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and widely reproduced and discussed.
Eddie Fernandes
pret that by claiming that LP
reaffirms that Goa is a paradise!
Eddie Fernandes
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From: Mauricio Pereira
Subject: [Goanet] Goa wins lonely planet award
PANAJI: With its golden beaches, verdant green hinterlands, unique
archit
vhind.in/epaperhome.aspx?issue=23052012
Video: Noel Flores sings and dances at Olmstead LDS Church, New York, Oct.
21, 2011. 8m. 08s. http://bit.ly/KajERj
Eddie Fernandes
1 Jun: Mumbai. ALFRED D'CRUZ (aged 91; Ex-Saligao; Ex-Chief Sub-Editor,
Times of India). Husband of Odilia. Father of Sushila/Derek; Shakuntala;
Sunil/Jonitha; Late Sunita; Saroj/Raja. Grandfather of Joanne; Janice/Rohan.
Funeral Mass at St Teresa's Church, Bandra on Sunday 3rd June at 2.45 pm
foll
ree that something a century old belongs to the late
medieval era!
Eddie Fernandes
sterling work
done by its volunteer committee. We should all participate in its efforts
and share in its goodwill.Find out how . Full text, 630 words at
http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/
Eddie Fernandes
By Roland Francis
Goans carried a huge collective burden for God knows how long. It was the
caste system inherited from our Hindu ancestors and it played havoc with the
community. It caused pain, suffering, mental anguish and a host of other
ills, some of which remained latent until they popped
15 Jul: Goan Voice UK. By Ronald Francis.
Excerpt:
In 1965, I was all of 16 years old and standing rigidly at attention in
front of a panel of senior Indian Air Force officers at a Mysore base. It
was a final step to entry into the NDA - India's premier officer cadet
school. Like all aspiring in
assume that childhood memories remained exactly what they were - childhood
memories.
Full text, 621 words at www.goanvoice.org.uk Daily Newsletter of 22 July
2012 and this week you have music to set you in the mood - go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iBj0Of_5Ns#t=03m20s
Eddie Fernandes
29 July 2012: Goan Voice UK. As the London Olympics unfolded on Friday with
its glittering ceremony celebrating British culture and as individual events
commenced, it's no better time to celebrate the Goan sporting spirit.
Goa has produced the finest sportsmen in the best tradition of national a
5 Aug: Goan Voice UK I have a healthy respect for Goan women. By and large
they have taken initiative in whatever area they function and have admirably
succeeded in their focus activities. Running businesses, oiling the wheels
of government and corporations, practicing medicine and law, all the whi
ority?
But there are those who have hidden agendas and are out to lift what he
wrote out of context and claim that he is referring to all Canadian Goan
women!
Are these critics able to put their hands on their hearts and say that the
type of person he describes, does not exi
Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter 12 August 2012 at www.goanvoice.org.uk
Anguish and Subjugation - Stray Thoughts of a Toronto Goan
It would be unfair to have praised and critiqued the Goan woman without
taking a good look at the Toronto Goan male. As in her case, my peeves are
leveled at the sign
>From Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter 19 Aug. 2012 at www.goanvoice.org.uk
By Roland Francis. It is rumored that once upon a time God in his glory
wished to thank the Goan people for their hospitality toward their fellow
men, their fervent prayers to Him and the good care they took of their
ecology
19 Aug: Herald Review. . I had met Romola briefly a couple of times before
at Betty Pires' house, one of London's influential businesswomen and
socialites. I had presumed the role of the demure, dutiful wife [to Fitz de
Souza] for Romola. I soon realise, in Romola's calm and composed demeanour
lies
be the norm.
I must confess that I could not read beyond the first paragraph of your
diatribe.
Eddie Fernandes
From: Cyprian Fernandes [mailto:skip...@live.com.au]
Sent: 23 August 2012 00:44
To: alcino; alex rebello; alfred; ambrosio; Ben Pereira;
benfernande...@yahoo.co.uk;
26 Aug. 2012. Goan Voice UK. Is World Goa Day (WGD) an idea whose time has
not yet come? The idea of a meaningful celebration of worldwide Goan unity
has been floating around since the late 1970s in various parts of the Goan
world. In California, USA with the founders of Goa Sudharop, in Kuwait
Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter 2nd Sep. 2012
By Roland Francis. Two significant thought-provoking news events were made
known last week. Teriano Lesancha a young woman, just graduated with a
Bachelor's in Social Work from Toronto's Ryerson University. The
University's President along with her ment
Title: Beyond the Workhouse: Regulating Vagrancy in Goa
Source: Asian Journal of Criminology. Sep 2012. Vol. 7. No. 3. Pages 205 -
233.
By Julia Wardhaugh (Bangor University, Wales).
Summary:
This study examines the social and legal regulation of homelessness,
providing a case-study of Goa. Vag
One of the friends in the photo is, I think, Martin Gonsalves who lives in
Sweden and attended the Antao funeral in London last year. He is not on
email but he is a friend of Alfred Tavares . Perhaps Alfred could check it
out.
Eddie
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From: goanet-boun...@lists.goanet
By Roland Francis
Source: Goan Voice UK. 9 Sep. 2012 at www.goanvoice.org.uk
Full text:
Although the first practical and modern nurses in India were trained by a
group of medical missionaries sent from Britain after the 1857 'sepoy'
mutiny which was the first major pang of an Indian independence
Goans show our
gratitude
Please ask your friends to forward this message to their contacts.
Best wishes,
Eddie Fernandes
www.goanvoice.org.uk
Summary:
16 Sep. 2012: Herald (Review). Selma Carvalho visits here
great-grand-father's abandoned house at the top of Marcaim hill in Goa, the
span of two or three impoverished rooms, held together by a thin wash of
cement. It is also the ancestral house of tiatrist M. BoyerThe intrepid
journ
of the documentary released last week.
Eddie Fernandes
By Roland Francis
Title: Madness in Mumbai - Stray Thoughts of a Toronto Goan
Source: Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter 23 Sep. 2012 at www.goanvoice.org.uk
There is an old saying in the financial industry that is true of any other.
"What goes up must come down". If that is true, there is a lot of co
x27;.
This is a Free view programme so you do not need to pay to view it.
For the Sony TV Asia website go to http://www.setasia.tv/ and select your
country.
Please ask your contacts to alert their friends about it.
Eddie Fernandes
www.goanvoice.org.uk
ernal Newspaperman.' 657 words +
photos.
http://goanvoiceuk.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/scribe-honoured-with-lifetime-ac
hievement-award-in-journalism-oman-daily-observer-29-sep-2012-page26/
If the link does not work, go to www.goanvoice.org.uk
Eddie Fernandes
By: Roland Francis
Source: Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter of 30 Sep. 2012 at
www.goanvoice.org.uk
It seemed eras ago that Goans all over the world made a really big
difference wherever they lived. I am not talking about faithfully working
for the British, Portuguese, Indian or Pakistan Governme
By Roland Francis
Source: Goan Voice UK, Daily Newsletter, 7 Oct. 2012, at
www.goanvoice.org.uk
Full text:
In no time at all the Goan, as the world knew him or her, will soon
disappear. Already in Goa, for better or for worse, there is a speedy
assimilation of the Goan with his Indian countryme
Title: October Weekend Musings
By Roland Francis
Source: Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter of 14 Oct. 2012 at
www.goanvoice.org.uk
Some casual observations in Toronto and elsewhere, in the first cold Autumn
weekend of the year, a la the late Bombay Busybee (Behram Contractor)
tradition.
All Go
By Roland Francis.
Source: Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter of 21 Oct. 2012 at
www.goanvoice.org.uk
Full text:
There has always been a very cherished but formal and unreal bond between
the Goan and his God. In the days when it was taught that God was a
generally unreachable Being, high above and s
Roland Francis: The Goans of Pakistan - Stray Thoughts of a Toronto Goan
Source Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter 28 Oct 2012 at www.goanvoice.org.uk
Full text:
They are a vibrant and active part of the Canadian Goan community, in most
cases having immigrated to Canada much before other Goans. Th
By Roland Francis
Source: Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter 4 Nov. 2012 at www.goanvoice.org.uk
FULL TEXT
If you want to read Diaspora history and relate to it, there is nothing
better than to get it from the perspective of someone who lived through it,
has a talent for vivid memories and sequences,
Title: Lest We Forget
By: Roland Francis
Source: Goan Voice Daily Newsletter, 11 Nov. 2012 at www.goanvoice.org.uk
Full text:
If you look at the moral decay in Goa today, it is tempting to secretly wish
that the Portuguese had not left or at the very least that the high moral
and civic values tha
Source: Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter 18 Nov. 2012 at www.goanvoice.org.uk
Full text:
They were once a small but core part of the community. Dressed in white and
flowing cassocks as they were required to do, they inspired respect,
attention, obedience and sometimes awe. Very few milestones i
Title: Stray Thoughts of a Toronto Goan - Goan Cooking Is Falling From Grace
By: Roland Francis
Source: Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter 2 Dec 2012 at www.goanvoice.org.uk
Full text:
I wonder if anyone else has noticed the worldwide decline in Goan cooking
standards. In the best case this could be
Source: Goan Voice UK: Daily Newsletter, 30 Dec 2012 at www.goanvoice.org.uk
You've lived your life like the meek of the earth. Earned your living for as
long as you could or needed to, raised a family to love and respect the
world around them and in between you have done what you could for those
By Roland Francis:
Source: Goan Voice UK Newsletter of 20 Jan. 2013 at www.goanvoice.org.uk
In times past, it was easy being old. In fact 'old' in those days meant
anyone merely above 50. So a man retired at 55 lived for a year or two and
then died while still in his own home. There was no proble
Source: Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter, 3 Feb. 2013, at www.goanvoice.org.uk
Full text:
One would have thought that middle class people in India in general and Goa
in particular would be a happy lot. They have reaped the benefits of the
rising economy and salaries that have gone through the roof
68 years ago in the tiny village of La Motte, 600 kms from Montreal, a
future Pope of the Catholic Church may have been born. His father with 7
other children was a farmer like most of the men in that remotely rural area
although later with self-education he became a school trustee and
administrat
Goans at Sea. By Roland Francis
I have always liked travelling by sea. When any opportunity arose, there I
was climbing the gangplank, suitcase in hand, a silly but happy grin on the
face. My first short voyages were between Bombay and Goa. Fairly large ships
like the Saraswati, and the Sabarmati
Title: An Accident in Goa Stray Thoughts of a Toronto Goan
By: Roland Francis
Source: Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter 17 Mar. 2013 at www.goanvoice.org.uk
Full text:
Goan villages can be great places for rest and relaxation but you cannot for
a moment visualize the trauma and misery you can be s
Title: Heaven Knows Your Future, Mr. Fernandes
By: Roland Francis
Source: Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter 24 March 2013 at www.goanvoice.org.uk
When the majority of Goan families had little in the way of affluence, they
had each other. Mother and father raised their brood usually along with an
unm
Title: The Goans of Poona - Stray Thoughts of a Toronto Goan
By: Roland Francis
Source: Goan Voice UK Daily newsletter of 31 March 2013 at
www.goanvoice.org.uk
Poona, about 173kms from Bombay, was once the capital of the Peshwas, the
prime minister and governor class of the powerful Bhonsales of
Title: Atrocities against Women - Stray Thoughts of a Toronto Goan
By: Roland Francis
Source: Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter 7 April 2013
Full Text:
Nothing is more nauseating than picking up any Goan or Indian newspaper and
reading the various items either on the front page or tucked away insi
By Roland Francis
Source: 14 April 2013 Newsletter at www.goanvoice.org.uk
Full Text:
Here are a few thoughts, a few observations and a few subjective opinions
(all my work).
As long as the current deep-seated culture of corruption in government and
the 'live and let live' and 'it doesn't co
Roland Francis: Life Notes - Stray Thoughts of a Toronto Goan
Source: Goan Voice daily newsletter, 28 Apr. 2013 at www.goanvoice.org.uk
Some things take getting used to and other things, you never get used to at
all. Such experiences are common with Goans settled in this part of the
world althou
this. In this instance the name of the person who
authorised the funeral is being withheld. I find that unacceptable.
Would you have acted differently?
Eddie Fernandes
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Roland Francis: Goans and the Indian Army - Stray Thoughts of a Toronto Goan
Source: Goan Voice UK , Daily Newsletter 5 May 2013 at www.goanvoice.org.uk
The recent passing away of Major General Eustace D'Souza PVSM of Velsao Goan
heritage, Lahore (undivided India) and Bandra Bombay, at age 91, br
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