Re: [Goanet] I Am Questioned By The Dreaded Agente Monteiro

[Dr . Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão]

 

On Fri Dec 10 22:29:16 PST 2010, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro vrangelrib
at yahoo.com wrote: <<<…I do not know how much you really know about
India pre-1961, or about 
conditions in Goa during that period. I was born in Goa in 1925, and
grew up in  Goa, leaving for Goa in
mid-1939. Goa was not the paradise some people claim it  was. I was a student 
at Mater Dei at
the time and I remember that one young man,  a friend of my brother's, 
foolishly shouted "Viva
Goa" in Mapusa. For that he 
was arrested, beaten, and had his head shaved. Punished for shouting
Viva Goa in  Goa itself?
>>>

 

COMMENT : With due respect to your age Mr.
Rangel Ribeiro, I would like to clarify your issue what evaded clarification
for the past so many decades. Goa during the Portuguese regime was known as
‘Estado da India Portuguesa’ and for your brother’s friend to shout “Viva Goa”
was definitely provocative. Why did he not shout “Viva Mapuça”? And why
according to you have termed it ‘foolish’? 

I will give you another example from your
perspective. If someone in Kashmir shouts “Viva Kashmir”, will the Indian
troops or police join him in chorus or will he also meet the same fate or
worse? Kashmir is being fomented by Pakistan, and Pakistani citizens are using
firearms and explosives in a bid to annex Kashmir but camouflaged as
Independence to Kashmir. It is the same situation that was in Goa; only
difference is in  Kasmir more
modern equipment is being used. Why sedition cases are being sought against a
couple of people who wrote or spoke in praise of Kashmir?

 

As for censorship of the press you talk, have
you tried writing on Kashmir newspapers?




Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.