This message is in reply to Goanet Digest, Vol 5, Issue 936, message No: Message: 5, date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010.
Sotor wrote: Come on Mr. Barad! Please do not feign ignorance. I have already recommended you some reading. Please do some homework. Truths do not come easy. If not satisfied, just take a round to Priol nd ask the last man in the village. Spot information is definitely better than the archives. Your attempts to fire bullets in the air will not succeed. Portuguese rifles misfired during the gun salute as reported in Herald. My response: Sotor, I new you would answer something twistingly. For your information, I have done much more reading on the subject matter therefore I "picked up a line" from your post and posed you the same question. Now I recommend, you read some books. To start with, read a book based on original Portuguese archival documents authored by Adv. Laxmikant Bhembre - book is titled "Katolikanche bharatatil dharmaprasarache marg". Thereafter read TB Cunha's denationalization of Goa. After reading these two books, read Shenoy Goembab's Goenkarachi goyanbhalili vasanuk...Kokani bhasheche Zait, Sail's novel Yugsanvar. Vinayak dhume's Punyabhumi gomantak and devabhumi gomnantak. And lastly read Manohar hirba sardesai's two volumes on Goa's freedom struggle published by Goa government's art and culture dept. After you finish reading all these books, please give me a call, I will pick you up to accompany me to meet "the last man in village Priol" as proposed by you. I am sure this exercise will clear the cloud of ignorance on the subject. Yes Sotor, I learnt the truth the hard ways..am sure, reading above recommended books you will also learn much more. What say! Best regards, U. G. Barad * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Now available in Toronto, a few copies of *Into The Diaspora Wilderness* by Selma Carvalho. Contact Bosco D'Mello bo...@goanet.org (416) 803-7264 http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/