Very interesting Small challenge. The Portugese were corrupt and brutal and imperialist and slave traders
But good comes out of evil – we are now Catholics Just a though? Have a great week From: Adolfo Mascarenhas <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2020 12:15 AM To: DeSouza, Glenn Robert <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> Subject: Perspectives Dear GL I enjoyed the synopsis on your perspectives of centuries of Portugese rule. There are several reasons why I am responding among which is the fact that I am a victim of Lockdown in Quepem. In several aspects the reaction to CONVIR 19 has been misused in Goa and time for commonsense to prevail as it has been in Karela . Let me get back to your synopsis First Corruption In High Places Started initially by Captain Gama (some time in 1498). It was not known as corruption but as his perks! As his perks declined so also did the King. In 1524 Vasco da Gama is sent to Goa to clean the place. He dies was he buried in Vasco ? . 1b Yet two decades later in 1543, even St. Francis Xavier is disgusted by corruption and cruelty that he leaves Goa. Nearly half a century has passed and corruption has not stopped 1c As you rightly point out " The governor and colonels at various Portuguese forts along India's coast find more personal wealth can be made by being paid-off by Arab dhows than by enforcing the king's monopoly on trade in the Indian ocean. Francis Xavier leaves Goa in 1543 - disgusted. Two Falsity of The Idea of Empty As the new lands were conquered and grabbed by individual Plantocrats (the English called them “”Settlers “””(They did not settle an disputes, they created new ones and basically grabbed land). Principally they worked on the convenient notion that they were “”””empty lands” and as superior beings it was a God Given right. In complete contrast to the Portugese the British perfected the role of the White Supremecy, from North America all the way to Australia and South Africa. … Yet, in all these convenient notions, it was completely forgotten that local people have common needs, land, water, vegetation, shrines and all these persists for centuries. Why is all this important in 2020? Because Covid 19 is showing us a new face of corruption. The combination of Bureaucrats and Politicians are having a hayday. There is just a possibility that the little democracy still present will act as a trigger ......the absurdity that some leaders from the USA to Brazil, Philippines and perhaps India should make us think on the role of citizens to be human to other human beings. Adolfo Mascarenhas Quepem Goa
