Dear Fredrick and Rajan While it is heartening see that all goanetters are firmly on the side of Goa, I am disdained to find that they continue to spend most of their time fighting to decide as to who is their enemy no.1. The enemy and the enemies are making merry with divide and rule. Can we all utilise atleast 50% of our energies and time to fight only enemies? Please retrospect. No compulsions. Lets resolve on the INDEPENDENCE DAY. Rajendra
* * * In every way, the Goans of Bombay were part of the great melee that was this metropolis, distinct perhaps in the way communities often are, holding on to their own traditions but merging slowly nonetheless and forming the thin thread of nationhood that would eventually become India. -- Selma Carvalho, in *Into the Goan Diaspora Wilderness*. Available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
