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This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro If you would like to sponsor Goanet's operations contact: Herman Carneiro - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- CARMO DCRUZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mario, > > So is Nehru to blame why Goan Cooks and Butlers are > not quite entrepreneurial with all their epicurean > skills like the Bhayya Bhelpuri wallahs from Uttar > Pradesh ? Why or Why not ? Or is it the fervent > Portuguese-Catholic culture among Goan Christaos - > where entrepreneurial money making is frowned upon > and it is considered a sin to be a rich > entrepreneur (aka business man) ! > Mario responds: > Carmo, You certainly did not see any blame for Nehru in anything I wrote with regard to those Goan cooks and butlers who you say are not entrepreneurial - only for the monumental waste and inefficiency and mounting poverty of India's first 50 years since independence. > However, while your Bhayya Bhelpuriwallahs are entrepreneurial by definition, some Goan cooks and butlers are as well, and there are most Bhayyas are not entrepreneurial and work as laborers. Besides, many of the Goans you deride may have been more enterprising because they are to be found all over the world making a better living for their families than most of your jhopdi-existing, railway-line-urinating and defecating, pavement-spitting, public-electricity-robbing bhayya bhelpuriwallahs. > BTW, while on the subject of entrepreneurial Goans, albeit not from the cook and butler category, while visiting Goa recently, I was surprised to find that most of the local Goans did not know who Mark Fernandes (the investment banker, not my cousin) or Francisco DeSouza were, even though everyone knew who Victor Menezes is, whose achievements in entrepreneurial wealth creation in the US these Goan youngsters may have surpassed now. >