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Just a few comments to your response: I agree that I was probably too harsh with Sunith. But you do not seem to have an opinion about his attack on Selma and on every other Goan that does not share his opinion. Isn't calling them "ignorants" even harsher than calling Sunith immature? And yes I agree with you, your skin colour, as well as mine, as well as Sunith's, as well as the rest of Indians is the same. But lets not forget Srilankans, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, etc. Don't they have the same skin colour too? Why are they independent? And for that matter how many different nations in Europe have the same skin colour? Portuguese for example have the same skin colour as their cousins Spanish and other Europeans (and Portugal was part of Spain before its foundation and even after during the Philips reign) but isn't Portugal independent? Anyway, this seems to invalidate your argument. Just because our skin colour is the same as the rest of Indians it does not mean to say we need to be ruled by the rest of India. Or at least someone should have asked if that was what the majority wished soon after 1961. The plebiscite never happened and we will never know the truth about people's minds. A basic democratic right which was denied for centuries under the Portuguese continued to be denied by the new rulers who are supposed to have liberated us after 1961 (but "technically" as Fred says it was a conquest. What a joke!). Paulo Colaco Dias. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:goanet- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aristo > Sent: 14 June 2007 09:01 > To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! > Cc: Sunith Velho > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Flags, Colonialism and Sleeping in a History > > Hello Paulo, > > I am a rather silent member of Goanet lately, but am known by a few > here of being a close friend and peer of Sunith. I am not defending > him here, he is more than capable of doing that himself. > > Instead I would like to inform you that I have keenly read all your > cogent arguments against the Indian "invasion/occupation" of Goa in > 1961, and that I find that you are the most and ONLY sane voice on > your side of the table, on Goanet at least. So please don't lose my > respect with posts like below. > > You have indeed convincingly shown before that India and Nehru were > not entirely the angels as we would like to believe in the debacle of > 1961. The takeover of Nagaland and other North Eastern states post > Independence, who did not have a history of any affiliation with India > prior to the British entry, also tarnishes Nehru's benevolent image. > > However, Goa DOES have an affiliation with India, or at least with the > concept of India. (Please don't bring up the naive > there-was-no-"India"-before-British argument) My skin colour says so. > Sunith's skin colour says so too. We have Dravidian roots, like it or > not.
