The Chief Minister Pramod Sawant is trying to wipe out Portuguese traces after liberation to start afresh. I suggest he should first get rid of drugs which is damaging our youth's future and subjecting our families to conditions of poverty. Some tribals were exploited socially, economically and politically during colonial rule. The Goa inquisition upto 1820 was a major blot. There was compulsion on converts to follow Christian lifestyle, persecution of non converts whether Hindus or Muslims, torture and execution as per the verdicts of inquisition, religious intolerance and displacement of non religious sites were existent. The villages were completely neglected. No civilized society re-writes, re-builds, re-corrects and repeats history. The colonial rule was propagated by absence of civil liberties and suppression of our local language Konkani. Colonisation is a part of history. No colonised areas in the world attempt to destroy signs and signatures after they emerge as independent nations. They know little when Goa was a colony. Portugal was under dictatorship and we locals had to struggle for freedom and civil liberties. They were equally oppressed and suppressed, even their language.
