> > Hi Pandu, > Appreciate your multiple analogies, and counter analogies regarding > darkness, as well as the splendid anecdotes. We all have our > darkness's---emotional, cerebral, as also encountered while seeking meaning; > witnessing the darkness before the dawn, etc. So its always good to hear > what people have to share. > > Less than a handful of Hindu extraction, and/or belief--including Rajan, > Nandkumar (via articles), and you Pandu (although, I do not know anything > about you [[and does not matter, other than to make a distinction here]], as > I do not for instance JoeGoaUK)--its mostly the Christians who from > time-to-time put out a few things related to life in the villages, then. > ++++++++++++ > venantius j pinto >
> From: Pandu Lampiao <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goa's golden sports > > Aye VJP, rao re maaso...the 'darkened home' was mio little note. There > was no electricity in Majorda then....was profitable if one could > climb a coconut tree in the dark! > > The darkened home of referee Simplicio or Simplic tea-cher still > stands in Majorda and its not darkened these days....there are > children of children. There is even a bed-and-breakfast place featured > in the Wall Street Journal, 50 meters away. There is electricity and > piped water in the village you know! > (DEL) * * * Was life in the *kudds* glamourised? Who said, "It appears that the Goanese (sic) are a roving people, prepared to go to any part of the world for well-paid employment"? How did Goans find their first toehold in the Gulf? Find your answers in Selma Carvalho's *Into the Goan Diaspora Wilderness*. Buy from Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
