[Goanet] A 'dying' community? (Frederick Noronha)

2016-09-29 Thread Bernado Colaco
After 1961 there were no assurances for Goans. For a couple of decades Goans have been crying hoarse - give us special status -. All these calls have fallen on deaf years. What is left is mati and gobor. BC * * *           Three challenges face the community now, that in           some ways

[Goanet] A 'dying' community? (Frederick Noronha)

2016-09-28 Thread Goanet Reader
By Frederick Noronha Nobody would like to be told they're dying; not even an elderly patient on a deathbed. So, one reads with rather mixed feelings the BBC.com story titled 'In pictures: India's dying Christian communities'. This feature was actually about a forthcoming book