LETTER TO EDITOR Sir, While the rest of Goa may succumb to bandh threats, year after year there is one Goan family with a spine that refuses to pull down the shutters of their restaurants. Even if the Goan cowards cannot repulse the mischief mongers, the Navtara chain of restaurants in Panjim, Mapusa and Porvorim have remained open despite stoning and intimidation during several bandhs. Even police have failed to give protection but these Goans just refuse to budge after threats and losses to their property. If only a few more Goans could be as courageous as the Tavora's, the repeated disruption of peace in Goa by the mergerists and communalists would have been thwarted. We salute these Goans. If Goans believe that politicians have no business to meddle in education, they must take their children to school and stand guard outside to protect the school from any attack by mergerist hoodlums. Will we make June 6 that defining day in the history of Goa when Goans will give a fitting answer to mergerist and communal agendas?
-Soter D'souza Socorro