Britto's ... through the eyes of a Guirim boy
By Tony Fernandes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cumbiem Morod, Guirim
It has been a beautiful day. It is already evening and the sun
seems to be in a hurry to dive into the horizon. Felicio has
to somehow get home before sunset. Else, his mother would be
BEWARE GOAN MAIDS.
Thru this write-up I am cautioning all the would be Goan maids coming to
Kuwait and elsewhere to work as Maids. The following account of a Filipina
domestic appeared in the local daily Arab Times will give some information
of the brutality some of the Maids are undergoing
There is a lot of sense in what Carmo is saying. Learning on the job,
especially, is the bane of any democracy. One must be groomed in the
mind-set at an early age, as Carmo likes to say.
But Carmo must realise that there are exceptions to the rule. There is
something called SPARE THE ROD AND
Arab News
The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily
Monday, 16, October, 2006 (24, Ramadhan, 1427)
Redefining the Rules of Engagement for Expatriates
Dr. N. Janardhan
Though the percentage of expatriates in the six Gulf
Cooperation Council (GCC) countries grew from 22.9 in
1975 to
--
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 !!
Selma makes good points in the post appended below.
The best American universities impart a much more well
rounded education than Indian ones. And in
intellectual abilities and other skills the best and
the brightest in both countries are on average equal.
The apparent disproportionality of the
Mervyn Lobo wrote:
And finally, remember besides SS Karanja and SS
Kampala, there were also the SS Kenya and
SS Uganda. I wonder what happened to all these
vessels. May be, could someone enlighten us ?
The Ships List has a section for the British India Steam Navigation Company
at
--- Mario Goveia mgoveia at sbcglobal.net wrote:
It seems like your side of the political spectrum
opposed changes in every one of these horrible
situations, and continues to do so. Am I wrong?
---Mervyn Lobo writes:
Mario,
The short answer is yes.
Mario responds:
The short answer is
Gilbert,
There are no Mumbai class destroyers in the Indian Navy. The INS
Delhi, Mumbai and Mysore belong to the Delhi class, the lastest one,
Mumbai, being commissioned in 2001. They were all built at Mazagon
Docks which itself was retrofitted during the past decades with Soviet
expertise.
I do
It looks like a family of 3 is coming from abroad.
Why not stay in a hotel if it just for a night or two ?
Decent hotels charges starts from Rs.1800 per night per room, more you pay more
decent stay.
Plus your free transfers to and fro Airport also inlcluded.
Other semi-decent one may get from
Goa teacher wins scholarship to teach in Leicester
Indo-Asian News Service
London, Oct 18 (IANS) Remy Rodrigues, a teacher from Goa, has won the
Merlyn Vaz Scholarship that was set up in Leicester in memory of the
late mother of the India-origin Labour MP, Keith Vaz.
As part of the scholarship,
--- Mario Goveia wrote:
Fred,
I have noted that you are letting me have the last
word on the points I made in my post
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2006-October/049489.html
because it is not worth your valuable time to
debate with me and not because of the
--- Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Roland,
There are many myths propagated about Americans by
Indians but none that I dislike more than the one
that assumes intellectual superiority over
Americans. America is home to be best and
brightest, and I find it incredibly hard to
--- Mario Goveia mgoveia at sbcglobal.net wrote:
The last people you want to waste your precious time
on are academics and researchers IN UNRELATED
MEDICAL FIELDS, especially ones who did not have
the wisdom to realize what a practising oncologist
had said IN SIMPLE ENGLISH, that medical
Dear Tony:
That was a very touching account of your school days in Guirim. Sanguine in
its sincerity and heartwarming nostalgia, your spirit basked in the
vigorous brightness of fine sensitivity dovetailed into vivid prose.
You're a writer with a lot of heart who can reach down emotively
The article by Renoir is true in every sense, it's not a great job but a
shame total disaster, how many such bunglows or hotels of such nature have
been constructed keeping in mind the regulations?
What is wrong with the authorities , why did they get up after six years,
who approved such a
--- Gilbert Lawrence wrote:
But why should our resident 'all-knowing' expert
do that? As usual, he knows it all.
--- Gabe Menezes wrote:
Cool man ! There is but one, just one, 'all-
knowing' expert on Goanet and we all acknowledge
that !!
--- Alfred de Tavares [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks,
Good points/questions raised (see below quoted message).
In fact, we were talking about it just two days ago when we were going to Colva
Fama.
-How it got OK from TCP 6/7 years ago ? CRZ act in place since 1991 I think
-How the local Panchayat gave NOC ?
Those people involved, are they
Eric,
Tony Brent´s parents, Mr Mrs Britain, Anglo-Indians, lived in Hubli after
retiring.
Papa had worked for railways. Used to accompany my cousin, his colleague,
to Loutulim for vacations. Regaled us with lots of anecdotes of Bombay of
40s, 50s and of Goans they had always been thick with.
Roland:
Thanks for enlightening Goanet's readers with such authoritative clarity
about the warship building activity at Mazagon Docks. This kind of
information deserves to be publicized more widely. It makes us denizens
proud of our ancestral Homeland. It's also good to remember that in the
Thanks Borgee for these pics
[Goanet] New Photots : C Alvares, Shalini Mardolkar, Robin Vaz etc...
borg costa borg3e at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 17 04:09:10 PDT 2006
Hi,
Pls click the below link to view photos of C Alvares,
Shalini Mardolkar, Robin Vaz etc... taken from the
1966 Konkani Film
Selma,
I was aghast at your reply to Roland's post about IITians outperforming
American Ivy Leaguers at college entrance tests. It appears that you have
had little exposure to the education systems in India or America and not
much exposure to the rigorous engineering education.
Well as an
Hi Selma,
Thanks for your message. Please find out how many of the 900 doctorates in
Computer Science are awarded to Asians and How many of those are awarded to
Indians. I am sure it must be close to 80% in both cases.
Best Regards,
Dr. Carmo D'Cruz
Goan, IITian,
Indian Harbour Beach,
I have always had sympathies for the cause that Medha Patkar has taken on
behalf of the disadvantaged, and those who could be bulldozed into
submission. However, I read in an editorial in The Indian Express the
following: But, and this is curious, Medha Patkar hasn't agitated in that
state.
Many thanks to Mervyn Lobo for a generous donation to Goa Sudharop in
connection with his my
camp members initiative on Goanet. The donation will be used towards a Senior
Home in Goa (to be
named later). 2006 has been designated YEAR OF THE SENIOR by Goa Sudharop and
awards will be
presented on
Hi Rhadhakrishnan
I haven't followed the cancer debate too closely on Goanet but will now
confine myself to a few points:
a) Is the foul-mouthing you warned young Sunith about, consequent to a
possible congenital aberration in a cynical practitioner of foul-mouthing?
I am just intrigued that
Re-sent/corrected.
Senior Tiatrist, tragedy Queen - Ophelia on Doordarshan Today
DD will telecast an interview with noted film and tiar artiste Ophelia, today
19/10/06 at 6pm
in its programe 'Nakshetra'
See Ophelia's latest pics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk/228879604/
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