Nehru was a cockup and a showoff to put it kindly. He probably wanted to show to the African nationals that he was rad, and that he could show them what revolutions are all about!
India, the nation and the ideas that are India, would have actually benefitted by having a cultural neighbor, that was being shaped by Goans themselves in a different "buyao." The idea should not have been annexation, but independence if so fraught with angst at having a colonial cousin. The autonomy?! At least the opportunity to decide. That would have been the pinnacle of glory. Exactly as you put it. I hate it we do not have poetry coming out of the fecal matter of the ideas that pass for politics. Btw, by now the Hindus for example would be having their cakes and eating them too. Meaning seriously of both world on a high plinth. Here, good use of vain, but he did not have to wait for anyone. These guys were defacto thugs, with their shits and giggles thrown in. (Study those pictures of him). On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Roland Francis <roland.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Praveen Davar article in the Hindu is either half-baked or > conveniently omits an inconvenient truth. > > The much touted claim that the Portuguese were obstinate and Nehru was > pushed into a corner by other Indians to use violence against Goa makes > fools of thinking people. > > How about the non-violent approach of allowing Goans themselves who were > virtually running the Portuguese administration in Goa, to determine Goa’s > future for themselves, within a broad Indian framework rather than > violently snatching it from them, thus avoiding the Churchills Kamats and > Parrikars, the progeny of louts, to thrust themselves on a virgin Goa of > unblemished character. > > Did Nehru not foresee that his people are by an large a loutish lot prone > to indiscipline and corruption and quick to forget the values that the > British had drilled into them for 150 years. Did his intelligence and > statesmanship not take into account that the the gigantic number of louts > would squash the “liberated” territory, fashioning it in their own image of > loutishness. > > Or was he vain enough to think that his promises of “special treatment” > would be honoured by his surviving louts. > > Roland Francis > 416-453-3371 > > > > On Jan 1, 2018, at 9:00 AM, Frederick Noronha < > fredericknoron...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-liberation- > of-goa/article22339624.ece > > -- > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > > _/ > > _/ FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 > > _/ RADIO GOANA: https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha > > _/ > > _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ >
