Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 17:17:10 +0000 From: Albert Desouza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > We goans have the habbit of preaching. We are just emotional. Take an example of a big portuguese house which was actually built to accomodate at least three to four big families. Big halls, big dinning rooms garden etc etc. now worth say forty lakhs or more. Most of the sons have gone to Canada, Australia, US New Zealand. Only one nuclear family lives over there. The family made up of just four members and the head of the family and his wife working in Goa may be each drawing twenty thousand. > Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 05:02:44 +0530 (IST) From: lenny dsouza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My advice to all is that if you think the price is right for you go ahead and sell, because the cash to in hand means that you can buy something else, day by day the power of buy with a rupee is decreasing. Its time we live peacefully and not bother if our neighbour is catholic or not as long as he is living peacefully in his house. Catholic and non catholic have lived in harmony for over hundred years in goa, why are we today pointing fingers at them, was the state of goa, not hindu, before the portuguese came, and was there no mogul raj on it, my request to all goans is just dont try to dig graves, as there are many skeletons there, which will only escalate things. > Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:34:43 +0530 From: Ana Maria de souza-Goswami > How will goans be 'poverty-stricken' by selling property. What they do with the money is nobody's business. Parents can sell the property because it belongs to them and not the children, and besides if most of the children are living overseas and do not want to come back to Goa, why can't they sell the property especially those who need the money. > If it hadn't been for rich Indians and foreigners who have bought our ancestral homes, they would have gone to seed. > Mario observes: > Dear Albert, Lenny and Ana Maria, > You three have all NAILED it, mi amigos, each in your own inimitable words. > Thank you for these pithy but incisive commentaries based on R-E-A-L-I-T-Y, as compared with the E-M-O-T-I-O-N and S-E-N-T-I-M-E-N-T we have seen from some on this issue. > I wish we would hear more often from Goans like Albert and Lenny and Ana Maria, who seem to cut to the chase and look at things from a practical angle and trust that people will do what is in the best interests of themselves and their families. > Of course, you will continue to hear my never-humble opinions until they plant me 6 feet under or incinerate me as the case may be:-)) > Bernice, I also respect your decision because it is based on what you truly believe, not on someone else's opinion who has nothing to do with you or your property. I hope you see that others may not be walking in your chappals. > All I can say to Arwin is that the evidence shows that there are numerous Goan identities, and there are new ones emerging from the influx of "new-Goans". You are obviously free to cling to your own Goan identity. After all, it is yours. > Ana Maria wrote: > Please lets end this subject of selling ancestral land and tackle other issues, as garbage, rash driving, etc. > Mario observes: > While I have no problem with people expressing their deeply held opinions on any subject, which others can counter or comment on if they wish to, I agree with Ana Maria that there are far more pressing issues that affect daily life in Goa, as well as major issues like corruption in obtaining building permits and licenses and defacing the Goan countryside. > I am always happy when decent individuals, regardless from where they hail, appreciate my ancestral homeland enough to want to live there, invest their money there and improve the houses they buy there. Isn't that the ultimate compliment to our homeland? > After being a part of American diversity for 37 years now, I am always amazed when some of my countrymen, some of whom have experienced western diversity themselves, are so determined, when it comes to India, to continue the five thousand year tradition of building walls between different people who are their ethnic kin using the most obscene reasons imaginable. > Regarding the concerns that some have expressed, my position is that most people in Goa who decide to sell will sell their properties responsibly and use the money responsibly for the benefit of themselves and their families, notwithstanding the odd person who is profligate. >
