Probable answers from well known entities to Bennet Paes’ question ‘What’s Goan’:
Parrikar: One whom you can feed anything. Parsekar: One from whom you can take anything. Rane: One who will clean anything. Sardessai: One who can be easily betrayed. Churchill: One who will pay anything. Pacheco: One against whom you can threaten anything. Monserrate: One to whom you can lend anything (with collateral). Kamat: One from whose land you can strip anything. Alemao: One with whom you can trade public works for private money. Drug Dealer: One to whom you can sell anything (potent of course). Haryanvi: One from whom you can buy anything (preferably land and home). Seafood Trader: One whose fish you can lace with anything. FDA and Coroner: One for whom you can write any report you feel like and change anytime you feel like. Journalists: One who will believe anything. Bennet Paes wrote: WHAT’S GOAN? I used to tell my daughter: “Always remember, you are a Goan”. I did not say “a Goan first” because I could not invent an order of priorities. Her older son’s British school asked him to wear his national dress at a school function. So his father bought him an Indian outfit for the occasion. The little fellow asked his father: “Is that Goan?” The father told him: “Ask your grandfather.” I remain nonplussed; can anyone tell what’s 'Goan? Roland.