Gabe Menezes wrote: > It was quite a chore to get people to open up their doors some 30 > odd years ago; I know, I did the rounds in the London Borough of > Merton. My feeling is that it will be even more difficult in today's > climate. > I think though, that someone with no attachment to East African Goans, > will find it not that easy, to capture the flavour and nuances. If a yarn is > thrown in, where will the reference come from? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gabe Menezes, There is a sizable number of Goans from Karachi here in Toronto with their own long established social group. These guys are a real fun group. However, when I am with them I sometimes get lost as I cannot visualize events that they experienced in Karachi. There is the possibility that an outsider will be able to document a groups reminences better than someone from with in the group. A documenter with well horned skills, who has earned the groups trust, would be able to extract those all important details. On the other hand, I am skeptical anyone would open their memories to a person who has gone on record as saying, "We Goans are a peg lower than cows." Mervyn1874Lobo
