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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is one of Goa's leading NGOs.
Sangath is looking to build a centre for services, training and research
and is looking to buy land of approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs
betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas
If you have land to sell, please contact:
contac...@sangath.com or yvo...@sangath.com or phone +91-9881499458
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html
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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:22:34 +0530 (IST)
From: Bernice Pereira <bernicepere...@yahoo.com>
Having seen the transition of Goa from Portuguese to Indian, there is a
phenomenal change specially in people's lifestyles (I'm talking about food,
sanitation even standard of living).? I remember a friend at Xavier's invited
me to her house when I was? in my early teens, her father held a very important
position and the lifestyle was 5-star with butlers to change the crockery and
cutlery with every course of the meal.? This was a daily feature in most of the
elitist and graceful homes in Goa.
The need of the hour is for Goans? from all over the world to unite on a common
platform to fight against corruption, nepotism and work towards
building a? haven of that little paradisiacal state of ours.? The
important requirement is unity, which is unfortunately not present.?
It's more of a crab mentality to pull down the crab which is climbing
higher.
Mario asks:
Bernice,
I agree that the need of the hour in Goa is to elect honest politicians who
will enforce existing laws and see if Goa can become any less corrupt than the
rest of India.
However, I couldn't tell whether you were suggesting we return to the 5-star
lifestyle that was enjoyed by a tiny handful of uber-elitist Goan Catholics who
pretended to be Saraswat Brahmins and were patronized by the Portuguese
colonial masters while the rest of Goa lived like serfs in a rural, backward
colony that was at least one generation, if not more, behind the rest of India
in economic development in 1961?
I don't know about butlers, but I have seen housing developments near Goa
University called Aldeia de Goa and Odshel that would rival anything in
opulence and ambience as I have seen in the affluent west.
I hope you will join Carmen Miranda, Ana Maria Goswamy, Florian and the other
Goanetters who are planning some realistic civic action in Goa in the near
future. Florian has been fighting against corruption longer than most of the
others and can use as much support as possible.
