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Hi Gilbert, I haven't yet had time to respond to Fred's excellent suggestions regarding a debate on caste. However, I can't go along with your suggestion that caste is a "topic for those who have nothing better to do or discuss." Your words clearly echo segregationist views in the USA in the 1950s at the height of the movement to desegregate schools in the USA and to desegregate bus transport. I suggest that your life in the USA has benefitted hugely (among other things) through the hard struggle towards equality of that period when you were not yet there. No, no, no, my dear Gilbert, the persistence of caste in Catholic Goa has survived too long with all its destructiveness to Goan society as identified by Fred. It hasn't adequately been countered/opposed intellectually. And although, perhaps, casteists may now find themselves between a rock and a hard place, time has run out well beyond the sell by date and caste needs to be dealt with as such. Therefore, please do not be unhelpful and stop this important debate even before it has started. On something else you might wish to reflect, in most organisations, to get anything done it has to be passed on to a busy person. Delivery and productivity from such people is infinitely greater than from layabouts who have nothing to do. Please believe me when I say that Goanet is probably kept alive and ticking by people with their own very busy professional lives. Cordially, Cornel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gilbert Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 5:45 PM Subject: [Goanet]Caste... and all that
