I did not wish to enter into the fray of this somewhat sterile and stultifying debate until I remembered the old Portuguese saying "Quem cala, consente ( He who keeps silent, agrees).So I am putting in a one-time contribution.
Dr. d'CRUZ says that Cardnals Gracias and Dias, Frank Morais and a host of others were all from Salcete and that attests to the superiority of Sashtikars. It sounds to me a slight modification of the old logical fallacy "Post hos, ergo propter hoc"( after this and so because of this). All the above gentlemen were from Salcete. So what? ABBE FARIA, probably the Goan with the widest international reputation in his time(of Goans) was born in Candolim(Bardez); Lt. Manoel Caetano Pinto (my maternal great grand uncle) and ten of his co-conspirators who were executed by the Portuguese in the "PINTO Conspiracy" of 1787, as well as the other co-conspirators who were merely exiled, were all from Bardez, barring two from Ilhas, none from Salcete ( I draw attention to the fact that this was supposedly the first breath of freedom struggle in India);Bernardo Peres da Silva, Governor General of GOA in 1835 was from Bardez; Dr. Gama Pinto, Professor of Ophthalmology at Heidelberg, Germany in 1870 or so was from Bardez;Dr.Antonio Maria de Bittencourt Rodrigues, founder of the Pasteur Institute in S.Paulo(Brazil) and Portuguese Foreign Minister in 1929 was born in Cape Verde Islands of parents from Badem,Salvador do Mundo,Bardez;Dr. Jose Lisboa and Anant Dukle, two of the first batch to pass out from Grant Medical College in Bombay were from Bardez; Dr. Ernesto Borges, eminent oncologist of the '40s and 50' was from Bardez;Ernesto Soares, Goan M.P. In the British parliament at the time of Gladstone and later Junior Lord of the treasury was from Bardez;Mons. Sebastiao Delgado, well-known philologist and Sanskritologist was from Bardez(the Portuguese issued a stamp in his honour) as was Dr. Gerson d'Cunha, anther eminent philologist and Orientalist; Joseph Anthony Vaz was the first Goan ICS ( for GOANETTERS too young to know, ICS=Indian Civil Service, the body of roughly 7500 British officials that formed the administrative framework of British India, nearly always Oxford/Cambridge graduates, selected after a gruelling exam for those below 21 yrs. Already graduated); A.L. Dias, the second Goan ICS who later became Governor of West Bengal; Manoel Menezes, Chairman of the Railway Board,Delhi was from bardez as was his son Victor Menezes, first Indian CEO of CITIBANK, Bombay and then on the board of Directors of CITIGROUP; Leo Pinto, the legendary Olympic hockey goal-keeper was from Bardez, as was Walter d'Souza, renowned back ; finally, Olga Craen(Athaide), the Goan that achieved the greatest international reputation ao Goan musicians; all these were from Bardez and I could go on and on 'ad infinitum' and ' ad nauseam'.But I will stop here. This is my first and last contribution on this thread as I do not wish to waste time and energy on an inane matter that does not in any way lead to the advancement of the good and welfare of our country, GOA, already engulfed in dire problems of its own, and neither does it elucidate for GOANETTERS a matter of import. _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
