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Father Raymond J. De Souza: Meditations on my hometown 23 Dec: National Post. I have come to the home village of my grandparents for the first time … Saligao is a small village in Goa, the former Portuguese colony on the west coast of the Indian subcontinent. My forebears emigrated from Goa to Kenya and Uganda, where my parents were born and raised. They in turn emigrated to Canada, where I was born. I grew up hearing my parents talk about the villages of Goa, about the rivalries among them and how each boasted that its water was more pure, its girls more pretty, its people more clever. 821 words. [Fr Raymond D'Souza is the son of Greta (nee Freitas, ex-Mombasa) and Cedric D'Souza (ex-Uganda and Nairobi) of Calgary, Canada]. more details.. RESPONSE: The Rev Fr. has a problem with adjectives...should be, water was purer, girls prettier, and the people cleverer. It would of course be correct to say that Selma is more beautifu, minus her moustache, or even most beautiful, in the eyes of her beholden ? Alas all the superlative adjectives/adverbs are found in Salcete. Saligao ? Where is that ? Anyone out there enlighten me ? Seems more and more people get this wrong time and time again ! -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England
