Oh, you guys are just creating straw men of people you don't like, and then attacking them. That's super easy, and doesn't need an intellect as powerful as yours to do.
QUOTE A straw man is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue. The basic idea is to "win" an argument by leading attention away from the argument and to another topic. UNQUOTE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man I know it's not going to make me popular saying this. But: If you don't like something Augusto (or anyone else) says, please tell us why it is illogical, present an alternate set of facts, or otherwise effectively counter his views. Don't tell us what he does not like, what he eats for dinner, the kind of clothes he wears, the bike or jeep he rides/drives, how much entertainment there is or isn't in his village, or the state of his home's library at the time of his birth. I disagree often with the Right Hon. Augusto Pinto, but have to concede that he often has an interesting way of making his point. That not everybody appreciates his sense of humour is a valid point, but we needn't create a straw man about that either. Personally, I do envy (but not in a bad sense) Augusto's writing talent. But I believe that he's letting his potential evaporate by acting disagreeable with some editors and taking long Rip Van Winklesque gaps from writing (a 20 year gap is... almost as long as I failed to shave my beard, that's bad!) Augusto ignore flame-baiting friends (me too!) and just stick to doing those Devanagari-to-English short story translations, and more. Otherwise, who would be there to recognise those pearls hidden among us swines of Goan writing (apologies for all the mixed metaphors but unlike Rafael or you, I wasn't a good student at Kulkarni's or Joshi's class... P. Lal's guest lectures were another matter.) The League of Goa Writing is orphaned without anyone taking up its cause, focussing on the Furtados of the world, and giving it the credibility only a Moidekar could do ... that too via Kathmandu! [http://www.himalmag.com/read.php?id=2951] Tell Kanak that the registration is a bit of a discouraging factor though! As they would have said in another time, kator re bhaji. FN 2009/11/22 Tony de Sa <tonyde...@gmail.com>: > Santosh Helekar <chimbel...@yahoo.com>: > Augusto Pinto does not like science. I suspect he too believes it is a > capitalist, racist and casteist conspiracy against the proletariate. But he > has his pet obsessions, which, unfortunately, do not get aired as much on > Goanet nowadays. > Augusto Pinto's pet fixation centres around "bamons" and the clout he > imagines they wield in these socialistic days, the machinations they are > involved in to suppress the non-bamon castes and their exclusivity. > Apparently, it is rumoured in Moira circles that his mother was startled by > the falling of the book "Os Brahmanes" ( F. L. Gomes), which fell from a > stack of books in his house at Nairobi about the time of his birth - hence > his pet obsession. -- Frederick Noronha :: +91-832-2409490 Writing, editing, alt.publishing, photography, journalism ANOTHER GOA: http://tiny.cc/anothergoa