Shanker Bandhari & I had given a loud clear answer to this syncopathic attitude towards Goans' mother-tongue snafus: AVOI BHAS MORATHI? AVOICHO GHOV GHANTTI... It created quite a tumult then. Ask Cabral e Sa. He was dancing in the Khalap 'mathov' then....& tried to cause me mischief...all to no purpose, ofcourse.... Khalap knew me during student days & knew very welll what meddling with me could result in.... Alfred de Tavares, Stockholm, 2012-07-20. > Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:49:56 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Goanet] 'Both Portuguese and India betrayed Goa' special status > meet > > 2012-07-20 > > At the 2nd Meeting on Special Status at Holy Spirit Chuch Hall, Margao, > Prof. Sergio Carvalho told the audience that two nations have betrayed Goa. > India and Portugal. India by not keeping the promises made by Pandit > Jawaharlal Nehru to the Parliament, after the invasion, and Portugal by > slyly signing the Co-Operation treaty with India in 1974 without taking > Goans into confidence. > > This meeting shed a lot of light on other important matters. For example, > Prof. Prajal Sakardande came heavily down on those Goans who are rooting > for Marathi when they and their children speak Konkani at home. He > questioned as to how Marathi can be the Mother Tongue of the Goan Hindu if > it is used to recite the aarti to Lord Ganesh. > > Floriano Lobo countered by saying that Latin was the language used for Mass > and reciting daily prayers and conducting of Ladains by Goa's > Catholic/Christians. But they have not adopted Latin as their mother > Tongue. He said that these people have no love for Goa but only for > neighbouring Maharashtra. Therefore the attempt to merge Goa with > Maharashtra. On the Portuguese betrayat of Goans, Floriano Lobo said that > Goans should stone the Portuguese Consulate in Goa for this betrayal so > that they know that they will never be able to get away with such a blatant > betrayal of Goans and also to stop them from emptying Goa of Goans by > dishing out Portuguese passports. > > Miguel Vaz's delivery was very much appreciated. He cautioned Goans about > the conspiracy hatched a long time ago by India to sabotage Goa's Identity > as was exposed in the magazine 'India Today' when it was a fortnightly and > during the time when he was studying in the 12th standard. What is > happening to Goa is the sure and steady scheme of that conspiracy to > destroy Goa's Identity. > > Opinion Poll of 1967 was critically analysed by Adv. Antonio Lobo saying > that India had always worked against the interests of Goa when it could > have told the mergerista that even if they passed a resolution for the > merger of Goa in its loaded assembly, it was not done due to the > long-standing promise by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. He promised that Goa's > Identity would be protected. Altinho Gomes said that Goans must be happy > that such a thing as Opinion Poll happened and went in favour of Goa and > Goans. > > http://www.targetgoa.com/newsd-Both-Portuguese-and-India-betrayed-Goa-special-status-meet-3989 > > > > > -- > DEV BOREM KORUM > > Gabe Menezes.
