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------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:41:16 -0700 > From: elisabeth_...@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: [Goanet] The Kennedys, and India. > To: goanet@lists.goanet.org > CC: alfredtava...@hotmail.com > > Dear Alfred, > You are such a trove of lore. > > Best, > selma > > --- On Fri, 8/28/09, Alfred de Tavares <alfredtava...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > Ted, then, remembered of Shriver's glowing reports about > > Goa, and coffered with Mario to > > arrange a drying up long vaccation for the nephew in > > Loutulim, to which Mario aceded. > > Thanks my Best Bleeping Bess... Yes, it does stimulate one's cockles...in whichever organ they are bunched...to reminisce about far bygone events...episodes....entanglements... Sorry I have so long neglected your interest in Redualdo da Costa: I have had a rather depressing couple of months... the persistant diabetis, for a few years now, & recently, problem: Yes hearabouts, heart is called "PUMPAN". Very apt, I feel. They have been investigating deeply, lates with a post-EKG device called the Voices, which was originally used in examining expectant mothers. They have discovered a layer of fatty fluied within the pericordium, here ka the heart-sack.. But, in general...I am OK. Will be going, with my youngest (23) daughter, Sorella, to Goa, end Oct: Maybe over London. If so let us meet an evening. Redualdo da Costa was a great large-hearted but soft spoken, self depracating man. My neighbour, after next door, Dr Barónio Monteiro. My virtual, most effective mentor, councellor & role-model, not in his, highly professional legal career but his equally distuinguished ways of everyday diplomatic approach to life & issues. Although born into a well placed (affluentially as well as socially) family, by the time I used to romp in his vast mansion, it was reduced to near dillapidation: owing, I believe to great addiction for gambling; of which, he was also inordinately, but prudently, dedicated to. For, he seems to have avidly gambbled not only in the sphere of poker, etc, but in his counseling of the Portuguese administration; always most pragmaticaly accomplished, demonstrating an accumen that won him kudos from all, including those who, in their hearts, surely abhorred his successes. He was trained/educated, as were the sons of most bhatcars, brahmin & Chardó, at the Seminary of Rachol, a hop s & j from the residence of our beloved Boyró... Then the seminary was the only institution for higher education, akin to graduation or more, depending on the choice of career in life you made: Law, statecraft, government-employment, academic enhancement & so on. On joining the seminary there was no mandatory stipulation that your main target should be ordination. On the contrary the clerical hierarchy considered it their bounden trust to educate the "prospective" cream of Goan families to be "formed/fit (formado)" to run the administrative side of the administration or, that part of it that was within the ken of the Goans, with adequate family influence to seccure their scions with the coveted sinecures. A few, very few, among them Redualdo, needed no such props: they, pushed their way up to the top, sheerely on their own merits and ended up becoming veritably indispensible for the administration in efectively carrying out the day-to-day contigencies imposed upon them by evolving (colonial) political realities. In this, with, aforesaid diplomatic proficiencies, complemented by profound legal acuity, he became a pain-in-the-arse for Nehru and his honchos like Krishna menon in confounding their policy of embargo vs the Indian province with the result that instead of having the flow of commodities (most meagerly scarce in those times) from the Union of I. into Portugues territories they were, embarassingly reduced to prevent, as well as they could, to prevent/stop them from cataracting into India. A perfect boomerrang effect ever countenanced... Bess there is much more...but I dont know which aspects you desire to have...if in this vein i can go on...or, you could me a questionaire that I will gladly respond.... Alfred _________________________________________________________________ Drag n’ drop—Get easy photo sharing with Windows Live™ Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx