To Goanet - Dr. Santosh Helekar wrote: >At variance with what is posted below, I was pleasantly surprised to see that >there was a polite and respectful discussion between the lady representative >of
>the extremist Hindu organization, Dr. Jose Pereira and the organizers of the >exhibition. The only provocation for confrontation that I saw was from Admin >Noronha. I just took a look at the two posted videos. The only piece of hostility there, as Dr. Helekar has noted, came from the anti-Hindu, communal, muckraking, coward-of-a-smear-merchant Frederick Noronha. To the likes of Admin Noronha and his fellow cohorts like the Commie operator Gadgil, only Hindu malfeasance is visible, and they will lie through their pustulated behinds at every opportunity provided by the fringe Hindu rightwing to portray the Hindu Right as the biggest danger since Nazi Germany. At the same time, they will invent every reason possible to whitewash Muslim atrocities. The biggest danger to communal peace in Goa is this breed of dregs, not the Sanatan Saunstha. You can take this to the bank. Now apropos of the video - I completely disagree with the lady representative of the HJS. "Hurt feelings" is a lame ploy. I say, get tough and get real. Your faith ought not to be so fragile that some paintings somewhere rattles it. You also do not have any right to disrupt a private exhibition funded by private monies. (You may have had a case if public monies were being used, in which case it should apply across the board, to all religions.) Finally, Sri Krishna's amorous impulses and dalliances must be CELEBRATED - and they indeed, are, in song and dance, if these folks knew anything about their own traditions - not denied or kept under wraps. It is a sad commentary on today's Hindus that they have internalized Christian and Muslim prudery to repudiate what is a glorious aspect of their own spiritual and cultural tradition. Regards, r * * * Encounter hints (and more) of the Goan life in Zanzibar, Poona, Mombasa, Basra, Dubai, and even Nuvem and Colva, Sanvordem and colonial Goa. Learn of experiences that shaped Goans worldwide. Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* now available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Ask a friend to buy it, before it gets sold out. Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *