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Sagar Arlekar, Govind Naroji and Rohit Barreto, three young Goan engineers always have had a fascination for creating a nice for themselves in the web world. Their moment of reckoning has come . Foodlets  a start up venture which is a crowdsourcing application to post and share pictures of food from restaurant menus have thrown the trio into the spotlight, ARMSTRONG VAZ finds out. .-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The chicken from Floretine kitchen, the popular restaurant in Saligao, have taken wings and flown into cyber space. Foodlets.in, an online visual food guide has made it happen. If for the last five hundred years Goan food travelled to various parts of the globe, the launch of Foodlets has added another dimension to Goan cuisine. Foodlets is an exciting new way for people to discover good food and connect with food lovers. It is based on the core concepts of content co-creation and sharing. People can cre...

Perennial no-hopers India have no realistic hopes of making to the final round of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Nevertheless, the world’s second most populous country has embarked on a qualification journey to join the select nations which will play in the South American country. India has never featured in any of the 19 editions of the quadrangular event, its best chance came in 1950 but the country backed out in an era when Indians played bare footed. “The myth that Indians refused to play because they were not allowed to play barefoot is not entirely true, according to the then Indian captain   Shailen Manna , it was just a story to cover up the disastrous decision of the All India Football Federation (AIFF). The governing body AIFF decided against going to the World Cup, being unable to understand the importance of the event at that time,” says Wikipedia. The period from 1951 to 1962 is considered the golden era in Indian football. Under the tutelage of legendary Syed Abd...

Indian Arrows on right target says Bulpin Margao: India’s football youth development programme is moving in the right direction and the formation of the Indian Arrows I-League team has turned out to be a ‘big step in the right direction’ says Desmond Bulpin, the English coach of the cricket crazy country. “I congratulate All India Football Federation (AIFF) President (Praful Patel), Bob Houghton for initiating the brilliant idea of having a team of Under-21 players together and playing them in the I-League,” said Bulpin. The Indian Arrows were founded in the summer of 2010 as the AIFF XI and took over the place of disbanded Mahindra United in the 14 team Indian I-League. “Look at my squad. It is almost readymade. Isn’t it?” Bulpin questioned. “The beauty of the squad stays that most of the boys – ten out of my registered eighteen are from  Indian   Arrows . It’s been served on a platter,” he adds. But a lot of things need to be done on the youth development front. “I am...