Dear all, I read with some interest the arguments about who is the creator/founder of the "World Goa Day" idea.
I do not know if it is possible to associate a name (founder/creator) to the idea. Certainly anyone will recognise that Rene has been extremely active in promoting the idea and I have heard before from George that Filomena Giese came up with it. However, anyone claiming credit for the creation of the idea can certainly be challenged unless the idea was registered/patented somewhere, which I do not believe it was. Does it really matter who came up with the idea? What matters is that we keep celebrating Goa day where ever we may be in the world. This is the only way to keep our culture and our identity alive and I personally thank Rene for being the great world-wide coordinator of these yearly celebrations. In my opinion, they have been a success so far. Let me also tell you that I have recently acquired a 8 pages publication called -DIA DE GOA-, dated 18th Dec 1968(!!!), published in Portugal and totally dedicated to Goa. Obviously, the date chosen had a strong political meaning and reflected the Portuguese Government interests in keeping the idea of recovering Goa alive (as you must know, Portugal only recognised the annexation of Goa by India in 1975, but backdated to 1961). But this comes to prove that the idea of having a day dedicated to Goa existed at least since the sixties. Best regards Paulo Colaco Dias. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Pinto Sent: 23 August 2006 03:49 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Goanet] WORLD GOA DAY As someone involved in the set-up of World Goa Day since inception of idea and for the first three years: FOUNDING IDEA: Filomena Giese (Goa Sudharop). FOUNDING ROLE: Basilio Magno (Song), Goa World (helped publicize event), Rene Baretto, Goa Sudharop (website, publicity) and those organizations who celebrated WGD the first year to get WGD off the ground. CO-ORDINATOR: Rene Baretto, who received a Goa Sudharop award for his WGD efforts. Regards, George -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.3/423 - Release Date: 18/08/2006 _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
