[Goanet] THE YOUTH POWER CAN RESCUE AND SALVAGE GOA

2023-01-13 Thread Aires Rodrigues
At a time when Goa finds itself at crossroads the Power of our youth can play a crucial role. There is a great talent in Youth, who are like dynamite and can achieve great good when inspired and guided on the right path. Youth power has been regarded as an inexhaustible reservoir of human resources

[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} Take your time to choose, bee

2023-01-13 Thread Dilip D'Souza
Jan 13 And then there's today's column in Mint. Some years ago a lovely lady who's reading this (well, I hope) spent an afternoon explaining the "waggle dance" that bees do. She had earned her PhD studying bees (though maybe not the waggle dance), so I was inclined to pay attention. I'm glad I did

[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} The early birds set the scene

2023-01-13 Thread Dilip D'Souza
Jan 13 Imagine, if you will, my delight when I ran across the factoid that kicks off this articleP: alligators and birds are more closely related than alligators and lizards. Fascinating, right? (Say yes, please.) Well, that's because of an aspect of evolution that has always baffled and puzzled

[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} Review: Manil Suri's "The Big Bang of Numbers"

2023-01-13 Thread Dilip D'Souza
Jan 13 A final missive for today... Shaastra magazine, the pretty new publication from IIT Madras, asked me to review Manil Suri's new book. Suri is an accomplished mathematician at the University of Maryland, and also an elegant writer. Some years ago we did a session together around a mathematic

[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} In this corner, an octopus that throws

2023-01-13 Thread Dilip D'Souza
Jan 13 (Friday the 13th!) You must be tiring of me saying this: yet again I've been lax about sending out my articles here. Five that I know of. Sorry, then, for inundating your mailbox! The first of these was prompted when I found a short video clip of an octopus. And this octopus was doing some

[Goanet] Schedule for Saturday 14th Jan 2023

2023-01-13 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 Saturday 14th Ja

[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} Figures that say things about us

2023-01-13 Thread Dilip D'Souza
Jan 13 This was my last column for 2022 (appeared on December 23, I took December 30 off from writing). It cobbles together my explorations into three uses of figures and prhases that bother me. (Two of them have always bothered me.) Partly because they are wrong. Partly because they cover more th

[Goanet] [Goanet-News] A Legacy of Lies and Deceit

2023-01-13 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
GL responds:Electionsand societal changes suggest a transformation in Goa which involved elimination ofboth the Hindu/Brahmin domination and the Catholic colonial influence inpost-colonial Goa; and resulted in the emergence of a mercantile bourgeoisie(both Hindu and Christian & Goan and non-Goan

[Goanet] RRR’s Naatu Naatu has a Ukraine connection

2023-01-13 Thread Antonio De Quadros
I don’t know how many of you have watched this movie; it did win a Golden Globe for Original Music. https://www.cntraveller.in/web-stories/rrrs-naatu-naatu-has-a-ukraine-connection/ Sent from my iPhone

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] A Legacy of Lies and Deceit (Devika Sequeira)

2023-01-13 Thread Nandini Sardesai
AGREE From: Goanet-News on behalf of Goanet Reader Sent: 12 January 2023 1:37 To: goa...@goanet.org Subject: [Goanet-News] A Legacy of Lies and Deceit (Devika Sequeira) Devika Sequeira Earlier this month, Pramod Sawant met with the recently appointed bishop, F

[Goanet] History Hour

2023-01-13 Thread XCHR Info
Dear Friends, Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Porvorim cordially invites you for a History Hour Lecture at Xavier Centre on Thursday, 19th January 2023 at 6 PM. (Tea will be served at 5:30 P.M.) Dr. Savia Viegas will be the speaker for the lecture, on the topic "*CURATO

[Goanet] Schedule for Friday 13th Jan 2023

2023-01-13 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 Friday 13th Jan

[Goanet] Edict of late Pope Benedict

2023-01-13 Thread Nelson Lopes
Edict of POpe Benedict The late Pope suggested that even clapping for any achievements during liturgy is not advisable nor acceptable. In recent times we have some priest singing Konkanni songs as interlude to their preaching Some zealous priests want to compulsorily scrutinise the obituaries