--- Miguel Braganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GOA'S EVOLVING HELL: Tour de Babel ! > > The South-West monsoons rains of the last few days > have reminded many a person on the Konkan Coast of > the 'Great Deluge'. In the land of the Old > Testament, the Indian Navy frigates and missile > boats in the Mediterranean Sea have played the role > of Noah's Ark to many Indians trapped in war-torn > Lebanon. Back home in Goa we are facing both a > deluge and a fatricidal war of attrition that, like > the Israeli-Philistini war, seems to have no end. > Truth, like the innocent bystander, is the casualty > of the crossfire and the 'embedded' media. Call me > communal if you like for, in these troubled times, > I turned back to the Bible, one of the > reliable 'Manual of Operation' for the Man-machine > available to us. > Mario observes: > Miguel, I think your credibility would increase manyfold if you refrained from fanciful and imaginative comparisons that have no basis in reality. > a) Indian Navy ships evacuating Indians from a war zone have no comparison with Noah's Ark either in their mission or in any other detail. > b) There is no fratricidal war of attrition going on in Goa that is remotely comparable to the 58 year attempt by the "Philistines" to wipe Israel off the map, and the resulting loss of life on both sides [there is a far closer resemblance with Kashmir than with Goa]. To say so is to devalue and trivialize te "Israeli-Philistini" conflict and to misrepresent the minimal social upheaval in Goa because non-Goans seem to appreciate Goa far more than Goans do. Have you even noticed that the most vociferous GOA FOR GOANS proponents, at least on Goanet, don't even live in Goa but bray from afar? > c) You may find solace in the Bible, but surely you must know, or have forgotten, that India has been a far more diverse Tower of Babel than the original one mentioned in the Bible. Nothing new here. > d) To compare Goa with HELL, you must think HELL is a pretty nice place:-)) >
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