GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS
19 January 2004
FASCINATING KITE FESTIVAL: The three-day International Kite Festival ended
yesterday evening with innumerable, graceful kites in all shapes and sizes
bidding adieu to thousands of mesmerized people at Panjim's Miramar beach.
Kudos to Ajay Prakash of
Feni: How to tell the difference between the illicit stuff (takes many
doses for effect) and the nectar of the Gods (jusht one shot puro).
Tarvoti Pedru entered a taverna, sat down at the bar, and ordered a neet
feni. After he gulped the drink, he peeked inside his shirt pocket
.. then he
Gilbert Lawrence's response to yesterday's post from Filomena Giese.
Very good questions raised by an intelligent Goan.
Filomena: The Inquisition was a watchdog of people's belief and the
practice of the Catholic faith, not of people's morals.
Response: Practice of the Catholic faith but not
Dear all,
Greetings from Nassau, Bahamas
The following article has been posted on the website
http://www.colaco.net
please ENTER and vide under NEW
your comment, critique is welcome. We will be happy
to carry any opposing/additional point of view
- Konkani - the struggle, betrayal and
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 13:28:28 +0400, Imran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Could any of you please let me know when and where will an Advanced Portuguese
language course be held in Goa.
Iam more interested in conversation since i already have theoritical knowledge.
thanks
Imran
Jan 16-18, 2004 -
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 11:29:38 +0300, Miranda Laurence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Mr. Shivdas,
Very meaningful article . Please keep up the fight.
Laurence Miranda
Kuwait.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/15/04 11:31 AM
A cry from a Congress worker
By N Shivdas
The time has come to speak frankly and
Dear Joe,
Welcome back.
We too like to join you (3 of us), we are arriving GOA
25th this month. Please let us know if we can be of
any help.
Thank you and the others.
John Josephine
--- Joegoa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On behalf
of this GOAN-NRI Group, I onceagain
forward this mail to
Hi
This is just for the record.
Feni is neither illicitly made nor illegaly sold.
The toddy tappers pay an annual license fee of Rs
50/-for distillation. Plus they pay Rs. 2.50 per
coconut tree per month in tax. The distillation as
well as the sale of feni has givernment sanction.
Hence in my
Quotes from letters that (St. Francis Xavier) SFX sent to King Joao.
You have no right to spread the Catholic faith while you take away the
country's riches. It upsets me to know, at the hour of your death, you
may be ordered out of Paradise.
Another quote from a letter of SFX to the Portuguese
Dear All:
Greetings! Does anyone know where I can find Kokum Syrup in the US? I went
to few Indian stores, but didn't find it.
Regards,
Joseph Falcao
Boston - MA
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Radhakrishnan Nair wrote:
Fred,
I think what Mr Teotonio de Souza alluded to is the propensity of some
ill-informed bigots to force their prejudices down others' throats -- which
is sickening, to say the least.
Nobody gains anything from such crap. Please consider
Yet, not only the Vatican but the vast majority of
Goans are not convinced that they have a very great
native saint who missionised as Christ did, only with
the power of his personal love and service. This
canonization will only happen when the entire Goan
community - not just a few
From: Filomena Giese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do the Gospels change with every
age or is the message of love and tolerance the same
for everyone, regardless of the age one lives in?
I do agree that the Gospel values do not change. Love is the law of life in
every century. But can anyone prove that
(On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Teotonio R. de Souza wrote:
What I find questionable (but that is the freedom of the internet again)
and
disheartening for serious debate is that there are always some characters
who seem to be have all the answers but pose questions only to get back
with
their stock of
--- George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Filomena
I met with Fr. Lesser in Udaipur yesterday. As you
know he has written and spoken about saints
extensively. British by birth, he has spent 65
years in India and told me categorically that
Blessed Vaz has not been canonized by the Vatican
--- George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Filomena
I met with Fr. Lesser in Udaipur yesterday. As you
know he has written and spoken about saints
extensively. British by birth, he has spent 65
years in India and told me categorically that
Blessed Vaz has not been canonized by the Vatican
Foreigners are the target
Hotel lobby gets political backing to fight foreign restaurant
By RAJU NAYAK
At a time when the country is celebrating the success of its diaspora, Goa
-- a showpiece of India's own cosmopolitanism -- is seeing friction growing
between foreigners, who have made the
--- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
St. Francis Xavier and the Inquisition- Very
Important
Response: I am not sure about being the Pope's
legate. He was the
superior general of the Jesuits. But the documents
show he had poor
support of the Jesuit Hierarchy to his
Sir,
It is noted with deep concern that the commercial
contracts for Development Operation of Internet cafe
in the Goa region are being alloted to people outside
the State.
When the Goa Government gave away land to the
establishment of the Konkan Railway the landlosers and
the people of Goa
Hi,
A friend sent this.
How true it is, I hope we all can make at least one person feel like this
someday..
=
Twenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living.
When I arrived at 2:30 a.m., the building was dark except for a single light
in a ground floor window.
Under these
THIS MESSAGE is from DM Silveira, a former Damodar College lecturer,
ex-editor of the Free Press Journal, and also human-resource consultant
originally from Divar but based in Mumbai. Just sharing a note I got from
him. Some of you might probably know DMS, who can be contacted via email
From: Virginia Sequeira [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is to inform the sudden death of Faustina Fernandes of Sioliom
Gauncavaddo Goa, presently was residing at Versova, Mumbai, on 27th
December 2003 due to cardiac attack. Wife of late Mr. Lawrence
Fernandes and mother of Reggie Fernandes (Mumbai)
--- Frederick Noronha (FN) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: Hi Bharati:
Wow, you speak Marathi too? Were you in Pune also?
FN
Dear Freddy,
As a young Goan in the 60's I had no choice but be
forced to learn some foreign languages namely marathi
and urdu (I lived in Goa only). We were punished in
GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS
18 January 2004
HUNGARIANS HUNGRY FOR GOA! Goa will welcome tourists from yet another
Central European country with the arrival of 101 Hungarian travel agents
today (Jan 18) morning. Aeroviva, Hungary's fourth largest travel company,
is flying in its top agents to
AIR-INDIA LIMITED
Requires Air Hostesses / Flight Pursers
for performing the functions of CABIN CREW (both male
and female) on flights.
Applications are invited from unmarried Indian
nationals who meet the following requirements :-
Qualifications : Graduate or
HSC (10 + 2) with 3 years'
It has been brought to my notice in late seventies, a Parliamentarian had
made the following remark in the house of the people (Lok Sabha) opposing
the tabling of the ANTI-SPITTING Bill... SPITTING IS MY BIRTH RIGHT
. It is believed that this Parliamentarian had also organised a sizeable
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