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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Goanet - Miguel Braganza wrote: >I have viewed your photo exhibition while you were in Goa last year >and early this year. I presumed that your similarity with Manohar >Parrikar brand of ideology ended with the commonality of your surname. >Perhaps I was wrong. I didn't know I had to follow the "brand of ideology" subscribed to by Miguel Braganza to be considered a tolerant, model citizen of Goanet and the world. Which amendment of the Goanet constitution should I be looking at for confirmation? >So what would you call the infamous VCD "Goa Freedom Struggle"? I would call it a sloppy, amateurish, third-rate piece of work. Parrikar's error lay not in his intent of producing the VCD but in entrusting it to morons to execute it. If Parrikar ever returns to power he should be urged to make a new VCD - one that comprehensively shows the documented Portuguese-Christian religious bigotry, savagery, and chicanery of the past. There is no need whatsoever to pepper such a documentary with half-truths and lies (that is strictly the job of Anand Patwardhan and the commie lemurs). The truth is horrific enough. >Perhaps , you need to listen to Ram Puniyani, too. That would be the sound of the toilet flush. I have known of comrade Puniyani and his bile-spilling breed perhaps before you first saw a computer on your desk, and have a comprehensive understanding of the pathetica he represents. This Perfusser with a Hindu-sounding name is a darling of you Catholics because he will say exactly what the Christian community wants to hear (namely, a catalogue of Hindu misdeeds against the minorities in India) cleverly disguised with 'balance.' >I do NOT subscribe to the Communist philosphy... write with my right >hand and travel in "right hand drive" vehicles ....lest you club me >with the Lefties ;-( There is no danger of that. On this day, in the 2007th year of our Lord, may it be known that Miguel Braganza is not a Leftie:-). On a serious note, if we are to work towards salvaging Goa, there will have to be cooperation between the two sides - 'your' side and those of us that like the 'other' party/"ideology." We will have to keep aside political differences and have fruitful engagement. Fellows like me are not going to go away or be shamed into silence or take all the anti-Hindu Christian propaganda lying down. We may not post to Goanet regularly, or at all, but that would mean nothing. If you want to hear only pleasing things from Goan Hindus, you already have your model Hindu boys here to satiate you with a supply of bon mots. But if one wants to work towards a better understanding, it is precisely those with whom one has severe differences that one ought to talk to. Or do you think we are all mini-Hitlers? The H-word would render your task facile. No need to say anything after that. End of argument. QED. To have even a ghost of a chance at resuscitating Goa, you WILL HAVE to work with those squarely in the opposite camp or risk being condemned to insignificance in the not-so-distant future. Shri Noronha may call this "playing on Catholic paranoia." I call it the onset of reality. Currently, the GBA is a mostly-minority group with limited muscle. As I have been saying for a while (and only now the GBA has woken up to it), all that Regional Plan hoopla has done very little to stem the rot (you have to know the tactics of Digu and JP Singh to know the finesse with which they have fooled the GBA). To be effective, the GBA's footprint will have to be widened twentyfold and people from the interior (many of whom hew to the "ideology" you abhor) brought on board. This poster wants the Christian community and its culture in Goa to thrive alongside that of the Goan Hindus, for he loves Goa just he way it was at the time of Liberation. Is this "ideology" extreme enough for you, Miguel, or should I kick it up a notch higher? Warm regards, r --------------------------------------------------------------------------- **** http://www.GOANET.org **** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow the online presence of the Museum of Christian Art, Old Goa Contacts: Tel: +91 832 2285299 Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://christianartmuseum.goa-india.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------