Portugal-India relationship full of good waves
He returned to Lisbon, with three days anchored in the Tagus, or the Indian teaching ship Tarangini. The three-masted sailing ship, whose Hindi name can be translated into Portuguese as “full of waves first”, became famous in 2003-2004 as the Indian ship to circumnavigate the planet. However, it is curious that this representative of India was built in an establishment in Goa, which was only the capital of the Portuguese maritime empire in Asia and only in 1961 it came under Indian sovereignty, following a brief military conflict.
All that remains is the feeling that the fate of Goa could negotiator (with advantages in the protection of language and culture) Portuguese), instead of being resolved with war.
Since the re-establishment of diplomatic relations and New Delhi, between Lisbon and April 25, 1974, Portugal and India have already thought about each other, however, for thinking about the common of the shared past, even if the marks of that history are plural. Or first be as notorious as there is a minister of origin, and there are 30 ministers with names like Fernandes, Mascarenhas, Noronha, Saldanha, Pinto, even Saldaza (just like that) Dias (the latter, as a rule, pronounced “daias”, in the English ).
In mid-August, India will celebrate 75 years of independence. And if the resilience of democracy, reasons for pride of this ancient civilization, is also due to the many civilizations, but also to the modern people, like the modern people themselves, legal legacy of the colonizer, but legal influence to the Nehru, there is a small, whether only a detail in relation to the Portuguese legal heritage in Portuguese, since the State is the only one in India where there is a civil code for the entire population, whether Hindus, that is, more important.
Portugal and India, with Goa as an obvious point of connection, can only gain from the strengthening of mutual relations. The strengthening of economic ties is vital, but symbolism must never be devalued, such as this coming to the Tagus on the Indian sailboat or our Sagres until sailing to the great Indian country, as Vasco da Gama did at the half millennium, initiating a new era, the first globalization.
Deputy Director of the Diário de Notícias