[Goanet]FEATURE: Remembering Francis Newton Souza - Born April 12, 1924

2005-04-11 Thread Bosco D'Mello
Francis Newton (F N) Souza India's most important and famous modern artist, Francis Newton Souza, was born on April 12, 1924 in Saligao, Goa. Today would have been his 81st birthday. He was raised by his mother, a dressmaker. Souza was pursuing an art education at the Sir J.J. School of Art, Mumba

[Goanet]PAPAL REICH - A Novel by Arun Pereira (Know all about it at www.papalreich.com)

2005-04-11 Thread Goa's Pride www.goa-world.com
A New Papacy Prepare for a new superpower! A critically acclaimed book. www.papalreich.com A Novel by Arun Pereira, Ph.D. "Hold your breath...a spellbinding story." Dr. F. Paiva, Consulting Editor, IUCISD "Extremely well written...an incredible amount of research." Jewish Book World "A tantali

[Goanet]Drive against modified vehicles to continue for two weeks

2005-04-11 Thread GOACAN
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[Goanet]Re: Query about kokum 'sol kadi'

2005-04-11 Thread Gabe Menezes
Thanks mate, now how about one using kokum to make a savoury vegetable curry? Cheers, Gabe Menezes. London, England On Apr 11, 2005 1:54 PM, lino dourado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sol Kadhi > > This refreshing kadhi is great wit

[Goanet]Fr. Felicio Diniz Trophy 7-a-side Soccer League in Bahrain kicks off

2005-04-11 Thread Goa's Pride www.goa-world.com
Bahrain Goans Soccer League To Kick Off The Bahrain Goans Seven A Side Soccer League for Fr. Felicio Diniz Trophy kicks off at the Al Qadisiya grounds in Salmaniya on Wednesday (13th April 2005) at 7.45 p.m. In the inaugural match a star studded Navelim takes on Tivim, while Margao plays Verna

[Goanet]JACKFRUIT (PON'NOS!)

2005-04-11 Thread domnic fernandes
The jackfruit originated in India at the foot of the Western Ghats, and is now very popular throughout South East Asia. The tree is handsome and stately, 30 to 70 feet tall, with evergreen, alternate, glossy, somewhat leathery leaves which are oblong, oval or elliptic in form, 4 to 6 inches in

[Goanet]Film-maker Mahesh Bhatt warns against those in "secular garb"

2005-04-11 Thread Goanet
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt Tells Scribes To Be Vigilant Against Fundamentalists In Secularist Garb By Bosco de Sousa Eremita, SAR NEWS PILAR, Goa (SAR NEWS) -- Veteran Bollywood filmmaker, Mr. Mahesh Bhatt, warned of communal fundamentalists who strut about wearing a secular mask, and urged journalis

[Goanet]Goanet News Bytes * Apr 11, 2005 * River Princess, will it, or won't it, go?

2005-04-11 Thread Goanet News Service
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[Goanet]Electing the new Pope (an open letter)

2005-04-11 Thread noronha
ELECTING THE NEW POPE (An Open Letter) To Respected Cardinals Varkey Vithayathil CssR, Ernakulum Ivan Dias, Mumbai Telesphore Toppo, Ranchi Respected Cardinals of the Catholic Church in India, Peace of Christ. The Catholic Church in India, as also people of goodwill all over the world,

[Goanet]goabooks.swiki.net updated

2005-04-11 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
Just a small note to say that the volunteer-driven and non-commercial book reviews site for Goa, http://goabooks.swiki.net has been updated. Thanks to those who volunteered to send in their reviews. These are displayed in the section 'what's new' What's new * Diary of an ambassador (by Dr T

[Goanet]Remembering an unusual religious figure: Bishop Alvares Mar Julius

2005-04-11 Thread George K Kurian
By George K Kurian, Goa Alvares is neither a Syrian nor a Malayalee name. From this fact, itself one will say that he could not have been a Bishop of Maiankara Orthodox Church. Very few people know that one Fr. Alvares, a Goan, had joined the Maiankara Orthodox Syrian Church in 1887 and consecrated

[Goanet]Secular parties are equally communal

2005-04-11 Thread carlos6143
Pre-poll Muslim survey --- Milli Gazette - April 2004 -- Indian Muslim leading English newspaper âSecular parties are equally communalâ By M H Lakdawala Mumbai: With the election season comes a slew of pre-poll surveys predicting the outcome. In this election Muslims are at the center of poll st

[Goanet]Cong wants dissolution?

2005-04-11 Thread carlos6143
Sandesh Prabhudesai -Goanews 5 April 2005 The infighting within the Congress-led alliance has compelled the senior politicians here to join the demand made by the Bharatiya Janata Party to go for fresh polls by dissolving the Goa House rather than by-elections. Goa is presently undergoing a brie

[Goanet]Salmona Spring: Open Update To Governor Of Goa - 4.

2005-04-11 Thread muriel & mario
Monday, 11 April 2005. To, The Governor of Goa, Panaji.  Goa. Your Excellency, Sadly for us in Saligao, you already know what the "famous first words" of this daily update are: THE CONSTRUCTION AT THE SALMONA SPRING IS STILL ON! Today the first floor slab has been cast and set and at this mo

Re: [Goanet]Need info on Dom Jose Vieira Alvernaz

2005-04-11 Thread Jorge/Livia de Abreu Noronha
Prezada D. Maria Guiomar, Eu sou um goês residente em Portugal desde os fins de 1976, tendo saido de Goa para Angola em meados de 1957. Conheci o Patriarca D. José Vieira Alvernaz, embora superficialmente, e a impressão que dele me ficou é a de uma pessoa simples, que viajava ao longo do territóri

Re: [Goanet]Query about kokum 'sol kadi'

2005-04-11 Thread Alfred de Tavares
From: lino dourado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: goanet@goanet.org To: goanet@goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet]Query about kokum 'sol kadi' Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 05:54:58 -0700 (PDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anyone provide the recipe for the kokum water offered in hotels to drink after food in

[Goanet]Rise in road mishaps between Jan and March 2005

2005-04-11 Thread Goa Desc
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Re: [Goanet]Query about kokum 'sol kadi'

2005-04-11 Thread lino dourado
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can anyone provide the recipe for the kokum water offered in hotels to drink after food in hotels consisting of kokum water,coriander,green chilly ,onion etc? with many thanks. an avid reader of your net service.

[Goanet]World's Top Tourist Destinations ... and Goa

2005-04-11 Thread Philip Thomas
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/quickies/msid-1073186.cms No. 1: France The country boasts of 190 airports, of which Paris alone has five. Paris received 50,860,561 passengers till April 2005 and recorded 534,561 traffic movements in 2004. TGV, a high-speed rail network is the heart of French

[Goanet]Some other views on the Catholic Church

2005-04-11 Thread Miguel Braganca
Dear Fred, The United Nations is a democratic body comprised mainly of democratic countries BUT its Security Council secures the right of some nations to be "more equal than others" just as in George Orwell's "Animal Farm". The catholic church is a hierarchy [ not a democracy]. Just because the

Re: [Goanet]Re: Parrikar, others mourn Pope's death (Reply)

2005-04-11 Thread Stephen Fernandes
Dear Goan, how long this mourn pope is left did you'll getting money from Parrikar for pass the mail to goaNET , pARRIKAR IS fooling with people of Goan and thinking back to Power now only left to trow out of Goa. no More Parrikar can be CM again he finish eating Goa. Stephen fernand

[Goanet]Query about kokum 'sol kadi'

2005-04-11 Thread virgy59
can anyone provide the recipe for the kokum water offered in hotels to drink after food in hotels consisting of kokum water,coriander,green chilly ,onion etc? with many thanks. an avid reader of your net service.

[Goanet]Swearing in Konkani

2005-04-11 Thread Cecil Pinto
In a private e-mail a Cyber Goan wrote to me... "There are two words - swearing and cursing - mean entirely different - choose your phrase correctly. cursing is 'shirap' swearing is 'gaLi sounchen? Pozdem uloup? " - I wish to thank this individual for the correction. I intend conducting an

[Goanet]Britto v/s St. Thomas nicknames

2005-04-11 Thread Cecil Pinto
From Goa-Net: UK-based Sun Microsystems engineer Benny "Screw" Faria of the Class of 1977 writes: "I was reminiscing about Britto nicknames, and there is a lot of history here. I mean, who'd own up to pandu, zoddo, tantiyakar, rebec, somplo, doctor fart, gauns, datta, rajesh (khanna), bobby, disht

[Goanet]'Miracle' claims as cardinals seek successor to Pope John Paul II

2005-04-11 Thread jessicads1
'Miracle' claims as cardinals seek successor to Pope John Paul II VATICAN CITY (AFP) Polish Cardinal Franciszek Macharski (R) attends the mass lead by Italian Cardinal Camillo Ruini in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. (AFP) Catholic cardinals took a break from their daily deliberations as a

[Goanet]email address for victor rangel-rebeiro/creative writers' group in Goa?

2005-04-11 Thread Neeta
Hello Frederick, Do you happen to have an email address for Victor Rangel-Rebeiro? I have a simple question to ask him. Also do you know of any creative writers' groups/programs/workshops in Goa? thanks much, Neeta --- Towards just and sustainable development: For more on work in the Narma

[Goanet]Re: [Goanet News Bytes]Apr 9, 2005 * Goa marks the (local) new year andspring

2005-04-11 Thread DM Silveira
Fred: That's a fantastic update on Amchem Goem. Some suggestions: - If you drop this NON-PROFIT slogan and run it as a business, you would be able to AFFORD even better quality delivery! - You could take advertisements on this Newsletter, including Personal Ads by Goans worldwide. (One source o

[Goanet]Jobs for Goans

2005-04-11 Thread Savio Rodrigues
Dear Goans, Many times the native Goan youth does not find a job, but he sees that the same job is offered to a non-goan even if the non-goan does not have any better qualification or training then him. Many private firms small and big which has non-goans as boss or a non-goan incharge of recruitm

[Goanet]For The Lighter Side!

2005-04-11 Thread Seb dc
"Roll with the Flow". Let go and let God. How many times have you heard that? It sounds like a simple solution, but how does one achieve it? Do you find yourself instead paddling upstream, struggling against the current, pushing yourself onward? Do you get a few scrapes in the process? Contentmen

[Goanet]Re: Need info on Dom Jose Vieira Alvernaz

2005-04-11 Thread Teotonio R. de Souza
Cara Maria Guiomar, Eu fui crismado pelo Patriarca Alvernaz em 1958. Tinha então 11 anos de idade. O patriarca visitava várias vezes o seminário de Saligão onde eu cursei as humanidades. Fiquei com a impressão de que era uma pessoa muito simples e não fazia sentir o peso da sua dignidade eclesiást

Re: [Goanet]THE DECLINE AND DECAY OF THE CONGRESS PARTY revisited !!

2005-04-11 Thread Seb dc
> Gabe should read the following from Goa's well known > ex-NRI, Goa based but recently shifted to New Delhi, > and law degree holder and practising lawyer, Shri > Aires Rodrigues(ji) Gasper, if that is how you feel it. Aires has said alot against the same people later!! When he came to know about