Hi All,
I wanted to include only part of the text below, but the whole of it is worth
reading again.
My brother in law said that his late father (tarvoti) had said to him, 'all
Goans should go abroad'.
When he came abroad (through his wife), he said, 'now, I know my father was
right to say that. All Goans should go aborad'.
Where is my brother in law now? in Goa. Has been there for the last 15 years,
he loves Goa.
Do 'I' want to be in Goa - YES. 1000 times YES. Destiny dictates otherwise.
ED.
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Selma said,
I spent three years of my college life in Panjim. Being of Shasti origins, my
best friend from San Jose d'Ariel and I, would routinely make a trip to Margao
every weekend. There we would spend endless hours at Peter Stores, buying
knickknacks we didn't need and then heading to Loughinos for a falooda and
sausage pao. On our weekend binge into town, being hormonally-charged teenagers
at the time, we would try to elicit as much eve-teasing as possible from
teenage boys, feeding into our insecure budding egos. The fear of being
accosted or assaulted rarely entered our minds.
Those days are long-gone. Today, eve-teasing in Margao is occasion for
full-scale communal riots and anticipation of these riots, is reason enough to
bring in swords by the dozens. The Goan Catholic cannot cope with this. The
male of our species has been emasculated by centuries of Sunday Mass sermaos.
He has neither swords, nor koitos nor the inclination with which to rise in
protest. The female of our species is educated and emancipated. She wants
nothing more than to get on with her professional and family life. In this
morass that Goa has become of hurt religious sensibilities and communal
tensions, Goan Catholics have no place. Sadly, I urge you to go to the nearest
embassy you can find, whether Canada, Portugal or New Zealand and apply for
citizenship. Don't let the fear of the West keep you for applying. You are
already bi-cultural. Your children's transition to a Western culture will be
fluid. It is the best thing for your children's safety.
I write this with all sadnes for my beloved Goa and Goans.
selma
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