Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 19:19:41 -0800 (PST) From: Samir Kelekar <samir_kele...@yahoo.com>
Let us be very clear about it. Ghantis havent discarded their Indian citizenships, unlike some holier than though individuals on this forum. They ought to, and do have more rights than American citizens. Most important they can participate in the political process, and vote! Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 22:37:17 -0800 (PST) From: Samir Kelekar <samir_kele...@yahoo.com> Those who have opportunistically taken OCI (overseas citizenship of India --- and btw this is not dual citizenship, the constitution of India does not permit dual citizenship) --- just as they opportunistically discarded Indian citizenship --- be careful. Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 22:10:54 -0800 (PST) From: Samir Kelekar <samir_kele...@yahoo.com> So, you are one more who have discarded your identity/citizenship in preferenec to greenbacks ? You dont deserve any political rights in Goa, and hence you would not have any. It is as plain and simple as that! Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 18:03:58 -0500 From: celinap <celi...@mail.uri.edu> The question is what is to be done now. Mario responds: Celina, You are absolutely right, but apparently to some, the problem in Goa is not the unholy alliance between corrupt politicians and business interests, foreign drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes, but NRGs. We now have the comical spectacle of a fiery revolution not against the corruption in Goa but against those scroundrels amongst us Goans who have chosen to be non-Indian Goans:-)) The primary target is Rajan Parrikar, probably because Rajan has actually walked the talk and stuck his neck out and confronted some of the powers that be in Goa: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-January/187993.html It may come as a shock to all the British, Canadian, American, Australian and Swedish Goans, especially those who still maintain the sentimental pretense that they are Goans first, that you are all seen by some as interlopers in Goa and scoundrels for abandoning Goa. The irony of all this is too rich for me, who is no less proud of my Goan-Bhayya ancestry, but am now a proud American first. Pardon me for being "less Goan" than those who think they are more-Goan-than-thou and take themselves so seriously. Lighten up, folks. LOL! BTW, did India really renege on some promise to preserve this mythical Goan identity I keep hearing about? Didn't India give Goa back to the Goans in 1987 to do with as they wished after bringing Goa up to some semblance of a mid-20th Century Indian region with some modern physical infrastructure? Just asking. In the meantime, there are thousands of proud Goans, some of whom actually live in Goa, under whose very noses the current situation has evolved since 1987. Samir is correct that the OCI is not a dual citizenship, just a special form of visa conceived by my favorite Indian hero, the canny Manmohanji, to encourage some of those green bucks that Samir rails about but is not above accepting in return for his services, to filter back to India. When it comes to benefiting India, Manmohanji doesn't consider himself more-Indian-than-those-who-earn-green-bucks:-)) There's a lesson in his attitude that our more-Goan-than-thou chest-thumpers may want to consider. Now, back to Celina's question. What next, and, more importantly, by whom?
