
in India till date with deaths occurring in a community. I have even provided a
site giving how many people killed and which community. 

Here Santosh talks that during the Portuguese regime it was worse as
told to him by his parents and grand-parents. And now he cites 4 books here
written by some authors, mainly on Portuguese regime, communalism and caste
system. In fact one of the books by Robert S. Newman states thus: QUOTE: 
Caste--The
unhappiest inheritance of our pre-Portuguese past is the caste system. Due in
great measure to mass conversions, and to a missionary policy which was
tolerant in this regard, the Goan convert brought to Christianity, preserved,
and even developed his caste and its loyalties, though its excesses were curbed
and softened. UNQUOTE.

So where does this lead to? From where has this ‘caste’ system come
that is the root cause of communalism the author speaks about? And the author 
even goes to the extent to say"though its excesses were curbed and softened". 
Goa had just one communal violence,  like the one that happened at Sanvordem 
some 4 or 5 years years back.


 


Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.