Dear Sir, This is in relation to the article 'Goan experiences Mumbaiites spirit during Monsoon fury'.. Well I read the article with amusement. while I fully emphatise with the writer in her experience , since i too was stuck in a similar situation on Mumbai on my routeback to Ca, but what amuses me is that from the article, despite the writer's pleas to the contrary that she just wanted to inform her extended family back in Goa about her well beiing, the article came across as a means to trying to promote herself .. I mean she says she supposesdly wrote the article because it would have a greater impact being from a "true bred goan" (as she puts it) and while the article's heading talks about the mumbaiites spirit, there is little to nothing in the article about the spirit of the mumbaiites.. its only in the middle of the article that she mentions that a nun helped her and that too coz she was a classmate and towards the end she talks about sombody giving her a packet of biscuits.. the rest of the article revoves around her and her origin, education and her profession.
Besides the dismal english,including the irrelevent cliches, all that i got got from it was a sad tale of a 24 yr old nurse feeling sorry for herself and trying to win the sympathy of others.. While i in no way mean to make light of her experiences in Mumbai assuming in all entirety that she has undergone them, she should also realize that if it is the" Mumbaiites spirit" she wants to write about there should be more of the "Mumbaiites spirit" in the article and less of her disgruntled moanings no matter how pounded she felt... And in todays age of technology , writing an article in the paper isnt the only means of informing your family back home how you are... there's something called an e-mail or a telephone call.. This is in no way to pose a critique to the lady, but simply to point out the obvious !!! Hoping you''l publish this on your website, of which I'm a great fan... Keep up the good work... Roberta Menezes.
