[Goanet] Oz and Sandra De Souza take you (musically) back to another era....

[Frederick Noronha]

Guitarist Osvaldo (Oz) DeSOUZA  and Sandra De
Souza (on keyboards) of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada shared some of his
YouTube links.  Check out their videos below:

See 'Beyond the Sea' (which Oz says "reminds me of the Goa scenary") and
'Love Me Tender'
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP3rLLOV68tywQ8BP1N0jT5Y1XTr0VOaE

This one is with Douglas Parades from the Phillipines on vocals
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP3rLLOV68txe_UhoBLGc6YQzJ8Hb6L7g

Also, Quando, Quando
https://youtu.be/v9x0df9X-EY?list=PLP3rLLOV68txe_UhoBLGc6YQzJ8Hb6L7g

More on YouTube. Google for his name. -FN
-- 
FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا‎ +91-9822122436
AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556

[Goanet] Bible verse for the Day

[Devak Argham]

B.I.B.L.E. - Behold I Bring Life Eternal


Luke 5:30-32


30 The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying,
“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

31 Jesus said to them in reply, “Those who are healthy do not need a
physician, but the sick do.

32 I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.”

Re: [Goanet] Is it true that India has never invaded any foreign country?

[Venantius J Pinto]

"Indians" did go outside to attack.
>From (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajendra_Chola_I

)
Before the fourteenth year of Rajendra (Chola I)'s reign c. 1025, the Chola
Navy crossed the ocean and attacked the Srivijaya kingdom of Sangrama
Vijayatungavarman. Kadaram, the capital of the powerful maritime kingdom,
was sacked and the king taken captive. Along with Kadaram, Pannai in
present day Sumatra and Malaiyur in the Malayan peninsula were attacked.
Kedah (now in modern Malaysia) too was occupied.

 Across the kala pani
By: Michael Pearson
https://www.himalmag.com/across-the-kala-pani/

My accompanying suite of five drawings (2010) appeared in for HIMAL
Southasian's, Our Ocean: The forgotten Southasia issue (Septeber 2010
issue).
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=448642857369=a.177171292369=3



Venantius J Pinto


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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 3:31 AM Frederick Noronha <
fredericknoro...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-India-has-never-invaded-any-foreign-country
>
> --
> FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا‎ +91-9822122436
> AUDIO: https://archive.org/details/goa1556
> 
>

[Goanet] Arab Racism

[Roland Francis]

This is quite rich coming from a country like Qatar. They are complaining of 
racial discrimination and violation of human rights by the Emiratis and the 
Saudis while they themselves discriminate against South Asians.

They are all from the same Gulf desert Arab stock so they are probably 
mislabelling racial discrimination to mean tribalism or economic exclusion.

Vivian is right. You discriminate against me and I will discriminate against 
him. A never-ending carousel of the human race stiffing itself.

GulfTIMES NEW
http://www.gulf-times.com/story/665846

Roland.
Toronto.

[Goanet] The Mãe De Deus Church of Saligão Choir

[Roland Francis]

Sent by Frederick Noronha.

A fine creation of singing and of video collage. Goan singing  whether in 
Saligão Goa or Doha, Qatar or Toronto Ontario, gives one nostalgia of ancestry 
and of Catholic upbringing. 

https://youtu.be/pD72C_A4EnU

Roland.
Toronto.

[Goanet] Clemde’s Bandra Blogger

[Roland Francis]

From Clement De Souza in Bandra Bombay.

Roland.
Toronto.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: cle...@gmail.com
> Date: June 16, 2020 at 11:19:07 AM EDT
> To: "roland.fran...@gmail.com" 
> Subject: Hi
> 
> Hi Roland hope you’re well. Have been doing some Covid inspired writing which 
> I hope you’ll like.
> Bandrabuggers.blogspot.com
> -- 
> ClemDe

Re: [Goanet] All about the WORD

[Venantius J Pinto]

Hi Eddie!

I agree that you'd like to know from Argham's mouth, or from Archie. Most
people have a cursory understanding of the esoteric as also the exoteric -
very much, ideas that are common constructs.

But it appears you are keen on massaging your mind, and in  that regard
there is online support, which I am sure you would have found, or did, but
it helps to engage I guess directly* - I tap into, to pick or reject
options.
 *as in participatory design.
Consider:
https://www.godswordforyou.com/bible-studies/the-gospel-of-john/425-study-1.html

I am not guaranteeing its proof-Catholic, but it is catholic in framing.

Btw, lest my slip be showing; I appreciate Jeremiah 6:16, which surely has
helped massage my mind, to the extent a lone ranger may expect.
Thus saith the Lord: Stand ye on the ways, and see, and ask for the old
paths, which is the good way, and walk ye in it: and you shall find
refreshment for your souls. And they said: We will not walk.

So, rock on.

Although illustrating for Philosophy Now, based in the UK, on quite heavy
shit - I am no Bertrand Russell :)
https://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.html *
"*Bertrand Russell, *Why I Am Not a Christian*, Watts & Co., for the
Rationalist Press Association Limited, 1927  First published as a pamphlet
and reissued many times since then  Why I am not a christian, share for
all simply for his logic and articulation! "


Venantius J Pinto


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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:17 AM Eddie D'Sa  wrote:

> Mr Argham continues to regale and confuse us with gems from his Bible, the
> alleged inspired word of the Christian God.
> Here are his recent quotes from John 1:1-4 & 14:
>
> 1 In the beginning was the Word,  and the Word was with God, and the Word
> was God.
> 2 He was in the beginning with God.
> 3 All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be.
> 4. What came to be through him was life,  and this life was the light of
> the human race;
> 14 And the Word became flesh and  dwelt among us,...
> ===
> It reads like a lot of garbage and Mr Argham does not elucidate. When a
> message is posted, it is meant to educate, enlighten, edify.
> But Mr Argham does not explain. Perhaps as a traditional Goan, he fears to
> offend the Euro clerics who composed & authorised the text.
> So what to do? He could ask a knowledgeable person, perhaps a senior local
> cleric. How about Goa’s good Bishop? Will he engage with mere laymen?
>
> More than once, I had tried to elicit some comment and had copied a post
> to the Bishop. HE never responded.
> May be he fears he cannot offer his own views without consulting the
> Vatican.
> I am trying again.
>
> So dear Archbishop (or your assistant), could you kindly explain the four
> above verses?
>
> Eddie
>
>
> Sent from Mail for
> Windows 10
>
>

Re: [Goanet] All about the WORD

[Roland Francis]

The simple explanation is that God wanted to confuse us all. If he sent us 
clear and simple messages would he have need of people to explain his mind. 

That goes for all Abrahamic scriptures. You can have a few laughs if you watch 
episodes from Zakir Naik explaining the Quran to questioning ‘kaffirs’ at his 
mass meetings, now only outside India since he is wanted there for money 
laundering, whipping communal passions and supporting terrorism.

Not that I would put too much stock in the credibility of the current Indian 
government who will arrest you on trumped up charges for the slightest reason 
if you say something critical of them, free speech notwithstanding.

Roland.
Toronto.


> On Jun 16, 2020, at 8:51 AM, Eddie D'Sa  wrote:
> 
> Mr Argham continues to regale and confuse us with gems from his Bible, the 
> alleged inspired word of the Christian God.
> Here are his recent quotes from John 1:1-4 & 14:
> 
> 1 In the beginning was the Word,  and the Word was with God, and the Word was 
> God.
> 2 He was in the beginning with God.
> 3 All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be.
> 4. What came to be through him was life,  and this life was the light of the 
> human race;
> 14 And the Word became flesh and  dwelt among us,...
> ===
> It reads like a lot of garbage and Mr Argham does not elucidate. When a 
> message is posted, it is meant to educate, enlighten, edify.
> But Mr Argham does not explain. Perhaps as a traditional Goan, he fears to 
> offend the Euro clerics who composed & authorised the text.
> So what to do? He could ask a knowledgeable person, perhaps a senior local 
> cleric. How about Goa’s good Bishop? Will he engage with mere laymen?
> 
> More than once, I had tried to elicit some comment and had copied a post to 
> the Bishop. HE never responded.
> May be he fears he cannot offer his own views without consulting the Vatican.
> I am trying again.
> 
> So dear Archbishop (or your assistant), could you kindly explain the four 
> above verses?
> 
> Eddie
> 
> 
> Sent from Mail for Windows 10
> 

[Goanet] Schedule for Wednesday 17th June 2020

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Schedule for Wednesday 17th June 2020

12:00 AM
Rosary - Glorious Mysteries

12:25 AM
Hymn - Mercy Lord- Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

12:28 AM
My Music Videos - Stay Strong - Rohit and Rohan Almeida

12:30 AM
Amchea Bapa - 2 - Domnic Rodrigues

12:56 AM
Hymn - Jezu-xim ietat- Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

12:58 AM
Poem - Borvanso by Sandhya Fernandes

01:00 AM
Novena Mass from Pilerne for Tuesday

01:45 AM
Hymn -Keep up the Faith - Cassini Suiam sj

01:50 AM
Hymn - Deva Mhojea Deva - Fr Ronaldo Fernandes

01:56 AM
Talk: Voch ani Tum-vui Tuxench Kor -  Manisha Pereira

02:00 AM
Saibinnichi Ruzai -  Orkache Mister

02:25 AM
Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 16

02:30 AM
Spring cleaning our soul - Talk by Edith  Melo Furtado

02:58 AM
Hymn - Open my eyes, Lord -  Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

03:00 AM
CCR TV Concert - Highlights 2 - Magician

03:35 AM
Love, Marriage, Sex - Talk by Colin Calmiano

04:38 AM
Catholic Quiz - Mother Teresa conducted by Mysticka Deniz

04:55 AM
Career Guidance  - Training for Civil Service Examinations

05:17 AM
Meaning of Suffering - Dr Brenda Nazareth Menezes

05:55 AM
Bible Project - Psalms

06:05 AM
Ask Dr Sweezel - How to bandage the ankle.

06:15 AM
Tithing - Talk by Alfwold Silveira

06:40 AM
The Abundant Life - Getting ready to go - Prof. Nicholas D'Souza

07:00 AM
Novena Mass from Pilerne

07:45 AM
Bhajans 3

08:12 AM
Couples Prayer - English

08:15 AM
Music - Abide in Me  followed by Povitr Atmeak Dispottem Magnnem

08:45 AM
Our Father - Telegu

08:50 AM
Be Holy as I am Holy - Talk by Glenn Nunes

09:20 AM
Bhagiancher Niyall I - Br Malvino Alfonso  ocd

09:37 AM
I am the Good Shepherd -Talk by Kirona Noronha

10:02 AM
Bhurgeanlem Angonn - Bhag 1

10:05 AM
Our Father Introduction - Fr Ronnie D'Souza sj

10:24 AM
Hymn - Deva Mhojea Deva - Fr Ronaldo Fernandes

10:30 AM
Adoration 4 - St Anthony Church, Siolim

10:57 AM
Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 11

11:05 AM
Bible Project - Messiah

11:11 AM
Hymns - Our Lady of Lourdes, Utorda

11:15 AM
Interccessions (English)

11:27 AM
Magnificat (English)

11:30 AM
Mass in English followed by Daily Flash

12:05 PM
My Music Video - Mother Earth - Alfwold Silveira

12:10 PM
Katkulio - Francisco Fernandes interviewed by Sammy Caelho

12:40 PM
Thomas Aquinas teaching on Sloth - Sr Joeyanna D'Souza fsp

01:05 PM
Health Matters - Tuberculosis - Dr Narayan Iyer

01:30 PM
The Earth - Our Home - Wild Otters in Goa

02:00 PM
Hymn -Come Back My Love - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

02:03 PM
Pope Francis' Prayer to Mary - COVID 19

02:05 PM
Talk on Satyagraha- Fr Subash Anand

02:30 PM
Hymn - Papia tum re Nirbhagia - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

02:33 PM
Music - Carmu Saibinnim - Victor Da Costa

02:35 PM
Hymn - Sonvsar sompo poriat - Fr Seville Antao OFM(Cap)

02:40 PM
Divine Mercy - English 4

03:00 PM
Praise and Worship - Francis Fernandes followed by Daily Prayer to the Holy
Spirit

03:26 PM
Encountering God in Personal Prayer - Talk by Dr Sarita Nazareth

03:54 PM
Music - Jezu Novem Ietolo - Fr Eusico Pereira

04:00 PM
Rosary - Glorious Mysteries

04:24 PM
Reflection on the Gospel - Dominicans

04:30 PM
Senior Citizens Exercises - 12

04:55 PM
Poem - Lockdown Naka !  Ek Sandex - Dominic Araujo

05:00 PM
Tell me a story -  Shadrack

05:20 PM
Ximpientlim Motiam - Bhag  93 Sadi Osturi  - Fr Pratap Naik sj

05:30 PM
Career Guidance  - Information Technology

05:55 PM
Prayer for Healing from Cancer

06:00 PM
Angelus - English

06:02 PM
Khuim thanv hanv ailam? - Talk by Orlando D'Souza

06:30 PM
Novena Mass from Pilerne

07:15 PM
India needs the Church and Church needs India - Talk by Sr Saral

07:30 PM
Saibinnichi Ruzai -  Orkache Mister

07:54 PM
My Music Videos - Ixtt Mhozo - Fr Mariano SIlveira

07:58 PM
Angelus - Konkani 1

08:00 PM
Show me your ways O Lord - A talk by Edmund Antao

08:30 PM
On the Third Day  - Cultivation of Cucumbers and Related Crops

08:55 PM
Psalm 51 - Read by Alfwold Silveira

09:00 PM
Interccessions (Konkani)

09:12 PM
Magnificat (Konkani)

09:15 PM
Ratchem Magnem

09:30 PM
Sonia Shirsat interviewed by Runa Aggarwal

010:26 PM
Talk: Voch ani Tum-vui Tuxench Kor -  Manisha Pereira

10:30 PM
Media Track - Episode 43

11:00 PM
CCR TV Concert - Highlights 4 - Skits

11:31 PM
The Eucharist in Daily Life - Talk by Godfrey Pereira

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Re: [Goanet] All about the WORD

[gipsport]

Dear Mr D'saYou appear to be having some problem with Mr Argham!Goanet is a 
forum for all Goans to Express their views and to keep in touch with each other 
 If you dont like or agree with what Mr Argham posts, you can either ignore it 
or give some positive criticism.  You state that Mr Argham continues to regale 
and confuse "US". You appear to be the only person on this forum who has a 
problem with what he posts. So he is not confusing "us". It may be confusing to 
you and It may be "garbage" to You but not to others, otherwise there would 
have been posts from others! You are entitled to read it as you see fit but 
please do stop ridiculing religion. Everyone is entitled to their views just 
like you are but one can either accept them or ignore them. If they (the views) 
were in any way offensive, I am sure the Goanet admin would not have posted 
them.Btw, we are all "traditional goans" that's why most of us are on Goanet. 
For your info Mr Adrham's posts are verses from the Bible. If they were in any 
way offensive, the Goanet admin would not publish his posts.I humbly request 
you to kindly refrain from ridiculing ither Mr Argham or the contents of his 
posts.I thank you in advance.Take Care and Be Safe.Sent from my Samsung Galaxy 
smartphone.
 Original message From: Eddie D'Sa  Date: 
16/06/2020  15:17  (GMT+00:00) To: GoaNet  Cc: 
archbp...@gmail.com Subject: [Goanet] All about the WORD Mr Argham continues to 
regale and confuse us with gems from his Bible, the alleged inspired word of 
the Christian God.Here are his recent quotes from John 1:1-4 & 14:1 In the 
beginning was the Word,  and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.2 He 
was in the beginning with God.3 All things came to be through him, and without 
him nothing came to be.4. What came to be through him was life,  and this life 
was the light of the human race;14 And the Word became flesh and  dwelt among 
us,...===It reads like a lot of garbage and Mr Argham does not 
elucidate. When a message is posted, it is meant to educate, enlighten, 
edify.But Mr Argham does not explain. Perhaps as a traditional Goan, he fears 
to offend the Euro clerics who composed & authorised the text.So what to do? He 
could ask a knowledgeable person, perhaps a senior local cleric. How about 
Goa’s good Bishop? Will he engage with mere laymen?More than once, I had tried 
to elicit some comment and had copied a post to the Bishop. HE never 
responded.May be he fears he cannot offer his own views without consulting the 
Vatican.I am trying again.So dear Archbishop (or your assistant), could you 
kindly explain the four above verses?EddieSent from 
Mail for Windows 10

[Goanet] American Acronyms

[Roland Francis]

The Americans can be quite funny with their acronyms.

Pleased with themselves over POTUS, they have in quick succession gone to 
FLOTUS (First Lady of the United States) followed by SCOTUS (Supreme Court of 
the United States).

It’s only a matter of time before they shoot themselves in the foot and offend 
someone in their native language with some new acronym. 

As it is POTUS in Konkani conjures up a man with a beer belly not unlike Uncle 
Sam.

Roland.
Toronto.

[Goanet] Comments on the clip video Clip of British Goans in East Africa Focus

[Adolfo Mascarenhas]

Can somebody from DSM send me the email address of Diana Carvallo and her
Husband

Thank you for sharing the documentary on the Histories of British Goans.
 On the positive side, I saw the clip briefly. Several things struck me:
Let me share them with you folks:

1)I was interested in the group photos….the wives, the numerous
children, the way all were dressed. Not a single Goan women in a saree,
several men replete with suits etc And coming to think of it in Dar es
Salaam, only Mrs Pais and Mrs Carvallo were in sarees.

2)Most of the women. I suppose, were housewives….not only did they
cook, feed babies, clean clothes…did they suffer from disease etc…..I know
in Iringa town, the wife of the Town Council, his wife did all the above
things, even had boarders and yet was social.

3) The clubs were the bastions for social gathering and also
exclusion……I saw  and listened to the son of a Tailor in Kampala …..of
course the club was out of bounds. The Goaan

4)I was conscious of how much history was created by Goans and how much
is going to be lost. It makes me mad…..I could have done a lot but with the
irrationality of the lockdowns I feel imprisoned.

5)Selma is doing a great job.  Where we can we should help and
cooperate. But we ourselves must also share our experience.  They remain
unwritten. It is strange, I joked, with Francis that I got a call from a
President, but it has actually happened several  times and some really
amusing and in Mozambique bunch of monkeys played hell with all the
dignitaries

6)Our Portuguese heritage plus using English helped but  in Malawi
President Banda got mad and had them expelled. At least two of them were
from Tanzania who had no faith in Mwalmu



*There is no time to sit Back.  From my view point the following things
need to be done,at least in Tanzania (Zanzibar including): *

1)The Bastion of group in Dar is the DI …but they have a huge Hang Over

2)Few have tried to show how unique we are…but not if we secretly do
NOT believe that BLACK LIVES MATTER ….Look at the Upheaval,  All Lives
matter

3)Pope Francis has repeatedly encouraged Catholic to be active   and
this means we simply must not discriminate.

[Goanet] All about the WORD

[Eddie D'Sa]

Mr Argham continues to regale and confuse us with gems from his Bible, the 
alleged inspired word of the Christian God.
Here are his recent quotes from John 1:1-4 & 14:

1 In the beginning was the Word,  and the Word was with God, and the Word was 
God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be.
4. What came to be through him was life,  and this life was the light of the 
human race;
14 And the Word became flesh and  dwelt among us,...
===
It reads like a lot of garbage and Mr Argham does not elucidate. When a message 
is posted, it is meant to educate, enlighten, edify.
But Mr Argham does not explain. Perhaps as a traditional Goan, he fears to 
offend the Euro clerics who composed & authorised the text.
So what to do? He could ask a knowledgeable person, perhaps a senior local 
cleric. How about Goa’s good Bishop? Will he engage with mere laymen?

More than once, I had tried to elicit some comment and had copied a post to the 
Bishop. HE never responded.
May be he fears he cannot offer his own views without consulting the Vatican.
I am trying again.

So dear Archbishop (or your assistant), could you kindly explain the four above 
verses?

Eddie


Sent from Mail for Windows 10

[Goanet] Professor Adolfo

[Vivian A. DSouza]

Thank you Professor Adolfo for your learned and light hearted humor with no 
malice to anyone.  You have stirred up this forum leading to guffaws from me.I 
know that you are a prisoner of circumstances due to the Covid-19 Pandemic in 
your beloved Quepem.Soon (when I dont know) you will be leaving for your 
beloved adopted home and birthplace of Tanzania.  I wish you God speed, and " 
au revoir".  Despite a mis-paced birth right, Goa  owns you, and hopefully you 
will return here as soon as possible.
Fondly,
Your friend, and one time neighbor and childhood playmate,Vivian A. D'Souza

[Goanet-News] Charter flight, Dubai-Goa on June 23...

[Frederick Noronha]

CHARTER FLIGHT: DBX-GOI (Dubai to Goa) planned on 23rd June
2020.  Based on request of Goans Connecting Goans Association
(GSCGS), AHM Tourism (AHM) & Fly Dubai Airline is jointly
arranging a charter flight from Dubai to Goa on June 23, 2020
(subject to approvals from Indian Embassy and Ministry of
External Affairs):

Flight No: FZ4511
Departure time: 11.30 am
Flying time: 03 hrs 30 mins
Date: 23 June 2020
Cost per person: AED 1150
Contact person: Aslam Mohammed
Location: AHM Tourism, 53 Floor, Aspin Commercial Tower
Contact: +971 56 490 4941 (call or whatsapp)
Email: as...@amhtours.com
Payment timings: 11 am to 4 pm

Payment options: Cash deposit EmiratesNBD and Emirates
Islamic Bank.  Invoices will be sent via email once payment
received OR office registration.

Important notes:

* Individual/s have to be registered with the Indian Embassy and the NRI
  Commission of India requesting for repatriation.

* Kindly go through terms & conditions prior to booking with AMH

* Check in baggage allowance is 20 kg and hand luggage 7 kg

* Additional baggage allowance will be announced after the approvals and can
  be paid at the airport

* No refund will be applicable for passengers who are "No Show"on the
  flight.

* Tickets will be issued only after approval is received. Pricequoted is
  for the flight + meal + baggage.

* Rapid Covid19 test at the Dubai Airport include & Goa airport NOT
  INCLUDED.

* Passengers should have appropriate documents for travel. Passport copies
  required for all passengers for ticketing and invoice.

* All taxes are included.

* If found Covid positive, passenger will be denied boarding and the amount
  will not be refunded.

* AMH and Flydubai reserves the right to incrase the total price in case of
  increase in governmental taxes and/or other surcharges.

* Flight will operate based on approvals from the Indian Government.  In
  case of not receiving the approvals, the amount will be
  refunded within five working days.

* Passengers offloaded or denied boarding by immigration will not be
  refunded.  GCG and AHM will not be responsible for the same.

* Refund of 100% money paid will be returned in 4-5 working days if
  permission is not granted.

FORWARDED as received, in public interest. Please exercise due precautions,
usual disclaimers. --Goanet

[Goanet] Charter flight, Dubai-Goa on June 23...

[Frederick Noronha]

CHARTER FLIGHT: DBX-GOI (Dubai to Goa) planned on 23rd June
2020.  Based on request of Goans Connecting Goans Association
(GSCGS), AHM Tourism (AHM) & Fly Dubai Airline is jointly
arranging a charter flight from Dubai to Goa on June 23, 2020
(subject to approvals from Indian Embassy and Ministry of
External Affairs):

Flight No: FZ4511
Departure time: 11.30 am
Flying time: 03 hrs 30 mins
Date: 23 June 2020
Cost per person: AED 1150
Contact person: Aslam Mohammed
Location: AHM Tourism, 53 Floor, Aspin Commercial Tower
Contact: +971 56 490 4941 (call or whatsapp)
Email: as...@amhtours.com
Payment timings: 11 am to 4 pm

Payment options: Cash deposit EmiratesNBD and Emirates
Islamic Bank.  Invoices will be sent via email once payment
received OR office registration.

Important notes:

* Individual/s have to be registered with the Indian Embassy and the NRI
  Commission of India requesting for repatriation.

* Kindly go through terms & conditions prior to booking with AMH

* Check in baggage allowance is 20 kg and hand luggage 7 kg

* Additional baggage allowance will be announced after the approvals and can
  be paid at the airport

* No refund will be applicable for passengers who are "No Show"on the
  flight.

* Tickets will be issued only after approval is received. Pricequoted is
  for the flight + meal + baggage.

* Rapid Covid19 test at the Dubai Airport include & Goa airport NOT
  INCLUDED.

* Passengers should have appropriate documents for travel. Passport copies
  required for all passengers for ticketing and invoice.

* All taxes are included.

* If found Covid positive, passenger will be denied boarding and the amount
  will not be refunded.

* AMH and Flydubai reserves the right to incrase the total price in case of
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[Goanet] What does Joao want to say?

[Joao Barros-Pereira]

In
the Age
of
Corona Virus

I love
Goa

ask
a Goan
how he
or she
is doing

and
he or she
will say
great

even
though
the roof

is
almost falling

walls
are
shaking
and
crumbling

The doors
and windows
are okay
in Goa

strong
and sturdy

Enter
Outsider

Paradise
Lost

for
the Goan

and

Paradise
Found

for you

What does Joao want to sa

[Goanet] Is it true that India has never invaded any foreign country?

[Frederick Noronha]

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-India-has-never-invaded-any-foreign-country

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[Goanet] [Goanet-News] Riddles: same language, another land (FN)

[Goanet Reader]

Frederick Noronha
fredericknoron...@gmail.com

One-third of this book is impossible for me to understand, it
comes from perhaps 400 kilometres away, and was written
almost forty years back.  So, why should one be bothered at
all with it?

Contrary to what it might seem to be, this partly
Kannada-script book is rather relevant to Goa too.  It comes
hard-covered, bound with what looks like old sari cloth in a
manner which suggests lack of resources. This is nonetheless
a book indeed worth taking a look at.

'Konkany Riddles -- Konknni Huminnyom', by CCA Pai SJ, was
published in 1981.  I too would have missed noticing it, if a
friend (Leroy) had not known of my bias for collecting old,
Goa-related books, and had generously gifted it to me.

  Published in Bengaluru, printed in Hubli and
  written by a Mangalorean Jesuit priest, the book
  reminds us of how close (if forgotten) our links
  with our neighbours can be.

  Alan Machado Prabhu, the Mangalorean-origin and
  Bengaluru-based author of another book, makes an
  interesting point.  He has often pointed out that
  Goans talk repeatedly about their diasporas (or
  emigrant populations), but even more often forget
  about their "oldest, largest and among the
  earliest" diasporas.

Which one?  Those who left Goa and went to Mangalore (now
also Mangaluru), and other areas on the South Indian
coast.  They did so for a range of complex reasons --
possibly including food insecurity, regional conflict and
wars, and the skills they could use elsewhere, even though
Portuguese religious intolerance is often blamed for this.

Today, both Goans and Mangaloreans mostly don't acknowledge
their connections with each other.  They highlight the fact
that their shared language is now often incomprehensible to
one another.  In migration-oriented centres, like Mumbai,
where both communities have flocked to, they seem to be in
rivalry with one another.  Yet, the age-old connections
nonetheless remain.

That's where this book turns relevant.  It's a serious and
a lengthy study of Konkani riddles.  The author credits his
"boyhood friends" and "own relatives living in rural parts of
South Kanara district" for this significant collection of
riddles.

This study spans 406 plus 340 pages, in two separate parts.
Of its two parts, the first offers an introduction to
"Konkany" (the preferred spelling of the language's name
here), and the "historico-geographic situation" of the
Mangalorean Christian community.

  It might be worth pointing out briefly that the
  Mangaloreans mostly trace their roots to Goa, and
  after migrating, had a tough and hoary history.
  This included the "captivity" of a large part of
  that community by Tipu Sultan.  They were taken
  some distance away, to his capital of
  Srirangapattana, and kept imprisoned for years.
  Obviously, this has strongly shaped the community,
  its determination to survive, and the tenacity with
  which it clings to identity and language.

The second part of the book looks at the Konkani riddles of
the Mangalore Catholics, others from Goa, yet more in the
Konkani variant of Kerala too.  Finally, the book ends with a
listing of various definitions of riddles.  Fr Pai credits
R.V.  Pandit and Shohsma Pandit for the collection of the
riddles from Goa.

Given Konkani's rich traditions as a language of the soil,
the field and agricultural communities, the riddles of this
lingo can sometimes be puzzling.  Take this one: "Yeka dudiak
bara xiro, xire kannkanni tis biyo".  You're probably
thinking of a pumpkin which has twelve pods, and each of
which had 30 seeds.  The actual answer?  A year, which has 12
months and 30 days (roughly) in each!

But then, you asked for it!  By definition (page 337, part
II), a riddle refers to a puzzling question or “ambiguous
proposition” which is meant to be solved by conjecture.
Another of the many definitions tell us a “true riddle or the
riddle in the strict sense compares an object to another
entirely different object”.

Interestingly, the text of the book, which came before Goa’s
Official Language Act (1987), is partly written in three
scripts – Kannada, Devanagari, and Romi.  For a
geographically-divided linguistic group, this could have
widened its readership.  If, that is, it had been more widely
noticed in Goa, and we ourselves here were more serious about
reading.

Pai does an interesting job of understanding riddles from
across the globe.  For the Mangaloreans, riddles played the
function “of passing time in a pleasant manner” (page 241,
part I).  And “it was mainly the children and the younger
people who indulged in riddling”.  Children took to riddles
while helping with the household work, such as guarding over
the coconut kernels put out to dry in September and December.

Riddles are connected with the human person.  The 

[Goanet] Fwd: GITP PRESS RELEASE: GITP urges Pramod Sawant to prioritize solution to Internet and Power issues

[Goa IT Professionals - GITP]

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*GITP urges Pramod Sawant to prioritize solution to Internet and Power
issues*

Goa IT Professionals (GITP) group has demanded that the Goa government take
up urgent measures on war footing to find solutions to the connectivity and
power woes of the IT industry in the state. With Corona Pandemic triggered
economic upheavals across the globe the local IT industry is also badly hit
like all other Industries. Goan IT Industries efforts to come up from the
slump by using the tried and tested ‘work from home’ and ‘IT anywhere’
concepts are badly hampered due to poor internet connectivity and power
outages.  With the rising number of Covid Positive cases in the state,
disruption in transport facilities, Covid infection fear, restrictions
imposed on travel  etc are making it difficult for employees to travel from
homes to their places of work. This is creating severe problems in terms of
meeting project deadlines whereby affecting the functioning of most IT
businesses in the state.  If good internet connectivity is made available
across Goa at reasonable rates it will help facilitate effective
functioning of the local IT industry as employees can work from their home
which could be located in any corner of the state.
Goa has a significant number of private ISP providers, but their primary
focus are the urban areas with high population density where they can offer
connections in close proximity without investing much in additional
 infrastructure like cable laying. Even the Goa BroadBand Network(GBBN),
the PPP  project in which the state government has pumped in crores of
rupees has not been able to provide any solace to the industry in these
difficult times.  Especially in the rural area ISPs turn down customer
applications due to high cost of last mile connectivity and in turn Goans
are losing employment, business and education opportunities. ISP’s are
asking customers to pay upfront  installation charges which can vary
anywhere between Rs 10,000 to Rs 40,000 for the fiber laying .People simply
cannot afford this kind of installation charges.
If the government can help in putting this basic infrastructure in place,
the IT Industry can make the best of it and can also contribute
substantially by providing much needed impetus to the economic revival of
the state. With little hand holding and planning on part of the govt this
green industry has the potential to generate substantial amounts of
employment and can help the state make best use of the Human Resource that
is returning homewards from across the globe due to the pandemic triggered
repatriation.

Another domain that is struggling badly due to poor connectivity and power
supply is the field of education. With closure of academic institutions,
E-learning is set to become the new normal. While students from cities have
already started with their E-classes , students and academic institutions
in the villages are still grappling in the dark.  Only if the government
takes up some urgent measures to find a solution to the connectivity
problem will it be possible to save the academic year for thousands of
students on the wrong side of the digital divide.

One important question GITP wants to ask the government is, what are the
rules of this PPP partnership with Gwave, that it will only provide
connections in urban areas, which already have 2-3 service providers and
great mobile coverage, and asks rural consumers to pay upfront 30-40
thousand rupees for fiber installation? Is the GBBN only created for urban
areas? Wasn't the motive of GBBN Rural Connectivity? Is GBBN a failure or
will the government work with the franchisees to prioritize Rural last mile
Internet Connectivity  during this pandemic? Also How should students and
teachers manage in rural areas regarding online education? Or Rural
students should be left uneducated due to Govt's failed network
connectivity policies?

In a recent conversation with the industry CM Sawant has suggested that
employees working from home should shift to the local panchayat and
commence working from there. A month has passed since this announcement but
nothing substantial has happened in terms of giving a feasible form to this
verbal suggestion.

IT Park, Single window system for Industry, employment generation promises
to youth, GBBN, garbage treatment, Govt offices providing online services,
Goa as an education hub, and many   more continue to remain as a promises
galore.   We want the government to come clear on its position on fixing
these long pending issues.
*<**ENGLISH PRESS NOTE END>*

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