----- Original Message -----
From: "Cornel DaCosta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] I am a Proud Goan from Goa,India-I am not from
Portugal's Lo Estado da India
Hi Paulo
I was away for a few days and am just catching up with recent posts that run
into hundreds.
As regards the "challenge" in your post to compare/contrast today's India
with Portugal, I am afraid this is a futile task because the two countries
are as different as chalk and cheese. If however, you wished to contrast
them economically, then, once again, there is no real comparison---India,
amidst much seeming chaos, is on the threshold, like China, of becoming a
leading economic superpower and, as said by some, to be capable of even
overtaking the USA economically perhaps in our lifetimes. Portugal on the
other hand, is doing its bit economically within the EU of 27 independent
nations and has progressed substantially in terms of GDP compared to
other much poorer nations in today's EU.
I repeat that, a comparison between mighty India and tiny Portugal is a
futile exercise unless you can be very specific and say what you wished to
focus upon. Instead, I wonder if from your extensive knowledge about the
Portuguese in Goa over 451 years, you could please tell us in what way
Portugal benefitted Goa during this colonial period except perhaps in
encouraging the construction of European styled churches that tourists
today visit, when searching for sun and the beach, apart from the few
Hindu temples that survived the period.
Most of my contemporaries of Goan origin are inclined to believe, in an
entirely non "childish" way that, Portugal kept Goa incredibly backward
compared to say British India. However, I should like to think that there
is perhaps an alternative to this view, but try as I may, nobody
knowledgeable seems willing to present this alternative view. Your name
sake, Jose Colaco, in snippets of things he has said, appears keen to
throw light on this repeated question of mine, but Goanet has not seen his
flourish on this matter despite so many requests. Therefore, would the two
of you perhaps join hands to provide us the kind of info that I for one am
most eager to have out of sheer intellectual curiosity? I can assure you
that, I have no hidden agenda in what I ask in an utterly non "childish"
way and nor do I speak for Carmo or anyone else.
Regards
Cornel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paulo Colaco Dias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] I am a Proud Goan from Goa,India-I am not from
Portugal's Lo Estado da India
>-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cornel DaCosta
Sent: 03 January 2007 12:30
To: CARMO DCRUZ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Goa's premiere mailing
list, estb. 1994!
I can see that nothing changes around here.
There we go again. The same childish statements from the same childish
members.
Well, if you cannot win, you might as well join them in being childish.So
let me be childish too (it is easy enough and I still remember how to do
it) and add my two cents to Carmo and Cornel:
But, even these poorest countries of Western Europe (like Portugal) are
far much more developed than the Republic of India, by any standards,
development or economical index that you can think of...
Best regards
Paulo Colaco Dias.
