| Frederick Noronha (FN) on Fri, 5 Nov 2004 00:10:03 +0100 (CET) |
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Hi Net-Time folks: This is an update from one of India's earliest regional-based mailing list, dealing with the region of Goa, on the west coast of South Asia. Frederick Noronha ---------- Forwarded message ---------- To join write to viviana at goanet.org and request to join Goanet-Digest. Goanet completes 10 years this year. Goanet, the month that was. October 2004. ----------------------------------------- Reports keep coming in from across the Goan diaspora; here's an interesting one about Goans in Calcutta. [1] Chris Hughes from Down Under defines himself as "an Australian man, happily engaged to go a Goan woman, both living in Australia". He needed advice on the process in getting married in Australia and Goa, and whether there would be any duplication in doing it in two places. [2] [1] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018638.html [2] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018645.html This query brought in quite a few replies and suggestions. See [3] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018652.html [4] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018655.html [5] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018665.html [6] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018735.html Tony Barros and others seem to have launched [7] an interesting thread on Goans in East Africa [7] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018955.html There was also an announcement (from John D'Souza) of a Goan seniors' fun-fair at Toronto [8], held in early October. [8] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018646.html Miguel Braganza in Mapusa asks, 'Why so few Mestico in Goa after 451 years?'[9] [9] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018720.html Eddie Fernandes quotes a report [10] that says two Goans, or PLtG (persons linked to Goa) -- Roque Fernandes and Dominic Martins -- were named in London "dirty bomb arrests" an issue which hardly anyone in Goa itself seems to have taken due note of. [10] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018678.html Vivek Araujo made this appeal to ex-Africanda Goans: "My reminder goes out to all the Goans/pre-1972 of Uganda, to kindly come forward and assist me to claim back the property which used to belong/or belongs present (not in a position to state) to Goans. One of the executive members who has some documentary evidence to prove he/she was a member of the said club could well be the start for me. Please please come forward." [11] [11] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018650.html Vincente Fernandes kept updating us all with upcoming birthdays. If you wish to have yours included, just contact him. One specimen is at [12]. Joel D'Souza of Assagao continued with his useful daily input of news. [12] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018661.html Without doubt, October 2004's debate of the month was about caste among Goa's Catholics. See contributions from Cornel [13], Gilbert Lawrence [14], Godfrey JI Gonsalves [15], Alito Siqueira [16], Miguel Braganza [17], A.C.Menezes [18], Neal Pinto [19], Basilio [20], Jose Colaco [21], Helga do Rosario Gomes [22], FN [23], Mervyn Lobo [24], Melinda Coutinho Powell [25] others [13] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019665.html [14] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019398.html [15] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019366.html [16] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019548.html [17] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019672.html [18] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019679.html [19] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019727.html [20] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019478.html [21] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019462.html [22] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019438.html [23] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019440.html [24] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019443.html [25] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019369.html If you're the religious type -- or even if not -- don't miss Jude Bothello's Sunday Reflections [26] [26] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018643.html Then, of course, there was a wide diversity of news from or on Goa. A comment from sculptor Satish Gujaral (brother of a former Indian prime minister) brought an angry retort from engineer Jose Lourenco, who debated Goa's building styles. [27] [27] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018671.html Mumbai-based documentary film-maker of Goan origin, Anjali Monteiro, has contributed a lot of work to understanding the 'other' India [28] [28] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019456.html Eddie Fernandes points to reports of an oil spill along the Goa coast, at Vasco [29] [29] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018672.html Eagle-eye Eddie again spotted Devika Sequeira's report in the Deccan Herald [30], about the way Goa's culture czars operate. Quite a refreshing difference from what was reported (till questions started getting asked) back in Goa. [30] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019805.html "Cip" Fernandes noted a report which quoted Goa's senior-most official suggesting that feni ought to be patented. [31] Melvyn Misquita offered a link for a news website for the Church in India. [32] [31] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018658.html [32] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018659.html And just when Cecil Pinto "declared" [33] closed the debate on South v/s North (Goa) sausages, a whole lot of outpourings came in from various quarters. [33] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019028.html Interested in Konkani VCDs? JoeGoaUK [34] seems to have them all [34] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019849.html There were some interesting initiatives coming up too: Indo-American Jazz in US [35] [35] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019845.html Some strong and some reasoned emotions on the IFFI. For instance from Samir Kelekar [36] and Philip Thomas [37], Cecil Pinto [38] and Jose Colaco [39] [36] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019827.html [37] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019810.html [38] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019795.html [39] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019793.html Silviano Barbosa came back with a mix of nostalgia, music and Konkani [40]. See his post titled "Moddgonvam thovyaguer," in Hindi lyrics "Goa ke raste pe" from "Classic Goa" CD [40] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019789.html Historian Dr Teotonio R De Souza [41] has another angle on the changing of road-names in Panjim. Eddie Fernandes [42] added to the debate. Some unusual perspectives and suggestions here. [41] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019808.html [42] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019835.html Likewise, the Dabolim airport debate (is the Navy choking operations?) continues, with interesting posts from Philip Thomas [43], Flower [44], Gabriel de Figueiredo [45] and many others [43] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019788.html [44] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019785.html [45] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019279.html Soon after Richard Cabral [46] announced his intention of researching Goa's primary education system (going back decades, to the pre-1961 era), he got some useful help and pointers from Constantino Xavier [47], Robert Lars da Cruz Fernandes [48] and others. [46] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019550.html [47] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019717.html [48] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019763.html Ribandar got a new life in a Goanet debate, but not with the heat that once marked it. This time, a few postings from Aires Rodrigues [49], giving his interpretation of the events there, following allegations of a molestation by a priest [49] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019694.html And this is a call for all past-pupils of St Anthony's Duler [50] [50] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019660.html Our regular and interesting contributor on Goa-of-the-old-times topics Domnic Fernandes was unwell, and hence compelled to stay off the keyboard. Francis Lobo explains why [51]. Looking forward to his earlier return. Here's one not-to-miss, classic [52] post [51] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019258.html [52] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019290.html Do pregnant women come to Goa specially to deliver a baby? Marie D'Souza [53] refutes this view. [53] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019638.html Fermino Faleiro gives us some reports, from the ground, in Margao, both about an agri-bazaar [54], and the need for an facelift at the wholesale fish market [55] of that South Goa commercial capital [54] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019630.html [55] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019580.html Surprise of the month: guess who has posted to Goanet? Former Goa education secretary and an official till recently in the Prime Minister's Office (of Prime Minister A B Vajpayee) Shakti Sinha [56] [56] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019641.html Matka? [58-61] Good, bad or just subject of a undue scare? [58] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019487.html [59] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019572.html [60] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019520.html [61] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019496.html A report on St Xavier's College and its Initiative Assagao [62] [62] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019428.html Meanwhile, a small storm about what the US Marines did in Goa [63-65], whether they were really welcome, and so on [63] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019426.html [64] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019436.html [65] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019301.html Green campaigner-in-his-twenties Rahul Alvares, with another interesting issue of his e-zine 'Creepy Times' [66]. Clinton's WildGoa [67] newsletter is also available here [66] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019557.html [67] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018732.html Someone needed blood [68]in Goa (the patient unfortunately died shortly later). What's the way out? [69] [68] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019196.html [69] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019215.html A strange story [70] about a Goan kept out from his home state allegedly due to an unexplained noting in the police record. See what Rodolfo de Souza in Germany has to say. [70] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019189.html Here are some interesting Goa-related reports you might have not noticed in your newspapers. The Lancet carries a write-up on the demolitions at Baina [71], and numbers and genders depicting Christianity in India [72]. Soter D'Souza (and Goa Messenger) a special article critiquing the functioning of the controversial PDAs (Planning and Development Authorities) in Goa [73]. This [74] meanwhile is a review of Dr Teresa Albuquerque's new book on Bassein (Vassai). [71] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019130.html [72] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019115.html [73] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019039.html [74] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018840.html Languages, anyone? Check out Konkani's [75] description on the Wikipedia [75] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/018759.html If you would like to know what GoanVoiceUK -- http://www.goanvoice.org.uk -- is saying about Goanet [76] [76] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019115.html Shifting to the USofA: Goans are Republicans or Democrats? Much debate errupted over the US elections, see two examples divergent from George Pinto [77] and Chris Vaz [78]. [77] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019859.html [78] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019852.html Want to know what Goanet is all about [79]? Check these stats [79] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019211.html Searching for a soul-mate [80] for life? Check Goanet-Cybermatrimonials [80] http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/2004-October/019860.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOANET WELCOMES contributions from its readers, by way of essays, reviews, features and think-pieces. This is a volunteer-driven network, set up in 1994 (yes, we're ten years old) by Herman Carneiro. To take part in Goanet, post your message in plain-text to goanet@goanet.org or contact viviana@goanet.org for help on how to join. 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