Iggy, I think you are mixing up the issue of communalism with the
anti-migrant sentiment. The Margao issue is a complex mix of
communalism and possibly a group straddling Goa and Maharashtra (with
its national headquarters in Goa, incidentally).
To my mind, the anti-migrant chauvinism is a red-her
I always wonder why do people like Cecil Pinto
and Fredrick Noronha jump to defend these migrants
who out number the ethnic Goans in some talukas.
Goa as such does not owe these migrants anything.
We bend over backwards to make their lives in Goa
contented by giving them ration cards, right to v