--- On Sat, 7/12/08, Arwin Mesquita wrote: > > The key obstacle to Goa getting Special Status (as > obtained by few other states) are Corrupt > Politicians, Greedy Investors etc in > Goa/Delhi/India/World with big monetary/land stakes > in Goa's decimation; they oppose on the > Constitution pretext. > Mario asks: > Is it too much to ask that Goans and Indians in general all adopt an "Indian identity"? > Or are some Indians interested in returning to the fractured mess the Brits found when they came as traders from a piddly little island and were able to "divide and conquer" such a huge territory? > I find it more than strange that almost all those demanding this special identity, for Goa and for Goans in the diaspora, don't even live in Goa, and may never even return alive, regardless of their current intentions. > The last comment is not egregious because I just lost an old friend in the Gulf to cancer and his body is being returned to Mumbai for internment. > I grew up in Madhya Pradesh as an Indian whose ancestry was from Goa. If I had died then I would be interred in Jabalpur, not in Goa. I am now an American whose ancestry was from India, specifically Goa. When I die I will be buried where I live, not in India or Goa. > These are just the realistic facts of life. I obviously do not carry around a boatload of sentimental baggage centered around the identity of my ancestors, while I am always glad to acknowledge them and their contributions to who I am. >
