KALZANT'LEAN KONKANNI KONACHI -COMMENTS
http://www.goasu-raj.org/gen/news/3227.asp
PPS: PEOPLE FOR POLITICAL SANITY
PS: If the people refuse to become politically 'SANE', politics will remain
dirty + more.
ONLY DABOLIM - NAV
KONKANNI KONNACHI?
By Dr Oscar Rebello
campalhealthservi...@gmail.com
The language "Narkasur" has raised its ugly head, yet again,
on the eve of the Festival of Lights. (If only we could be
enlightened!) It is dismaying and totally disheartening to
see otherwise perfectly decent and honorable me
The "Good" Indians of Kampala
By Daryl Martyris
dmarty...@post.harvard.edu
When I first arrived in Uganda, on hearing that my family was
from Goa, one of my Ugandan colleagues surprised me by
exclaiming, "So you are a good Indian!" He explained that the
Goans who came to Uganda in colonial times
A very interesting compilation of Goan success, given the fact of the utter
failure of the governance in post 61 Goa to hold the Lusofonia games on time.
BC
Bom dia,
Today, in the special Semana da Cultura Indo-Portuguesa supplement for
the Herald, I offer a review of 12 Portuguese-speaking
Re: [Goanet] Subject: Old-style
measurements... paileo,kudov, khandi
Has chacha made a mistake or do some terms have
different meanings in different villages?
In my village (Velim) gin'nattem x2 = 1 an'nattem.
Paili x 2 = 1 kuddov. Kuddov x 20 = 1
khanddi. Khanddi x 20 = 1 kumbh. Hence, 1 kumbh
I am trying to locate a Vincent (Gabru) de Souza Khot or Jose (Forsu)
Francisco de Souza.
They would be relatives of Isaac de Souza Khot, a bandmaster in the
Zanzibar Sultan's Goan band. It is likely they came from a Bardezi village.
Thankfully yours,
Augusto
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Augusto Pinto
40, N
Catholics remember their dead
Catholic traditions to remember their dead arises out of religious beliefs
and also may be due to fear and guilt complex. There are elaborate rituals
before and after the burial. At times the funeral arrangements are
expensive to show our love. The number of invited
I'm surprised that some people like Frederick did not know that we had a good
system of measurement in Goa not only before the arrival of the Portuguese but
even duringt heir rule. Paili, kuddov, khanddi, an'nattem, podd, etc were
measurement of weight. There were measurements of area like hat,v
Very interesting, Chacha.
I remember Victor Hugo Gomes (Chitra) mentioning that the "podd" had two
versions - "divpachi podd" (thick bottom) and "ghevpachi podd" (thin/deep
bottom).
Cheers.
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Alfred de Tavares <
alfredtava...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Good... you guys
Goa despite being the smallest state is not only hosting India's highest
paid Advocate General but the country's highest paid public servant.
The President of India is paid only Rs 1,50,000 a month, the Chief Justice
of India Rs 1,00,000, a High Court Judge Rs 80,000 and the Attorney General
of
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