why do you raise hue and cry when non goans do business ? As a young girl I used to work in the fields. We used to have lot of paddy at home and we ate like Maharajas. Dad and my elder brother would go fishing in ponds during the monsoons and sometimes we had such a lot of fish and enjoyed fresh fish curry and rice. We also grew lot of vegetables around our compound . Like wise every boy and girl kept up their family profession. In my neighbour hood the girls used to help their father, uncles brothers at the general store shop. After the monsoons most of the boys in the village would gather and make a football ground and play every evening. We girls had our own games. We had goan blacksmiths, gold smith, carpentars, . The son of a carpentar would learn the trade from his father and when he could not continue with his studies became a carpentar. Sometimes those studying also helped their father at home with carpentar. The cobler's son also learnt the trade of his father and did not feel shy to mend the shoe. That was the art. We had goan cooks etc. Today the government wants everyone to be educated and we have become educated fools. Young boys no longer play football in the fields. They play on the computer. Many goans have migrated to Eureopean countries only to gain dignity. They come over here and they treat us as second class citizens. Some of our goans have gone to Bangalore, Bombay, Chennai, Hyderbad, Poona because they can get a better job. Parents prefer to have a 21 year old ghadda in the seventh standard rather than send him for some technical course. Those who have professional trade as cooks, coblers or even shopkeepers do not want their children to continue their trade and so the trade has to be stopped or leased out. Why grumble ? we ourselves are to be blamed.
