Hi Antonio By way of a new comment (moderator, please note the word "new"), it intrigues me that those 'Catholic' Goans who insist that they are Catholic Brahmins and caste adherents choose not to wear the dhoti or maintain a well manicured xendi (tuft) at the back of the head. Perhaps the venacular terms--chemprekar/chemprekan should be used much more widely and often to highlight what they truly relish but are a bit bashful to admit in the face of critics of caste who have a sound measure of their intrigue and chicanery that consistently renews and reinforces caste indoctrination, segregation and endogamy some 500 years after embracing Catholicism---a religion that emphatically emphasises brotherhood and equal treatment of all. Cornel
Antonio Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Cornel, in your own inimitable way you have exposed the chicanery that is so much responsible for all that is ugly in the Indian society. Our padkar who came to pluck coconuts, put it rather more bluntly : ''Tanchi xendi (tuft) antam amchea atant assa '' Antonio
