------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRI Continental Film Festival - Dona Paula, Goa, Sep 28 - Oct 2, 2007
http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricontinental/tricon.htm For public viewing. Registration at The International Centre Goa. (Ph: +91-832-2452805 to 10) Online Media Partner: http://www.GOANET.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Goans, Thanks a million for all the messages of support being sent privately to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] While i would be wasting the valuable time and energy of readers and contributors to this forum by engaging in a war of words with individual critics of my central theme,I felt ( after a considerable amount of thought and discussion with my colleagues ) that I need to clarify a few points in response to the posting by Mr Floriano Lobo. I can undertand Floriano-Bab's pessimism and the vitriolic tone to his posting. I was in Goa at the time of the last assembly elections and have witnessed at close quarters the virtual helplessness good persons like him have encountered in the electoral process ( i would strongly advise goanet readers to go to the Goa Su-Raj website and read Floriano-Bab's post election ramblings where he presents a vivid and stark picture of the actual scenario faced by a candidate,however decent a human being he is, who does not have money and muscle power to combat the uncontrollably corrupt and well entrenched system in Goa ) Specifically,in response to your comments,Floriano-Bab, 1) The greatest revolutions witnessed in history have not involved guillotines or bombs....they have involved like thinking good people getting together for a good cause 2) If you read my my initial posting, you will note that I do not believe in creating a pseudo feel good factor in Goa with technological leaps in terms of fancy mobiles /broadband from pernem to canacona etc or for that matter poltical stunts to capture vote banks by repairing temples and churches........our first priority should be to provide a basic infrastructure in terms of water,electricity,health ,education,transport etc to every corner of Goa. 3)Finally,my sincere apologies are due to you for the offence i seem to have caused you because i am based outside Goa......but i do hope you undertand there is an invisible umbilical cord which seems to bind people of Goan origin ( including those 2nd and 3rd generation goans who have been born and brought up in East Africa , Europe , America's or for that matter anywhere in this world ) to our motherland....a phenomenon which you will not see to such an extent in those who have moved abroad from other parts of India. Mog Asundi, Arjun Eklawya Sadiq-Saldanha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
