------------------------------------------------------------------ Domnic Fernandes continues (Part II) his reminiscence of Mapusa of the 1950s http://www.goanet.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=426 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Pandu, I read your post with interest and you made some good points. With regard to your questions, I firmly believe that there are no victims in life, just volunteers.
What will the future of Goa be? Exactly what Goans want it to be. You are not living in a dictatorship. You have a choice to carve out whatever it is that you aspire. But to paraphrase the Mahatma, "we must become the change we want to see". As for your assertion, that building houses by sucking up to some Arab in Dubai is a bad thing for Goa. Let me just say that all those Goans who stayed behind and didn't have to suffer the indignity of "sucking up to some Arab", have a huge debt of gratitude to repay to the Goans who did. Thanks to those houses and NRI money, Goa saw a boom in the construction industry, a boost in its NRI reserves, a surge in market demand for goods and services, not to mention that it is those beautiful houses that now add to the aesthetic value of Goa. So here's a peg of Fenni to those sons of the soil that toiled in the desert, and faithfully sent money home because they never forgot where their home was. My father was one of them. Elisabeth --------------------------------------- Elisabeth .do we have a > vision of a future? > Does Goa have a future? Its bleak to me? Or is it > just building a > ghastly new house with a few bucks made sucking up > to some Arab in > Dubai? (apologies, this is a terrible thing to say > but this is > reality, no). > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)