--------------------------------------------------------------------------- **** http://www.GOANET.org **** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
South Asian Film Festival in Goa from Fri (June 27) to Mon (June 30) At Kala Academy, and ESG, Panaji, Goa http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-June/076384.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Goanet - Selma Cardozo wrote: >Miguel Braganza is NOT A BIGOT. Miguel Braganza's many instances of bigotry against bamons are to be found in the Goanet archives. Selma Cardozo seems to have taken pains to deceive herself before deceiving others. Perplexing, for someone who makes a song & dance about her own integrity. But Miguel Braganza is much more than a vanilla bigot. He is a purveyor of falsehoods, and a coward to boot. To cite but one instance: he reported on Goanet some days back that I verbally abused him at Cafe Prakash. Guilty as charged. It was a great pleasure. However, what Miguel Braganza conveniently did not disclose are the circumstances that preceded that verbal spray. Soter D'Souza and I were sitting on one table and Braganza on the other. He had made claims here on Goanet that the Goa People's Assembly was a plot hatched by saffron forces/BJP/Manohar Parrikar, and that Soter had been cleverly manipulated and controlled by me in service of the saffron lobby's nefarious ends. Now that the principals - Soter and I - in this alleged conspiracy were all in one room, I asked Miguel Braganza to lay out his evidence for the claims he had publicly made. He had nothing to show. Nada. Shoonya. Zifr. All we got were strange sounds like "Bup. Bup. Glug. Glug." The tiger behind the keyboard and in the safety of his home had suddenly turned into a mouse. It was then that Soter and I both administered to him a verbal shower laced with invective. He was back the next morning on Goanet bawling like a baby, with more of his Looney Tunes. That's Miguel Braganza for you. Now back to the regularly scheduled programming. Warm regards, r