Re: [Goanet] Holland considers Saree ban..

2006-12-03 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Sunith D Velho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paris is the largest tourist destination in the > world but try asking a Parisian for directions in > any language other than perfect French and see the > response you will get, whatever your race. Sunith, Not true. If you make the effort to ask any P

Re: [Goanet] Appreciating Goan Cultural Practice (part 1)

2006-12-03 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Gilbert Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The issue for the readers (whose response is > welcomed) is: What was the true purpose of the > walking stick a.k.a. cane. Gilbert, My guess is that the walking stick concealed a weapon. My grandfather had one with a sword in it. The idea was that if

[Goanet] ENOUGH OF IFFI

2006-12-03 Thread airesrod
Goa should seriously deliberate whether to continue hosting a sort of foisted International Film Festival. Any occasion cannot be at the inconvenience to others and that too for 10 long days that the residents of Panaji and those at Campal in particular have had to endure. An International Film Fe

[Goanet] Happy Feast of 'Goemcho Saib' (See new pics, Konkani-Portugues hymns etc )

2006-12-03 Thread JoeGoaUk
JoeGoaUk wishing you all Happy Feast of St. Francis Xavier (Goemcho Saib) which is celebrated today the 4th Dec. 2006 (3rd Dec being Sunday) (some attached photos n/a to palin text readers) you may try here http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/message/1460 I (Konkani Hymn) Sam Fr

Re: [Goanet] Saluting Young Goan-Americans who choose to stay back or go back to serve Goa !

2006-12-03 Thread m. mascarenhas
Mr D'Cruz, I'm sure you mean well, but please don't do this. As I already told you, I would prefer not to be drawn into any goanet discussions, but before I bow out, I must correct this mistaken impression of yours. It is simply not true that I came to Goa out of any sense of sacrifice, that I

[Goanet] Does Francis Newton Souza qualify as a 'Great Goan?'

2006-12-03 Thread Chris Vaz
According to news reports, the works of Indian artists now dominating the market have little in common with traditional sculptures or illustrations mostly associated with South Asian art. One top seller is Francis Newton Souza, a painter born in Goa who died in 2002. Francis' paintings often f

Re: [Goanet] Absence of women on Goanet/response to Selma

2006-12-03 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Radhakrishnan Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Helga, > > Do you think the right-wing know-alls will allow > their womenfolk to see their verbal diarrhoea on > Goanet? Perish the thought, they will be exposed > in no time! > > Deep down we're all Indian, dear! No matter whether > you're

[Goanet] MONDAY MUSE: SHUT UP

2006-12-03 Thread Pravin Sabnis
MONDAY MUSE (3 December ) SHUT UP "If you want to be understood...Listen" (Tagline of Babel - closing film of IFFI 2006) In Jamie Sam's "Earth Medicine", the animals gathered to sort out the problems caused by the latest migrations of their northern neighbours that were affecting their food

[Goanet] Goa news for December 4, 2006

2006-12-03 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Yahoo! News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Tourism, development seen threatening Goa's environment, lifestyle (AFP via Yahoo! News) The once low-budget tourist haven of Goa is facing a crisis, environmentalists say, as developers

[Goanet] AND THE WINNER IS .......the old baber -China . iffi 2006

2006-12-03 Thread godfrey gonsalves
In a rather sombre atmosphere sans many a luminaries from the cinema world the 10 day 37th International Film Festival from 23rd November, 2006 to 3rd December, 2006 concluded this evening at a scheduled and brief ceremony. Surprisingly there was not much enthusiasm seen around the venue at Kala

[Goanet] Dubious Policy?

2006-12-03 Thread Philip Thomas
The following extract from a report in Navhind Times, Dec 3, 2006, raises a crucial policy issue (emphasis mine). <"The Indian Navy is probably one of the few navies in the world which ENCOURAGE civil operations from it's airfields" stated Rear Admiral Vadgaokar "The Navy has gone out of it's

[Goanet] Happy Feast to all Goans

2006-12-03 Thread Alina Fernandes
next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/attachments/20061203/50cc551c/attachment.htm Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St

[Goanet] Language and beyond

2006-12-03 Thread JOANITA FERNANDEZ
Language and beyond Sat, 2006-12-02 01:18 By Eduardo Faleiro - Syndicate Features India is home to extraordinary diversity- cultural, religious, ethnic and linguistic. All such differences ought to be harmonized in a spirit of mutual accommodation rather than through coercive methods of homogeni

[Goanet] Life! In Remembrance: Dr Pedro Adao

2006-12-03 Thread Gasper D'souza
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Re: [Goanet] The mess that is Goa

2006-12-03 Thread Roland Francis
Amen to that. Long live the Goan spirit of caring and camraderie. Long live Goa Sudharop. Roland. On 12/2/06, Filomena Giese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's wonderful to belong to > this responsible and caring circle of Goanet readers. > Filomena -

Re: [Goanet] Absence of women on Goanet

2006-12-03 Thread lenny dsouza
Hi All, I also think there should be more woman involved in Goanet, if all the guys would tell their wifes to get involved in Goanet, then there is a chance that they will get their friends to get involved in Goanet, this should be one possible solution, well those who are not married, they c

[Goanet] The Mess that is Goa

2006-12-03 Thread sunil monteiro
Soemtimes i wonder what is the actual meaning of the title " The Mess that is GOA" i have been reading articles on the same but nothing constructive relating to the topic per se. It's just ventilation of emotions and frustrations by a few goanet writers and shooting bullets complaining about th

Re: [Goanet] Absence of women on Goanet/ Response to Sunith

2006-12-03 Thread Aristo
Hi Sunith, I hope all is well and the Xacuti or Vindalo did not cause any indigestion. Well it turns out that after all the years of our friendship, there is still a little more to learn about my multi-faceted personality and skill-sets! It is very unfortunate that during the your estranged year

[Goanet] From the MelGoans...

2006-12-03 Thread Frederick \"FN\" Noronha
Bolcaovelea Ghozali is the PDF journal (a good idea, in this Net-linked days of sharable digital information) of the Melbourne Goans. It is into Volume 2, Issue 11. Just came across the Nov 2006 issue of the same. It explains itself as containing "news of Goan relevance for Goans in Melbourne". Ch

[Goanet] More 'aviation elements' for Dabolim?

2006-12-03 Thread Philip Thomas
On his appointment as Naval Chief, Adm. S. Mehta had envisaged that more 'aviation elements' would be added by the Navy at Dabolim. In this connection, the following may be of interest: Navy shortlists P3C Orion, Boeing for maritime patrol http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_

[Goanet] Pope no longer doubts Thomas reached India

2006-12-03 Thread Gaspar Almeida
Pope no longer doubts Thomas reached India Pope Benedict has amended the published text of a speech on the travels of St Thomas to explicitly recognise that the Apostle reached southern India, following heated protests from Indian Catholics. Spirited protests from the Kerala Syro-Malabar Church

[Goanet] SAVE GOA campaign launched, movement for scrapping the Regional Plan 2011 intensifies.

2006-12-03 Thread Goacan
- 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 !! ---

Re: [Goanet] Table in Ribandar (Was: The Mess......)

2006-12-03 Thread Cornel DaCosta
Hi Selma and Santosh I am now totally intrigued! Without necessarily providing birth dates, and if it is not impolite, would an approximation of age (perhaps by decade) be reasonable to ask for to make sense of the exchange between your good selves? Cornel - Original Message - From: "Ca

[Goanet] AICHEA DISAK CHINTOP - Dezembrachi 3ri, 2006!

2006-12-03 Thread domnic fernandes
Upaxeak divnk naka xrap, ani bhorloleak divnk naka axirvad. (Do not curse the hungry, and bless the well-fed.) Moi-mogan, Domnic Fernandes Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA _ Catch all the cricketing action right here. Live score, match reports,

[Goanet] Goanet Reader: Looking back, after placing down the chalk and wiping the board (Lydia De Souza)

2006-12-03 Thread Goanet Reader
LOOKING BACK, AFTER PLACING DOWN THE CHALK, AND WIPING THE BOARD Reminiscence of a teacher from a convent in Mapusa Lydia De Souza rudy2735 at dataone.in >From teaching in Mumbai during my teenage days, life then took me to East Africa. There, I taught in Dar es Salaam for a number of years, befo

[Goanet] Home Is Where The Heart Is

2006-12-03 Thread Roland Francis
A very latest relevant article from the Daily OM to which site Kevin Saldanha introduced all of us some time ago on Goanet. With all this discussion about living in Toledo and buying flats in Goa, drinking Canadian beer with shouts of "Canada rocks!", studying in England and returning to Goa to m

Re: [Goanet] Holland considers Saree ban..

2006-12-03 Thread Sunith D Velho
Dear Bosco, In my experience there is a marked difference between being liberal(that great European value) and being tolerant. While Holland and France are very liberal countries in terms of their attitudes towards sex and drugs, they have never been tolerant of other cultures or races. Paris

[Goanet] Goa news for December 3, 2006

2006-12-03 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Yahoo! News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Tourism, development seen threatening Goa's environment, lifestyle (AFP via Yahoo! News) The once low-budget tourist haven of Goa is facing a crisis, environmentalists say, as developers

[Goanet] Aitaracheo Kaskutleo: Mog Khorcho, Punn Samballun Khorcho

2006-12-03 Thread lino dourado
Mog Khorcho, Punn Samballun Khorcho   Sokoll asleli gozal tum vachtolo. Vachlea uprant tunvem ogeponn samballchem nhoi mhunn hanv, tujea thaim nomrutaien magttam. Dusreank zagrut kor. Dezembrache 1ler 'World AIDS Day' palltat.  Dharun piddecher zagrutai korchelo dis. Tumchea somor ho

[Goanet] Saluting Young Goan-Americans who choose to stay back or go back to serve Goa !

2006-12-03 Thread CARMO DCRUZ
Selma, I join you in saluting guys like Jason who are back in Goa and who are trying to make it a better place. Going back to Goa can be fun too ! I am seriously thinking of spending my sabbaticals at the Padre Conceicao Rodrigues College in Verna, and try to make it the Stanford of India ! Bu

[Goanet] Goencho Saib: some oddities

2006-12-03 Thread Valmiki Faleiro
GOENCHO SAIB: SOME ODDITIES By Valmiki Faleiro A young Spaniard of Basque nobility, out to reach for the stars, had scored excellence. In the hallowed portals of Sorbonne, France’s 13th Century world-renowned centre of learning. With a Masters in humanities, Francisco Javier was raring to go.

[Goanet] Konkani Musical Show "NATALANCHO KUNSVAR" in Bahrain

2006-12-03 Thread domnic fernandes
Konkani Musical Show “NATALANCHO KUNSVAR" in Bahrain As scheduled, the Konkani Musical Show “Natalancho Kunsvar” under the patronage of Young Goans Club was staged at the Baan Saeng Thai Restaurant in Adliya, Bahrain on November 30, 2006. The following artists participated in the show: Fro

[Goanet] Raffle tickets for Goa Sudharop - update

2006-12-03 Thread George Pinto
Thanks to Cecil Pinto who is the first Goan based in Goa to buy a raffle ticket using the PAYPAL option on the Goa Sudharop website (www.goasudharop.org) proving you can be anywhere in the world and support a good Goan cause. You don't need to have a PAYPAL account to use PAYPAL, a credit card