--- Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Goanetters, > > This mail is with reference to the spate of > balderdash being posted by the apparently erudite > and controversy loving Dr. Carmo D'Cruz on the > absolutely superfluous debate, Goans VS East > Indians of Bandra. > > That much for my humble credentials, which is > just to make a point to the good Doctor, that I do > know what I'm talking about. > > Dr. Carmo please stick to your mission to improve > Indian hockey with Balbirji. We will all pitch in, > in this noble endeavour. Viva. > Mario adds: > Edwin, Viva to you as well. > I did not grow up in Bandra but lived there in the mid and late sixties and left in 1971. I have relatives there, visit there every year, and I believe one of my cousins, Vincent Fernandes, was also a hockey goalie for St. Stanislaus. I KNOW from my own friends and experiences that East Indians are indistinguishable from Goan and Mangalorean Catholics. > In the Detroit area near where I live we call ourselves GEMS, which is an acronym for these three communities which are like one. > BTW, because of your numerous references to the "good Doctor", it may help to clarify that the good Doctors's expertise is in the narrow field of systems engineering, in which he has a Ph.D., as you will see if you Google his name, and not in medicine or any of the social sciences:-))) >
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