Author: Carmo D'Souza

Crowd from Goa on British shores

WHERE IS MY CHEESE?

WHERE IS MY LAND?

Who took it away, away../

Or  in reality land was never mine.

Is it my fault? Was it my choice?

Am I a perpetrator? or a victim of history.? or seller, broker of my own land?

Or just a a person who happened to be there?

It happened in a tiny place in Estado da India.

Misleading to translate it as State of India.

But so it was historically known.

Once it meant territories after crossing cape of GOOD GOPE

Some even included the sea, besides the land.

A WILD PRESUMPTION –of power that  believed the world was theirs

as a resident in the territory called Gaonv? .

My ancestors registered our family in village records.

 as GANVKAR  and then  due to climate and other factors went to sleep.

AND  WENT TO SLEEP  .

Mean while some others tried the level best  to penetrate the  system.

From here as well as far as Europe.

A few succeeded .

It was recorded in DOCUMENT  CALLED  FORAL

WE CALLED IT our MAGNA CARTA.

SURE THAT our  Rights   HAD ACHIEVED IMORTALITY.

WAS IT SO? OR FAILED JURISPRUDENCE  on which our  ancestors relied??

TODAY MY IDEENTITY IS QUESTIONED.

Did I really have one?

Was that a dream ?

A Autonomous village system _ ( an ancestral dream?)

These are not verses? nor poetry Nor prose.

Just words for you to imagine., reflect interpret or…?

Exercise on research, history, imagination,

How to produce a family journal

Based on reality, past, present and futuristic,

Select a name.  Ex.D’ Souza family touches.  Family experiences,

Select a place for publication; real. Imaginary, earth, moon, terrestrial or space.

Select age, present or Future,

Select positions; editor, invitees, reporters, bloggers. futuristic vision

Can use columns; Copy from different age, language,

Use different; printing technology  

Examples,

Manuscripts handwritten, carbon copies,  Cyclostyled Xerox, or blocks, (we used all depending on period)

Use different periods (examples, 1900, 1950, 1960, 2000 in Goa,

(By Portuguese, English, romi Konkani papers )

Teach and learn.

It is noticeable among youngsters that some of them can learn by teaching

It is a social and natural device.

ON way to examination,  

One day my travelling companion asked me a question?

I told I had NOT prepared for that.

Among a set of five assignments

WE had to write just on one

She told me an elaborate answer.

For that test, I got the highest marks in the class.

One  learns by teaching, one learns by learning cum teaching.

Many online courses provide faculty positions where one studies

So it is paying, earning and leaning.

STUDY- PAY-LEARN- TEACH AND  EARN.

THAT IS THE FUTURE.

Exercise. Find on line courses where you can study and they also provide platform for teaching same or ther courses. 

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Teach and learn.

It is noticeable among youngsters that some of them can learn by teaching

It is a social and natural device.

ON way to examination,   

One day my travelling companion asked me a question?

I told I had NOT prepared for that.

Among a set of five assignments

WE had to write just on one

She told me an elaborate answer.

For that test, I got the highest marks in the class.

One  learns by teaching, one learns by learning cum teaching.

Many online courses provide faculty positions where one studies

So it is paying, earning and leaning.

STUDY- PAY-LEARN- TEACH AND  EARN.

THAT IS THE FUTURE.

Exercise. Find on line courses where you can study and they also provide platform for teaching same or ther courses. 

Have we traveled different paths?

Courts, lawers , litigants , and politicians . 

I see some sections of society walking rapidly and vigorously.

Towards their own set goals.

Some are based..on academic material 

Like they study in college. 

Some are from the patriots 

Who were youngsters  during midnight. 

influenced by midnight speech dream 

Some were other  patriots -who loved their country-   a product of times. 

Some were influenced by the grandeur of  judgements and of law. 

For some it was sounds of history and law

that rumbling thunder in indian skies. 

Well recorded and linked to Marshal and Cardozo.

in line and tune to those greats .

Question 

Is it times for Indian jurisprudence to reflect . the different dimensions of Constitutionalism?
 

MORE TO GIVE.

There are several dimensions that can be attached to the word Give.

Give says the mother and the child learns first emotions correlated to  giving.

Sometimes the child refuses to part.

Children do it often with strangers.

But let  go in favour of their mother.

Some refuse to give 

And  learns emotion of sulking.

Give until it hurts ,says the preacher.

He has indicated the breath and depth of giving.

Give me more, asked a famished beggar child.

I HAVE GIVEN YOU SAYS THE RICH LADY.

That is the abuse that one faces with charity  adds  her husband.   

When requested for a measure of rice.

Give a measure full to the brim says –proverbial  Goan habit.

More to Give is the slogan of an organ donation Campaign

There are so many organs that can be spared from a  corpse 

MAKE A GIFT WHEN ALIVE

 if one has made mind to donate one, More to give is feasible. .

REVISITING INIDIAN HISTORY – A MODERN DAY ISSUE

We need to revisit history

In a  huge academic exercise.

May be through webinars ,seminars and conferences

At historical , scientific and other levels,

Involving world wide  historians, social scientists, and other voices that matter.

Using excavations, fossils and other equipments,

Shipwrecks , coins, treasures , fossils

Taking due care  to extract  out ,

Weeds  if necessary .

The cacophony produced

   the other voices that dominated history.

Manipulating it to serve certain interests.

Project may be paid , voluntary , or others

However that take care of independence of approach.

Where talent is not for sale.

But objectivity as been adhered  too.

To be true to himself?.