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Happy New Year Twenty-Ten
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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 22:56:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Samir Kelekar <[email protected]>
More important than legal, you have no moral right because you have discarded
the most basic and fundamental privilege that a country can ever confer on one,
namely its citizenship.
Mario observes:
To begin with I'm glad to see that the Goanet moderators have become more
lenient in the use of invective. We now frequently see descriptive terms like
crap, shit, bullshit and whore used with gay abandon. I remember the good old
days when I had a post rejected by describing some poppycock as poppycock:-))
But I digress.
As a proud American who is also proud of my Goan-Bhayya heritage, the comment
above is what I would consider a decent sized cake formed by Samir of
intestinal waste product from the male bovine species, where Samir is
insinuating that he is more-Goan-than-Rajan.
Did Samir choose India out of all the countries in the world so that he could
be a proud Indian and a self-described Goan activist who is so committed to Goa
that he lives in Bengalooru? Did India choose Samir to be on its team and
confer citizenship on him? The answer to both these deeply incisive and
insightful questions is, NO!
The fact is that Samir is an Indian BY PURE CHANCE. He became a citizen
without doing anything, simply by virtue of a biological crapshoot. If he has
anyone to thank for being a proud Indian it is his parents - he just went along
for the ride.
Now Rajan, on the other hand, also an Indian by virtue of a biological
crapshoot, after growing up and looking around, after much prayer and fasting
and contemplation of his navel, consciously CHOSE to become an American, and
had to jump through hoops to do so. He is an American BY INTELLIGENT CHOICE.
Now, after the supremely wise Manmohanji pushed through a special category od
dual citizenship called an Overseas Citizen of India, specifically to benefit
India and aimed at high-value Indian-born human persons who had assumed foreign
nationalities for all kinds of personal reasons not the least of which were
green bucks, Rajan once again CHOSE to become an Overseas Citizen of India. He
is an overseas Indian BY INTELLIGENT CHOICE, with full legal, financial and
moral rights conferred by the all-knowing Manmohanji, except the right to vote
and own farmland.
Samir wrote:
It is a shame that it was done in preference to green bucks. This also shows
your (lack of) commitment to India;
Mario responds:
Unless Samir has become a Sadhu while we were not looking, did he show a (lack
of) committment to Goa by starting his big bucks business in Bengalooru and not
Verna, after studying and working, and then doing business in the same country
that Rajan chose to become a citizen of? Wasn't an Indian university good
enough for Samir? Wasn't Verna good enough for Samir? Aren't Indian clients
not good enough for Samir?
Samir wrote:
push comes to shove you are going to vamoosh (sic) to America.
Mario asks:
If push comes to shove, I'm sure Rajan will be nice enough to arrange for Samir
to vamoose to the US too:-)) That's what Americans do. Help people, not just
talk about it.
Samir wrote:
If indeed you are committed to Goa, you have one option to redeem yourself.
Discard this OCI bullshit, and get back your Indian citizenship. That way you
will be not just hailed as a hero, but it will also show to one and all your
commitment to Goa and India.
Mario observes:
I think this implied contest that Samir has started of being
more-Goan-than-thou should focus on who has done more for Goa, Samir or Rajan.
I have no idea.
I wonder what Carmen thinks of all this?
Is Samir going to lead the Goandolan peaceful grass-roots revolution in Goa, or
is Rajan? Please submit your applications to Floriano:-))
