August 2, 2010
The Biggest misnomer of the day about the Goans is by Dr. Santosh
Helekar's, email, which relates to the brewed contraversy on Dr. Jose
Pereira's Paintings', and which I quote below:
Quote:
"The biggest danger to communal peace in Goa is this breed of dregs, not
the Sanatan Saunstha. ?You can take this to the bank".
Unquote:
It is people like Dr. Santosh Helekar who are communal biased and cannot
mesticate the facts of life or reality.
Every person in his own right have freedom of expression; Be it in
writing, painting or voicing, irrespective of the nature of the subject.
Everthing likes in the Eyes of the Beholder. So what despicability or
deplorability or disgraceful is there in Dr. Jose's Paintings? I think
he needs to visit a Shrink.
To sum up in short it is people like Dr. Santosh Helekar, who are
communal frenzy and these are the people need to be watched closely or
else they will be detrimental to the society and the peace loving Goans.
Sam
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In every way, the Goans of Bombay were part of the great melee that was this
metropolis, distinct perhaps in the way communities often are, holding on to
their own traditions but merging slowly nonetheless and forming the thin thread
of nationhood that would eventually become India. -- Selma Carvalho, in *Into
the Goan Diaspora Wilderness*. Available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph
+91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295.
http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/
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