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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Dear Mr. Editor
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:15:46 +0530
The letter “Hangover of servility” purportedly written by Fr. Mousinho de
Athaide on Herald dt. 29th September, is perverse and shocking to say the least
if not despitefully distorted. Analysing this letter para by para, I would like
to question the writer that if India existed as a separate entity before the
British as he claims it to be the truth; which were the kingdoms and princely
States that comprised this India of his? Is this a distortion or subversion of
history?
His claim that Goa was under subjugation under the Portuguese regime is
illconceived, there was ample freedom, but with discipline. There may not have
been freedom of speech, freedom to go on strikes or bundhs, etc.; obviously as
it was not a democracy. Goans who lived during the Portuguese regime need not
resort to reading Goan history by Portuguese authors, they have lived here in
peace and harmony, with almost no threats of robberies and crimes; with food,
clothing and shelter for every one; with education facilities, justice, and
protection to all. What more do you require from a government to call it
stable? Does his so called ‘liberated Goa’ give him this? I would also like to
know if murders, rapes, paedophilias, kidnapping, corruption, robberies,
dacoities, extortion, etc., etc., are in the his opinion the meaning of
liberation and freedom?
It is an admitted fact that there are always corrupt people; but for every
single depraved and corrupt official in the Goan Portuguese regime the writer
can name, I am willing to name Forty, if not more, from the ‘Liberated Goa”
regime.
And as regards to ‘servility’, we are servile in our Goan regime even to the
lowest rung peon of any government Department, leave aside all the other
semi-literates of the upper rungs.
There is a saying: “Good sense, not age, brings wisdom.” Fr. Mousinho, if he is
the actual writer; exposes his total ignorance of the difficult times and
miseries Goans are going through. He is in total oblivion of the happenings
around him. People who fight for rights of the oppressed are falsely arrested;
ancestral properties and agricultural land are usurped; if their daughters are
raped and murdered, the victims themselves are treated as accused; murderers
and rapists are let off for failure of prosecution. Every day if one opens the
newspaper one invariably finds criminal activities taking place daily in our so
called ‘liberated Goa’. Being from the clergy, I presumed he should have been
aware of all these happenings as part of his duty to comfort the destitute and
the oppressed. The only opinion that comes to my mind is that the letter is the
display of senility.
Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.
Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão. M.B.,B.S.(Bom)
Margão - GOA Tel : + 91 . 832 . 2703 100.
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