Re: [Goanet] Goan friend earn A-levels

2008-08-22 Thread Alfred de Tavares
PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goan friend earn A-levels There was no question of denouncing my Portuguese nationality, because I never had one. Besides, my father was in the Indian Army and was with Operation Vijay for the liberation of Goa. How can you call Goans born

Re: [Goanet] Goan friend earn A-levels

2008-08-20 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
--- On Tue, 19/8/08, CORNEL DACOSTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: CORNEL DACOSTA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those Goans who are now students in the UK are classified ethnically as Indians and definitely not Portuguese as you seem to prefer. If you knew better, you would know that the Indians do

[Goanet] Goan friend earn A-levels

2008-08-20 Thread Dr. U. G. Barad
This is in reply to Message: 2, Dated: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 While concluding the message, Floriano, conveyed his mind in two lines, which reads If India can control the levels of corruption which it will be forced to do, with the way ordinary people get enlightened now a days, there will be no

Re: [Goanet] Goan friend earn A-levels

2008-08-19 Thread CORNEL DACOSTA
Hi Bernado A response to my post may not merit a scribble according to you. Further, you then request a definition of Indian ethnicity. However, I took you on re your contention that there was a connection between Goan Portuguese passport holders and a-level results. I prefer to stay with this

[Goanet] Goan friend earn A-levels

2008-08-19 Thread Goencho Nadd
Ana Maria de Souza-Goswami writes “It is not difficult for me to get a Portuguese passport because I was born in Goa during the Portuguese regime, so were my parents and grandparents. I thoroughly object you using the word 'ghantis' to us Indians.”    If you claim to be

Re: [Goanet] Goan friend earn A-levels

2008-08-19 Thread Venantius Pinto
Hey people, Its seems that there are a few technicalities involving terms. To my understanding whether one likes it or not, Goans pre-1961 were Portuguese citizens -- as part of Estado da India. Unless there are shades in the concept of Portuguese citizenship that I do not understand. I also read

[Goanet] Goan friend earn A-levels

2008-08-19 Thread Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão
If a person was born in Goa during the Portuguese era and then went to North India before India invaded Goa in December, 1961; there were requirements of “Bilhete de Identidade” and other travel documents to cross over the border. The BI was issued by the Portuguese Government to identify its

Re: [Goanet] Goan friend earn A-levels

2008-08-19 Thread floriano
: [Goanet] Goan friend earn A-levels Hi Bernado A response to my post may not merit a scribble according to you. Further, you then request a definition of Indian ethnicity. However, I took you on re your contention that there was a connection between Goan Portuguese passport holders and a-level

Re: [Goanet] Goan friend earn A-levels

2008-08-18 Thread CORNEL DACOSTA
Hi Bernardo Your logic is seemingly strange for someone who has claimed to be 'UK returned' in previous posts. Most importantly, you have failed to show any causal connection, as imputed by you, between a Portuguese passport and 'A' level grades in the UK education sector. I now make a few

[Goanet] Goan friend earn A-levels

2008-08-18 Thread Bernado Colaco
Hi Cornel, I believe that your ingenuous remarks hardly merit a scribble. Till today you have not offered a definition of indian ethnicity. As for being angry with the bharats they invaded my country and are on the verge of destroying it. Many blame the 40 Goan chors. But the bharat rule has

[Goanet] Goan friend earn A-levels

2008-08-17 Thread Bernado Colaco
Hi Cornel, With a ghanti passport our Goan friends would still be at Heathrow airport trying to get an entry into the UK. Therefore with Portuguese citzenship not only for these Goans (A-levels), but all the strata, from bramanekas, to mars and chamar to sudrekas has been a boon. Your claim to