138 examples of goans in sentences

Here I got the opportunity not only to write about sports, but also to do general news reporting and profiles of prominent Goans.

One was the United Goans, led by Dr. Jack de Sequeira, which stood for a separate state for Goa.

The Congress, waffling in between, promised that Goans would be consulted about its future in the Indian union.

Now, as the campaign was getting into high gear, another friend L. S. Bhandare, an architect by profession, who represented UNI (United News of India) told me that the United Goans' campaign (workers dashing about in open trucks with loud music and handing out campaign literature) reminded him of elections in London, England.

A few Konkani protagonists casually discussing the issue felt that a medium was sorely needed to project the aspirations of true Goans.

Gulf Goans contributed generously, and quite often, to keep it afloat.

I had been speaking to some wealthier Goans, my idea of launching a broadsheet weekly, which would, over a period, be converted to a full-fledged daily.

" Come what may, the two Narayans, both non-Goans, are slugging it out through reams of newsprint.

On September 16, 2003, one expat suggested that "perhaps the only way to overcome the muzzling of the press is for Non-Resident Goans to fund an alternative newspaper, where the journalists can do what they do best without their livelihood being threatened."

He went on to suggest: "Now is the time for Non-Resident Goans who care, to come to the assistance of journalists in Goa.

It is time for all Goans who love their motherland, to put their money where their mouths are, and do something for Goa."

Recently, his work made it to the news in a major way, when the Indian Express carried a large spread in its national-edition on how Misquita had traced the strange story of the sinking of a World War II British passenger liner, BritanniaIII, which had dozens of Goans (including one of Misquita's grand-uncle's) on board.

Well, what this role meant in reality was that I would read the articles awaiting publication, picking up the odd grammatical error, but more importantly I was the lowest common denominator litmus test if the pages didn't stand up to my paltry knowledge of the Goan political system then (the argument goes) it would not be understood by Goans in the furthest-flung corners of the globe.

Reporters, deskies, the butterflies flitting through the features pages... one can count first generation migrant Goans everywhere.

So it was only a matter of time before the Goans pulled up their posts and set sail Westwards, to the Middle East and to other uncharted territories.

Hopefully, national players in the media business and expatriate Goans will see a market in selling quality journalism in Goa.

The river is like a slow-moving artery that expresses Goa the rusting, elderly ferries of the River Navigation Department chug across the gap with a ponderous regularity, and in doing so determine the schedules of legions of Goans who live within a short bus ride of the water 'aparanta' tends not to respect time-pieces worn on one's wrist.

He had told me, up there in the haze of one Porvorim afternoon, how he had been amused to read that "Goans are largely a T-shirt wearing population".

Teotonio seemed at first mildly intrigued by this person's interpretation of the Goanness of Goans.

" It is part of a misguided mission which propagates itself apparently tirelessly and without mercy that there are caricatures which continue to be attributed to Goans.

Very often, they are invented by bureaucrats and self-styled "professionals" who want to teach Goans to be less easy-going or less un-Indian.

It has to protect the interests and self-respect of all Goans.

Gomantak was always on the forefront in fighting alongside Goans on vital issues that cropped up from time to time.

Presently, hockey is in a lamentable state, with little or no activity being held and it is more tragic because in the past, Goans elsewhere have represented India.

One thing that can be said with certainty is that Goans are very hostile towards those who make a new beginning.

138 examples of  goans  in sentences