Dear Goanetters, This mail is with reference to the spate of balderdash being posted by the apparently erudite and controversy loving Dr. Carmo D'Cruz on the absolutely superfluous debate, Goans VS East Indians of Bandra.
I too am a Bandra boy and a proud Stanislite (batch of 1971). I too played hockey (Mama Mia, also as a Goalkeeper). Cedric D'Souza and I were contemporaries in College and needless to say both competing for the goalkeeper's post. He also coached me for a team called the Hill Road Boys. Hillary Gomes (Timmy ) was my senior, his sibling Clarence was my contemporary. They have a more famous cousin , Marcellus Gomes who played for India with distinction. Francis D'Mello the first Indian school boy who played in the 1st Hockey World Cup of 1971 in Barcelona, was my class mate.That much for my humble credentials, which is just to make a point to the good Doctor, that I do know what I'm talking about. I would like to put on record once and for all, that I have never encountered any so called rivalry between Goans and East Indians. In those halycon years of our youth, caste and community hardly mattered. You played to win, you played tough. You learnt to take the smooth with the rough. That's it. Till today I'm quite ignorant of the fact whether so and so player was an East Indian, Goan or a Mangalorean. It hardly mattered. So I'm really at my wit's end trying to make some sense of this senseless mythical debate. Let's give it a decent burial. There is far too much of communalism in this beloved country of ours, let us not add to the poison, rather seek mitigants. Dr. Carmo please stick to your mission to improve Indian hockey with Balbirji. We will all pitch in, in this noble endeavour. Viva. Edwin Fernandes Proud Stanislite, prouder to be a humble Indian _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
