[Goanet-News] Konkani Word A Day: cheir, chenchaunc, chepem...

2011-07-05 Thread Frederick Noronha
Learn one or more Konkani word a day: CHEIR perfume, smell CHENCHAUNC to smash, to compress, to suffocate, to crush CHENCHLOLO, -I, -EM oppressed, downtrodden, unfortunate CHENCHNIM compression, pressure, overcrowding CHENCHONC to be pressed, to be crushed CHENCHUDD small quantity of coir

[Goanet-News] Goa news for July 6, 2011

2011-07-05 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Goa: Film on Scarlet shot without permission, authorities say - IBNLive.com NLive.comPTI

Re: [Goanet] A secular Governance?

2011-07-05 Thread Santosh Helekar
I hope this is the last time I am driven to respond to someone to whose original claims in this thread I had absolutely no interest in responding to. As I had said before, my initial response in this thread was to Floriano. The fact that Falcao's post was appended to the end of Floriano's post

Re: [Goanet] George Menezes and The Goa Book Club

2011-07-05 Thread Eugene Correia
Just as Roland found George's talk uninteresting, I too was disappointed. Since the clip is perhaps just a small part of the talk, it is not known if George regaled with his witticism further into his talk. I second Roland in saying that George should have inspired young writers. However, in the

[Goanet] Madame is no more

2011-07-05 Thread gdefi2
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Re: [Goanet] Query: Renovating a house...

2011-07-05 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Gosh, that was rather inexcusable of me. I meant to mention the *old, red* FLOOR tiles. Not the roof tiles. If anyone has any pointers, pls help. FN FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 (after 2pm) #784 Nr Lourdes Convent, Saligao 403511 Goa India http://fn.goa-india.org

[Goanet] Song for the day

2011-07-05 Thread Gabe Menezes
Perez Prado ~ El Negro Zumbon (Anna http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ8S3Ny6AlUfeature=fvwrel -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] CCP congratulates Chess Prodigy Ivana Furtado

2011-07-05 Thread Sandeep Heble
The Corporation of the City of Panaji at its Special Council Meeting held on July 4 congratulated Goa’s Ivana Furtado, a resident of St. Inez, Panaji for recording yet another success at the International arena and for making Goa and India proud. The motion was moved by Smt Bharati Heble, the

Re: [Goanet] George Menezes and The Goa Book Club.

2011-07-05 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Guys, light a candle instead of cursing and randomly critiquing others! We had a very nice time with George Menezes doing his reading. But then, of course, we wouldn't be Goans if we didn't get responses of this kind! FN PS: Incidentally George Menezes was a Squadron Leader in the IAF, where he

Re: [Goanet] MoI controversy - All about Pockets and Power?

2011-07-05 Thread Tony de Sa
Soter that seems to be a one line analysis of the present MOI scenario. You have hit the nail on the head! -- Tony de Sa tonydesa at gmail dot com

[Goanet] Goa Original Treaty of surrendender not with Govt. of Goa

2011-07-05 Thread SOTER
Detecting the location of the original treaty of surrender can wait. Goa's freedom fighters are busy saving their mother's tongue, a forked tongue of marathi and konkani. They are more concerned that the Portuguese will run off with the forked tongue to preserve it in their museums. After all

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 6, Issue 630

2011-07-05 Thread francis d' souza
8. Madame is no more (gde...@optusnet.com.au) Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:48:01 +1000 From: gde...@optusnet.com.au To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Madame is no more Message-ID: 201107050548.p655m1vm001...@mail12.syd.optusnet.com.au Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

[Goanet] Goa University to have chair on Indian diaspora studies

2011-07-05 Thread Gabe Menezes
Goa University to have chair on Indian diaspora studies *Panaji, July 5* (IANS) The union Human Resource development (HRD) ministry has decided to set up a chair on Indian diaspora studies at the Goa University, Goa's commissioner for Non-Resident Indian (NRI) affairs Eduardo Faleiro said

[Goanet] Goa Original Treatyof surrendender not with Govt. of Goa

2011-07-05 Thread Bernado Colaco
Given that the document in question is not with the Goa govt is a clear indicator that Goa is under a colonial rule - ie.: bharati colonization. BC

[Goanet] LIST OF 30 TO MALDIVES AND QATAR

2011-07-05 Thread armstrong augusto vaz
The following 30 players have been selected for India’s tour to Maldives and Qatar. Goalkeepers: Subrata Pal, Sandip Nandy, Karanjit Singh, Laxmikant Kattimani. Defenders: Gourmangi Singh, Denzel Franco, Rowilson Rodrigues, Raju Eknath Gaikwad, Valleriano Rebello, Debabrata Roy, Sameer Naik,

[Goanet] Fwd: [qatar-goans] AL KHOR ACCIDENT - PLEASE PRAY

2011-07-05 Thread Anton Vaz
-- Forwarded message -- From: John johnd...@yahoo.com Date: Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:46 AM Subject: [qatar-goans] AL KHOR ACCIDENT - PLEASE PRAY To: qatar-go...@yahoogroups.com ** From: Gonsalves, Windsor R [mailto:wrgonsal...@rasgas.com.qa] Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 9:38 AM

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 6, Issue 630

2011-07-05 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Dear Francis, I didn't understand the context of the message below. Sadly, Madame Christine Pereira (ex East Africa, I think), our French teacher, passed away quite a few years ago. You will find a 2006 photo of her here, at one of the reunions http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/202016172/ As

Re: [Goanet] A secular governance? JC.

2011-07-05 Thread J. Colaco jc
Gerald Fernandes cdoger...@yahoo.co.in wrote (interalia): False modesty as also SUPERCIIOUSNESS always SUCKS. Could I ask the simple Simon Doctor the reason why adenomas/FIBROIDS develop or why the common cold is yet not amenable to medical treatment? When causes are not known , medical

[Goanet] Valanka Alemao taking bribe on behalf of the PWD Minister Churchill Alemao

2011-07-05 Thread Dr. Anjali Mohan Rao
GoaChronicle.com has managed to get some video evidence of Valanka Alemao taking bribe on behalf of the PWD Minister Churchill Alemao. It is was shot by a contractor and he has agreed to give us the footage. The question I have for the People of Goa is this - if we do expose this act (which is not

Re: [Goanet] Query: Renovating a house...

2011-07-05 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
This is what I like about you Goenkars. Not only will they dig up your roots, but they will also tell you which bus to catch. Service with a grin, what better form! Pandu, how's the choris-pao business over there? Here, the glass is working fine (thanks for it!) FN On 5 July 2011 00:17, Pandu

[Goanet] Konkani Word A Day: cheir, chenchaunc, chepem...

2011-07-05 Thread Frederick Noronha
Learn one or more Konkani word a day: CHEIR perfume, smell CHENCHAUNC to smash, to compress, to suffocate, to crush CHENCHLOLO, -I, -EM oppressed, downtrodden, unfortunate CHENCHNIM compression, pressure, overcrowding CHENCHONC to be pressed, to be crushed CHENCHUDD small quantity of coir

[Goanet] MOI - parents have spoken

2011-07-05 Thread anil desai
http://www.oheraldo.in/News/Local%20News/PARENTS-HAVE-SPOKEN/49553.html PARENTS HAVE SPOKEN *School:* Shantadurga High School (Bicholim) No. of students in primary: *550* Parents opting for English: *0* Parents opting for Marathi: *550* Parents opting for Konkani: *0* “We along with parents

[Goanet] Kingfish curry Rice at Anoshka etc

2011-07-05 Thread JoeGoaUk
King fish curry Rice at Anoshka, Ambora Raia (Main NH road) http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukfishcurryrice2/5905244921/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukfishcurryrice2/5905243475/   all in one http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoaukfishcurryrice2/5905803304/   Mixed fried rice

Re: [Goanet] Query: Renovating a house...

2011-07-05 Thread Valmiki Faleiro
FN, Bharat Floorings (Mumbai Samachar Marg, next to Bombay Stock Exchange) has a *heritage* range, based on the old Minto floor. You've seen the product at a friend's house in Margao. Bharat now has an office in Goa, near Damien de Goa at Porvorim. Tel: 241 2789. Sales rep: Jawahar Naik (98224

[Goanet] John Lobo and the Nanavati case

2011-07-05 Thread Roland Francis
There is a long but interesting article in today's Mid-Day Times about the similarities between the Maria Susairaj-Neeraj Grover-Emile Jerome case now rocking Bombay and the 1959 murder case involving Sylvia-Prem Ahuja-Kavas Nanavati that kept Bombay enraptured at that time. They call them the

Re: [Goanet] Query: Renovating a house...

2011-07-05 Thread Pandu Lampiao
Hi Victor, the curved tiles (what I was referring to) are now not available is storesone has to order them from the area between Karwar-Mangalore...one sees old tile-making units (quite beautiful when one is on the Konkan railway going south). The curved tiles are now in fashion and I have

Re: [Goanet] Congress government in perpetuity in Goa?

2011-07-05 Thread Nascy Caldeira
What is needed is a non communal, non fascist party as an alternative. We only have the saffron swastika fascists, masquerading in the primitive Hndutva fashion.   This party led by Manohar Parrikar in Goa, and like saffron eggheads elsewhere in India, is the 'tragedy' in Indian politics, as

Re: [Goanet] George Menezes and The Goa Book Club.

2011-07-05 Thread Roland Francis
FN, There was no randomness in commenting on the Book Club talk. You and Joel put it on Goanet, asked for our views and we obliged. Did you want only responses which would meet your approval and then we could be called real Goans? If GM talked about his famous father how come you didn't get that

Re: [Goanet] Query: Renovating a house...

2011-07-05 Thread Pandu Lampiao
...that was the train timing I mentioned, Irmao. 2:40... Margao-Mangalore daily.being mindful that the prospective tile-buyer may hit the tavern when in Margao Chooris-pau business: pigs are hard to come by over here.limited means of chasing them (one has to be mindful of the

[Goanet] Intolerant India?

2011-07-05 Thread Marshall Mendonza
Sociologist and author Dipankar Gupta is of the belief that India has always been intolerant, We don't accept different ideas, our minds are closed to those who are not like us. We lack empathy and the government too doesn't want to act.

[Goanet] Letter to the Editor

2011-07-05 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - I sent this letter today to eh Heraldo editor. * In Herald (July 5), you show a photo of a man sleeping on the side of a street and wonder how this could be so when Goa has rich residents.  You should be asking this question of India, not of Goa and Goans.  The man shown is most 

Re: [Goanet] MOI - parents have spoken

2011-07-05 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
On 6 July 2011 02:42, Santosh Helekar chimbel...@yahoo.com wrote: Did both parents agree in this and other cases? Cheers, This is a non-issue. There is no issue over whether the decision is taken by one parent or both. Incidentally, as I see it, parents overwhelmingly wanting Marathi (or

[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (6Jul11)

2011-07-05 Thread alexyz fernandes
*** At the Art Gallery *** 'Black Out' ~ 'Black Money' ~ 'Black Power' The Exhibition is titled 'Black'.. It's Symbolic of The Times To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org

[Goanet] Goa news for July 6, 2011

2011-07-05 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Goa: Film on Scarlet shot without permission, authorities say - IBNLive.com NLive.comPTI

[Goanet] MOI - parents have spoken

2011-07-05 Thread Carvalho
Anil Desai writes: My question to the contributors to the subject of MOI: Are these parents Goan? Response: We don't know whether these parents are Goan or not. The mother-tongue of Goans is Konkani. Since they haven't chosen to study in Konkani but in Marathi, we can only presume they

[Goanet] MOI - parents have spoken

2011-07-05 Thread Marshall Mendonza
Anil Desai posted: 1.'We along with parents feel that medium of instruction should be in Marathi. A child should be taught in his/her regional language, as they understand it better than any other language.- *Suresh Ghatwal, School Principal* 2.'I strongly oppose the move of teaching our

[Goanet] MOI

2011-07-05 Thread Bernado Colaco
For marati go to maharastra. This is Goa.   BC     PARENTS HAVE SPOKEN *School:* Shantadurga High School (Bicholim) No. of students in primary: *550* Parents opting for English: *0* Parents opting for Marathi: *550*

Re: [Goanet] MOI - parents have spoken

2011-07-05 Thread floriano
A sad day for GOA, indeed. My inputs to this post are interspersed - Original Message - From: anil desai anild...@gmail.com To: goanet goa...@goanet.org Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 10:28 PM Subject: [Goanet] MOI - parents have spoken

[Goanet] For the information of you know who

2011-07-05 Thread Antonio Menezes
Times of India (Jul.6, page 9)::: India to teach English to Kyrgyz armed forces. Inda is sending a team to Kyrgyzstan for training its armed forces in UN peacekeeping opreations and also to impart English skills to the Kyrgyz armed forces.

Re: [Goanet] MOI - parents have spoken

2011-07-05 Thread J. Colaco jc
 Marshall Mendonza noted that:.Anil like Barad suffers from Soniaphobia RESPONSE: No! Really?. I wouldn't have thought so. Dear or dear. Are you sure? On the other hand, is it really a Phobia or a Miso as in Misogyny? It perhaps is a Misobia ( a new word describing the intense hate of the

[Goanet] Daily Grook #989

2011-07-05 Thread Francis Rodrigues
DAILY GROOK #989 === MAGNET MATE === by Francis Rodrigues opposites in poland marry often in fact, reason i understand - unlike poles attract! *GREAT ALL-OCCASION GIFT* http://www.KonkaniSongBook.com