Eddie's being daft: try telling it (below) to the girl who wrote to me saying: My father is not a dodderer! Dear Cyprian, What is your agenda? Selma Carvalho had a column in Goan Voice UK with an avid readership. She has written an excellent, critically acclaimed book on the Goan diaspora. She has, against the odds, secured funding for an oral history project involving East African Goans. She has provided up with examples of her video interviews, each receiving over 1,000 hits. She has received hundreds if not thousands of congratulatory messages. Have you ever had anything positive to say about her? Why not OK, she is only human and can make mistakes. Point them out to her by all means. But why, oh why, write to your friends, sorry contacts, and then ask them to “share this with as many people as you can!” Talk of sick minds. But what is the mistake that Selma made? Not in what she wrote but in underestimating how people like you would pick on it and turn it around to sui...
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