( with thanks to GoaResearchNet ) I am not an outsider to the above topic as I was bornand grown in Goa, spoke konkni and preached sermons in almost all churches ofSalsete-Goa.
While drawing the roadmap of my language following thetrail that I found in the lucid and substantial essay by Kyoko Matsukava, I retrieved two citations from his text thatstruck me and called my attention. My text took then a different path. One citation is of Pramod Kale who writes onGoan Tiatr. Premod affirms that in Goan Tiatr (of Goans in Bombay) “one canperceive elements of what my be termed as Goancatholic ethos”. The language used for the dialogues had a spontaneousdevelopment that had very little to do with the Konkni sponsored by ShenoiGoembab. The other cited author is AlexanderHenn. According to Henn ‘Goa came toexistence geographically due to the centuaries-old Portuguese rule in Goa. Curiously this ‘createdsymbiosis’ is anathema to themarati writer who was born in Nagpur and now is settled in Goa, Vishram Gupte. The colonization of Goalasted for more than four and half centuries. Precisely because Goan space wascarefully sealed off, this type of colonization left a deep brand on psique,ethos and sociability of Goan small community. Gupte reveals his ignorance,bad faith and lack of analytical rigour when he , a real outsider, takes stockof the Portuguese contribution to Goan identity. His essay ‘Identity, exile andliteratures in Goa’ is the proof. Leopoldo daRocha --
