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Konkani Day celebration at Meera Road, Mumbai
Kutam Konkani Weeky, the largest selling Konkani Weekly of Mumbai with
association of Konkani Welfare Association Meera Road celebrated
Konkani Diwas (Konkani Day) on 21st August 2005 in memory of
inclusion of Konkani language in the eighth scedule
Hi Gilbert,
Thanks for your message - but I was really disappointed about where you
truncated my email and made me appear like the poster-boy of the proud Cooks
n Butlers tradition of our beloved Goa !
Despite my IIT background, which may disqualify me from being emulated by a
majority of our
On the above subject, being discussed for some days now, I would like to
give the folloing inputs.
1. Regarding the last post by Mr. Carmo dCruz, Dr. Colaço has already
answered in the line of my thoughts. In that post Mr. D'Cruz writes:
excuses about favoritism, unfounded fears of the
You want to invite someone whose clan raped Goan women?
We do not need bharatis to teach us!
B. Colaco
--- CARMO DCRUZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Gilbert,
I am inviting Balbir to Goa in December to inspire
our Goan Youth ! Hows taht for role models ?
Best Regards,
Dr. Carmo
Dr. Lawrence:
Please do not take this personally. But about a year ago or so, I had
submitted to this forum a blueprint for a mentoring initiative for the benefit
of young Goans. It would meet the needs for facilitating academic,
professional and entrepreneurial information. I also provided
I am sorry to see this discussion about who was the
originator of World Goa Day. What is the point ?
A woman may give birth, abandon her baby and claim to
be the mother for ever. But it is the woman who
nourishes and raises the baby to adulthood who
deserves real credit, and should rightfully be
Hi Carmo and Jose,
I fully agree with the following sentiments.
But the Goan youth need some mentors and role-models.
Thus, they will get the message that in spite of being a minority, Goans can
excel.
No more 'EXCUSES' that we cannot achieve becasue of favoritism.
Our motto should be, Goans can
A CASE FOR ROMAN LIPI FOR INDIAN LANGUAGES
Madhukar N. Gogate
http://www.languageinindia.com/march2003/roman.html
Major languages in India are grouped here scriptwise. (1) Hindi and Marathi (2)
Tamil and
Malayalam
TRUTH HURTS but it eventually PREVAILS . There are
bouquets and brick-bats pouring for Konkani in Roman
script. But what makes one ignore the brick bats is
since it comes from expected quarters.
Those who take advantage of the gullible Konkani
Roman script lovers. The very same people who
Madam,
I appreciate your response. I can take the heat and will very much stay
a part of this forum. We and our opinions -- have a place on Goanet.
In appreciation,
Venantius J Pinto
Sir,
I find it very admirable that you have taken up cudgels on behalf of the
24 yr old nurse as you did
On 22/08/05, Eugene Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I posted my Free Thoughts on World Goa Day, I had
just glanced over Basilio Magno's post, World Goa Day
Has Come To Stay. I feel Magno has gone a bit
overboard by his praise of Rene Barreto, calling it
Rene's noble idea.
Comment: The
http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2005/08/20/etnewsmedical20.xml
Medical tourism
By Dr Richard Dawood
(Filed: 20/08/2005)
When 14-year-old Elliot Knott, from Dorset, flies to India for medical
treatment this month, he joins a long list of patients who have opted
to go
Is there any historical analysis of how the twist of events in Portugal
impacted life in colonial Goa? For instance:
By 1755, Sebastião de Melo was made Prime Minister. Impressed by English
economic success he had witnessed while Ambassador, he successfully
implemented similar economic policies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luso-American
Luso-American
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
It has been suggested that Lusitanic American be merged into this
article or section. (Discuss)
Luso-Americans are U.S. people with origins in Portuguese speaking
countries or cultures.
The
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A group of working adults got together to visit their University lecturer.
The lecturer was happy to see them. Conversation soon turned into complaints
about stress in work and life.
The Lecturer just smiled and went to the kitchen to get an assortment of
cups - some porcelain, some in
Fire year old story. Written in 1999. In some (many?) ways, we've not
progressed much from where we were. FN
http://www.rediff.com/computer/1999/jul/31goa.htm
Sandesh Prabhudesai
in Panaji
Goa has all the ingredients to become the Internet hotspot in India.
Sadly, the state has become yet
Goa, infrastructure
---
That Goa's communication infrastructure is the pits is more than clear
for some time now.
On Monday August 22, VSNL's (the Tata-controlled former state-run
monopoly) Internet phone lines 172226 gives a continually busy signal.
Unusual. What's wrong? To
What is this? A fight between scripts, a fight between religions or a fight
between
castes?
I was under the impression it was only about getting equal status for the roman
script of
Konkani to make it among other things easier in schools for some of the konkani
speaking
population...and
Well said Jen, that was an elightening message !!!
May all our pro-Devnagiri and pro-Roman script protoganists from the
Konkani-speaking realize that
1) they must settle their squabbles and quite their babbles, noise, awaz
etc. for unity and the greater good of our beloved Goa 2) Konkani does
Koslich Malis Nastana.
Halim Konkani romi lipik Devnagri lipi sangatan manieotai sorkaran divpa
khatir khub zagrutai nirmann kel'li amkam dor potrancher ani her
madheomacher vachunk mellta. 'Dalgado Konkani Akademik-k amchi xebaski.
Kherit ponnim internet madheoma vhelean tor
khub zagrutai nirman
To:
GOANET ADMINISTRATOR,
FOR KIND FAVOUR OF PUBLICATION.
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PRESS STATEMENT
Re: Release of the Road Map For Goa
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen of the Press,
We thank you for being present for this Press Conference.
We are a young and a small Party with very big hopes and higher aspirations.
It
From: Tony Barros [EMAIL PROTECTED]
on Monday, August 22, 2005 2:44 AM
addressing Frederick Noronha:
When Genoa applied to IATA- the Montreal-based International Air
Travel Association - for their three-letter code, Goa was still a
Portuguese colony with Dabolim basically operating as a
Sir,
I find it very admirable that you have taken up cudgels on behalf of the 24 yr old nurse as you did earlier in response to the letter from mr Cornel.though I do not know what prompts you to do so with such veracity. Nevevertheless , in view of the views put forth by you( of
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 23:09 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is plastic being recycled in Goa even on a small scale? i.e. someone
collects the plastic for a
fee and then turns around and sells it in bulk to the plastic
manufacturers for reuse. I know
(Dr Jose Colaco: If education makes us Reasonable individuals who look at
events and others FAIRLY, and in the totality of the circumstances, then we
would have achieved something.)
Something, indeed! Nice sermon this!
(Dr Jose Colaco: If our education, be it in an elite school or a non
Madam,
I am not exactly King Solomon to be looking into your assertions; but since
you pack such a wallop in your intense observations - I wish to take up
cudgels in terms of reasoning on behalf of the 24-old nurse. I still do
hope that your note was tounge-in-cheek, and that I am wrong in my
Halim Konkani romi lipik Devnagri lipi sangatan manieotai sorkaran divpa
khatir khub zagrutai nirmann kel'li amkam dor potrancher ani her
madheomacher vachunk mellta. 'Dalgado Konkani Akademik-k amchi xebaski.
(It's better late than never) Kherit ponnim internet madheoma vhelean tor
khub zagrutai
See
http://www.konkanrailway.com/website/press_2005/press_diversion_22082005.htm
PRESS RELEASE
EXTENSION OF DIVERSION OF TRAINS
Central Railway has extended the diversion of the following trains till further
advice.
·6333/6334 Veraval-Trivandrum Exp via Surat, Jalgaon, Manmad
·
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Documented by Goa Desc Resource Centre Ph:2252660
Website: www.goadesc.org Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Press Clippings on the web: http://www.goadesc.org/mem/
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Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your
family members, relatives, neighbours and friends.
Help others be BETTER INFORMED,
The time is come for the people of Goa
to ORGANISE not AGONISE !!
When I posted my Free Thoughts on World Goa Day, I had
just glanced over Basilio Magno's post, World Goa Day
Has Come To Stay. I feel Magno has gone a bit
overboard by his praise of Rene Barreto, calling it
Rene's noble idea.
As for me, I would have been rather circumspect in
heaping lavish
http://www.agencyfaqs.com/news/stories/2005/08/22/12386.html
Govt plans uniform excise duty for alcoholic beverages across India
THE ECONOMIC TIMES
M Padmakshan
MUMBAI
The central government plans
to call a meeting of all state excise commissioners to discuss
possible guidelines for a uniform
ROAD MAP FOR GOA ( NEWS REPORT)
REGULATION OF MIGRANTS INFLUX STRESSED TO CONTROLL DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES.
(Herald 21, 2005)
By: Herald Reporter
PANJIM, AUG 20 - Expressing concern over the demographic changes occurring
in Goa, the President of Goa Su-Raj Party Dr. N. S. Dumo has said that there
Zo munis zanna kosso aplea vellacho bhov upeog korunk zai to apnnanchoch
bhov faido kaddta.
(A man who knows how to make the most of his time makes the most of
himself.)
Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA
_
Don't
Hi All:
Vatavaran 2005 is a film festival of environmental films. After being
unveiled in Delhi in November 2005, it will move around the country as a
travelling festival.
I've been trying to get some films shown in Goa. Would you/your
organisation be willing to organise some screenings?
Re: Frederick Noronha ' query'
The 232 page index of geographical names attached to Britannica
Atlas ( 1982 edition ) has the following entries:
GOAa political unit on the west coast of India
GOAthe name of a small township of less than 10,000 inhabitants
situated in the south of
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