Dear Bernado, I see, from your repeated use of "Bombaim", that you are now preparing a one-man expedition to reclaim Mumbai on behalf of Portugal, even though it was ceded to the British hundreds of years ago, before passing back into Indian hands. You say that in the 1950s Goans were forced to give up their Portuguese citizenship if they were to continue living there? In the 50s? My family was there in the fifties, and nobody even questioned our citizenship. It was the same with thousands of other Goans who lived in Bombay: the question of their citizenship did not ever arise. I am also amazed by your claim that members of your family were jailed for many days "for singing in Portuguese at a party and forced to leave Bombaim." We were a large extended family in Bombay in those days, and we always sang Portuguese, Konkani, and English and Spanish and American songs when we got together. Not one of us was ever arrested for singing in Portuguese, nor were we asked to leave Bombay because of our singing. Yet you say your relatives were jailed for many days for singing! They were even forced to leave the city! Was their singing really that bad? Regards, anyway, Victor
________________________________ From: Bernado Colaco <ole_...@yahoo.co.uk> To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Thu, December 9, 2010 7:10:12 AM Subject: [Goanet] I Am Questioned By The Dreaded Agente Monteiro Goan publications and their editors were forced to close shop in the 50's in Bombaim. Goans were forced to give up their Portuguese citizenship if they were to continue living there. Members of my family were jailed for many days by the evil Nehru for singing in Portuguese at a party and forced to leave Bombaim. BC I hope you can also give a blow-by-blow account of how Roldao was beaten up by the Bombay police and the method of his escape from Bombay to Goa, with his family. Perhaps you could also read about how Goans in Bombay, who resisted the Indian moves to change their attitude towards the Portuguese, were treated, e.g. editors of some prominent Goan publications.
