Valmiki Faleiro wrote: Goa's truly pioneering entrepreneur, Ratnakar Rau, a Mangalorean who set up, among other things, power plants, ice plants, rice and oil mills, even the famous *Kakoda Farms.*
Comment: That is as it should be. One should appreciate the talent and the hard work of a person, from wherever he may be. The legacy of the Kakoda Farms is carried forward almost single-handedly by Mr. G.D. Alphonso, the father of Fr. Ave Maria Alphonso [Editor of 'Dor Mhoinachi Rotti' and Assistant Editor of the POVITR PUSTOK , incidentally, released on the fesat day of Holy Spirit], Nevil Alphonso [Agriculture Officer and Author of "Nal'lachi Lagvodd" a easy to read book in Konkani on Coconut cultivation] and Adv. Peter Alphonso I am at a loss to understand why Valmiki cannot appreciate the entrepreneurship of the later day migrants from Karnataka. In due course they will create a legacy like that of Ratnakar Rau, if not eclipse it entirely. There is one Raj Verma in Fondvem-Ribandar who came as a site supervisor of UP Bridges Corporation while it was constructing the Mandovi Bridge and Fatorda stadium in 1990. He is a big time builder now. One of the newer Goans, Vijay Mallya, is internationally famous. So is Dr.Claude Alvares[ also from Mangalore] and Fr. Pratap Naik SJ and Comrade Christopher Fonseca. Hard work should be appreciated and those who work hard emulated. So what if they speak a language we do not understand, they do not understand our language, too. Yet, we expect to be respected without reciprocating?? Viva Goa. Miguel _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)