Roland wrote: This is what I have to say to them: Keep your money and your dirt. Keep your apathy to what is going around you. Keep voting for the same politicians that rob you and the land blind. Keep on felicitating and fawning over them in Kuwait and elsewhere, wherever they go. Keep selling your properties for the lure of money that you don't really need. I am glad to have none of it.
Aristo responds: This is what I have to say to you: Keep your Canadian Dollars and your visa/citizenship. Keep on not contributing to changing the ills you speak about. Keep on donating some of your petty dollars towards some Goan causes to satisfy the guilty complex of you giving up, packing up and fleeing for greener pastures. Keep on justifying to yourself and others on why you fled instead of contributing first hand. Keep on enjoying your end-of-career/retirement years in Canada instead of returning back after making some decent money (which I understand you could not have made in Goa legitimately) and contributing first hand. Keep on complaining about your homeland from your new bird house in Canada. Roland wrote: My biggest heartache when I left India was to sell off my mansion that I custom built from ground up with the dream that I would one day return to Goa from the Gulf to run my own business and live there. At least I made sure that I sold it off, not at the best price I could get, but to receive the satisfaction of having handed it off another Goan, even if he was a Hindu and mine owner. Aristo responds: I am glad that you at least chose the lesser of two evils: The Goan Hindu instead of the Bhaile. Roland wrote: Now I am at peace. I have finally received closure to my regrets. I am glad that I live in Canada where everything is so different to Goa. Aristo responds: Yes, the peace of not doing anything to change the ill's that plague Goa, besides writing articles belittling the Goans in Goa and regarding all of them as following a herd mentality. Roland wrote: I am glad I am not in Goa. Aristo responds: And so am I glad for you. ------------------- Goanetters, I realise that this post may hurt the sentiments of Goan NRI's. I have nothing against NRI's, and I myself will eventually become one, I presume. But as Cecil said earlier, there are 2 kinds of NRI's. I say there are at least 3. There are those that have little loyalty to Goa and have no qualms about that fact, and have pledged their loyalty to their new country of citizenship; there are those who still have a loyalty to Goa, and are elsewhere in order to earn some good money in their professions, because either the profession or the money is not available in Goa, but they contribute in some way or the other and eventually return to their homeland; and there are others who claim to be loyal, but in no way contribute, and on top of that, try to justify why they left detailing all the ills that plague Goa. I take exception to the third kind. I will share more of my thoughts on this touchy subject at a later date, but I am pressed for time at the moment. Cheers, Aristo. On 11/27/06, Roland Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I had not to follow goings-on in Goa ever since I came on Goanet > which in turn led me to glance daily at the Goa e-newspapers, I would > have been totally oblivious to the mess that is Goa. Once every couple > of years I do go to Goa, but not for more than a fortnight at a time. > During this time I am too busy visiting relatives or enjoying myself > to take an interest in the larger issues. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/attachments/20061127/feed5a45/attachment.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St Mary's and Xavier's -- three prominent institutions in Mapusa, Goa. Events scheduled from Dec 16 to 21, 2006 For more details visit http://www.bmxgoa.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------
