Rajan P. Parrikar <parri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
[1] There is no denying the positive influence of the Portuguese on Goa.
[2] I yield to no one in my denunciation of the wanton destruction,
brutality and religious bigotry they wrought in their early years.
(...) it is equally true that the latter Portuguese mellowed a good
deal.
[3] It is undeniable that the aspects of culture that are unique to or
characteristic of Goa and Goans came out of the crucible provided by
the Portuguese
[4] Panjim, the most beautiful city (no longer, alas - thank you
Indian for NOTHING) in the subcontinent in recent times, came to be so
because of the Portuguese. Any Hindu, ghati or Goan, denying the
obvious positives of the ex-colonialists should be laughed out of
town.
COMMENT:
I am on the same page as Rajanbab.
Only an ostrich will deny the atrocities of the early days of
Portuguese colonialism in Goa. A cousin of that ostrich will also be
in denial of Hindu and Muslim atrocities in Goa at (and before) that
time period. Not that one evil act justifies another ....but it needs
to be stated.
We cannot change the past and we cannot revise it either - not with
mythology and not with 'revisionist history' - a speciality subject of
the BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi. This is the sort of mentality which
creates the Vandals of Fontainhas and the Katlick producers of the
VideoCD.
I trust you have noted how SILENT Sandeep Heble has been and still is
on those two topics. Whitewash Revisionism, anyone?
It is best, both for our own troubled souls and for the betterment of
our community interests that we just accept the facts as they are i.e.
a: YES, Hindus brutalised other Hindus (the caste system being just
the tip of the iceberg).
b: YES, Hindu and Muslim 'kings' took turns in ravaging Goa and the
women living in Goa before the Portuguese arrived .
c: YES, Hindu and Muslim 'kings' took turns in destroying each others
places of worship in Goa before the Portuguese arrived.
d: YES, the Portuguese Catholic colonialists destroyed both Muslim and
Hindu places of worship - in the early years, and used the unHoly
Inquisition to wipe out their political and land enemies (under the
cloak of religion)
e: YES, Goa has been ravaged since the Barath of 1961. .... and
continues to be so.
My crystal ball tells me the following:
Never mind the 'Honeshty' nonsense and the Manifesto H2S
........Whoever wins this March 2012 election, Goa will continue to be
revaged.
Anybody wishes to disagree?
jc
ps Of interest:
* Those who complain incessantly of the European enslavement of
Africans ....conveniently forget to remember the African enslavement
of other Africans which made the European slave trade possible.
* Those who wax eloquently about the Shining or Mahan Bharat while
bemoaning the alleged dismemberment of Bharat, conveniently forget to
remember that the subcontinent was (antes 1947) a fractured place
which was eventually brought together (like the former Yugoslavia) by
force and Indirian coercion.
* Our 'buddy' Aurangzeb justified the destruction of Hindu temples
....because ' they were centres of prostitution'.
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