GL responds: Sachin, you are too intelligent to have written your original post. We are also smart enough to know where you are coming from. Below is a lame explanation or 'an attempt to keep the wounds open'.
With your astuteness, you should know that TB Cunha was not a bystander or a historian. He led the Goan fight against the Portuguese as leader of the "Goa Action Committee" which was an umbrella organization for all political parties who wanted to discredit and oust the Portuguese. So TB Cunha had an axe to grind. What axe did you have to grind to quote TB Cunha 45 years later? The major issue as I see being critiqued in the controversial VCD on Goa was the introduction of religion into the film and freedom struggle. Do Holocaust films bring in religion in their depictions? Do films on the revolutionary war (fight for independence) of US bring in religious denominations? As an intelligent guy knowledgeable of India's history for independence, you should know that bringing religion into a struggle cost close to a 1 million lives and displaced about 15 million people (about equal on both sides). I am lost to know whether you fail to appreciate this or under your suave demeanor you mask your true colors. Regards Sachin Phadte: I had started this thread in response to an editorial in Gomantak Times with the title "A CIVILIZED SOCIETY DOES NOT REOPEN WOUNDS." My contention was, and still is, that a civilised society faces up to the facts of history and does not try to distort it. The tone of the editorial indicated to me that the facts in the VCD were not disputed. However, the editorial also asked a question, namely "Are scenes of Nazi brutality shown to young Jews?" Some on this list had disputed the facts as well. It was in this context that I mentioned about the article by TB Cunha, which to my mind would indicate that the facts in the VCD were reported correctly at least in context of the use of religion by the Portuguese colonisers.
