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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 02/03/07, Rajan P. Parrikar wrote: Dear Jose, I am reluctant to post my rebuttal on Goanet since I am almost on the verge of signing off from Goanet. Also, I do not wish to rake up past unpleasant issues like the VCD since it serves no useful purpose, and people react emotionally to these things. I don't have any views on the VCD itself since I have not seen it (and I say so clearly in my rebuttal to Frederick). I can email it to you privately if you wish. Warm regards, r ps: Also - despite the harshness in tone in my rejoinders I have no ill-will towards Frederick and I look forward to having chai with him again at Cafe Tato. I have my severe political disagreements with him but on a human level he is a jolly good fellow. Dear Rajan, Thank you for the courtesy of your response. As a person who has seen the VCD, all I say is that it is despicable. No sensible or decent Goan could have perpetrated that obscenity on one's brother Goan. You may have gathered by now that I have a very healthy disrespect for politicians. I admired Manohar Parrikar both because he had intellect and also because we had dodo heads as alternatives. A person ( related to my God-child) who I consider my friend called me one day from the UK inviting me to leave what I am doing here and join him in helping the BJP throw out the corrupt Congress crooks out of power in Goa. I almost did. I however told him that I would think about it - as I do not trust politicians. In my view, they are different shades of the same crookedness. Then, I spent a few days reviewing the antecedents of the BJP. I came to the conclusion that (Whatever they say) ....the BJP are the public face of the Hindu Maha Sabha. Growing up in Poona, I had seen enough of them. They were no better than the Salazarists in Goa, or the Right Wing Christian bigots in the West. I thought to myself .....If I would not even spend one second of my time to support the Righties that the Goveians support, or the merciless Thatcherites ....why would I support these 'neo-incarnations with gloss' of those very people who spread hate in this world. It would be akin to supporting the Catholic IRA or the Protestant UDV or the Mugabes, Pinochets, Castros, Sadaams or os senhores 'Jorges ani Deeks' of this world. I turned down the invitation of my friend Aires Rodrigues. He returned to Goa.....canvassed heavily for the BJP ....and the rest is history. Even so, I thought ....Isn't it better to have Parrikar there than Churchill Alemao ? and I thought ...It is. I was very disappointed by his 'compromise of principles' when he made allowances convenient enough to capture the chair. He made deals with the very same crooks who are presently presenting you with the opportunity to use your delightful digital camera. Then came the totally despicable VCD. I believe that Goans today are faced with three choices ... (1) a Rock (2) A Hard Place and (3) a third choice that Fred Noronha is threatening to come up with ...but hasn't. I will submit that IF you have not seen the despicable VCD ..... you are opining about the BJP without having complete background info. I would have accepted it IF you had seen the despicable VCD and then come to the same conclusion you now are at. About the tone of your discussion with Fred Noronha, I'd say this ..... It is discouraging that two (out of many) Goan individuals who can be of such usefulness to the future of Goa ....are having such a 'picante' discussion at such base levels. As my good e-friend Prof Ranjan Sardessai (from Margao and Texas) often says ... We Goans should not think of ourselves as Hindus or Christians (or others ... as FN says he thinks like), we should think of ourselves as Goans. If not .... those who are not Goans will come, divide us and destroy the Goan ethos and communal harmony we now enjoy and ...which might become extinct ....along with Amchem Goem. just my view jc PS: please do send my your response ....and Fred's post that you responded to. BTW: I thank you for your photographic ability. I will write to you privately wrt that in a couple of days.