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South Asian Film Festival in Goa from Fri (June 27) to Mon (June 30)
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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
Dearest Selma,
I have never wanted to intervene on this topic of 'gated communities' raging
on the net as we have ample of them already existing and more sophisticated
ones coming up everywhere and anywhere. In Moira itself, a really snoozy,
quiet village, one such is planned each unit with its own swiming pool etc.,
costing a bomb at 2.25 crores. This project will probably have the main gate
which will go in the Guinness Book of World Records :-)), if Moidekars come
to term with such a mega development. But can something like this be stopped
at all? if all and sundry rules and regulations are observed?? Don't we live
in a democracy? Besides, who decides who will settle down where and how and
in what style??
One gated community complex that I know of is the Landscape City in
Porvorim where my brother used to stay. It has a big gate with a security,
lots of parking space, some open space (a little more of it would be good),
its own bore-well, lots of shops and a supermarket, and is made upof atleat
50 or more apartments. There is the 'Sapna Gardens' just next door next to
Angels Resort which is again a gated complex. For that matter every house
is a gated complex , at least mine has a gate which does not lock :-))
As you have maintained, every one is looking for (1) security and (2)
convenience. And people are tired of running like blue - a**e flies trying
to put things together and/or manage in these 'dog eat dog' times.
And I hardly think that whether a gate is installed (in a bigger or a
smaller dimention) or not, should be the topic of a debate, rather it
should be about the concept of a gated community. We were told (during our
younger days) that in the U.K., life was so fast that one might not have
seen, met, talked to the next door neighbour in an apartment building in
along time. (used to wonder how this could be, especially with our Goan
life-style context). But this is happening here in Goa itself now-a-days.
For example, Celina Jaitley, the famous model/actress is supposed to be my,
sort of next-door-neighbour ( as the entire ward is considered as an
apartment building), and/or there are many foreigners who have bought
houses in our ward. But I am yet to see what they look like (atleast in
person as far as Ms. Jaitley is concerned).
But above all, whether we are Sudra or Chardi or whatever, whether we are
Christians, Catholics, Hindus, Muslims or whatever, we need to be like you
have defined above. And for that reason alone, I S A L U T E Y O U.
And finally to put to rest this discussion/debate over the various castes
bugging us Goans and keeping us from being of one mind and soul for GOA,
one prominent citizen of Goa asked me once if I was not a Bamon. I asked him
why he was asking. His response was "you talk like a bamon". And he was
quite taken aback with my response. 'To the best of my knowledge and belief,
never from my parents, but by inference from others, I am supposed to be
the decendant of a Sudra", I told him . "But that does not bother me", I
said, "because I sport a mind not only of the sudra, but also of the
chardo, the bamon et al put together".
Cheer up
floriano
goasuraj
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 11:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Of Gated Communities and Misinformation
--- 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
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