[Goanet] TIMES of INDIA & BOLLYWOOD & SANGH PARIVAR........

[Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão]

In reference to post by James Fernandes, Mumbai; on TOI
Cartoon,’The Lost Supper’.

COMMENT: Who said the cartoon depicted Christ and Disciples?
Has anyone seen Christ or His disciples? Or does someone have any photograph of
any of them. Tomorrow if someone draws a cartoon with a ‘dove’, will you object
that they are poking fun at the ‘Holy Spirit’? Or did you object when a poilet
soap named ‘DOVE’ came to market?

A person without a broad mind and a broad outlook in life
can easily turn into a fanatic. He just needs to be wound and he becomes
impulsive. These will calm down once rationality is shown. But the illiterates
are moulded into fanatism by another who has sinister motives, and no 
rationality
can bring a change here. Catholics are depicted as drunkards in Bollywood
films, and why not? The Mumbai Catholics around Dhobitalao were well known for
brewing concoctions for the locals. Bollywood directors of 1970s and later 
remember
that, and it does not depict Catholics in general but Dhobitalao Catholics. So
I do not feel anyone should make issue out of things that can be ignored.
Generally non-catholic boozards who come to Goa from India get boisterous after
a few drinks unlike the Mumbai Catholics who turn comedians, and directors need 
to depict comedy rather than a fracas scenes.





Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.

                                          
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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.  
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