Few Goans may cry if he does not lose his sleep over the Lusofonia Games, but Mr. Parrikar knows that Goans also love fun and frolic. Why miss this opportunity to replace the sad memories of freedom struggle with positive memories of sporting combats? It could mark a welcome change in the lukewarm and calculated diplomacy that has guided the India-Portugal relations since 1974.
Portugal has so far served as a door to many a Goan to enter EU countries, but as Europe ceases to be an attraction that it was, the new Indo-Portuguese relations may need to grow as part of Lusosphere, embracing Brazil, former African colonies, Timor and Macau, as a promising network, attuned to BRICS agenda in the times to come.
First pubished in Herald, Goa:
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Few Goans may cry if he does not lose his sleep over the Lusofonia Games, but Mr. Parrikar knows that Goans also love fun and frolic. Why miss this opportunity to replace the sad memories of freedom struggle with positive memories of sporting combats? It could mark a welcome change in the lukewarm and calculated diplomacy that has guided the India-Portugal relations since 1974.
Portugal has so far served as a door to many a Goan to enter EU countries, but as Europe ceases to be an attraction that it was, the new Indo-Portuguese relations may need to grow as part of Lusosphere, embracing Brazil, former African colonies, Timor and Macau, as a promising network, attuned to BRICS agenda in the times to come.
First pubished in Herald, Goa:
http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=4274&boxid=3837718&uid=&dat=4/3/2012
Few Goans may cry if he does not lose his sleep over the Lusofonia Games, but Mr. Parrikar knows that Goans also love fun and frolic. Why miss this opportunity to replace the sad memories of freedom struggle with positive memories of sporting combats? It could mark a welcome change in the lukewarm and calculated diplomacy that has guided the India-Portugal relations since 1974.
Portugal has so far served as a door to many a Goan to enter EU countries, but as Europe ceases to be an attraction that it was, the new Indo-Portuguese relations may need to grow as part of Lusosphere, embracing Brazil, former African colonies, Timor and Macau, as a promising network, attuned to BRICS agenda in the times to come.
First pubished in Herald, Goa:
http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=4274&boxid=3837718&uid=&dat=4/3/2012