Monday was a holiday to celebrate the heroic Indian Army kicking out a couple of hundred Portuguese soldiers and the administrators in less than ten days from this Cornwall-sized state of Goa. The Portuguese (often mispelt here as Protugese) had been in Goa for 450 years, not doing much good, but not doing much harm either. They were a thorn in the foot of the Indian government.
There are still many who think that this ‘liberation’ was ‘not a good thing’. A friend’s response to Martin’s question ‘Are you celebrating Liberation Day?’ was simply ‘Bah!’
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