(Out thinking) Thinking

Martin Heidegger says that we have the challenge to out think our thinking. We are used to think from the comfort of Plato’s cave. It excludes and keeps several things unthought and leaves several things as unthinkable and even tabooed and thus keep them closed away from the horizon of our thinking. we are a mimetic society. We want...

Lessons From Mhadei

A river a great teacher. If one wants to learn, one can learn a world from a river. We can learn from Mhadei. Its flow has lessons for us. It has a forward movement. It moves always forward without looking back. It has always done so. Its forward thrust makes the path for everything that flows with it. It...

Mhadei and Water Sovereignty

Giving up Mhadei is giving up of our water sovereignty. We need water satyagraha to restore our water sovereignty. Scondering our water sovereignty amounts to scondering the sovereignty of Goa. Costs of the loss of water sovereignty are high for our ecology and all living brings living on the water course and resource of Mhadei. This is why our...

Lands of Village communities

All land in the village was jointly and collectively held by the village community. The community allotted land for farming and residential purposes. some lands were allotted to the service personnel of the temple as well as that of the commune. The land allotted to the service personnel was rent-free and was called nomos/namas/ namoshi (plural) and allowed only...

GREETINGS

Hate is not the first enemy of love.

Fear is! It destroys your ability to trust.

- Fr Victor Ferrao