[Goanet] Got Sex & Travel On Your Mind?

2022-04-20 Thread Roland Francis
Toronto Was Just Ranked One Of The Most Seductive Cities In The World https://www.narcity.com/toronto/toronto-was-just-ranked-one-of-the-most-seductive-cities-in-the-world Roland. Toronto.

[Goanet] The world's most polluted capital city - BBC Future

2022-04-15 Thread Roland Francis
This is where all the nation’s federal politicians work and reside for most of the year. India seems to embrace dubious records. Twenty one of the world’s thirty most polluted cities are in India. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220405-the-fungi-cleaning-new-delhis-air Roland. Toronto.

[Goanet] Still Want A House By The Beach?

2022-04-13 Thread Roland Francis
Living in Mumbai, Chennai or Kerala by the Sea? Stop Everything Listen t... https://youtu.be/lb4CUri6y6k Roland. Toronto.

Re: [Goanet] MR. JASPAL SINGH, WELCOME BACK TO GOA

2022-04-08 Thread Roland Francis
You seem to think all the responsibility of the mess lies with the politicians. Has the DGP no spine to handle them with the weight of his position and the backing of the Supreme Court? Roland Toronto. > On Apr 8, 2022, at 3:47 PM, Aires Rodrigues wrote: > > Jaspal Singh who has taken over a

Re: [Goanet] Sad plight of Postmen ... (Nelson Lopes)

2022-04-08 Thread Roland Francis
So also Canada in tandem with the Netherlands. Canada Post has been privatized and mail delivery is not daily. In some new sub-divisions (locales) there is a bank of post boxes at one spot. Each house has a box and key and collect their mail when they want to. Going out in winter is a chore. T

[Goanet] Economic Hit Men

2022-04-07 Thread Roland Francis
An interesting telling of how predatory capitalism will finish this planet. Sri Lanka is now a prime example of how a country becomes completely entrapped in debt without the people ever getting the benefit of that money. An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action | John Perkins | TEDxT..

[Goanet] No Benefits For Goans With Portuguese surnames

2022-04-07 Thread Roland Francis
No problem for Ramakrishnamuruganmalikarjun. Provident Fund software does not recognise surnames with accents, Goans ... https://youtu.be/y5nB9AFI-GY PS: One Goan pronunciation never fails to amuse me. From the lower division panchayat clerk to the high court lawyer at the Goa Bench and most in

Re: [Goanet] Anti Corruption Center

2022-04-05 Thread Roland Francis
JBP, are you smoking something? This is a man whose nickname is Property Sawant. Roland. > On Apr 5, 2022, at 8:38 PM, Joao Barros-Pereira > wrote: > > CM: Complaint Center For Anti-Corruption Activities! > > Chief Minister Sawant at last is his own man if he chooses - from selected > to

[Goanet] Ohio Bishop-Elect Earl Fernandes

2022-04-05 Thread Roland Francis
It should not matter whether Earl Fernandes is from Manipur or Kerala. Suffice that he is of Indian origin and that he is the first Bishop appointed in the US from that country. Also that he is the youngest. But the comedy starts when Goans start claiming and celebrating that he is from Aldona.

[Goanet] USA v The World

2022-04-04 Thread Roland Francis
According to Business Insider a reputed American financial publication, the trend of the world economy slowly unyoking from its dependence on the US Dollar has started. It is no more a question of the US shattering this country or that to stop them from ditching their currency. The remake has

[Goanet] Some Indian States Going Broke

2022-04-03 Thread Roland Francis
Sri Lanka you should be aware (if you read my post many weeks ago) is badly broke. No foreign currency reserves, high debt with possible default leading to basic food prices becoming unaffordable to the common people. Social unrest has started. Now Secretaries of the Indian Govt have warned tha

[Goanet] The Salt March

2022-04-02 Thread Roland Francis
Gandhi’s Salt March of Dandi in Gujarat, was the beginning of the struggle for India’s independence. Today his great-grandson on the Old Bombay FB group, tells of some family memories of events that followed. Tushar Gandhi writes: “These two incidents don’t have a direct connection to my ances

[Goanet] Bombay’s African Slaves

2022-04-01 Thread Roland Francis
Little Known Facts about The Bombay Africans. Rescued from slave ships brimming with human cargo off the coast of erstwhile Bombay in the early 19th century, hundreds of African men, women and children began life anew in the city of dreams. Many of them were taken in by orphanages where they re

[Goanet] Hurrah! It's Uracca Season in Goa — GOYA

2022-03-31 Thread Roland Francis
The other day I was invited to an urraca drinking session by a friend who had returned from Goa with a sealed bottle labeled Cajulana Urrak. What an apology for Urrak it was, I thought to myself, wondering even whether the sealing of a bottle of genuine Urrak was possible. From what I remember,

Re: [Goanet] Admiral Albuquerque and his interest in Succulent Mangoes and Fair Women

2022-03-29 Thread Roland Francis
After the sun was set, did it really matter to Alfonso Albuquerque that the maidens were fair or dark? I am sure he ran out of choices sometimes which explains that in most aristocratic Goan families with fair daughters you will always find one who is darker than the night. Roland. > On Mar

Re: [Goanet] A NEW GOVERNMENT – BUT THE CORROSION CONTINUES

2022-03-29 Thread Roland Francis
Pramod Sawant did not show disrespect to women or to the Supreme Court with a lack of women appointed to cabinet. As everyone knows Sawant is only the joker in the pack. His appointment and that of all his cabinet ministers was done by the BJP HQ in Delhi. Roland. > On Mar 29, 2022, at 2:47 PM

Re: [Goanet] OUR MLAs WILL HAVE TO BE FINE LEGISLATORS

2022-03-28 Thread Roland Francis
Would be a good thing is all new legislators are required to have an orientation with Aires on ethics and law before they start their term. Roland. > On Mar 28, 2022, at 2:53 PM, Aires Rodrigues > wrote: > > For most of the 40, getting elected at the Assembly elections held on > Valentine’s D

Re: [Goanet] "Avoi Ghe Mai": Goan-Mangalorean Tiatr in Texas

2022-03-27 Thread Roland Francis
I will soon watch it but before even before that I congratulate you and your group for completing a project like this. Hope you bring the show on the road to Toronto. Roland. Toronto. > On Mar 27, 2022, at 6:42 PM, Cynthia James wrote: > > Hello all, > On World Theater Day (March 27th), I am

[Goanet] A Closing Chapter

2022-03-26 Thread Roland Francis
Everything changes and the Royal Family whose country’s Empire the sun once never set on, was for the first time unwelcome on a foreign visit to a place that has no political troubles with the UK. Visits in previous times in some countries still colonialized, were filled with protests and riots

[Goanet] Gasoline (Petrol) Price Comparisons

2022-03-26 Thread Roland Francis
With gasoline prices rising 4 times in the past few days in India to make up for suppressed prices before elections, Bombay prices today have gone up to Rs 113.88 per litre. Here are the latest comparative prices of a few other cities converted at latest rates from their local currencies to Rs

[Goanet] Ukraine -Follow The Money

2022-03-26 Thread Roland Francis
When trying to figure out the real reasons for any troubling events, I benefit from George Pinto’s sage advice to me on Goanet: Follow The Money Sometimes this can be a little difficult to do. They are so many money trails to follow. But sooner or later you will come across, hidden in layers of

Re: [Goanet] Pope Francis’ Response to Ukraine Has Tapped Into One of Catholicism’s Deepest Conspiracy Theories

2022-03-24 Thread Roland Francis
Religion is nothing but a collection of conspiracy theories: An imaginary being constantly watching you and logging your offences, waiting for the day you die and then judging you. But you can offend and apologize any number of times. If you offend and die before you can say you’re sorry then y

[Goanet] Justice Will Not Be Served

2022-03-24 Thread Roland Francis
It is far from paranoid to think that the BJP has stuffed its people into all Indian institutions of importance. The Indian courts are a shining example of this. If you keep up with court judgements you will have noticed deliberate bending of the constitution and other laws to reflect the party’

[Goanet] American Politics At A Low

2022-03-24 Thread Roland Francis
Ever since Trump took over the presidency one term ago, politics in the US became a circus on the international stage. It’s not to say that everything was hunky-dory before him, but there was a semblance of calm, order and system. You knew what to expect from the world’s most powerful country an

[Goanet] Toxic Pollution At Sea

2022-03-22 Thread Roland Francis
How we are poisoning ourselves - the human race - both on land and on the high seas and oceans. This will be our Armageddon. https://www.dw.com/en/exclusive-how-chronic-oil-pollution-at-sea-goes-unpunished/a-61201989 Roland. Toronto.

[Goanet] A Foretaste Of Inflation Effects

2022-03-22 Thread Roland Francis
Ronak Kotecha a young Indian journalist and vlogger based in Dubai, highlights the effects of inflation in Sri Lanka, a highly indebted-to-China country whose scenario may be offering us a foretaste of the coming situation in several Asian and African countries. It is at inflationary times lik

Re: [Goanet] Grandolfo loves Acronyms BUT

2022-03-15 Thread Roland Francis
It is the Toronto East Goan Seniors Association. Roland. Toronto. > On Mar 15, 2022, at 8:48 AM, Adolfo Mascarenhas wrote: > > Roland In Message: 5 Dated Mon, 14 Mar 2022 13:37:44 -0400 on the > Subject: [Goanet] The TEGSA Setup Message-ID: > <7c2cdd65-0824-49a5-a23f-22f809a16...@g

[Goanet] The TEGSA Setup

2022-03-14 Thread Roland Francis
Sorry, this email was misdirected. *** No matter what impression is given or understood from the Letter of the ONCA law, the underlying Spirit of non-egotistic cooperation between TEGSA’s board of Directors and its President and Officers is most important to the smooth run

[Goanet] The TEGSA Setup

2022-03-14 Thread Roland Francis
more important than the other in terms of service to the members benefiting from the Association and this principle will remain paramount and will be enshrined in the Articles as well as in the By-Laws. That is my hope and my suggestion and I know all of you will support that. Roland Francis

[Goanet] Blame Putin! Biden Lies Too.

2022-03-14 Thread Roland Francis
Trump was known for a lie-a-minute. But Biden is no saint. Tells lies and blames Putin to save his sagging public approval. This is from CNN. US political truces never last long. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine caused a rare interregnum of unity and even rare Republican praise for President Joe B

[Goanet] Clocks Move Forward Today

2022-03-13 Thread Roland Francis
Much of Canada and parts of the US move their time forward today for daylight time, lessening the difference between Indian Time and for example Toronto, by one hour making us 9.5 hours behind IST instead of 10.5 hours yesterday. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/canada-moves-their-clocks-f

[Goanet] Weapons of Financial Destruction

2022-03-13 Thread Roland Francis
The question of whether the dollar can be unseated from its international currency dominance is somewhat like asking whether the BJP in India which makes its Hindutva platform the main policy in a Hindu majority country, could be displaced from power and governance. The common answer to both is

[Goanet] All Indian Medical Roads Lead To Ukraine

2022-03-13 Thread Roland Francis
If you like me, have wondered why Ukraine had become a favourite of Indian medical student aspirations, the Indian Express explains. Here’s a funny fact though: Ukrainian students flee to study abroad because they believe their medical and other educational institutions are caught in a warp bet

[Goanet] The China Moment

2022-03-12 Thread Roland Francis
Australia with its China relationship in the doldrums, is reading the tea leaves stirred up by the the US-China moment when China will seek to take advantage of the results of the Russian experience in Ukraine and the US will look to resetting its own deteriorating relationship with China in ord

Re: [Goanet] GOA-ANALYSIS: Advantage BJP as RGP splits anti-incumbency vote with over 9% of the pie (Vrinda Gopinath)

2022-03-12 Thread Roland Francis
If the Congress had merit with the voters, it should have won the seats on its own without counting on a unified opposition to the BJP. What’s to say that a seat sharing agreement could be arrived at by the opposition. Each party however minor would feel they would definitely win. That’s probab

[Goanet] The Gandhis Must Go

2022-03-11 Thread Roland Francis
An interview of Ramachandra Guha by Karan Thapar. Ramachandra Guha is a modern Indian historian and respected commentator whose columns appear in leading Indian media. This interview is a discussion of his recent book “Rebels Against The Raj”. His previous three books were about the Nehru-Gand

[Goanet] The Goa Elections From Afar

2022-03-10 Thread Roland Francis
There are very few Goan expatriates who would view the election results with anything but the deepest cynicism no matter who won. But the one that won this time is the Party of Death. The one that was responsible for the deaths in hospitals in Goa during Covid because arrangements for oxygen wer

[Goanet] The Truth About High Gasoline Prices

2022-03-09 Thread Roland Francis
How US Oil Multinationals cheat the American Public (and others too). Here is the Candian situation: We pay 40% more at the pump than US drivers do and yet the Canadian Petroleum website says the following: “Canada produces more oil and natural gas than we need to meet energy demand within our

Re: [Goanet] Apparently reasons behind Putin madness

2022-03-09 Thread Roland Francis
I don’t know whether this is one more example of Nelson’s cavalier treatment of the English language or whether it is a brilliant play on the word that is used to describe Napoleon Bonaparte’s ignominious defeat. Imagine a “loo of water” to describe the consequence of stepping into a foolish a

[Goanet] Will the Ukraine war plunge the world economy into a new crisis?

2022-03-09 Thread Roland Francis
The world economy has evolved into a finely tuned instrument that covers the whole space of global trade, commerce and currency as if it in a large, crowded room. Just as a musical trio playing good music must be heard in silence and lack of movement in the room, so must the world economy hum i

[Goanet] Keep Fighting Ukraine - We’ll Hold Your Coat

2022-03-07 Thread Roland Francis
From Canada’s National Post: "The U.S. and its allies may be united in their repugnance about what is happening in Ukraine but the lack of will to deter the Russian bully is as transparent as the grave consequences it presents for global stability," writes Derek Burney. "Instead of throwing a ga

[Goanet] Strutting Indian Politician Peacocks

2022-03-07 Thread Roland Francis
Unsurprisingly, Goa is full of them too. From The India Cable: “It took a Romanian mayor to rip apart PM Modi’s gimmick of despatching four Union ministers to Europe for ‘evacuation’, which the Indian newspapers have hailed as yet another masterstroke. In an interview to The Quint, Mihai Ang

[Goanet] Woman Abused In Kuwait (Erratum)

2022-03-06 Thread Roland Francis
The incident occurred in Qatar, where the Soccer World Cup is to be held this year and not in Kuwait.

[Goanet] Woman Abused In Kuwait

2022-03-06 Thread Roland Francis
Wonder why the Gulf and some other Muslim countries are terrified of women and turn that fear into unjustified abuse that they heap on them. Many is the report of a woman being raped, complaining to the authorities and getting accused of adultery (a serious crime in those places) for that troubl

[Goanet] How Amazon Avoids Taxes Everywhere

2022-03-05 Thread Roland Francis
Sorry, I missed inserting Al Jazeera’s excerpt in my previous post. Here it is: If you think Amazon behaves badly in the U.S., I’ve got disappointing news for you – it’s definitely not better anywhere else. According to a new report, the corporate giant has avoided billions of dollars in taxes

[Goanet] How Amazon Avoids Taxes Everywhere

2022-03-05 Thread Roland Francis
An exposé from Al Jazeera on how Amazon gets subsidies from municipalities by pitting them against each other. So far they have collected $4 billion dollars of such subsidies How miserly Amazon gets subsidies on the basis of job creation for local communities but in fact uses all the services t

[Goanet] All About Sanctions

2022-03-04 Thread Roland Francis
Russia’s geoeconomic dependence on China will grow substantially,” Lukin wrote in an email, adding that If Russia remains “heavily sanctioned for a long time to come, it could become like Iran or maybe even like North Korea” — in that it is totally reliant on Beijing. Roland Francis 416-453-3371

[Goanet] Valencia’s Horchata

2022-03-04 Thread Roland Francis
Portuguese Goa had it’s own orchata - a lovely milky white drink made of almonds and rose water and particularly soothing in the territory’s stifling summer heat. But this is a BBC Travel article on tiger nuts from the Valencia region of Spain and the local sweet drink they make of it. The hist

Re: [Goanet] MR PRATAPSINGH RANE, TOILET- CLEANING JOB ABROAD IS MORE HONOURABLE THAN POLITICALLY GORGING ON ITS PRODUCTS

2022-03-03 Thread Roland Francis
Well said and well remembered. Roland. > On Mar 2, 2022, at 2:38 PM, Aires Rodrigues wrote: > > No one will ever forget that insulting reference by a former Chief Minister > of Goa to Goans striving to earn a living abroad (for decent and > honourable wages) as "toilet cleaners"; and everyone

[Goanet] 3 Scenarios for How Putin's Ukraine War Ends

2022-03-02 Thread Roland Francis
An opinion column by Thomas Friedman who is an American political commentator and author. He is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who is a weekly columnist for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs, global trade, the Middle East, globalization, and environmental issu

[Goanet] Biden And The Russian Oligarchs

2022-03-02 Thread Roland Francis
Hypocrisy and double dealings always come to the surface in times of tension. On the radio news this morning one could hear Joe Biden warning the Oligarchs in the most threatening voice he could muster in words to the effect that: “We will take you to task and bring you to justice, depriving you

Re: [Goanet] Why Russia invaded Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread Roland Francis
Dear Egas, In your reply to Nelson Lopes you mention that despite “assurances”, (not guarantees) that the the security of Ukraine would be respected by the US, Russia and the UK, current events have occurred. I may point out current events have no relation to the 1994 dismantling of the nukes

[Goanet] Raise The Bogeyman

2022-03-01 Thread Roland Francis
Here is an excerpt from one of Canada’s conservative media - the National Post. "Russian President Vladimir Putin has made two major miscalculations: he underestimated the courage and resolve of the Ukrainian people, as well as the willingness of western countries to punish Russia, even if it har

[Goanet] Why India Abstained

2022-02-28 Thread Roland Francis
In a recent move in the UN Security Council censuring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, India abstained from the vote and it ended with Russia exercising their veto. Memories of countries don’t entirely die and besides the Soviet vetoes that helped to kill the several UN censures of Indian actions

[Goanet] WE ALL ARE GUILTY FATHER

2022-02-27 Thread Roland Francis
Don’t forget Stan Swamy. The video is 7 months old but Rajdeep Sardesai tells it like it was. https://youtu.be/kBKLECOBeNQ Roland. Toronto.

Re: [Goanet] Mobile Crematoriums

2022-02-26 Thread Roland Francis
Grand-Adolfo, This is how they work: https://youtu.be/mVPTqHZqdz0 Roland. > On Feb 26, 2022, at 6:54 PM, Adolfo Mascarenhas wrote: > > > In Message: 3 Dated: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 01:52:13 + (UTC) on the subject > of Subject: Re: [Goanet] Mobile Crematoriums > Message-ID: <251993730.1390978

[Goanet] Symphony Of Passion And Purpose

2022-02-26 Thread Roland Francis
Melvyn Misquita whose project this is, is one of the nicest individuals you could ever meet. In that, he takes after his father the late Valentine (Valu) Misquita from the house near the Tinto in Aldona. The family lived for many years in Dukhan the main oilfields area of Qatar peninsula. Valu w

[Goanet] The Russian Position

2022-02-25 Thread Roland Francis
I am not a Putin fan but in this speech he shoots straight and answers the question posed to him with full clarity, thereby shoving the US and NATO into a corner. Putin: How Would America React If Russian Missiles Were Placed At The Bo... https://youtu.be/W2Cugn8JZfk Roland. Toronto.

[Goanet] Mobile Crematoriums

2022-02-25 Thread Roland Francis
Recent news indicates that Russia dwarfs Ukraine in the firepower used in the fighting, but that the Ukrainians are putting up a much more stiff defence than was expected. Putin, not wanting body bags returning to Mother Russia because the invasion is unpopular back home, has ordered Mobile Cr

[Goanet] No Pandemic Is Deadlier Than Stupidity

2022-02-24 Thread Roland Francis
A thinking essay by the NYT’s Frank Bruni. Though he refers in passing to stupidity during the Pandemic, this essay is really about his thoughts on the invasion of Ukraine and Putin’s intentions behind it. It is also about our being lulled into assuming that a military aggression like this was

[Goanet] The Final Moments Of Life

2022-02-24 Thread Roland Francis
It’s a well known phrase that in a moment of intense fear or danger, your life will flash before your eyes. Now, an accidental experiment that was set up to measure neurological activity following an epilepsy attack was able incidentally to measure the type of brain activity of the same person

[Goanet] Blood Cobalt - The Chinese in Katanga

2022-02-23 Thread Roland Francis
An investigative story by Australia’s ABC News of the exploitation of the mineral rich Katanga province of the DRC, previously by the Belgians and now by the Chinese. Cobalt is one of ten economic areas of world domination on which China is now focusing its efforts. The foundation of all these

[Goanet] Lucilla Pacheco

2022-02-21 Thread Roland Francis
ndra Hill Road residence and quietly passed away in 1989, at the age of 60. Credits: Kunal Desai/ The Music Room blog. Roland Francis 416-453-3371

Re: [Goanet] 80-year-old senior citizen murdered at Varca in South Goa.

2022-02-20 Thread Roland Francis
Chalk it up to another unsolved crime. In my Bombay days and no doubt prevalent now in Goa, (because it takes some time for city systems to catch up in rural areas) it was like this: You wanted to commit a serious crime (like murder), you went to the local police honcho, usually the Senior Insp

Re: [Goanet] Singapore PM

2022-02-20 Thread Roland Francis
Mr Loong would say: First they rant (at women). Then they rape. Then having become criminals, they enter Indian parliament. Roland. Toronto. > On Feb 20, 2022, at 4:51 AM, Paul p wrote: > > One wonders what Mr Loong would say to this thought process > https://thewire.in/politics/uttarakhan

Re: [Goanet] Bravo Singapore PM

2022-02-18 Thread Roland Francis
of society. One can see that at work in > Goa. > > Nothing can be taken at face value anymore !! Follow the money (aka power) > - money and power are two sides of the same coin, the currency which > dominates society today. Civilization is regressing, not progressing. >

[Goanet] Pants On Fire

2022-02-18 Thread Roland Francis
I’m betting that if your pants were on fire you would take immediate corrective action rather than: 1 Wait for passers by to help you. 2 Blame the tailor for making them long so they touched a passing bonfire. 3 Faulted yourself for buying flammable material. But the Chief of Goa Police is doing

[Goanet] Bravo Singapore PM

2022-02-17 Thread Roland Francis
The truth is sometimes difficult to swallow and in Modi’s India, it is a most reviled dish in the Hindutva cuisine. The Singapore PM has made 3 important points though not in so many words. 1. Modi’s India is a sordid and far cry from Nehru’s India. 2. Almost half of India’s parliament is filled

Re: [Goanet] The Ukraine Problem

2022-02-17 Thread Roland Francis
A relevant excerpt from the link. “As Ukraine is not a NATO member, Canada has no direct obligation to provide a military response as it would if Germany, the U.K. or the U.S. were attacked, but due to the country’s close ties to NATO and the strategic ramifications of the Russia-Ukraine crisi

[Goanet] The Ukraine Problem

2022-02-17 Thread Roland Francis
Any which way this Ukraine problem goes, Putin has shown Western Democracy leaders that it is he, not them who holds the reins. One thing is sure. On the ground, air and sea, you cannot confront Putin on his neighbourhood. The best you can do is to put economic sanctions which may or may not w

[Goanet] Where Are All Those Postings Gone?

2022-02-16 Thread Roland Francis
All gone in passing A long time ago. With due apology to Peter, Paul and Mary. I feel bad that so many posters’ doodles go off somewhere in cyberspace never to appear again. So if you want to see your posts appear on Goanet and they currently don’t, PLEASE ADDRESS THEM TO: goa...@goanet.or

Re: [Goanet] Over A Million Goans in Canada

2022-02-16 Thread Roland Francis
Dear Adolfo, There are certainly not 1 million Goans in Canada. There is no accurate count of Goans anywhere in the Diaspora since no concerted effort has been made by any Goan organization to count them. Wonder if Portugal is an exception. All figures of Goans in any place outside Goa are re

[Goanet] Inside Joe Biden's Cabinet

2022-02-16 Thread Roland Francis
A great article from the Business Insider giving a ringside view on how Biden treats his cabinet and functions with it. Here is where his political experience truly shines. One can find no fault in how he does it. Unfortunately this smooth and successful White House functioning seems to have li

Re: [Goanet] NEED FOR ELECTORAL REFORMS

2022-02-15 Thread Roland Francis
Aires Rodrigues will never get the electoral reforms that he wants or that are needed since all the political parties benefit from the current mess and therefore will continue to be complicit in it. Coming to vote count, while all-India elections held simultaneously on a single day may present

[Goanet] A Democracy Destroying Itself

2022-02-15 Thread Roland Francis
US Democracy was solid. Earned through the hard work of ordinary Americans and their extraordinary leaders over generations. And then came along a crook, a narcissist, a liar and cheat and the whole foundation is shaken to the core. It was not the man himself who caused it. Such men come and g

[Goanet] Married To The Quran

2022-02-15 Thread Roland Francis
There is no end to the misogynistic illegal, harmful and even violent practices in India and Pakistan meant to prevent giving ancestral property to the females in the household or to prevent them from marrying someone the household males deem ‘unsuitable’. Here is one such abominable practice.

[Goanet] A View From Afar

2022-02-14 Thread Roland Francis
In their utter disgust with the misrule of the BJP in Goa, the people are frantically reaching out for (what they perceive as) a saviour government. Either there are no options or they are being fooled by the Congress party into believing all their problems will be over if Rahul Gandhi’s party t

Re: [Goanet] 25. Mobilisation: Navy & IAF (Valmiki Faleiro)

2022-02-13 Thread Roland Francis
Seems to me there was a complete breakdown in Indian intelligence gathering with reference to the Portuguese forces and their armaments. This lack of intelligence carried over to cause the humiliating defeat by China in just the next year. Roland. Toronto. > On Feb 13, 2022, at 8:06 AM, Goa

[Goanet] Living On The Top Floors

2022-02-12 Thread Roland Francis
There is something about living on the higher floors of a high rise building that makes you do crazy things. This video shows a woman in Faridabad, Haryana lowering her son by means of a twisted cloth from the 9th floor to the 8th floor to retrieve something that fell from a clothesline. When

[Goanet] The Truckers Protest

2022-02-12 Thread Roland Francis
Goanetters must have read enough about the Canadian truckers aka Freedom Convoy protests going on in parts of the country including one important border crossing. So instead of posting links explaining it, here in a nutshell are the circumstances that surround the agitation. 1. How did it star

Re: [Goanet] From Mallan for Frederick

2022-02-12 Thread Roland Francis
Finally, some sense from a Mallan Kurian. Roland. Toronto. > On Feb 12, 2022, at 1:55 PM, Workforce Advisory wrote: > > 301 candidates for 40 constituencies. > > 10 days to the most important election for Goa in the 21st century. > > 10 days to select 40 qualified candidates. > > No comparat

[Goanet] How China Exerts Control

2022-02-11 Thread Roland Francis
Do you sometimes envy how China does things, for example how they strangle Covid and keep the country safe? Well, after you watch this video you will embrace the democracy in which you live, warts and all! https://youtu.be/-YhEN8ZPD6I Roland. Toronto.

Re: [Goanet] How four Christian votes made Pakistan possible - The Friday Times - Naya Daur

2022-02-11 Thread Roland Francis
Whichever way you look at it, at the present time the manifold contributions that the Christian community have made to both the countries has been forgotten. Both Pakistan with pacification of their extreme Muslim element and India with the current Hindutva outlook have been giving or are on the

Re: [Goanet] Italian POWs in India

2022-02-10 Thread Roland Francis
The construction of the church started in 1954 and was completed in 1957. It was quite possible that Fr. Maschio brought in some Italian construction people for the work. The architecture, design and look definitely reflects a native Italian concept, but it would not have been the Italian POWs w

[Goanet] The Newest India Saint

2022-02-10 Thread Roland Francis
Devasahayam Pillai from Madras and the erstwhile Travancore State. Perhaps the Pope has to now focus on Blessed Agnelo Fernandes. Explained: Who is Devasahayam, the first Indian layman to be conferred sainthood? | Explained News,The Indian Express https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/exp

[Goanet] The Hijab Controversy - A College Professor Writes

2022-02-10 Thread Roland Francis
I taught in a premier women's college in Bangalore for most of my teaching career. In my classroom, there were Hindu girls who wore their bindis, sacred ash, holy threads on their wrists etc. There were also Hindu girls in Western clothing who came out in all their ethnic beauty for Ethnic Day

[Goanet] Cheap Chicken Comes At A High Cost

2022-02-10 Thread Roland Francis
Who really is to blame? The ever increasing population of the world or the ruthless corporations that employ any undesirable practices within their means to fill the need of growing hunger in the planet. Whichever it is, nature has its own ways of hitting back. Opinion | The Cost of Cheap Chic

Re: [Goanet] Italian POWs in India

2022-02-10 Thread Roland Francis
A post from Patrice which was probably wrongly addressed to Goanet Lists. > On Feb 10, 2022, at 5:53 AM, patrice riemens wrote: > > >> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 11:33:34 -0500 >> From: Roland Francis >> To: goa...@goanet.org >> Cc: Dr Eric Pinto >> Subj

[Goanet] Why Employees Don’t Disclose Salaries While Advertising

2022-02-09 Thread Roland Francis
They got away with it for so long. Now, no longer. Who knew they didn’t do it because they hoped to hire for less! Here's what happens when salary is actually included in job listings https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/09/success/salary-ranges-pay-transparency/index.html Roland. Toronto.

Re: [Goanet] Italian POWs in India

2022-02-09 Thread Roland Francis
What a fascinating tale of the wartime Italian connection to India. Wonder whether Bombay’s Monginis was the creation of a freed Italian POW who went on to open the cafe and restaurant which became present day Akbarallys whose specialty cakes are named after their Italian predecessors. I was s

[Goanet] Goa’s Ajeeb Politics

2022-02-08 Thread Roland Francis
The situation in Goa is very fertile ground for all manner of doctoral theses. Any one not living there is surely amazed at the brazen behaviour of all concerned. 1. Exposés however serious, have no effect on people in office. They keep on functioning as if nothing has happened. Boris Johnson

[Goanet] CPR or Happy Ending?

2022-02-08 Thread Roland Francis
pots with sand. When I asked her if the sand served the purpose, better than any powdered detergent, she assured me. Two people banging in the snow might be the wildest video out of Toronto all year. https://www.blogto.com/city/2022/02/might-be-wildest-video-shot-toronto-all-year/ Roland

Re: [Goanet] From Majorda To Mumbai - Anthony Prabhu Gonsalves

2022-02-07 Thread Roland Francis
interest. https://2dayhistory.com/2021/01/19/legendary-music-arranger-composer-anthony-gonsalves/ Roland. > On Feb 7, 2022, at 5:47 PM, Roland Francis wrote: > > There was a time when Goan music was looked down upon. Add to that, geniuses > are never recognized in India. Every ge

[Goanet] From Majorda To Mumbai - Anthony Prabhu Gonsalves

2022-02-07 Thread Roland Francis
There was a time when Goan music was looked down upon. Add to that, geniuses are never recognized in India. Every genius born an Indian was acclaimed only after they went abroad. So it was with Anthony Gonsalves. His fusion of Goan music with Indian classical music was celebrated only after he

[Goanet] Once More With Feeling

2022-02-06 Thread Roland Francis
One made a famous Indian Prime Minister cry. The other brought the ills of Apartheid to a world audience. Who would you rather listen to? Give me Miriam Makeba! Lata Mangeshkar - Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo (Come My Countrymen) https://youtu.be/sdyPozsx_6M Miriam Makeba - Khawuleza Mama (Hurry Mam

[Goanet] Deep, Deep, Deep (The Detailed BBC Story)

2022-02-06 Thread Roland Francis
In November 2020, a convoy carrying Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's most prominent nuclear scientist, came under fire. He was killed with an artificial intelligence-assisted remote control machine gun. Carrying out an assassination in such a surgical fashion against a moving target without any civi

[Goanet] Deep, Deep, Deep!

2022-02-06 Thread Roland Francis
That indicates the extent of Mossad’s penetration into nations that are their country’s enemies. But so paranoid are the Israelis, they often deeply penetrate into countries that are friendly to them as well. Many experiences of Israeli agents caught and exposed in the US are examples of this.

Re: [Goanet] Cyd Paes of Goana Foods

2022-02-06 Thread Roland Francis
His products are widely available in the mom and pop Indian shops in Toronto though the bigger mainstream supermarkets don’t stock them in their ethnic product aisles. The quality is OK and the packets are useful when you get a taste of Goan food you want to rustle up at home. YouTube has so

Re: [Goanet] When Lata Mangueshkar sang Malaika...

2022-02-06 Thread Roland Francis
It’s a terrible version of Malaika. Lata Mangeshkar or not. She thought she could do an Usha Uthup but failed miserably. Roland. > On Feb 6, 2022, at 5:41 AM, Frederick Noronha > wrote: > > Thanks to Alister Miranda for the link! > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UFQSuz3_3VE&feature=youtu.be >

Re: [Goanet] GOA-Toronto is live right now....

2022-02-05 Thread Roland Francis
comprise this 400K Goan figure. 3. Christians in India are about 2% of the population but Catholics are no more than 1/2 of Christians and Goans no more than 1/8 (guesstimate) of those Catholics. Hence my question to John. Roland Francis Toronto. > On Feb 4, 2022, at 8:58 PM, Frederick Noro

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