http://www.scribd.com/doc/75563356/Goa%C2%B4s-Decolonisation-and-Afterlife
I give credit to my good, eminent, Moidekar friend Teotonio whom I
lovingly call '2-tone de Souza' for having written many a creditable
articles in the past, being the historian and a researcher of repute and
having been the ex-director of Xavier Center for Historical Research,
Porvorim, Goa, now living in Lisbon, Portugal. And the above piece of marvel
is all the more intriguing because after going over it twice, I am still
groping in the dark to understand exactly what he wants to say.
This reminds me of the 'Akbar-Birbal' jokes we used to crack on board ships
during my long sailing tenure. At one time Akbar sends Birbal on a mission
to the South of the Country to find out what the populace thinks of his
rule. Three months on, Birbal returns to the Court and is Akbar happy to see
him? "Well, well" he says " now that you are back, I suppose you have learnt
a lot of things about my people in the South" The answer he got was a crypt
"Yep". Akbar prodded " let's have all of it". Birbal takes out a tin can
filled with small stones and rattles it...' tun tan tun tan tun tan' in the
manner that the street monkey man rattles his mini tom tom during his monkey
show. Fascinated, Akbar asks " what's that for?" Again, he is greeted with
the rattle of the tin can. Frustrated, Akbar yell at Birbal " I either get
some sense out of you or be on the block to part with your head" "Sire" says
Bribal, " you sent me to a land where your populace speak the 'rattle' you
just heard" 'So what do you expect me to learn from it?
"Dismissed" yell Akbar and that was that.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
PS: Hopefully, I should be sitting down to hear his lecture at the
University of Goa on the 18th Dec. 2011 to learn more about Decolonization
of Goa or perhaps the Indian shabby colonization of Goa since 1961.
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