Dear Vivian, A Goan cannot buy land in Kashmir while a Kashmiri can...and many have ...buy land in Goa. Seems unfair, doesn't it? Pray, tell me which sane and sober Goan want to buy real estate in Srinagar or Uddampur or Baramulla or Sopore or Kargil today.
We cannot go to hell while alive but the Devil can come here [or so they say]. any volunteers to go to hell? I believe we need to choose better examples. Amitabh Bachan lost his property in Maharashtra because he did not won farmland in UP or anywhere else. Even a Maharastrian cannot buy farmland in Maharashtra if he is not a farmer already. Ditto for karnataka. Between them, the two states surround Goa. Yet, a non farmer can buy farm land in Goa ....even if the tenant who sells it does not really own it! An agricultural tenant in Goa cannot legally convert the tenanted land for non-agricultural purposes, let alone sell it. Yet it is happening all the time. The Church cannot sell the Souto Maior estate, yet builders are converting church land in to housing estates at Miramar faster than Afonso de Albuquerque converted Muslim widows in to sailors' wives at the start of the colonial era! The treachery is the same. So is the greed. Laws alone do not help us. We need to wake up and help ourselves ....and honestly. If American and Russian citizens can own land in Goa, the Kashmiris who are Indian citizens, have a greater right to land in Goa. Mog asundi. Miguel Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:12:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Vivian A. DSouza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet] Goa - Liberated or Conquered ? In December 1961, Goa was liberated from the Portuguese through the Conquest of Goa by India. We were conquered. Liberated from the Portuguese but Conguered by India. We Goans were eiither too susegard or too inebriated to fight for our freedom. Promises by Nehru to maintain the unique identity of Goa a la Kashmir, were not kept .Non-Kashmiri Indians cannot acquire land in Kashmir but anyone can buy land in Goa. Slowly but surely the Goan identity is being diluted, and the sons of Goa are largely to be blamed for selling their ancestral homes to Delhiites and other foreigners. Our elected officials are also to be blamed for facilitating the process of selling off Goa to enrich themselves. Communidade lands have been usurped by the Government and sold off to Industrialists enriching primarily the elected officials who arrange these deals. Sadly this is the state of affairs in Goa today. -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
