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Dear Shri Chandrakant Keni, Thank you for your quick response. It is a pleasant surprise. I was watching the programme on Stage-2 of the Dayanand B.Bandodkar Cornice Road ,Panaji, last evening in connection with IFFI 2004 and what struck me is the lingual and communal harmony in music, song , dance and the participants. If Pratap Amonkar and Bindiya Vast could sing duets in Konkani and Marathi with equal ease in the SANGEET SAANJ, if pretty Teja Amonkar could render Shuba Mudgal's racy songs in Hindi, if the "Chandorchi Salkam" could sing an original MANDO 'Colvachi Prai' about the heartbreak of a girl ditched by the boy's father because of her caste and even a dulpod composed in honourof IFFI in Goa; if the Bicholim Friends Circle could muster youth and age to present the ghode- modni, veerabhadra, romta-mell and the fugdi for their LOK-RANG and if all these performers, both catholic and hindu, could do it on one tiny stage in a matter of two hours needing excellent co-ordination between groups to avoid even a 2 minute break, THERE IS REASON FOR HOPE. This was just one stage on one evening. Imagine if this can still happen everyday. There is a reason for hope. Gomant Vishwa Sammelan is NOT A THANKLESS TASK. All it needs is a little organization, a sense of direction and a clean heart...all three seemed sorely lacking at the first sammelan last January. If there is blasphemy in history, the Gomant Darshan qualified for that dubious honour! Let us learn our lessons and forget that sammelan. In the words of H.W.Longefellow: "Trust no Future ,however pleasant; Let the dead Past bury its dead. Act, act in the living Present: Heart within and God o'erhead." Viva Goa. Miguel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nri-Goa Facilitation Centre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <goans_tanzan [EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:45 AM Subject: 2nd Gomant Vishwa Sammelan Jan 05 > > Dear Friends, > > Thank you for your email dated 4th December, 2004 . I shall appreciate > your free and frank suggestion and comments about the Gomant Vishwa Sammelan > being held at Panaji from 3rd to 5th January 2005, Goa is a small place > where the prosperity has contributed in reducing the original sons and > daughters of the soil to a negligible minority. We are engaged in a > thankless task bringing together the Goan Diaspora on a single platform, so > that they can interact to find out ways and means to preserve Goan identity > and strengthening the cultural roots in soil of their ancestors. We are not > concern with party politics or barriers of religions and cast. Our moto is > "Together for Goa". I seek your cooperation in this task. If Don tin > boddkam can make a humble beginning it could be considered as a good omen. > Don't you think so? I will be grateful for a frank reply. > > Regards, > > > (Chandrakant Keni) > Chairman NRI/GFC