[Goanet]Tujem Kazar Mogan vo Soiriken? (Sot Uloi)

2005-03-22 Thread lino dourado
Mogan Kazar v/s Soiriken Kazar Mhojem sangnem.. Soirik haddloli, tanchem hanvem aikunk na dekhun, hanv boro suttlom. Hanv mogan poddun kazar zalom dekhun, soirik haddlolim borim suttlim. TUM SANG.tujem.(in very very few words) Loz dista tannim [EMAIL PROTECTED] email

[Goanet]AICHEA DISSAK CHINTOP - March 23, 2005!

2005-03-22 Thread domnic fernandes
“Prartonnachem mull kallzan thavn kelelem prartonn.” (The heart of prayer is prayer from the heart.) Moi-mogan, Domnic Fernandes Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA _ Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search!

[Goanet]India can be major bulwark against China: US

2005-03-22 Thread Carlos
Press Trust of India New York, March 22, 2005|20:09 IST Taking strong exception to demands made by some American lawmakers for supply of F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, an influential former US Senator has asked the administration to adopt a robust pro-India stance and said treating both the

Re: [Goanet]Thanks to the 'konkani' posters

2005-03-22 Thread lino dourado
Cecil Pinto wrote: Dear Viveca, I too would like to thank Domnic Fernandes, Eddie Verdes, Lino Dourado, JoeGoaUK, Avelino D'Souza, Gaspar Almeida and all the other contributors of 'konkani' postings. Despite being born, brought up and living in Goa I must shamefully admit that my

[Goanet]Re: Main points of a speech in the Rajya Sabha

2005-03-22 Thread Bosco D'Mello
Ole_Xac, Hopefully sometime soon...I hope it's soonyou will move your campaign from the keyboard to the masses.and you will travel the world (yatra) preaching your mantra of Independence for Goa and Goans to the approx 2 mil Goans in the Diaspora. And I hope you do come to

Re: [Goanet]NEWS: Indian cities hardly worth living in

2005-03-22 Thread Bernado Colaco
Is this the reason of our advancement that the bharats will not develop Goa? Just yesterday Faleiro wrote about changes in the village. Now we read Specially if essentials can be taken care off Contradictory statements. What is the ultimate stand? Is Faleiro craping Goans with his

[Goanet]Re:Freedom for me but not for others?

2005-03-22 Thread jose colaco
From: Joseph Dias, MA (Eco) 9 3 2 4 8 0 3 2 7 9 General Secretary, The Catholic Secular Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes You guys seem to have got the whole thing wrong. To begin with, we would like to state that our protests is an expression of the freedom / rights we enjoy as world citizens

[Goanet]Good, Bad or Ugly

2005-03-22 Thread Philip Thomas
what is wrong is your continued insinuation about the Navy not providing jobs for Goans.[Gilbert Menezes, March 21] Leaving aside the questions of whether Goa got independence and who Dabolim belongs to nominally and substantively, let us ask again what the equation, the relationship, between

[Goanet]Eric Ozario appointed as a President of Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy

2005-03-22 Thread Ancy D'Souza
Eric Ozario appointed as a President of Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy After months long delay and tug of war Konkani and other Academy presidents of Karnataka are announced by Karanatak chief minister Mr. Darama Sing in a press conference held yesterday evening in Bangalore. Here is the list

[Goanet]Folk Songs of Goa

2005-03-22 Thread Jose Pereira
Hardcover, Rs. 340 Paperback, Rs. 140

Re: [Goanet]RE: : airfields again again

2005-03-22 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
--- jose colaco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Talking about Newspapers, here is an item which might enlighten the democratic flame in you (and perhaps - your soul mate Mario) http://www.colaco.net/1/senses.htm The lane in question was signposted No Parking - By Order PMC the last time I

[Goanet]NEWS: Tsunami slows pilgrims' progress to Velankanni

2005-03-22 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
http://in.news.yahoo.com//050321/137/2kb5a.html Monday March 21, 4:34 PM Tsunami slows pilgrims' progress to Velankanni By Y.P. Rajesh VELANKANNI, India (Reuters) - It's almost noon on the first day of the holy Easter week and hawker Jesuraj is yet to sell a single rosary. There are hardly a few

[Goanet]My Brother Nikhil - The film looks at the HIV/AIDS issue in Goa in the ’80s,

2005-03-22 Thread Goa's Pride www.goa-world.com
‘My Brother Nikhil’: Highly Recommended! By Taran Adarsh (IndiaFM) Tuesday, 22 March , 2005, 14:27 The Indian cinegoer is gradually getting used to path-breaking concepts in Hindi films. In this fast-changing scenario, the new-age writers and directors are picking up stories that are

[Goanet]Re: Cardinal demands that Da Vinci Code be banned?

2005-03-22 Thread jose colaco
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. re: PARANOID Would you care to establish the facts before proceeding to make blanket judgments? Only then you may have justified the choice of the adjective paranoid. -- earlier from Cecil Pinto 2. re: INTERESTING WORK I think that is a PARANOID reaction

[Goanet]Assistance

2005-03-22 Thread preetam rana
Dear friends, Seeking your opinion and advise, i may not be a subscriber to the goanet but heard a lot about it for the benefit of Goans.A friend of mine has rented a house in Goa he is a goan , and rented it to a non goan , for the last several months the tenant has not been paying and the

Re: [Goanet]Bananas

2005-03-22 Thread Bevinda Collaco
So why do they warn diabetics to avoid bananas? Bevinda Collaco? - Original Message - From: xembuh Moidekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Friends! Moira is famous for innovators, bananas and madcaps! But we are not gone bananas or bannanas...read on! ==

[Goanet]Myopia in Defence Sector?

2005-03-22 Thread Philip Thomas
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?hpFlag=Ychklogin=Nau tono=184075leftnm=lmnu5lselect=0leftindx=5 Fix the nuts bolts Business Standard / New Delhi March 22, 2005 ... ... ... If Mr Patel wants to make a lasting contribution, he should also look beyond airport terminal

Re: [Goanet]Bananas

2005-03-22 Thread Mervyn Lobo
xembuh Moidekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, A banana a day keeps the doctor away! Tanzanians and Ugandans have another use for the banana. They make an alcoholic drink out of it. If ever you want to give up drinking, try some

Re: [Goanet]Re: airfields again

2005-03-22 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
--- gilbert menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Jose, here are the answers to your very basic queries: 1. Your basic premise is wrong. The airport did not belong to the people of Goa pre 1961, as you have stated. It belonged to the Portuguese, as it was a Government facility. I beg to

[Goanet]NEWS-OVERSEAS-GULF: Islamic group claims Qatar bombing

2005-03-22 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
http://in.news.yahoo.com//050322/43/2kbvv.html Tuesday March 22, 6:11 PM Islamic group claims Qatar bombing By Indo-Asian News Service Cairo, March 22 (IANS) An Islamic group has claimed responsibility for a Qatar suicide bombing that killed one person and has vowed more attacks on Western

Re: [Goanet]Avelino exposed!

2005-03-22 Thread Mario Goveia
Avelino, I am not defending or attacking anyone, man, only trying, without much success it seems, to shine a light on your ignorance and bias. Since you keep insisting that your peculiar questions are only an attempt to understand the Goan Catholic caste system I asked you nicely to read an

[Goanet]LONELINESS SELFISHNESS

2005-03-22 Thread Sanny Vaz
LONELINESS SELFISHNESS. (Part 1/2) Art thou lonely, O my brother? Share thy little with another! Stretch a hand to one unfriended, And the loneliness is ended. WILLIAM

Re: [Goanet]Folk Songs of Goa: Mando-Dulpods Deknnis

2005-03-22 Thread Goa's Pride www.goa-world.com
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[Goanet]Garbage Going Goa Gone

2005-03-22 Thread Jerry Fernandes
Hello Goanetters I wonder what is in store for Goa, for how long it will be a tourist destination. I wonder why no hotel lobby is coming forward to do something about the garbage. The government cant handle this works, as they will think of ways how to pocket money. Wish we had leaders who

[Goanet]NEWSMAKER - Liquor baron Mallya guzzles rival

2005-03-22 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
http://in.news.yahoo.com/050322/137/2kbsd.html NEWSMAKER - Liquor baron Mallya guzzles rival By Narayanan Madhavan BANGALORE (Reuters) - India's undisputed liquor king, Vijay Mallya, is a flashy racehorse owner, but moves like a chess grandmaster to build his business. Clinching proof came on

Re: [Goanet]Modi, USA Sends more than subtle message.

2005-03-22 Thread A. Veronica Fernandes
Excellent and bold statement by Marlon Menezes showing his approval for rejecting entry visa to USA to Narendra Modi. What India and Indians could not do USA did and thereby totally degraded and humiliated Modi. He was indicted in India but no punitive action taken for the sins Modi committed

[Goanet]OK, you want some information?

2005-03-22 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
For more information on the term OK, just visit my favourite Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay It covers 1 Origins 1.1 Choctaw Language 1.2 Allen Walker Read 1.3 African Origins 1.4 Popularity 1.5 Other Uses and Apocryphal Explanations 1.5.1 Initials 1.5.2 See also 2 Reference 3 External

[Goanet]Amchi Mumbai !! Bombay oopps

2005-03-22 Thread Jerry Fernandes
Hello Goanetters, Received this from a friend, and am sending to you all This should amuse you.- N Amchi Mumbai !! Bombay oopps... Mumbai has it's own charm as u read u will find out (just facts nothin 2 laugh) This is Bombay.. Bombay has no bombs and is a harbour not a bay.

[Goanet]Need Goan Law

2005-03-22 Thread Jerry Fernandes
Hello Mahesh, You have valid points, and I do support them, but are they practical in Goa? A place where our politicians have ruined it by giving ration cards to every tom dick and harry to get votes? Now these people have themselves become Goans. Imagine how many non Goans, succeeded in getting

[Goanet]International alcohol measures

2005-03-22 Thread Cecil Pinto
Gabe Menezes wrote: RESPONSE: In 1974 I had obtained a permit and it stated that the amount permitted was 2 Quarts. I was searched, I was carrying 4 bottles. I refused to get off the Bus, travelling from Goa to Bombay and insisted one quart was two pints -( two bottles). The policeman insisted

Re: [Goanet] Goa: of rulers, corrupt politicians, patriots, cowards and judases

2005-03-22 Thread Bernado Colaco
Come on Santoshi at least you have learnt to eat with fork and spoon and besides wear a pant and Bush shirt in the US of A? B. Colaco PS.: Solve the problems of Goa. Does Macau not have the resources to accept low skilled people? It appears to have accepted at least one such person.

[Goanet]RE: Cornel exposed!

2005-03-22 Thread D'Souza, Avelino
Hey Mario, You have been hitting the bottle too hard! Now you seem to get stoned on pros and cons! Your client and 'kasti-yaar' clearly stated that nothing touched him at all. You are insisting that he was hurt, badly bruised, shaken and strangely in concert casting pearls to the utter shock of

[Goanet]Thanks to the 'konkani' posters

2005-03-22 Thread Cecil Pinto
Viveca wrote: Just want to record my thianks to Dominic who wrote the konkani article about getting married and having kids etc. I have saved it to practice onI mean the language. Being in Malaysia I have lost touch with konkani - surrounded by languages like Malay, Hokkien, Mandarin, Tamil

[Goanet]Narendra Modi

2005-03-22 Thread tonyca
Of all the arguments raised by the Indian Government against the denial of a U.S. Visa to Guiarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, perhaps the most disingenuous one was that he was a constitutionally and democratically elected leader of his State. So was ex-President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, who

[Goanet]Salmona springs

2005-03-22 Thread cmenezes
Very sad and disillusioned to read that the Salmona spring is to be encroached upon by a greedy developer inspite of the objections by the the village residents. Where is this development madness going to end? As a Saligao MP why does not Willie Dsouza step in to preserve our environment. I am

[Goanet]EU-India Essay Contest for Young Indian Journalists

2005-03-22 Thread Constantino Xavier
This might interest our journalist friends from Goa: Subject: EU-India Essay Contest for Young Indian Journalists Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 12:02:11 +0100 (MET) (PI/2005/010) EU-India Essay Contest for Young Indian Journalists The Delegation of the European Commission to India has launched an

Re: [Goanet]Modi, USA Sends more than subtle message.

2005-03-22 Thread Nagesh Bhatcar
The US is absolutely right in denying Modi a visa and to others like him. But the US could not deny a visa to Hu Jintao, the present President of China for brutally suppressing a rebellion by the Tibetan monks nor to Jerry Adams of Shinn Fein. Snubbing Jerry Adams by denying him a White House

Re: [Goanet]Cardinal demands that Da Vinci Code be banned?

2005-03-22 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Cecil Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The e-mail below was sent to me from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and is supposedly from Joseph Dias, General Secretary, The CSF. I think that is a paranoid reaction against an interesting work of fiction. I totally disagree with the opinions expressed below.

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2005-03-22 Thread rene barreto
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[Goanet]How did OK originate?

2005-03-22 Thread Mario Goveia
How did the term OK originate, and do other languages have an equivalent? The Straight Dope claims the letters come from the phrase Oll Korrect. The phrase comes from a curious fad for comical abbreviations that swept the USA in the 1830s and 1840s. The estimable Oxford Dictionary concurs,

Re: [Goanet]Cardinal demands that Da Vinci Code be banned?

2005-03-22 Thread Marlon Menezes
Cecil, Thanks for informing us about this movie. A fictional movie on what is quite possibly a fictional concept (aka christianity) - I dont see anything wrong with it! I should also be thankful to the Christian Secular Taliban Forum for publicising this movie as well. I did not even know it was

[Goanet]AVC-KUWAIT RED BLACK NITE

2005-03-22 Thread Demin D'Cruz
ITS ON ITS ON ITS ON ITS ON THE MUCH AWAITED “AVC RED BLACK NITE” AS PROMISED WILL BE HELD ON 07TH APRIL, 2005 AT THE FAKHRAUDDIN PALACE HOTEL-KUWAIT CITY. KUWAIT TOPMOST BANDS “STEPPING STONES” “CITY LIMITS” WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE ALONGWITH THE MOODSETTER

Re: [Goanet]Naming Game2 (Kazar) re. Folli/Kankonnkar

2005-03-22 Thread lino dourado
JoeGoaUkwrote: We call Kankonnkar in Salcett These checqured bangles/chullo worn by bride some few weeks before the wedding or just after igorjent kazarachi chitt podli mhontoch'. Lino wrote: Poili chitt igorjent vachlea uprant vokol bai mamagher (maternal place) vota. Thoimsor

[Goanet]Cardinal demands that Da Vinci Code be banned?

2005-03-22 Thread Cecil Pinto
The e-mail below was sent to me from [EMAIL PROTECTED] and is supposedly from Joseph Dias, General Secretary, The CSF. I think that is a paranoid reaction against an interesting work of fiction. I totally disagree with the opinions expressed below. Does anyone know if Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone

[Goanet]Communicare Cultural Center, Summer courses

2005-03-22 Thread Constantino Xavier
Communicare Cultural Center, Porvorim, is a new educational project headed by Nalini Elvino de Sousa (also proprietary of Portuguese-products shop A NAU in Panjim) with special focus on Goan, Portuguese and European culture. They are condicting the following activities for the younger ones in

[Goanet]HUMUOR FOR THE DAY

2005-03-22 Thread Cyril Pereira
Three men were swimming at Durban beach: An Indian, a Black and a White guy. A huge, hungry shark hovers into view. These three guys panic swim frantically for the shore all the while praying for deliverance. The shark eases over rips the white guy to shreds. It then pounces on the black guy in

[Goanet]Confusing the Issue

2005-03-22 Thread Philip Thomas
I hope you will seriously recommend options for shifting **basic flight training operations** out of Dabolim so that the 4 day/wk restriction can be completely lifted at the earliest. [Self to Gilbert Menezes, March 20] The suggestion from your friend Phillip was for Juhu to **serve as

[Goanet]RE: Naming Game 2-Kazar (Wedding) Tum Sangxi?

2005-03-22 Thread D'Souza, Avelino
Lino bab, Dev borem korunk tumchea zababak. Hea sobdachim zankari amkam Goenkarank nam zaum, ek pollkeponn amchea jivitant munn aum sozmotam. Avelino Bastora/Kuwait __ Lino wrote Maddamchea chutt'ttancho vapor khoimsor zatalo? Can you tell the following 1- Folli 2-