Sorry to disabuse you of your far fetched notion that my ancestors were the Portuguese pilgrim fathers from across the ocean. As far as I can tell, I am a legitimate daughter of pure blooded Goan gaunkari (comunidade) Hindu ancestry.Unfortunately, one of the compatriots of my Hindu ancestors, Malappa Dessai from Verna, brother in law of the famous Timoja, was responsible for handing over Goa on a silver platter to the Portuguese and Afonso de Albuquerque. But that is all water under the bridge.
Now as an Indian, what do you think of a country, where states cannot give their people a decent quality of life and sustenance to the point that the miserable condiditons they live in our state, is still Paradise compared to the misery they endure back home. And pray give me one good reason why Goa should bear the brunt of the inefficiency, callousness and corruption of other states of the Indian Union? Because, whenever Goans have gone out of their homeland, they do not wholesale change the demographic profile of a place. They do not wander about with "lotas" searching for sheltered spots to perforim their morning ablutions and do not wash their clothes and bathe at public water taps at the cost of the Goan tax payer. Its not the poor migrant who raises my hackles. Its the uncaring, insensitve and corrupt authorities that bring the ordinary people to such a pass. Diana