Oscar Lobo <oscarlo...@optusnet.com.au> wrote: Could Mr. Frederick Noronha, our well known journalist in Goa, kindly give us an account of Goa after 19 December 1961 to date without being sarcastic in any way or form! How did Goa and her sons and daughters benefit after the so called "liberation"?
"Zeal without knowledge is like fire without light" --- Dear Oscar, 1: I believe that it is quite unfair of you to ask Frederick Noronha to 'give an account of Goa after 1961 to date'. To the best of my knowledge, he wasn't in Goa or anywhere on planet earth in 1961; perhaps, Aida was. Let us allow her to (if she wishes) clarify her words. To me, it appears that we could possibly end up discussing Goa based on a mixture of some truth and some conjecture, admixed with hearsay and selectively factual and conveniently revisionist 'history'. 2: I also do not believe that FN was being sarcastic when he responded to me. It is possible that this is how we Goans 'discuss' topics. Normally, only politicians use this tactic of deflection to avoid reflection. I invite you to read the following excerpt from Profile of Eminent Goans by Clement Vaz © Concept Publishing 1997 ..... Do ponder (just for a moment or two) on how the late Aloysius Soares allegedly dealt with a book written about Goa. Instead of considering whether or not the Boman-Behram book was being factual,he apparently decided to 'do an FN'. Also do note what apparently happened to Mr Soares when he criticised a speech by Nehru. Did someone say that there was Freedom of the Press? And would someone wish to advise us about the late Norman Dantas? good wishes jc =============== Profile of Eminent Goans by Clement Vaz © Concept Publishing 1997 ============== p 264 "Again, when a Parsi lawyer, Boman-Behram, published a book under the title 'Goa and Ourselves', Soares published a rebuttal asking what would happen if the author had published a pro-Indian book in Goa. However, he had to give up its (the Goan Tribune) editorship when he criticised a speech by Prime Minister Nehru,creating trouble in his own camp. In June 1958,Lambert Mascarenhas succeeded Aloysius Soares as the editor of the Tribune =========================end of quote ================================================