Thanks Cecil. Interesting pieces - will tweet.
www.amitavghosh.com On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 1:27 AM, Cecil Pinto <[email protected]> wrote: > http://chasingxine.blogspot.in/2017/01/modern-colonial-encounters.html > > Yes, Goa is very hospitable. So accommodating a place is this that if you > want to pretend the Goans don’t exist, you can do that with little protest. > We know that Goa is regarded by many as a playground of sorts, but beyond > this, spaces in Goa and depictions of Goa that are void of Goans feed into > the notion that Goa was an empty place after the Portuguese left in 1961. > This is a useful exercise for those from the Indian mainland, but what do > foreign tourists have to gain from this? > > ..... > > And a follow-up > http://chasingxine.blogspot.in/2017/03/home-staging-of-goa.html > > My last essay > <http://chasingxine.blogspot.in/2017/01/modern-colonial-encounters.html> > hit a nerve with a Scottish reader, who argued that after living in Goa for > five years, he should be considered a Goan. This is despite the fact that > he doesn’t socialize with Goans; he claimed that this is irrelevant. I > responded that being viewed as a Goan is not a question of time spent in > Goa but of engagement with the place. Engagement is a critical topic, as > Goa is treated like a reward > <http://daleluismenezes.blogspot.in/2015/10/escaping-to-goa.html> for > those with money, who have fuelled the demand for investment property or > who have chosen to abandon the rat race for a quiet life here. Add to this > the numerous domestic and international tourists, who occupy different > spaces that tend not to include Goans. As I have already argued (see > above-cited essay), this is how hospitable Goa is—you can pretend there are > no Goans here. > > ========== > > >
