Thoroughbred Goans

Lino Leitão

The Northerners (India) call Goans as Goanese in a derogatory fashion, as if they are a Master Race.

The Peace- Loving Nehru, who is also a Brahmin, though a failed Peace-Practitioner, belittled Goans calling them butlers and cooks, as if, such occupations are polluting.

A Khoro Niz Goyancar (from all the sectors of the Goan population) feels to his/her bone the bond, the cord that strings him/her to Goan Soul. He/She knows the joy and the pain to be a Goan.

Goan culture is not boorish or depraving as depicted in the tourist brochures in the North. It is a vibrant culture with decent moral values. It is not a culture for the bigoted minds.

Goan intellectuals during Colonial Era stood against the Supremacy of this nature – Acto Colonial –1930. Such a bent of mind toward Supremacy by the Northerners is outright despicable.

submitted to TGF by
Lino Leitão
January 21, 2001

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