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Happy New Year Twenty-Ten
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Prof. Michael Pearson of Sydney, Australia, wrote his "Portuguese in India" in
1987. Here is the absolute last paragrph and sentence in the book: I imagine
he relished the anticlimatic ending !
' In a particular coastal area in 1977, 70% of houses had no electric light,
40% of the rural population was illiterate, and in 1983 children still had to
ride 10 kilometers to get to a primary school. This is not some backward pat of
Goa; this is the Alentejo region of southern Portugal.'
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>From AM.
Lisboa is a metropolis, fine ! Take Estremadura or Algarve instead and
compare the number of Lyceums there with the measly three in the
glorious Provincia Ultramarina de Portugal also known as Goa AM
