GL response: Either Sandeep Heble is a very learned man or is full of 'lagao bhathi' a.k.a. 'hot air'. If indeed Mr. Heble is a Professor, perhaps he can easily educate us on cyber-Goa WITH DATES, FACTS AND STATISTICS on each of the descriptive in the first paragraph of his article below. Later we can discuss paragraph 2 and then come to the conclusion of his paragraph 3 (as copied below).
If Sandeep Heble does not pursue this thread which he has started, then clearly this post dose not need to be dignified with responses. I hope Mr. Heble takes our invitation to inform us, Goan adults, so that then we can work to educate our kids. We eagerly look forward to be enlightened - something similar to the series of posts we had on the Goan-Inquisition in March-April of 2004. After all none of us would like belong to the category, "No rational thinking person." Regards, GL Sandeep Heble: No rational thinking person would deny that the Portuguese rule in Goa was a rule of fanaticism and endless persecutions, that it was nothing short of a butchery lasting several hundreds of years and characterized by orgies of blood, the inquisitions, the heretical tribunals and the cruelest pieces of legislations against inhabitants who were not even looked upon as humans. The implications of deliberate attempts to "suppress" history with a politically and religiously motivated agenda are dangerous in many ways. Schooling is not meant to 'instill conformism' but to open up the minds of children and inculcate in them the questioning temper. Why then must one fear history, delete facts and suppress reason? Isn't the very premise of our education, which is based on an egalitarian precept, being questioned in the process? Do we wish to create an open, democratic, secular and progressive state or do we wish to create an insecure Nation like Afghanistan where true history is censored and religious fairy tales are being depicted as truths? Do we wish to create rational-thinking intellects or do we wish to create religious zealots? Sandeep Heble
