My responses [JC] to what Selma Carvalho [SEC] wrote on this topic: SEC1: My God, what are we doing with our lives? JC1: Apologies. Not being a surgeon, I am absolutely unable to answer for God.
SEC2: For a person like me born after Liberation, Portugal is an emasculated South-West European power overlooking the Atlantic. I have no interest in it, politically or economically. I vaguely know where it is geographically. JC2: It appears as though a whole generation of Goans has been trained poorly in Geography and comprehending the meaning of the word "power". SEC3: Are we Goans walking backward with debates about the Portuguese v/s Indian? This is like a hideous nightmare of Catholic buffoonery and right-wing Hindu intellectual bankruptcy. JC3: Do not know much about either buffoons or intellectuals. Hence, I will PASS. SEC4: Between these two divides, Goa is seriously shot in the foot. JC4: Is it possible that the focus is on the word 'Rule" as in the Rule of Law, rather than on the word "Portuguese" or "Indian"? If so, I suspect that it is possible that some desi young lady in Inglaterra is in serious danger of putting her foot in her mouth (perhaps, once again). Have we not read - oh so often - from Floriano ..."Give us the Portuguese Rule back .....NOT the Portuguese"? Ah well ...let me enjoy this lunch of mine consisting of some super-delicious dal, rice and cabbage bhaji ...quietly ..... before some Ozzie (Oi Oi Oi) realizes that I am quite a primitive sub-Harijan. jc