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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training and research and seeks to buy approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs land betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas. Please contact: [email protected] or [email protected] or ph+91-9881499458 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- On Mon, 8/3/09, Mario Goveia <[email protected]> wrote: > > Indeed! > > It seems to me that Selma answered her own question.? > The young man did not seem unsure at all.? HIS cultural > roots had been successfully transplanted from the old world > to the new.? > Antonio Menezes ac.menezes at gmail.com Sun Aug 2 20:48:52 PDT 2009 '''Are our youth , especially in the Goan Diaspora unsure of their cultural heritage and uncertain if it is of any relevance to them in future ? It is a $ 64,000 question posed by Selma on Goan Voice London. There was this Goan gentleman widower in his early 80s and comfortably settled down in Canada who had the urge to visit his homeland for the last time.He could not travel alone so he asked his favourite grandson who had just finished college studies to accompany him to India/Goa for 2 weeks holiday. Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 09:29:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Carvalho <[email protected]> Mario, you are mixing up Antonio's story with my column. My column as it appeared on GoanVoice UK, Sunday is as under: Every growing child reaches a point in their life when they begin to ask questions about their past as part of a collective community. Somehow answers about this past are part of the ritual of coming of age and unlocking secrets as to who we are as individuals. For many British-Goan children, the first step to this journey begins at home and at Goan cultural events conducted in and around England by the Goan Overseas Association and other clubs. As much as we dismiss these events as just an excuse to drink, eat and make merry, they are important because they keep us connected to our cultural past and to our community. Last week, I visited the annual UK Goan festival held at Croydon. I had now been in the UK for over a year. I was no longer a stranger. I had made friends and I felt like part of the community. This feeling of belonging, of being intimately tethered to my cultural past, this sense that wherever in the world I am, I am above all a Goan, somehow gives my life more meaning. Mario responds: OK. However, a) Did you ask the $64,000 question that Antonio said you asked? b) Hadn't the aging Canadian Goan's grandson in Antonio's kaneos seemed to have transitioned away from the culture that gives your life more meaning? It seemed to me that the grandson did not seem unsure of his cultural heritage or was at all uncertain of what relevance it had to his future. My sense was that the kid knew his cultural heritage and it had no relevance to his future, at least at this time. This may change as he grows and matures. Or it may not. BTW, I still have no idea why you are not posting your columns on Goanet at the same time you post these on Goan Voice in the UK? For others to post your columns on Goan Voice to Goanet seems peculiar, unnecessary and cumbersome to me.
