that are still active and thriving.
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their
counterparts in Europe. These are modest eating houses that serve breakfast and
small meals throughout the day, and where the [...]
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Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Ljótipollur'
The crater lake Ljótipollur (Ugly Puddle) in the central Highlands of
Iceland.
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To Goanet -
For Part 1, go here -
For my first post on this topic, see -
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2011-December/216487.html
Part II
Expectedly, the hogwash about Goa at 50 has started oozing from all quarters
of the Indian media.
For instance, this by Rajdeep
To Goanet -
On Dec 19 this year, Goa will complete 50 years of - what's the word -
colonization by India.
Fellow Goans, know that Goa's best days are behind us. We are now sailing
in the Indian sewer. The worst is yet to come.
Goa's rapid decline has two causes: (a) India, which took over
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To Goanet -
Yes, I mean the semi-literate Sonia Gandhi whose family has stolen untold
amounts of Indian wealth and whose family is responsible for condemning
millions to perpetual poverty.
Now, this is priceless - Goans are going to listen to this runt lecture them on
Dec 19?
Iconography features several of my
photographs.
Congratulations to Wendell-bab on this work. I look forward to its release.
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To Goanet -
'Tis that time of the year. To remind Goans of the rogues who betrayed a
movement. It was our last gasp, our final chance to recover Goa, or at
least arrest the decay.
I clearly remember the energy and promise of December 2006. But it all
came to nought and worse. Goa is today
To Goanet -
Recently I received an email from a resident of Panjim saying that the
noise from the evening cruise ships has made life miserable for him
and his family. I don't know what to say. As I have often wondered
here in the past - What, short of a nuclear explosion, is it going to take
depiction of Goa and his
political satire. His canvas was often 'busy' but insofar as Goa is [...]
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To Goanet -
Now gets its own location with a new design -
http://www.parrikar.org/vpl/
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go anywhere close IE.
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of Mount Mary
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, for whatever it
was was directly in the line of our superjeep's massive wheels. It turned
[...]
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,
ingestion of shiro can turn into a sublime religious experience. It [...]
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Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Sailboat in Eyjafjörður'
Low clouds caress the mountains along Eyjafjörður, the longest fjord in
Iceland.
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on that in a future post).
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Protect Goa's
and Apple II.
I met Woz and his charming wife Janet [...]
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Protect
Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Bleeding'
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Protect Goa's
Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Man on the Ferry'
An assistant ferryman on the job on the Mandovi river in Goa.
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Goanet Classifieds
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Enescil, a Brazilian engineering firm requires Engineers, Architects
and Draftsmen,
, notice the difference in colour rendition.
[...]
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Protect Goa's
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Goanet Classifieds
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and Draftsmen,
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Goanet Classifieds
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Enescil, a Brazilian engineering firm requires Engineers, Architects
and Draftsmen,
the air.
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Protect Goa's natural beauty
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To Goanet -
I heard about the remarks of some guy named Tejpal that have
gotten the Goan hackles up. I have a hard time understanding this
proclivity of Indians (unfortunately, Goans are like Indians in this
regard) to take offense at the drop of a hat at utter nobodies
and then go to town with
are now featured in a museum housed in the basement. A very short
stroll brings us [...]
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Iceland, interpreted in
black-and-white and colour.
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/2011/10/30/nageshi/
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://www.parrikar.com/blog/2011/10/29/kaldalon/
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://www.parrikar.com/blog/2011/10/25/diwali-2011/
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post at
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://www.parrikar.com/blog/2011/10/12/mornin-on-the-chapora/
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.
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/kirkjubol-i-valthjofsdal/
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Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'What Steve wrought'
A picture by Thomas Pindelski.
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in the village
of Goa Velha is arresting.
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more images from this area in the near future.
Note: the 'g' in Súgandafjörður [...]
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Fossfjörður. This sequence of the Jetstream 32 aircraft taking off was shot
from the road that runs [...]
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Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Romancing the Goan Monsoon
- Take 3'
Another installment in our ongoing monsoon romance.
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sheep
roundup in September, known as réttir, is an important cultural tradition, an
[...]
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), and was
designed by Father Francisco do Rego who traced his roots to [...]
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the latest post at
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very
Goan about him. Men of [...]
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Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Hnausapollur'
The volcanic crater Hnausapollur in the Highlands of Iceland.
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of fashion. Hiroji
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. A good
instance of this is the mountain Einhyrningur, found in the interior along the
South Fjallabak route. [...]
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at the original crash
site amid the black sand plains of Sólheimasandur, presenting a visual straight
out [...]
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interior
Highland region.
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Quepem taluka sits
in the middle of a cultivated paddy field.
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Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Látrabjarg Finalé -
Midnight Sun'
This was the finalé to the night described in the last post.
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) westernmost point and one
of the world's great bird cliffs.
In the summer months at these high latitudes, the [...]
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Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Cameo on the Pindelski
Blog'
I make an appearance on Thomas Pindelski's blog.
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and
the ZE 100mm f/2 Makro Planar, both manual focus lenses [...]
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To Goanet -
See this -
http://www.animationarchive.org/?p=408
It provides a background to the story told by Anthony-bab in his audio clip
concerning the Keskar episode. I have provided this link in the blog spot
as an update.
r
From: Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet -
Over the past few months, I have received a few inquiries from
acquaintances and even strangers about buying apartments in
Goa. In every instance, the project of interest turned out to be one
that I had photographed in its incipience and for which I had filed
an RTI application. In
To Goanet -
Question: What do names like Puttaraju, Ahmad Morad, Manoj
Shrivastava, Rina Rai, Sujay Gupta, Arun Sinha and suchlike
have in common?
Answer: One, they are all outsiders who have been imported
into Goa by the Goan political and/or business establishment
and given plum
To Goanet -
Sandeep Heble wrote:
The CCP’s initiative to implement new set of by-laws and regulations
to ensure cleanliness of the city are a welcome step to instill some...
.
.
.
We will need many more of such initiatives if we wish to restore our
city back to its old glory.
I see. So reams
To Goanet -
Sandeep Heble wrote:
Before I comment further, let me recall an interesting anecdote
from the life of Swami Vivekananda. Once a foreigner asked the Swami:
Can't you wear proper clothes to be a gentleman?
The Swami replied:
In your culture TAILOR makes a gentleman, but in our culture
To Goanet -
It is interesting to note that Saint Peters' Basilica in Rome also
institutes a dress code (and rightly so) -
http://saintpetersbasilica.org/Pics/SQR/DressCode-JG.jpg
I hope that one will be implemented in Goan Hindu temples
soon. It would be not a day too soon.
Regards,
r
To Goanet -
Sandeep Heble wrote:
This is to set the records straight as the above are gross and
serious misrepresentation of facts.
I will tell you - no, show you - what is GROSS. This -
http://www.parrikar.org/images/samples/stinez-1.jpg
To Goanet -
THIS IS IN RESPONSE TO RAJAN PARRIKAR'S POST IN VOL 6, ISSUE 659
rajan,
your comments are so stilted and prejudiced...in so many dimensions...that
to respond, i would have to descend to the rabid level of declamation that
you have achieved. there is no special place in heaven or
To Goanet -
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/21/DDUV1K9JCR.DTLtype=food
r
,
violinists, and percussionists in the distant past. Tantuvadyas such as the
sitar and sarod have historically not generated much enthusiasm in [...]
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To Goanet -
I got this piece of tripe written by Bharati Heble in my
mailbox as part of the periodic dump Sandeep Heble
takes on the WeGoans list. Presumably he has also posted
it to Goanet. Here is my brief response:
As CCP Councillor, Bharati Heble should have been
first attending to the
To Goanet -
I was in Vanxim island (off Divar ) this morning, one of the handful
of un-spoilt havens now left in Goa. Near the jetty is this board.
Gaunekar here refers to Mahendra Gaunekar.
http://www.parrikar.org/images/samples/vanxim-board.jpg
For some background see this -
To Goanet -
I drove through Moolgaon last week before the disaster and both
when we saw the scene, both my driver Babu and I remarked
that something bad is going to happen. What we didn't know is
that it would come true within a day or two.
All the Goan miners - Dempo, Chowgule, Timblo, Sesa,
village, now a paradise lost [...]
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To Goanet -
After talking through his hat on the Goan language issue, Rajiv Desai
ends his post with the following:
Curiously, today’s chauvinists who protest the use of English reserve
their worst for those who celebrate it as a dynamic Indian language.
They call us the children of Macaulay;
/blog/2011/07/14/romancing-the-goan-monsoon/
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To Goanet -
This is a response to Rajiv Desai.
Rajiv,
Your piece reveals a profound lack of understanding of Goa and Goans. The
pro-Marathi/pro-Konkani forces are not fringe per your claim, but are
mainstream
Goan Hindus, and a large majority at that. It is odd that whenever major
figures
To Goanet -
On this topic, I refer you to a couple of posts in the archive -
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-July/196363.html
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-July/196693.html
Regards,
r
To Goanet -
Suffering from a viral infection the past few days, I had planned to stay
away from the computer - and I probably should - but the following
tragic news item impels me to compose this post (*) -
://www.parrikar.com/blog/2011/07/08/feature-in-singh-ray-blog/
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To Goanet -
I sent this letter today to eh Heraldo editor.
*
In Herald (July 5), you show a photo of a man sleeping on the side of a street
and wonder how this could be so when Goa has rich residents. You should
be asking this question of India, not of Goa and Goans. The man shown is most
fjords
and give the area its topographical signature. But such supreme beauty also
exacts [...]
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Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, '(Another) Room With A
View'
The view from my room a few moments ago at the Gerði farm in south Iceland.
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.
This photograph was taken last night from our vehicle as the speed daemons
hurtled past [...]
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Eystri.
My friend and guide Börkur Hrólfsson pulled off a heroic rescue with his bare
two [...]
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the latest post at
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Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'A Room With A View'
The view tonight from our window at Bjarnardalur in Önundarfjörður in the
West Fjords of Iceland.
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.
This photograph was taken tonight just before midnight.
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Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'The Early Bird'
The first rays of the morning illuminate this lone fisherman's canoe on the
Chapora river in Siolim.
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- such as the
mithgaude (mith being the Konkani word for salt) - specialized in the
occupation of [...]
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intensity a function of the strength of the eruption.
The following images were taken on the stretch of [...]
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active
geothermal area.
One evening around sundown we stumbled into a dreamscape as [...]
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, and was suitably rewarded.
The gusts were still very strong and these images had to be made [...]
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Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'Kundaim'
These are scenes from the beautiful village of Kundaim in Goa's Ponda taluka.
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visions
of an ancient landscape, one in which prehistoric animals roamed the earth. On
the top of [...]
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To Goanet -
http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2011/04/26/krysuvikurbjarg/
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r
To Goanet -
http://www.parrikar.com/blog/2011/04/24/panjim-promenade-church-of-our-lady-of-immaculate-conception/
PS: In view of the increasing frequency with which I keep getting these
requests, I say the following:
Please do not send me email asking for digital (or print) photographs for
To Goanet -
http://www.parrikar.org/nibbles/2011/04/14/national-anthem-or-national-disgrace/
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