Roland Francis wrote: I understand that G1 is a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. The very institution that allowed this nefarious caste system to be perpetuated in Goa. Hey father, you would have been more credible if you had taken the opportunity to apologize for that on behalf of the body you represent.
Then in comes G2 on the same lines: What a blot the caste system is. Don't talk about it. I am a sub harijan and kunbi (Cecil Pinto nails him on that one!). My children married (where he does not say) in line with our family not breathing the caste word. He adds a Spanish word or two, leading us to believe that not only was this out of caste, but out of India entirely (nothing wrong with that - more than half of Goan children overseas marry "outside"). What I have to ask G2 is why all the family revelations given the fact that Selma for the purpose of writing a book only asked an unrelated question as shown above. G3 as usual puts his foot in where angels fear to tread. He talks about Selma's bias in writing about the caste system. Hey G2, she hasn't written anything on this yet. She is still at the research stage. Why not talk about your bias for gold investing and your bias for cheering the fall of profligate western governments as represented by your arch-enemy the United States where you went to study and whose innocent citizen you married? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roland,, 1) I don't think you have understood what is being discussed here. 2) You try and address three gentlemen and after just a few sentences, wander off, unable to keep a grip on which gentleman said what. I do not know if you realise this, but your wandering keeps on getting worse every time. 3) It is beyond bewilderment, to me, that you could introduce into a debate on the Goan Catholic caste system, the following: a) Gold investing b) The fall of profligate western governments c) Innocent US citizens :- 0 4) It is becoming painfully obvious that your blinders only allow you to see the person and not the issue being discussed. This time you have gone to the extreme of spewing your venom on a priest of the Roman Catholic faith. Yes, this does speak volumes about you. Lastly, If you read your post again, you may realise that you have attacked the people who said that they have jettisoned the caste system. Mervyn Lobo