Ana Maria: Why did you go for the cocktail party? To paraphrase VM, "Must you come to (Delhi-oriented) cocktail parties this time (of the year)?
Also I would like to comment on one of the comments you made at the ICT-for-D debate (if you will excuse me for taking ideas from one forum to another, no malice meant): It's easy to blame Delhites for all our (actual, exaggerated or perceived) ills. What about Goan involvement themselves? For selling their lands, for tolerating poor governance, for not using their brain power to challenge wrongs intelligently, for wanting everything of the "good life" and yet aggressively critiquing the flip side of the capitalist coin when it cuts into us the wrong way? For not standing up to the crooks and manipulators (not just politicians!) in our society? For lionising the very same people who makes such a large-scale 'sell out' so easy? For professing a love for Goa, and yet sitting half-way around the globe and only adding to the pressures that mount on the resources and people of Goa, by their very actions? For patronising the very same land-speculators lobby whom we decry all the time? FN On 06/01/07, Ana Maria de Souza-Goswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This refers to the article which Vivek Menezes wrote in the goanet. Its excellent. Congratulations Vivek. During the new year weekend it looked like the whole of Delhi descended in goa. Went for a cocktail party with a friend at someone's mansion. guess what, I was the only Goan....
