[Goanet] The continuing saga over Selma Carvalho's highly acclaimed book (Response to Mervyn Maciel by Melvyn Fernandes))

2014-05-18 Thread Melvyn Fernandes
Dear Mervyn There were many policies that the administrators in East Africa or for that matter wherever they were in administration in Africa used which you may or may not be aware of as a mere employee in government service.   One of them was along the lines of divide and rule and the other

Re: [Goanet] The continuing saga over Selma Carvalho's highly acclaimed book

2014-05-18 Thread roland.francis
Original message From: Mervyn Maciel mervynels.watuwasha...@gmail.com Date: 05-17-2014 5:54 AM (GMT-05:00) To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] The continuing saga over Selma Carvalho's highly acclaimed book I'm afraid, I just cannot let his flippant comments go

[Goanet] The continuing saga over Selma Carvalho's highly acclaimed book(Response to Melwyn Fernandes)

2014-05-18 Thread Mervyn Maciel
Dear Melwyn, Quite honestly, I fail to see the import of your rather long-winded reply to my original message in response to Gabe. It is quite outside the ambit of the subject under discussion.For your information though, I have known Dick Cashmore for some time as also Hugh Walker, the

Re: [Goanet] The continuing saga over Selma Carvalho's highly acclaimed book

2014-05-18 Thread Francis Rodrigues
Subject: Re: [Goanet] The continuing saga over Selma Carvalho's highly acclaimed book It was because of Gabe's parents doing this very thing that he himself was able to be recruited eventually into the RAF. He will tell you it was his own merit but that is the usual shallow answer he

[Goanet] The continuing saga over Selma Carvalho's highly acclaimed book

2014-05-17 Thread Mervyn Maciel
In his recent post, Gabe Menezes wrote: Dear Mervyn, I am deeply disturbed that you, having served under the Colonial regime, are still looking for acknowledgement from the very same people who lorded over you, for God's sake have you no pride in yourself? The reply if I may say so, is