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One side's saboteur is the other side's freedom fighter. From below, it
appears that in the long run, one side backed the wrong (political) horse. And
the side that "wanted to play it safe" lost out in the long run.
If Goans were smart, we would move on to the next horse race, like the
mine-owners. But majority refuse to look beyond the tip of our nose. We spend
the rest of our lives arguing (and metaphorically killing each other) about the
last horse race. In the meantime, the bhaile who came to see the races are
wisely betting and wining the races. They are then using that money to buy the
horses and race tracks. And the Goans are left to clean up the tracks, and of
course continue their arguments.
The smart Goans should NOT do away with the races. They should improve, expand
and modernize the race-tracks. The Goans should own the race-horses, run the
races, learn how to use the horse-poop as manure and as a source for energy.
Finally on the current visit to India and Goa, Portugal's President advises
"against historical prejudices". There is a Portuguese translation of his
advice ... and being in Portuguese it must be especially for the Goan
Lusophiles.
Kind Regards, GL
-------------- Gabriel de Figueiredo
Your ancestors committed a crime - that of going against the rules of the time.
If you live by the rules, anywhere in the world, you'll be right; break them,
and you'll be in jail.
---------- Mario responds:
> I grew up in central India, and come from a family of Indian nationalists.
> Our family was threatened with arrest by the Portuguese colonists in the 50s
> for speaking out against their presence in Goa and their amusingly bogus
> claims of an Estado da India, and we were unable to go there until the
> Portuguese were firmly made to take their tired old sophistries and go home
> in 1961.
> >
> Prior to being put on a Portuguese "black list" we would go there from time
> to time almost like going on a safari.
