Re: [Goanet] Sati tradition or greed? How about coerced dowry and greed?

2007-12-15 Thread Gabe Menezes
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[Goanet] Sati tradition or greed? How about coerced dowry and greed?

2007-12-13 Thread Mario Goveia
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Re: [Goanet] Sati tradition or greed? How about coerced dowry and greed?

2007-12-11 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 10/12/2007, Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mario responds: > > > Gabe, . > BTW, still no opinion on coerced dowries, hanh? That > was the main gist of my initial comments on this > thread before we got off on this tangent. QUESTION: Never min

Re: [Goanet] Sati tradition or greed? How about coerced dowry and greed?

2007-12-10 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:33:38 + From: "Gabe Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > There is no need to wait for time to tell; women trafficking is already happening in India right now, the rape of women in India and especially in Delhi is a frightful reality. > Be man enough, get off your high horse,

Re: [Goanet] Sati tradition or greed? How about coerced dowry and greed?

2007-12-10 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 09/12/2007, Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mario responds: > > > Gabe, > > > Only time will tell whether your "sage" sources are > right or not about the consequences of the growing > disparity between the number of men versus women in > India, or my "rudimentary" opinion. RESPONSE:

[Goanet] Sati tradition or greed? How about coerced dowry and greed?

2007-12-09 Thread Mario Goveia
Sat Dec 8 03:02:48 PST 2007 >From Gabe Menezes gabe.menezes at gmail.com > You really need to read the whole piece, because of your rudimentary economic model, that you seem to think will make women better off ! (in India) > Mario responds: > Gabe, > Only time will tell whether your "sage" sources

Re: [Goanet] Sati tradition or greed? How about coerced dowry

2007-12-08 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 08/12/2007, Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mario responds: > > > I speculated on what the growing imbalance between men > and women in India would lead to. You apparently > quoted a subjective study of what some "sage" thinks > is happening in China, a country with a different > mor

Re: [Goanet] Sati tradition or greed? How about coerced dowry

2007-12-08 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:09:20 + From: "Gabe Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My 'opinion' on the subject was: What is already out in the open World Wide Forum; a subjective study of the Chinese situation. With female foeticide and the subsequent, imbalance and the problems thereby arising. Thus

Re: [Goanet] Sati tradition or greed? How about coerced dowry

2007-12-07 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 06/12/2007, Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 08:09:40 + > Mario responds: > > > In that case, which of Alexander Pope's two men were > you acting like when you wrote the following opinion > in your previous post on this very subject, "What a > simplistic appro

Re: [Goanet] Sati tradition or greed? How about coerced dowry

2007-12-07 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 08:09:40 + From: "Gabe Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Unlike you I do not have 'opinions' on every and all subjects. Fools rush in where wise men fear to tread. Alexander Pope(1688-1744) > Mario responds: > In that case, which of Alexander Pope's two men were you acting li

Re: [Goanet] Sati tradition or greed? How about coerced dowry

2007-12-06 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 05/12/2007, Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mario asks: > > > So, what's YOUR complex approach, Gabe? You have > failed to say. > > > Since I was speculating on what may happen as the > imbalance among men and women grows in India, > something that is happening already, what do YOU t

Re: [Goanet] Sati tradition or greed? How about coerced dowry

2007-12-05 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 07:43:53 + From: "Gabe Menezes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What a simplistic approach; the fact of the matter is that as the imbalance grows, so do activities like sharing one woman among brothers and rape escalating. Is that more acceptable...this is already happening in China

Re: [Goanet] Sati tradition or greed? How about coerced dowry and greed?

2007-12-05 Thread Gabe Menezes
On 04/12/2007, Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. > There is another scenario that is evolving in India > that may paradoxically begin to turn the tide. > > > With the ratio of men to women shifting because of > gender-selection abortions of female foetuses and t

Re: [Goanet] Sati tradition or greed? How about coerced dowry and greed?

2007-12-04 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Sachin Phadte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am surprised that the moderators have allowed this > message of John Monteiro through.The whole thing is > conjecture and conjecture. Yes, there has been > sati - no one will deny it. > Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 13:24:11 -0800 (PST) From: Santosh Hel