The Editor,
Goanet
Kindly accept for publication in your esteemed
e-newspaper.
Neil Rangel.
Foro, Sao Esetvao, Ilhas, Goa 403106.
The decision to screen the 'religiously offensive'
film(the da Vinci Code) reflects the general bias
against and discrimination the Christians constantly
face
This is good fodder for all our fanatic Hindutva and VHP friends. It should
also be clearly understood that accounts on the Inquisition whether in Goa or
in Spain are often exaggerated. This is not to deny that there were no
excesses. The Goan Catholics should be proud that ther ancestors were
There is an increasing number of individuals like Joao
da Veiga Coutinho's A Kind of Absence: Life in the
Shadows of History (Yuganta Press, Connecticut,
1997),who take pride in self-hate(of being Goan
Catholic)and what I call pseudo-anticolonialism.
Lets face one fact: Portuguese rule in Goa was
COMMENT
Its such an insult to our Goan Catholic culture that
the term Goa should be used to name a gutka packetGoa
Gutka. Chewing beetel/paan is not part of our culture
and this foul habit is nothing short of filthy,
uncivilized, uncultured and offensive. Who would like
to be associated with it?
Thanks for the article. My comments
You forgot one thing: many winners end up as bitches or whatever you would
like to call them in Hindi films(apologies for that term, but that's what
they have mostly been reduced to!).
Beauty pagents are among the most undignified things that are organised and
