A reasonable description of the human condition and frailties, as well as a prescient look at what awaits us around the corner.
My suggestion is that both of you, Fr. Ivo and U. G.Barad should try and meet--and interact. Talk stuff. One thing that is lacking (becoming more obvious) even her in the US, as told to me last month at a Street Fair by an African-American, after I struck up a conversation with her--is that we rarely now with strangers as in the past. Wish people in the street etc. ++++++++++++ venantius j pinto (DEL) > All of us are disturbed > by what is happening in India and in Goa, does it mean that we have no > hope? > What should all of us do? Harp on what is crooked and forget to go straight > and progress? If there are scams and scandals among the leaders of the > society, are we stagnant? What can we do in this situation? This should be > our question today and always. Even if there are scandals and crimes in > Margao, does it mean that our life will stagnate? What should we do to > renew > the sickly society? That is up for you and for me to answer instead of > dividing ourselves in terms of religion or any other divisive force, when > it > is misundersttod. Let us foster what unites us, shun what divides us... > Regards. > Fr.Ivo > > * * * 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/ * * *
