On 9 Dec 2003 18:40:41 -0000, "Jerry Fernandes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Looks like we haven’t changed much at all, the title which is most appropriate for us as SUSEGAD GOEMKAR is perfect fit, kam nam muntoch kam kortat munn dakouea. Great Bosco, you are perfectly right in what you have written. Not only shiv sena, but also BJP, who seem to be experts in changing names, India became Hindustan, and I have yet to hear any foreigner using that word, Bombay became Mumbai, and again I have yet to hear it from foreigners and finally now Goa, wonder after the names of the roads, what will be the term coined for GOA. And the only people who seem to fight for it are BJP followers. Wonder why these names were never changed in 1961 or soon after that? May be the people who are interested in changing it were followers of nakrasura (spelling error?) the sleeping brother of Ravana, and suddenly they have woken to show the Goans that they are the workers of Goa and all others are susegad goemkars. Thanks to Jack Sequeira, and his United Goans Party, that we are still Goans, if not long back we would have been Maharashtrians, and our language would not have been Konkani, but Marathi, good for all the devanagri speakers. Which inspite of being compulsory in Goans schools for government grant, is hardly utilized. I have never heard my nephews and nieces speak it but speak the Konkani which we speak. I am sure the present chief minister was educated in English medium and hence now holding high chair and making others lives miserable. Jerry ########################################################################## # 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 # ##########################################################################