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A new monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks
in copying the old texts by hand. He notices, however, that they are
copying from copies, not the original manuscripts. So, the new monk goes to
the head monk to ask him about this, pointing out that if there were an
The Europeans in India
FROM THE POINTS OF THE COMPASS
The Pathfinder of the East
In 1497 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama set sail to chart the first sea
passage to India. Although successful, he suffered great hardship. Many of his
crew got scurvy, a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C
From sify.com:
Aviation: Budget allocation to go up
Sunday, 16 January , 2005, 13:21
New Delhi: Aviation experts have called for increase in budget allocation
for the civil aviation sector and said short-term measures need to be
initiated immediately before Delhi and Mumbai airports are
The letters written by fellow netters Jose Colaco,
George Pinto and others to the Archibishop of Goa may
have helped.
In an important development in the Ribandar Church
crisis Goas Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao has
directed Fr Luciano Fernandes from Bishops palace to
visit Ribandar Church and
Tokli rajvoddki ajmas korunk; teach passot Devan tika kallza poros voir
tharailea.
(The head is supposed to rule; thats why God placed it higher than the
heart.)
Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernnades
Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA
_
Don't just
Goans to host six-a-side soccer clash
Bahrain Goans will conduct a one-day six-a-side soccer tournament on Friday at
the open soccer ground next to East Riffa Stadium. The tournament is in
preparation for the forthcoming Goan inter-village League for the Father
Felicio Diniz Trophy.
All
Paklleo
Videxi gulamintle
Zorui meklle ami,
Onitichea ghansantle,
Zativadachea pinzreantle,
Dhormvadachea zalleantle
Broxttacharachea chopkeantle,
Azun mukt zaunche asa.
Polle, mhojem ghor polle,
Daram na, zonelam na,
Vontthi na, kuddii na,
Asat te fokt mollbache nolle.
Tomazinho Cardozo
There has been a fair amount of comment on Goanet re the infamous VCD on both
sides of the eternal fence. A fair amount of (state) taxpayer money was thrown
at this venture. I know for a fact that Goanetters Miguel, Cecil Fred have
viewed the VCDif there's anybody in N. America who wants
--- Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
YOUTH MUST BE SENSITIVE TO GOAN CULTURE: PARRIKAR:
The Chief Minister, Mr
Manohar Parrikar, said that there was an urgent need
to create sensitivity
among the local youth to preserve Goan identity and
rich culture of the
State. Mr Parrikar was
--- domnic fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Axea soddinaka. Sabar pauttim gonsantli nimanni
chavi talem ugoddta.
(Dont be discouraged. It is often the last key in
the bunch that opens the
lock.)
In my experience, it has been the last bolt or nut
that refuses to budge, leading
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Mario Goveia wrote:
I still have no idea what off-topic means in the
context of an open forum like Goanet. Who decides what
is off-topic and what is not? Either this is an open
forum for all Goans wherever they live in the world,
or it is a closed forum only for Goa-related
Hi Gaspar,
This is in response to your message on Goanet that was addressed to me:
http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-December/022655.html
Sorry for the delay in responding to you...am slowly getting back into the
groove after the holidays.
I'm as confused as you are on this
hi it good to read BUT AFTER READING ABOUT THESE PARTIES ETC i wont be
taking my children and family back to goa again nor will some of my friends
that normally travel there.i think we will start looking elswere
From: Joel D'Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IT'S PARTY TIME: For rave tourists, there's
Just a reminder to our fellow netters that the residents of Fonduvem,
Ribandar will celebrate today Monday January 17th the feast of Our Lady of
Help Chapel.
The traditional Konkani drama will be held near Fonduvem Chapel at 9 p.m.
With modern technology in place we are attempting to see if
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Mario Goveia wrote:
No one is forcing him to read every post. The subject
line and the name of the poster should give him a clue
if he is interested or not, and he can then either
delete the post, read it, respond or just move on.
Fred Noronha responds:
Mario has been putting
Re the following paragraph of the write-up in Gomantak Times (see below):
«While most stamps on show had been released by Catholic nations, what is
equally interesting is that several Muslim nations have also released many
on various aspects of the life of Jesus and the Holy Family. It showed
Just came across this article earlier today in the Express Computer (that
was edited till recently by Val Souza, a Mumbai-based journo who traces
his roots to Goa). FN
Frederick Noronha (FN)Nr
From the JOSEPH NAIK VAZ INSTITUTE
Berkeley, California
Please share this message with your children and grandchildren as they honor
their Goan roots and
take pride in Goan achievements. Please also forward this message to your
family and friends.
Jan 16th is the 294th death anniversary of
Those who have been early Goanetters would surely find the name of Vishwas
Chavan familiar. When hardly anyone else had a net connection in Goa, he
played a key role in sending across news summaries -- that was sometime in
1994 or early 1995. Vishwas subsequently went to the CCMB (molecular
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Salus Correia wrote:
If the priest is really guilty, then surely our good man Joel will give
us the news off the local papers as he has faithfully been doing so
far.
I may point out here that the main English-langauges papers seem to be
avoiding this issue.
While
After the Goanet Admin team announced in its wisdom its decision to
partially close the discussion on the Ribandar Church molestation case, two
posts have filtered through. It would be unfortunate if partially closed
would mean to allow only posts that favour the accused priest.
As reference is
YOUTH MUST BE SENSITIVE TO GOAN CULTURE: PARRIKAR: The Chief Minister, Mr
Manohar Parrikar, said that there was an urgent need to create sensitivity
among the local youth to preserve Goan identity and rich culture of the
State. Mr Parrikar was speaking as the chief guest at the 10th Goa Yuva
BBC News online
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4176671.stm
Saturday, 15 January, 2005,
New rules should reduce air fares
Plane tickets are expected to become substantially cheaper as ticket sale
rules are relaxed from this weekend.
I am sure that most of the Goanet readers are already tired of the Ribandar
debate. I could understand it if a sincere attempt was made by Aires
Rodrigues to give us the facts, but the way he has chosen to use Goanet to
meet his own personal ends surely disgusts me.
I feel sick reading every
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