[Goanet]Flaviano needs to read history again.

[karla]

Flaviano Dias seems to like obfuscating issues. I had debated with him about 
the authenticity of showing Portuguese soldiers/sailors of 1510 A.D. with 
long shields[ as used in the crusades and Zulu wars] and that too painted in 
white with a prominent red cross on them. In his article he points out that 
the sails of the Portuguese flotilla had a cross on them. That was never in 
dispute. Neither  is there any dispute that the Gestapo cadres wore a 
swastika on their arm bands while sending jews to the gas chambers. Would 
Flaviano Dias have us believe that the Nazi troops were Brahmins just 
because they were Aryans?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], goanet@goanet.org,
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This has reference to the  the one and quarter page lead story published 
in
the PANORAMA of the Navhind Times dated 06 March,2005. The rather lengthy
piece, entitled " In Freedom Struggle, Goans Fought as Indians", written 
by
an apologetic for the Parrikar Administration's seedy VCD entitled GOA
FREEDOM STRUGGLE  tries vainly to make out a case against the critics of
this bastardization of Goa's history by appealing to the patriotic 
emotions
which the author obviously does not posses although drawing a Freedom
Fighter's pension. Which true patriot would like to cause a schism between
communities and religions in independent, secular India and a liberated 
Goa?

Flaviano is admittedly an agnostic. I accept that he does not believe in 
God
or the creation of Adam and Eve. That does not give him the right to 
create
history. Flaviano is an agnostic, TB Cunha was an atheist. Both of them 
were
born to catholic parents.
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I think Flaviano is tending towards senility in insisting and continuing in 
his confusion of the trees for the forest. Perhaps , he is not truly an 
agnostic. Perhaps he still believes in God....but has not found him. How 
else does one explain his obsession with religion while talking about 
colonialisation and liberation, Goans and "other Indians"? Is Flaviano a 
Dukor Khairo or a shuddh shakahari Velim native confused and confounded 
about his religion, caste and nationality????? Is he a prime candidate for 
Mod-VAT or is he just a mercenary who fought for his FF pension and received 
the post-retirement windfall of Rs.10,000/- per month for being a RSS 
quisling clothed in a catholic name that Parrikar could rattle off when 
questioned? The special pension and the VCD scrutiny did have an uncanny 
convergence of dates.

Viva Goa.
Miguel Braganza
P.S.
Would someone please post this on Goa Journo d-list? It would be nice to 
have some reactions from fellow journalists.