------------------------------------------------------- CONVENTION OF THE GOAN DIASPORA FROM GOA INTO THE WORLD Lisbon, Portugal June 15-17, 2007 Details at: http://www.casadegoa.org -------------------------------------------------------
In response to Marsh Mendonca's: I dont see any wrong in people parading with Portuguese Flags Sunith Velho wrote: What you are saying is that it is OK to support a nation that tried to destroy the Hindu community and their culture. jc's comment: Dear Sunith Velho, would you please expand on this thought of yours (with or without reference to the VideoCD). After that, would you please advise a Buddhist people which flag they should (morally) fly during a sporting event? : see references infra === re Cricket and the Caribbean "east indian" overt support for the Indian cricket team even when playing against the West Indies Sunith wrote: I see you slept through history class when colonialism was under discussion. jc's comment: It depends Sunith ... It seriously depends on WHO writes the history texts and/or who teaches the history class. IF the history class was taught by independent thinkers and researchers, we would have been taught a long time ago that the masses never were nor are really free from the yolk of colonialism. Colonialism is present in Goa and elsewhere - even in 2007 It finally boils down to How we treat the lowliest and poorest among us....whether we are fair in our wages to the workers, whether we treat the average person well or IF we degrade them by our words and actions. Have you wondered WHY in 2007, the poor in India are converting to Buddhism. Have you wondered WHAT EVER happened to the Buddhist community, temples and their culture in Goa and the rest of India? Did the Portuguese destroy them ...or are we saying that the Buddhist people, temples and culture never existed in Goa? and that Ashoka is just a figment of our imagination. Should the Buddhist cricket supporters NOT wave the flag of the Indian Cricket team? It must strike us (hopefully someday) that the mere fact that the Portuguese football team has supporters in Goa and in Cape Verde, Macau and Mocambique ...means that people have grown up. That our Goan heritage is exactly what it is. And not even denial and revisionism will change that. Otherwise - I would probably signing my name as Yusuf Khalase or Khalap, and you as Sunith Zanto or Zantye! Time to move ahead and learn to live happily with each other - Unless the plan is to destroy each other. jc Judging by what passes on as history, I'd truly prefer to sleep in history classes than to submit to partisan brainwashing. REFERENCES from http://www.ambedkar.org/ Look in the left hand column under BUDDHISM (Caution: some material is heavily biased ...it does not compute) reference 1: Brahmins were benefited by Muslim Conquest There is a lot of propaganda, that Muslim period was a foreign rule over Indian masses, who were crushed under the foreign yoke. All this is a great and fake propaganda by the brahmanical scholars. Actually, it was this class who got the maximum benefits of Muslim raj. reference 2: Brahmanism Controlled Masses Through Language "...There was no article which proved more controversial than Article 115 which deals with the question. No article produced more opposition. No article more heat. After a prolonged discussion when the question was put, the vote was 78 against 78. The tie could not be resolved. After a long time when the question was put to the party meeting the result was 77 against 78 for Hindi. Hindi won its place as a national language by one vote. I am stating these facts from my personal knowledge. ..." [Ambedkar B. R., Thoughts on Linguistic States, Writings & Speeches, Maharashtra Govt., 1989, vol. 1, p. 148] reference 3: Devadasis Were Degraded Buddhist Nuns Perhaps the most horrible effect of fall of Buddhism in ancient India, which is haunting us even today, is the start of devadasi system. ... The saying in Marathi goes, "Devadasi devachi bayako sarya gavachi", meaning that she is servant of god but wife of the whole town. This is the lot of such a woman. She has to remain unmarried, and maintain herself by ceremonial begging, a system called "jogava" in Marathi, to get both ends meet. With "chal" (a string of small bells) in her feet, she carries the "jag" (a metal mask of god) in a "pardi" (a basket) on her head and begs whole life, or ends up in a brothel ADDITIONAL READING MATERIAL http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6729927.stm Slaves to the goddess of fertility 8 June 2007 http://www.colaco.net/1/siddhi2.htm (please vide BTW at the foot of the URL) http://books.google.com/books?id=f03rv7gJCBgC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=indian+black+trouble+guyana&source=web&ots=fEEwRO2lfy&sig=vmgYS2f960fa0zKZSkKa8FcdwE8#PPP9,M1 ------------------------------------------------------- Goanet recommends, and is proud to be associated with, 'Domnic's Goa' - A nostalgic romp through a bygone era. This book is the perfect gift for any Goan, or anyone wanting to understand Goa. Distributed locally by Broadway, near Caculo Island, Panjim & internationally by OtherIndiaBookStore.Com. For trade enquiries contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------
