From: eric pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: goanet@goanet.org
To: goanet@goanet.org
Subject: Re: [Goanet]Re: Freedom Fighters.
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:55:24 -0700 (PDT)
The issue here is hate-speech, both Veronica and
'Bernardo' have vaulted that line. There are
"Christian" states that would have stripped them of
their citizenship, and i suspect Mr. Macao is not one
to start with: to borrow from him - innit !! Veronica
can worship in an Indian temple, he may not be present
at 'Lebanese' Mass in a Kuwait church. Hitler was
preceeded and backed by a vanguard of Goebbels,
Doctor Mengellas and Speers. It is a tragedy that we
are compelled to offer our fascists a forum they
simply do not deserve. eric.
My dear unworthy detractors of true Goan history and political evolution,
The beads on the new, Luminous mysteries-included, rosary would
hardly surfice to enumerate, my cherished and revered hindu friends
and mentors, stalwart freedom fighters all...
Most of them were not the registered 'freedom fighters' nor ever sought
mercenary benefits...
Shankar Bandhari, Mohan Karapurkar, Ravidra Kellekar, Laxman Rao
Sardessai, several stout Dessais most lamentably departed all of them...
Those amongst us: Gurunath Kellekar and many of his ilk also dito.
Without these Goa would have been a (sub?) collectorate of Maharashtra ere
long since, granted that any of the Maharashtrian colectorates are
considerably
larger, area- and populationwise, than Goa of the sixties.
And, as many catholics.
Why do so many fellow-netters find it so difficult to believe that there can
not
have been freedom fighters that neither cherished pompous fame/notoriety nor
sought monetary gains?
Willie is hardly unique in this category: Aloysius Soares, Armando Menezes,
Edoardo Sousa, Sacru (Sally) Sobrinho, Isidorio Carvalho, Antonio Sequeira,
among legion others, readily, and most nostalgically, spring to mind.
If any doubt my claims, I can supply details, often of the Scarlet Pimpernel
genre, about each and one of them.
In fact, I think I will do so sometime.
When Armando Menezes contested the South Goa Lok Sabha seat vs Erasmo
Sequeira, he made Loutulim (his brother-in-law, Jose Torcato Sa's place) his
headquarters.
There I received first real awareness of democracy.
Pukka gentleman that he was, Armando never attempted to win us over from
our,
often frenetical, United Goaness.
On the contrary he willingly, with great gusto, coached us on how to drive
the
Maharahstrawaddis crazy, but using more Wodehousian antics than the
bloody ones employed by the pre-Shiv Sena goondas that had been inflicted
upon a rather unwilling Dayanand Bandodkar.
Those were the days when the fledgling Navihind Times came out with
three issues on a single day, the last one only released in the afternoon,
with the editorial "A Dangerous Hoax".
About Willie and Froilano Machado, I received independent corroboration from
Professor Armando Menezes, as he remisced about eralier times.
Armando, I distinctly reacall, mentioned both Willie and Froilano as having
been prominent among the student activists at Darwar.
The Vassant Molio (a good friend) freedom fighters are the once that we have
most
come to know.
None of them joined our Margao to Cabo Rajnivas padyatra, organized by
Shenkar
and led by Ravindr or the jyoti (flame) that we carried through most of the
MG
bastions, the valliant Shabu Dessai leading.
These two events more than any other, turned to tempo and tide in favour of
"DON
PANN'A".
For the matter of record, Vassant Mollio should be required to give a public
account of how he came about "his" printing press off the Station Rd,
Margao.
I have many such skeletons from many a cupboard at my call and recall.
Beware!
B'amon Alfred
