Thank you Sr. Gabriel de Figueiredo for your response ( Aug23 ): ''Precisa de saber falar em Portugues e Konkani ....nao e ? '' May be I am misinformed but I was always under the impression that '' Os Goeses em Portugal '' were the least interested in being Goans but on the contrary always insisted that they themselves were ''os Portugueses muito gloriosos ''
I do not know what are the priorities of our people in Goa. The other day I was in my village store buying some groceries. There was this young student with her mother picking up some grocery items. Just to tease her , I said in Konkani ''Mummyn tuka ice cream gueunc nam ? Mother turned towards me and said ''Haam, mujea burguea lagim tum konkani uloita ? Tuka quitem diss(o)lam, amim ordinari munxeam ? * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ISSUES BEING DEBATED: In East Africa, despite colonialism, the British afforded the Goan a sliver of a socio-political voice. Read *Into The Diaspora Wilderness* by Selma Carvalho. Soon to be available in Toronto. Pp 290. Via mail-order from goa1...@gmail.com http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/
