This is not a riposte to Dr. Kamat's 'a tribute to My teachers' etc.,
although his post may have prompted me to add my 2 bits to whatever that
makes Goanet tick like it does. This is also my general appreciation of
Goanet in response to its 16th anniversary. Congrats!
I may add here that Dr. Kamat's rectitude in paying tribute to his
teachers caused me to remember mine and I was amused by the irony of
their contrast: his upright gratitude and my own brand of gratefulness.
Indeed I am grateful to people & beings without number, yet, while Dr.
Kamat felt inspired by them to hunt for knowledge, I felt haunted by
mine. I recalled the countless beatings I got from my teachers, and
impositions and punishment and a couple of threats of expulsion from
school.
That certainly must have something to do with our natures. While Dr.
Kamat was, I presume, obedient, I was, without assumption, the Huck
Finn. Be as it may, 'a tribute to My teachers' made me remember my
teachers today for which I wish to thank Goanet and Dr.Kamat.
The other interesting post today was by Vivek Menezes about pao and
poders. His text virtually transported me through Panjim allies, a
ghost-like trail of fresh bread eddying my nostrils, imagined yet as
real as only real can be.
I have observed over the past couple of years that all that threatening
banter on Goanet is harmless brouhaha. Something provokes an argument
and before long the issue loses its oomph and is forgotten presently to
make room for some other "burning" issue. Right now JoeGoaUk's identity
is burning (I suppose), unless someone else decides to set something
else on fire. It is interesting. To me, Goanet is like a large well
where in Goanetters jump as if to celebrate some cyber san-joao. I can
almost hear Goanetters in a procession singing, "Dongra vellya
kallginni, paus ghal saibinni!"...
