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--- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I don't know who Prajal is, perhaps he's a writer of
> some repute in Goa. There are some frightening words
> in the above paragraph. "Crass shopping mall", "the
> outsiders" "watch out" "at your throats". I
> shuddered when I read these.
>
Selma,
Prajal is a good man and an excellent budding
historian of Goa. His use of these words is clearly
over-the-top rhetoric. He is hardly the type who would
be at anyone's throat. But as far as the reference to
outsiders is concerned, it is unfortunate that a large
majority of Goans has succumbed to this xenophobic, or
more correctly, regionalistic, impulse.
Cheers,
Santosh
