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Save Goa Campaign / Goa Bachao Abhiyan
Report all violations of Hill-cutting, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ)
and other Land Use violations to:
Nodal Officer & District Collector (Goa) Mr. Nikhil Kumar
Office: 2223612; Residence (after 8PM): 2420710; mobile 9822123071
------------------------------------------------------------------------Constantino, I am sorry to say, but there are no coincidences. You and
Supergoa are ostracized because of one single and plain fact: You are
Portuguese and speak Portuguese, just like myself, and in this forum
anything Portuguese is targeted for censorship or slandering or oblivion, as
is abundantly evident. Some blokes, of the brainwashed type, they just hate
us. It has become an obsession for them. They are poor at fighting ideas so
they fight the persons who come up with "inconvenient truths". We were not
cast in the same mould as they were and they dislike our intervention in
this forum.
They marginalise, they censor, they distort, they select facts, but one
thing is common in them all, they simply ignore the Portuguese Goans. You
don't hear them talking about the thousands of Goans who live in Portugal
(they came here in the wake of the 1961 invasion of Goa), or Mozambique for
that matter, diaspora for them means only those who settled in
English-speaking countries. If you speak Portuguese, you are "colonial" for
them, if you speak English you are "liberated". The fact that English is as
colonial a language as Portuguese is lost on them. They actually resent the
fact that even today some Goans speak Portuguese in Goa, failing to
acknowledge that Portuguese was the mother tongue of many Goan families for
centuries.
As you rightly pointed out, famous Goans for them are only those who shone
in the English-speaking world. They try to suppress the fact that so many
Goans rose to such prominence in Portugal and its colonies, and since the
17th century.
Countering this irrational lusophobia is the reason why I still keep an eye
on Goanet.
By the way, congratulations on your magnificent work, and don't be
discouraged. Your quality will ultimately triumph over the mediocrity of
those who are trying to silence you now.
Rui Miranda Collaço
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