[Goanet] Goa's Freedom fighters

2009-06-23 Thread Bernado Colaco
Doutor Jose,   First of all Ich Nicht Salazarist. Secondly how much freedom of speech are you talking about? You mean the terror actions of tha Azad Gomantak Dal against a legitimate sovereign government (bharat recognised the Estado India Portuguesa) as OK for freedom of speech? Further those

[Goanet] SAN JOAO - HAPPY FEAST TO ONE AND ALL - From the goa-world.com Team

2009-06-23 Thread Goa's Pride www.goa-world.com
GULF-GOANS e-NEWSLETTER (since 1994)    HAPPY FEAST TO ONE AND ALL  http://www.goa-world.com/goa/san-joao/index.htm        SAO JOAO   Sogle ami zanvoim vortoutaum, chodda tempan bhetleaum Sao joao-chem fest munon ami mavoddea aileaum mateak him kopelam ghalun uddok navonk bhair sorleaum aiche

[Goanet] Daily Grook #446

2009-06-23 Thread Francis Rodrigues
DAILY GROOK #446 ___ MECHANIC TUNIC ___ by Francis Rodrigues if more workmen mess with grease, this will mean an overall increase! _ puns & word-play of all kinds, hey...read between the lines! _ __

Re: [Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters

2009-06-23 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Talking of elections, how was the Assembleia Legislativa that Goa had pre-1961,  elected? Ditto with deputados who were elected to the Portuguese Parliament? I am not seeking silly answers (by likes of many voices of reason), but an answer to a serious question. Perhaps Teotonio would or Anton

[Goanet] Dempo-Souza.

2009-06-23 Thread eric pinto
  From a friend !   eric. --- On Tue, 6/23/09,   As per my information the mines were owned by a gentleman from Calcutta called Souza. Dempos were then into trading and shipping, possibly barges.Ore was dug out by human labour, no machinery. The Dempos entered t

Re: [Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters

2009-06-23 Thread J. Colaco < jc>
Dear Mario, You could have sworn a lot of things based on your customary 'faulty intelligence'. It is perhaps that very same "faulty intelligence" which made you use the phrase "since 1961". If you would recheck the 'intelligence', you will note that there were NO elections in 1961 or in 1962 b

[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (24Jun09)

2009-06-23 Thread alexyz fernandes
*** Viva Sao Joao! Viva Sao Joao! *** "FORSU! Don't jump in the Well...Some hotel has Dumped all its Garbage in it!" To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org

[Goanet] Goans gears up for Sao Joao - it's tomorrow 24th June

2009-06-23 Thread Goa's Pride www.goa-world.com
GULF-GOANS e-NEWSLETTER (since 1994) Siolim gears up for Sao Joao Sao Joao Feast will be celebrated in Goa on June 24 with traditional enthusiasm as men will plunge in their neighbourhood wells, rivulets and natural lakes with the loud chanting of Sao Joao, Sao Joao, Viva Sao Joao. Though

[Goanet] Caste, religion column finds its way in Congress office bearers list

2009-06-23 Thread Dr. U. G. Barad
Caste, religion column finds its way in Congress office bearers list http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-60406.html *Panaji, June 23 : A facsimile from the All **India** Congress Committee (AICC) allotting senior positions in the party's state hierarchy allegedly on the basis of caste and re

[Goanet] Governor fom Venus !

2009-06-23 Thread eric pinto
:  My model :  Palha, a bachelor, he loved Goa, IN ALL IT'S  BEAUTY,  Ilhas to this day features the lasting products of his doting attention.   eric. Dear Bernardo, Surely your post deserves to be taken note of by future history books! Gen. Vassalo e Silva was a Goan? Why didn't you tel

Re: [Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters

2009-06-23 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:13:30 -0400 From: "J. Colaco < jc>" Duck the question: Were Goans given the choice to autonomously decide their future? Mario responds: I could have sworn that all those people lining up across Goa to vote in local, state and federal elections since 1961 were all Go

Re: [Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters

2009-06-23 Thread J. Colaco < jc>
Victor Rangel-Ribeiro wrote: Dear Jose, Yours is a very thought-provoking post. But when you ask, "Duck the question: Were Goans given the choice to autonomously decide their future?" the answer must surely be, we were prevented from exercising that choice, first and foremost, by Salazar. Dear

Re: [Goanet] Inquisition

2009-06-23 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Hi Maurice,Gilbert, Stephen Neill in his book ˜A History of Christianity in India" has the following information: In 1560 Archbishop of Goa, Gaspar de Leao Piemental arrived in Goa with the additional title of Grand Inquisitor accompanied by 2 other priests as Inquisitors Alexis Dias Falcao and

[Goanet] Goa news for June 24, 2009

2009-06-23 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** \'BJP favoured offshore casinos in Goa\' - Times of India ed coalition in Goa for allowing both offshore and onshore casinos to run amok, theBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) now finds itself in

Re: [Goanet] Pan ?

2009-06-23 Thread JoeGoaUk
Thanks   It's Badam or Almond Tree 'Pan' see pic below (no.4) http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk4/241091342/sizes/l/ In Goa, Dial  1 0 8 For Hospital, Police, Fire etc --- On Tue, 23/6/09, Thaumaturgist wrote: From: Thaumaturgist Subject: Re: [Goanet] Pan ? To: Date: Tuesday, 23 June,

[Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters

2009-06-23 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:48:47 + (GMT) From: Bernado Colaco Tumultuous moments for a few rascal traitors of Goa. Goa was run by Goans and had rule of law. Wonder if there is any today? Mario responds: Bernardo, Thanks for this dispatch from the distant planet of Macau:-)) I had no idea

Re: [Goanet] Pan ?

2009-06-23 Thread Thaumaturgist
Sea Grape Coccoloba uvifera Asit K. Ghosh Rockledge, Florida, USA = --- On Tue, 6/23/09, JoeGoaUk wrote: Ok, this 'pan' may look like a 'Ponnsa Pan' but it is not http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk19/3651956944/   What leaf is t

Re: [Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters

2009-06-23 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Bernardo, Surely your post deserves to be taken note of by future history books! Gen. Vassalo e Silva was a Goan? Why didn't you tell us this earlier? And how about all the governors who preceded him, were they Goans too? Did you have any particular favourites among them, that you'd re

Re: [Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters

2009-06-23 Thread Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
Dear Jose, Yours is a very thought-provoking post. But when you ask, "Duck the question: Were Goans given the choice to autonomously decide their future?" the answer must surely be, we were prevented from exercising that choice, first and foremost, by Salazar. Very best regards, V

[Goanet] a link on Workers Rights

2009-06-23 Thread Venantius Pinto
Hello all, I have decided that I will not be posting as often (as in the recent past) as I used to. The following url, http://www.joebageant.com/ is Joe Bageant's, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War. Do scroll down and read, Worker rights: No balls, no gains. venantius j

[Goanet] Test your English

2009-06-23 Thread Frederick "FN" Noronha
A friend laid down this test to check the English language skills of job-seekers in Goa. He says: "Max time allowed to answer was a good two hours! Yet, as I said earlier, even grads in English literature, rarely got more than 50% right. Another interesting fact for you, since all of us write in t

[Goanet] Taking Photo: Fuloi Sao Joao

2009-06-23 Thread JoeGoaUk
Fuloi Sao Joao   And this is what I call a real  Sao Joao  http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk19/3654810950/sizes/l/         Last year's clip - Traditional Sao Joao http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YTjO3NzhMY   Sao Joao song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZtmTWPNOOg joego...@yahoo.co.uk for

[Goanet] SOTHAK ZUZPI BHAGIVONT JUANV BATIST

2009-06-23 Thread Domnic Fernandes
SOTHAK ZUZPI BHAGIVONT JUANV BATIST Herod razachea kallar Judeia ganvant Zakarias navancho ek padri jietalo ani tachi potin Elizabet; ti vanxtti asli. Tim dogaim zanntte piraier pavlelint. Ek dis Zakarias-ak anj Gabriel disti poddlo ani tannem taka mhull’llem: “Zakarias, tuji bail Eliza

[Goanet] We called this plant/creeper 'Sao Joao'

2009-06-23 Thread JoeGoaUk
We called this plant/creeper 'Sao Joao' http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk19/3651157709/sizes/l/ also see the insert within the pic marked with arrows     I am sure no other places call it by that name.   Probably, it is named after Sao Joao because flowers blooms around sao Joao time i,e, 24t

Re: [Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters

2009-06-23 Thread J. Colaco < jc>
Bernado Colaco wrote: Tumultuous moments for a few rascal traitors of Goa. Goa was run by Goans and had rule of law. Wonder if there is any today? Dear Bernado, While I agree with you that pre-1961Goa was run mainly by Goans and that there was the 'rule of law', I doubt that you could convinc

[Goanet] Not on my watch

2009-06-23 Thread Cecil Pinto
Not on my watch A passage through time By Cecil Pinto One day when I was in Standard VI, or Sixth Grade as some students now call it, the headmaster walked into the class and asked all those who had wrist watches to stand up. I couldn’t as I didn’t have one. Six students in a class of forty stoo

[Goanet] Goa's Freedom Fighters

2009-06-23 Thread Bernado Colaco
Tumultuous moments for a few rascal traitors of Goa. Goa was run by Goans and had rule of law. Wonder if there is any today? BC

Re: [Goanet] Inquisition

2009-06-23 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Mon, 6/22/09, Gilbert Lawrence wrote: >   > What Frederick Noronha, now Maurice Machado and myself have > written is antithetical to the image of the Goa Inquisition > promoted by some Goan Catholics and Hindus. Individuals like > Santosh could better serve by working to modulate the > hat

[Goanet] Talking Photo: Another beautiful Green Goa with some concrete Jungle in it

2009-06-23 Thread JoeGoaUk
Talking Photo: Another beautiful Green Goa with some concrete Jungle in it http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk19/3653389373/sizes/l/     River, KR bridge, Churhes, ruined Tower etc etc   A view from Navelcar Hill City (from Champs bungalow) joego...@yahoo.co.uk for Goa & NRI related info... h

Re: [Goanet] Goa,s Freedom Fighters

2009-06-23 Thread Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक न ोरोन्या
Victor has a point! FN 2009/6/23 Victor Rangel-Ribeiro > Dear Ignatius, > If you had lived through those tumultuous times, you would have known > the answer. The push to get Goa out of Portugal's clutches began centuries > ago; Goa has had freedom fighters before India had an army, a navy,

[Goanet] Industrial estate at Betul will benefit locals, says Kavlekar

2009-06-23 Thread Freddy Fernandes
Industrial estate at Betul will benefit locals, says Kavlekar The most aired statement of our politicians with regard to every project they like to take up is, "it will only benefit the locals", it's the cornerstone of their corrupt political swindle-logy. They say mining, mega housing, SEZ wi

[Goanet] Goa urgently needs a forensic lab

2009-06-23 Thread Goanet News
Goa urgently needs a forensic lab 23 Jun 2009, 0310 hrs IST, TNN PANAJI: Absence of a forensic science laboratory (FSL) in Goa is creating unnecessary delays in completing investigations into cases which require chemical analysis to firmly establish the cause of death. With the FSL in Mumbai aski

[Goanet] South Goa collectorate likely to get CFC by June 30

2009-06-23 Thread Goanet News
South Goa collectorate likely to get CFC by June 30 23 Jun 2009, 0325 hrs IST, TNN MARGAO: If all goes well, the South Goa district collectorate will kickstart its e-governance mode of administration by this month-end. Highly placed sources said that the citizen's facilitation centre (CFC) will, i

Re: [Goanet] Goa,s Freedom Fighters

2009-06-23 Thread eric pinto
   Trust you in a positon to preserve the Australian sub-species !   Eric Pinto. From: Gabriel de Figueiredo Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goa,s Freedom Fighters There's a fact that is usually told about a struggle. Before a butterfly can emerge out of its chrysalis, it has to go through a lot of

[Goanet] Goan properties: UK citizens petition Brown

2009-06-23 Thread Goanet News
Goan properties: UK citizens petition Brown 23 Jun 2009, 0324 hrs IST, AGENCIES LONDON: Several British citizens who bought property in Goa have petitioned prime minister Gordon Brown to request the Indian government to resolve the impasse in which properties purchased by foreign nationals were n

[Goanet] Offtopic... but interesting (industrialisation, SEZ)

2009-06-23 Thread Frederick "FN" Noronha
Two links that might be relevant to Goa: Small is bountiful new: In China, jobs in modern industry declined by 20 million since 1990. But employment in light industries in the countryside increased by 30 million. Is it possible to think of a model of light industrialisation for India? http://infoc

[Goanet] Sesa Goa: Asset mining

2009-06-23 Thread Goanet News
http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/sesa-goa-asset-mining/361833/ Sesa Goa: Asset mining Nevin John / Mumbai June 23, 2009, 0:24 IST Sesa Goa’s acquisition of Dempo Group’s iron ore assets in Goa bears a stamp of Vedanta Resources Chairman Anil Agarwal’s signature strategy — buy low-value

[Goanet] Bullfighting revival plan stokes row in India

2009-06-23 Thread Goanet News
Bullfighting revival plan stokes row in India By Lita Barretto – 4 hours ago PANAJI, India (AFP) — Bullfighting was once a way of life in the Indian resort state of Goa, with thousands of people gathering on Sundays and public holidays to cheer on the animals as they locked horns. The controvers

Re: [Goanet] The Inquisition

2009-06-23 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:34:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Gilbert Lawrence Not long ago, a poster from Holland wrote to me privately requesting information on the inquisition in Goa. I asked the poster if she had researched the atrocities of the Dutch in its colonies; of which we only know only a lit

Re: [Goanet] Fw: New Openings. Please feel free to forward this to your friends.

2009-06-23 Thread jane gillian rodrigues
>Dear Friends, > >Urgent openings. Please recommend your friends. Location of work:  Dadar West > > >Our client a well established trading company in the Pharmaceutical Industry, >based in Dadar West, with an annual turnover of Rs. 250 Crores and employee >strength of 48 is looking for candi

[Goanet] Reply to S. M. Borges

2009-06-23 Thread Tomazinho
Reply to S. M. Borges' Letter on Gomantak Times dated 17th June Let's have the debate - No 'ifs' and 'buts' ! >From the letter of Mr. S. M. Borges 'Let's have the debate, Tomazinho, but .?" >(Gt June 17) one comes to the conclusion that Mr. Borges is not willing to >have a debate

[Goanet] Condolence Meet

2009-06-23 Thread Tomazinho
Tomazinho Cardozo President Tiatr Academy of Goa Panjim, Goa. Date: 23 . 06 . 09 Dear Editor Please publish the below given Press Note. We thank you in advance Tomazinho PRESS NOTE Condolence Meeting Tiatr Academy of Goa has organized a condolence meeting to pa