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Well said Andy.

I was, of course, referring to what a British Expat might be likely to get for their British Pounds, if exchanging them at a suitable place in Goa, not some hypothetical media/cyberspace conversion figure...........

Hence the terminology, "getting close to 90"


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ICICI Bank offering 86.90 this weekend.

AndyD 8-)₹

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That really says all anyone needs to know about the current exchange rate!

This thread is rapidly developing into farce (well its amusing me anyway) with everyone basically re-iterating J5's original observation.

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Travel Feature: Goa seems to have stopped

15 Sep: Otago Daily Times (New Zealand). Its 1970s hippie culture has faded but Goa is steeped in history. Lisa Scott immerses herself in the former Portuguese territory's sights, sounds and smells in this extract from her new book, Travels with my Economist… New Year's Eve is still a biggie with the Brits … Goa is these days a little tattered. And with the soaring murder rate, it's not a very safe place for tourists

http://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magaz...s-have-stopped

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Resurveyed maps of Bardez go online

"14 Sep: Times of India. The Directorate of settlement and land records launched the 'resurvey of maps' - an integrated land document for city properties for Bardez taluka at a function in Mapusa on Thursday. With the launching of the resurvey of maps and the website, the public can view and print the land documents sitting at home… "There is a credit card payment facility where after payment you can download the document and certify it with the mamlatdar," revenue minister Francis D'Souza said… Within two months the website has had about 12,000 hits. "Mostly visitors of the website are Goans settled in USA, UK, and other parts of the world ......."

Has anyone managed to successfully get beyond the homepage of this site, www.dharnaksh.com ???

Whenever I click Enter Site it crashes.

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Try this route, Babu:

dslr.goa.nic.in/islrs.aspx

Seems to work OK.

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And that they should make rain fall upwards, and create snow for Christmas.....Idiot.

http://oheraldo.in/News/Local%20News...Day/64479.html


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Roland Francis: Arranged Marriages - Force, Fear and Obeisance - Stray Thoughts
In Goa of not so long ago, marriage was a big door that opened the exit for women, from a family that loved her yet gave her less than optimum opportunity. The key to that door was the soirrecar or in the female avatar the soirrecarn. This individual was generally a village busybody who liked to poke his or her nose into everybody's business and made use of the information gained along the way to find suitable matches for marriageable young men and women for a small commission if success resulted.
How important was this middle person and to what extent was trust extended? Just as a priest was held in reverence for his spiritual powers, yet lampooned for his other faults that in the closeness of a small village were often obvious, so also the soirrecarn was spoken of in hushed tones for her access to families that few others could boast of, yet ridiculed when sometimes her choice of a proposal seemed designed not for suitability but solely for adding to her track record and commission. If the roles of the village baker, doctor, goldsmith and shopkeeper were not as much appreciated then as it would have been now, from the hindsight of results of the matchmaker's efforts, he or she must surely stand out head above shoulders from the rest of those occupations.

If you treated the matchmaker well, giving him the due respect he felt entitled to, you would get a call about the family of a boy coming on holiday from Africa with the intent of marriage. Education, job, salary, position and personality of the potential groom were all exaggerated so as to make the girl's family feel so lucky. Dowry was unimportant for the 'Africanders', as they were commonly known. They earned well and knew the advantage of a good girl who could tend house, work at an office perhaps and raise children without the unnecessary intervening years after the wedding day that today's girls find so necessary. No asking of dowry was a huge plus as far as the girl's family was concerned. Also on par with Africa, were Abadan, Aden and Bahrain. Next in the desired pecking order was employment on the ship, in Karachi or in Bombay. Lowest on the rung was a boy from Goa itself. For the idler, dowry was demanded, he drank too much and had a piddling job. Who cared that his was probably the kind of experience a girl would look up to rather than the forty year old male virgins from overseas. It was not the girls' place to want such things.
So with the 'Utor' (word) given, the engagement arranged and the resultant marriage quickly completed, off the young woman would go with her trunks loaded on a slow boat to China, in this case a BI ship to Mombasa, Persia or the Middle East. There she would spend a few lonely months missing home, getting acquainted with someone who was supposed to be her husband but at that stage was a mere stranger and try to get oriented in the strange country that was now her home.

But a family was raised, she became a proud matriarch and sometimes even great grandmother and the marriage initiated by the soirrecar lasted to the death. Few such stories of loving families born from the hugs of virtual strangers are heard of today. Internet dating sites, office environments, and even the matchmaking efforts of religious organizations have replaced the village soirrecar and the soirrecarn. Naïve and obedient daughters of Goan households are rare and want to date for five and even ten years before they get married. That is if they get married at all. The pleasures of common law have replaced the fear of fire and brimstone of the village priest and the modern mum and dad have no say in any matter. Sweet revenge for all that was exacted from yesterday's child.


taken from www.goanvoice.org.uk

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http://oheraldo.in/News/Main%20Page%...ery/64528.html

Is this not a rather heavy turnout for a, not unusual these days, murder?

With a name like Ratnakar, was he selling "total cr@p" and was he a relative of our very own Gerald, because.....

"The plot tickens (as they would say in ZoS)"


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http://oheraldo.in/News/Main%20Page%...ree/64574.html

What a delightfully realistic approach, target the nationalities/trades that are likely to come "on holiday" ...................and never leave.

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

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No Tescos here! Indians try to stop government plans for foreign supermarkets with huge strikes
Protesters blocked trains and burned effigies of Prime Minister Sing

Schools and shops were forced to shut due to the nationwide strikes
Demonstrations all over India against opening the retail market to foreign companies such as Tesco and U.S. supermarket giant Wal-Mart


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Prime Minister Sing???? :lol: (He finds it difficult to talk).

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No need for a link as it is in every newspaper


REST IN PEACE FIONA BONE AND NICOLA HUGHES - GREATER MANCHESTER POLICE -

A terribly turn of events if ever there was

Dread - x

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Absolutely Dread - bring back hanging for this moron. RIP Fiona and Nicola.