Actually, a form of pan is quite popular in Taiwan and parts of China. It is
made with the same betle nut seed. It is in fact a cultural icon there and is
sold by hot looking women in specially designed stalls. I even have a coworker
of mine in Taiwan who has his own beetle nut farm. It is also
--- On Thu, 10/23/08, J. Colaco < jc> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Just because you are not a Siddhi does not excuse you from
> not using
> your God given Buddhi.
>
> If you have a point of argument with what I have written -
> do make it.
>
My question is --- why should freedom fighters n
[Goanet] To Goa's Education Minister
Dear J. Colaco,
Thank you for your comments.
No where I said Mr. Rohit is guilty.
Rohit is definitely not missing or else the parents would have filed a missing
complaint with the police by now.
Whole of Goa knows (besides Germany/UK etc) that police is l
'Celebration of Peoples' struggles'
Christopher Fonseca has taken the responsibility to organised Mathanhy Saldanha
60th birthday celebrations on 24th Oct. 2008 at Cansaulim.
All Minsters, CM, MLAs (including Mauvin & Parrikar), MPs etc are invited.
The GT News item also says that Veteran Journal
The controversial RIVER PRINCESS has become a legend now
Check this out
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ZtU32kf-E
Also check this pic
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk1/2618662829/sizes/l/
Other pics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk1/2619486170/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk1/
Hi All,
19:35
Unreported World on Channel 4 Friday (UK)
The popular South Indian tourist destination Kerala sells itself as 'God's own
country'. It's home to hundreds of ashrams - spiritual retreats where thousands
of pilgrims from India, Britain and the rest of the world seek salvatio
2008/10/22 Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>
> Mario adds:
>>
> Edward is wrong and RKN wants us to know what the man is "called" as opposed
> to what his name "happens to be":
>>
> The name of the Democrat candidate for US President is Barack Hussain Obama.
> His father, a Kenyan, and his s
Dear RKN,
Thank you for your sagacious advice.
Thank goodness I'm not a diplomat, least of all an expert in international
matters. Let's see what transpires in the next few years ...
Cheers,
GdeF
--- On Thu, 23/10/08, Radhakrishnan Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Radhakrishnan Nair
Marlon,
Thank you for your explanations, and it could be the work of some person other
than Indian. Maybe I was prejudiced when I wrote that piece. Sometimes reading
past history does that to one. My apologies to anyone who got offended by my
insinuations.
No more from me on this topic.
Chee
Goa rape: Mother accuses minister's nephew
http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/oct/23goa.htm
October 23, 2008 14:35 IST
In another twist to the German minor rape case, the girl's mother on Thursday
told police that State Public Works Department Minister Churchill Alemao's
nephew, Warren Alemao, had
German girl's mum accuses another Goa minister’s kin of rape
23 Oct 2008, 1419 hrs IST, PTI
PANAJI: In another twist to the rape case of a German, the girl's mother on
Thursday told police that State Public Works Department minister Churchill
Alemao's nephew, Warren Alemao, had also sexually ab
"…Activism' is picking on individuals as targets. The current obsession is
with Babush Monserrate, rather than what he represents…In fact, the
sensational nature of this case could well deflect public opinion from wider
processes Goa is struggling with. Corruption, the hegemony of a small group
ove
*Unmasking Legalities
* The people's movement needs to stress legitimacy and not legality
(Published in the Gomantak Times, 23 October 2008)
The two public meetings that were held, one in the T. B. Cunha Hall, and the
second in the Azad Maidan, to protest the attacks on Aires Rodrigues and
Praja
Dear JoeGoaUK,
Thank you too for your comments.
Interesting that you should be harassing Mr. Monseratte albeit "as a
Minister or as a Education Minister"
Would you not say that it is best to allow the Law to take its own
course and the Let the chips fall where they should?
If that is so, why har
In Response to:
Message: 5
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:14:55 -0400
From: "J. Colaco < jc>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Goanet] To Goa's Education Minister
Dear Mr. J. Colaco,
There is a saying that goes like "give the person enough rope and he will hang
himself" and the Education Min
Did you say you wrote to me just once?
I don't think so.
Many mails came up when I search my inbox archive.
And this is your first mail to me in November 2003
Quote:
--- On Sun, 9/11/03, Joegoa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Joegoa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [GOAN-NRI] Our GOA in
Let the villagers decide
Mobocracy then and democracy now
By Cecil Pinto
I do not have the gift of prophecy. Forget 25 years, I can't even
predict tomorrow's matka number. But I can look into the past. Join me
in my Past-Time-Pass Machine as we shuttle between 15th century Goa
and the present.
--- On Wed, 10/22/08, Gabriel de Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>No wonder nobody believes Indians anymore. There appear to be more rotten
>>apples than good ones at present.
>
To the extent that there are Goanetters who hold this low opinion of their
fellow Indians, I wonder what th
Hi Friends from Goa,
I hear you say, why am I (the citizen of the worl) not allowed to vote for
the next president of the world? Well, someone out there has heard you.
Go here and make your choic: http://theworldfor.com/
Remember all vote counts.
Happy Voting!
PS: Yet another post not
"I keep thinking of the four women who chained themselves across the mining
road, and which made big news for exactly two days. Imagine how much more
powerful the whole thing would have been, had they been joined by the
distinguished Norma Alvares of the Goa Foundation, awarded a Padma Shri for
her
Hartman,
"the more prominent of our 'activists', very much like the politicians and
moneybags they decry, are no less 'ambitious'."
There is nothing wrong to be ambitious. In fact ambition is the driving force
of our humanity.
"ambition itself, though not overtly a 'corrupting' force, can als
Hartman de Souza writes, among other things:
"Barely a few years back, a young girl (of Sri Lankan origin adopted by a
German woman) studying at the Goa College of Art, was gang-raped in the
canteen after being drugged but conscious of the ordeal and pain."
-
I guess Hartman knows s
I find that Goan observer hasn't posted its latest issue dated Oct 17 on
the web yet. I sent an email but got no response. Can anyone give some
insight if they have any?
regards,
Samir
While not condoning the heinous crimes of rapes against young underaged foreign
girls in
Goa, I cannot help but wonder about the parenting skills of the mothers of
these young girls. How are these young girls allowed to be in situations where
they can be taken advantage of. ? And where are
Dear Gabriel
USA is the only country in the world, to this date, to have used nukes on
humans (?) I am not very sure they considered Japs as humans at that time.
US did not use the nuke on the Germans as Germans, being white are humans.
At the time when US used the nukes, Japan was on the brink o
All this correspondence concerning the ""alleged"" rape cases in Goa is
getting out of hand !!
In any sensible part of the world things would have not got this far.
- The mother of the girl has the right to lodge a complaint with the
authorities concerning the alleged rape of her daughter.
The Animator on Animations
By Odette Mascarenhas
Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse…our old childhood favorites of
Disneyworld have evolved to meet the tastes of our 'Z' Generation. And
today it is The Shrek, Happy Feet, the penguin and magical creatures
in the Oscar winning movies of the Lord
In the over 30 years of social activism, I have had, on many occasions, to
bear the brunt of attacks, from police lathi charges at student and language
agitations to stones and eggs during the Cuncolim anti-pollution
agitation. But the brutal cowardly assault, the 13th October night, on
Prajal Sa
Extract from OPEN LETTER TO THE DEVNAGRI LOBBY- By Derek Almeida
Some months back I had a discussion with the former editor of
Sunaparant Sandesh Prabhudessai over the same issue. He told me that
leading writers of the Konkani movement had taken two decisions ? one,
to nip in the bud any attem
2008/10/23 Eustaquio Santimano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi Friends from Goa,
>
> I hear you say, why am I (the citizen of the worl) not allowed to vote for
> the next president of the world? Well, someone out there has heard you. Go
> here and make your choic: http://theworldfor.com/
>
> Remember a
Dears,
Please pause a moment and think what you would have done if YOU were
falsely implicated in a rape case, arrested, battered, made to sit on
ice, administered electric shock to extract a confession and then let
off as "Not Guilty" after six months of the ordeal. Once you have done
that, write
Dears,
Barack Obama's mother, Annie, is from Cansa-Tivim, not far from St.
Christopher's Church, and his step father was a East Indian from
Mumbai.
John McCain was born at MPT hospital, Vasco da Gama, when the US ship
had come for refitting at Goa Shipyard.
If that is not true, why the hell are
DAILY GROOK #256
SIMBA NUMBER
by Francis Rodrigues
johnny cash wed june
a creature so feline,
johnny wrote the tune
"i woke the lion!"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk_the_Line
__
puns & word-play of all kinds,
if you read between the lines!
__
>In this case, It appears from what we read in the press and in this
>forum and from what appears in the media, is that a person or persons ha\ve
>been accused and is already on trial even without anyone or any authority
>confirming that he/they are the criminal!!
The media has to take on this r
This is to inform you of the sad passing away of Felecia Dias wife of
Glennie Dias of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania at 5.00 p.m. Tanzania Local time on
October 21, 2008.
Felecia is the mother of Jennifer married to Munir of Bujumbura, Burundi,
Lorraine, Fr.Mario and David of Dar es Salaam. Her sibli
Samir Kelekar wrote the following account of Goa TODAY:
1: The media has to take on this role when the law becomes useless.
2: Tell me --- did the Miramar sex scandal happen or not ? Who was convicted?
3: Tell me --- was Aires Rodrigues assaulted or not ? Who is getting convicted ?
4: I am telling
Dear Samir,
Why should any Digamber wear bangles ... or anything else, for that matter?
Will you file an affidavit about the Miramar Sex scandal or will you
coax Manohar-bab to do it?
Have you heard of anyone getting convicted in 12 days in India for any
crime whatsoever?
What sort of potency d
Dears,
Hardly a day after the order of the Children's Court, there is a
contempt of court by rediffmail.com news.
Mog asundi.
Miguel
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:30:44 +0530 (IST)
From: "Peter F. Borges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Goanet] Goa rape: Mother accuses minister's nephew
Message-ID: <
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org
Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories.
*** Goa rape victims mom okay with medical exam - Hindustan
Times
[Oct 22, 2008] PTI The mother of the German teenager who was
allegedly raped by Goa Education Minister Atanasio Monserrattes
s
Hello Peter
In a review of articles I found your post for the above mentioned
article. I am writing as I have my 4 month old son and wife in Zambia
and my wife has been advised to start our son on Deltaprim. Do you have
any more information on the effectiveness for newborns?
Thank you
--- On Thu, 23/10/08, frank dcruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: frank dcruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Crooks supporting each other
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thursday, 23 October, 2008, 12:03 PM
> Hi,
> having representatives like the pwd minister ( i heard he
> was
Dear Mr. Fernandes,
I commend you for that well reasoned post. It was a pleasure to read
such well written stuff. I will respond with my thoughts on the main
points you have raised, and then stop - unless some new points are
made. For the purpose of my convenience, your comments are listed as
FF,
Dear Tony,
Sandesh's children have studied in Shiksha Niketan and Sharada Mandir,
Churchill Alemao's children have studied in Sharada Mandir, Pundalik
Naik's children have studied in Marathi medium.
If you file an RTI application with the Goa Konkani Akademi, it will
be interesting to know how ma
Goans should be concerned amd disturbed at this newa item as the HJS is
headquartered in Goa and has been been pretty active taking out hate
exhibitions all over Goa.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/hindu-groups-behind-malegaon-modasa-blasts-cops/76597-3.html
Regards,
Marshall
P.S. Statutory Warni
Gabriel de Figueiredo wrote:
> >
> This morning, I went to a ATM near Preston Market. I had to do a double-
> take - in the corner, conspicuous by its presence, was a bright-red
> splotch. That left by paan. It could not be anything else. A paan-
> chewing idiot had done his bit to leave his DN
Cheers Dears
By Augusto Pinto
Moira-Nutters Net
Dears,
Did you think Moira was a village of wise fools as the legend goes? A
village full of of bumpkins? Think again. The place teems with tech-savvy
savants and intellectuals. While the rest of Goa was eating 'pez' the
Moidekars were battlin
Dears,
For the Devanagri ONLY lobby the word UNITY is an euphemism for abject
SURRENDER. Ek Bhas, Ek lipi, Ek Sanskruti, Ek Somaz, Ek Dharm ani Ek
Zat ... the rest are fit to wash their utensils.
In the meanwhile their kind can win awards for writing in Marathi and
head Marathi journalists' assoc
"Ban Portuguese inst's say Freedom Fighters.."
"Pity...Cos' they'll also have to Ban our Daily 'PAO' introduced by the
Portuguese"
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