2008/7/8 Sandeep Heble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > my permission. If Jose and Cecil are upset with Selma's posts, it is > simply because they have deliberately chosen to be upset. It's as > simple as that.
Frankly, if you ask me, it looks as if Jose is just concerned that John Monteiro might reveal more about the true nature of pre-1961 Portuguese colonialism in Goa. (While we have many a problem post-1961 too, there are a handful who prefer to believe it was all sugar and spice before then.) And Cecil has other scores to settle with Selma ... I found both John's and Selma's insights interesting. It's useful to hear personalised accounts. While episodic in nature and possibly non-representative sometimes, often these give us a better insight into how things worked. In a bettter way than, say, statistics or official histories. Am not sure that we can, or need to think, in terms of applying the standards of medical confidentiality to a mailing list. Often we take very "ideological" positions over what are actually mere personality clashes, or a way of justifying a position we prefer to believe. Wonder if anyone else agrees with my disgnosis :-) FN