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South Asian Film Festival in Goa from Fri (June 27) to Mon (June 30)
At Kala Academy, and ESG, Panaji, Goa
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-June/076384.html
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--- On Fri, 6/27/08, CORNEL DACOSTA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3. Despite the reasons provided by me, you insisted on
> your original claim re your gated community with
> unsustainable further claims to support your stance.
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Dear Dr Cornel,
In your hurry to castigate me and save 9000 members from being deceived, you
didn't even consider that maybe you could potentially wrong as well. Gated
communities are found all the way from Rodeo drive to the marsh-lands of
Chennai all in varying degrees and shades of prosperity. If the standards of
mine did not meet with your expectations of what a gated community should be
that is upto debate.
Just to reconfirm my premise I asked the office about the absence of a gate at
the entrance and they said they don't need one, the entire estate is under 24
hour CCTV surveillance, the entrance to each building is further security
locked accessible only by an electronic key-card and any unauthorized vehicle
on the premises is immediately clamped and towed away.
In addition it meets all the criteria of a gated community, a large
garden-space, with another equally large one which will be built subsequently.
It has its own streets and parking area, it's own community center and its own
gym. There might even be plans for shops, although this is something I've heard
from a third-party and not the office. What you saw is just 1/5 of the project
that is completed. The development is not even half-way done. The concept of a
gated community more than anything else are shared spaces that form the
community within. That is exactly what the premise of my original post was,
that the concept of urban residential dwellings is changing and is doing so to
cater to the needs of a modern society.
This is my last post on this subject because frankly I've never been defined by
where I live, what my credential are, what I wear or what I look like. I do
however prefer to be defined by my integrity and honesty and since it was this
that is under attack I take great umbrage at your post.
selma
