UP Xri Mahanji, If you have succeeded in making a packet courtesy of your hereditary vocation (Cheating as you state), Nothing much I can do about it. Once you are content, I am content. Only ....do not try to tell us that S-Konkani is what we Goans must speak.
I am always happy to start from my native Carambolim, you can start from the Moon. From the Moon, we can trace Saraswat travels on Arrow Transport to Benaulim et al. Once that is recorded and repeated it will explain ALL to sub-Kunbis like moi. Saraswats would then have the divine right to sub-Kunbi land. Of course, one can put a modern spin on it. In modern times, all the monied folks (earned honeshtly of course) live in the Hills and Hill Stations (Beverley Hills, Cumbala Hill, Altinho, Simla etc). In Goa, the Saraswats generously enabled the sub-Kunbis to live in the Hills!. Wow ...what a people of sacrifice! .....until those not-so-nice Portuguese came and invited them to join them in Mangalore.....where they had to start their hereditary vocation ....All over Again. BTW: Please advise (when you have a break from your vocation) which EXPENSIVE lines you are referring to. If you are referring to agrarian settings, I believe that Carambolim has evidence that the bunds were there at least 400 years ago. So I do not know why 'a hundred years ago they would be foolish'. But ....I am sure you will explain jc ps: In a previous posting you stated (Correct me if I am misrepresenting your words) that Saraswats were crooked and cruel. This morning you are writing about Cheating being your hereditary vocation. Are you another one of those Nad-Korpis? Jusht only asking! === 2008/9/20 U P Kamath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 1: Could not reply your mail. Been busy with my HEREDITARY VOCATION of planning and CHEATING 2: Made a PACKET 3:You have not yet explained what those more than 2000 feet long jet straight line bunds of paddy fields were doing in a tribal society. 4: You can start from paddy fields of CARAMBOLIM or from the surface of the moon. 5: You got to explain the irrational extremely EXPENSIVE and foolish straight lines in an agrarian setting. 6: They would have been foolish even a HUNDRED years ago, not at the dawn of history
