-------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Add your name to the CLEAN GOA INITIATIVE | | | | by visiting this link and following the instructions therein | | | | http://shire.symonds.net/pipermail/goanet/2005-October/033926.html | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beautifully said. Nobody could have said it better. Keep on the "combate" There may not be any "winners" but there will definitely be a lot of "defeated".
Livia de Abreu Nornha
Message: 5 Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:45:31 +0530 From: Miguel Braganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet] Re: Fontainhas Festival of Arts: GHAG-ESG JV To: Goanet <goanet@goanet.org> Cc: hetapandit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Windows-1252 Dears, It is easier to walk barefoot than with a stone in one's shoe. Principal Subhash Velingkar has his Portuguese education troubling his saffron soul; the past and his caste haunts Comrade Flaviano Dias and I really do not know which side of the Fundacao Oriente fence I will find the Portuguese-speaking Freedom Fighter and Konknni poet, Nagesh Karmali. Between the three, give me Nagesh any day! The greatest joke of all is that all who accept Goa in its present geographical boundaries acknowledge, at least by default, the colonial era's contribution. Today's Goa is the creation of the colonial power; like it or lump it. There is no third option! Did some of these worthies not serve the Portuguese colonial regime while it lasted. The Catholics in Goa have unnecessarily been on the defensive. They are labelled as having been Portuguese collaborators. How then do we get only Salgaocars, Dempos, Chowgules, Mangaljis, Timblos when we rattle off the names of people who own large mining leases from the colonial rulers. If they are more patriotic than the people of Fontainhas, let these worthies get the mine owners to surrender their leases to the Government of India. Instead , we have these mine owners surreptiously cutting free Goa Government-owned forests on the strength of these colonial leases. They bribe the middle order Forest Officials. Thank God for the Chief Conservator of Forests' order cancelling the ill-gotten licence in Dabal-Sanguem recently. Almost a thousand cashew trees in land where the local community enjoys usufruct rights were chopped down before the CCF's action came. There was a Gram Sabha in Dabal just as there was in Assagao against tree cutting for a Saturday Night Bazaar.
