Boycott Our Politicians And The Functions They Attend
I have a great regard for our Tiatrist fraternity, it is they, along with our renowned writers, poets and our Goan Priests that have kept our Konkanni alive and kicking. It's was they who set off the spark during the Konkanni movement. The perception of our Tiatrist has changed with time and conditions, not taking away anything from our artists of yore, the present brand have become more outspoken. It's a revolution. Though, I must say that we still long for and enjoy the meaningful songs, the melody and the rhyming of our Artists of old, even today.
I do salute Agnelo for his thoughtful call and his sense of reason behind this call. All over Goa people are frustrated with the way our corrupt politicians have been victimising Goa and Goans, not one of the forty has been supporting the cause of Goa and Goans, buried under their own preplanned personal agendas and ideologies which have been detrimental to Goa and Goans. It is a very precarious situation that we Goans have been put into by our very own elected corrupt and unethical politicians.
The chief guest or guest of honour should be a man or a woman of honour, a man of good repute, a role model for people gathered to look upto and take his or her example and try to emulate them. In Goa today it's become a fashion to invite our politicians even for Church functions, which is totally contrary to the very beliefs of the Church. It's true The Church tells us not to condemn sinners but at the same time they should not be eulogized either. It's been told that Churchill will be the Chief Guest for the Tiatr in Dubai next weekend, is he coming with his wife or a ------? Our Goan politicians have been treating Dubai as a service centre for oil change for some time now.
We have to show our disapproval to the polity in Goa and this is indeed a good way to do it, we should boycott each and every function organized by politicians or where politicians have been invited as Chief Guests or Guest of Honour. I have watched a lot of Tiatrs in Dubai but I will abstain myself from this Tiatr as my protest in solidarity to my fellow Goan brethren.
Our Tiatrist brothers and sisters, have been criticising our politicians left right and centre, it is good to see their courage and commitment to the cause, but I request our producers and directors, when the Tiatrs are booked make sure to tell the guys that they will not perform if any politician is the Chief Guest, it will, certainly be a move in the right direction to show our disgust for our pathetic politicians.
I do not understand why we need a politician to preside over a Tiatr, here in Dubai and that too, the one who said we Goans squeal like pigs, while he planned to provide our youth, an opportunity of a life time of becoming "watchmen". It is indeed time to show the PWD Minister that we Goans mean business and that we don't take kindly to the likes of him, who have taken Goa and Goans for a jolly good ride.
In my earlier days in the Gulf I use to admire the unity and the efforts of our Kuwaiti Goans towards Goa's causes, they had strongly supported the Konkanni movement, among all the Goans in the Gulf, the Kuwaiti Goans were the ones who projected Goa in the Gulf with our culture and our mother tongue. Of late I have been very disappointed with them because even after witnessing the woes in Goa created by our corrupt politicians they still seem to have adulation for these monsters of corruption and depravity and are facilitating them at the drop of the hat, sometime back both Mickky and Churchill were given the honours and I have just heard that there is a football tournament in the name of the other Almeao, who is running illegal mining in Goa. I plead to you my dear UAE and Kuwaiti Goans, please stop this sacrilege towards Goa and Goans, boycott our present politicians, we should be out for their blood and not to facilitate them, they are the cause of all our misfortunes in Goa.
UAE Goans please for the love of Goa show our solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Goa – Boycott this Tiatr if Churchill is invited as Chief Guest.
Freddy Agnelo Fernandes
Dubai - UAE
