Re: [Goanet] Oh gawd, look what your Prime Minister is doing in India...

2018-02-25 Thread Venantius J Pinto
DD: "Everything happens by Accident, on Purpose". And the color gamut of those kurtas. Colors are free for all. Yes? The Indian flag if one conveniently points to it has green, blue, and white too. And then asceticism is thrown in the mix too as in: But it is an ascetic color. So?! Perhaps the

Re: [Goanet] Oh gawd, look what your Prime Minister is doing in India...

2018-02-25 Thread Dan Driscoll
Perhaps I should add that by virtue of some friends Membership I was in the Calcutta Cricket Club one evening (circa 1976) wearing a 'raw silk waistcoat'; admitted to the 'inner sanctum' I was politely asked to withdraw from the room. Problem was solved by donning a somewhat ill-fitting black

Re: [Goanet] Oh gawd, look what your Prime Minister is doing in India...

2018-02-25 Thread Dan Driscoll
Many Thanks. Once in Goa a chap came into a little bar I was in, wearing a T Shirt that said, "I WAS AN ATHEIST, UNTIL I LEARNED THAT I WAS GOD". One of the Roman Emperors, on his deathbed, is recorded as having said, "I feel as if I am becoming a god". Teilhard's spin on that is that human

Re: [Goanet] Oh gawd, look what your Prime Minister is doing in India...

2018-02-25 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Hi Dan— You rock. Say it as you see it, sense it, and know it. In India, at design school we would say dakkand/s (lids) to those who ticked us off. And not to forget, baida (egg, egghead — various connotations). We also had hajams (barbers) much as the geniuses may say is improper. Ouch! There

Re: [Goanet] Oh gawd, look what your Prime Minister is doing in India...

2018-02-24 Thread Dan Driscoll
What I do not like about it is 'the way THEY'VE dressed him up; the silk pyjamas and the capes, etc. he would not PERSONALLY have selected this; it's being done by others, and I'd say that one of young Trudeau's little weaknesses is being too polite to say 'No'. Inappropriate Invites are the

[Goanet] Oh gawd, look what your Prime Minister is doing in India...

2018-02-24 Thread Frederick Noronha
http://www.cc.com/episodes/way50h/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-extended---february-22--2018---lupita-nyong-o-season-23-ep-23062?xrs=synd_facebook_022318_tds_43 OR https://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow/videos/10156308118926800/ and not a word from all our Canadian Goanetters out there! Please