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Goa, Daman and Diu Goa, Daman and Diu have been a part of my life since my adolescence for several years. This is despite the fact that I had never visited nor was sure of the exact geographical locations of Daman and Diu tiny territories. Names of these two territories along with Goa have been included in my higher secondary certificate as this public examination was conducted from 1975 to mid-1980s by the Goa, Daman and Diu Board for Secondary and Higher Secondary Education. The only far remote connection I had to Daman and Diu was that these territories were part of Portuguese India, comprising Goa, Daman and Diu for over four and half centuries. This legacy of Portuguese colonialism had kept the three territories united even after Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru through a military action liberated these three areas from the Portuguese rule on December 11, 1961. After their merger into India, Goa, Daman and Diu turned a Union Territory although Goa was on Maharashtra’s coast...

पोर्तुगीज महाकवी लुई वाझ डी केमॉईसचा गोव्यातील पूर्णाकृती पुतळा आधी फोडला गेला, मग हटवला गेला, त्याची गोष्ट पडघम  - साहित्यिक कामिल पारखे पोर्तुगीज महाकवी लुई वाझ डी केमॉईसचा गोव्यातील पुतळा Fri , 31 July 2020 पडघम साहित्यिक लुई वाझ डी केमॉईस Luís Vaz de Camões जॉर्ज फ्लॉयड George Floyd ब्लॅक लाइव्हज मॅटर्स Black Lives Matters काही दिवसांपूर्वी अमेरिकेत जॉर्ज फ्लॉइड या आफ्रिकन-अमेरिकन व्यक्तीची मान एका श्वेतवर्णीय पोलीस अधिकाऱ्याने आपल्या गुढघ्याखाली दाबून धरल्याने त्याचा घुसमुटून मृत्यू झाला. त्यानंतर तीव्र झालेल्या ‘ब्लॅक लाईव्हज मॅटर’ या आंदोलनांतर्गत अमेरिका, युरोपमध्ये विन्स्टन चर्चिल, कोलंबस, एडवर्ड कोल्स्टन यांचे पुतळे पाडले गेले. कारण हे लोक साम्राज्यवादी वा त्याचे समर्थक होते. ३७ वर्षांपूर्वी गोव्यातही पोर्तुगीज महाकवी लुई वाझ डी केमॉईसचा पुतळाही याच कारणांवरून पाडला गेला होता. त्याची ही हकिकत... ... १. गोव्याला पर्यटक म्हणून येणारे बहुतेक सर्व जण जुन्या गोव्याला हमखास भेट देतात. कारण म्हणजे त्याचे मध्ययुगीन काळातले स्थान आणि त्या ऐतिहासिक काळ...

When statue of poet Louis Camoes in Goa was removed... The Black Lives Matter protests in the USA and Europe have called for removal of statues of some persons including Winston Churchill for their alleged dubious roles in treatment to the black community. This reminds me how a statue of celebrated literary giant Luis Vaz de Camoes in Old Goa was removed in 1980s, two decades after Goa was liberated from the Portuguese regime. There is an important circle in Old Goa no visitor to this former capital of Goa under the Portuguese regime will ever miss. This circle is at the entrance of the impressive Se Cathedral, the white 17th century edifice and the largest church in Old Goa. This circle comes into prominence especially on December 3, the feast of St. Francis Xavier, and once a decade exposition of the relics of this patron saint of Goa. At the centre of the circle was once a pedestal. A huge statue of Portuguese poet Luis Vaz de Camoes placed on the pedestal was the centr...