Afra Dias wrote:
Dear Goencars,
What Jose Colaco is saying is absolute 'tosh'.
Gaonkar in English means Citzenship - not of the country, but of the village
s/he is born.
What right has a foreigner like Jose Colaco got to come to our village and
tell us what we should do with their ancestral p
eir adopted
village life, not considerd as the new gauncares and have thensame rights
etc as other older gauncares??? You in London are eligible for UK
citizenship; aren't you; so why the discrimination in Goa? food for
thought??
Nasci Caldeira
Melbourne
From: afra dias
Subject:
"This is my humble opinion and modern thought input to this issue. We have to
give up our old ways and modernise. These days, there are no Clans Communes
anymore; even families are disappearing under the impact of development and
modern thinking. The Hindu unduvided family, has also disappeared