Hello Miguel, I just wonder if they allowed you to read Midnight's Children?
Agente Monteiro was a real stick wielder. One had to be disciplined those days. Going to Mumbai was sin, because 400 002 constituted as a base for subversion. But compare Agente Monteiro to today's supercop? Prejudicial killings and all that. Has it solved the problem, and he is called a supercop! My late old man was a successful medic until the bharatis came to dislodge him from his post. I am wondering what you talking about varzia and propriedade? You sound more like the Iraqi Minister for Disinformation.:)))))) Regards xac --- Miguel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Senhor Colaco, > > That Nehru loved White women was never a secret.His > aunt Vijaylaxmi Pandit > is reported to have said," If Jawahar could give > Edwina a good time then it > was good for her ,and it was good for him." That was > his personal choice. > Liberating/invading/annexing or whatever of Goa was > a political decision > that Nehru could neither make or implement alone. > The British or the Yankees > would have re-liberated us as they did in the Banana > republics or Timor or > elsewhere. They did not. > > Prosperity in Goa may be from Gulf remitances and > people(Including Abu > Salem,Monica Bedi,Kashmiris and others) may be > flocking for Portuguese > passports to be treated on par with the whites(at > least officially) in the > European Union.(Since you have admitted that you are > a 'post-invasion ' > creature,you would not be entitled to a Portuguese > passport by birth.Descent > may be,not birth.)That does not change the fact that > we have education > available in Goa that once required a visit and stay > at Lisboa(immortalized > by Lorna),Coimbra or Oporto.This was out of the > reach of the common man as > not all people had the good fortune of being > 'advogado' or 'empregado do > governo','minero' or such other vocations that got > you money.This was not > limited to the 'converts' as many would have us > believe. Most mine-owners > who got huge leases and concessionsfrom the colonial > rulers are devout > Hindus,even (or mostly) Sarasat Brahmins as Rui > recently pointed out to > me.Some of them have been honorary consuls for the > far from honorary > regimes. > Even medical doctors lived in penury because their > patients had no money > till 1961. We have had sufficient doctors in the > family to know what the > profession meant if there > was no 'propriadade e varzia' (which fortunately > they had.)That is the story > of life before you were born. Affluence of the > masses is a post-1961 > phenomenen. Today doctors and engineers(all home > grown) are amassing wealth > that even the later day 'Conde' and 'Viscondes' > were/are hardput to achieve. > > No ,we have not achieved Utopia. All the same,we are > better off than under > colonial rule. You can say what you want,I can read > the autobiography of > Karl Marx or Antonio Salazar or Marcel Caetano and > walk free. My father was > jailed for three months for possessing a copy of > Mahatma Gandhi's > autobiography,"My experiments with Truth" which he > had bought as a student > at St.Xavier's College ,Mumbai/Bombaim. The irony of > it all was that my > father taught at Escola Tecnica run by the > government and had entertained > some of the policemen/agente who arrested him. That > is the difference.I have > lived on both sides of 1961 in Goa to know it first > hand. > ;))))) > Saudades,senhor > > Miguel > > P.S. > My reply is in English because most Goanetters do > not follow the ' Lingua da > Camoes'. > > __________________________________________________ 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 # ##########################################################################