[Goanet] Indian independence Day

2010-08-18 Thread anesimo56
Dear Goanetters Gandhi would have committed suicide if he was alive today. He had a vision for Independent India, Not that of mass CORRUPTION, POVERTY, CASTEISM, BAD GOVERNANCE and INDiSCIPLINE. He would have handed over the country to BRITISH for administration. NEHRU could not get the NOBL

[Goanet] Indian independence day

2010-08-19 Thread Bernado Colaco
There was no transfer of power in 1961, in fact Goans were robbed of any power they had before 1961. The invasion caused a large scale menace to Goans. BC Words like "invasion" and "Liberation" are rather value loaded, in my view. What is needed, in my view, is a closer and more realistic look

[Goanet] Indian independence day

2010-08-20 Thread Bernado Colaco
Sorry your home is mount kilimanjaro. Thank the bhumiputras for accepting you when you arrived with the katli potlis. BC So let us live with it and make the best of it. The aim of every Goan should be to try and make it a better place, for you and for me and for everybody. Else migrate to Swind

Re: [Goanet] Indian independence Day

2010-08-19 Thread Frederick Noronha
Anesimo, Do you really believe what you wrote about Nehru and the Nobel? Btw, why didn't Gandhi get a Nobel? Was it because Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, CBE, was yet to make his film on the subject? While contemporary India does have a lot of problems, I'm not sure that a sneer

Re: [Goanet] Indian independence Day

2010-08-19 Thread Tony de Sa
Liberation, Annexation, Conquest, whatever one may choose to call it, is a matter of semantics. The de facto situation today is that the transfer of power from Portugal to India has taken place and no world court or world opinion and much less the opinion of a few die hards on Goanet is going to ch

Re: [Goanet] Indian independence day

2010-08-20 Thread J. Colaco < jc>
BC .are you destined to always remain miserable towards the 'Bharathis'? Besides, what does one call the 'bhumiputras' (of your present locale) who are still tolerant of your negativity? Won Tons ..or just MSG? jc In response to: 'So let us live with it and make the best of it. The ai