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Sign the Petition requesting The Honble Minister of State for Environment
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JC says:
IF you have verifiable proof that some (expected) home-grown
ingredients entered into the Ladainha which was brought by the
Portuguese into Goa, please provide that proof. No 'invented' proof
....just the facts, Sir!
Let me reiterate what I have already said earlier. Even when every ingredient
of a dish is brought from the market, we cannot say that the dish itself has
been procured from the market; this holds true even when not even one small
item has been added from the kitchen garden.
Having said that, let me cite some differences between the 'ladainha' SUNG in
Goa and the PRINTED prayers in Latin and Portuguese. "Kyrie eleison" occurs
twice in the printed litany but is sung only once. In the Salve Rainha that we
sing, we find the words ".... e depois deste desterro NOSSA mostrai...." (Is
this how it is in the Portuguese prayer? To my mind, it is not even
grammatically proper Portuguese.) Towards the end of the same, we sing "....
sejamos dignos das promessas DAS PROMESSAS de Cristo DA PROMESSA DE CRISTO Amen
JESUS." (The capitalized words are extra.) The orasanvam (hymns) to saints,
Our Lady etc. in Konkani certainly could not have been imported from Portugal.
I am not sure whether the above will meet JC's requirements. But this is all I
can do.
Sebastian Borges
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