Hey Afra!
The para who are delving on is from me; not Jose Colaco.
Therefore this response. I would accept that 'Gaoncar' is equivalent to
citizenship of a village; in that case, why is the village citizenship a
'closed shop'. Why are the moradores who have assimilated in their 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 <goanet@goanet.org>
Subject: [Goanet]Gaonkar
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 22:10:22 -0400
"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 by and
large; I think its prevalent only for tax purposes; the tax office should
outlaw this; certainly appears like a loophole for tax fraud."
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 property which our
grandfathers
acquired by working on the ships etc?
If he wants to buy, he is welcome to do so.The British are doing it, but to
tell me to change my way of citizenship of my place of birth. I think Jose
Colaco is seriously wanting in some areas of his reasoning.
Sincerely.
Afra Dias. (london)
