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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and seeks to buy approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs land betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas. Please contact: contac...@sangath.com or yvo...@sangath.com or ph+91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mr. Valmiki Faleiro has very succintly described the modern times Goan emigration as follows: ( and it is worth repeating word by word0 ''''' A queer British interlude in Goa ( 1799 - 1813 ) spurred the largest, longest, and yet surviving wave of Goan emigration , initially to the rest of India and on high seas ( Royal navy and merchant navy ) Then to Burma and Bahrain . And finally to British (East ) Africa,West Asia ( petro dollar Gulf area) and beyond ( U.K., Canada, U.S.A. , Australia and New Zealand. While in Goa the British spotted two assets: one natural (Mormugao Harbour and it connection to the hinterland Western Portuguese Railway WIP ) and the other human which was a large idle population of educated and not so , well acquainted with European life style ( read non vegetarian food) and hence mostly Goan ABC staff in British households in India followed by 2nd and 3rd generation clerks)''''' Antonio responds: I fully agree with what Valmiki has written ecept when he writes "" a large idle population of educated and not so ''' It somehow gives the impression that Goans who migrated to India were 90% educated and 10% illiterate whereas in reality it was the other way around i.e. 90% illiterate and 10% literate. The latter were mostly from the so called high castes fellas who were educated inthe parochial schools.. Thanks to the Grande Patriarca Portugues das Indias Orientais and his sacerdotal assistants comprising of the highest caste made by the Indian God, the illiterate Goan catholics were more at home with Jezu, Jezu than with A,B,C, and 1,2,3, The Goan catholic church may not have been entirely wrong in denying education to poor Goan catholics. Teotonio R.De Souza writing on Medieval Goa ( Herald Aug 1 ) quotes St. Paul writing toRomans ''''Noli propter escam destruere opus Dei --- Do not destroy God's work for the sake of food.''''