Response to Mr. Mesquita:
If Goa is losing her identity, know it is in great part due to goans themselves
who aid and abet the loss by acting as middlemen in property deals with forged
deeds, unrestrained property development, mining ventures, all of which are
contributory in the ecological destruction of Goa.
This, all with the complicit involvement of corrupt profiteers masquerading as
politicians, who the same Goans keep electing, and never hold accountable.
Did I mention socio-cultural ruination?
What is clear is that many Goans do not view the constant hordes of foreign
tourists as ruining the identity of Goa, but are horrified at the influx of
Indian migrants helping build resorts and developments.
Perhaps they find association in kind with the european tourists irresistible,
believing the latter as superior and owed special dispensations and coddling.
When those goans who take extreme pride in their portuguese ‘background’ albeit
evidenced in brown faces and brown skin, and discriminate against other Goans,
Indian nationals just like themselves, and with whom they have more in common
than just genes, you are right to question what the Freedom fighters, all sons
and daughters of the soil, would say.
Was the struggle of TB D'Cunha's and other like him, all for naught?
Did he envision a Goa where goans discriminate against other Goans, as did the
restaurant in Calangute against Dr. Nandkumar Kamat?
Or when shack owner Cruz Cardoso, operating on public property, offers this
ridiculous reason for discriminating against Goans and in their own land:
" Some Indian guests tease foreign tourists in the shacks. There are a few
people who get crazy seeing a woman in a bikini."
This apologist for discrimination contends tourists, insensitive to the
cultural traditions of Goa and India, and whom I would wager are more seasoned
than Cardoso would have us believe, are in need of shielding.
I. Nunes
--- On Sat, 9/19/09, Arwin Mesquita <arwinmesqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Arwin Mesquita <arwinmesqu...@gmail.com>
Subject: [Goanet] Review of Goa's Liberation
To: "Goanet" <goa...@goanet.org>
Date: Saturday, September 19, 2009, 1:38 PM
Subject: Review of Goa's Liberation
We need to have an urgent post liberation analysis of Goa. Was the
liberation via Military Force in 1961 right for Goa? Today Goa is losing
its Identity and Goans are being gradually reduced to a minority, in our own
state. I believe that the Central Government has an obligation, to honour
the promises given by then Prime Minister Jawarhalal Nehru on preserving
Goa's Identity. I wonder what our honorable Freedom Fighters have to say on
the latter!!
Arwin Mesquita, UAE.
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Please post your comments on my Blog: http://goanidentity.blogspot.com/
Please also see below:
1. Benaulim Village Action Committee: http://www.bvacbenaulim.blogspot.com/
2. "Rape of Goa" : http://www.parrikar.com/blog/the-rape-of-goa/
3. MAND - an adivasi-rights resource centre : http://mandgoa.blogspot.com/
4. EVERY GOAN SHOULD SEE THIS VIDEO:
http://infochangeindia.org/Infochange-documentary.html
5. For the Love of Konkani: http://www.radiogoa.net/
6. Goa's Identity Movement website: http://www.goamag.net/gim
