Rico, did I make some sending mistake...or am I a discarded quotient? Several of such recent posts, albeit as inocuous, have apparently failed to secure Your Imprimatur. AdeT.
OBS: BTW no problem at all...no agrievemennt...just in toto idle curiosity...hardly enough to harm any feline however low.... From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Goanet] MOI - will Kangress dare put their preference for English in the election manifesto? Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:48:31 +0100 To the best of my evanescing memory it goes like: Sunneachi/kutrachi xempdy kon'nea-nollint bandlear keddinch ubbi zauchinam... Dog's tail bound in a bamboo tube will never straighten out... There is an analogous saying vide a woman's tongue but woe be me to evagate to yet another verbal outpouring.... Chacha...in a nattering nabob vein.... > From: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 01:24:32 +0530 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Goanet] MOI - will Kangress dare put their preference for > English in the election manifesto? > > On 30 November 2011 22:47, anil desai <[email protected]> wrote: > > I suggest to you that one way of making that decision > > democratic would be to put it in the party manifesto for the next elections > > in Goa. We would all then know if a majority of Goans support this idea. > > Doctor, Are you suggesting that such issues are best sorted out by the > tyranny of the majority? > > Ideally, elections could be taken as a reflection of public opinion. > (By that yardstick, Congress is today still more acceptable than BJP, > god forbid!) But you know the reality in Goa. Way back since the first > elections in 1963, politics has been fought largely on > communally-tinged lines. The MGP did it, the UGP did it (less > successfully). I won't blame the BJP alone, even the Congress plays > its (less-apparent, somewhat less potent, one could argue) communal > games. So did the Goa Congresses, the UGDPs, and others in their own > ways. The GLPs were more regionalistic, but unsucessful to build a > coalition across religion and caste though they might have not shown > bias on this front (other than anti-migrant bias). > > What it would take is some section of the media drumming up public > opinion (they have already being doing so), and showing the aspiration > for learning English out to be the ogre threating Goa. > > I think there should be scope for all points of view and aspirations > in a non-majoritarian democracy. That would mean accepting English > too, even if our friend Santosh dubs it a "foreign" language. (It > incidentally is as "foreign" as the religion, clothes, food and > furniture of a large section of Goa and its diaspora -- cutting across > many more obvious divides.) > > Anyway, even if we accept this questionable logic, what is a good > definition of judging what is "democratic"? That 99% of students > choose to study through the English-medium from Standard V (middle > school, secondary school, higher secondary, college, university) in > all and every part of Goa today? > > I don't agree with your logic. FN > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Protect Goa's natural beauty > > Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve > > Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
