"...celebrated its 500th anniversary of Portuguese rule in 2010...? Anything to celebrate about being colonised?
Ashwin On 3 February 2014 00:34, Goanet Reader <[email protected]> wrote: > Goa -- Some musings... from then and now > > By Ivan D. Pereira > [email protected] > http://www.guidepost21.blogspot.com > > This is a backdrop to a larger > text, written by Pereira > recently, when Goa celebrated > its 500th anniversary of > Portuguese rule in 2010 and the > 50th anniversary of liberation > from Portugal in 2011. > > I recall when I was a kid, before I was eight, my parents > sent me to a Jesuit boarding school in Bangalore, in India, > the St. Joseph's European High School then. The school > celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2010. It was a British > fort before, and had an underground tunnel that went out a > quarter mile to a secret exit in the valley and aqueduct. > There were walls all around the school, with broken glass in > the cement on the top, and barbed wire on large sections of > the wall, and a Gurkha guard at the front gate at all times.
