Mr. Bernado Colaco,
I do object as an Indian being called a ghanti. What is so great in living
in UK. With a ghanti passport I have travelled half the world, sometimes
travelling by first class, worked in Brazil, got royal treatment when
travelling in South America, more than my fellow Brazilians. It shows the
level you come from by calling Indians ghantis. What are you a foreigner? By
the way, do you know what goans are called 'Paca Paos'. When I was growing
up in North India, my friends associated goans, with their domestic staff.
Thats what the non-Goans thought of Goans during the sixties.
When I was living in Brazil, I think I was the only Goan (very few at that
time) with an Indian passport. The rest had Portuguese passport. They
would leave India with their Indian passport go to some European country and
get a Portuguese passport.
It is not difficult for me to get a Portuguese passport because I was born
in Goa during the Portuguese regime, so were my parents and grandparents.
I thoroughly object you using the word 'ghantis' to us Indians.
Ana Maria de Souza-Goswami
