[Goanet] Asian sensational victories.
Most Goans in Kenya and Tanzania working in the Govt offices were given 6 months notice of termination of services and they retired with full pension benefits. Most of the retrenched were at the lower level whereas others at the middle and executive level served Govts well into the seventies. Tanzania and Kenya became independent in 1961 and 1963 respectively. It might be said that Goans left for greener pastures at their own leisurely pace with a touch of honour. As for Catholics of Goa , one has only to see them at a Sunday mass. They are well dressed and contribute liberally to church collections. The only Catholics who find Goa not a salubrious place to live in are those who expect to be addressed as Bab and Bai. and who today are ignominiously ignored in the modern society
[Goanet] Asian sensational victories
Sim Senhor António ! I WAS NOT HAPPY WHEN THE GOAN SERVANTS OF THE LATE BRITISH EMPIRE WERE THROWN OUT OF EST AFRICA IN DROVES AND I AM EVEN LESS HAPPY WHEN THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OF GOA IS DWINDLING IN BOTH NUMBERS AND CLOUT BY THE DAY. GOA IS LESS AND LESS A PHYSICAL PLACE TO BECOME A NOTIONAL MENTAL REFUGE OF CATHOLIC GOANS WHEREVER THEY LIVE (Tino de Sa: being Goan is a state of mind, more than a mere geographical accident). THE SLATE OF HATE BEGETS A PROBLEMATIC VARNA OF BILIOUS PEOPLE (with a peevish ill-natured disposition). Ricardo Nunes
[Goanet] Asian sensational victories
Sim Senhor Ricardo ! I was happy when the 'Oriente' was 'reconquistado' on a glorious day in December '61. Later on I was still happier when I came to know ( I was in East Africa then) that ' a gente portuguesa' both pale coloured and dark skinned returned in droves to their fatherland just before the Liberation day. By the way, remember Subhas Chandra Bose ?
[Goanet] ASIAN SENSATIONAL VICTORIES
Immense and horrendous suffering followed the conquests. Natives were worked to death in chain gangs. Thousands of Fillipinos were doused with gasoline and torched, in coliseum style frivolty. Goans suffered huge personal losses in Burma, many paid with their lives. None would return at war's end. Free Manila reprisals include the removal of the small Goan community. Did buddy watch 'The Bridge on the River Kwai !' The entire War-Cabinet was hanged, without exception, 'justice' meted out by a military court. Trueman and McCarther had little use for Nuremberg style niceness. ps. Japan just paid for the Mapuca-Calangute sewage works: fifty crores. eric. From: Ricardo Nunes < YELLOW PRIDE OF ANTONIO MENEZES Europe and India are two subcontinents of Eurasia, the immense continent inhabited by four big tribes - the yellow, the turk, the aria and the dravida. The islamicized turk/mongol tribe invaded India and as a result Pakistan and Bangladesh were chopped from Bharat; the rest of India was preserved from the injury by the arrival of the west arias, and namely the Portuguese. Are you a yellow Goan? Ricardo Nunes
[Goanet] ASIAN SENSATIONAL VICTORIES
YELLOW PRIDE OF ANTONIO MENEZES Europe and India are two subcontinents of Eurasia, the immense continent inhabited by four big tribes - the yellow, the turk, the aria and the dravida. The islamicized turk/mongol tribe invaded India and as a result Pakistan and Bangladesh were chopped from Bharat; the rest of India was preserved from the injury by the arrival of the west arias, and namely the Portuguese. Are you a yellow Goan? Ricardo Nunes
[Goanet] Asian Sensational Victories
Till the Second World War or thereabouts, the Asian people suffered from some sort of a complex. They thought Europeans were a master invincible race. At the beginning of the Second World War , the British sent its then technological wonder , a navy ship called ''Prince of Wales'' to Singapore to block any attempt by the Japanese navy of making any incursion into the Indian Ocean thus putting their Crown Jewel i.e. British India into a great peril. The Japanese navy or to be more precise their Kamikaze fighter planes made a short shrift and sent the Prince of Wales to the bottom of the ocean, thus creating a thrilling sensation in Asian people. The second such thrilling event took place in 1954 when a brilliant Vietnamese General called Vo Nguyen Giap at the head of a rag tag army employing guerrilla tactics defeated the mighty French Foreign Legion ( of Vive La France fame ) at the battle of Dien Bien Phu. General Giap died recently at the ripe old age of 102.
