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Renew your wedding vows in Goa, or gift a Ceremony Package to a close couple Multiple options to make your day extra special! http://www.renewalsetc.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bosco, there are a few questions that arise from your post. While my remarks about boorish comments from Samir Kelekar about Overseas Goans according to you do not take the debate forward, is it your opinion that the following remarks he made does? Quote They should also ask what their fathers were doing when freedom fighters were fighting for freedom. Licking Portuguse boots, being Portuguese empregad, or slaves? Their sons are now sitting in Australia and UK and are teaching Indians freedom. Get lost guys, no one in Goa is listening to you. You are not needed. Unquote Perhaps people in Goa who are not listening to overseas goans, are listening to those like Kelekar writing from Bangalore. Bosco, there is no point you can make to me by quoting a paragraph from Cabral e Sa's article in Goa Today. I fully support what he basically says - let us stew in our own juice, we are used to it. You cannot change us. We have elected the Govt and deserve what it dishes out. Any overseas Goan going to Goa to change things in my opinion is like the proverbial fool rushing in where angels fear to tread. It won't take much time for him to lose his innocence and by the time he is ready to change them he has already become a part of the scenery. It's that bad in the hell-hole that Goa has now become. Any going to Goa would be only for the purpose of meeting one's relatives. It doesn't even come close to being merely a holiday destination if one compares to the choices available to us at half the price of going there. I find your following comment quite intriguing: Quote This I believe is the ethos of Goanet - to give a voice to the voiceless. But the hegemony of a few who insist on monopolizing the available bandwidth on a daily basis (for the past several months) drowns out those that need or want to be heard.......for eg. Sebastian Rodrigues, Philip Neri, Valmiki Faleiro, Godfrey Gonsalves, Joao Fernandes, Samir Umarye and many-many more...... Unquote What are you saying Bosco? That Goanet should be the exclusive domain of a selected few and that the "janta" should not be occupying space? Very easy to fix Bosco, in your moderator role. Just cut them off. And who decided that the ethos which means the character, the moral element, of Goanet is to give a voice to the voiceless? Here is what Goanet says it is: Goanet is a general forum for people interested in Goa to meet and talk about Goa. And even if were a place for the voiceless as you say it should be, pray tell how Sebastian Rodrigues, Phillip Neri, Valmiki Faleiro et al are not getting their own voices on Goanet. As Bosco the poster, this post of yours was rather lacking in rationale. Roland. On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Bosco D'Mello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RESPONSE: Perhaps it has never ocurred to some of us (NRGs) that there are > perhaps hundreds, nay thousands of Goans who share Samir's point of view. > Criticism of Samir as an individual is misplaced at best; he is only a > single voice of many. While Selma and Gabriel have illustrated their > counterview appropriately, resorting to responses as above dont take the > debate forward.