Old Jackie boy was a full-blooded bhamon, allright.
No doubt about that whatsoever.
However, his wife, nee Soares, from Bordá, was a rung higher on the
Bahmon ladder.
I have been very closely attached to the family since my early years,
I should know.
Alfred de Tavares,
Stockholm, 2007-12-06> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 06:58:47 -0800> From: [EMAIL
PROTECTED]> To: goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: Re: [Goanet] The highly
studious and highly accessible Digu Kaka> > Mogall Miguelbab,> On 2 Dec. 2007,
you wrote:> << ...... a post he is eminently suited to serve for a> life time
like a true successor of Dr. Jack de> Sequeira. Perhaps, his statue will be
erected sooner> than Jack was privileged to be remembered. Perhaps,> it will
even be erected at Goa Government's cost, a> privilege so far denied to Jack,
perhaps because he> was a Catholic .... of non-Bamonn origin ... and a>
Moidekar at that!>>> > Dr. Jack de Sequeira was a Catholic, no doubt. But> was
he of non-Bamonn origin? Up till now I harboured> the feeling that he was a
Catholic Bamonn just like> Dotor Willy. Was I wrong, all this time? Could you>
please enlighten me? > > Mog asum. > Sebastian Borges> > On Sun, 2 Dec 2007,
"Miguel Braganza"> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > Dear Rajan,> > While I was a
still a Gazetted Officer in the Junior> scale serving in the Directorate of
Agriculture in the> early 1990s, Prakash K. Desai from Rivona was the> Director
for a period of two years. On the extreme > right hand side of the large
colonial era bureau> [table] that adorns the Director's chamber was a place>
where files were kept in "Limbo" or "Trishanku" during> his term in office.
When asked about the fate of these> limbo dancing files he would reply,
"Preciso de fazer> estudo." with a disarming smile. The files needed> careful
study.> I had been able to convince him about the Central> Sector Schemes on
Vegetables and Commercial> Floriculture and to take up the setting up of a>
Mushroon spawn facility at Ela Farm. There was another> file on Medicinal
Plants that I was interested in but> had landed in Limbo. His term was coming
to an end and> I asked him one day, "When are you going to decide on> those
files, Sir?" indicating the well populated> Limbo. "But, Miguel, I have already
decided on those> files." he replied with the same disarming smile. I>
protested his indecision; the files were neither> rejected nor approved, I
emphasized. This disarrming> smile came on his face like the "Intel Inside"
sign on> my computer screen,> and he said,"Not to decide is also a decision.
That is> what I have decided for the contents of those files."> His successor
to that post inherited those files.> Mr.P.K.Desai and I sit to chat about
those> "good ole days" whenever both of us have some time to> spare at his Agro
Clinic in Kamat Arcade, St. Inez.> > To Digu Kaka's credit, I have this much to
say: At> least he will hear you out ... and politely at that.> One was hard put
to get a patient hearing ...or> politeness... when Manohar-bab was in power.
The > politeness returned when he returned to the post of> Leader of the
Opposition, a post he is eminently> suited to serve for a life time like a true
successor> of Dr. Jack de Sequeira. Perhaps, his statue will be> erected sooner
than Jack was privileged to be> remembered. Perhaps, it will even be erected at
Goa> Government's cost, a privilege so far denied to Jack,> perhaps because he
was a Catholic .... of non-Bamonn> origin ... and a Moidekar at that! One may
kick up a > controversy over a line in the song of "Aaja Nachle",> but the
caste feelings cannot be wished away. They> must be destroyed, consciously, by
promoting equality> before law.> > Mog asundi> [There is nothing "official"
about this European> script in Goa's scheme of things!]> > Miguel> > > > >
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