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Goanetters in Goa and visiting meet Jan 6, 2009 at 3.30 pm at Hotel Mandovi (prior to the Goa Sudharop event, which you're also welcome to). Join in for a Dutch dinner -- if we can agree on a venue after the meet. RSVP (confirmations only) 9822122436 or 2409490 or [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Goanet - I have asked the perfusser if he has spoken (*) to even a single Goan Hindu during his drive-by into Goa, or if we Goan Hindus are invisible as we are to most outsiders. Recall Barkha Dutt's schtick in Calangute after the Scarlett Keeling episode - she had outsiders on the panel talking about who is or who is not a Goan but no Goan Hindus were deemed worthy of representation. But of course, Goan Hindus magically become visible during BJP/RSS dumping sessions and for purposes of finger-pointing about "communalism." (*) Needless to say, I made it clear to the perfusser that I have no issue whatsoever with his talking to Goan Catholics. r ----- Original Message ---- > From: Rajan P. Parrikar <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, January 5, 2009 4:19:10 PM > Subject: Thus spake the foreign perfusser > > To Goanet - > > You are referred to this blog entry someone forwarded > to me today - > > http://www.lehigh.edu/~amsp/2008/12/getting-to-know-goa-slowly.html > > The author Amardeep Singh, an American perfusser, has presumably > been shooting the breeze in Goa with some Goan blogheads. Apparently > after a few days of this arduous activity, he is now a "Goa expert." To > mark his newfound insight into the land, he had issued a professorial > proclamation: > > "...that Goa most definitely is not being overrun with big-time real estate > development projects..." > > Clearly I, and many others, who have been traveling the length and > breadth of Goa, have been hallucinating. All those thousands of photos > I shot and displayed, the mountain of papers I obtained through > RTI - they must be wisps of our imagination somehow magically > transformed into physical matter. What you have been seeing with > your eyes, dear Goans - just don't believe it. Check your body > temperature, it may be the flu. Mr Singh, on the other hand, with > the benefit of his fawning Goan informants and superior intellect, > has divined that all is fine and dandy in Goa. Rest easy, Goans. > The foreign perfusser has spoken. > > > r
