There was no question of denouncing my Portuguese nationality, because I never
had one. Besides, my father was in the Indian Army and was with Operation
Vijay for the liberation of Goa.
How can you call Goans born and brought up during the Portguese rule in Goa
Portuguese. Were Indians called in India during the British Raj, Britishers.
Goans normally referred to the Mahrashtrians as Ghantis, the other side of the
Ghats, not to all Indians.
Ana Maria de Souza-Goswami
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Ana Maria de Souza-Goswami writes “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.”
If you claim to be born in Goa during the Portuguese regime of
Potuguese parents, then you were born a Portuguese national. Obviously you have
denounced this nationality on attaining adulthood and taken up Indian
citizenship. Since you were growing up in North India during the sixties you
were bred and brought up as an Indian. And during this process, surely you were
referred to as “Paca pao”. That explains the ire. Because “Paca Pão” was to
referred to people with Goan surnames and brought up in cultures that of ‘Dhobi
Talao’, and other places in India with similar culture. That’s the exact
delusion people in India and Bollywood have of Goa.
Secondly, you expose your ignorance to the word “Ghanti”. Which in
Portuguese means “Alem Ghates”. You are people from beyond the Ghats and I
don’t see why Indians from beyond the Ghats cannot be called Ghantis!
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