--- On Mon, 11/23/09, Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> wrote:
> I doubt very much that fulminations from another continent > (or during holidays here) are going to take us any closer to the > solutions that Goa need. FN Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:13:16 -0800 (PST) From: George Pinto <[email protected]> Frederick logic in the statement below suffers and here is why: what some expat Goans (myself) have been writing is very similar to what Goans in Goa are writing, saying on some current issues in Goa. Is it Frederick's position that expat Goans are wrong simply by virtue of being expats? Mario observes: Fred apparently thinks the corrupt leading the blind is what will save Goa from all its internal and external afflictions. Fred and Samir are the primary proponents of the notion that there is nothing to be learned from expats, but those pesky facts keep getting in their way:-)) We are now 48 years into the post colonial era and 22 years into Goan self rule, and things seem to be getting worse, not better. If I'm not mistaken the bulk of the positive infrastructure developments that brought Goa up to par with the rest of India took place before 1987 when it was a Union Territory.
