2009/3/8 Venantius Pinto <[email protected]>: > Arun Ferreira: Another Naxal? And if he is a Naxal, is there a reason? Are > such appelatives the new consensus building exercises among the middle > classes. Also I am sure that politicians get security briefings, and are ...
Hi Venantius and all: I do not see any specific or deliberate scapegoating of Christian/former-Christian activists here. A tentative thesis: just as the Jews were once at the forefront of many a social justice or trade-union campaign globally, other minority groups might be playing a similar role. You need to feel the shoe pinching, before you can empathise with others. In the case of the Christian community, it's just a tiny section which does so, while the bulk of the community is obviously into consumerism, careers and the usual goodies that go with the middle-class life. The influence of ideologies from the past decades like Liberation Theology could have played a role in shaping a few members of a certain generation (who grew up in the 1970s, 1980s) towards such campaigns. As far as Seby goes, there were some interesting perspectives coming up from other mining campaigners as to why he was individually targeted... it might be easier to alienate him from the mass of the villagers who feels the pinch of mining strongly. In reality, though, there are quite a few (a small number, but determined) campaigners taking up mining concerns in Goa. --FN PS: Venantius, on an unrelated point, connected to your earlier post, did you come across Rui Gomes Pereira's now out-of-print book 'Hindu Temples of Goa'? It's available in libraries here, containing quite some amount of useful matter on the topic. -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://twitter.com/fn On Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Frederick-Noronha/502514643 "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars." - Les Brown
