I am a Pakistani goan and speak very little conkanim but do not know how to
read the goan language. Is there a way for translation of the same for
people who do not know how to read??
Thanks
Theresa
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Dear Freddy,
True that there are more bharatis speaking English
than the Brits. But in reality do they speak English?
What yaar you want me to sign for the Booker Prize
when I can not spell my own name?
B. Colaco
wrote: > Hi Bharati Colaco: Sorry to disappoint you,
but
> today there are more
>
> Dear Senhor Bernardo,
>
> If so few "bharatis" have risen to the top of the
> English-speaking technological and literary ladder,
> you may want to jump on the bandwagon yourself and
> take the time to study the "hinglish" that's getting
> them places...
> Filomena
Qda. Dona Filomena,
I
--- ariana lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear TGF:
I am a student in my final year of the International
Baccalaureate Program in my high school. As part of
this program I write an extended research paper on a
subject of my choice.
My paper is on the liberation of Goa.
Specifically, I want
Today January 16th is:
Asmitai Dis.
Blessed Joseph Vaz feast - Patron of Goa and Daman and Sri Lanka.
We hope Goans, especially in the Diaspora, will celebrate these events
in their towns and clubs and review the historical and cultural
significance of these two events. This weekend will be a go
VATICAN CITY, JAN 16, 2004 )
- The Holy Father Appointed Bishop Filipe Neri Antonio Sebtastiao do
Rosario Ferrao, auxiliary of Goa e Damao, India as archbishop of the same
archdiocese (area 4,194, population 1,502,057, Catholics 450,130, priests
619, religious 1,391) in India, with the title of P
- Original Message -
From: "Filomena Giese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 2:19 PM
Subject: [Goanet]Feast of Bl. Joseph Vaz
> Goans should take note of the contrast in speed of
> these processes not only for the much-discussed rushed
From: "Santosh Helekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Confused people can become great scientists. Newton was famously
> confused and wrong about absolute motion and absolute rest, and
> Einstein was the same about quantum mechanics.
Even if we concede that Newton and Einstein were confused in their own
t
Response:
I hate to write this post in response to Fred- a person whom I have an
enormous respect. But is the following post of Fred an analysis of Goa's
history or is it an opinion column?
Perhaps Fred is being defensive about not knowing the details of the
true facts. Can you provide us (the Goa
Response from Gilbert:
To the extent that I do not like the response to every line (often used
on the net, as it reflects a tit for tat answer), I will use it to high
light many of the valid points made by Teotonio R. De Souza to my post.
From: "Teotonio R. de Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Goa R
I'd like to take this opportunity to let you all know that a free web site
capability is available for all parishes to use. The site is called
www.CatholicParishes.net. Parishes from India, US, UK, and the Solomon
Islands are already using this very useful site.
In Goa, Our Lady of Grace, Margao
From: "Santosh Helekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Faith can tell us nothing about the origin, structure and operation of
> the universe, and the living organisms that inhabit it. It cannot tell
> us with any degree of certainty whether the earth is flat or
> spheroidal, whether it moves round the sun o
Goans world over will have an ocassion to rejoice on
hearing the news of the elavation of Auxiliary Bishop
of Goa & Daman diocese as the Archbishop of Goa
replacing His Grace, Archbishop Dr Raul Niclau
Gonsalves who had retired in June 2002 on attaining
the age of superannuation 75 years but conti
- Original Message -
From: "Anthony Barretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 5:01 PM
Subject: [Goanet]Here is the real insult to Goans.
> Irony. Irony. Irony. Not a word of protest from a
> single true-blooded Goan over what is really an ins
From: "cornel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As a humanist, I put man/woman at the centre of our
> existence...tell me how you have arrived at the seeming certainty and
> faith which you project in your God fearing position?
Man is the crown of God's creation. God is the Creator and our loving,
compassionat
From: "Goa's PRIDE www.goa-world.com"
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004
VATICAN CITY, JAN 16, 2004 (VIS)
- The Holy Father Appointed Bishop Filipe Neri
Antonio Sebtastiao do Rosario Ferrao, auxiliary of Goa
e Damao, India as archbishop of the same archdiocese
(area 4,194, population 1,502,057, Catholics
Irony. Irony. Irony. Not a word of protest from a
single true-blooded Goan over what is really an insult
to Goans.
Some immigrant comes to Goa clamouring for perhaps
non-existing roots and calls what is rightly -- as
Cecil Pinto says -- the nectar of Gods bootleg.
Ha! It's obvious. When some clour
From Rodolfo, The Goa United Soccer Club
Goa United Soccer Club, is organizing the 2004 Carnaval Red & Black
Dance Party in Maryland on 21st February.
Please check out the details at,
http://www.geocities.com/viva_goa_carnaval/invite.html
We all hope to see you there,
Organizers
Viva Goa C
- Original Message -
From: "cornel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [goa-research-net] COMMENT: Research does count (Brian Antao,
PhD)
> Frederick,
> Apropos the comments from Brian Antao and in t
--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> >Faith is one of the sources of knowledge.
> >
>
> Not knowledge about the natural world!
>
> Faith can tell us nothing about the origin,
> structure and operation of
> the universe, and the living organisms that inhabit
> it. It cannot
- Original Message -
From: "SHAILESH GRACIAS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 12:45 PM
Subject: [Goanet]INDIAN HELL
> Marriage? http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/cgi-bin/bmclicks1.cgi?74 Join
> BharatMatrimony.com and get married.
RESPONSE;
Now joining the BharatMatr
--- Bernado Colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> True Dona Filomena,
>
> But the quantity of the masters of the English
> language is a drop. I hope their numbers will
> increase
> so that they can eliminate the rest of bharat from
> the
> abyss with their great qualities. Do you envisage
> thi
As announced on Goanet, the Novena for the feast, and
presumably for the canonization, of our Goan Bl.
Joseph Vaz has been going on and is about to conclude
on Jan 16.
This process of getting Goans to pray for his
beatification and canonization has been grinding along
since his death in 1711 and
Floriano,
I beg to defer. Careful reading, for instance, of the Old Testament, and its
basis of much of the New Testament and modern Christianity, will illustrate
that it is a pretty blood-thirsty document. Secondly, it cares two hoots for
the well-being of the Palestinian neighbours by the Chosen
I want to agree with Tetonio that the internet cannot satisfactorily
replace scholarship found in texts arising from years of research. His exact
words were 'from what I have seen over time, goanet cannot replace class
room, neither long years of research and study. It can serve to call
attention t
I thought of Goanet readers in view of some postings recently, in regard to
the BJP and forthcoming elections. This will also hold true for Goa.:
>From the economist:
BACK FROM LUNCH
-1ST
The prime minister's stock is soaring
IN THE middle of 2002 Atal Behari Vajpayee, India's prime minist
An Indian dies and goes to hell. There he finds that there is a
different hell for each country.
He goes to the German hell and asks, "What do they do here?" He is told,
"First they put you in an electric chair for an hour. Then they lay you on
a bed of nails for another hour. Then the German de
Hi Bharati Colaco: Sorry to disappoint you, but today there are more
Bharati speakers of English than in the whole of the mother country --
i.e. the United Kingdom, where you sometimes claim to reside.
While we have been obsessed with our backward-looking mentality, a whole
lot of "Bharatis" ha
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Gilbert Lawrence wrote:
> Not many Goans / Indians know that the inquisition was brought from
> Europe to Goa nine years after SFX died. And about seven years before
> SFX died, he left Goa for the far east- Spice Islands, Japan and then
> making plans to go to China. So SFX w
Re: discussions on the net about SFX, etc. etc.
It is my belief that any religion, may it be Christianity, Islam, Hindu,
Budhism, Jainism etc. etc are based on the lives of Christ,
Mohamed, Ram-Krishna, Budha, Jain etc. respectively.
The essence of any religion is the well-being of one's neighbo
LAWYER DEMANDS ACTION AGAINST OLD GOA POLICE: The Old Goa police have been
strongly condemned by Adv Aires Rodrigues for their high-handedness and for
having succumbed to political pressures in registering a false and very
fabricated First Information Report against him in an alleged house trespass
Hi Cypriano,
Thanks for the beautiful and meaningful compose/song with a moral in it -
listen to your parents and respect them 'cause they know what is best for
you.
We need more people like you to post Konkani articles on Goanet so that more
Goans throughout the globe embrace the language. K
Agnelo Mascarenhas wrote
---
AM
>few newspapers will publish letters to the editor
>without identification of the author. so much for
>anonymous posting.
CP
I beg to differ. Almost any publication in the world offers contributors of
letters or articles to opt for the 'name withheld on re
1. From what I have seen over time, goanet cannot replace class room,
neither long years of research and study. It can serve to call attention to
some issues and little more. The themes of Inquisition and SFX require vast
reading and thorough familiarity with a vast bibliography and documentati
Dear Fredi,
Maza tuza ala kantala. Hindi and Marathi were forced
upon us by neo colonialists. But do you not understand
that loads of bharat are now learning hinglish. What a
bindas chap yaar you are Fredi?
B. Colaco
--- "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: > Hi 'bharati' Berna
GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS
16 January 2004
WATER HARVESTING PLANS: Goa has already made a humble but definite beginning
towards inter-linking river basins in the state, keeping in line with the
announcement of river connectivity in India made by PM AB Vajpayee. The
various works on water connecti
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