Somewhere in cyberspace I came across this link to the electronic records of
the Comintern
http://www.comintern-online.com/
A number of Goans involved in political campaigns of the past (T B Cunha in Goa
and Mumbai, Pio Gama Pinto in Kenya, Aquino Braganza who was an aide to Samora
Machel in Mozambique, the respected writer and theorist D D Kossambi etc) were
involved with the Left in their campaigns against European colonial rule.
Even the end of Portuguese rule in 1961 was also tied up to the Cold War, and
had this not been around, the history of Goa might have been different. (We
could speculate and shift to a what-if situation here.)
Strangely, an attempt to search the Comintern electronic records threw up no
links to Goa. Or was one searching wrongly?
Maybe some scholars from the world of history could give us an insight into
other interesting links to Goa available in cyberspace. (In the Comintern site,
one needs to register before searching. You could call it a triumph of
capitalism, but one has to pay a hefty fee to access some of the records too!
Probably there's a case for such records belonging to the commons, not a
private party!)
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