Re: [Goanet] Who speaks for us Hindus ?

2008-12-09 Thread Bosco D'Mello
From: Samir Kelekar : Mario dont talk crap. Where did I talk of censoring or ostracizing? Mario responds: OK, but is it alright if I illustrate your crap? I am only urging the public to note the above. From: "Bosco D'Mello" Why are you urging the public to note the above. Mario res

Re: [Goanet] Who speaks for us Hindus ?

2008-12-08 Thread Mario Goveia
> From: Samir Kelekar : > Mario dont talk crap. Where did I talk of censoring or ostracizing? > > I am only urging the public to note the above. > > Mario responds: > OK, but is it alright if I illustrate your crap? > With the advent of the OCI, even the Indian government disagrees with Mr. > Ke

Re: [Goanet] Who speaks for us Hindus ?

2008-12-04 Thread Bosco D'Mello
This is a classic Goanet thread!! Mired in a game of ping-pong until one of the participants blinks. Standby, this good go on for weeks!! A thread that involves Mario; could go on for weeks!! From: Samir Kelekar : Mario dont talk crap. Where did I talk of censoring or ostracizing? Ma

[Goanet] Who speaks for us Hindus ?

2008-12-04 Thread Mario Goveia
Mario wrote: > > As one who represents the spirit of reason, truth and peace on Goanet, I > have noticed that Samir seems to have embarked on yet another > contentious attempt on Goanet to censor some members and/or ostracize > them when one disapproves of their opinions and is unable to deal wi

[Goanet] Who speaks for us Hindus ?

2008-12-02 Thread Samir Kelekar
>Mario asks: >As one who represents the spirit of reason, truth and peace on Goanet, I >have >noticed that Samir seems to have embarked on yet another contentious >attempt >on Goanet to censor some members and/or ostracize them when one disapproves of their opinions and is unable to deal with t

[Goanet] Who speaks for us Hindus ?

2008-12-01 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:27:24 -0800 (PST) From: Samir Kelekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Some of these (not all) who cast themselves as Hindus, are the height of hypocrisy. Having made their career in a "Christian" country, and probably even having taken the citizenship of that country, they are now tr

Re: [Goanet] Who speaks for us Hindus ?

2008-12-01 Thread Frederick "FN" Noronha
Hi Samir, Are you suggesting that a Hindu necessarily has to remain in India? If so, the obverse of that coin is that non-Hindus (specially those whose faith has origins abroad, have no place in India!) I was on another point. I think religious identities are important sometimes. But they are not

Re: [Goanet] Who speaks for us Hindus.......

2008-12-01 Thread Vivian A. DSouza
Let me seethere is the Shiv Sena, Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, BJP, and the likes of Narendra Modi.   Do we need more ?

[Goanet] Who speaks for us Hindus ?

2008-11-30 Thread Samir Kelekar
Hi Fred: >Though I very much suspect that the game is lost by >positing the issue in these terms -- do we think of ourselves as >Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Parsees and Jews OR Indians OR Goans OR >rationale people with a point to make? Some of these (not all) who cast themselves as Hindus, are t

Re: [Goanet] Who speaks for us Hindus?

2008-11-30 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]
Maybe it's time the "Hindus" themselves choose some articulate, rationale, non-fundamentalist and more convincing spokesmen for themselves. Though I very much suspect that the game is lost by positing the issue in these terms -- do we think of ourselves as Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Parsees and J

[Goanet] Who speaks for us Hindus?

2008-11-30 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Rajan, With Ms. Rice as Secretary of State in the outgoing US administration and Ms. Clinton as Secretary of State in the incoming administration; and Chancellor Ms. Angela Merkel of Germany; and Queen Elizabeth II of UK; and Ms. Tipzi Livni as Foreign Minister in Israel - the Indian Foreign o

Re: [Goanet] Who speaks for us Hindus?

2008-11-30 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- On Sat, 11/29/08, Rajan P. Parrikar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Leftist frauds like Amartya have peculiar standards > of induction. He tells us that we should not mistake > the "miniscule" Muslim population for the larger > whole. But in his periodic rants against Hindus, it is exactly >

Re: [Goanet] Who speaks for us Hindus?

2008-11-30 Thread Carvalho
--- On Sat, 11/29/08, Rajan P. Parrikar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Pakis are skilled in > the PR department. They trot out smartly dressed > Oxbridge-accented individuals on television who > can charm the pants off Americans and other > world audiences. The Indians, on the other hand, > are

[Goanet] Who speaks for us Hindus?

2008-11-30 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - The Indian Leftist dregs led by their patron-saint Amartya Sen are now out in full force issuing apologia on behalf of Islam and Islamic terrorists. But who speaks for the Hindus? Nobody. Why? Because we are 'secular.' India has already lost the PR war to Pakistan. The narrative