[Goanet-News] GBiB: The susegaad life of the average Joao!

2014-11-16 Thread Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
GBiB: Goa Books in Brief [Guest column: Clarice Vaz] -- Ti: Feasts, Feni and Firecrackers: Life of a Village Schoolboy in Portuguese Goa Au: Mel D'Souza, written and illustrated by Yp: 2008 Fm: Paperback Pu: mel.dso...@sympatico.ca Av: Fr

[Goanet-News] DEBATE: Identity is not always destiny (Rajdeep Sardesai in HT)

2014-11-16 Thread Goanet Reader
Identity is not always destiny Rajdeep Sardesai November 14, 2014 A simple tweet, all of 140 characters, can be hazardous to one's health as I have discovered to my cost yet again. Last Sunday, as Narendra Modi went in for his first Cabinet expansion, I tweeted: "Big day for my Goa. Two GSBs, b

[Goanet-News] DEBATE: Return of the Peshwas (Rajesh Ramachandran, ET Blogs)

2014-11-16 Thread Goanet Reader
Return of the Peshwas Rajesh Ramachandran In the name of a Maratha warrior, the Brahmin priests of the west coast had run a medieval Hindu kingdom for long. In modern times, whenever the RSS and its political affiliates come to power at the Centre