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Goanet mourns the passing of Cornel da Costa in London, England - Sep 10/10
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I am shocked to learn of the untimely death of Dr. Cornel D’Costa of
cardiac arrest yesterday.
Dr. Cornel was very knowledgeable. He was a valuable contributor to
Goanet. He was one of my admirers who appreciated my articles. We never
met but we kept in touch with each other through email, especially after
I posted my articles on Goanet. The last time we exchanged emails was in
connection with my article “Milagrincho Khuris – Vatt” (Miraculous Cross
– The Way) in January 2010.
He thanked me for an interesting account I provided in the article but
posed several questions on the caste system in Goa and asked me why I
chose not to refer, even if briefly, to the abomination of caste that
has survived for the best part of half a millennium alongside the
quixotic Catholicism among Catholic Goans.
He said it was still much of an issue at the time of marriage and of
course, marriage adverts in papers like the Herald highlighted this
consistently. He further said: “Your third paragraph below hints at what
was supposed to change in the transition from Hindu to Catholic but
honestly, unless we attack this caste nonsense much harder, it will just
continue to incubate!”
He promised to send me what appeared of his article in the Contact
Catholic Magazine, London but both of us forgot about it. He told me he
hoped to write more in the international Catholic media and said: “I
very much hope you will do so, too, especially as you are such a fine
and perceptive writer”. Dr. Cornel was a gentleman.
We offer our deepest condolences to his family and pray to God to grant
him eternal peace.
Moi-mogan,
Domnic Fernandes
Anjuna, Goa
Mob: 9420979201
