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Goanet highlights by Selma Carvalho
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Hartman D'Souza brings us yet another informative article
on the ravages caused to Mother Earth by mining, this time in
neighbouring Maharashtra.
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-April/192050.html
Nisser Dias examines the tenuous grip of the current CM on
his own administration and the chaos which usually reigns.
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-April/192043.html
Selma Carvalho looks at a Passage to India and rape, in her
weekly column.
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-April/192023.html
Our architectural heritage is
what give Goan towns and
villages its unique look and is
an important aspect of our
cultural preservation. This is
something the government of Goa
doesn't seem to understand.
Much like its blatant disregard
for the environment, it also
shows a blatant disregard for
old buildings which need to be
preserved instead of
demolished. Heta Pandit writes
an open letter to the CM and
asks unsettling questions about
the destruction of heritage
building around Panjim.
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-April/191992.html
Freddy Fernandes examines India's internal security and asks
the questions, Who is a Naxalite?
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-April/191918.html
Pre-Liberation era engineer Vitorino Pinto reminisces about
town planning in 50s Goa.
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-April/192010.html
Freddy Fernandes talks about people's empty stomach and
politicians empty promises.
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-April/192079.html
A problem which many Goans are unaware of is the near
civil-war raging in India between the Centre and Maoists.
This debate hosted by Rajdeep Sardesai on IBN-CNN, gives an
insight into this problems which is fasting spreading to
other parts of India.
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-April/192058.html
Keeping with the topic, an article by Sahlil Tripathi was
sent in by Dr Barad, which begins with the sentence, A
naïve admiration for the Maoists is emblematic of the
tendency in some among the Indian intellectual class toward
left-wing utopianism.
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-April/191961.html
Here is a list of Great Goans provided by Anthony. See if you
agree or disagree with his list.
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-April/192044.html
Lino Dourado gives us his Aitaracheo Katkutleo: Amchi Jib
Khobram-Potr.
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-April/192016.html
Vivek Menezes writes about the Russian revolution taking
places in parts of Goa.
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-April/191882.html
Goa is a mess, says activist-advocate Aires Rodrigues in an
article titled, The state of Goa.
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-April/192042.html
Will Goan courts ever hold politicians responsible for their
actions? Even if their actions resulted in vandalizing a
police station? Avelino D'Souza sent in an article about a
Goan Minister who incited a crowd to attack a police station.
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-April/191921.html
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