Re: [Goanet]GHAG debate - Margaret Mascarenhas replies to Fred
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## >>But, if India joins the war on terror, I might consider applying for a Portuguese passport if only to dodge getting drafted and then shipped home in a Victim of Friendly Firecontainer. >> Spanish citizenship might be more appropriate. Portugal has troops in Irak and is a part of G. Bush's coalition of the willing. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
[Goanet]GHAG debate - Margaret Mascarenhas replies to Fred
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## As one who has not participated in the Fontainhas Art Festival, I cannot be accused of having a vested interest. Similarly, at not having been invited to participate in this Festival either, let it not be insinuated that I have an axe (or coito) to grind. Knowing that my canvases reek of linseed oil rather than Pierre Laurent Rose Absolute, why would I subject a fellow Goan to befall the misfortune of having to display my art and in the process, earn disgruntlement as commission? As for my past I speak no Portuguese and know not primergrao from Marmagao. To this day, I proudly retain my Indian passport and with it, my sole allegiance to the Government of India. But, if India joins the war on terror, I might consider applying for a Portuguese passport if only to dodge getting drafted and then shipped home in a Victim of Friendly Firecontainer. Returning to the subject matter, I am grateful to all those who have shed further light on the issues. If Heta Pandit and GHAG are one and the same entity, then it would be fair to assume that the Fontainhas Art Festival has been her ball. For whatever her reasons, she has opted to drop the ball. One may also assume that the ball is in reasonable shape perhaps needing some inflation or color touch-up by pseudo-leftists. In any event, the scraping of the Festival might be the result of resentment brewing among the players on who now gets to play centerfield and who ends up always in the rear guarding the goalie in a game where the ball was programmed to lucratively lob in the opposite end of the field! Now that Heta has dropped the ball, has she (and GHAG) disowned it, or do they still have proprietorship over the Fontainhas Art Festival extravaganza? If not, can the artists who participated in the Festival these last two years and/or benefitted from such participation, pool some money together and pick and refurbish the ball? If the venue is still a political hotbed, can it be relocated to some neutral ground? And if the initiative to hold the Festival is alive and backed by a bonafide treasurer currently sitting in front of an empty cash register I am willing to contribute Rs. One lakh to get this worthy ball in motion again. Let me know. Dom Martin The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!
Re: [Goanet]GHAG debate - Margaret Mascarenhas replies to Fred
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## > > Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:16:58 +0530 > From: Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > From Margaret Mascarenhas > > - > > Fred, I don't think the issue here, at least for me, > is about whether > (some) NGOs/activists do good work (many do),and it > is certainly not about > ethnic origins--I don't know where that one came > from. Why do we need outsiders to run our destiny. Can Goans not handle responsibility? Do we need these Hetas, Fonseca and Alvares who are in Goa for publicity? Can we stop being brainwashed by bharatis? B. Colaco ___ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - so many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
[Goanet]GHAG debate - Margaret Mascarenhas replies to Fred
## # If Goanet stops reaching you, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Want to check the archives? http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/# # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ## - Forwarded message from Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:16:58 +0530 From: Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From Margaret Mascarenhas - Fred, I don't think the issue here, at least for me, is about whether (some) NGOs/activists do good work (many do),and it is certainly not about ethnic origins--I don't know where that one came from. It is also not, for me, about dishonesty concerning money matters since to date no one has presented any evidence whatsoever to establish that this is the case. It isn't even about GHAG not doing good work. It has done good work, which is why I have supported it in the past. My objection to GHAG is their repeated use and abuse of OTHERS from whom they solicit support on one pretext and then unilaterally change the agenda when the other(s) are already committed/compromised. It is a question of public misrepresentation.Let GHAG do good work on its own and not enlist public support for causes that turn out to be other than what was originally outlined. That Heta has been dishonest in her representation in soliciting assistance,that she indiscriminately uses people to her own ends, I have personal experience with that, as have numerous others. Had it just been about me, I would and did refrain from comment for over two years, and continued to endorse her work, including the first Fontainhas Festival. Re the second Fointainhas festival, surely you must know that it was not only Alexyx who had a major problem with the way it was handled and with Heta's treatment of individuals once they were roped into the event; I spoke with at least 12 artists who were extremely upset by GHAG's insensitive, arbitrary and autocratic behavior during this Festival. Let's face it: GHAG cannot have a Heritage Festival without artists and musicians--no one would come. When you present a proposal to artists, or whomever, as though you are offering them a parnership in an event, you need to behave democratically and as though that partnership exists. And when GHAG puts itself out there in the public arena, and solicits public endorsement, they had also better be ready for public criticism. Margaret - End forwarded message -
