Dear JC
I am a post August 15 1947 baby having been born on 2 August, 1947.
Therefore I am not 'Indian' but 'subcontinental Indian' if at all, a tribe
of sorts, if you may.
Besides, Goa had nothing to do with India as of 15 August 1947 as my GOA
was India (subcontinental) Portuguesa, a separte country by itself or a
Colony of an independent country called Portugal under the aegis of the
United Nation Charter.
Therefore I do not consider myself a Citizen of India since 1961 but a
citizen of Goa (minus the tag Portuguesa).
Therefore I shall be overjoyed to flash my GOAN PASSPORT rather than any
other forced down upon passport.
The question is: "when am I getting one??" and who is going to give it to
me??
Cheers
floriano
GRA/goasuraj
9422060347
www.goasu-raj.org
PS:
I guess I shall have to be the Goa's Shanana Gusmao to achieve this.
:-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Colaco < jc>" <[email protected]>
To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Cyprian Fernandes: Goans - What Crisis Of Identity?
floriano wrote: Kindly do correct a slight error by adding the word
'subcontinental' after Indian and Origin lest people misunderstand
you.
COMMENT:
Thank you Floriano.
I am not sure, however, if Eddie can make that change. The author of
the article must make the change. He may first make that change in his
own mind. That, I submit, is not a very easy thing for Goans.
In any event, before the author even considers making a change, he may
wish to revisit a few points in his own mind:
a: What are Pakistanis, Sri Lankans and Bangladeshis?
b: What are Tibetans?
c: What are the people of the Andamans?
d: What doe the author mean by the term 'Indian'?
e: When did the country 'India', legally come into being? What was it
before?
f: How about the Aryans and the Greeks et al .....who came and settled
in what is now the Republic of India? Are they Greeks, Iranians,
Israelis or Eastern Europeans?
That is why Goans classify themselves as Goans. Then they assign their
new nationality.
For those who are of post 1947 (post 1961 in Goa's case), it is quite
easy to state that they are Goans of Indian origin.
For those who do not fall in the above category, the primary question
is: What do you mean by the term 'Indian'? Please do not tell me that
there is a race called Indian .....or (except for the tribes and other
natives) there is anything called a 'pure Indian'.
jc
