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Arre Cornel patrao, ye kitem???
Your initial presentation had a question (see below for start of this
dialogue). Then in your next post, you contradict yourself (see below).
Because: if Goans do so much to replicate Goa in the place they live (London -
as you describe), then there is NO BASIS for your original bewilderment. In
fact if London Goans practice as much Goaness as you claim, (and I have no
reason to doubt), it is you who have the beef that "so many Goans want to love
Goa, quite a lot, but from afar!" Tum yetha or vetha rre? So you are making a
claim / comment, when in your own environs no evidence exists to support the
underlying basis of the question. Hem zanam mure tum?
So as you see, this supurlo Goenkar (moi) is not confused, neither do I have a
"beef". Perhaps your initial comment was YOUR BEEF against Goans who do not
patronize the Goan events. Again this is only my explanation for the
disconnect between your statements and your stated facts.
My response was to help you understand your question. And more importantly my
suggestion was to the other 10,000 goanetters in large and small Diaspora
communities; as to how they could be connected and continue to "want to love
Goa, from afar!"
Thanks for your invitation to attend the Goan events in London next year. First
I need to visit Selma after her "appurbaen" invitation. I look forward to her
"kalchi kodi" for breakfast, ani "pattis" for lunch, ani "ambot tik" for dinner
- all finger-licking good. All this for spending the whole day doing the
'vankdem korum bendum' with her 2-year old. How more Goan can one get?
For the rest of this year, we will do justice to our last year's bottle of
"tendli" and other pickles. With harvest time, we are busy canning this year's
batch of pickles made from egg plant (aubergine / brinjall), mango and sweet
ginger. This is the first step to next month's annual "dinner and home-made
pickle exchange" with about twenty local Indian families. So we have to make at
least twenty bottles of miskut. Aiz hanv itlo okupadd.
Did you meet / know any of those girls that I serenaded in my last post? Now
some are likely proud grandmas. Likely they have only gotten better with
age.:=))
Viva Goa. Dev boro dis.
Kind regards, GL
------------- Cornel wrote:
There is ever so much of Goa that is replicated in the Goan Diaspora especially
where a large number of Goans are able to meet. ....
How is your example of other ethnic communities different from what I described
above? Please explain. I therefore await your response to the above.
------------- Gilbert Lawrence wrote:
If a Diaspora Goan truly loves Goa, they could duplicate its practices and
customs in their adopted land; and know the history and geography of Goa.
There is nothing new here. It is done by most ethnic groups (European and
Indian) that have immigrated to Canada and USA. I do not mean the minimum once
a year social event called "Goa Day".
---------------- Cornel wrote:
why so many Goans want to love Goa, quite a lot, but from afar!
