To Goanet - For over a thousand years now, we Hindus have been kaffirs to the muslims (and there are nasty prescriptions for kaffirs in the Quran, if anyone has cared to read it in the first place), and India has been what they refer to as a "House of the Spider." See -
http://arunsmusings.blogspot.com/2008/11/qotd.html Goa-related factoid: The word "cafreal" (as in chicken cafreal) is etymologically related to the word "kaffir." You may use Google to learn more about the historical context. r
