[Goanet] International Book Fair on Cuisine, Hotel Fidalgo, Panaji, Goa-September 2-5, 2007

2007-07-28 Thread INDOLOGY GOA
International Book Fair on Cuisine in International Cuisine Conference, Hotel Fidalgo An International Book Fair on books written by world renowned Cuisine experts, Nutritionists, researchers and historians will be organised in Hotel Fidalgo from September 2-5, 2007 during the first Internatio

[Goanet] GOA NITE 07

2007-07-28 Thread Julio Cardoso
GOA NITE 07 Having been acclaimed as one of the best events of last year, the BUZZ has already begun for the most prestigious event of 2007, the grand GOA NITE 07 brought to you by Goan Overseas Association at the Ramada Kuwait Hotel (Reggai) on Thursday, 6th September 2007 from 9:30pm onwards

[Goanet] Come, white boy. Here, take my land!

2007-07-28 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Yesterday I was sitting all my myself, sipping coffee, at a hotel in Bangalore when I had a chance encounter with a visiting American. He said that he had just spent a couple of days in Goa, his first time there. Then he added that while in Goa he had been offered a piece of Goan la

[Goanet] Goan Politics and the glaring hypocrisy on all sides

2007-07-28 Thread Bhandare
the recent goan political drama still continues.. Parrikar who had categorically denied that he will join hands with babush and dhavlikar has now qualified his statement and is raring to occupy the hot seat again.so mcuh for his loudmouth assertions! To be fair to the man, he has inherited a rotte

[Goanet] Ruis questions (Bhandare) Re: Goanet Digest, Vol 2, Issue 626

2007-07-28 Thread Bhandare
Dear Rui: well I am glad you were satisfied with all my answers except 2. So you see, if one thinks objectively and has a clear mind free of prejudice one exchange of posts can clear allmost 75% of your misgivings! as regards those two answers which you disagree with lets agree to disagree but i

[Goanet] Worth reading

2007-07-28 Thread Philip Thomas
http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jul292007/national2007072915847.asp I think it is "governmental stability" that is the crux of the problem in Goa, not political stability per se.

[Goanet] FW: MEMORIAL SERVICE

2007-07-28 Thread Dee-Vona Quadros
MEMORIAL SERVICE There will be a memorial service for our friend, the Late Edmund Costabir at Saint Francis Xavier's Church on Saturday the 11th of August at 5.30pm. The memorial service will be followed immediately thereafter by a wake at the Goan Institute Pangani. For details please call

Re: [Goanet] Goa Day Notice

2007-07-28 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 28/07/07, Dee-Vona Quadros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GOA DAY > > Please make a note in your diary for Goa day celebrations. > > Date: Sunday 26th August 2007 > Venue: Goan Gymkhana > Programme: Mass followed by lunch, raffles, cultural entertainment, Tinto > with Goan delicacies > > Look out

[Goanet] Quo Vadis, Goa? -- HERALD (Goa), July 29

2007-07-28 Thread Valmiki Faleiro
QUO VADIS, GOA? By Valmiki Faleiro The ‘tamasha’ has begun. Tuesday’s failed coup on the month-and-half old government comes only sooner than expected. The encore 36 hours later is on bull’s-eye. Congress has itself to blame. It first creates tigers (foisting the corrupt and allowing them mak

Re: [Goanet] Ayurveda and vedic maths

2007-07-28 Thread Santosh Helekar
Dear Chinmay, My criticism of Vedic Mathematics is, whatever it is, it has nothing to do with the Vedas, and the sutras and upasutras included in it, appear to have entirely been the concoctions of a 20th century Shankaracharya. His claim that they are contained in an appendix of the Atharva Veda

[Goanet] Chili powder - an effective tool!

2007-07-28 Thread domnic fernandes
Chili powder - an effective tool! When we grew up, there was hardly any violence. It’s not that we were not mischievous but our mischievousness was of a mild nature. We occasionally fought at play, slapped each other when angry and sometimes even exchanged fisticuffs but that was all; we did

[Goanet] GOA DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE IN NEW DELHI

2007-07-28 Thread godfrey gonsalves
In an interesting development, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan New Delhi today forenonn when the BJP President Mr Rajnath Singh and others presented the lone women member Ms Victoria Fernandes alongwith others before the Madam President Ms Pratibha Patil, the two vibed easily as several similarities came

[Goanet] The Rise in Remittances to India: A Closer Look

2007-07-28 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया
India has clearly achieved a large sustained level of remittances. Policy initiatives by the government and banking institutions have achieved two significant results. First, most remittances flow thorough formal channels. Second, an increasing number of remitters have moved from being pure "savers

[Goanet] Of political prostitutes and their pimps - a response to Jose's response to FN

2007-07-28 Thread Cecil Pinto
Frederick wrote: I know of expats who keep groaning about corruption in Goa, only to make one or two speedy visits here, sell their ancestral land (to one of our current crop of realtor-politicians), take the moolah and run. --- Jose Colaco responded I am quite comfortable in declarin

[Goanet] Selma's slip is showing

2007-07-28 Thread Cecil Pinto
Selma wrote: Hi Eddie, I too had my doubts that Alfred Rose sang Kukru Ku Kuru but since Cecil mentioned that it was sung by him, I assumed he was right (since he knows All Things Goan). -- 1) I request Selma to tell us when and where exactly I said Alfred Rose sang that song. I

Re: [Goanet] Selma's flippant remarks re. late Alfred Rose

2007-07-28 Thread Alfred de Tavares
B bhai, You missed Selma´s point by many a league... AT From: Bhandare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" To: "goanet@lists.goanet.org" Subject: [Goanet] Selma's flippant remarks re. late Alfred Rose Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:35:22 -0700 (PDT) Selma's

Re: [Goanet] DEO vo DEV? (Gabe Menezes)Re: Vol 2, Issue 632

2007-07-28 Thread Alfred de Tavares
I think the sad lot of you, whichever kashti you phoneticate by, have missed: DEU, resorted to by cathecism books I had to do with as a brat. Alfred From: "rui nuvo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] DEO vo

Re: [Goanet] Ode to a fine Goan tradition - salud!

2007-07-28 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 26/07/07, Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Sometimes when I reflect back on all the booze I > drink I feel shame. Then I look into the glass and > think about the workers in the vineyards, farms, > wineries and distilleries and all of their hopes and > dreams .. If I didn't drink thi

[Goanet] Goa news for July 29, 2007

2007-07-28 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Yahoo! News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Digambar Kamat asked to prove majority in Goa Assembly (The Times of India) PANAJI: Goa Governor S C Jamir has asked Chief Minister Digamber Kamat to hold a floor test on Monday to prove

[Goanet] DEO vo DEV? (Gabe Menezes)Re: Vol 2, Issue 632

2007-07-28 Thread rui nuvo
Hei Gabe, I honestly believe goans have a great sense of humour. I used to be a fly on the wall when my father a really poorly educated man would joke with a family friend of ours who was an Oxford graduate. They would joke in Konkani for hours and hours. The humour was Quality. Talk about nuance

Re: [Goanet] Bhandari's Hindi

2007-07-28 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Now why did I not think of this?:=)) Are you saying all those highly intellectual ani scientific arguments ani concepts were "not objective"? All the Goanet atheists are researching their theology on this question. This, while I attend the Irish festival and learn to dance the jig, this weeken

[Goanet] Selma's flippant remarks re. late Alfred Rose

2007-07-28 Thread Bhandare
Selma's flippant remark about late Alfred Rose on this public forum speaks volumes of her own character and are in extremely bad taste. It shows the callous disregard for propriety on a public forum and a sore lack of basic decency. Has she given a thought that the widow as well as the children of

Re: [Goanet] Of political prostitues and their pimps

2007-07-28 Thread George Pinto
--- "Frederick [FN] Noronh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've blamed politicians and lobbies ... > How about discussing about citizens who collude with the system -- by > their silence or tacit encouragement? Citizens bear some responsibility too but the power structure and system is heavily

Re: [Goanet] God and Goans

2007-07-28 Thread Eddie Fernandes
My Dear Rico, My definition of roots is links. Does that make it better? You claim you have no definition of the word Goan. Yet you use it all the time - in the list of eminent Goans in cyberspace for example or your criticism of overseas Goans. So, once again, how would you define the term "G

Re: [Goanet] Understanding Gilbert/Cecil

2007-07-28 Thread Carvalho
--- Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Selma replies: > I know a lot of things which no one else knows. I > maybe the only one who knows that Alfred Rose > fathered > a love child, who now wants to digitalise his old > songs. See how easy it is to start a rumour on > Goanet? > :-) > Ceci

[Goanet] Goa Day Notice

2007-07-28 Thread Dee-Vona Quadros
GOA DAY Please make a note in your diary for Goa day celebrations. Date: Sunday 26th August 2007 Venue: Goan Gymkhana Programme: Mass followed by lunch, raffles, cultural entertainment, Tinto with Goan delicacies Look out for more flyers for details For & On behalf of GWS GWS Secretary

[Goanet] Virus laden pics from August Pinto

2007-07-28 Thread cedrico dacosta
Dear August Pinto, It was for two consecutive times in two weeks that I received virus laden pictures on GOA from your e-mail ID. So I thought you were up to some pranks, and it naturally agitated me a lot. The fact goes back to a few years when I initially started writing on politicians, I

[Goanet] Of political prostitues and their pimps

2007-07-28 Thread Philip Thomas
[FN] The good old "Blame" game again! You'll never learn. Anyway who is supposed to expose wrongdoing and monkey business in society? Are they also on the take? Just wondering.

[Goanet] Ayurveda and vedic maths

2007-07-28 Thread Bhandare
Dear Santosh: Vedic math to the best of my knowledge is a set of some 16 sutras or formulae which are basically some qucik ways of solving algebraic problems and maybe a few related to conics...why are you against teaching them in school? are you opposed to it being called vedic or is there some o

Re: [Goanet] God and Goans

2007-07-28 Thread allwyntc
"Eddie Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > My definition of a Goan is one who has roots in Goa. Who have I left out > that you would like to see included? I like this definition and I think it is inclusive. The diaspora, although dispersed, are included, as are those who have recently plante

[Goanet] Ode to a fine Goan tradition - salud!

2007-07-28 Thread Mario Goveia
In the interests of full disclosure, hic..., some of the following have been shamelessly adapted from the writings of others, who have been, hic..., given due recognition below: > - > "Sometimes when I reflect back on all the booze I drink I feel

[Goanet] God and Goans- good question by Ana -Maria

2007-07-28 Thread Bhandare
Ana Maria has a raised a very important question. It would be very instructive to hear the answers from different goanetters I have a slightly different but related question. We see many people ,many of them expats who are pretty well off and other well settled professionals who urge other goans n

[Goanet] (GDA) Goenche Dongi Anaddi

2007-07-28 Thread frank Feds
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[Goanet] Teambuilding for BNP Paribas

2007-07-28 Thread jude cardozo
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[Goanet] One year old 'Goemkar'

2007-07-28 Thread JoeGoaUk
One year old 'Goemkar' Watch him dancing... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR6dZHDO51I or http://thisisgoa.com/view/7884d64f167d8edb1209 [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Goa & NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For Goan Video Clips http://thisisgoa.com/

Re: [Goanet] Mashall Mendonza Book References

2007-07-28 Thread Vidyadhar Gadgil
Subject: [Goanet] Mashall Mendonza Book References Re: Vol 2, Issue 627 Thank you for these three references. I will try and see if I can hold of at least the first one. Given the titles and authors, reading all three would be even better time permitting. A good short introduction is "K

[Goanet] Turning the page... new books from Goa and more (FN/Gomantak Times)

2007-07-28 Thread Goanet Reader
TurningThePage ::: By Frederick Noronha - [A column about the printed word /// Gomantak Times] In mid-July, one ran into Ingrid Valles Po of Parra. She's part of one of the alumni networks (St Mary's) at Mapusa. Currently, Ingrid is the Assi

[Goanet] MESSAGE from ANTOINIO MASCARENHAS , President of CALANGUTE ASSOCIATION

2007-07-28 Thread barreto rene
00 A message from The President of Calangute Association - Antonio Mascarenhas - to GOANS WORLD WIDE on the occasion of WORLD GOA DAY 2007 Antonio Mascarenhas President Calangute Association, Canada 336 Karen Park Crescent M

[Goanet] Of political prostitutes and their pimps - a response to FN

2007-07-28 Thread J . Colaço
Frederick [FN] Noronha * ?? wrote: I know of expats who keep groaning about corruption in Goa, only to make one or two speedy visits here, sell their ancestral land (to one of our current crop of realtor-politicians), take the moolah and run. FN Dear Mr. Noronha, That is quite an

[Goanet] Of political prostitues and their pimps

2007-07-28 Thread Miguel Braganza
George Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote News from the Goa Assembly... The brothel changes its Madam periodically. Regards, George Dear George, It may be more appropriate to say that the Madame or Gharwali routinely has periods. There is one such harmless b

Re: [Goanet] Understanding Gilbert/to Eddi

2007-07-28 Thread Carvalho
--- Edward Verdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Selma, I think Kukru ku kuru was orginally sung by > Tony Carr, and later Hema > Sardesai sang it for Chris Perry's album. I doubt > there is any song by > Alfred Rose by that title. > Hi Eddie, I too had my doubts that

Re: [Goanet] God and Goans

2007-07-28 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया
Hi Eddie, > From: "Eddie Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My dear Rico, > My definition of a Goan is one who has roots in Goa. Who have All those who "do not have roots in Goa". Like God, R. K. Nair, and a generation of migrants who have grown up here and are considered to be "strange, funny, an

Re: [Goanet] Goa's choppy history

2007-07-28 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया
On 26/07/07, Goanet News Service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GOA'S CHOPPY HISTORY > > Defections and collapse of governments are regular features in Goa politics. > Goa used to have a stable government till 1990. Well, have we forgotten history? Maybe the defections and toppling games weren't so

[Goanet] Ruis questions (Bhandare) Re: Goanet Digest, Vol 2, Issue 626

2007-07-28 Thread rui nuvo
Hei Chinmay Bhandre, Can I thank you for answering the questions I put you in a way that I could understand. If I understood what you said I am sure a lot of other readers would have to. It does not follow that they may not want to take issue with you. As far as I am concerned I hear what you say.

[Goanet] Bhandare's RSS Revenge on Catholics

2007-07-28 Thread joe dias
Hi Goanet Posters, I'm fairly new to this site. I find Bhandares attitude towards the GOAN CATHOLICS disgusting, especially when he says he is not picking on the Catholics - DAHH. This is typical HINDU (educated by the Catholic Priests) RSS ungrateful attitude. 1. He talks about Caste within G