[Goanet] Meet the Irulas...... gatherers of honey in the Nilgiris.

[Con Menezes]

http://www.natgeotraveller.in/braving-a-swarm-of-bees-in-the-nilgiris-with-the-daredevil-irulas/?utm_source=NewsletterMar4

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[Goanet] Mind Field: Isolation.

[Con Menezes]

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/mind-field-isolation/

  short synopsis below.

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[Goanet] I-LEAGUE REPORT: Churchill Halt Mohun Bagan’s Unbeaten Streak

[AIFF Media]

Dear Colleagues,



Please find below the report regarding Churchill Brothers FC Goa's 2-1 win
against Mohun Bagan.



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Churchill Halt Mohun Bagan’s Unbeaten Streak



*GOA:* Mohun Bagan were dealt a heavy blow in their title pursuit as
Churchill Brothers FC Goa staged a dramatic come-from-behind victory to
clinch a 2-1 victory against the Mariners to notch up their second straight
victory in Hero I-League 2016-17.



*READ MORE:*
http://i-league.org/i-league/churchill-halt-mohun-bagans-unbeaten-streak/



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[Goanet] PROBE ORDERED BY CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER KUNAL INTO ELECTION EXPENSES IS A SHAM

[Aires Rodrigues]

The five-member committee headed by Additional Chief Electoral Officer
Narayan Navti appointed by the Chief Electoral Officer Kunal to probe the
recent Goa Assembly election expenses is  a mere farce and eyewash. The
inquiry to be free and fair should instead be conducted by a retired High
Court Judge assisted by an Accountant of his choice.



The Chief Election Commissioner of India Dr Nasim Zaidi has already been
requested to order an independent probe into the acts of omission and
commission by Goa CEO Kunal. The probe into this mega crore fraud cannot be
a superficial in-house one conducted by officers who are working under
Kunal himself.



Goa’s Chief Electoral Officer needs to explain as to why he has not yet
displayed on the website the breakup of the total expenses incurred on the
recent Assembly elections. Public funds cannot be squandered and the Chief
Electoral Officer would have to justify every paisa spent.



As it is very surprising that such a whopping expenditure was incurred by
the Government on the elections, we need to have an in-depth meticulous
audit into all the expenses. The lack of transparency and the veil of
secrecy in the working of the Chief Electoral Officer’s office is a matter
of concern as it is a clear grim sign of bad governance.  Any waste of
taxpayers’ money is not condonable. Only a detailed and fair investigation
will reveal to what extent the bills were inflated and wasteful expenditure
incurred.



Chief Electoral Officer Kunal has been very partisan by not acting against
the gross election malpractices indulged by the ruling BJP. Kunal and his
jumbo team were mere spectators while the BJP freely distributed abundant
cash in the two days prior to the Feb 4th elections.



Infact the office of Chief Electoral Officer has been reduced to a camp
site of the ruling BJP. Persons known to be having close ties with the BJP
should have not been assigned duties of conducting the elections.



All the so called arrangements made by Chief Electoral Officer were only
cosmetic and portrayed as glossy on paper, while the ground reality was
very different with even the staff deployed on election duty not provided
the very basic amenities. Every citizen is now entitled to know the
detailed expenditure of those mega crores spent on the elections. With
Kunal as CEO in Goa, the Election Commission of India has miserably failed
in conducting free and fair elections as mandated by law.



Did Kunal have to be reminded of those word of the Former Albanian Prime
Minister Fatos Nano “Organising free and fair elections is more important
than the result itself”.


Aires Rodrigues

Advocate High Court

C/G-2, Shopping Complex

Ribandar Retreat,

Ribandar – Goa – 403006

Mobile No: 9822684372

Office Tel  No: (0832) 2444012

Email: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com

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[Goanet] A loving tribute

[Nelson Lopes]

Jose Eustaquio Carvalho


A LOVING TRIBUTE

School and teachers you kept in touch,

 The Science subject you loved so much,

Humble and simple you hurt none

 Loved and remembered by everyone



 Tried to rise ,not fall.

Ambitions were tall

Not stopped by any wall

 Your passion remained football



You studied well to gain,

Your efforts were not in vain

Made you happy with the pain

 Goal in life  you said is  main



Married life you  admitted was fun

With a devoted wife, daughter and son

Regrets you counted none

A worthy companion to everyone,



 It’s the Family that made you glad

You are proud that`s the wealth you had

You took in your stride good or bad,



Nothing ever made you sad or mad



The sudden illness thatmade you ill

 The pain and suffering that made you feel

 Nothing worked ,Surgery, chemo or pill

In the end, peacefully resigned to God`s will



 Your award in Science to remember dad

 In recognition with what you had

 Perpetuating his memory made you glad

The goodness will benefit a village lad



  Science and Maths award keeps your memory alive

 Thoughtfulness, of daughter son and wife

 A gift that will reverberate for life

 Encouraging the promotion of Science you like


Nelson Lopes

Chinchinim



I

[Goanet] HI-FI TWO WHEELER MOTOR CYCLES ON GOAN ROADS?

[Stephen Dias]

-

Move to classify major District roads in Goa as Highways is a dangerous
step to be taken by the Government which aims to make Goa as Dry State
similar to Gujarat.
This could be a planned move by the Modi Government so that Goans can still
find their place as further sucessgad.
Perhaps Goa will be a starting state on trial basis and many others will
follow later.
Instead of people dying due to consumption of alcohol on motor vehicles
accidents we may see much more deaths due to Hi-FI two wheeler speeding on
our inner roads of Goa when these roads will be  classified as highways.
Then the speed limit will have to be fixed not less than 60 or 100 kms per
hour as per the traffic rules.

Stephen Dias
Dona Paula
Mob: 9422443110
Date: 4th March 2017

[Goanet] Jose eustaquio carvalho UGDAS

[Nelson Lopes]

JOSE EUSTAQUIO CARVALHO

UGDAS

Iscolacho,  anik xincoupeancho mog also,

Kedinch tum visrunk naslo,

Khaltekaen ,uton bhoslo,

Ixxtt sogleank mandta toslo



Footbal moidonar such mellem,

Ikmotin, iscoalchem xincop kelem,

Science khub  avodta,oxem mullem,

Xincpachem chintun, fudlem Paulo ghetlem.



Khuxeal aslim aum ani potin,

Devachim bessaumam soglech vatin,

Dog burguim bangarachim, amche atin

Soglench purem zalem, aslem motin,



Kherit  paicho ugdas kelo,

Science vorgac inam dilo,

 Khoxtanim put vhod zalo

Putan  khoxen aundo palo.



Vait piden ghetlo gatt,

Kitench, borem podonc nam mat,

Devacherchuch dovron bavart

,Maglem dis  anik  rat



Famil tuji ,ugdas corta/

Science/maths- ak inam dorta

 Dukan chintunk podta

Ugdas korun dukani rodta

Nelson Lopes

[Goanet] Indians are Innovative

[Roland Francis]

Most of the times in the wrong way.

Take the Goa Govt for example. Want land on which Coconut trees exist? Simply 
reclassify coconut trees as 'grass' instead of trees. Want to subvert a Supreme 
Court order to remove all structures selling alcohol within 500m of Highways? 
Simply denotify Highways and call them roads.

Who says Trump is the pioneer of this sort of innovation? Remember what he said 
when the Supreme Court struck down  his executive order banning the majority 
community of seven countries from entering the US? "I'll pass another executive 
order!" he barked. What form will it take this time?

May be a phone call to Goa's Laxmikant Parsekar will help.

Roland Francis
Toronto.

Re: [Goanet] Where the mind must be without fear

[John Eric Gomes]

What is really sad is the ruling establishment/ government utter inaction
and even condoning of these people who indulge in violence and bullying!
They will never punish or take exemplary action. Justice, Law and Order are
becoming scarcer. The best they do is denounce or say they do not subscribe
to what has been done, or find excuses to cover up! The Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court and the President speaking out seems to have no effect,
as I see it, on our march towards becoming a Banana Republic!

On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Sandeep Heble 
wrote:

> Being idealistic, hoping that war ends, advocating friendly relations
> between two neighbouring nations, yearning for peace - - now why would
> anyone need to get upset with all this? I watched Gurmehar Kaur’s video and
> found nothing wrong or objectionable in it absolutely. That a 20 year old,
> a young college student who had lost her father in battle, could give up
> her hate and come up with a thought provoking message like this would by
> itself be a courageous act, worth appreciating. Yet, she got trolled,
> hateful comments made, threats given, followed by an orchestrated campaign
> to subjugate her into silence. This is a worrying sign indeed and even more
> worrying when you consider it has the tacit support of the ruling
> establishment.
>
>
> During the reign of the British empire, the great Poet Rabindranath Tagore
> churned out the beautiful words, ““Where the mind is without fear and the
> head is held high”, to inspire his countrymen who were craving for freedom.
> "Where words come out from the depth of truth, Where tireless striving
> stretches its arms towards perfection . . . Into that heaven of freedom, my
> Father, let my country awake", the poem continued urging the people to
> dream of a Country whose people are free to express their thoughts and
> ideas fearlessly, where there would be no imposing or corrupted powers to
> bully them into submission.
>
>
> Is this the freedom which we all dreamt of? When artists and even students
> are met with hostility for a piece of art, for a book they write, for a
> song they compose and now, for even a video they post on Youtube? Where
> there are all kinds of restrictions being put on you to suppress your
> voices and freedom?
>
>
> I wish the ruling establishment would pay more attention to the real
> problems that are affecting the country. Build better infrastructure.
> Improve the Judicial system where cases drag for years. Give us better
> Policing, good governance, effective administration and time bound
> services. That is what you have been elected for. That would be real
> nationalism. Skip the slogan shouting & take the Country forward in the
> true sense!
>
>
> warm regards,
>
> Sandeep Heble
>
> 9326129171
>

[Goanet] Clare de Sousa, co-founder, CGN / Basil DeSouza (drummer), ex-Karachi

[Goanet Obits]

Via Michael Ali on Facebook:
March 4 at 7:19pm

Prayers are requested for Clare de Sousa, beloved wife of Patrick de Sousa
(formerly of Karachi) of Silver Spring, Maryland, passed away on March 2,
2017.

Clare was an admirable person with a gentle spirit and loving nature. She
was a person of great character whose company we cherished, and whose
memory will forever be in our hearts.

Viewing will be held from 10:30 AM to 11:00 AM, on March 11, 2017, at Our
Lady of Grace Church, 15661 Norbeck Blvd., Silver Spring, MD 20906. Tel.
301-924-4927. Funeral Mass at 11:00 AM., followed by burial at the Gate of
Heaven Cemetery, 13801 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20906. Tel.
301-871-6500.

Clare and her husband, Patrick de Souza are co-founders of Catholic Goan
Network. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CGMNet/info

* * *

Basil DeSouza h/o of Marie f/o Elsa and Elaine, who passed way in Montreal
after suffering two sudden hearts attack on Feb 24. He was formerly of
Karachi and was a professional drummer. He was 79. He is predeceased by his
sisters, Tessie (Theresa) Rossiter,  Colleen Green   and  Pinky
(Genievieve) Breach.

[Goanet] The Home Staging of Goa (Christine Russon, Chasingxine)

[Goanet Reader]

The Home Staging of Goa

By Christine Russon
christine.rus...@gmail.com

http://chasingxine.blogspot.in/2017/03/home-staging-of-goa.html

My last essay [1] hit a nerve with a Scottish reader, who argued
that after living in Goa for five years, he should be
considered a Goan. This is despite the fact that he doesn’t
socialize with Goans; he claimed that this is irrelevant.

  I responded that being viewed as a Goan is not a
  question of time spent in Goa but of engagement
  with the place. Engagement is a critical topic, as
  Goa is treated like a reward for those with money,
  who have fuelled the demand for investment property
  or who have chosen to abandon the rat race for a
  quiet life here. Add to this the numerous domestic
  and international tourists, who occupy different
  spaces that tend not to include Goans. As I have
  already argued (see above-cited essay), this is how
  hospitable Goa is -- you can pretend there are no
  Goans here.

A travel blog called Inditales.com [2] is an example of both
the lack of engagement with Goa and the erasure of Goans that
I observe whenever I'm here. The author of the blog, Anuradha
Goyal, has written pieces on the North Goan villages of
Aldona [3] and Assagao [4] that read less like the insights
of a traveller and more like advertorials -- that is, paid
ads masquerading as opinion pieces (sticking with the theme
of selling off Goa, here [5] is an example from 2007).

Goyal states on her blog that she has lived in Goa for more
than three years, and yet she writes about Goa as if she has
just visited for the first time, with no prior knowledge of
it. The descriptions portray a surface-level interaction,
with no probing to learn about these villages or the people
who inhabit them. Even more striking are the photographs. The
only people in the few images that contain human figures are
far in the distance, faceless and nameless. And yet in this
absence of signs of life are photographs of well-preserved
churches and homes. So, while their existence might be
overlooked, these villages evidently have inhabitants.

(House in Aldona; Source: realestateIndia.com)

This reminds me of a day last fall, when I was taking a walk
around downtown Hamilton. As I made my way through the MacNab
Street bus terminal, I passed by a large tour group whose
professionally dressed participants were sporting name tags
and holding clipboards. Not wanting to stare, I glanced
briefly and made out the word "Toronto." Interesting, I
thought. I heard the tour guide inform them about the history
of the buildings towering over them.

Later on, I ran into this same group again on James Street
North. Now more curious about what they were up to, I slowed
my pace and detected a turn in the tour guide's script.
Instead of highlighting the history of the neighbourhood, the
subject was the neighbourhood's potential.

  It hit me: this was a group of developers looking
  to acquire property in this already gentrified
  neighbourhood. The gentrification [6] of my
  hometown is a topic on which I've written before.
  This particular street was already reinvented as an
  artists' hub, and now it is undergoing a
  transformation into a downtown-Torontoesque
  neighbourhood of restaurants and condominiums. The
  advertorials selling Hamilton to investors have
  been churning out of Toronto's newspapers for
  years. A city that was once known for its
  affordable detached homes and green spaces is being
  increasingly concretized to allow developers to
  make money. As I eavesdropped on this tour guide's
  sales pitch, I wondered if these people noticed or
  cared that the space they were coveting is already
  inhabited.

This brings me back to Inditales. The images of the houses in
the blog posts remind me of real estate advertisements.
Realtors in Canada advocate home staging [7] to enhance the
likelihood of selling one's house. The basic rules of home
staging are that the premises must be pristine and lacking in
personal touches, to make it easier for potential buyers to
envision themselves filling that space. Thus, instead of
providing information to would-be vacationers, these posts on
Inditales exhibit the home staging of Goa. The blog is guilty
of subtly conveying the idea of Goa as a vacant plot through
its envisioning of the state as a land of quaint, almost
empty villages.

(Like Inditales, selling an empty Assagao on a real estate
website)

  Of course, the erasure of Goans from the Goan
  landscape is nothing new. I remarked once in a
  comment on a Facebook post (Sept. 7, 2016) about
  the habit of referring to houses of a particular
  style as Portuguese, as if they were never -- and
  are still not -- inhabited by Goa

Re: [Goanet] Indians are Innovative

[Jose]

On Mar 4, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Roland Francis  wrote:
> 
> Who says Trump is the pioneer of this sort of innovation? Remember what he 
> said when the Supreme Court struck down  his executive order banning the 
> majority community of seven countries from entering the US? "I'll pass 
> another executive order!" he barked. 

Dear Roland,

It is possible that you are either Intentionally or Negligently Misrepresenting 
the Facts.

Could you point to a single non-Fake news site ( better still.the 'Law 
Report' itself) which would support your scurrilous claim that:

1:  there exists/existed an Executive Order banning " the Majority Community" 
from seven countries from entering the US. 

2: any Supreme Court ruled on the matter.

jc

[Goanet] An interesting take on the prevalent "long-term tourist's" depiction of Goa

[Cecil Pinto]

http://chasingxine.blogspot.in/2017/01/modern-colonial-encounters.html

Yes, Goa is very hospitable. So accommodating a place is this that if you
want to pretend the Goans don’t exist, you can do that with little protest.
We know that Goa is regarded by many as a playground of sorts, but beyond
this, spaces in Goa and depictions of Goa that are void of Goans feed into
the notion that Goa was an empty place after the Portuguese left in 1961.
This is a useful exercise for those from the Indian mainland, but what do
foreign tourists have to gain from this?

.

And a follow-up
http://chasingxine.blogspot.in/2017/03/home-staging-of-goa.html

My last essay

hit a nerve with a Scottish reader, who argued that after living in Goa for
five years, he should be considered a Goan. This is despite the fact that
he doesn’t socialize with Goans; he claimed that this is irrelevant. I
responded that being viewed as a Goan is not a question of time spent in
Goa but of engagement with the place. Engagement is a critical topic, as
Goa is treated like a reward
 for those
with money, who have fuelled the demand for investment property or who have
chosen to abandon the rat race for a quiet life here. Add to this the
numerous domestic and international tourists, who occupy different spaces
that tend not to include Goans. As I have already argued (see above-cited
essay), this is how hospitable Goa is—you can pretend there are no Goans
here.

==

[Goanet] From the Joseph Naik Vaz Institute

[George Pinto]

The Joseph Naik Vaz Institute cordially invites you to join us as we support 
Cardinal Ranjith and the Sri Lankan Church in continuing the celebration of the 
“Year of St. Joseph Vaz” with a Mass on Sunday March 19. 

Our monthly Mass is also being offered very specially for the Beatification of 
Ven. Fr. Agnelo de Souza (1869-1927).  We invite you to join our prayer 
campaign that his Cause will be acted on very soon. As well as his Cause, we 
remember the Causes of many other native Indian and Sri Lankan candidates to 
the sainthood which we are publicizing on our website. 


This Mass will be held at St. John the Baptist Church at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday 
March 19, 2017. The address is 11152 San Pablo Avenue, El Cerrito, California, 
94530.  It is at the corner of San Pablo Avenue and Potrero Avenue, and a block 
away from the Del Norte Bart Bart station.
Mass will be followed by a no host lunch at Aangan Indian-Nepali restaurant, 
famous for delicious masala dosas, vegetarian, fish, lamb, and goat curries. 
The address is 854 San Pablo Avenue, Albany, California, 94706.  Please email 
us at josephnaik@gmail.com if you would like to make a lunch reservation.

Our January 29 Mass was the first in a series of monthly Masses and events that 
the Joseph Naik Vaz Institute is organizing in the San Francisco Bay area to 
honor St. Joseph Vaz and our own indigenous Indian and Sri Lankan saints and 
candidates for the sainthood.  Please visit our website www.josephnaikvaz.org 
for a report and pictures of our January 29 Mass.

To contact us please email us at: josephnaik@gmail.com

Joseph Naik Vaz Institute
www.josephnaikvaz.org

[Goanet] Indians are Innovative

[Albert Peres]

Indians are innovative, and our Roland is the most innovative.

He is master of the, 'you know what I mean,' 'but, that's not what I 
wrote'. 'Don't you challenge me.'


This kind of work is called, rabble-rousing muddle.

Some advice: Stick to the facts man. Make the world a better place.

--
Albert Peres

afpe...@3129.ca
416.660.0847 cell


[Goanet] Indians are Innovative
---  Jose colaco1 at gmail.com wrote ---
Sat Mar 4 11:47:58 PST 2017

On Mar 4, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Roland Francis  
wrote:

>
> Who says Trump is the pioneer of this sort of innovation? Remember 
what he said when the Supreme Court struck down  his executive order 
banning the majority community of seven countries from entering the US? 
"I'll pass another executive order!" he barked.


Dear Roland,

It is possible that you are either Intentionally or Negligently 
Misrepresenting the Facts.


Could you point to a single non-Fake news site ( better still.the 
'Law Report' itself) which would support your scurrilous claim that:


1:  there exists/existed an Executive Order banning " the Majority 
Community" from seven countries from entering the US.


2: any Supreme Court ruled on the matter.

jc