Thank you Santosh and Miguel - particularly for portraying me as a kindler, gentler soul:)
And everyone else who've written in, from both sides of the divide - I particularly enjoyed Fred's presumptuous assertion ".......without knowing Reboni or her work!" I'll keep it simple - I don't "back" anyone in particular. Just Goa. I don't believe that the umbilical cord that inexorably links a child of Goa to its motherland, can ever be duplicated by a non-native. It's simply a fact of life. Argue what you will. The magnitude of the sheer evil (millions of crores) that has silently enveloped Goa is quite beyond comprehension - that ship has sailed past the GBA a long time ago. Amongst other things. In a few years our water-table will have not just shrunk, but vanished. I have personally checked a number of villages. In less than that time, few Goans will have direct access to our beaches. Huh? Then who will?? Oh, btw, I'm not your common armchair critic - I've spent 5 months of every year, for the last 24 years, actually living in Goa. Rajan puts his neck on the line without the benefit of a monolith or a mass movement to shield him. If I might remind you once more (ad nauseam) of the concluding lines of Milton's immortal "On His Blindness"? Thanks! FR ---------------------- Message: 4 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:26:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Santosh Helekar Subject: Re: [Goanet] Betrayal by GBA and the Task Force farce To: Goanet Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- On Thu, 7/31/08, Miguel Braganza wrote: > >Had Reboni adopted the surname of her Goan husband, Francis would not have>even said what he wrote. Gender equality does have its hassles! ;-) > It is true that Francis would not have said what he did if her name was Reboni Saldanha. But this madness about Goans and non-Goans has gone too far. It is making otherwise smart people rely on the superficial facades of pictures and posts sent to Goanet as the basis for deciding who is fighting for Goa, and who is an armchair critic. Cheers, Santosh _________________________________________________________________ If you like crossword puzzles, then you'll love Flexicon, a game which combines four overlapping crossword puzzles into one! http://g.msn.ca/ca55/208