Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ).

2008-11-25 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:26:42 -0800 (PST) From: Gabriel de Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I won't give their name, but many people will know the gent whose initials are D.C., is a great musician, and has a few CDs to his name during his time in Goa. My views are anti-lies told by India. Mario

Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ).

2008-11-25 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
--- On Sat, 22/11/08, Radhakrishnan Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Radhakrishnan Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ). > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Received: Saturday, 22 November, 2008, 10:52 PM >

Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ).

2008-11-24 Thread Venantius Pinto
Dear RKN, Thanks for taking the time to respond. I agree with your distinction, and needless to say by making this clear, you just may have brought a whole lot of sensibility to Goanet. If in the coming months we see its traces, then so much the better. I personally try to take each post at face va

Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ).

2008-11-24 Thread Radhakrishnan Nair
Dear Ven, Your rather long post in a philosophical vein demands reciprocity and let me put down some thoughts here in a similar vein. First of all, like most Goanetters, I've been a migrant away from my hearth and home most of my adult life (and I still am) and I do understand your angst and asp

Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ).

2008-11-23 Thread Venantius Pinto
Dear RKN, There are times when you are terribly precise and incisive. And I do believe that all such good views are appreciated in the minds of those who live and cherish often recalled as Goaness, or a Goan way of being. I shall continue under the same subject heading since its really about "Ways

Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ).

2008-11-22 Thread Mario Goveia
> From: eric pinto > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ). > > I was not surprised: the Foreign News Desk > editor is African American. Generally hateful to immigrants, > their xenophobia towards Indians has now reached a new high. > ---

Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ).

2008-11-22 Thread Venantius Pinto
ans and neither coveniently allows itself to be pinned down -- not to fossilize either, but to engage with either of them. venantius j pinto > From: "Radhakrishnan Nair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ).

Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ).

2008-11-22 Thread Radhakrishnan Nair
<> This is a lie. No Chinese immigration official dare say that to an Indian. These are the kind of stories some Portuguese passport holding Goans regale themselves with to feel good about their decision. And this is not the kind of resentment Eric and Mario talked about. That's at a diffferent l

Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ).

2008-11-22 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sat, 11/22/08, Gabriel de Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This was what I was talking about roughly a month ago, > though Dr. Santosh Helekar and the ever-present Mario G > disagreed with me ... > I was intrigued more, as I always am, by the question as to why some Indians don'

Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ).

2008-11-21 Thread Gabriel de Figueiredo
--- On Sat, 22/11/08, eric pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: eric pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ). > > I was not surprised: the Foreign News Desk > editor is African American. Generall

Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ).

2008-11-21 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:04:51 -0800 (PST) From: eric pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yet, the New York Times, which goes beyond Wires and posts it's own correspondents in twenty odd countries, said not a word. I was not surprised: the Foreign News Desk editor is African American. Generally hateful t

Re: [Goanet] Goans' tryst with pirates ( and US Africans ! ).

2008-11-21 Thread eric pinto
Goans' tryst with pirates continues Agonda youth on board hijacked ship off Somalia-- -- --- The news of the Indian Navy action off Somalia filled the airwaves, print and webb sites and was the talk of the town in the Western world, lifting weary spirits in