tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54268365862642616642024-02-07T00:26:36.366-08:00Goa-Invasion-1961Jawaharlal Nehru - “It is not true that we covet Goa. That small bit of territory does not make any difference to this great country India. We do not desire to impose ourselves on the people of Goa against their wishes. It is definitely their responsibility to choose for themselves. We have assured Goans that it is for them to establish their own future and I further assure them on matters such as Religion, Languages and Customs”. - 21st August 1955.Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.comBlogger274125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-64461164367186073952019-10-11T19:57:00.000-07:002019-10-11T19:57:01.645-07:00On Goa, Goans, this and that By Rajan Parrikar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I have quickly skimmed through the whine of the outsider and the resulting comments. I have a few quick remarks of my own.</div>
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First of<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"> all, the vitals: Nobody living in Goa should be intimidated in their pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness. We should not tolerate violation of the basic rights accorded all Indian citizens. The reality is that Goa is (unfortunately, in my view) part of India and everything that goes with it, and this reality cannot be wished away. India usurped Goa in 1961 and we Goans were foolish enough to not demand ANY protection for the inevitable swamping of our land, our identity, and our way of life.</span></div>
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At the same time that I will stand up to defend your right to live here without fear of any kind, I will not cede my right to have opinions on the malign influence of India and Indians on Goa. I shall not let you or any other outsider intimidate and shame me by assigning labels such as “xenophobe” or “racist” for the fact that I stand up for the land of my forefathers. The Indian sewer is now in Goa and this is not even an opinion. It is a fact. Indians have degraded Goa, destroyed Goa. To be sure, some Goans have been collaborators in this scheme.</div>
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You want to be called “Goan”? Why? I have lived for over 30 years out of Goa and I have never demanded such a thing from the host populations. I have been an OUTSIDER and I’m totally fine with that. I can’t live in Copenhagen and expect the Danes to regard me as their own. You are an OUTSIDER in Goa. Accept it. You aren’t a Goan, never will be. There is nothing bad or demeaning about being an OUTSIDER. It is a choice YOU made when you WILLINGLY moved your ass someplace else. The Bengalis or the Tamils will never regard me as a Bengali (or Tamil) even if I lived my whole life there. [The Goan virtue-signaling nincompoops who claim X is a Goan if X loves Goa need to get their head examined and then go back to kindergarten.]</div>
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Backing up, why do you want to be called X when you are Y? I don’t see anyone from outside Bihar clamouring to be called a Bihari. You Indians have overpowered us Goans demographically and now you want to usurp even the final thread that gives us a sense of ourselves?</div>
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The Goan anger is perfectly understandable. Nowhere in India would such a situation come to pass without strife. Can anyone imagine Tamils ceding their land to the Telugus? Or Kannadigas playing dead while their land is taken over by some other sub-group? Why is it that only Goans are expected to be oh-so-generous in giving the entire farm away?</div>
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So, enjoy your “rights” in Goa. (Indians always speak of “rights” wherever they land up, never about responsibilities.)</div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-54060300314292932452017-02-26T23:36:00.001-08:002017-02-26T23:36:12.486-08:00Pakistani Goans are Declared Enemies By Adriano Pinto<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>See how Goans are treated by the Government in New Delhi. Should it be enemy properties or friendly properties ? These properties belong to Goans who had gone to Karachi for livehood/employment prior to partition of India in 1947. Many of them were musicians who learnt music in the church schools. All these years after partition they were denied visa to visit Goa. They must be allowed to transfer their properties to their relatives. Which I think is fair. Or else nice way to get rid of Goans. Will Goans fight for this, or will act like crabs again.</b><br />
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The ministry of home affairs (MHA) has identified 263 enemy properties worth over Rs 100 crore in the state that belong to Goans who have acquired Pakistani nationality. These properties assume significance as the Union government intends to take them over by passing a law in Parliament.<br />
Enemy properties are those whose survey numbers are registered in the names of Goans who migrated to Pakistan decades ago. After these Goans accepted Pakistani citizenship and India declared Pakistan an enemy state around 1965, their properties were declared enemy properties.<br />
Most such properties are located in the talukas of Bardez and Salcete, while a few lie in Tiswadi, Bicholim and other parts of the state.<br />
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The home ministry has forwarded a list of enemy properties to both district collectors and has directed them to collect the lease rent from their occupants. Sources said several people have already approached courts, staking claim to these properties.<br />
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Advocate Cleofato Coutinho said there should be a mechanism in place for citizens who have changed their nationality to claim their property. "The problem with the current law is that it is very difficult to get such property back," he said.<br />
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On September 11, 1965, a central government notification stated that all immoveable properties in India belonging to, or held, or managed on behalf of Pakistani nationals were to be treated as enemy properties, and that control over them was to be vested in the custodian of enemy property.<br />
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Matters relating to enemy property are dealt with under the Enemy Property Act, 1968 and Enemy Property Rules, 2015.<br />
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These cases involving enemy properties are dealt with under the Enemy Property (amendment and validation) Ordinance promulgated by the President of India on January 7, 2016.</div>
Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-54000270664192525222017-02-13T04:32:00.001-08:002017-02-13T04:32:16.239-08:00TERTIARY SYPHILIS-AORTIC ANEURYSM By A Pereira<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nehru formou o primeiro governo hindu em julho de 1946, com a oposição da Liga Muçulmana que aspirava a criar um estado separado (o Paquistão), em 1947. Como primeiro-ministro, Nehru inaugurou uma política exterior de não-alinhamento, convertendo-se no fundador e dirigente desse movimento. No entanto, ao mesmo tempo também fez reivindicações territoriais que colocavam a Índia na posição de um império agressor e não de uma nação pacífica. Reiv<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">indicou a Caxemira apesar da oposição do Paquistão, o que desatou a primeira guerra entre os dois países (1947-49). Também anexou Hyderabad em setembro de 1948 e invadiu os território portugueses de Goa em dezembro de 1961). A invasão do território português, destruiu a imagem de pacifista que Nehru tinha criado ao longo dos anos. No ocidente, ele passou a ser visto como pouco mais que um hipócrita.[carece de fontes]</span></div>
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Depois que Nehru demonstrou que a Índia não tinha intenções pacíficas, iniciou-se a confrontação com a China, que precavida com as ações militares contra Portugal, reuniu forças que permitiram a vitória militar da República Popular da China, sobre a Índia em outubro de 1962. Nehru, tentou ainda criar uma política de boa vizinhança com os países limítrofes, mas a sua imagem internacional estava já completamente desgastada quando faleceu.</div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-50279623543794143972017-02-13T04:32:00.000-08:002017-02-13T04:32:01.683-08:00Goa’s silent genocide By Plastino D’Costa<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Okay, Okay genocide might be a harsh word, but
the meaning of genocide still remains the same, systematic destruction to get
rid of all, or part of a group. For ages, Goa has been witnessing genocide of a
lower variety, and the group affected happens to be the Goan Generation Next,
irrespective of their religious affiliations. If they happen to be talented and
intelligent with a desire to succeed, the harder it gets to reside in
Goa. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">There will always be exceptions that will defy
every hurdle the system will throw at them, but by and large Goa has managed to
consistently stay behind the curve, keep the system in substantial disarray, so
that the genocide that prevailed in the past, continues till date, and since
there are no game changing actions planned on the horizon, will continue for
generations in the future. The only difference in this type of genocide is that
there is no absolute elimination of the group, because most are allowed and
even welcomed with open arms to visit Goa, strictly on holiday, festivals or
family occasions. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">While there is no rule book that explicitly
mentions that all talented Goans with integrity, in their youth, should migrate
for their own good, the circumstances are intentionally kept in a state of
despair, and that arrangement has worked well for politicians in maneuvering
Goans to leave the place. No rocket science here, but the reasons for leaving
are quite straight forward, lack of world class higher education, quality
employment and in the name of regulation government interference into every
aspect of business. So long as these factors are kept the way they are, sans
radical reforms, migration is guaranteed. If at all Goans make an attempt to
overcome the bad circumstances and stay, politicians will find ways to up the ante,
convert their silent genocide into high decibel ‘shut your mouth’ type of words
even if they are meant to their own colleagues, or make statement questioning
the way of life of its citizens in a bid to create uncertainty for the future.
The motive is to make people uncomfortable so that they take the easy route of
leaving.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Sometime politicians under pressure pretend
they are addressing these migration issues but resort only to cosmetic changes.
Therefore these half hearted steps turn out to be insufficient to arrest or
reverse migration. In fact successive governments have given up trying this
reverse migration policy, instead have gone ahead and set up some NRI
Commissioner office, to make sure those that leave Goa don’t face any problems
in their country of residence, stay comfortably there and make sure not to
entertain the thought of coming back ever. Of course they are free to send
their unlimited amounts of foreign exchange, and that part is well incentivized
by keeping the Indian rupee perpetually weak. Actually a sincere NRI
Commissioner office should not only be felicitating NRI’s tasks, but also carry
out leg work by going around collecting data that will pinpoint the reasons of
this genocide. Their offices should be situated near ground zero closer to the
real action, which is mostly at the Departure lounge of the Goa airport,
railway and bus stations. Their staff could then go around taking polite,
informal and optional exit interviews of Goans that are leaving for good. This
data could then be used to find out the reasons why Goans decide to leave and
hopefully address them. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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getting this migration reversed. At the moment this arrangement works best for
them because exporting Generation Next in their prime protects them from
possible pressure the Generation Next could exert on them with their genuine
demands. To show their concern, they will try and pay lip service to the
problem, by sitting in plush offices, invite the media and conduct seminars on
the history of migration, with no solutions to prevent future migration and
then hope the media covers their event. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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take the flak for their citizen’s personal decision of leaving Goa on their own
free will. True, but then don’t project Goa as a growing world class
destination with huge potential, if the locals are unable to tap it and worse
when these circumstances force the smart Goans to stay elsewhere. For
example on 9 May 2015, Goa woke up to front page advertisements of launch of
some Hot Air Balloon especially marked ‘for tourists’. The same day most of
South Goa was without power, a planned third shutdown for the entire day this
season in some places. While the advertisement contained a not so coded message
that these hot air balloons are only meant for the tourist, the subtle message
from the government to Goans, was that they we will move ahead with balloons or
amphibious vehicles, but will deprive you of basic power and make life
miserable as much as possible. If you are not strong enough, you may start
thinking of taking that voluntary genocide. Meantime, tourists get to watch the
plight of Goans, from a vantage point of their hot air balloons. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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but many consider Goans as a burden on Goa’s limited financial resources, since
they avail all the possible schemes, which now they lost the plot as regards to
financing them. Since tourist brings in the money, they are now obsessed in
pleasing them at the cost of the local population and relegating them to second
class citizens. Also, during elections a politician’s ego is tested to the
limit since they have to visit each voter’s house and beg for votes. So
politicians would always want this type of genocide to continue because it
becomes easy to manage, manipulate and entice voters when smart Goans are not
around. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Generation Next, many parents will be making that trip to seek admissions out
of the state or to drop their children that visited Goa for a family reunion
during their break. Now is the most opportune time to contemplate if
politicians have done a high-quality job by correctly prioritizing their goals
for Goa. If so then that trip out of the state for further studies would not be
necessary. Unfortunately despite all the mess up, we choose to keep politicians
on a high pedestal. Let’s not accept our fate to be some fault in our stars; it
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-17589094025846131782017-02-13T04:31:00.000-08:002017-02-13T04:31:04.436-08:00MARIO SOARES SOLD INDIGENOUS GOANS THROUGH THE ILLEGAL TREATY OF PORTUGAL AND INDIA - IUS COGENS (PEREMPTORY NORMS) EXPLAINED By A Pereira<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Goa, a creation of Portugal which forms a part of the Lusofone belongs not to Portugal and the Indian Union. Goa belongs to Indigenous Goans and not Indians, as also not to the overseas citizens who seek refuge in Goa.</div>
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The significance of self-determination in this context is not so much that it cures illegality as that it may allow illegality to be mo<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">re readily accommodated through the processes of recognition and prescription, whereas in other circumstances aggression partakes of the nature of a breach of Ius Cogens.</span></div>
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An act of violation of a norm having the character of Ius Cogens is illegal and is therefore null and void. This applies to the creation of States, the acquisition of territory and other situations.</div>
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As per the Art. 53 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1969, we examine the following in terms of : definition and meaning of the term, origin in the roman law (IUS STRICTUM and IUS DISPOSITIVUM), example of Ius Cogens norms (genocide, crimes against humanity, slavery trade, torture, use of force, piracy, violation of human rights et cetera) and the legal effect of an agreement violating a jus cogens norm: void.</div>
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Ius Cogens is the higher and founding set of rules of the international legal system, these rules are compulsory and bind all states as they override any other principles of international law.</div>
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The roots of Ius Cogens habitually comes from the Roman Law, where the ancient Rome distinguished between two legal concepts - Ius Strictum on one side and Ius Dispositivum on the other, while the latter allows to ignore certain legal rules by prevailing the consent of the contractual parties, this is not possible with Ius Strictum which pays no attention to the consent of parties when it comes to derogation from certain higher rules.</div>
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In modern days the international law granted the following rules, the Ius Cogens label, first the prohibition on the use of force, like an agreement between two states to invade other countries or to pirate other states boats, second prohibiting international crime and atrocity, like committing genocide, crimes against humanity and war atrocities, and rules prohibiting the violation of human rights, like slavery trade agreements between two governments and international convention between two states to co-operate on human trafficking, or a convention between two or more countries to co-operate on torture.</div>
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The concept of Ius Cogens is based upon an international acceptance of fundamental and superior values which is similar to the notion of public order in domestic legal systems. As a result, an international convention that conflicts with the Ius Cogens rule is considered void and produces no legal value.</div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-5895031083412280392017-01-27T03:31:00.003-08:002017-01-27T03:31:55.460-08:00Dear Niz Goenkar/Indigenous Goans By A Pereira<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This movement is founded to protect the rights of the Indigenous People of Goa. The United Nations has issued a Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to guide member-state national policies to collective rights of indigenous people, such as culture, identity, language, and access to employment, health, education, and natural resources.</div>
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GOENCHI MATI BELONGS TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF GOA AND NOT TO MIGRANTS.</div>
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Goans are taken for a ride and made to behave as if we were always tenants of State Rulers and are glorifying the Law that treats us as Tenants of the State.</div>
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If we are a pure Goans, how can we vote to constitute the Goa State Legislative Assembly under the Representation of People’s Act, 1951, when the President of India is not our Landlord even after the ouster of the Portuguese Rule?</div>
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While the Election Commission of India (ECI) is very strict in checking abuse of money power during elections, it turns a blind eye to the whole procedure to enroll as a voter, which by any procedural standards is a sham. Any Indian citizen can come with some documents from any other place and get registered as a voter. Thus, thousands of migrants, who can easily be included in the Goa state voters list, also stay enrolled as voters in their hometowns. Recently in the Village Chandor (South Goa), in a ward called Mena Cavorim had about 53 bogus migrant voters. On complaining to the BDO, the complainants were given a torrid time to provide proof that these voters had not cancelled their voting in their native places. The Government authorities harassed the complainants but finally after great deal of perseverance the fraudulently entered names were deleted. The Government Authorities which committed the fraud are scot free. When the ECI is having all the information of the Voters all over India, this information is not perused by the authorities who are entrusted to prepare the Electoral rolls.</div>
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India it seems Liberated and yet Annexed Goa in 1961, under a solemn pledge to the entire world and the United Nations Security Council that Indigenous people of Goa will be allowed to choose their Political future and fortunes as per all UN resolutions applicable to de-colonised territories. While India has belligerently disallowed Indigenous Goans to exercise their right to self determination, the first Assembly Elections were conducted in 1963 after two years of martial law. This Conquest and Annexation of Goa, Daman & Diu, as rightly termed by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, was recognised by Portugal vide a bilateral Treaty inked only in 1974-75, without making Indigenous Goans a party. India by invoking the Geneva Conventions imposed its laws on the conquered territory, but has forgotten that by virtue of the same Conventions it cannot send its own population into the conquered territory. The menace of Migrants in Goa has reached to such proportions that indigenous Goans are soon going to be a Minority in their own homeland. By the pace at which hordes of migrants enter Goa it appears that almost every Indian wants to be a Goan. The Migrants hardly knows the background and character of the Candidates and therefore lure of money becomes the sole factor to garner votes. While the ECI is over-enthusiastic to investigate, identify and cancel the names of Goans with Portuguese passports, it does nothing to weed out all the names of migrant voters registered at two places. We must expose the Game deliberately played on Goans by the ECI and call for boycotting elections (GLE)<br />On 4th Feb 2017.</div>
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Esquerda-Certo: Sr. Zico X Rodrigues, Pe. Jovino Pereira, Sr. A Lyndon Pereira "Baba", Sr. Prof. António Alvares, Sr. José L R Vaz - INDIGENOUS GOANS FRONT</div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-66225517142571928542017-01-19T06:34:00.001-08:002017-01-19T06:34:53.159-08:00MINHA AVÔZINHO MATERNAL - THODDÉ GÕYCAR CONNÊ? - O ÚLTIMO VÉSPERA By A Perira<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In accordance with Comunidade Hindu de Portugal - <a href="http://www.comunidadehindu.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.comunidadehindu.org</a></div>
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Being born and brought up in Goa itself, I qualify to voice my opinion on this "lusofonia" matter since we were residents before the Economic Embargo that began in 1954 and the Invasion of December 18, 1961.</div>
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My avô maternal was Portuguese and the other avô paternal was a Goan, they married Goan women, and eventually our family grew to be less orthodox and more liberal. It was interesting as a child to see that there were hardly any differences in their lifestyle. But my older generation in Goa i.e. my grandparents were more into the Portuguese lifestyle than us descendants.</div>
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I have to say, Goans are very different from Indians, we have a more broad based westernised culture, quite lively. We have no arranged marriage system or a ‘dowry’ system even though I have Aryan and Indigenous Charddó ancestry, yet some pure caste Goans may have this, they who desire to keep their f*ckall standards and remain in their Dodsworth theoretical world.</div>
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Yes, it is totally normal for us to not be associated as an Indian citizen, since our culture is much different from that of an Indian family. We love being Goans. Our Goan identity is visibly quite different from the rest of the Indian Union. Same way it isn't a mirror image of Portugal either. It's a unique mix of various cultures, traditions and religions perfectly balancing and complimenting each other while everyone lives in harmony in our lusofone world; as our annexed country was the Seat/Capital from Moçambique to Timor Leste.</div>
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Yes, unlike how pseudo-Goans make you believe on the ills and notorieties, I beg to differ, because unlike Indians the Portuguese absolutely loved Goa and Goans! I can attest to it; Goa was tranquil, bucolic, gorgeous, and very clean and quiet when Portugal administered it. Today it has been ‘invaded’ by many from the Indian continent against Art. 49 of the Geneva Conventions and it is "crazy". We residents were always considered just as Portuguese as I am, reason why it still provides citizenship to any Goan born before 1961, and a big thanks to Dr. Froliano de Melló. Nowadays there are many Goans living in Portugal. Our Prime Minister António Costa is the product of a marriage between a Goan father and a Portuguese mother. He is very Portuguese but also very proud of being a son of Goa; he talks about it often.</div>
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But today, Goa isn't Goa, it has lost it's charm and is way away from recognising as the Pearl of the East anymore. Because most of our jobs and educational opportunities are exploited by Indians. Who have been since our illegal annexation trying to fuck our small country big time. We have reached on a situation in Goa where middle class Indians live in lavish bungalows and penthouse suites, and middle class Goans have to suffice with unfurnished apartments or live on a rental basis if so they want to part away from their family. It is very difficult for a Goan living in Goa to purchase a piece of land or a small home unless he leaves Goa for his better prospects.</div>
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A common Goan layman without much education mentions that at the time of Goa's invasion there was quite a bit of disappointment with the Estado Novo régime. The nationalist government had a chauvinistic rhetoric, and promised to make Portugal relevant on the world stage again, which however failed in pretty much every case; even then Goans were never against Salazar as such. Having said that, the invasion of Goa by the Indian State was considered illegal because Goa had been a province of Portugal for many centuries before India was a country, making India’s claim invalid. But nowadays, most people don’t really have an opinion on the matter. Everyone has heard of Portuguese India (which was not just Goa). There’s certainly no animosity between Portugal and Goa and I’d say the large majority who comprehend facts have a very friendly attitude towards the Portuguese state even till now and most of them have migrated to greener pastures.</div>
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Though there are those few "ANTISOCIAL CHARACTERS" who try to brainwash and convince people otherwise by pitting religions against each other, as also the Ganttia fabricated histories. However we Goans are on the brink of extinction, we will not last very long with the vast migration that has been on the rise since the dawn of invasion on December 18, 1961.</div>
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We are definitely Goan! As our culture is unique to either India or Portugal, although I must admit a lot of that culture is derived from the Portuguese. Sort of like 'creole'.</div>
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And again I beg to differ from pseudo-Goans, because wherever we Goans have gone, whether Patagonia or Honshu and if asked from where are we, if responded - "eu sou Goês/I'm a Goan"; I say, uptil this very second the standard of respect we get is incomparable to what an Indian will, since the world knows it's a country of Thugs and Cheats. Unfortunately nowadays Goans are studying/learning Ganttia traits towards the demise of "Gõycarponnê".</div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-44093843357720525682017-01-17T00:01:00.000-08:002017-01-17T00:01:11.207-08:00What’s So Bad About Indian – Hindu Nationalism By Robert Lindsay<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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An Indian and a Hindu, asked me to define Indian Hindu
nationalism and what exactly I found deplorable about it. First of all, it is
clearly possible to be an Indian and not be an Indian Hindu nationalist. The
Indian Left has clearly rejected this ideology. I know some Indian Christians,
one a convert from Hinduism, who also rejects it. The one I am thinking of is a
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I have spoken to many upper middle class to upper class
Indians, and almost 100% were Indian nationalists of the very worst kind. There
is something really horrible brewing in India. I do not have the faintest idea
what middle class, lower middle class, working class and poor Indians think, as
I have never met one. But Indian Hindu nationalism of the very worst sort seems
to be epidemic in the upper class and upper middle class.</div>
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Contempt for the West, its medicine, its language and its
perceived superiority. In particular, rage towards the US as being the source
of much of India’s problems, a notion that is absurd.</div>
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Strong feelings of rage over perceived inferiority masked by
compensatory feelings of superiority, typically for the most backwards and
fucked-up aspects of Indian culture and the Hindu religion, in particular
caste. In particular, fury that India is referred to as a 3rd world country and
anger that Westerners consider themselves civilized and consider India
backwards, etc.</div>
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A notion that India is one of the great countries of the
world, but India’s enemies have held it back from its greatness and kept it
from being the great country it could be. This goes along with some weird
notion that India was the wealthiest country on Earth in 1500, but then it
declined to one of the poorest. This project was apparently done by outsiders,
mostly Westerners.</div>
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A lot of anger towards Muslims. In particular, a notion that
moderate Muslims simply do not exist. There is also continuing anger over
abuses done by Muslims towards Hindus in the region from 500-1000 years ago.
There is also the notion that many Muslims in the area are not really Muslims,
since their ancestors were Hindus who were “forced to convert.”</div>
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Extreme denial about the worst aspects of Indian culture and
the Hindu religion, in particular caste.</div>
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Extreme defense of the most outrageous differentials in
wealth and poverty.</div>
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A notion that something called “Bharat India” existed and
that much of the land east and west of India is “really India” in some weird
way, because they were Indianized or especially Hinduized at some point.</div>
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These people lay some sort of claims to Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, Southern
Philippines, Afghanistan, Iran, Azerbaijan and the general region of the
Caucasus. Supposedly at some point these countries were all Hindu or Hinduized
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A denial that there was ever any religion than Hinduism in
India, along with the notion that other religions such as Zoroastrianism are
just branches of Hinduism. There is also a complete rejection of the Aryan
invasion theory along with a lot of contempt for the lower castes, in
particular, a curious notion the Dalits now run India and the Brahmins have
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Rage towards Christianity for converting low caste Hindus. I
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above feelings towards any other religion.</div>
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Anger towards the “White man” and a refusal to be lumped in
with him in any way. This is apparently all because Whites from England
colonized India for some time.</div>
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At the same time, while they often defend Hindutvas, they themselves usually get angry if you call
them a Hindutva or point out that their Indian-Hindu nationalism does not
differ much from the Hindutvas.</div>
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Extreme rage and irrationality over the Kashmir issue, on
which India is effectively an outlaw state, defying a security council
resolution. On the contrary, most Pakistanis seem to be fairly calm about
Kashmir. I think Indians are filled with so much rage and fury about Kashmir
because deep down inside they must know they are wrong.</div>
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The Portuguese Prime Minister should apologise, say the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) and the Goa Suraksha Manch (GSM), ‘as soon as he lands, for all the atrocities committed on the people of Goa, while the Portuguese ruled Goa.’ </div>
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Let us leave aside the fact that these apology-seekers have long been part of the present ruling establishment, and thus should themselves apologise first for their failure on every single front—for the freely proliferating casinos, for the mining mess, for the numerous white elephant projects destroying the environment while driving the state into massive debt, for the communities being uprooted right and left, for the lack of decent employment and wages for Goans even as the government prepares to clean out the state coffers to provide the 7th Pay Commission bonanza—to itself.</div>
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But let us ignore the fact that this talk of apologies for the past is clearly an attempt to distract us from the issues of the present, and to make some nationalist mileage out of the visit of the Prime Minister of Portugal to Goa. Let us also ignore the fact that it is ridiculous to ask for apologies for past events whose participants are dead and gone. What I would like to look at instead is the history peddled by the MGP and GSM, which, as expected, is both one-sided and brahmanical to the core.</div>
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So what are these atrocities that they want an apology for? ‘There was maximum destruction done by the Portuguese by destroying temples and bridges, just as they left Goa in 1961,’ claims former PWD minister Sudin Dhavalikar. Plus there was the ‘oppression under the Portuguese rule, conversions and inhumane treatment’, adds GSM president Anand Shirodkar, not to mention the introduction of the ‘English language culture’.</div>
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Now this is the first time one has heard of temples destroyed in 1961, simply because it never happened. There are of course records of temple destruction by the Portuguese earlier. But it is really a question whether this calls for apologies. Because what exactly did these temples represent? Even today, many Hindu temples across India are strongly brahmanical institutions. Dalits have been beaten, even killed, for stepping inside temples in India not centuries ago but in current times. In Goa, while overt violence might not be heard of, Dalits are still barred from Hindu temples in Pernem. Even elsewhere — as in Marcaim, represented by Dhavalikar in the Goa Assembly— full access is allowed only to certain castes, while every single job, ritual and celebration sees the enforcement of the caste system with its ideas of purity and pollution.</div>
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How would it have been centuries ago when the temples of the Velhas Conquistas were destroyed? These dominant-caste temples were not just the owners of wealth, including lands, gold, and all kinds of slaves, but also the heart and soul of caste society. As Xavier and Zupanov (Catholic Orientalism, 2015) point out, the temples were the ‘centre of local sociability, a memory archive of social distinctions, a collective treasury, and the seat of village authority’. This was a society that upheld sati (banned by Albuquerque) and treated bahujans literally like dirt; not even accepting them as animals, forget humans; not allowing them to eat or dress decently—because that was against religion, the religion upheld by the temples. It was a time when Dalits could be killed in religiously-sanctioned sacrifices for the construction of all grand projects, as the inscriptions in Vijayanagara (Hampi) describe.</div>
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The destruction of such institutions by the Portuguese would thus surely have been seen as a moment of liberation by many, even though it was probably done not for liberation but as a statement of power.</div>
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As for conversions, according to Ângela Barreto Xavier (2007), the untouchables (farazes) were willing converts to Christianity, for they saw it as a chance to escape caste oppression. It is another matter that, thanks to many dominant castes also converting in order to retain power and wealth, caste itself entered Goan Catholicism. Even so, Catholicism still offered the message of equality, at least theoretically. The combination of this theory with the jobs, education, and other opportunities offered by the Estado to Catholic bahujans, meant that they could leave their former humiliating conditions and seek new opportunities. As Raghuraman Trichur and Peter de Souza point out, this in turn provided an opportunity for oppressed castes in the regions outside the Estado. For the Velhas Conquistas now needed labour; bahujan outsiders could find work here and thus escape their old positions and identities.</div>
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Conversions to Catholicism were thus a boon for Goans, not just the Catholics but all Goans. And the destroyed temples were similarly hardly likely to have been mourned by anybody but the dominant castes whose position they upheld. As for the ‘English language culture’, only casteists would want to deny this culture to all, along with the social and economic benefits it entails.</div>
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So, apologies for what? Vasco da Gama’s arrival in the Malabar is in fact considered by many Dalits as a milestone in the history of Dalit liberation (Aditya Nigam, 2006).</div>
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It is high time that Goans stop falling for the history narratives peddled by casteist myth-mongers. For them, the only problem in Goan (and Indian) history is the arrival of the Portuguese (and the British); before that, we supposedly lived in a Golden Age. But this was a Golden Age of only the dominant castes, and the sooner we recognize this, the earlier our real liberation. </div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-3698756473096235312017-01-16T05:50:00.000-08:002017-01-16T05:50:03.261-08:00GOAN MORONS THROUGH GANTTIA BREACHES By A Pereira<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The occupying party i.e. the Indian State, is ultimately responsible for violations of international humanitarian and human rights law committed by local authorities such as Jack Sequeira and or proxy forces.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">1. Does applying occupation law to Goa affect the status of the territory that India occupies? </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /><br />Applying the law of occupation, or determining India to be an occupying power for the purposes of international humanitarian law, does not in any way affect the sovereignty of the territory. Sovereignty is not transferred to the occupying power.<br /><br />Local authorities organised the Opinion Poll in Goa without the authorisation of the Comunidades/Gãocarias and the Poll has not received broad-based endorsement by other countries. It cannot be considered a transfer of sovereignty that would end the state of belligerent occupation.<br /><br />2. What law relating to occupation is binding on Goa?<br /><br />While much of occupation law is also a matter of customary humanitarian law, the primary treaty sources of the modern law of occupation are the Hague Regulations of 1907 (Hague), the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 (Geneva IV), and certain provisions of the First Protocol of 1977 Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949.<br /><br />The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in its Commentary to the Fourth Geneva Convention notes that the obligations of the convention begin as soon as there is contact between the civilian population of a territory and troops advancing into that territory; that is, at the soonest possible moment. Under the Fourth Geneva Convention, protected persons are all those who find themselves in the hands of a party to the conflict or an occupying power of which they are not nationals. While all of the duties imposed on an occupying power may not become applicable immediately (some presuppose the presence of the occupation authorities for a fairly long period), the entirety of the provisions relating to the rights enjoyed by protected persons and their treatment become applicable immediately.<br /><br />In addition to the rules found in international humanitarian law, the occupying power must respect international human rights law and national law, subject to certain exceptions. With respect to human rights law, limitations on certain rights are permitted if they are “strictly required by the exigencies of the situation,” but any limitations must still respect the standards in international humanitarian law.<br /><br />3. What are the basic principles of international humanitarian law underlying military occupation?<br /><br />International humanitarian law provides that once an occupying power has assumed authority over all or part of a territory, it is obliged to restore and maintain, as far as possible, public order and safety (Hague, art. 43). The occupying power must also respect the fundamental human rights of the territory’s inhabitants, including non-citizens (Geneva IV, arts. 29, 47), and ensure sufficient hygiene and public health standards, as well as the provision of food and medical care to the population under occupation (Geneva IV, arts. 55, 56). Collective punishment and reprisals are prohibited (Protocol I, art. 75). Personnel of the International Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement must be allowed to carry out their humanitarian activities (Geneva IV, art. 63).<br /><br />4. What are the basic principles of international humanitarian law underlying military occupation?<br /><br />International humanitarian law provides that once an occupying power has assumed authority over all or part of a territory, it is obliged to restore and maintain, as far as possible, public order and safety (Hague, art. 43). The occupying power must also respect the fundamental human rights of the territory’s inhabitants, including noncitizens (Geneva IV, arts. 29, 47), and ensure sufficient hygiene and public health standards, as well as the provision of food and medical care to the population under occupation (Geneva IV, arts. 55, 56). Collective punishment and reprisals are prohibited (Protocol I, art. 75). Personnel of the International Red Cross/Red Crescent Movement must be allowed to carry out their humanitarian activities (Geneva IV, art. 63).<br /><br />5. What are the protection obligations of an occupying power toward the local population?<br /><br />An occupying power is responsible for respecting the fundamental human rights of the population under its authority. Everyone is to be treated humanely and without discrimination based on ethnicity, religion, or any other basis. This includes respecting family honour and rights, people’s lives, and private property, as well as religious and customary convictions and practice.<br /><br />Women are to be especially protected against any attack, in particular against rape, enforced prostitution, or any form of indecent assault. Everyone is to be treated with the same consideration by the occupying power without any adverse distinction based, in particular, on race, religion, or political opinion. Private property may not be confiscated (Hague, art. 46; Geneva IV, art. 27). However, an occupying power may take such measures of control and security as may be necessary as a result of the war (Geneva IV, art. 27).<br /><br />An occupying power is specifically prohibited from carrying out reprisals and collective penalties against people or their property (Geneva IV, art. 33) and from taking hostages (Geneva IV, art. 34). In general, no one may be punished for acts they have not personally committed. All parties to a conflict are required to provide information on prisoners of war (Geneva III, art. 122) and “protected persons” (civilian nationals) in their custody (Geneva IV, art. 136).<br /><br />The occupying power is prohibited from forcibly transferring or deporting protected persons outside of the occupied territory irrespective of motive (Geneva IV, art. 49).<br /><br />6. What obligations does the Indian State as an occupying power have with respect to the actions of Goan authorities, as well as local forces?<br /><br />India is bound by the law of occupation wherever it exercises effective control within the territory of Goa – currently, all or at least part of Goa – without the consent of the Comunidades/Gãocarias. Even where local authorities remain in place, India remains bound by its obligations to the civilian population to ensure public safety and welfare. That means India is responsible for preventing and taking action against human rights abuses by local forces acting as proxies for India. In the event that political groups are acting independently of local authorities, India has a responsibility to take appropriate action to maintain security.<br /><br />7. What are the obligations of an occupying power to provide for well-being of the population?<br /><br />Generally, an occupying power is responsible for ensuring that food and medical care are available to the population under its control, and to facilitate assistance by relief agencies.<br /><br />An occupying force has a duty to ensure the food and medical supplies of the population, as well as to maintain hospitals and other medical services, “to the fullest extent of the means available to it” (Geneva IV, arts. 55, 56). This includes protecting civilian hospitals, medical personnel, and the wounded and sick. Medical personnel, including recognised Red Cross/Red Crescent societies, are to be allowed to carry out their duties (Geneva IV, arts. 56, 63). The occupying power is to make special efforts to assist children orphaned or separated from their families (Geneva IV, art. 24) and facilitate the exchange of family news (Geneva IV, arts. 25, 26).<br /><br />If any part of the population of an occupied territory is inadequately supplied, the occupying power is to facilitate relief by other countries and impartial humanitarian agencies (Geneva IV, art. 59). However, the provision of assistance by others does not relieve the occupying force of its responsibilities to meet the needs of the population (Geneva IV, art. 60). The occupying power shall ensure that relief workers are respected and protected.<br /><br />8. Must parties to a conflict provide humanitarian organisations access to prisoners-of-war and other detainees?<br /><br />The Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions require parties to a conflict to permit access by the ICRC and other relief agencies to prisoners-of-war (POWs) and interned civilians. The ICRC must be granted regular access to anyone deprived of their liberty to monitor the conditions of their detention and to restore contact with their families. The ICRC has full liberty to select the places it wishes to visit and to interview people confidentially. Visits may only be refused for reasons of “imperative military necessity,” and as an exceptional and temporary measure. Other humanitarian agencies may request access to POWs and detained civilians. The detaining authority shall facilitate such visits, though it may limit the number of humanitarian agencies visiting a person who is being held.<br /><br />9. When can civilians be detained or taken prisoner by an occupying power?<br /><br />The Fourth Geneva Convention permits the internment or assigned residence of protected persons for “imperative reasons of security.” This must be carried out in accordance with a regular procedure permissible under international humanitarian law and allow for the right of appeal and for review by a competent body at least every six months (Geneva IV, art. 78). The Fourth Geneva Convention provides detailed regulations for the humane treatment of internees. The ICRC must be given access to all protected persons, wherever they are, whether or not they are deprived of their liberty.<br /><br />10. What obligations exist concerning the property and resources of the occupied territory?<br /><br />In general, the destruction of private or public property is prohibited unless military operations make it absolutely necessary (Geneva IV, art. 53). Cultural property is entitled to special protection; the occupying power must take measures to preserve cultural property (Cultural Property Convention, art. 5). As a rule, private property may not be confiscated. Religious, charitable, and educational institutions are to be treated as private property. The occupying power may requisition food and medical supplies for occupation forces and administrative personnel so long as the needs of the civilian population have been taken into account and fair payment is made (Geneva IV, art. 55). Taxes and tariffs may also be imposed to defray the administrative costs of the occupation, including the cost of occupying forces (Hague, art. 49).<br /><br />Public properties are treated as either movable or immovable property. Movable government properties that may be used for military purposes (transport, weapons) are considered “spoils of war” and may be seized without compensation (Hague, art. 53). Immovable government properties (public buildings, real estate) may not be appropriated; however, they may be used and administered by the occupying power so long as their assets are maintained (Hague, art. 55). Any loss of value from their use must be compensated.<br /><br />11. To what extent does international human rights law apply?<br /><br />International human rights law is applicable during armed conflicts and occupations. Indian State is a party to international human rights treaties, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights. These treaties outline guarantees for fundamental rights, many of which correspond to the rights to which civilians are entitled under humanitarian law (e.g. right to life, prohibition on torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, nondiscrimination, liberty and security of the person, due process). While in a time of war or public emergency restrictions on and derogations from many of these rights are permitted (e.g. restrictions on freedom of assembly and right to privacy), such restrictions are limited to those that are strictly required by the necessity of the situation and that are compatible with obligations under international humanitarian law.<br /><br />In particular military actions, which might entail breaches of the Convention rights of the civilian population, including putting their life and health at risk, and to comply with their engagements under the Convention, notably in respect of Articles 2 (right to life) and 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment).</span></div>
Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-91367463944256512312016-12-15T23:12:00.001-08:002016-12-15T23:12:27.253-08:00Adv Antonio Andre Pereira.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Certified copy of the Order said to be passed by High court on 7.12.2016 dismissing writ petition no. 1045/2016 before even admitting the same for hearing of the concerned respondents is not yet read and for reasons best known to the Judges. This State of Goa stand captured from the Portuguese Rule only to place its law abiding sons of the soil under bondage of evil minded politicians hailing from across the then boundaries of Goa and only to be plundered their land and </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">natural resources by falsely promising to them that they will be liberated from Portuguese Rule as with freedom to rule their State themselves. There was no reason to extend the Central laws in Goa of which provisions are founded under the British concept of jurisprudence that treat the citizens as tenants of the State and replace the State made laws in force in State Goa founded under Roman concept of jurisprudence besides the laws founded by usages and custom of times immemorial. That without such extension it was not possible to extend the jurisdiction of the High Court of Bombay to Goa. None in Goa holds land by State land tenure to be covered under inherent jurisdiction of the High Court of Bombay which stands established in the State of Maharashtra consisting of State land tenure holdings. The Jurisdiction of High Court of Bombay came to be so extended when the then Chief Minister and Revenue Minister of Goa, Daman and Diu provided false information in the year 1963 to the then Planning Commission that Territory of Goa is 100% covered by State land tenure holdings. It is a fraud played by those vested interested persons seeking to capture the power of the State unto themselves by ousting the legitimate indeginous people of Goa from all of body politics.</span></div>
Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-62447792381906527482016-12-12T05:32:00.003-08:002016-12-12T05:32:46.932-08:00GOA PEACEFUL MOVEMENT By Agnelo Gomes, Combakar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">Goans are very peaceful citizens of this planet and we are not engaged in treason nor sedition against brutal conqueror India, we are defending our birth rights protected by UN against a conqueror that preaches morality but is one of the most violent nation in the world “Global Peace Index (GPI) for 2014 is 143rd nation out of 162 at the of the list and Goa should be at 4 or higher going back to status in 1961 – the most peaceful” .</span></div>
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We demand Macau Status to Goa like China gave to Macau to protect Nation Goa before extinction in hands of brutal gang rapist India; like Macau will remain part of India and will have absolute autonomy what Dr. Antonio Oliveira Salazar from Portugal proposed but rejected by then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.</div>
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Now our Nation is left destroyed with rampant corruption, no law and order. Rapid Rise of Indian Migrants amounting to 1 Million outnumbering Goans 2:1 ration, losing our identity.</div>
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There is uncalled development that brings more Indians on our soil, destroying our environment, agricultural land, destruction of sea wild life, dolphins, bird sanctuaries, breeding grounds for corral fish, sea throttles that come nesting in coastal areas. Uncalled Coastal land is created by reclamation of coastal areas destroying sea habitat for fish, corrals, cubbes, tisros, crabs, etc., dolphins</div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-67360565436356175702016-12-09T22:28:00.000-08:002016-12-09T22:28:07.946-08:00India - Pakistan War Clouds – by A. Veronica Fernandes, Candolim<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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These days, BJP government at the Centre is creating artificial clouds of war against Pakistan giving an impression that war is the only solution to stop Pakistan from waging a proxy war against India thru the terrorists who are constantly creating problems for India especially in Kashmir. First of all, let me say openly that I strongly condemn Pakistan for helping the terrorists to create problems in India by killing Indian soldiers and even innocent civilians. In no way these heinous acts are acceptable. But will the war against Pakistan solve the problem? Somebody the other day suggested an all-out war against Pakistan till the entire Pakistan comes under the possession of India. This is like dreaming.</div>
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If India wants to wage a war against Pakistan, do we have now a professional and a competent Defence Minister like Israeli Moshe Dayan or American Dick Cheney? We have at the helm of our defence affairs an immature and ignorant in military affairs defence minister Manohar Parricar. He may be an expert and qualified in some other field but surely not in defence. If by relying on his Zero knowledge of defence system and war techniques, go to war against Pakistan, I am afraid we may fall in further problems and end in a way we ended in 1962 War with China whence India was totally destroyed, our soldiers were butchered and hundreds of acres of our land grabbed by China. This happened because our then defence minister Krishna Menon was ignorant of War games. Though he was sacked from the Cabinet immediately after that war but because of his lack of knowledge on this subject India suffered a humiliating defeat and that was the only defeat independent India suffered from our neighbours.</div>
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India under BJP is in a mess, nothing is moving well, people are disgusted with the government machinery. BJP came to power by openly declaring that they will do something good, better than Congress but with the naked eyes one can see nothing but clouds looming with fascism and RSS-ism. BJP is proving now that it wants to implement its hidden agenda of turning India into a Theocratic State. All the BJP leaders are having a mind-set of parochial and sectarian thoughts. They will never develop India, on the contrary they will take India back to the Stone Age.</div>
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India is blaming Pakistan for sending terrorists to India. I don’t know how far this is hundred percent true but one thing is certain, in Pakistan its own people and government are also suffering from terrorism perpetrated by the indigenous Pakistani terrorists only. Their aim is not only to hit India but also Pakistan and it is a pity that Pakistan officially is incapable to control these terrorists. Secondly, Pakistan being an enemy of India, we cannot expect Pakistan to kiss us. They are our worst enemies and wherever possible they will surely hit us. In view of this, is it not our duty to lock our doors properly and man them with efficient guards instead of keeping our doors open and vulnerable for our enemies to enter? When Mumbai attack took place, where were our Coast guards? Sleeping. Indian officials are on record to sell even atomic secrets to our enemies for a Whiskey bottle. In view of this how can we rely on such people to protect India? Indians are known to be the best bribeabe commodities and greater the rank greater is degree of bribe. </div>
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Once again I condemn Pakistani backed terrorists’ infiltration on Indian soil but the solution for this is not war but diplomatic negotiation and discussion, if necessary to involve third party closer to Pakistan. India got good diplomatic ties with all the Muslim, Arab and Western countries. Their good offices must be sought to enlighten Pakistan instead of counting on war. War will never solve this problem because both the neighbours are nuclear powers but India is too decent, too matured and too advanced nation compared to Pakistan that is ready to do any amount of sacrifice to destroy India, fully or partially. I came across Pakistanis in Kuwait who are ready to go into extinction but will be happy to see India should disappear partially at least. They have inborn anger against India for dismembering Pakistan and creating Bangladesh out of one unified Pakistan. They will forgive anything to India but never and NEVER the war against Pakistan to create independent Bangladesh. </div>
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Pakistan is a hurt nation and I disagree with those Indian statements saying India should bring Pakistan under its banner thru a fierce war. Those who think in these terms are day dreamers and idiots. Even if I get Pakistan free of charge, I will never accept that part of the subcontinent. Qualitatively that part is backward and cruel and also militant compared to India and it will be impossible for Indian administrators to control them. In this case, they will do more harm to India and Indian interest though India may have such ambitions because of its hegeomonistic lust that prompted India to annex militarily so many neighbouring territories including Hyderabad, Kashmir and Goa. </div>
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Because of India’s hegemonistic ambition, Zulficar Ali Bhutto first gave a call to manufacture an Atomic weapon to deter India from further dismembering Pakistan after the birth of Bangladesh. Said Bhutto in his masterpiece “If I am Assassinated” written in the prison cell where he was confined after sentencing him to the gallows: “We will rather eat grass but will definitely produce an Atom Bomb”. </div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-87439809642638795482016-12-09T22:26:00.001-08:002016-12-09T22:26:12.188-08:00IS THERE NO DEMOCRACY FOR INDEGENOUS GOANS ? By UltraGoan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">After illegally invading Goa in 1961, the Indian Government have forcibly transferred its civilian population into Goa (occupied territory) and has illegally entered their names into the Goan electoral roles. By changing the demographic profile of Goa, the Indian Govt has violated the Geneva Convention IV [Article 49 ( 6th para)]. (This also constitutes a WAR CRIME according to the International Criminal Court Statute (Under Article 8(2)(b)(viii) of the 1998 ICC Statute). </span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Now, the Election Commission is busy deleting Indigenous Goans names from the electoral register, and encouraging non-Goan voters to register. </span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Next , the Indian Agencies will SUBVERT the election process in Goa ( as they have always been doing). for example- by splitting the Goan votes by promoting several pro-Goan parties, etc. They are fully aware that if a True Goan rightfully wins the election, he/she would expose the illegalities done by the Indian Occupation forces to Goa/Goans through fraudulent land laws, regional plans, electoral rolls, demographic change, environmental damage, etc..</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">A True Goan MLA/ sarpanch is seen as a serious threat to the Indian occupation forces, and therefore the Indian Agencies would go to any extent to stop a True Goan candidate from being elected.</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">There is no democracy even at the village level. The FRAUDULENT PANCHAYAT is another scheme to fool the Goan villagers. Panchayat members, who are elected by Goan villagers, are then bribed to make them work against Goan interest (e.g. approving real estate project, thereby destroying the environment), Villagers have no say regarding major decisions in their village, like land conversion, or construction licences for projects, but TCP can give full permission for constructions on Goan Land, thus making a mockery of democracy. </span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Next, after the elections, the INDIAN AGENCIES ( via TCP, bureaucrats, chief Secretaries, Governor etc) will support the MLAs to work against Goa/ Goans, by rewarding them for their actions ( by allowing bribes, corruption, etc). They have even been using Goans ( Catholics) as puppets to make ( or endorse) anti – Goan decisions, so that it would appear that these are democratic actions taken by Goans themselves ( and blaming corruption amongst Goans)..</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">UNDER NO CIRCIMSTANCE SHOULD A TRUE GOAN AGREE TO THE DELETION OF INDEGENOUS GOANS NAMES,!!! as it will give credibility to this illegal action.</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">All Indigenous Goans ( Catholics), irrespective of which passport they hold, are GOAN CITIZENS !! and must be allowed to vote in Goan elections. Goa is an occupied territory and Goans were never interested in Indian Citizenship, but very much care about Goan politics. Therefore DUAL CITIZENSHIP must be granted to allow Goans to vote. Or a GOAN CITIZENSHIP must be established along with a Goan PASSPORT. ( E.g.-Similar to the Nagaland Accord signed last year between India and Naga rebels- https://bodolandobserver.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/the-naga-peace-accord-separate-passport-and-flag-for-nagas-approved-by-goi/ )</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">The Indigenous Goans have been living under INDIAN DICTATORSHIP since 1961 due to this SABOTAGE of the Goan political system. The “so called elected MLAs” have NEVER represented Goa / Goans and have always made decisions which were detrimental to Goa / Goans. Moreover, Goans have no safeguards from this DICTATORSHIP, as even the Governor acts as a mute spectator (collaborator) and readily passes all anti-Goan bills /laws.</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Now, the International Community is beginning to realise that India is not a Democratic Country, and does not represent the people. The current Kashmir conflict has exposed India. Although India show they had “Elections” in Kashmir (with installation of a puppet Government of Mebooba), in reality, this disputed territory is under military rule with around 1 million men perpetrating large scale brutalities ( killings, blinding civilians with pellet guns, destruction of properties, etc). Similar situation also exists in other states too. </span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">If Kashmir had no elections, it would have been a strong case for international intervention [Like US intervention in Kosovo, Bosnia, derecognition of Govts in Communist Nicaragua, Cuba, Lybia, Syria ( and support for Contra rebels in Nicaragua, Libyan rebels, Syrian rebels, Cuban rebels in bay of pigs, etc). Although, India tries its best to argue that Kashmiris have elected a Pro-Indian Government, it is just a matter of time when India is held accountable for its SHAM DEMOCRACY.</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">TRUE GOANS will not get fooled by this FAKE DEMOCRACY !!!</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Elections in Goa are a MERE EYEWASH, just meant to prove to the INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY that Goans have willingly accepted the Indian rule. ( so that India can legitimise their occupation of this seized territory). </span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">If Goans can PROVE that they are SUPPRESSED under ANTI-GOAN DICTATORSHIP, it will warrant INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION to liberate Goa from Indian occupation (like East Timor, Bosnia, Kosovo, etc).</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">It is therefore of VITAL IMPORTANCE that an Indegenous Goan ( Catholic) party is formed, to fight for Goan causes and to protect Goan land (roughly old conquest territory), Goan Language ( Roman Concanim), Goan food ( beef and pork) , Goan public holidays ( Good Friday, SFX feast), sanitisation of electoral rolls ( deletion of illegal non-Goan voters) , registration of indigenous Goan voters worldwide, etc.etc. If Goans are not represented in elections , a parallel Goan Parliament has to be formed ( which will soon receive international recognition).</span></div>
Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-62500670416384944122016-11-17T01:43:00.001-08:002016-11-17T01:43:47.353-08:00Goans Have Never Figured The Scheme Of Things Of ‘De Novo’ Coloniser – by Floriano Lobo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is a fact that GOANs have never figured in the scheme of things of the 'de novo' coloniser of Goa. Starting from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, helped by his acolytes such as the AGD sponsored Goan freedom fighters, some of whom have written books and articles such as 'SORROWING LIES MY LAND' , and the Church, through shameful connivance by none other than Cardinal Gracias of Bombay, who claimed himself to be the son of Goa, to sell their Goa for 30 pieces of silver to start with, not bothering to hold Nehru to his much publicized promises that he will not coerce Goans to join the Indian Union against their wishes if they deliberately wanted to stay separate to preserve their identity.</div>
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The unfortunate choice of gullible Goans to put MGP of Dayanand Bandodkar in power in Goa for almost 17 years which only desired to amputate the Special Status for Goa through Goa's merger into Maharashtra, added to the silencing of the demand of Goans for full or semi autonomy.</div>
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Following in the footsteps of Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru's hypocrisy, the Congress Party of India waxed eloquence on the need for Goa to have Special Status to preserve its identity, confidence tricked gullible Goans at every election times ( as it is being done presently through the statement made by Luizinho Faleiro), not to bother about it after having gotten elected. This was so because our own Goan Leaders in the Congress Party are given the choice to either voice these sentiments and see themselves ousted. And without exception they have chosen and will choose to be on the side of holding positions and pelf rather than think about the future of Goa and Goans. The Traitors of Goa.</div>
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The half-breed of the MGP in Goa, the BJP of Manohar Parrikar, continued to flog what Goans wanted and even took it to the highest level of instructing his mentor Modi to play along with gullible Goan by dangling the carrot of Special Status before them to ensure two Parliamentary seats in the 2014 elections. Goans, as expected, peed in their pants and did the impossible possible, falling for this ruse by even publicly handing over a memorandum to the to be elected PM who did not hesitate in nodding his cunning head, like the fox, who knows how to entertain the crabs on the river banks to find themselves willingly adjourning his dinner plate.</div>
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If the above statement from the GOA BJP is seen to be a U-Turn on the election promises, then Goans must either consider that they have jelly for the grey matter in their brains or they are dimwits. This will happen again and again unless Goans wise up to the fact that India will never agree to cut its feet to let Goa out of its hands, the goose that lays for them the Golden Eggs.</div>
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To go back in history, India took over Goa by contravening the UN Charter as its signatory to throw out its own UN co-partner with active connivance of the USSR. It did not rest there. It went on to appease Portugal's Mario Soares into signing the Co-operation Treaty (in 1974), the Treaty that Portugal should have run away from if it had any self-respect viz a viz having learnt a hard lesson from their own Ex-territory of East Timor which is today independent from dominating Indonesia, thanks to the UN. With Goans kept in the dark about this Treaty, its validity is under question.</div>
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India shall never, never, never, give Special Status to Goa because Goa, to India, is a prestige acquired through fraud and military power, holding on to it through intimidating martial law for 2 years [upto the elections of 1963] so that the backs of Goans were broken and staunch fighters for autonomy like Adv Bruto Da Costa were rendered frustrated, with no Goan venturing forward to support him, they themselves looking over their shoulders for India's gestapos ready to pounce through the provisions of the intimidating Martial Law. Goa also happens to be the golden goose, snatched from the stupid Portuguese to be looted and plundered which started with Goa's Raj Bhavan being emptied of prized antique furnitures in truckloads going to Delhi, including the powerful Emissora de Goa Radio Transmitter being re-installed elsewhere in India.</div>
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The only way GOANS can have their SPECIAL STATUS is to put themselves in Goa's Legislative Assembly declaring to Goans the following shall be honoured on pains of getting shot in case of U-TURNS later:</div>
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1. That the Navy shall be ordered to vacate Dabolim Airport in the same manner that Chadrababu Naidu ordered the Air Force to vacate Hyderabad.</div>
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2. Scrap MOPA Airport altogether, even if work on it has been initiated.</div>
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3. Cancel the Nationalization of Goa's Rivers and Inland Waterways even if this legislation goes through.</div>
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4. Get Goa out of the ambit of the one-sided and perverse so called 'Gadgil Formula'.</div>
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5. Bring in new BILL to preserve and protect Goa's scarce land from getting into the hands of outsiders, whether agricultural or otherwise.</div>
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6. De-roll all migrants who have naturalized in Goa and are included on the Electoral Rolls of Goa on the basis that they are listed in the electoral rolls of their original state.</div>
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7. Phase out labour intensive industries to bring in Service Sector industries so that Goans are gainfully and appreciatively employed to stop the brain drain and learn to ask the potent question 'DEVELOPMENT FOR WHOM?'.</div>
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8. Restore Goa's COMUNIDADES to their pre-1961 status to revive Goa's lost agricultural economy.</div>
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The above will serve more than the Special Status what we are asking for and which is a mirage. Goa needs to go Goa-Centric all the way just like U.S.A. has chosen to go U.S.A.-Centric through getting a rank outsider to the U.S. politics elected as its PRESIDENT in a mindboggling over-turn of the system that worked against its own people and be drained in trillions of dollars to keep supporting regimes that cared two hoots for America.</div>
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Do GOANS have the stomach to stand up and fight instead of falling to their knees to every Indian Chaiwalla who comes along with a promising loaded pot of tea?</div>
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If not, please stop praying for Special Status expecting that India will have a change of heart, for INDIA will never never consider this even if India has to roll over Goans just like China did in the Tiananmen Square in 1989. And those who will rejoice over this shall be our own Goans Judases who have been chained through their belief that 'THEIR BHARAT IS MAHAN' even if they are dragged over the rocks to be consigned to the dumps.</div>
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CHARITY MUST START AT HOME. AND GOA IS OUR HOME.</div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-49790434602665603772016-10-24T01:34:00.004-07:002016-10-24T01:34:54.969-07:00 Indian Navy Personnel Arrested For Assaulting A Goan On False Pretext<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Five Indian Navy personnel were arrested in Goa for assault late on Wednesday, a police spokesperson said on Thursday. The navy personnel had assaulted a man in South Goa after they suspected him of allegedly abusing the daughter of another naval officer. The personnel involved are posted at INS Hansa.</div>
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Police said that patrolmen Amit Jaiswal, Jitendra Singh, Shamlal Pakshak, Rajnesh Pachar, led by commandant Anupam Sharma were arrested in connection with the assault on Atul Dicholkar, a resident of port town Vasco, located 35 kms from Panjim. “The navy personnel suspected that the complainant had abused a minor daughter of their colleague on Tuesday. So they accosted and assaulted him together,” the police said.</div>
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The victim is currently hospitalised at the Goa Medical College, a state-run facility, for grievous injuries. The accused were booked under sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 147 and 148 (rioting armed with deadly weapon), and 325, 326 and 338 (causing grievous hurt endangering life voluntarily using dangerous weapons) of the Indian Penal Code and are now in custody.</div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-40597565974579873172016-10-24T01:34:00.001-07:002016-10-24T01:34:10.380-07:00Marginalization Of Goans Must Not Be Tolerated - by Jose Maria Miranda<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Having watched helplessly our beloved land being destroyed and disfigured by our greedy and selfish rulers, past and present, and their accomplices, some from outside but many from our own soil, and our Goans being overwhelmed by a heavy and uninterrupted inflow of migrants, the time has run out for us to unite and go all out to stop such attempts which are solely aimed at marginalizing Goans and making them irrelevant in the political and electoral scenario of the State. Though belatedly, we may still manage in salvaging what is left of Goa if this last opportunity afforded to us, is availed of to send the crooks home and elect few good people, who truly love Goa.</div>
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The process of disfiguring Goa and crushing its distinct identity was a well-conceived plan of the Indian rulers, at the time of the so-called Liberation, carefully executed thereafter with active connivance of Goan politicians and mostly outside bureaucrats. Even the most preposterous movement of Goa’s merger with Maharashtra, with its own leaders realizing, in hindsight, what a blunder it would be, was part of this long-term plan. It goes without saying that if today Goa is a preferred tourist destination, it is not alone because of our beaches and the scenic beauty of this place but also because our culture is a fusion of East and West, of the people’s savoir faire and savoir vivre.</div>
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Freedom of the Press and of expression was suppressed by the Portuguese in Goa. Perhaps, this made us highly submissive and docile. But many Goans of yesteryears stood up to the might of the Portuguese and yet, in a democracy, we have turned into a spineless, meek and cowardly lot, over-tolerant of the abuse of power and highhandedness of a highly authoritarian, despotic and fascist Government. The crude, insensitive and irresponsible way this Govt. goes about giving orders and implementing works with least regard to environment and ecology and the sentiments and livelihood of the people of Goa, as if this State is its private property and Goans some cattle bound to follow its directions, is highly reprehensible.</div>
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It is not alone the Police who were treated inhumanly by being served food unfit even for animals, during BRICS summit. Poor women coming all the way from Canacona, Quepem, Shiroda, etc. to Margao to sell their produce like vegetables, mashmelons, etc. were asked to stay away for four days when they squat nowhere close to the dignitaries’ route, while handcarts were seen moving freely through the town.</div>
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Who pays for their losses on the produce and livelihood as also of the fisherfolk prohibited from fishing during the period? Anyone with two inches of sense uses such opportunities to help the locals earn some additional income, but not so with selfish imbeciles who deprived our people of their daily bread. Though I hold no brief for our taxi drivers’ tantrums amounting to biting the hand that feeds them, it was grossly unfair to hire, for BRICS a Delhiite, who took only a few Goan taxis and apparently went back without settling some dues.</div>
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As it is, Goans are struggling to get jobs and are compelled to migrate, either to other States or abroad to earn a decent income. This sad exodus is a testimony to the impotency of this Govt. in providing employment to locals. Yet, it is using the EC to delete names from electoral rolls of those who, for this sole reason, obtained Portuguese passports and are desirous of trying their luck abroad. One wonders whether the Govt. and EC took similar pains to ensure that migrants, having voting rights elsewhere, are not enrolled here or whether bureaucrats were in fact instructed to ensure the contrary. Our rulers, being proponents of Hindutva, are averse to the West and their culture.</div>
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Yet, the Central Govt. finds it expedient to seek support, aid and cooperation from the West. Millions of Indians also enjoy Western hospitality and nationality, have made West their home and are unwilling to return because of the mess this country is in. Has the EC gone an extra mile, as it is doing in case of Goans, to ensure that they too have no voting rights in India?</div>
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No self-respecting individual will tolerate being discriminated and treated shabbily in his own land. I recall the protest in Margao in 60s when MG Minister Tony Fernandes called Goans second-class citizens. Today, we are treated worse than that. Goans are too docile and decent to take up cudgels to fight the threat to our very existence posed by heavy influx of outsiders and preferential treatment given to them. This is bound to have serious repercussions, particularly when one’s identity and culture are in danger. The anti-migrant agitation in Usgão and the incident of razing tribals’ huts in Nirankal are signs of things to come. It is not right that those who came here to earn a living be driven away.</div>
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But, it is equally unfair that undue advantage be taken of Art. 19 of a Constitution dictatorially imposed on us, to import people to destroy the character of our land and the identity of our people. The farce of the BJP in demanding Special Status and the false promise of the PM were attempts at throwing dust in our eyes and eventually promoting the opposite. This Government, while gifting us with some cosmetic development, is diverting our attention from their larger plan of destroying Goa and Goans, through marinas, port at Betul, nationalization of rivers, etc. which will eventually kill our small communities, their trades and livelihood solely to satisfy their bosses in Delhi and their magnate acolytes. It is imperative that we destroy them and their plans before they destroy us.</div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-31855112053157705282016-10-17T06:48:00.000-07:002016-10-17T06:48:45.932-07:00GOA – THE IDYLL THAT NEVER WAS By JASON KEITH FERNANDES<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It was with anger and disbelief that I read Deepti Kapoor’s recent article in The Guardian titled “An idyll no more: why I’m leaving Goa”. While there is no denying that Goa is in fact facing a looming ecological and political crisis, what is galling is that Kapoor does not acknowledge her own role in the mess that Goans find themselves in. Kapoor is silent about the privilege that she enjoys – the privilege of the (largely North) Indian elites, who dominated British India, led the anti-colonial nationalist movement, and who now operate as the embodiment of colonial power in places like Goa. This is precisely the relationship that is to blame for the many ills that Kapoor documents, and that allows Kapoor to escape Goa with relatively no loss, while Goans are left not only with a ruined ecology and social fabric but a continuing brutal colonial relationship with India.<br />
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The relationship of the Indian elites to Goa is by no means innocent. For that matter, neither is the relationship of India to Goa. Rather, these relationships are built on the willful ignoring of history, to enable Indians to create Goa and Goans not only as property of the Indian empire but as a pleasure park where they can imagine themselves to be in their own little part of Europe. Take, for example, the way in which Kapoor chooses to label older houses in Goa “Portuguese villas” despite the fact that many Goans, including scholars, have pointed out that there is nothing Portuguese to these homes. Except for the fact that they were built by Goans, who were Portuguese citizens at the time, these were, and are, Goan homes. The reason for this stubborn insistence is linked to the fact that these houses are in high demand by the Indian elites who choose to own second homes in Goa. It is precisely in calling the built forms “Portuguese” that Goa and Goans are transformed into props that allow for the territory to be read as Europe in South Asia, as a seaside Riviera where Indian elites can play out their European fantasies.<br />
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This colonial relationship, it should be pointed out, is not unique to the relationship between Goa and India. In fact, it follows a longer colonial relationship enjoyed by the Northern European, and principally British elites, with the European South – namely, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. It was to these historically Catholic locations that the largely Protestant elites of the North fled to enjoy not just the sun but the pleasures of the flesh. The European South, and by extension the overseas colonies of these countries, were marked out as spaces for frolic and relaxation, and fabulous lifestyles afforded as a result of the poorer economies of the host locations. Additionally, these locations were identified as places for inspiration for artistes and writers. In post-colonial times, the elite British Indian has actively taken on the gaze and privilege of the British overlord, and looks at Goa precisely through the lenses that the British used to view the European South. No wonder then that Kapoor, author of the novel A Bad Character (2014), also chose Goa as a place for future writing projects.<br />
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The continuation of this imperial gaze is also deeply rooted in colonial politics. As Sukanya Banerjee demonstrates in her book Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire (2010), the end of empire and the creation of an independent nation-state was not the goal envisaged by early Indian nationalists. On the contrary, South Asian dominant caste elites were stakeholders in the empire rather than its opponents. Given this proximity to the imperial project, what they deeply desired was the status of Imperial British citizen and equality with the British overlord. Banerjee also demonstrates the way that Gandhi himself was invested in the pursuit of this status. The figure of Gandhi is critical here, because it was he who effectively created a mass movement by recruiting subaltern groups to make what had earlier been a largely elitist cause. This mass recruitment was necessary for the elites to be taken seriously by the British Crown. The Crown was convinced that while the Indians merited the status of subjects, they could not be imperial citizens and thereby claim equality with the British. The rallying of the masses forced a change in the nature of the movement to assume the character of a nationalist anti-colonial project. Independence was now the only answer.<br />
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: raleway, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Thus, the objective of the nationalist elites was, rather, parity with the British and participation in the imperial project. The continued desire for imperial prominence that motivated these caste elites ensured a number of features that have marked post-colonial India. By exerting various pressures on the princely states and acquiring, forcefully if necessary, the territories of other colonial powers, the nationalist elites put together an Indian empire that even the British Raj had not managed to. This new post-colonial empire was held in place by retaining most of the colonial laws, and an imperial perspective guided the relationship with the territories and peoples that were assimilated into post-colonial India. Thus, along with Goan houses being labeled “Portuguese”, Goans have been marked out as fun-loving, relaxed, and laid back, just as the southern Europeans and Latins. Further, just as the British elites travelled to the European South for sensorial excess, so too has Goa been marked out as a place for excess. Note that Kapoor’s narrative suggests that her brother had his mind blown – normally a reference to the effect of psychotropic drugs – when he saw his first nudist in Goa. The Kapoor family’s relationship with Goa seems to be marked by an excess that is unavailable in India. As R. Benedito Ferrão points out, Kapoor suggests her own sensorial relationship with Goa through the excessive exclamation marks that she uses when listing the things that brought her to Goa: “The beaches! The restaurants! The music, and the people!” Further, as if to prove the point of a continuity between the imperial British and the contemporary imperial Indian elite, Kapoor states that she has decided “to look toward Europe or Latin America” in her search for a new place to live. It should be obvious that Latin America is placed along the same continuum as Goa in terms of being the place of Iberian influenced tropical languor and excess. Therefore, Kapoor will merely shift from Goa to another location that offers a similar southern European backdrop for the party.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: raleway, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Interestingly, the insistence of Indians, such as Kapoor, on labeling the built landscape in Goa as different from India reveals a disinclination to be attentive to the historical and legal differences of this former Portuguese territory. Unlike the legal scenario that unfolded in British India, Goans were constitutionally recognized as Portuguese citizens as far back as the early 1800s. This resulted in a restricted segment of the population being entitled to vote in parliamentary elections. And vote they did. Goan elites regularly sent voluble representatives to Lisbon, who established the legal and social parity of Goans with metropolitan Portuguese. This situation was temporarily suspended in the years when Goa, like the rest of Portugal, suffered an authoritarian regime from the 1930s until 1974. It was in this situation that India sent troops in to militarily wrest Goa from the Portuguese. Rather than engage with the political agency that was being expressed within and outside of the territory, India simply asserted sovereignty over the territory and extended citizenship to persons residing in the territory. Given the right of colonized peoples to self-determination, this was an act for which there was no legal precedent, but was based on the assertion of a dubious argument of cultural homogeneity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: raleway, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">With the normalization of relations between Portugal and India in 1975, Portugal recognized the continuing right of citizenship of residents of its former territories in India. As consciousness of this continuing right percolates through Portuguese Indian society, many have chosen to access and assert this right. The Indian state, and consequently most Indians, however, fail to see this as a resumption of an existing right. They see it instead, as the acquisition of dual citizenship, which some argue is prohibited by the Indian legal system. This places Portuguese Indians – in this case, Goans – in an awkward situation, where they have to give up political engagement with Goa, and a host of other rights, if they choose to assert their right to Portuguese citizenship. Like most Indians, Kapoor seems to fail to recognize this complexity and naively suggests that Goans are leaving, or, as she puts it, “looking elsewhere”. As I articulated in an essay some time ago, Goans are not leaving; they are merely employing one more way to maintain their historical connections and pursue livelihood options. It is only in the face of an Indian state that refuses to recognize the complexity of Portuguese Indian history, and prevents this movement, that Goans are, in fact, being forced to leave.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: raleway, sans-serif;">At the end of the day, it is the refusal to recognize this most basic of rights, that of citizenship pre-existing the Indian takeover of Goa that complicates the relationship of India, and Indians, with Goa, and Goans. The refusal to recognize a pre-existing constitutional right of citizenship transforms the Indian presence in Goa into one of occupation and not post-colonial liberation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: raleway, sans-serif;">The colonial nature of India’s presence in Goa is perhaps best captured in the way the territory has been actively converted into India’s pleasure periphery. In his book, Refiguring Goa (2015), Raghuraman S. Trichur points out that “it was only after the state sponsored development of tourism in the 1980s (more than two decades after Goa’s liberation/occupation in 1961), was Goa effectively integrated into the Indian nation-state” (p. 13). This is to say that the integration of this former Portuguese territory, which ought to have been given the right to self-determination, was ensured through the process of articulating Goa’s “otherness” or cultural distancing, as evidenced by the social practices and performances that constitute the tourism destination in Goa. Thus, Trichur argues, Goa’s emergence as a tourism destination is more than the fortuitous agent of economic growth: “it is also an arena, a discursive frame where the Indian State intersects with Goan society” (p. 16). Tourism, then, is precisely the way through which Indian colonialism is exercised in Goa. Indeed, the usage of “Portuguese” houses, in reference to the homes of Goans, suggests homes not continually inhabited by Goans but open for occupation by the “helpful” outsiders that come to renew Goan life.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: raleway, sans-serif;">While Kapoor correctly lists the many problems that are cropping up in Goa as a result of a tourist industry gone wild, she seems to place the responsibility for the looming ecological and social disaster primarily in Goan hands. One reads in Kapoor’s narrative the usual suggestion that it is the greedy Goans who are selling agricultural land and pulling down ancestral homes, and that the local government has no vision. What escapes her is that Goans are all too often subject to forces not within their control. Goans are trapped in an economy that, rather than working on producing more varied opportunities for the locals, has for decades now relied exclusively on tapping the extractive industries of either tourism or mining, or on overseas remittances. While the tourist economy has produced huge profits for some, incomes have not risen to keep pace with the increased cost of living. In such a context, there are two options that will assure people without the material resources or skill sets to fuel social mobility of persons who cannot achieve betterment in Goa. The first is the sale of land to persons in search of the fabled Goan lifestyle. The second is migration in search of gainful and respectable employment. The irony is that the critique of the Portuguese presence in Goa was that they failed to develop a viable economy, which required people to migrate to earn a living that would assure them and their families of a higher standard of living. Indeed, for the vast majority of the population life under Portuguese rule was experienced more as life under landlord rule. And this Goan lifestyle was no idyll. It was only through migration that they could economically emancipate themselves. It was only with the economic liberation possible through migration that Goa, now a place to return for the summers, was constructed as an idyll. As it turns out, the transition to Indian rule has not changed much, as many Goans are still forced to migrate.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: raleway, sans-serif;">Yet it is not economics alone that Goans are trapped by but, the political system itself. There is a clear understanding among the many groups in the territory that this system is not delivering good governance and that there is a need for dramatic change. In their imitation of Britain, British Indians adopted the unsophisticated first-past-the-post system of determining political representatives. As Dr. Ambedkar pointed out, the ills of the system are such that it does not allow for marginalized groups to find a voice in the legislature. Even though there are moves to shift to a system of proportional representation, it seems unlikely that there will be a change anytime soon. Thus, Goans are chained to a political structure that they had no say in determining, and that clearly does not work for their territory, given that it reproduces persons who represent majoritarian politics. One wonders whether Goan politics may not have been dramatically different if the people of the territory were allowed to innovate with a proportional representation system followed in Portugal.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: raleway, sans-serif;">But Kapoor’s text is not merely illustrative of the problem that Goans have with the Indian elites. Rather, it exposes the colonial relationship of these elites with marginalized Indian populations. The trouble with the Indian elites is that they do not see themselves as a part of the political processes of the subcontinent, believing themselves too good for the rest of the citizens of India. Indeed, this is part of their adoption of the colonial gaze. These elites see the residents of the rest of the continent as a strange race that requires firm governance. The review of Kapoor’s book by Prashansa Taneja makes this quite obvious when she reports, “more often than not, she gives into the temptation to exoticise Delhi, and India, for the reader. Many Indian women cover their heads on a daily basis, but when Idha [the character in Kapoor’s book] does so at a Sufi shrine, she feels she becomes ‘Persian, dark-eyed, pious and transformed’.” One could argue that she succumbs to the use of clichés precisely because like other members of her class, Kapoor looks at the people in the city of Delhi, through a gaze adopted from the Raj.</span><br />
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-84228331103881405462016-10-14T20:35:00.003-07:002016-10-14T20:35:48.956-07:00Geopolitics from a Global perspective By UltraGoan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">We need to look at Geopolitics from a Global perspective.</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">India successfully TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE COLD WAR ( exploiting the tensions between the superpowers), by becoming a Soviet ally, and getting Soviet backing/veto to invade other territories.</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">A FEW EXAMPLES-</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">INDIAN ARMY invaded Goa in 1961 ( Soviet leader Brezhnev was in India at that time of war, backing India’s operations. . Also Soviets vetoed the UN Resolution calling for ceasefire and withdrawal of Indian forces. Therefore the US naval fleet could not react to the Indian Aggression)</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">INDIAN ARMY invaded Kashmir, Hyderabad 1948, Sikkim in 1974, without holding a plebiscite to determine these people’s wishes. No International intervention due to Soviet cover.</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">India INVADED East Pakistan in 1971 ( only after signing the Indo-Soviet Friendship treaty a few month earlier, which guaranteed Soviet support for the 1971 invasion). US (President Nixon) sent the Task Force 74 with aircraft carrier USS Enterprise to the Bay of Bengal. But the Soviet Navy dispatched two groups of ships, armed with nuclear missiles, who trailed US fleet. USSR also vetoed UN resolutions calling for ceasefire and withdrawal of Indian forces. Again, the US fleet could not bomb the Indian forces due to the COLD WAR politics. However, the presence of the US fleet, forced India to withdraw, creating a new nation of Bangladesh. Otherwise the East Pakistan territory would have been OCCUPIED territory ( like Goa, Kashmir, Sikkim, etc)</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">A GENOCIDE against the Sikhs by the INDIAN ARMY in the 1980s.. India got away with this crime, due to the COLD WAR tensions.</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">The last territory INDIAN ARMY illegally invaded, during the COLD WAR, was Sianchen Glacier in 1984. </span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">After the COLD WAR ended in 1990, India’s expansion also stopped. Another Soviet ally Iraq thought it could expand , and invaded Kuwait in 1990, but was quickly demolished by US (with no Soviet rescue) with huge reparation costs. India too realised that it had no cover from Russia, and would be susceptible to International Military Intervention, if it tried to INVADE any more territory. Now India is trying its best to HOLD ON to the territories it had already illegally INVADED in the past. But for how long ??</span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">KARGIL CONFLICT (1998) was the FIRST conflict fought by INDIA after the end of COLD WAR.... Initially, when gun-toting infiltrators were detected on Kargil mountains, the INDIAN ARMY and AIR FORCE threw everything at its disposal at the intruders. However, this could not achieve any substantial gains. Indian soldiers tried to climb the mountains to capture the peaks, but they were mowed down by AK- 47s. The entire Indian Air force kept bombing the mountains, but still, they could not accurately target the intruders at high altitudes. Only the accurate Swedish Bofors artillery Guns made some impact, but the constant shelling of the mountains caused a shortage of Bofors shells and spare parts.. The INDIAN ARMY was STUCK !! With their whole armoury slowly getting depleted. ----Next, the INDIAN ARMY then threatened to attack Pakistan by crossing the international border , but this was considered to be an aggressive act by the international community. Moreover, as an aggressor, India’s rival Pakistan would have got instant support ( via military hardware/logistics/ technology supplies from US) to punish India ..---- For the FIRST TIME, India was in a precarious situation with no Soviet protection/ Veto/ diplomatic support. So INDIAN ARMY had to abide by the International rules. They even kept their fighter jets within their own airspace. Unfortunately, two fighter jets accidentally strayed into Pakistani airspace and were swiftly shot down. ----But in the end, by following the rules obediently, India got the much needed international diplomatic support. Laser guided missiles/ technology (supplied by Israel, approved by US) were fitted into Indian Mirage 2000 fighter jets to accurately target the intruders at high altitudes. Heron surveillance drones ( from Israel) provided high altitude real-time imagery of targets. Bofors shells (given by South Africa/ Israel) provided greater firepower, which led to a significant Indian advantage during the conflict. The Pakistani infiltrators eventually withdrew from Kargil ,after a few months stay in these mountains, bowing down to negative international opinion. </span><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">As of today, INDIA has been reduced to just making external threats (of striking Pakistan) along with their Bollywood-style jingo Indian media/ news channels, to fool the illiterate/ ignorant Indians. Internally, however, the INDIAN forces continue to kill/ blind/ suppress the indigenous civilians ( Kashmiris, Manipuris, etc), although much reduced now, due to international monitoring since the massacres of the 1990s.</span></div>
Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-13926713799450365132016-10-14T20:33:00.000-07:002016-10-14T20:33:11.446-07:00UNFATHOMABLE EXISTENCES - INVENTED KNOWLEDGE OF THE SUGARCANDIES: False History and the Rest By A Pereira<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Pseudohistory covers a variety of theories that do not agree with the view of history that is commonly accepted by mainstream historians, which are often not properly researched, peer-reviewed, or supported by the usual historiographical methods. One of the primary examples of pseudohistory is Annexation denial, but many types of conspiracy theories are also properly classed as pseudohistory. One of the characteristics distinguishing pseudohistory from history is shared with other forms of pseudo-scholarship: the choice of medium. Normal scholarly debate, including legitimate historical revisionism, is conducted in specialised publications such as journals. Many pseudohistorians jump that step and directly publish their claims in a popular format, in books and articles aimed at the non-specialist general public that can not effectively evaluate their plausibility.</div>
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Though "real" history has many gaps and plausible assumptions are sometimes necessary, the historians behind it seek the truth and honest mistakes can be made. Pseudohistory is the work of intentional revisionism or deluded attempts to desperately prop up beliefs. This isn't to say different presumptions of history are unreasonable given ambiguous findings, but reasonable historians don't try to shoehorn their agenda into the past. Honest historical research tries to find the blanks that need to be filled in. Pseudohistory treats past events like Mad Libs.</div>
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The first principle of understanding history, I was taught, is to sympathise with the historical actors, to immerse oneself in their context and perspective. Otherwise, history becomes a fabricated reconstruction – more about the writer's ideology than the events of the past. Such a benchmark can be challenging when addressing advocates of false knowledge: how can one portray their claims as reasonable and false both? One seems to risk abandoning rationality and slipping into relativism.</div>
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Naive, biased, prejudiced, cynical, gullible, undiscriminating, unscrupulous, undisciplined, unorthodox, irrational, spiritual, flawed, fallacious, sensationalistic, amusing, quirky, eccentric, crazy, bizarre and embarassing, pathetic, off-beat, audacious (or 'almost unimaginably audacious'), outrageous, rhetorically clever, wild, extremist, over-eager, obsessive, manic, nefarious, reprehensible, and contemptible, not to mention communist and obfuscating. Pseudohistory is a 'charlatan's playground' of 'opportunists', targeting those all too 'willing to suspend disbelief' and slip into an 'abyss of fantasy'. It is 'corrosive of concepts of authority, objectivity and factual evidence' – an 'enemy unto Knowledge'. A triumph for those who revel in others' errors and credulity.</div>
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My historiography, however, seems to rest, in part, on a once popular but now outmoded epistemological model. Philosophers today acknowledge that human minds are the product of evolution, with various cognitive patterns and limitations. The conventional ideal of transcendental rationality (whether in philosophy, economics or other disciplines) is simply unrealistic. Epistemology has become naturalised. Cognitive science or psychology is now integral to understanding how we can know what we know – or what we don't know.</div>
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I ask, 'how can a person know what is truth and fact, and what is lie and error in history, or science for that matter?', - 'the answer is evidence'. Any 'educated person' or 'competent reader can and should be able to identify it [pseudohistory]'. This is the conventional rationalist's stance, echoed in other books about pseudoknowledge for a popular audience. Of course evidence is foundational. But when epistemics is naturalised, the problem is not so simple. One major cognitive phenomenon is confirmation bias: early perceptions and interpretations tend to shape later perceptions and interpretations. As a consequence, we often draw conclusions before all the relevant information is available or when evidence is essentially incomplete (the conventional fallacy of 'hasty generalisation'). In addition, our minds unconsciously filter observations, tending to select or highlight confirming examples, while discounting or peripheralising counterexamples. Ultimately, all the 'available evidence' is not really cognitively available. The believer in pseudohistory typically does respect the need for relevant evidence – and believes that it has been secured (witness their expansive volumes). Merely rehearsing the evidence against pseudohistorical claims, is hardly sufficient for remedying those beliefs – or for understanding why anyone holds them.</div>
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One cannot know everything. Typically, one relies on experts. Even experts rely on other experts. One inevitably depends on the testimony of others. But who is an expert? And how does the non-expert know? Even if reliability of evidence is the ultimate aim, assessing credibility becomes the proximate tool. The foremost challenge for most people becomes deciding who to believe – not what the evidence indicates. Trust is essential. (Ironically, believers in pseudoscience often parade their skepticism, challenging acknowledged experts.) In targeting reliable knowledge in practice, then, well-placed trust seems more important than the rationalist's widely touted skepticism. Social assessments of credibility loom larger than logic. In such contexts, attributions of gullibility offer little insight or guidance.</div>
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Equally important, when one addresses pseudohistory as beliefs, one implicitly adopts the challenge of interpreting a psychological phenomenon. Beliefs need not be rational or grounded in evidence at all. Indeed, beliefs sometimes (often? nearly always?) precede the 'justifications' that, post facto, are used or developed to rationalise them. It should surprise no one that a religious orientation will generate a history that legitmates its views, even if that history is false – or, further, that believers will seek to inscribe that account into unassailable nature or imbue it with some other form of irrefutable authority. No wonder, then, when counterevidence fails to weaken those beliefs. Given how our minds function, evidence and 'rational' thought are often secondary to belief. 'Kooks' are everywhere.<br />Even in the best of all possible (human) worlds, then, individuals can be mistaken. Even Nobel Prize winners. Smart people can advocate false history, paranormal phenomena and other 'weird things'.</div>
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Several academics espouse 'wrong' ideas: Barry Fell, Charles Hapgood, Martin Bernal, and others. But they remain a conundrum for me: their irrationality contravenes the academic mantle of absolute authority. Alternatively, one may well wonder how we manage to construct academic and other institutions that seem to buffer themselves against spurious thinking. We might want to celebrate how public institutions, for the most part, do not succumb to pseudohistory when it is so rampant in the culture, as well as to ask why this is the case. For conventional rationalists, rational belief is the expected norm, and one attributes 'deviation' from those norms to social and psychological factors. But the real challenge seems to be the symmetrical explanation: how does something as unusual or fragile as rationality, empirical science or reliable history emerge psychologically and socially? Most recent analyses by professional historians, philosophers and sociologists of science highlight the significance of the scientific community. Error is regulated socially, through a system of checks and balances. Individuals may each err or adopt idiosyncratic perspectives, but collectively, through critical discourse, they expose and accommodate each other's blind spots. The locus of scientific rationality (if one finds such a concept fruitful at all) thus lies at the community level, where different perspectives interact: a social epistemology. Contrasting cultural perspectives, properly deployed then, are a source of epistemic strength, not a handicap. Indeed, all the cases I describe have been resolved within the academic community through this social system – not through raw facts or brute methodology alone. In a healthy intellectual community, individuals who espouse pseudohistory become isolated and ineffectual. So, one may ask, in what ways is popular culture structured similarly or differently – and what types of mutual accountability result?</div>
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Scientific communities and their conclusions can still express bias. Witness historical cases of sexist theories of hysteria and other female behavior, racist theories of intelligence and human evolution, religious theories of Earth's age and history, and theories of eugenics, biological determinism and others. When scientists all share the same cultural perspective, bias can persist unchecked, even amidst claims of objectivity and evidence. In pursuing reliable knowledge, science thus relies epistemically on diverse communities. One might well apply that insight to non-academic communities, as well: conceptual or ideological homogeneity is generally not congenial to securing truth.</div>
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My concerns about pseudohistory include the popular context. On several occasions, I call upon the diffuse theme of a 'cultic milieu': a nebulous subculture (or counterculture) that serves as a reservoir for false beliefs and somehow nurtures their continuity. According to Colin Campbell, who introduced the concept, the cultic milieu is inherently heterodox and dissident. It thus celebrates free expression, the liberty of belief, and resistance to authority. In this view, pseudohistory, pseudoscience and pseudoreligion all reflect a similar and ineliminable feature of secular society: expect no remedy. Here (finally!) is an analytical claim to seed a potentially fruitful psychological and sociological analysis. A feature of singular value in my account is the dogged tracing of 'intellectual pedigrees'. Ideas discredited on one occasion, I show, tend to reappear later in another guise. The same false ideas are recycled time and again. That might lead one to explore, following Campbell's sketch, the social structure and communication networks and how they convey such ideas. How do certain cultural contexts or power relationships foster pseudohistory, eclipsing or peripheralising available evidence? I set aside this opportunity in favour of purely 'rationalist' criticism: apparently, we are simply to lament the 'vague anti-intellectualism' and fret about the 'nadir of objective and empirical knowledge'. The disparaging connotations of the term 'cultic' seem more valuable here than sociological analysis. My view of authority may be reflected, perhaps, in the immoderate use of epigraphs.</div>
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While focusing primarily on threats to the integrity of academic rationality, I have also touched upon the cultural consequences of false beliefs. Unscrupulous profit, foremost. Power, too. Fun, amusement and entertainment, perhaps (Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones, etc.) – but apparently unjustifiably given the lies. Add mass suicides, racist serial killings and civil war, and you have quite a spectre. Yet the causal power or role of the historical claims is usually overstated. The history typically seems to rationalise other, deeper motives, such as in-group identity, out-group blame or political power. 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult died in 1997 believing they were the privileged team to board a spaceship that had arrived to annihilate Earth. But their motives were surely more about belonging to something larger than themselves than adhering to some alien apocalyptic tale. One can find flaws in the Nation of Islam's historical claims, too. But as my notes, members also found personal stability and purpose, adopting a healthy and abstemious diet, while refraining from alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, promiscuity, adultery, prostitution and gambling. One may ask about the scale of harm in some subsidiary details of a derived false history (which surely had little to do with promoting racist or religious behavior) compared with such benefits. I implies that if pseudohistory, etc., were remedied by rational (factual and methodologically correct) thinking, we would forestall racism, anti-Semitism, religious cults, capitalistic exploitation, etc. This causal connection is, of course, far from established.</div>
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Some claims of pseudohistory or pseudoscience do warrant public concern: for example, Holocaust denial, the teaching of creationism or 'intelligent design', or portraying global warming as a hoax. These are significant to both public and personal decision making. To solve such problems, I suggest more teaching of critical thinking. This would seem plausible, were it not for the empirical evidence otherwise. Belief in the paranormal is extraordinarily resilient to such teaching (as currently taught). Levels of belief, for example, have remained steady over several decades as 'critical thinking' instruction has spread. Deeper thinking seems to be correlated, rather, with personalities that are open to new experiences, and that also exercise high standards of proof: reflecting a natural selection epistemic model, coupling blind variation and selective retention. Education surely seems appropriate, but only if we use a better model of 'critical thinking' (or 'rationality').</div>
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Deeper historical understanding of the cognitive and social origins of error, as profiled above, can guide reform. First, we need to dramatise the cognitive flaws associated with appeal to 'evidence' and 'logical thinking'. Too often, imagined justification is merely superficial rationalisation. We need to instill some appreciation of the fallibility of our minds. Evidence can be deceptive. Awareness of confirmation bias is foundational. Second, we need to underscore the role of social checks and balances and of distributed expertise (and sanctioned, or registered, credibility). That means profiling occasions for trust and respecting others' perspectives. Ironically, echoing the experience of the ancient Greeks, we may need to deflate epistemological hubris and instill greater intellectual humility. Third, we need to foster tolerance and the valuing of heterogeneous perspectives and even seeking of alternative views – along with the responsibility of engaging critics. That, in turn, may involve nurturing a strong sense of self and personal security (a worldview not threatened by difference). More may be needed, but let these three benchmarks help us begin to restructure the meaning of teaching effective thinking skills.</div>
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More effective education will also need to respect the research literature on teaching and learning. Informed educators now reject the model of authority whereby teachers list known fallacies, provide illustrations, and test for recall and taxonomy. Professional educators underscore the value of problem-based learning. Students need to be engaged in the process to develop skills: by following exemplars and practicing applications. Episodes such as discussed could be valuable case studies in such an education. But to be effective, one must recreate the historical contexts, problems and information at hand as in historical simulations. One must sympathise with the central characters and appreciate the reasonableness of error, given an incomplete view. That can then be contrasted to the later, more complete view. One must appreciate the 'ironic diptych' of reasonableness and falsity that often characterises history. Understanding the awkward relationship of alternative perspectives is how one can tame relativism without resorting to artificial absolutes. My account, unfortunately, leave you wanting for just such an enriched historical understanding.</div>
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It is all that - Pseudo-historians capitalise on and exploit anomalies in evidence to support their claims, rather than examining the preponderance of research as a whole.</div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-2993111162009211592016-10-14T20:29:00.002-07:002016-10-14T20:29:56.157-07:00GOA AND ITS CONTRADICTORY SHIFTY PSEUDO—HISTORIANS By A Pereira<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In which and what manner does a "rift" cause "unity"? Allow us to explain.</div>
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BJP very well sponsored this particular film;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RObk8XNMkM&list=PL490D5056A33D7FE7" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch…</a></div>
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...to garner votes, unfortunately it didn't work out as how Manohar wanted it to be, it caused a rift amongst "beliefs". Goa Freedom Struggle is a C-grade cheap flick based on illiterate personal sentiments, and not based on the basis of "law". It does please uneducated individuals who have yet to understand their present situation, who are infact stuck in a time where Parasurama excereted in a river, and that he defecated to such an extent towards which a mound was formed that dried in the oh! so lovely, tropical weather, and he named it Goa!</div>
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What astounds us "sensible Goans" that how can this Mr. Pseudohistorian be proud of the same "C-grade film" and mumble on "Pesal Bhaji (Special Status)" for Goans on the same wavelength towards asking "unity" amongst us?</div>
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Mr. Pseudohistorian needs to hold an public apology towards acting in the film and calling it "true history", by damaging our sentiments. And even if he does it someday, we are sure it won't be enough to please the masses but only the foolish, as it'll only be carried out to provide another with their own "ulterior motives".</div>
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Even the book on the said Inquisition written by the Brotherhood of Happy Jewish Dicks of Priol (Anand Cockbhai Priolcar) too is extremely exaggerated and fabricated. One can take an account with a few what many have to say on the said book:-</div>
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1. It is a bit of a puzzle to understand the man and his ideas. It was he who played the most important role – at least in the subcontinent – in shaping our understanding of the Inquisition. Priolcar wrote around the 1960s, quite some time ago, and often in Marathi.</div>
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2. Priolcar’s book ‘The Goa Inquisition: The Terrible Tribunal for the East’ was published in 1961, and printed at the Bombay University Press (Fort, Bombay). It was reprinted in Goa this year. In between, the Hindutva-oriented Delhi-based Voice of India press also published a second impression in 1991.</div>
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3. Dr. Teotónio R de Souza mentions: Priolcar was a Bombay-based Goan Gaud Saraswat Brahmin who produced literary output as linguist and historian in the 1960s. His research served to buttress pro-Marathi and pro-Hindu interests. He emphasised the excesses of (the) Inquisition and the cultural backwardness of Goan Christians and their Concanim ‘dialect’. He reserved to Marathi the distinction of being the true literary and cultural language of Goa.... I wish to classify this type of writings as ‘Priolcar-Angle literature’.</div>
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4. Priolcar relies heavily on the accounts of Buchanan and Dellon, the latter who was caught up in the Inquisition. Claudius Buchanan (1766-1815) was “a Scottish theologian, an ordained minister of the Church of England, and an extremely ‘low church’ missionary for the Church Missionary Society.” Nothing wrong with that, of course, as every man has the right to hold his religious preferences. Buchanan apparently had a problem with anything that didn’t fit in with his own views on religion. Buchanan “resorted to a simple juxtaposition to demonstrate the superiority of rational Christian life to a morally repugnant Hindu culture. Christianity and Hinduism were [to him] inverse reflections of one another, but Christianity had demonstrated its effects and the civilising power to overcome all the crimes and superstitions that tormented India.” His “encounters” while touring India are interesting too. He meets native Syrian Christian communities along southwestern India’s coast, who trace their lineage to a legendary first-century visit by Jesus’s own apostle, Thomas. Buchanan wanted to see the Syrian branch transplanted on the Church of England. He visits Roman Catholic populations in the South, and is shocked to find priests “better acquainted with the Veda of Brahma than with the Gospel of Christ”. His encounter with the Inquisition is described from pg. 91 onwards of the book Was Hinduism invented? by Brian Kemble Pennington. As Priolkar mentions, he visited Goa at the time when British troops were stationed here. (Or, in Priolcar’s words, “The forts in the harbour of Goa, were then occupied by British troops (two King’s regiments, and two regiments of Native infantry) to prevent its falling into the hands of the French.” Author Brian Kemble Pennington says Buchanan’s “resulting account of Catholicism in India included not only clerical abuse, empty ritual, moral laxity, and papal tyranny, but even a hint of human sacrifice.” Interestingly, Buchanan was “not less indignant at the Inquisition of Goa, than I had been with the temple of Juggernaut” (sic). These are fine individuals through whose eyes we rely on to understand our past (or to play political games in the present).</div>
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5. David Higgs in The Inquisition in Late Eighteenth-Century Goa, in Goa; Continuity and Change, edited by Narendra K. Wagle and George Coehlo (sic), University of Toronto 1995, gives us another perspective when he acknowledges the role Priolcar’s 1961 study played in shaping the debate. Higgs writes: “Priolcar drew heavily on secondary sources in his sketch on the Goan Inquisition, especially on a late seventeenth-century Frenchman, Gabriel Dellon, arrested in Goa, whose case was made famous by the denunciatory account of his experiences published after his return from France.” He calls Dellon’s version an “exuberant account of his misfortunes”. Likewise, Higgs points out, Priolcar also used the “over-imaginative account of a British clergyman, C. Buchanan, who wanted to think that what he was not allowed to see in Old Goa in 1808 was what Dellon inveighed at more than a century earlier.”</div>
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Any educated versed historian will explain towards why was the Inquisition placed here in Goa, or better known as 'Orlem Gor'.</div>
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When we particularly questioned this Mr. Pseudohistoian, we were confound to understand that he had no "answer" at all for more than 24 hrs., this is an exact extract posted to the same:-</div>
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QUESTIONABLE SO-CALLED LIBERATION OF 1961</div>
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In concern of Art. 49 of the Geneva Conventions, this is how some Citizens of the Indian Union behave in Goa.</div>
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At Inst. Nsa. Sra. da Piedade em Nova Goa.</div>
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Mr. Sacordandó,</div>
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Nice of you to support Goa. But few stop at certain explanations and delve not much.</div>
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If you care for Goa, you should know that it was demarcated in 1788. British India, Portuguese India, Dutch and French India were all different entities. Indian Consulate was housed in Damodar Mangalji & Cia edifice in Pangim.</div>
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Before the history professor Mr. Prajal Sacordandó can enlighten us, please note that, we will only match our thoughts if the other comprehends with detailed facts of evolved homo sapiens and not bow/arrow theories.</div>
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Allow us for the "enlightenment" process, wherein you shall understand Goa's case in simple English.</div>
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1. Were you Mr. Prazal Sacordandó as an indigenous Goan consulted at any given time by a special "Visiting Mission" of the UN as per their Resolutions 1541/42 - A Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples?</div>
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2. Then Mr. Prazal Sacordandó, A treaty is void if, at the time of its conclusion, it conflicts with ius congens of general international law. The number of ius congens is considered limited but not exclusively catalogued. They are not listed or defined by any authoritative body, but arise out of case law and changing social and political attitudes. Generally included are prohibitions on waging aggressive war, crimes against humanity, war crimes, maritime piracy,genocide, apartheid, slavery, torture. As an example, international tribunals have held that it is impermissible for a state to acquire territory through war. As per the Vienna Conventions. Hence the Treaty between Portugal (Soares) & India (Chavan) is nothing but a farce, a sham.</div>
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3. Are there any Treaty's signed by Regedores of the 223 Comunidades/Gãocarias of Goa with the Indian government?</div>
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4. Was a plebiscite ever held between 1961 - 74?</div>
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5. Article 49, 6th paragraph, of the Geneva Convention IV provides: “The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies."</div>
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Additional Protocol I:- Article 85(4)(a) of the 1977 Additional Protocol I provides that “the transfer by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies” is a grave breach of the Protocol.</div>
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ICC (International Criminal Court) Statute:- Under Article 8(2)(b)(viii) of the 1998 ICC Statute, “[t]he transfer, directly or indirectly, by the Occupying Power of parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies” constitutes a war crime in international armed conflicts.</div>
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Nowadays we term people who have crossed the frontiers of Goa as "Ganttias".</div>
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So Mr. Prazal Sacordandó, what does the Indian Military Manual mention? And even if there is one! That to term Annexations as Liberation?</div>
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6. What is the exact meaning of "Satiamev Jaiate"?</div>
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Please note Mr. Prazal Sacordandó, Special Status or even the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of India is nothing but a "sham", others are only fooling indigenous Goans again and after, if Goans want to get fooled for ever and ever, then it is fine for them.</div>
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Kind Regards,<br />A. Lyndon Pereira.</div>
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So, who’s taking up this strong language of polemic and using it for today’s purposes? When you come across counter-views that challenge past perspectives and claims on the Inquisition, it’s time for a re-think. More so when we have ample documentation about the Black Legend created (for instance, by the Dutch about the Spaniards, their rivals) in centuries past, due to colonial and religious rivalries.</div>
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Is the Inquisition related to the International Court of Justice and or United Nation. One cannot relate Bows and Arrows to Mortars or Booby Traps or for say Missiles! The International Red Cross society too mentions how we as Homo Sapiens have evolved. Hence the conventions, resolutions et cetera. Speaking of Inquisition for the Freedom Struggle of Goa and or Speaking of Inquisition towards Special Status for Goa - is as good as watching the movie BACK TO THE FUTURE and a CAVE MAN starring in the same as "Doc" as Mr. Pseudohistorian.</div>
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What I personally witness is History based on personal emotions of cave man period, than based on the basis of international law and evolution of homo sapiens.</div>
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There’s no point getting defensive about the realities of the past. But what happens if these ‘realities’ are not quite accurate, and, in fact, based on a whole lot of myth?</div>
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The "Jews of the Indies" have traits to fool the masses as always and one has to be aware of such kinds. One may not agree with some of the categorisations above, but there’s hint enough about the interest-groups who give current-day fuel to the - Inquisition flame and Fake Liberation theory.</div>
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How we define History is like this. History is a record of events, most of which ought not to have happened, but did happen because some of those in power influence made them happen for their selfish benefit mostly by Subjugation of those powerless. Our immense interest in History is to find out the real causes behind those events based on and not to be called as a historian.</div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-18990627533664560912016-10-10T22:26:00.001-07:002016-10-10T22:26:44.518-07:00Contribution Of Christians In Goa's Progress – by A. Veronica Fernandes, Candolim<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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BJP’s “Christian appeasement” ‘forced’ formation of GSM (Goa Suraksha Manch), the newly political party disclosed this, as appeared in the Herald on 05.10.16. This political party accuses Goan Christians as promoters of western culture and western education. Christian bashing looks to be the main purpose of this party.</div>
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It is a hard fact that Christian bashing was started openly immediately after Goa was invaded by Bharat, by those who dubbed Chrstians as Pro-Portuguez. Many of them were wrongly informed that Hind means Hindu Raj and this view in his mind, on 17thDecember 1961 at about 7.00 PM, one Dhobi Esso from Candolim Orda when he came to deliver the laundry of Candolim Asst. Parish Priest Fr. Marcus Menezes, where Esso got the news that Indian military already entered Goa, Esso left the laundry in the Church premises and ran home like a mad man shouting bad words against Christians saying“tumkam atam ami kitem tem dakoitoleaum, tumkam ami marun kobar kortoleaum, tumcheo igorzo ani kopelam ami moddun kobar kortoleaum etc.</div>
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Elsewhere from Siolim and Chopdem side the promoters of Hindu Raj came in big Trucks and Tempos in our side on 20th-21st-23rd December playing Drums and hailing Hindu Raj and in Candolim at least for 2-3 days after 19th December some fanatic Hindus namely Shamba Xet, Balkrishna and others started abusing Christians and their Saint Sr. Francis Xavier and also taunting Him saying “where is gone your Forsulo now?” Thy were also firing crackers in front of the houses of Christians and also in front of some Christian passers-by taunting them as pro-Portuguese.</div>
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The formation of Maharastrawadi Gomantak Party immediately after 19.12.61 was an act against Goan Christians in the sense to decimate the power of Christians by making Marathi as official language and thereby weaken the power of Christians in Goa who are almost foreign to Marathi. Secondly, the followers of MGP were under the impression that Goan Christians enjoyed better facilities during Portuguese time and for this they should be punished by merging them with Maharashtra which is a big ocean where they will dissolve and live like non-entities without any importance. MGP was under the impression that Goan Christians were the promoters of Western culture, language and traditions and as such they are pro-Portuguese. By dumping them in Maharashtra will be the best course of action to liquidate the influence of Goan Christians in Goa. This view was also subscribed by the Nagri Konknnivadis. According to MGP, in Christian community there was no Bahujan Samaj, it was only in Hindu community, for this reason MGP is called communal party.</div>
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It is wrong notion that Goan Christians are pro-Portuguez. The involvement of Goan Christians in the freedom movement was second to none. The first mighty revolutionaries who revolted against the Portuguese rule in Goa were the Christians and moreover they were priests from Candolim known as Pintos. When they were caught they were punished very savagely. Dr. Francis Luis Gomes the Goan parliamentarian in Portugese Parliament who raised his voice in support of Goa’s liberation was a Christian too. Likewise there are so many Christians who fought against Portuguez rule in Goa. Overwhelming majority of Salcette Freedom Fighters were prominent Christians having secular principles and not fanatic anti-Christians as many from the North.</div>
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Our Church leaders should have told the faithful from the Pulpit and Altar the contribution of Christians in the service of Goa to make ignorant Christians aware of the excellent work done by Chrisitians in getting Goa liberated from the Portuguez rule. Instead our Church leaders behaved like cowards, slaves and ignorant with fear complex instilled in them by the crooks from the opposite camp who thought they alone were responsible to create an awakening against Portuguez rule in Goa.</div>
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During Portuguez time the entire Mining Industry was in the hands of Hindus and the major portion of Commerce was also in the hands of Hindus. Most of the government jobs were in the hands of Hindus only. Where were Christians then to enjoy better facilities?</div>
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Was it not wrong then to say Christians were given better facilities by the Portuguez? Christians were used after 19.12.61 by the interested persons and segments to get better dividends for them. For example: During Opinion Poll the entire Christian community was used to win this Poll. For Konkani movement again the entire Christian community was used to support Konkani and in the end the script used by Christians was rejected and Nagri script was forced on Christians by the crook Konknni Nagrivadis. For any mass movement Christians only came forward to support the Goan causes. Christians showed much higher patriotism for Goa and Goan causes even though they wore western dress and many of them converse in Western language more fluently, this does not mean they are the followers of west. They are as Indian as any other Goan Indian though Indian citizenship was forced on Goans by Indian government. </div>
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Why those who bash Goan Christians as promoters of western culture and education don’t stop wearing western clothes and taking western education? They are traitors and jealous of Christians and the progress Goan Christians have made. Becaause they are jealous of Diocesan Schools they want to starve them by cancelling the grant to these schools as if they are giving this grant from their Azo’z account. The Diocesan Schoools are not discriminating between students from Hindus and Christians. These schools serve all the communities and not only Chrisitans. Last time MLA Wagh was roaring like a“Ranantlo” Vagh in the Goa Legislative Assembly against these schools but within a short time had to be admitted into Bombay Hospital where he is still not fully recovered (Devachea Marank Avaz Na), thus goes one Konkani proverb.</div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-31366399614840604482016-10-02T23:43:00.002-07:002016-10-02T23:43:12.292-07:00Movement for Special Status discusses action plan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicde, Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The young members expressed their deep anxiety that in no time Indigenous Goans will be a minority in their own homeland. They also sought to know that if India has adhered to the Indo-Portuguese Treaty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicde, Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was resolved to study all the issues and spread the movement all across Goa. Members also wanted to expose the Goan politicians who have reaped personal benefits by singing the Special Status tune. It was resolved to bring out a comprehensive document defining the tenets and the parameters of Special Status.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicde, Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was also resolved to form village level committees and hold awareness programmes on what Goa as a decolonised territory is actually entitled for. It was also resolved to force the panchayats to look into the conditions of migrants staying on rent in small cubicles as this amounts to human rights violations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Lucida Sans Unicde, Lucida Grande, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The MSSG would petition the Directorate of Panchayats to impose the mandatory submission of PAN cards as rent is taxable income.</span></div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-52724182708638837852016-09-21T07:50:00.001-07:002016-09-21T07:50:45.132-07:00Goans Set To Lose Voting Rights – by Marcos Alemao<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It is wrong on the part of ECI to make the Representation Act and Election Rules applicable to Goans who obtained Portuguese Passports and delete their names from the election rolls. The Goans born before December 19, 1961 are already Portuguese citizens by birth and after the Indian Military took over Goa on Dec 19th 1961, they became Indian Citizens by right, as such they should not lose their voting right.</div>
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The central Government under BJP rule is forcibly trying to evict Goans from the soil of Goa, where they were born and lived. This BJP Government supported by RSS is trying to finish Goans especially Christians from their own land. Lakhs of Gujaratis migrated to UK with UK passports did they lose their voting right. Pondichery was ruled by the French and many of them already migrated to France or other European countries, did they lose their voting right. Why only Goans should lose their voting right?</div>
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Secondly many people (migrants) migrated to Goa and are staying in Goa, they have everything, ration cards, voting cards obtained by bribing, talatis and mamlatdars and with blessing of the sitting MLAs. Many of them have voting cards in Goa as well as in their states. The joint CEO Mr Narayan Navti should check and delete their names from election roles. Perhaps even the joint CEO will have his name on election roll in Goa.</div>
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Vivaportugalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08265293451712455416noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426836586264261664.post-84202274728293651382016-09-08T21:55:00.000-07:002016-09-08T21:55:02.478-07:00CASTELESS SOCIETY? By Adv. Radharao Gracias<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It would be a lie, to claim that there is no caste among Christians, in Goa. How did an essentially egalitarian religion, come to be associated with the pernicious caste system? To find an answer, one has to go back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when local people embraced Christianity.</div>
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There was no concept called Hinduism at that time. There were only Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vysas and Shudras with their sub castes. For the missionaries, it was a strange situation as there was no religion in their sense of the term. So, they called the practice “Konknne”, thus giving the religion a geographical connotation, which is how Hinduism also got its name.</div>
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So, entire village communities embraced the new faith, lock, stock and barrel (perhaps the feni came in the barrel !). The new converts were accustomed to live a hierarchical existence, with the upper castes dominating the lower castes, over thousands of years. And this was imported into the new faith. Caste is like the chassis and engine numbers embedded into a car. Even if wiped off the numbers can still be traced. And the missionaries were unable to do much about it.</div>
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Was force necessary to compel the communities to embrace Christianity in the sixteenth century ? For an answer, consider what happened in the year 1980 after the Assembly and Parliamentary elections in Goa. The rest of the country voted massively for Congress (I). Goa alone, once again proved to be “ajeeb”, as Nehru had found in 1963. Congress (I) was routed. Congress (U) swept the polls winning twenty three out of thirty seats. And overnight, the Congress (U) converted to Congress (I). The reasons given were, that it was in the interest of the people to join the party in power at the center for the purpose of development. I can visualise a similar thing happening, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when the people embraced Christianity, the faith of the winners. And for the same reasons !</div>
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A change however, is now discernable. Economic, educational advancement and travel is helping the Christian community abandon old prejudices and coalesce into a homogenous unit. Inter caste marriages are now more of a rule than an exception. Catholics are now progressing from caste to egalitarianism. And from feni to scotch, you may say !</div>
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The origin of caste may be traced to Bhagwad Gita, Rigveda and Manu Smriti. The Gita says, “The work of the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vysas are different, in harmony with the three powers of their born nature”, and goes on to enumerate, the works of each caste. According to Dr.R.Unni: “Manu divides Hindus into four Varnas i.e. casteism. He not only divides Hindus into four Varnas, he also grades them. Besides, prescribing rank and occupation Manu grants privileges to Swarnas and imposes penalties on the Shudras. The status of the Shudras in the Hindu Society is prescribed by Manu the law giver. There are so many codes against the Shudras and women.”</div>
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Can Hinduism exist without caste? For an answer, one has to examine the essential features of the religion, namely :</div>
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“Rita (“truth” or “order”), in Indian religion and philosophy, the cosmic order mentioned in the Vedas, the ancient sacred scriptures of India. As Hinduism developed from the ancient Vedic religion, the concept of rita led to the doctrines of dharma (duty) and karma (accumulated effects of good and bad actions). Rita is the physical order of the universe, the order of the sacrifice, and the moral law of the world. Because of rita, the sun and moon pursue their daily journeys across the sky, and the seasons proceed in regular movement. ....... Violation (anrita) of the established order by incorrect or improper behaviour, even if unintentional, constituted sin and required careful expiation.</div>
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Dharma is the religious and moral law governing individual conduct and is one of the four ends of life. In addition to the dharma that applies to everyone (sadharana dharma)—consisting of truthfulness, non-injury, and generosity, among other virtues—there is also a specific dharma (svadharma) to be followed according to one’s class, status, and station in life.</div>
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Karma, (“act”), the universal causal law by which good or bad actions determine the future modes of an individual’s existence. Karma represents the ethical dimension of the process of rebirth (samsara), belief in which is generally shared among the religious traditions of India. Indian soteriologies (theories of salvation) posit that future births and life situations will be conditioned by actions performed during one’s present life—which itself has been conditioned by the accumulated effects of actions performed in previous lives. The doctrine of karma thus directs adherents of Indian religions toward their common goal: release (moksha) from the cycle of birth and death. Karma thus serves two main functions within Indian moral philosophy: it provides the major motivation to live a moral life, and it serves as the primary explanation of the existence of evil.”</div>
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Thus Hinduism enjoins that every individual must abide by Rita (Cosmic order) and follow Dharma. Afterlife, according to Hinduism is a matter of births and rebirths depending on the Karma of the individual. If he leads a pious life as enjoined by Dharma, he will finally attain Moksha otherwise, he will continue to be born into various life forms or castes according to his conduct. Thus a Shudra has to perform the Dharma enjoined on a Shudra. It is for this reason that when Shambuka a Shudra went into penance, Ram decapitated him because a Shudra had violated the Rita by doing penance not permissible for a Shudra. Similarly, Ekalavya had to sacrifice his thumb because not being a Kshatriya, he was not entitled to the knowledge of warfare.</div>
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Now, that being the case, can one be casteless and Hindu at the same time ? I am afraid that just as there can be no Christianity without Christ, there can be no Hinduism without Caste. If half a millennium of Christianity could not wipe out caste, how can Hinduism do it? Thus, an egalitarian society, as envisaged by the Constitution, is an impossible dream.</div>
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