Hi Freds, I am not sure if I have misunderstood you. Did the sharks take you an your companions to Dachau instead of Sangetti? I believe Sangetti is now closed by Fat Anne. Can you not get a Portuguese passport via your former ancestry?
Also thank you for tracing my roots. Now if I mask my IP you may find me in Timbaktu. CIA will go helter skelter!:)))) As for palatable colonialism - are opposite views not allowed to be expressed in a "flourishing" democracy sorry moneycracy (N. Coissoro)? Regards Cola�o > You mean that Bharati guy who also had a column > called 'With Malice > Towards One And All'? Also how did you miss the link > beteween soldiers > from the Punjab and this Liberation thingy? > > I didn't reach Leipzig during any of my study > jaunts, but did reach > Dachchau. Surprisingly the uniform view of all of us > three South Asians > (including one Pakistani, one might add) was quite > the opposite of > what was intended. We felt that the camp was so well > done up that a > number of people from our part of the world could > actually find it an > attractive enough place to live in. Maybe that's the > price of political > freedom in the aftermath of European colonialsm. > Maybe > it's also got to do with the whitewashing of the > past -- as you work > overtime to do via your postings. > > Yes I was indeed worried about where you live, with > all these > conflicting claims. In case you call me over to > London (the city you once > claimed you were in) I might reach Macau, where the > electronic trace of > your messages lead one to. You don't need the CIA to > detect where you're > posting from ;-) > > Haven't you read about that case where someone was > thrilled he had got > cheap tickets to GOA, but landed to his dismay in > Genoa instead of GOI > (Goa). Oops, that I-word has crept in here once > again... > > On a more seriously note, what I'm raising here is > the intention of a few > pseudonyms to scuttle rational debate on Goanet, by > reducing everything to > a battle over was-1961-a-liberation-or-an-invasion. > Should we go into > overdrive to make Portuguese colonial rule a bit > more palateable, or gloss > over the misrule done by our own people after 1961, > whether on their own > or in collaboration with the centralised powers of > the Indian state? Do we > have to first take sides and then try to go > searching desperately for the > evidence to fit our bias? Can't we just have an open > mind and see how the > issues are affecting the people of Goa and her > diaspora, here and now? > > Do you want to ensure that Goans continue to try to > march forward while > fixated all the time to the past? Or can we actually > go ahead? > > FN > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Frederick Noronha (FN) | > http://www.fredericknoronha.net > Freelance Journalist | > http://www.bytesforall.org > http://goalinks.pitas.com | > http://joingoanet.shorturl.com > http://linuxinindia.pitas.com | > http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > T: 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 M: 0 9822 122436 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ########################################################################## > # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > # > # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), > and avoid top-posts # > # More details on Goanet at > http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # > # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to > reflect respect to others # > ########################################################################## __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/yplus/yoffer.html ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
