Who should have done the negotiations after or (preferably) before 1961? The indocentric Goans were giddy with excitement and power. All the lusophile Goans did and still do is wave Brut DaCosta's letter to Nehru.
Even now, most Goans and Goan historians blame Salazar and Nehru depending on one 'philic' association. Few (like moi) blame Goans themselves. So I am glad to note more and more see some basic flaws of the past. Yet we need to use history to learn form it. Current Goans should use Pondicherry as a role model of working together and achieving progress. Pondicherry as many may know was a French enclave withing the Indian subcontinent and currently is a Union territory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puducherry Extracted from above: With a territory a third of Goa, "Pondicherry is also considered an educational hub of southern India, having 1 central university, 8 medical colleges, 10 engineering colleges, 3 dental colleges, 2 law colleges, 1 veterinary college, 1 agricultural college, 10 arts and science colleges, and 5 polytechnic colleges functioning within its territory. Many medical and engineering colleges including one national institute of technology and a state-owned university are also reported to be in queue. People of Pondicherry are demanding statehood for Pondicherry and are also requesting to add neighboring villages from Tamil Nadu to newly form Greater Pondicherry state for better administration and development purposes." Regards, GL --------------- floriano wrote: If I was the guy sitting with a load of examination papers, doing the mark-up, this one paper would get a fool proof 101 per cent. This would be for identifying in black and white the sins attributed to MP ------------ Rajan P. Parrikar wrote: Sin #1: The Original Sin Not negotiating a special status for Goa at the time of Liberation in 1961 is what I call the Original Sin. Most of the irreversible damage, political & environmental, we see today is a logical consequence of that misstep. As every job-seeker knows, the only time you really have leverage over the terms & conditions of your employment is at the time of joining. That is the moment for negotiating favourable terms, and once you are past that stage your bargaining power is substantially diminished. Goans did not even make a token effort for a negotiation in 1961.
