Re: [Goanet] The Tide Turns (Part 18, by Valmiki Faleiro)

2021-12-19 Thread Roland Francis
For all his stubbornness in ignoring the Goan freedom movements over the years, culminating in rebuffing Nehru’s gestures for a peaceful resolution, and his cruelty in giving orders to the last Portuguese governor to conduct an earth scorching suicidal surrender, Salazar’s policies were mild com

[Goanet] The Evocative Memories of a Margao Schoolboy going back more than half a Century

2021-12-19 Thread Adolfo Mascarenhas
Dear Maraino I like a number of other netters read with great interest your Message: 8 Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 01:44:35 +0530 From: Goanet Reader Me -ID: Although you were still in school you capture what it was like in those few days of great uncertainty. On that fateful day I was crossi

[Goanet] The Tide Turns (Part 18, by Valmiki Faleiro)

2021-12-19 Thread Goanet Reader
By Valmiki Faleiro valmi...@gmail.com --- AUTHOR'S NOTE: Today, 19 December 2021, marks the 60th Anniversary of unshackling the 451-year colonial yoke of Goa. Let us recall the sacrifices of Goans -- from the Pinto Revolt of 1787 to the many uprisings (often led by Catholic priests like Fr. CF Cou

[Goanet] 1961: Viewed from the perspective of a Margao schoolboy (Mariano Pereira)

2021-12-19 Thread E DeSousa
 Mariano Pereira writes: "We were students of Escola Comercial (Tecnica) de Margao.  As a daily ritual, we bent down for the ora??o matinal recited after our affable matron Dona Am?lia, had breakfast and proceeded to classes.           Dressed in khaki uniforms, as it was the day of           Moc

[Goanet] Schedule for Monday 20th December 2021

2021-12-19 Thread CCR TV
CCR TV GOA Channel of God's love✝ You can also watch CCR TV live on your smartphone via the CCR TV App Available on Google PlayStore for Android Platform. Click the link below. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccr.tv4 Email ID: ccrgoame...@gmail.com Schedule for Monday 20th Decembe

[Goanet] ROHAN KHAUNTE HAS STOOPED TO A VERY POLITICAL LOW

2021-12-19 Thread Aires Rodrigues
The disgraceful manner in which former Porvorim MLA Rohan Khaunte joined the BJP in political desperation comes as no surprise. What is sickening however is the way in which the BJP so shamelessly embraced a person who till the very end hurled awful vitriolic abuses against the saffron party and at

Re: [Goanet] Happy Birthday Frederick!

2021-12-19 Thread Frederick Noronha
Hi Roland, I've been called Uncle for the last 35 or so years, which is fine, no complaints. Actually, I don't quite believe in birthday-ism. My last birthday celebrated was at 14, when I was already having doubts the logic of it all. If you're alive you obviously were born (on someday or the other

Re: [Goanet] Happy Birthday Frederick!

2021-12-19 Thread Roland Francis
OK so there is a dispute about your birthday either being on the 23, 26 or 27 without any clarification from you. A google search says you will soon be 58 on that day so until then you may not be called Uncle. Here’s wishing you will not be called Aunty either! Roland. Toronto. > On Dec 19,

[Goanet] Toronto restaurant posts emotional video after closing for good

2021-12-19 Thread Roland Francis
What better way to celebrate the closing of a restaurant (for whatever reason) than to bring out the champagne glasses, to swap stories, to sing, go a little wild. and toast and celebrate the occasion. After all the joint represented a slice of life for the owners, staff and customers who were

[Goanet] Goa at 60: Still "The Unique" (Outlook, 19/12/2021)

2021-12-19 Thread V M
https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-still-the-unique-goa-at-60/405790 Just two years after the swift decapitation and annexation of the 451-year-old Estado da India by Jawaharlal Nehru’s troops in 1961, the novelist and writer Graham Greene visited the former Portuguese colony.

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] 1961: Viewed from the perspective of a Margao schoolboy (Mariano Pereira)

2021-12-19 Thread patrice riemens
Hola All, Reading Mariano's piece and generally thinking about 'the December 19 events' I get strong associations with a less known (mostly because his/her other works are so well-known) novella (in 2 parts) by Welsh Author Jan (prev James) Morris: Hav ('Last letters from Hav', followed 10 year

[Goanet] 961: Viewed from the perspective of a Margao schoolboy (Mariano Pereira)

2021-12-19 Thread Bernado Colaco
After 60 years of dark days Goans are storming out of Goa in droves. Liberation lost its way, agora estamos afundar sem  precedentes.  BC Mariano Pereira Frankfurt Germany maraino.pere...@gmx.net In 1960 It was like a calm before a storm when we arrived at the school premises.  The Portuguese sc

[Goanet] Happy Birthday Frederick!

2021-12-19 Thread Aloysius D'Souza
Happy Birthday and many happy returns May our Good Lord bless allthe work you do Cheers Aloysius On Sat, 18 Dec 2021, 23:42 Roland Francis, wrote: > Are you officially a Senior today according to Indian age markers? > > The good news: you will be called Uncle even by people older than you. > > T

[Goanet] Enticement and politics of survival

2021-12-19 Thread Nelson Lopes
Enticement and politics of survival Finally as expected GFP has entered into marriage of convenienve with Congress .whether it us inducement, enticement it matters little.A candidate without central aithorization was foisted into Fatorda race.Naturally the king of Fatirda was peeved and rubbed

[Goanet] 60 years of Goa' s liberation

2021-12-19 Thread Nelson Lopes
60 years of Goa,,'s liberation The span of 60 years in the life of an individual is a period of best of accomplishment to be proud of But in the life span of a country ,a Nation it is a small begining with legitimate hopes ,aspirations , and expectations abound It is immaterial whether freedom