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Congratulations Frederick, This needed to be said -- Cheers Aloysius D'Souza ----- Original Message ----- From: Frederick Noronha (FN) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 1:11 AM Subject: [Goanet] All Goans are Indians? (Shifting to Goans in Test cricket) > **************************************** > For more information/links, see http://goanet.netfirms.com > **************************************** > > Just to stir up more debate on a volatile subject... (as an aside, should > we get so worked up about religion, nationalism, language, ethnicity, and > not the other issues which really affect life on this planet?) > > Could someone tell me who was the first Goan cricketeer to > play in a Test match? How many Goans played in test matches > in all? Which country did they represent? Perhaps the > answers would throw up additional insights... > > Incidentally, I'm quite at peace with my Indian/South Asian identity as > with my Portuguese surname. These are accidents of history; I did not > have any say in the outcome. And I'm not going to waste my energy in > denying history. > > What perhaps makes more sense doing is to question how exactly our > inherited identities help or hinder us in living in the current world. > Without taking fixed and inflexible sides, we could continually ask which > post-1961 changes are benefitting Goa and which are harming it. Also, the > same questions about colonial rule of the pre-1961 period. -FN > > PS: To be honest, I am no cricket fan. Was once fanatically devoted to > following the game... till India got involved in a string of humiliating > defeats. That was sometime in 1982-3 or so... can't recall the exact year. > In hindsight, it was great this happened. It gives one more time to look > at more real-world issues. _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goanet.org/mailman/listinfo/goanet
