Re: [Goanet] The Bollywood Goan

2012-08-23 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Roland Francis wrote: > Here was I thinking that critically looking at our own community in my > Sunday Columns was some kind of sick trait I had picked up somewhere as > conveyed to me not only by the author of the views below but also by > Butter-doesn't melt in my mouth" Lobo who was contemplati

Re: [Goanet] (no subject)

2012-08-23 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
Have you requested assistance? > >From: Ana Maria Fernandes >To: goanet@lists.goanet.org >Sent: Friday, 24 August 2012 1:22 AM >Subject: [Goanet] (no subject) > > >Those who do shopping and do home budgets know very well that almost >everything in this world ha

Re: [Goanet] A fond farewell dear Goanet

2012-08-23 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 23 August 2012 15:57, Mervyn Lobo wrote: > Carvalho wrote: > > It was seven years ago, in a bid to escape my diaper-filled days that I > subscribed to Goanet. > > Never could I have imagined how my life would change. Those were > glorious days ofcourse > > of great debate. Some of Goa's foremo

Re: [Goanet] A fond farewell dear Goanet

2012-08-23 Thread PAES
If you say Goanet is the only one where your posts get purposely delayed, rejected or worse still, simply go missing, you have company.   Bennet Paes   From: Mervyn Lobo To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Sent: Thursday, 23 August 2012 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] A fond farewel

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2012-08-23 Thread Ana Maria Fernandes
Those who do shopping and do home budgets know very well that almost everything in this world has to be bought with very high price. If you go to the fish market with one thousand rupees you do not have with you ten rupees even for you to travel back home. Myo husband and I are working very har

Re: [Goanet] CYPRIAN'S RANT!

2012-08-23 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Eddie Fernandes  wrote: > Dear Cyprian, > What is your agenda?  Selma Carvalho had a column in Goan Voice UK with an > avid readership.  She has written an excellent, critically acclaimed book on > the Goan diaspora.  She has, against the odds, secured funding for an oral > history project involvin

[Goanet] Ethics in Photographs publishing in local dailies

2012-08-23 Thread JoeGoaUk
Ethics in Photographs publishing in local dailies No, I am not talking about pirated photo publishing this time but some others photos that are published by our local dailies recently including TOI, Herald etc, I just feel there was no need to publish it A young teacher was shown sleeping or i

[Goanet] India threatens to shut down Twitter - Telegraph

2012-08-23 Thread Con Menezes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9494593/India-threatens-to-shut-down-Twitter.html

Re: [Goanet] The Bollywood Goan

2012-08-23 Thread Jose Colaco
English is such a brilliant language. That is why I believe that it almost always helps IF one reads carefully and in toto. before one offers a comment. If I were to suggest words to concentrate upon (in my response to Marcos' excellent post) i'd pick the following: Equalisation, Now and

Re: [Goanet] Re; Controversy -EA GOANS

2012-08-23 Thread Roland Francis
Hi Braz, nice to see you on Goanet after quite a long while. Could you please enlighten me on the intentions and objectives of the British Goans project of the Lottery Heritage Fund of the UK to which you refer and how Selma betrayed those. Also don't you think analogies must be alike in at least

[Goanet] Goa news for August 24, 2012

2012-08-23 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** MMS clip, threats from girlfriend's family forced Goa youth to kill self - Times of India ear-old Goa boy's suicide note has revealed that he was pushed to end his life on August 5 as his g

[Goanet] FRIDAY BALCAO to focus on Nutrition & Malnutrition issues in Goa.

2012-08-23 Thread Goa Desc
--**-- Welcome to the FRIDAY BALCAO the fortnightly discussion event since 1999 --**- Dear Cybergaonkars on Goanet, We continue with FRIDAY BALCAO on 24th August from 4pm. to 6pm. at Goa Desc Resource Centre No.11, Libe

Re: [Goanet] Minority Institutions

2012-08-23 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Very interestingly, this minority status is available to linguistic groups also. For instance: "Canara Engineering College is a 'Konkani Linguistic Minority Institution'. 40% (192 seats) of the seats in BE degree course will be filled by the Government of Karnataka through Common Entrance Test (CE

Re: [Goanet] A fond farewell dear Goanet

2012-08-23 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Carvalho wrote: > It was seven years ago, in a bid to escape my diaper-filled days that I > subscribed to Goanet. > Never could I have imagined how my life would change. Those were glorious > days ofcourse > of great debate. Some of Goa's foremost intellectuals abounded on Goanet then > and th

[Goanet] CONTROVERSY: The unique East African Goan tribe ...

2012-08-23 Thread E DeSousa
Carvalho writes: "However, what is particularly hurtful to me, is that instead of remembering a record of four years of service to the East African Goan community of London, which has resulted in countless GoanVoice UK columns praising them, one book drawing their ethnographies, securing fund

[Goanet] Re; Controversy -EA GOANS

2012-08-23 Thread B MENEZES
(I may have inadvertently mailed this note to the wrong address on the 22 Aug.) Let me jump into this Controversy and congratulate Cyprian on the substance of his detailed elaboration of the many facets of the East African Goan Tribe (albeit facing extinction within a couple of decades). I h

Re: [Goanet] A fond farewell dear Goanet

2012-08-23 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 23 August 2012 08:52, Carvalho wrote: > It was seven years ago, in a bid to escape my diaper-filled days that I > subscribed to Goanet. Never could I have imagined how my life would change. > Those were glorious days ofcourse of great debate. Some of Goa's foremost > intellectuals abounded on

[Goanet] St. Stanislaus (Bandra) report...

2012-08-23 Thread Frederick Noronha
Dear all: This is a report of the alumni network of the St Stanislaus Ex-Students' Association, Hill Road, Bandra (W), a school which has been attended by a number of Goans in Bombay. FN - Managing Committees Report On behalf of the managing committee it gives me great pleasure to presen

[Goanet] Open Letter to Chief Minister of Goa Mr. Manohar Parrikar

2012-08-23 Thread floriano
[For Photograph Pls see FB page of Floriano Lobo] Dear Mr. Manohar Parrikar, We heard our cherished CM speaking at the funeral of Matanhy Saldanha. (1) On the alter, over-looking the coffined body of Matanhy ( our cherished colleague fighting and dying to preserve Goa as Goa that was) you

[Goanet] CONTROVERSY: The unique East African Goan tribe ... The making of an East African Goan dodderer!

2012-08-23 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 23 August 2012 05:19, Carvalho wrote: > I'm happy to see Cyprian's mail shot into cyberspace with Goanet reader > titled in bold, CONTROVERSY. Nothing sells like controversy even in Goan > cyberspace. Those who write controversial stuff must be writhing in pain > knowing their articles seldom

[Goanet] A fond farewell dear Goanet

2012-08-23 Thread Carvalho
It was seven years ago, in a bid to escape my diaper-filled days that I subscribed to Goanet. Never could I have imagined how my life would change. Those were glorious days ofcourse of great debate. Some of Goa's foremost intellectuals abounded on Goanet then and the quality of debate was par e

[Goanet] Sad news

2012-08-23 Thread Cyprian Fernandes
It is the with the greatest sadness that I have to tell of the passing of one of the nicest people you were ever to meet: Julie Pereira, wife of the late Ben Pereira and mother Andi and Gilbert and grandmother to their children. She bade this world farewell today. I will never forget that

[Goanet] Letter from India...

2012-08-23 Thread Gabe Menezes
Letter from India: it's no easy matter being a woman looking for a decent drink in Delhi Alcohol isn't banned in India, nor is it unheard of for women to drink. But buying it is a totally different matter - Share

[Goanet] Minority institutions.

2012-08-23 Thread U. G. Barad
I teach at an institute which is not a minority institution and is required to follow the government norms.  So, I do not know much about what exactly are the rules for minority institutions.  Are there any members on this list who can enlighten what exactly are the benefits that these institution

[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day....

2012-08-23 Thread Gabe Menezes
The Marmalade - Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (HQ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qSOhp1HGwg&feature=related g -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

Re: [Goanet] CONTROVERSY: The unique East African Goan tribe ... The making of an East African Goan dodderer!

2012-08-23 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 23 August 2012 03:42, Goanet Reader wrote: > > http://cyprianfernandes.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/the-unique-east-african-goan-tribe.html > > Thursday, August 23, 2012 > The unique East African Goan tribe > > The making of an East African Goan dodderer! > > By Cyprian Fernandes > skip...@live.co

[Goanet] CONTROVERSY: The unique East African Goan tribe ... The making of an East African Goan dodderer!

2012-08-23 Thread Carvalho
I'm happy to see Cyprian's mail shot into cyberspace with Goanet reader titled in bold, CONTROVERSY. Nothing sells like controversy even in Goan cyberspace. Those who write controversial stuff must be writhing in pain knowing their articles seldom get so much mileage.   It is true that I referre

[Goanet] Have you been to Texas (Restaurant)?

2012-08-23 Thread JoeGoaUk
Have you been to Texas (Restaurant)? I did get an email about this restaurant last year but neve had a chance to visit thre. Few days ago, we made it.. blog http://joegoauks-fish-curry-rice-restaurants.blogspot.in/2012/08/texas-bar-restaurant-panjim.html We were 3 What we ate and what it cost u

[Goanet] SMILE........................ IT'S WEEKEND (23/08/2012)

2012-08-23 Thread CAJETAN DE
IT WAS.   A middle aged couple Hanchu and Morgorit were enjoying their meal at WILD WEST Bar-n-Restaurant at Curchorem-Goa:-   Morgorit: Do you know honey, why I insist you to take me to this place at least once a month?   Hanchu : No…. not really honey!   Morgorit: It’s because with the deli