Thanks Mayabhushan for showing us how certain bigotted mindsets even among Goan Journalists like Rupesh Samant and others work. It's scary to see that members of the fourth pillar in Goa behaving this way.
Message: 5 Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:46:18 +0530 From: Mayabhushan <[email protected]> To: Mayabhushan <[email protected]> Subject: [Goanet] WHEN NOT SAYING VANDE MATARAM, MAKES YOU AN ANTI-NATIONAL, A PORTUGUESE NATIONAL FOR GOA'S JOURNALISTS *WHEN NOT SAYING VANDE MATARAM, MAKES YOU AN ANTI-NATIONAL, A PORTUGUESE NATIONAL FOR GOA?S JOURNALISTS* In these times, when intolerance appears to be lurking around the corner and invisible in the shadow of glorified right wing ideology, the conversation below between some Goan journalists on a Whatsapp media group, just shows the levels of prejudice which exist amongst media professionals here. In the conversation below a journalist (the reader may decide whether his being Catholic is incidental or essential to the conversation) is being heckled by a group of journalists (the reader may decide whether their being Hindu is incidental or essential to the conversation) for not saying Vande Mataram on a public forum. You can read how some journalists conclude that not saying Vande Mataram is tantamount to being ?Portuguese?, ?anti-national? and so on. This is bizarre shit, which defies the otherwise relatively tolerant socio-religious template in Goa. The conversation below is lengthy and stretches through many lines, but those who are interested in following news in Goa, ought best read it, because it goes a long way to reveal socio-religious prejudices in our professional workgroup in a naked, stark manner. Feel free to draw your own conclusions
