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Mario Miranda Festival, July 24-26, 2008 Old GMC Building http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-July/077732.html * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:37:28 +0530 From: "Tony de Sa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If economic opportunity means buying up or selling out like a corner store bania, count me out, Sir, aum niz Goenkar! > Mario responds: > OK, Tony. You are out. But don't complain when the other Goan banias participating in the boom leave you behind. > Tony wrote: > Tearing people down? Hardly. Black sheep was probably a mild characterization. > Mario proves: > Now you have taken your name calling to a higher level. Can't you describe what some people have done without calling all of them who sell their properties names? > Tony wrote: > A study of Goan property deals will probably startle you. I can give you instances where properties in Goa have been sold by <<black sheep>> by declaring some of the heirs as dead when they are still alive and kicking. But then you would call this economic opportunity. > Mario responds: > No, I would call these instances fraud. The last time I checked entire dvelopments came to a screeching halt when the "dead" heirs showed up, alive and kicking and screaming, and began litigation. > But, thanks for making my point. "Instances" do not qualify everyone who sells their property for being called names like "black sheep" or worse. > Tony wrote: > BTW, have you had a thorough title search of that property that you bought with your greenbacks? I could recommend a few honest Goan lawyers of the old school who believe in old values. > Mario responds: > Yes, sir, I did. I used an excellent lawyer whose biggest client was my old employer, Tata's, just to make sure he treated my case with the same care as he used for his largest client whose business he could not afford to lose. Thus I did not have to worry about anyone's reputation for honesty which can quickly change in a place like Goa. > Tony wrote: > If you are so certain about Celina's motivations, why don't you call her up and ask her to tear down that illegal 2 metre compound wall? Is that her and your idea of refurbishing a house? That you are not a Moidekar doesn't prevent you to make that call for which we Moidekars would be eternally grateful to you, or is it simply that you do not come within her social reach? > Mario responds: > To begin with, it's kind of hard to see that compound wall from where I live:-)) > Secondly, I will be glad to go see Celina the next time I am in Goa. It's about time I met her. If you can send me her phone number and I'll be glad to call her from here, on behalf of the entire village of Moira, none of whose residents can apparently come within her social reach and so need my help:-)) > But why are you trying to insult me, right after telling me about your problem, and before I have had a chance to call Celina? > Besides, if her wall is illegal, why haven't you taken some friends with cricket bats and had a little chat with your Sarpanch over a cuppa chai, or better yet a bottle of fine feni after working hours? > If that doesn't work because you don't know how to play political cricket, call one of the excellent lawyers you mentioned, and sue her. That'll teach her to have an illegal wall. > Tony wrote: > We Goans, who live in Goa, are most assuredly not the problem, but the real problem is the NRI Goans like you who preach to us about what we should do or not do and how we should run our lives. > Mario responds: > Au contraire, mon ami. You are assuredly part of the problem for sitting back and complaining instead of organizing and helping elect honest politicians. Go see my friend Floriano. He'll give you something positive to do. > Don't blame those of us who support you when you make sense and blast you when you don't. If it weren't for us there would be even more bhailes and Ghantis buying property in Goa. > I would like to see more Goans and Goan NRI's invest in Goa, but I'll gladly take top shelf outsiders like Celina - perhaps even over some Goans. She is putting her money where her mouth is. You can't ask for more than that. > Tony wrote: > I am glad that you are one New Goan, as you call yourself, who has made capital of the economic opportunity that Goa has presented. > Mario responds: > I was simply lucky for once. I had no idea what would happen to prices in Goa. > Tony wrote: > Just remember one dictum, that absentee landlords cannot call the shots. And while you are away, don't be surprised if a snarling neo-Goan has occupied your property and is giving you the one finger salute. Now that would be called filling in the vacuum! > Mario responds: > Tony, you worry too much. You should know that I was born at night - but it wasn't last night:-)). To begin with I don't rent my property. Secondly, I have a LEGAL compound wall and a society to look after my property and a snarling non-Goan securitywallah who keeps out the riff-raff and gives loiterers the finger:-)) > Now, please send me Celina's phone number, ASAP. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- **** http://www.GOANET.org **** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tri Continental Film Festival 2008 July 25 - 30, 2008 Goa, India http://www.moviesgoa.org/page/tri_continental/ http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricon/schedule_2008.pdf ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
