Dear Godfrey I hit on your website while searching for "communidades" on the internet. I am writing a book which is a nostalgic and humourous account of our traditions for the Goan in search of his roots. I try to answer such a question as Who is a Goan? What are his characteristics?
I found your account of the meeting very interesting. Typical of a Goan to sleep and typical of the organisers not to have a stop gap arrangement just in case the speaker is delayed. Only the last chapter of my book remains to be written. This is on Communidades. It follows a chapter called Our Brilliant Forefathers in which I discuss about water conservation menthods in our village in earlier times, the 'curs' in Indian cities, the Death Benefit Fund etc. for the last 2 months I have been studying in detail the English version of the communidade regulations printed by the govt press. this is the 4th time I'm going thru the rules. I have arrived at my own conclusions. Is there any expert lawyer or lawyers that I can approach who are experts on communidade law? I would prefer somebody living in Panjim. And can you give me their addresses/contact nos? I'm currently in Australia but live in Goa.I hope to return end June. May I request you for your telephone number? I would be interested in meeting you. By the way the book is titled, "TUZO MAINCHO GHO"- A favourite expression of my dad's. (Yes, I have to sit with a dictionary to get the spellings right.) With best wishes to you and your close ones, Joe Fernandes _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)