Dear Eddie
I too echo what others have written on goanet, this matter was well and truly
closed. Selma had written an article on the Goan Festival 2012 which was
published
in the OHeraldo in Goa, a number of readers took issue at what she had written
about our community from East Africa and
Dear Rose,
You are right to question the resurrection of the doddery issue even though
your path is replete with thorns!
I too thought that this was dead and buried until on 13th Sep I received a
message from Cyprian which was also sent out to about 100 other addresses and
consisted of
Hi Eddie
No one disputes Selma's success nor her love for all things Goan and her
tireless research on the East African Goan.
Despite all her success, the point of using the word dodderer was
insulting and demeaning.
Point has been discussed, debated, and apology has been forthcoming.
I am
Eddie Fernandes wrote:
The best testimony of the love and respect Selma has always harboured for
the East African Goan community has been her work. If there is one person
who has put East African Goans on the map, it is Selma Carvalho, the same
person Cyprian seeks to crucify. Such are the ways
Folks,
The woman that Cyprian Fernandes seeks to vilify has spent the last five
years of her life researching East African Goans. One of the earliest
columns she wrote about East African Goans on GoanVoice UK can be read here:
http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/newsletter/2009/Feb/issue3/
Sitting in
