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PUBLIC
SINS, PRIVATE LUCRE, GOA DAMNED
Valmiki Faleiro writes:
Goa’s stink would put a skunk to shame. Never was
the awful stench of corruption in public life so overpowering, so
intense, so pervasive. Originating from ministerial chambers in the
State Secretariat, bribe culture permeated down to the lowest rung of
Government functioning. So rampant it today is that we, the people, have
accepted it as ‘A way of life.’
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More]
Reaction to Goa
Damned [
read here]
RES IPSA
LOQUITUR: Is it OK to lie and furthermore to justify what is not
true ? [
TGF does not believe so]
When will this
madness stop?
- Valmiki Faleiro
Ben Antao's
Penance - A Book Review by Annabelle Colaco: Penance
is an amazing read and un-put-down-able until the very end. Here’s a
novel for our times!
[read more]
[
review
by Silviano Barbosa ][ review by
Lino
Leitão
][Review
by Michelle Ponto]
Goa’s appalling
road sense-
[1],
[2]
&
[3]
by Valmiki Faleiro:
Expert driving alone
does not make safe drivers. *Road sense,* coupled with fair skill, would
avert bulk of road carnage – emerging, slowly but inexorably, as Goa’s
major tragedy. [Read
a response
from 'Maximus Aurelius']
Canadian Brain
Drain - Ben
Antao:
People in India must wonder why Canada that attracts so many highly
educated and skilled immigrants from the world over is experiencing a
reverse brain drain to the U.S. The short answer is that.........[read
more]
Beating up
Konkani to show love for Konkani -
Pravin Sabnis :
The controversy over
allowing the Konkani language to exist in the Romi and Kannada scripts
is turning ugly, due to unnecessary prejudices.
[More]
Goa's Road
Traffic Department issues Licenses to Kill and Maim?
Valmiki
Faleiro writes: Gone
are the days when driving schools hardly existed in Goa and road
fatalities were rare. But there were men like Cruz and
Dixit, who conducted stringent driving tests before issuing a
licence.
[Read More]
Portuguese
Citizenship for eligible Goans
- Hopes, misconceptions, and what EU Law provides - TGF.
What follows is a
brief summary of the Law as it stands to the Employment safeguards with
regard to EU citizens.
[Read More]
A Shocker from
Chennai ! -
Chetan Chauhan,
Hindustan Times:
A study in
Chennai has found that as many as 42 per cent of school-going
children are victims of sexual abuse. And in most of the cases, the
perpetrators are either close relatives or family members.
A tribute to
Anjediva's Poristhar -
by Anthony
Baretto:
Born on 4 October 1912, Poristhar completed his Segundo Grau and started
a career in the military. His next posting was as Commander on
Anjediv for 16 years and new the place like the back of his hand. “I
spent the best years of my life on the Anjediv Island. Life was full of
excitement,” he would add nostalgically.
Driving Skills in
Goa: What Driving Skills?
by Valmiki Faleiro :
Bad roads and too
many vehicles do not cause accidents. People who drive them do. Abysmal
driving skills and an appalling lack of road sense are the conjoined
twins primarily responsible for death and misery on Goa’s roads.
Violence is Never
the Answer - TGF
It is a sad
commentary on those in the power-blocs who fomented this atmosphere of
communalism, those in the press who should have known better but decided
to stick their ostrichoid heads into the sand, the educated who should
have anticipated wisely but chose to follow instead of leading, and all
those who sold their souls for a few pieces of silver.
Portuguese Nationality 2006
-
Livia de Abreu Noronha
Best of luck to
all the Goans who are anxious to get through this ordeal, which should
have really been a smooth one, "punn bhaile lokhan piddar konn ghallem".
As a Catholic I will say "Devan tumkam sogleank adhar dinvum".
other lead
articles:
A Goan Village circa 1961
: Pride, Prejudice, the Truth, or Selective Blindness in
2006?
The Goa Mess named
Land Survey
ROMAN SCRIPT
For Konkani A MUST: NOW OR NEVER
Science, PseudoScience, Plagiarism
or What?
What a Monumental
Shame !
Chandrakant Keni sez -Expel
Portuguese Goans from Goa
!
Goa:
One man's meat
is another man's poison
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