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Tri Continental Film Festival 2008 July 25 - 30, 2008 Goa, India http://www.moviesgoa.org/page/tri_continental/ http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricon/schedule_2008.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mario Goveia wrote: > > For the good of Goa we need more people like Jaitley > and Kaif in Goa, not less. > Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:44:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Mervyn Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What does one do with the money in Goa once?someone has sold their ancestral home? > Mario responds: > I think the smart ones are are buying gold?:-)) > But seriously, Celina Jaitley and Katrina Kaif are buying and preserving some gems of old Goan architecture, not defacing anything. Some of these are crumbling all across Goa as families dispute ownership. The positive ripple effect of what they are doing goes far beyond just the houses they buy and renovate. Implicating them in what mining companies are doing is like comparing growing mangoes with strewing thrash in public places. > Regarding what people who sell their properties do with the money, how is this anyone else's business? It's their money to do with as they wish. > Mervyn wrote: > At the Goanetters Convention, Dean D'cruz gave us some idea of what happens in Goa when people suddenly have money on their hands. He contends that those who sold (some after being coerced) their?property in mining?areas?are now spending their time and money drinking. > Mario responds: > To begin with, I doubt such gross generalizations are true. If they are, it is still no one else's business what someone does with their own money. > Mervyn wrote: > BTW, the miners have de-marked areas that were game reserves and are now mining in those areas. The destruction?to the?forest and water supply?was clearly presented.? > Mario responds: > I know miners and builders are defacing large parts of Goa. I see Rajan's and Joe's pictures. But what they are doing is the exact opposite of what quality immigrants like Jaitley and Kaif are doing. > Defacing Goa must be stopped by the local administrations like the Village Panchayats and on up the ladder, not by insulting and demeaning private citizens who own the property and can sell it to anyone they please, for whatever reason. > I hope Dean D'Cruz presented some rational ideas for action, like helping pass zoning laws that make sense and are enforceable, organizing citizens groups that observe whether corruption is taking place in the issuance or permits and licenses and alerting the public through one of our many Goan journalists, etc. Not to mention the obvious, helping elect honest politicians. > Trying to exert control by depriving free citizens of their private property rights is just flat out wrong in a free society. >