Goa's Open Secret Gilbert Lawrence: Hi Fred: Nice to hear from you. I think your last post on this subject was about some Goans being defensive about their (inquisition) history. To which my humble response was that the defensiveness was on the part of the Goan writers who are unaware of the exact (details of) history and their texts. So here is their opportunity to shine and further expand on their journalism, web pages and 'research'.
As you have seen on this thread, there have been a lot of statements and clich�s on the inquisition in Goa with SURPRISINGLY very little facts and data to back it up. So what will it take to appeal to these individuals who have used the Goa Net and Goan cyberspace to 'lagao bhathi' and post their statistics to back-up their statements? Do you think a financial award will encourage our Khoro-Niz Goenkars to write some facts instead of fiction?:=)) I appreciate the statement that Goan journo don't have any special authority on this subject. Perhaps true! But if they write newspaper articles and help others write their web page or ads on a subject; they should have the skill to ask the hard questions prior to 'putting their pen' to their writings. Nothing should stop a Goan journo (with an inquiring mind) to respond to articles written by others about their own history. Frederick Noronha: I don't think the web and email queries can play the role of replacing serious research, as would be needed if serious about a topic such as this. Secondly, I don't think journalists would have any special skills to speak with authority on a subject such as this... unless the rare journo actually specialised in this topic (I don't know of any). FN Gilbert Lawrence wrote: Goa's Open Secret - Inquisition in Goa An Open letter! My letters to individual Goans/Indians with web-pages on the Inquisition in Goa keeps bouncing back or ignored.... Wonder why? To date, Teotonio and Santosh have provided some numbers. But nobody has responded to this open letter with either numbers or statistics ON THE INQUISITION IN GOA. ########################################################################## # 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 # ##########################################################################
