courtesy: [Goanet] Goa news for August 7, 2006
http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=2186
Goa govt names five freedom fighters to attend function
Panaji: Goa Government has named five freedom fighters to attend the `At
Home' function to be hosted by the President of India on August 9 at
Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
The freedom fighters are President of Goa Freedom Fighters Association,
Vasant Molio, President of Goa Freedom Fighters Forum for Social Justice,
Onifacio Dias, Pandurang Kunkoliencar, Ronaldo Coutinho and Prabhakar Yende.
====jc's comment
The above news item courtesy GoaNet is a delight to read. I assume that
there is a spelling error in the name of Bonifacio Dias. It would have been
nice, would it not, to also have included Lambert Mascarenhas, Prabhakar
Sinari, Gurunath Kelekar and Roque Santana Fernandes?
On a partially related topic, I still wonder why the good Dr. Pundalik
Gaitonde left Goa a few years after 1961. Does not make sense when on
considers that he was among the leading lights in the struggle to exit the
Portuguese from Goa. Does anybody know? Would anyone know if Goa has done
anything to substantially honour Dr. Gaitonde?
BTW: Is it possible that some of our Goa Freedom Fighters eventually applied
for, obtained and utilised the Bilhetes de Identidade Português to travel
intra-Europe as EU (Portuguese) Nationals?
Is there any truth to the story that a certain Freedom Fighter's birth
records in Goa were destroyed by a fire, and that another may have torn a
page of his wife's birth records from the Registrar of Births and Deaths in
Margão?
Is it possible that also because of alleged incidents of this type that the
records of births and deaths prior to 1961 are in the state that they are
and, for some individuals, may be unobtainable from the records.
Personally, I found a visit to the Margao and Mapuca offices of the
Registrar of Births and Deaths, quite an adventure.
Have a happy, productive and peaceful week everyone
jc
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