[Goanet] Goan food fete at Kovalam

2006-03-16 Thread D'Souza, Avelino
Goan food fete at Kovalam The Hindu Thursday, Mar 16, 2006 K. Venkiteswaran KOCHI: The Taj Green Cove Resort, Kovalam, will hold a Goan food festival from March 16 to 19, said a press release here on Wednesday. The festival will feature vegetarian and non-vegetarian Goan delicacies, soups, st

[Goanet] RE: GOOFY AIRPORT(S) PLANNING?

2006-03-16 Thread Philip Thomas
Isnt this the kind of initiative ICAO/ADPI should have taken on getting wind of the controversy over Mopa + Dabolim? What is the point of waiting for 6 months for the PM to ask for this re-study? Why did the proposal not come up in the first meeting of the high-powered panel held recently to go i

Re: [Goanet] Danish cartoons

2006-03-16 Thread cornel
Hi Gilbert I had said that the issue of the Muslim reaction to the Danish cartoons was deemed by the British media "as over the top." I merely reported something and this is quite different from your reportage which says "Our friend Cornell calls the behaviour of British Muslims (on this issue)

Re: [Goanet] From London to GOA by Car in 33 days

2006-03-16 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 15/03/06, JoeGoaUk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael Fernandes and Vince Veelan cover 15,000Kms through 58 Countries. > Michael is now holidaysing in Goa after driving through 15 mountains ranges > and > seven deserts from London to Goa in his 1992 Citreden BX diesel vehicle. > Mike along

[Goanet] GLOBAL GOANS MEET

2006-03-16 Thread r.barreto
GLOBAL GOANS MEET A get together of local and non-resident Goans is scheduled to be held on Saturday 18th March ,2006 from 10.30 am to 1.00 pm at Hotel Braganza, Opp. Kadamba Bus Stand Mapuca. The objectives of the meet are to explore ways and means of how the

Re: [Goanet] Mike Fernandes: London-Goa in a car

2006-03-16 Thread cornel
Hi Amstrong, I was delighted to read the account of your motoring trip from London to Goa. Many people I know from London have done the trip for sheer adventure but unfortunately, in my case, political border unrest whilst trying to exit Turkey forced me back in one instance in my VW beetle. I

Re: [Goanet] Feni

2006-03-16 Thread cornel
George Yes of course, if the feni is helps one to concentrate on meditation during Lent. Cornel - Original Message - From: "George Pinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 7:13 PM Subject: [Goanet] Feni Will they make a special dispensation to consume feni du

[Goanet] Terrorist Threat to Goa

2006-03-16 Thread afra dias
Dear Goanetters  Donald wrote: donald arthur dsilva : GOA NEWS: Terrorist Threat to Goa "In my opinion the State Government of Goa must take immediate steps to ensure that no premises, residential or commercial are leased out to anyone without first obtaining the NOC - No Objection Certifica

[Goanet] *** GOA NEWS: Mar 16/06 - Comba cross vandalised, Man goes wild, GMC to tackle DVT, Alert over Jalgaon bird flu, Sports...

2006-03-16 Thread Goanet News Service
*** GOA NEWS: Mar 16/06 - Comba cross vandalised, Man goes wild, GMC to tackle DVT, Alert over Jalgaon bird flu, Sports... *** Riots, damned lies and terrorists The question now that is troubling the police - what came first - the bomber or the bomb? And while everyone is trying to find an an

[Goanet] Have you been here ???

2006-03-16 Thread JoeGoaUk
If so, can please name the chapel ? Fr. Jose Vaz used to live here it seems (photo also seen in ruins) Every month there is a mass there dont know what date. Check this first 3 photos, the Chapel/Church, the inside of it (3 windows) and the main alter. See the light on the main alter/crucifix w

[Goanet] Goanet News Bytes * March 16, 2006 * Bus strike in Goa ... curtains time for Ponda cinemas ... GMC home for cancer terminally-ill... bid to stoke up communal conflict at Comba

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Re: [Goanet] From London to GOA by Car in 33 days

2006-03-16 Thread cornel
Joe I'd readily swap 9 hours of utter boredom in the air for 33 days excitement on the road, any day, if travel deadlines were of no consequence. Cornel - Original Message - From: "JoeGoaUk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 3:59 PM Subject: [Goanet] From London

Re: [Goanet] Time ripe for maritime university in Goa: Sam Pitroda

2006-03-16 Thread cornel
Sachin I read Pitroda's article with interest about the need to establish a maritime university in Goa. However, what perturbed me was his criticism of "quality" in Indian universities. Do you have a view on this specific point? Cornel - Original Message - From: "Sachin Phadte" <[EMAIL

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! - final

2006-03-16 Thread Mario Goveia
Floriano, You are a gentleman and a scholar. > Mario. --- floriano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Mario, > > Thank you for opening a larger view-window to life. > I am a trained ex-merchant marine officer where > discipline is grilled in > one's bones. And my view of the world is always > tin

Re: [Goanet] Re: Goa for Goans? Save Goa from Goans!

2006-03-16 Thread Mario Goveia
Viva Elizabeth, Where have you been? We need your kind of brutal honesty and succinct sanity on Goanet far more often. > Mario. > --- Elisabeth Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh my God! Is this debate still going on? Rather > redundant isn't it? I mean, > even as we speak Babush Monserrat

Re: [Goanet] The new Brahmins in Indian society are the tribe who pass as NRIs !!

2006-03-16 Thread Mario Goveia
Thanks, Ashok Mitra, for showing your bias right up front by derisively using the caste card. You succeeded in getting my attention, Ashok. Then I discovered how vacuous your thinking is. > As someone who belongs to this "tribe" as you call us NRI's, let me assure you that I have no illusions of

Re: [Goanet] Fond memories of a visit to an Indian town called Jabalpur

2006-03-16 Thread Mario Goveia
Gabriel, Much better information, and factual as well. However, I should add: a) One of the largest defense manufacturing operations in the country, building Shaktiman trucks and armaments. b) You missed Govt. Engineering College, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College and Maharishi Mahesh Yo

Re: [Goanet] Fond memories of a visit to an Indian town called Jabalpur

2006-03-16 Thread Mario Goveia
> --- Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It was also, indeed a great insight into the hell > > hole, that 'someone' keeps on harping about, > being a better place than Goa during the Portuguese > time. > > Mario observes: > Bernardo and Gabe are like the blind leading the blind, or perh

Re: [Goanet] Science of Mass Hysteria

2006-03-16 Thread Mario Goveia
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Mario, > > Perhaps others can explain what you are seeking. > Our friend Cornell calls the behavior of British > Muslims (on this issue) as "Over the top". > Very British! (Perhaps true for British Muslims) > You can analyze the differences between UK Muslims > a

Re: [Goanet] Serious Talking: GOA Going, Going, Gone !!!!

2006-03-16 Thread Mario Goveia
--- JoeGoaUk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Serious Talking: GOA Going, Going, Gone > > Yes, I am taking obout our Goa 'Amchem Bhagarachem > Goem' > > Well, I need not say much about it as we all seen or > read or heard it all. > > Here is something to recap.. > > - one third of Goa's p

Re: [Goanet] HOTEL & RESTAURANT INDUSTRIES WISH LIST FOR BUDGET

2006-03-16 Thread Mario Goveia
I thought Bosco said recently, in one of his failed attempts to chastise me, that Philip only posted articles on the aviation imbroglio. I had said that he specialized in articles on tourism and travel. > BTW, I like Philip's posts ON AVIATION, TOURISM AND TRAVEL, which I learn a lot from. > --- P

[Goanet] Goa to celebrate anniversary of St Xavier

2006-03-16 Thread Gabe Menezes
http://web.mid-day.com/news/nation/2006/march/133123.htm Goa to celebrate anniversary of St Xavier By: PTI March 16, 2006 Panaji: Goa will celebrate the 500th birth anniversary of its patron saint, St Francis Xavier, with a special mass being planned on April 7 at the Basilica of Bom Jesus

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS! - final

2006-03-16 Thread floriano
Cheers! Mario, That makes two of us. Tks & best rgds Floriano goasuraj Check-Out the Road Map for Goa at www.goasu-raj.org - Original Message - From: "Mario Goveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [Go

[Goanet] RE: Afra's channel to NOC

2006-03-16 Thread jose colaco
in response to the following from donald arthur dsilva :<"In my opinion the State Government of Goa must take immediate steps to ensure that no premises, residential or commercial are leased out to anyone without first obtaining the NOC - No Objection Certificate from the Police Department lik

[Goanet] COMBA CROSS DAMAGE -AN ACT OF INSANITY?

2006-03-16 Thread godfrey gonsalves
Comba in Margao Goa is a know bastion of Hindu Brahmins Catholics and other non Brahmin Hindus -- mainly tenants. Most of the traders of yesteryears and who have their trading outlets in the New Market area hail from Comba. Many of them have however shifted to far off Vidyanagar or Aquem and now

[Goanet] Number of Flights operated in a day

2006-03-16 Thread gilbertlaw
The issue is not who got the flight statistics, but rather the need for facts to have an intellectual dialogue. Now that we have the facts, it is clear there is plenty of room (and runway) for military and civilian authorities to share Dabolim airport. Analyzing the numbers to death is not going

[Goanet] COMPARABLE AIRPORT SITUATION (CA/PS)?

2006-03-16 Thread Philip Thomas
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20060217--7m17airport.html Navy: 'We will cooperate' on new airport site By David E. Graham UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER February 17, 2006 A senior Navy official told airport agency members yesterday that the Navy is willing to be "part of the proce

[Goanet] RE: GOOFY ani mumbo-jumbo + patriotic prattle?

2006-03-16 Thread jose colaco
From: "Philip Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : < the bogus air base scenario (supported purely by holier-than-thou patriotic prattle and military mumbo-jumbo) to contend with. All big millstones round the neck of the Goan people and the hordes who want to visit them in a sensible and safe way! >

Re: [Goanet] Fond memories of a visit to an Indian town called Jabalpur

2006-03-16 Thread Bernado Colaco
--- Gabriel de Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Notwithstanding BC's satirical post, here is what I > found on http://www.jabalpur.com/history.htm: > > JABALPUR- Is an ancient city in central India ... > > Jabalpur is well connected by National highway-7 > (Nagpur-Varanasi) Broad gauge

[Goanet] Only Olympic hatrick in Football belongs to a Goenkar!

2006-03-16 Thread Bernado Colaco
  > Great Goan Olympian > NEVILLE D'SOUZA > By Isidore Dantas > > Today, 16th March 2006, is the 26th Death > Anniversary of Neville D'Souza, who created history > at the 1956 Olympics at Melbourne, Australia, by > scoring a hat-trick to help India beat Australia 4-2 > in football. India then m

Re: [Goanet] Re: Central agencies interrogating Tariq

2006-03-16 Thread Bernado Colaco
Thanks for providing us news from the other side of the fence. Our 'real' journos have gone into hiding? BC --- Miguel Braganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dears, > The Goa Police is apparently preparing the grounds > for a "Transfer Warrant" > from J & K Police or some "Central Investigati

[Goanet] 100th Non-resident Group formed

2006-03-16 Thread George Pinto
One might suspect Pedro Alphonso D'Souza Fernandes Dacosta Pereira was a whole community, but in reality he is a single Goan. He has the honor of founding the 100th Non-Resident Goan group in the last 10 days and has just annouced this NRG group on 27 different Goan cyber-forums (please contact

[Goanet] The Altruistic Primate (V M de Malar)

2006-03-16 Thread Goanet News Service
The Altruistic Primate By V. M. de Malar It's hard to believe, after the shocking and disgraceful violence and looting in Sanvordem, but we human beings are scientifically recognized as uniquely co- operative and altruistic creatures. No other primate exhibits the same degree of collective-min

Re: [Goanet] Fond memories of a visit to an Indian town calledJabalpur

2006-03-16 Thread cornel
Hi Bernado Until now, I hadn't bothered to look up the location of Jabalpur on the map but your great description of your visit there impels me to do so. It strikes me from your vivid account that it was a thorough backwater which seemingly curtailed the development of at least one person we ha