Date: 10.12.2019
To
The Editor,
Sir For your approval and publication.
Fight to retain our Goan identity.
A Niz Goenkar s fight for Goan Identity is not a yesterdays
realization and today's cry. Despite the
Portuguese Rule of 450 years People of Goa managed to retain its unique native Culture
thus making Goa one of the most multicultural showcases in India. we have
inherited our beautiful Goa from our ancestors for safe keeping and passing it
on to the next generation. Many years back I along with many others had shown
our concern to the erosion of our unique Goan identity and the influx of
migrant in this tiny state of ours only to get brick batted by a few giving pretext
of humanity and Indian constitution. Failed by our politicians to safe guard
Goa for posterity every Goan has a hilly task ahead to preserve whatever left .
There is no harm in demanding jobs for the niz Goenkars. distribution of Goan resources to the sons of
the soil. The Niz Goenkar may not win this masive task without the support of
the neo Goans who has to realize that here is a Goan who has inherited this
beautiful Land from his forefathers and the Neo Goan has been living in sync with the Niz Goenkar for the last 30 years and
will live forever but not by snatching what is rightfully his and depriving Niz
Goenkar his right . For all this to happen the identification of the Niz Goenkar
is utmost important hence I will support the POGO bill. Let the politicians
play their vote bank politics but this unique identification of Niz Goankar is
important so our future generations are not displaced and deprived of their
right to our mother land by this rapid wave of cultural erosion and identity crises.
Clarence Alvares
Sangolda 9822103221
