Thanks for the compliment, but do you term my questions as "boorishness", Dr Helekar?
----- Original Message ---- > From: Santosh Helekar <[email protected]> > To: estb. 1994!Goa's premiere mailing list <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, 6 December, 2010 9:28:16 PM > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Renationalisation in a Flat World-III > > Nandakumar has written a very provocative, but reasonably substantive, > article >full of statements regarding Goa's history. I for one would like to see a good > >honest debate about it on factual grounds rather than the usual communal >insinuations, innuendo, flame baits and boorishness that we see on Goanet. > > Cheers, > > Santosh > > --- On Mon, 12/6/10, Gabriel de Figueiredo <[email protected]> >wrote: > > > > A few questions: > > > > 1. Why is Goa a popular "retirement" location or a location > > for a "holiday home" > > for the high and mighty of India? Could not Ratnagiri or > > Karwar for that matter, > > be an equally good location? Also applies to IFFI and local > > tourists. > > > > 2. How was it in the 60s and early 70s, when one came > > to Goa by road, one could > > immediately discern the remarkable difference in > > body-language, mode of dress > > and general composure between people across the > > borders? (Today, the lines have > > diluted quite a lot...) > > > > > > What do you reckon made the difference? > > > > 3. Who stopped Sati? Who indicated equality of women in > > succession? As a > > prominent historian (now living in Portugal) has said that > > a Hindu priest who > > had come to Goa from another part of India, found out that > > Goan Hindus were > > different, and had to leave. What made the Goan Hindus > > different from the Hindus > > of the rest of India? > > > > > > Dr. Nandkumar Kamat asks whether the people of Goa were > > living in the dark > > Ages. I don't know. But if burning a widow live is not Dark > > Ages, I don't know > > what is. > > > > > > 4. Isn't the codigo civil of 1867 still followed in Goa? If > > this was no good, > > would it have been followed now nearly 50 years later? > > > > 5. Wasn't there a sort of "gentileza" been inculcated in > > the psyche of a Goan? > > of Trust and Honesty, which has now practically all but > > disappeared from Goa? > > Selma's article re Goans in English East Africa about being > > able to trust Goans > > with the keys of all the safes in East Africa, not enough > > to indicate that there > > was indeed a difference between the Portuguese Goan and the > > Indian of the > > times? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Gabriel. > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > From: U. G. Barad <[email protected] wrote: > > > > > > In today’s NT, Dr. Nandakumar Kamat, under subject > > titled above, gives > > > explanations to factual realities prevailing during > > (and before) Portuguese > > > rule in Goa. Read more at: > > > > > > http://www.navhindtimes.in/opinion/renationalisation-flat-world-iii > > > > > > IT is a myth that the Portuguese had a > > civilising influence in Goa. > > > Civilisation is not just material wealth, monuments, > > architecture, drinks > > > and dress. Were the people of Goa living in the dark > > ages before the > > > Portuguese conquest? > > > Such a statement is an outright insult of the > > Goan masses which still > > > celebrate Dhalo, Shigmo, Intruz, Divza, Sangod > > and can teach the Portuguese > > > not less than 5000 culinary recipes. The > > so-called civilising attempt was > > > the world’s worst and the least discussed form > > of anthropological > > > engineering. > > > > > > >
