I think Gilbert's challenge that SFX left Goa, before the Inquisition was introduced has not been answered below. Instead what one reads is typical rigmarole defending the interview. This is a true provocative interview by the interviewer and interviewee and fodder for the extremist camp who in the past have used this kind of information against the Catholics. BC So what is the evidence for the two-faced nature of what I read from Teo? Not too long ago, I thought there was progress on the truth about the Inquisition, when Teo headlined one of his original post / thread as "Inquisition for Colonial Disciplining."? So Teo finds rational for the Inquisition in this thread; but in the interview severely critics SFX for thinking along similar lines. No where in the article was it mentioned that the inquisition was introduced to Goa more than a?17 years?AFTER SFX left Goa and 8 years AFTER HE DIED.? So to link the abuses of the inquisition to SFX is an outrage that Teo, the reporter Devika Siquera and the newspaper editor (all Goans) should be ashamed off.?
TRS: Gilbert should know that interviews are brief and one can hardly ever say all that one wants to say. Even what is said carries editorial cuts and changes when appear in print! That is why no single article / interview should ever be read in isolation. I would suggest that Gilbert or anyone else should comment only after they have read all my writings during the past three and half decades! Rushing around to make cheap statements is easy, but also irresponsible. It should also be said that historians have the obligation to correct themselves along the way, if and when new sources require it. That is honesty, not lack of it, as someone tried to post to Goanet just a couple of days ago. Those who see monotones are either morones or colour-blind! Besides, sending private mails with unsolicited information to cause intrigues or to put one Goanetter against another should have no claim of respect for privacy anywhere among honest persons. Fortunately there are Goanet archives for those who wish to verify the contents and contexts.
