Mein Freund Fred, Your poksy poll means nothing. If Nehru had the courage he would have called for a referendum on Goa immediately after the invasion. The bharati was worried of failure since there was Goan apathy (you report somewhere on the web) even though he applied terrorist tactics on the Portuguese Government in Goa. The duff opinion poll was a right slap on the face of bharat, in that Goans would have nothing with the interference of Goa.
Kindly note that I am from the post invasion generation and the name ole xac was coined by Hosay Lorenko on one famous Goan web site. The bharati brain washing of Goans is so intense that young Goans are lead to believe that any body writing a bit of Portuguese should be in their 60�s. As you can now understand that I am not nostalgia, but what I write here is based on observation and experience I have had due to globalization. Stop playing your futlolem records like posting trivial Phd articles which can be rubbished. Get down to serious business like checking into the displacement of people and unwarranted destruction of Goa�s environment at Mopa. Bring back the quarta classe and save Goa. Ole Xac > Hi Ole Xac: Anyone not stricken by Lusostalgia would > concede that there > were things wrong with the colonial administration. > Likewise, someone > without blinkers on would also admit that there were > some positive things > about Portuguese rule. This does not mean that > colonialism, as a > package, was a preferable option. > > Rightly or wrongly, a large section of Goans today > feel they are better > off after 1961 than before. Contrary to what the > William Dalrymples > suggest, the views of the Donna Georginas in > Loutolim remain a perspective > shared by a limited number of Goans who had it good > pre-1961. My guess is > that for a large section, including those in the > diaspora (who have some > perception of Goa but often may not have much > contact), it just didn't > make a significant difference. > > In 1991, when one did a story on the people's > responses three decades > after the demise of the Portuguese regime, I asked > around for the > three best and three worst things that happened to > Goa after the 1961. It > would seem that those who were more priviledged (and > there weren't many > of them, statistically speaking) felt nostalgic > about the past. It cut > across religious lines. One can't say it also cut as > readily across > class / caste lines. The barriers are there for > anyone to see or > study. > > This happens, on a lesser scale though, in former > 'British India' too. > > But, at the end of the day, should we be just > obsessed with this one issue > -- what would Goa have been, had it continued as a > Portuguese colony? > > __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/yplus/yoffer.html ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
