Hi Vidyadhar To be fair, it is not unreasonable for people anywhere to cheer a good football side purely on sporting grounds.
However, I think you are insinuating that it seems odd that the Goans should cheer the Portuguese side because of the former colonial connection. Let me offer a slightly different consideration to your little dilemma. You will have read Priyamvada Gopal's trenchant criticism of revisionist history in her essay "Imperial Apologists Peddle Poisonous Fairytale." This is of course, a criticism of Niall Ferguson's current revisionist historical work-- Imperial British History. Her reference to historical evidence seems excellent to me. I was familiar and have been very pained about the British made famine in Bengal etc where so many died quite unnecessarily and much has been rightly written about this and other terrible British atroticities in India. However, Gopal would have found, if she had looked for it, that 'revisionist' history, if we can use such teminology, began in Goa, among perhaps significant numbers, on 19th December 1961 and has continued relatively unabated since then. This is the real mystery worthy of systematic study--perhaps for you to examine, having started with your enigmatic football cheering question in Goa. Cornel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vidyadhar Gadgil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 4:20 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goans in Goa rejoicing with Portugal win? > On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 22:08 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >> From: "Jose Colaco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: [Goanet] Not Yet on GoaNet ...but SAY WHAT ??! Goans in Goa >> rejoicing with Portugal win? >> The following articles are interesting. I wonder whether they reflect >> the >> true mood of Goans in Goa. > > I confess that I have always been mystified by this reported attitude of > Goans towards Portugal, or is it a misrepresentation? One would have > thought that after the experience of colonial rule, Goans would feel > negatively towards the Portuguese. But here they are actually cheering > them on? > > Contrast this with the attitude in the rest of India towards the > British. Rahul Dravid recently endeared himself to the country at large. > Interviewed after the 3rd test (played in Trinidad), he was asked > whether he would be supporting Trinidad & Tobago in their FIFA World Cup > match against England that evening. He gave a mischievous grin and said > "Anybody but England!" And the majority of Indians said a heartfelt > 'Amen'. > > Contrast this with the reported attitude in Goa towards the Portuguese. > Or are these just journalistic biases? In the rest of India, even if > somebody actually supported England (against anybody else), they would > probably keep their views to themselves, out of fear of being identified > as upper-class collaborators with colonial rule. > > What gives? > >> Reading what is posted by our regular journos on >> GoaNet, it does not appear that the stories are that accurate. Are >> they? >> ...or are we being ONLY selectively fed news/revision based on the >> personal >> biases of some of the journos? >> > -- > Question everything -- Karl Marx > > _______________________________________________ > Goanet mailing list > Goanet@lists.goanet.org > http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org > _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org