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* * * 2006 ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET - GOA * * *
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WHERE: Foodland Cafe - Miramar Residency - Miramar, Goa
WHEN: December 21, 2006 @ 4:00pm
More info:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2006-December/051747.html
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Hi Bernardo
Methinks you are unfair to "bharat rule."
Some 200 million people are currently on the move worldwide for better
economic conditions. Consequently, those "20,000 Goans" seeking an exit
route via a Portuguese passport are not doing it because they suddenly love
Portugal and dislike India. Most will head for Lisbon and then make it to
the UK where there is plenty of work for now.
Please note that the theory on migration indicates that it is not how bad
people find a particular place that makes them migrate. Rather, it is the
anticipation about how much better off they may be, provides them the
impetus to leave a country/land they have know well. Sometimes, mistakes are
made and people return quite disillusioned.
You and I live outside Goa. I therefore suggest that we are not the right
people to make a judgement about "Bharat rule" ushered in on 19th December
1961. That judgement, if need be, can best be made by those currently
resident in Goa.
Regards
Cornel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernado Colaco
> More info:
> I guess those thousands who work in the Gulf are
> expats innit? About 20,000 Goans have applied for
> Portuguese citizenship and to run away from the scurvy
> of bharat rule imposed on the 19th of December 1961.
> BC
