[Goanet-news] Goanet Highlights - Feb 18, 2007

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HOMEPAGE PHOTO: Subodh Kerkar's latest installation titled 'Harvesting the 
Beach'

COLUMNS > MIGUEL BRAGANZA: Testing Times Are Here Again
The children in school have finished their 'Prelims', as the Preliminary 
Examinations are popularly called, and are readying themselves for the Goa 
Board of Education's final examinations to get their SSC or HSSC marks cards 
as proof of their fitness to progress up the academic ladder.
http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=791

COLUMNS > VALMIKI FALEIRO: Goa's ruling MGP was reduced to minority on June 
23, 1970. Technically, though, government was still in majority. Read 
Valmiki's expose on how the rot of political defections was introduced to 
Goa.
http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=794

COLUMNS > CECIL PINTO: Most everyone knows that 'carnival' comes from the 
Latin word for truck, 'car' and the Spanish word for floating music 
'nivale'. Carnival thus refers to 'floats on trucks with amplified music'.
http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=793

A&E > BOOKS: The Tailor's Daughter  by  Ben Antao
What happens when the beautiful, charming and ambitious Eliza Rodricks of 
Nairobi comes to study tailoring in Margao and falls in love with the local 
bhatkar?
http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=780

A&E > MUSIC: Oliver Sean  -  Darna Chod Do
Oliver Sean, internationally acclaimed Singer/Songwriter, who is from Goa 
and who has created waves across the world with his album 'I Like It' 
releases his new album 'Darna Chod Do' which is his debut Hindi Album.
http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=790

A&E > MUSIC: Lionnel Mascarenhas  -  Wonderland
The 8 tracks on "Wonderland" offer a rich mix of styles and soundscapes, 
fully exhibiting Lionnel's prowess as a singer and songwriter, while never 
straying from a hook-laden format that makes each song easy on the ear and 
instantly likeable.
http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=789


-- Goanet Poll --

What needs to be done to curb land-speculation in Goa?:

[] Ban on sale of land to "non-Goans"
[] Ban on sale of land to non-residents
[] Centralize "final" approval of land sales
[] It is far more complex than that....

Cast your vote at:
http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=Polls&req=results&pollID=22


-- Goanet Events --

19Feb07 - Vijay Rath of Devi Kamakshi, Goa
20Feb07 - Ash Wednesday (Global)
23Feb07 - Goa Agenda 2007; GCCI Convention Hall, Panaji, Goa

More events at:

http://www.goanet.org/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&tplview


-- Goanet Nostagia --

Tony Fernandes, author of GOA: Memories of my homeland shares his 
photographs of the Carnival in 1973
http://ca.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tonferns@rogers.com/my_photos
http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=290


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