Dear Fred, it beats me that you think I am pouring fuel into raging fires from a place far from Swindon. As the Devil's Advocate, you should know better how to analyze situations The Swindon case is one example how how Goans fight for prestige and personal ego. It is a test case also of how Goan associations clash, as I have elaborated in my post. Is it so difficult for you to understand what I wrote about Swindon in the context of the whole pose? What to you mean by "offer the results?" Are you talking about setting the issue? Gabe has answered this point. Where is the "cealsess verbal slugfests"? What is happening in Swindon is nothing but a slugfest between two bodies. Perhaps the best route for these two assoiations to settle their differences is to go to court, unless they are willing to sit at the bargaining table. If you have solutions to sort out the mess, pleas go ahead and offer them to these two bodies. Since you say a little debate is fine, I wish to see your next Devil's Advocate column restricted to few paras. And who is showing their superiority to who? The NizGoenkar site has people o using abusive language and running down each other.
And my dear Selma, I said that you should take note because I wanted this goings-on in Swindon to be part of the discussion at the forthcoming Goan convention. I know stray incidences such as those that happened in Swindon does not mean the whole community is bad. It is just that a few bad blacks in predominantly black communities give the black people a bad name. Similarly, the Sri Lankan Tamil community also got a bad reputation for being extortinists, thieves, etc because of many cases of Tamil businessmen forced to shell out money to fund the Tamil agitation in Sri Lanka before the wiping out of the LTTE, and many incidents of houses robbed by Tamil youths in the Scarbourough area of Toronto. In Malton, Mississauga, the Sikh temples fights are too numerous to mention. I have covered some of these and I am in know how and why they begin. The fight to control Gurdwaras is very intense among groups because of lot of money coming into the the temple treasury by way of donations. Is the Goan Association in UK capable of mediating between the two rival associations in SwindoN? Or, the other way around, the rival associations would want the Goa Association to poke into their affairs? As usual, the good doctor has harked back to the Toronto convention. He seems obsessed by it and thinks I was there to ruin it. I was in Toronto just befor the convention and therefore there no effort on my part to undermine it. I only wrote as the convention progressed and after it ended. I have forgotten about it but the doctor has it retained in the deep recesses of his mind. And mind you, JC was NOT even there. There is a defeaning silence from goanetter It is bantar when people like me write on any subject and it is not when the doctor writes his notes. In my original post, there was no "kator-re-bhaji" just a passing thought. What are are seeing it that is relative to the London convention? Is anybody trying to run down the London convention? If Kuwait is apart from the rest, why is London or Toronto not so,dear doc? I read two articles, one in The Daily Mail, and one in The Daily Express, hitting out at the UK government for allowing too many EU migrants and for also considering pension for these newcomers. As Selma hopes the next generation of Goans from Swindon will be wearing suits and holding top jobs. I second that because I have seen it happen in the Sikh community in Canada. The new generation of Sikhs are active in politics, business and in social fields. Their ancestors came to work on the agricultural land and as taxi drivers and truck drivers. The new generation of Goans, especially kids of those who came from East Africa, are also of a "different class" from their parents and grandparents. Just a reminder, wasn't London given the opportunity to host the Goan Convention after the Toronto one but because it has handed to one of the goanetter who is was said was not a member of no standing in the Goan Association is was withdrawn? Did this have anything to do with "Goan politics" in UK? Eugene Correia
