I find it unfortunate that you have to slam people with a different point of
view from yours.
You have a right to be upset if you hear something you don't like, but you
can express that in a respectful way on a public forum. Your inability to do
that reflects a kind of coarseness that's not becomin
The Roman Inquisition aimed at eradicating Protestantism throughout
Italy, although by the end of the sixteenth century, it primarily
dealt with crimes of witchcraft, magic, clerical discipline and
Judaizing. King Manuel I had asked for the installation of the
Inquisition in 1515, but the Pope did
Little knowledge is dangerous.
Amigo, in the earths past history when animals came and went extinct
(from the example you have provided), please be known that nature has /
had its own ways of setting a balance to nature.
Production / reproduction and destruction of lives is natures job and
has no
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Dear Antonio,
Thank you so much for this wonderful information and slice of history as usual.
Also Dr Teotonio and Anjali have confirmed that it is the same Shiroda. Anjali
has done research into the habits and cultural moors of the area and confirms
it is the same.
Best regards as always,
Sel
[Goanet] SFX and the Inquisition
Talking about church or priest or inquisition? Then he/she must be either a
Hindu or BJP supporter
Very nice one!
No point of going any further as it is very likely to become an
endless thread (going by the past experience)
And I thought, I am the only ‘beka
Ignatius Fernandes writes: "When Indira Gandhi was assassinated by a Sikh
body guard a lot of Sikhs men, women, and children were indiscriminately
burned, hacked and murdered by Hindus."
My response: Just to set the record straight. The ones who murdered the
Sikhs did not do so as Hindus. The
Dear Mario,
Thank you so much for your even-tempered post! It's a relief and gives a
sense of balance to the replies I've received on Goanet.
I just want to clarify for those to whom it would make a difference that I
am not Hindu. My father is Hindu, my mother Catholic, and I was confirmed as
Cath
Goa's Mining Woes
As per News Paper reports of 14th June, Speaker of the Goa's Legislative
Assembly went on record in stating that a number of politicians were involved
directly or indirectly in illegal mining activities in Goa. It's been stated
that at present, there are at least 40 illegal mi
Is this the secret to prevent eyesight loss?
Con
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5522063/Saffron-can-protect-against-eyesight-loss.html
What implications has this alert have for us?
Con
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1904062,00.html?iid=digg_share
Somehow to anyone the family name 'Shiridkar' rings a bell? Seems
familiar to me, but can't place it. Please help.
Md.
Hi Sapna,
There are many books written by Goans about the history of Goa.
Please visit a book store in Goa and pick up one or more copies, of one or more
books.
You will help yourself, your friends and the Goan writers and publishers who
have researched Goan history in fairly great detail.
If
St. Anthony, Pics, video and a hymn (singing)
It was only yesterday, late evening, when we were passing via
Majorda-Cansaulim-Velsao,
we saw some devotees gathered at a road side Holy Cross singing litany.
I immediately took out my camera and recorded the whole 10 verse hymn of St.
Anthony.
The sankes presented live were (English + Konkani names): - Buff Striped
Keelback - Naneti or Rakt Mandoli - Rat Snake - Divod - Cobra - Nag -
Indian Rock Python - Har There also was the venomous and dangerous
Russels Viper (Ganas or Agior Cusdo),
Hi Mario,
Good to know that snake awareness
http://www.livemint.com/2009/06/12234150/Caju-and-conversation.html?h=B
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Somehow, Goa had been filed away at the back of my mind as the
quintessential tourist spot with its hippies, who still hope that The
Beatles are going to reunite for one last
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Are you doing enough of this type of exercise to
minimize your cancer risk?
Con
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Source: Hindustan Times. 14 June 2009
Excerpts:
The Goan Catholic way of life may one day be an entry in a museum. Prabuddha
Dasgupta takes a personal journey through the homes of India's last
Europeans in a new book about the Catholic Community in Goa, titled Edge of
Faith which will be published
This news may sound unbelievable to Portuguese Mario Gouveia but in the 21st
century a Portuguese warship in the Gulf of Somalia saved 14 Indian sailors who
were left adrift without food and water to the fancies of nature by Somali
pirates.
It is believed that bharati airforce (Dabolim) could
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I disagree with you on that score. Today's Goans coming straight from Goa,
still don't have dress sense. e.g. walking about in slippers (chappals) in the
height of winter when temps drop down to 5C and below, and not covering
themselves adequately for these climes, ending up with sniffles, coug
Reply to Message 4.
(Jim Fernandes)
If you dont wish to follow any of the reasons mentioned
(www.savegoasfrogs.org) as
to why we need so stop eating frog meat/jumping chicken, atleast be a law
abiding
citizen! The law states it very clearly.. U catch a frog, your fined Rs. 25000
or/and impri
Consuming a few thousand frogs by local Goans is not going to throw the balance
of frog population out of whack. As I have said before, millions more are born
each season. Please understand this is a Goan tradition and nothing will change
it. You need to provide alternatives and if no alternativ
Folks,
Here is an article that has our own Cecil Pinto in it.
Mervyn1650Lobo
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Whole article with photos at:
http://www.livemint.com/2009/06/12234150/Caju-and-conversation.html
Quote from Page 4
I asked Pinto what he t
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Hi Maurice,
As you know, I have much respect for your writings. The title and content
of your presentation is about the Inquisition IN EUROPE. Inadvertently, many
readers of your post (Goans and non-Goans) may misread it, making it synonymous
with the Inquisition in Goa. In fact that is the
Dear Sapna,
Based on what you say about Rough Guides, yours may be considered as an
inadvertent error. Had you stated that you had come across the information
in that travel guide or any other it would have come across as a different
concern. Please understand that often people formulate a questio
Its a good thing that you have put rampant hill-cutting as the number 1 issue.
The reason I say the above is because this sort of activity which includes
heavy felling of old-growth forests, be in for building or mining purposes,
will soon cause a major climate shift in Goa and the surrounds.
Goa beat Bengal first time in finals after many unsuccessful occasions in the
past.
In a penalty shoot out Goa scored 4:2
IT was goal less till extra time.
Shrikant Vinayak Barve
Convener: We Love Ayurved
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Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:10:18 -0400
From: Joe Lobo
As a goan who has spent more time outside Goa, I personally
feel that this historical quest of yours is an attempt to stir up
events that happened a good 400 years ago or so.which will
engender communal discord b
A Ayurveda Practitioner says "the two disciplines, in my mind, simply
do not mix. The reason they do not mix is the training of the allopathic
practitioner and his attitude towards anything other than allopathic
medicine. Unlike the Ayurvedic practitioner who is open to all true healing
modalities
We all share the loss of a legend "M Boyer", our BOYER. Goa surely has lost a
GEM.
But Life goes on. We cannot stop what M Boyer Lived for. He entertained people
all
his life and we should carry where he left off. So if people are wondering why
are
there two tiatrs running and not cancelled,
*Comment about Bom Jesus Basilica among 7 wonders of Portuguese origin*
*Sat Jun 13 22:48:21 PDT 2009*
Ignatius Fernandes writes: "When Indira Gandhi was assassinated by a
Sikhbody guard a lot of Sikhs men, women, and children were
indiscriminatelyburned, hacked and murdered by Hindus."
My respon
In a clash of India's most dominant 'footie'' regions, GOA ended a super
season, with the Coach Mariano guided boys pulling off a 4-2 win over
Bengal via SUDDEN DEATH in the final of the 2009 63rd National Football
Championship for the Santosh Trophy played in chennai this evening,
certaininl;y
my comments interspersed as (jc)
Sapna Shahani [SS] wrote
SS [1] I find it unfortunate that you have to slam people with a
different point of view from yours.
jc 1: You mean the "view" of Rough Guides?
SS [2]You have a right to be upset if you hear something you don't
like, but you can expres
The celebration to hounour the Santosh trophy vicrors are at 5pm Tilak
maidan.NOT
PJN Fatorda.
mea culpa!
cheers!
z
some commited and clean defending from mercurial defender Mahesh Gawli who
was equallFootball loving GOANS are getting set to welcome victorius team
Goa (at 5 pm,tommorow) i
I don't think my comment has much bearing on Selma's question
regarding Richard Burton.
But just incidentally, P. P. Shirodkar, (there were two - the father
was a freedom fighter and first Speaker of the Goa Assembly; the son
was Director of Archives in Goa - but I could never figure out whether
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Title: Who the Bleep cares about Richard Burton?
By: Selma Carvalho
Source: Goan Voice UK
Date 14 June 2009
Full text:
I've just come across Jerry Pinto's anthology, Reflected in Water (Penguin
2006). It's a wonderfully woven collection of Goa related stories spanning
from Richard Burton's writin
Now that Sapna Shahani has stirred the soup on the Goan Inquisition, I
like many others would like to know what the contents of the soup
really are. Sapna I am sure will benefit from this too.
I have read from time to time excerpts, posts, articles and short
stories on the Inquistion in Goa. How m
"WORLD GOA DAY"
To: All President's and Villagers of the Goan Overseas Village Associations of
Canada.
I wish to inform you all that the Goan Overseas Association, Toronto and the
Alliance of Overseas Goan Village Associations of Canada along with our sister
associations from around the World,
Hi Gabriel,
How Lotlecar, Bamon, elitist of you to have made such a comment.
Now it's a sin for Indians to wear chappals in foreign countries?
Is it another sin to end up getting the sniffles coughs and flu?
And to top it all, Goans straight from Goa do not have dress sense?
What is it we are ta
Fr.joe goa uk ???
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From: JoeGoaUk
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:43:51 + (GMT)
To:
Tunch Mhoji Vokol, tunch mhoji bhail
Oi, hanvenui sacrament zoddla
Hanvenui Altara mukar bhas dilea
Hanvenui Deva samkara koblat kelia
Mogall Goanetter-ano
MR Tony D'Sa boroita:
"Schools in Goa are governed by the School Education Act and Rules. The Act
and Rules explicitly state that schools shall not charge fees beyond those
which are prescribed in the Rules. In spite of this there are schools in
North Goa which are charging e
Weather pictures in this Photo Gallery
http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/hi/gallery
In pictures: Plight of Pakistan's displaced
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8095947.stm
In pictures: Crash dead back in Brazil
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/8092354.stm
Olga Maciel
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Friends of Goa !
I share a message recieved from David Juritz , the Founder of Musequality -
please support Musequlaity in any way you can.
Thank you for your time.
rene
From: David Juritz
To: goan...@yahoo.co.uk
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 9:06:40
Dear friends,
My friend Mr Valmiki Faleiro (Message no. 5 GD 583)
has no time to spare for "idle semantics." This is entirely understandable
because each one of us has his/her own priorities and compulsions. But I feel
that it is incumbent upon us to properly utilize the little time we can
ALL READERS,
PLEASE GO THROUGH THIS STORY SINCE IT IS VERY INSULTING FOR THE ENTIRE
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY.WHAT A SHAME? XHI BABA KRISTANVANCHEM NANV VOGDDAVN
SODDLEM..
AURELIO VIEGAS
The nun who bravely took on the Church
By: Aastha Atray Banan Date: 2009-06-13 Place:Mumbai
Former
--- On Sat, 6/13/09, eric pinto wrote:
From: eric pinto
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Comment about Bom Jesus Basilica among 7 wonders of
Portuguese origin
To: " estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list"
Date: Saturday, June 13, 2009, 5:09 AM
My own Sir-Swat ancestors arrived with Persian pul
Dear Mario,
I acknowledge that you are indeed the one and only voice of truth and reason
that has been, is and will be on GoaNet. (let me try get a tall glass of
Caju Feni - which I hate - to get myself to believe that garbage)
BTW: I mean that in a complimentary way, of course:-))
I repeat what
My fair views on Goa’s migrants are deliberately distorted &, misquoted, by
few individuals for vested interests. See following facts on Gulf Non
Resident Goans (NRG’s) & Goa’s Migrants:
(1) Gulf NRG’s are “only temporary migrants and not permanent” i.e. (A) No
political/voting rights to influe
From: Roland Francis
> Of course Gabriel, you will want that Goans will be exempt from such
> an orientation requirement since we do not need to be told how to
> conduct ourselves and I would totally agree :-))
>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:13:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gabriel de Figueiredo
I disagr
Shrikant Barve:
Doesnt Ayurvedic medicine seek and treat the root cause of the illness, while
Allopathy seeks to alleviate the symptoms so that the body heals itself ?
:-)
Of course I am not a Dotor, and this is intended to instigate some strong
comments from the Dotors on this forum.
:) :)
MONDAY MUSE (15 June 2009)
GRATITUDE
A Zen master’s school was in urgent need of repairs. A rich man generously
donated five hundred ryo (gold pieces). However, after handing over the sack of
gold, he was disappointed with the attitude of the teacher who did not thank
him.
Slyly he hinte
Politics is a perverse gear torqued by unscrupulous greed. Over the centuries,
different ethnic groups have been accursed and processed into lubricants for
the progression of the dominant group or modality.
In 2009, the torque is still very much the same, only the lubricant keeps
getting improv
Mario Goveia, the ONLY voice of truth, reason, and facts made a note
i.e. " Irritated, paranoid Christians is more like it:-))"
I cannot quarrel ever with the one who might support unilateral
aggression on the basis of "Rough Guidish" intelligence.
I'd suggest that there is a commonly stated beli
He is remembered for this quote, and it would make a fitting epitaph.
Prof. Tim Spaulding of Boston has this description:
Burton was expelled from Trinity College over an escapade at the horse races,
although a threat to duel a student at Oxford was considered a lesser
infraction.
He enl
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When laws become redundant, they ought to be changed. This law obviosly is
out-dated and is badly in need of some re-org. Did you know at one point, bull
fights in Goa were banned? Well, bull fights are legal once again.
Even when bull fights were illegeal in Goa, one could easily attend these i
The Accidental Activist - The Real Goan Village
By Venita Coelho
I finally get it! After months of struggling to understand the Regional Plan
and its
implications, I have finally understood the most important thing of all: what
the
plan doesn't do.
'Socio-economic planning' was just a bit o
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