--- On Wed, 8/13/08, Rajan P. Parrikar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm afraid you will have to wait until the unique Goan > cows come home after copiously depositing their > their 'views' at the base of electric poles. >
I guess this is an admission that there is no unique singular Goan identity. This is further clear from the following quote from "http://www.parrikar.org/misc/Insiders-Outsiders.pdf"; "Consider the Goan Identity as a starting point. We may zoom down into this parent Identity and within it locate islets of constituent Identities threaded to it: the Goan Hindu Identity, the Goan Catholic Identity, and so on. We further break down the Goan Hindu Identity into, say, the Bamon Identity, the Daivadnyas, the Gomant Maratha Samaj Identity, etc. You can slice it in directions other than caste or religion. For instance, within the Goan Identity you could tease out the Sashtikaar Identity, the Bardezkaar Identity, etc. Still more Identities may be extracted from these sub-Identities." .......Rajan Parrikar So when he zooms the camera on Arwin's identity, Rajan's identity and Romlo's identity, he finds that they are all very different. The real question is which of these casteist identities Arwin and Rajan want to preserve. Cheers, Santosh
