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Symposium on Pre-Primary & Primary School Education &
Primary School Students Chess Tournament
More information at:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-January/068222.html
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Dear Mr Nair,
Thanks for having the humility and the courage to pen down
a public apology on Goanet. But believe me ( and unlike some
of my previous postings on goanet,there is no sarcasm in this
mail ), I have no genuine personal grudge against you ...and
the many more who will in the near future...launch personal
attacks against me.In fact, I feel that I and many other who
have pointed out your mistake have been unduly harsh on what
is but an error of judgement.
This does, however, help us to highlight several issues related
to Goanet :
1) We are all engaging in too much sniping at each other..
often on personal issues like religion and sexuality and even faults
in styles of writing,grammar,spelling and typo's. I feel that
like Rajan, we should focus a bit more on how we can genuinely
change Goa for future generations.
2) While I think the Goanet moderators are doing a great job
of the thankless task they have been bestowed with ( and
once again, i think i have already criticised them enough in
my reply to you )...I feel that this wonderful forum looses
its credibility if there is obvious bias in moderation. All the
moderators ( and other persons involved in officiating the
forum ) are entitled to their personal political and social beliefs,
but once these influence their control over what gets through
and what does not,it can turn Goanet into what could make
a long term difference for Goa and Goans into a propaganda
agency for one particular vested interest. I think there is more
than enough intellectual firepower on both sides of the divide
without the need for instance to change "Goanet news "
headlines to redress any imbalance ( And one has to just to
go through the archives to see that till very recently, the
volume of postings against rather than for the stand I am
taking was by far the dominating element )
3) Most importantly, let us have a bit more of facts and a
lot less rheotoric..then, we can settle down and have a
discussion on what exactly is the current political scenario
in Goa ...and what we all can do to change it for the better.
( My agenda is going to be almost exclusively restricted to
Goa and goan politics )
I do not expect everyone to agree with my views...but let
us at least agree to disagree in a civilised manner.
And by the way, my very very sincere apologies to Yogesh
Desai...i took a swipe at him yesterday ( only to realise in
retrospect that he was not questioning my existence on
planet earth )
luv and regards,
anand
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