Dear Soter,
It is very easy these days to put up our hands and say this or that cannot
be done for Goa.
I have always believed that when the time comes, Goans will stand up to be
counted. There are too many of them who are not and cannot be pacified by
the running bulls that we have in
Otthra Jun...!
Kitle aile, gele
Otthra Jun!
Ambea mullant kuddkuddtta
Gavddeacho por ozun!
Bhangarachem Goy amchem
Kitlem asa pois ozun!
Udok legit zal'lem rogot
Ani rogot zal'lem hun
Bhava tuka yad asa Otthra Jun?
and ends the poem with the words
Bhava tuka yad asa?
Tea disa ugddasan
On 18 June 2010 21:18, Venantius J Pinto venantius.pi...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a practicing geologist on Goanet. Or anyone who has interest/ may
know about the kinds of soapstone available in India. Besides gorara and
palewa soapstones, are there others with striations, swirls, splatter
Just for clarification
There was a total blackout and the radar screen at the ATC went BLANK
for 21 miniutes precisely, making the controllers almost
blind-folded, sources said.
An underground power cable got SNAPPED during the digging close to the
runway resulting in a short circuit.
Poems from the forthcoming collection of a mining agent-I
As a newly anointed ‘mining agent’ , I would be dedicating a series of
numerous poems (they come so easily to me since my childhood, like
salivation or urination…) to miners of Goa whom people love to hate..or hate
to love depending on
DAILY GROOK #730
HIP TRIP
by Francis Rodrigues
to new surgeons
youthfully flip,
thigh operations
are really hip!
*GREAT ALL-OCCASION GIFT* http://www.KonkaniSongBook.com
sheet-music,tab,lyrics,chords of great
I thank Vivian D'Souza for his kind info on S-d-M ,but I am still in tha
dark,as he has guessed it is near the Church.I only wanted to know exact
location so I do not have to ask around perhaps in the rain.Also giving info on
the net,perhaps these minor details could have been included
Dear friends,
In the earlier two parts, I have pointed to the pitfalls of nonchalantly
permitting faulty dates to remain in literature (print or digital), especially
in this age of information explosion, with particular reference to Dalgado
Konknni Akademi (DKA), and shown the abject falsity of
Is the media wrong in depicting Goa as the rape capital? What is the
impression about goans in the minds of the general public of India? They are
given the impressions that goans are doing nothing but lazing on the beach
with booze and fun loving semi-nude women. Students studying in colleges
Dear dear Tony,
Like the 'Red Injuns' would say.. I see you.
Your previous letter did do many rounds and I believe that the whole world
of Goans have taken it in. Even writers like Pachu Menon made it a point to
elaborate on it in his recent write-up ' The Changing Face of Goan Politics'
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Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your
family members, relatives, neighbours and friends.
Help other CONSUMERS to be better informed.
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This mail would also be marked to parliamentarians from Goa with a request
to raise the matter in the next session
-- Forwarded message --
From: Dr.Nandkumar Kamat nandka...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:51 PM
Subject: Goans support the first people of Canada in their
Why is India not at the World Cup?
(excerpt)
It wasn't always like this.
Playing barefoot with reasonable ball skills, India actually qualified for
the World Cup in Brazil in 1950 - the only time it has done so. But lack of
foreign exchange, the prospects of a long sea journey and an insistence
Sheela wrote:
That guy and his crew have just forgotten the meaning of Tiatr.? Just keep
yelling on the mike, and cracks all intenet jokes.? Only the old can have
fun as they cannot access it.? ? just one opening? scene which too makes no
sense to the whole drama, and he thinks he has won
The geopolitical and geoeconomic duplicity digest –I The Canadian crown
corporation IDRC funded strategic studies on Goa’s mining since 1998
(reference:- http://www.idrc.ca/es/ev-5415-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html and
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-29129-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html ) to influence local
policies while
It does not have to be only from Jabalpur. Its just that, I remembered my
parents having a small box made of soapstone--sort of like a miniature
reliquary which was gifted to them by relatives when they visited Jabalpur
soon after their marriage. That repository holds a small ivory figurine of
the
My reply:
It looks like even UK Goans cannot with without out tainted corrupt
politician. Or is he being invited to open Konkani School for English folks?
Goans are so thick skin that they don't mind inviting its Alma mater (Alemao's)
from Goa;s corruption college (Goa Assembly) to be
Floriano is free to dream. I for one keep my finger crossed. Goans and a
revolution? We will need a peg or two to calm our nerves before coming on
the street. We have seen candidates of Goa SURAJ yapping about war room type
strategies for election campaigns and then...
-Soter
Dear de Souzaji,
Have you just woken up? This denigration was part of the anti-Goan
propaganda generated by the media - many decades ago. Research
Bollywood films and you will find the origin of this thought process.
Even look at the role of Dimple Kapadia's 'father' in Bobby.
Even Nehru thought
What is it all worth!!! Zero!!! On her death, she faced God and would
have been judged not on her earthly materialistic achievements but the
extent to which she reached out to those in need like Mother Teresa did.
She has now gone into our Eternal Home and I do hope she is in the
right
Thank you Gabe. --venantius j pinto
From: Gabe Menezes gabe.mene...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Soapstone/ Steatite
RESPONSE: Try Goa University they have a Geology dept.
Well well well,
So much for the harangue.
I have nothing more to say.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
- Original Message -
From: soter so...@bsnl.in
To: goa...@goanet.org
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] No more revolution by modern
1 Construction of compound wall, toilet flooring for Primary school
building at Dapodem in V P Curdi 2,75,000/- 2 Request to provide toilet
facilities, 20 benches with desks for GPS Pontemol. 2,00,000/- 3 Construction
of additional staircase for C T N H School - Curchorem 9,00,000/- 4 Donation
Mogall Ixxtt,
I'd appreciate if someone could suggest a
good and reliable printer in Mumbai or Goa for giclees or prints on canvas.
Thanks. Mog assom di ani vaddom di.
Ariosto Coelho
Website: SpiritualDirection.org
Naxalism with (capitalist) printer cartridges?
Huge quantity of rice, 300 kg of dried fish, two generator sets, three solar
panel plates, a big battery, three motorcycles, two cartons filled with
printer cartridges and an electric metal cutter - these are just some of the
“mind-boggling”
lennydsouza at yahoo.com wrote : Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão. I dont know
why you people just
take something so little and make it sound like a disaster. I have
served in shipping and have lived all my life on battery and generators.
Let me tell you i would be confident if the mumbai ATC
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The Annual General Body Meeting of the Goan Welfare Society – Kuwait, was held
at the Carlton Tower Hotel in Kuwait City on 18th June 2010 from 11.00 am.
Until 1.30 p.m. Due to the crisis faced by GWS, there was a poor attendance
however, all those members who attended were appreciative of
Venatius,
Well, politicians and West Bengal trying to control the Football in India, has
been one of the
biggest problems.
The blog mentions nothing about Goa or Punjab or Kerala. Football is
passionately followed in
Goa and Kerala also. I mention Punjab because of Inder Singh and his club,
As usual Goans do not take responsibility for the sad image they have cut
about their State across the globe. Blaming Bollywood and media is just
projecting our failures onto someone else. There cannot be smoke without a
fire. What have Goans got to show-case as exemplary over the last 50 years
J. Colaco jc wrote:
Dear de Souzaji,
Have you just woken up? This denigration was part of the anti-Goan
propaganda generated by the media - many decades ago. Research
Bollywood films and you will find the origin of this thought process.
Even look at the role of Dimple Kapadia's 'father' in
I was all looking forward to go with my family and friends to
Swindon to support the Goan festival at Swindon a distance
roughly about 50 or so miles.
When I came to know that the Swindon Goans were going to invite
Babush Monserrate as their chief guest I was saddened and lost my enthusiasm
to
Inviting this Thugs cum Politicians is a an insult to all the genuine
activists fight to save Goa for all Goans!!
Will Overseas Goans stop this open support to the destructors of Goa?
Message: 10
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:42:13 +0530 (IST)
From: frank dcruz babadc...@yahoo.co.in
To: estb.
Naguesh,
You are obviously correct. No argument whatsoever. We all know that
politicians and West Bengal trying to control the Football in India, has
been one of the biggest problems. Once again when I post my aim is to point
something that someone has thought out, within or out of context, but
Our whole group of 20 were to spend a day at Swindon for the Goan festival but
after hearing that our uneducated and most corrupt Minister Babush Monserrate
was to be the Chief guest, we all have decided not to support this function as
Babush maybe a somebody in Goa but in the UK we consider
A response to Frederick Noronha who wrote:
[1] This stereotyping of Goans by Bollywood has been well documented
in an essay in the Mario Cabral e Sa-edited book *Location Goa*.
[2] However, a wider complaint is that, in India, almost every second
community (except the Punjabis, perhaps because
Just shows why Soter will never be able to make it if faced with
international competition.
Either he does not know that this stereo-typing of Goans (esp women)
commenced as part of the anti-Goa movement (read propaganda) in 1954
or has not bothered to research it ...or even ask.
He may wish
You're going away from the issue of stereotypes in Bollywood films to
Mario Cabral e Sa's experience. Incidentally, the book was edited by
Mario, but the article in question wasn't written by him.
I am sorry, but it is hard to accept a comment reproduced on your
website as proof that Nehru
Can someone kindly update me on these Rallies? I was hibernating for 2
days so could not catch up with the events of last 2 days.
Thank you!
Agnelo Pinheiro
Dear Goykars,
Bob Marley said it right, Get up, Stand up. Stand up for your rights!
There is no other way to get our due.
Friday,
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Do allow me to state that you (FN) have deviated from the subject of
Rape..which is what this thread is primarily about.
Just so that there is NO misunderstanding, I have never stated that
Mario Cabral e Sa wrote that' article. All I have stated is that
Mario was unlikely to have had the
*http://www.oheraldo.in/newscategory/Letters/13*
*Rolf Fernandes, Margao
*Goans are being marginalised by institutions like MPT. Just as the camel
kicked out the Arab from his tent, Praveen Agarwal, with the help of
legislators like Mauvin Godinho, is driving Goans out of their homeland. It
is a
Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your
family members, relatives, neighbours and friends.
Help other CONSUMERS to be better informed.
Forty lakhs is 4 million rupees - not 40 million.
Jim F
New York.
--- On Sat, 6/19/10, Jim Fernandes amigo...@att.net wrote:
From: Jim Fernandes amigo...@att.net
Subject: Re: [Goanet] HC declines to hear Pacheco bail plea
To: estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list goanet@lists.goanet.org
Here comes a traditional Goan response -Specimen No.1 - dubs Soter ignorant.
Conspiracy theory
of 1954. Poor Goans targeted by Indians, so they run away to foreign with
their tails ..and then start barking from there?
-Soter
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KHAILEM?
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khoinchai vellar zatalem. Ghor-ghoramni vosun bukh marchi keddnach tankam goroz
poddunk nasli. Tim ravtat thoimsor tancheo soglleo
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dying horse, but the
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