That my Goa was under the domination of Portugal for 451 years was a true fact and that one day this Portuguese domination will come to an end was also a fact. If it was not for a forced annexation of Goa by the crook Bharati regime under the crook Congressman Nehru in 1961 it would be surely in 1974 when Salazarist regime ended in Portugal and thus brought an end to the Portuguese rule in Portuguese African colonies like Angola and Mozambique.
The first known cry not only for Goa’s freedom but also for India’s freedom came not from Ghandis, Nehrus, Tagores and Patels but from our own Goan son Dr. Francisco Luis Gomes from Navelim and this cry came from right inside the citadel of our colonial masters in their own homeland Portugal. Dr. Gomes was the first Goan parliamentarian to represent Estado de India in Portuguese Parliament from where he raised the issue of Goa’s freedom. For him asking freedom for Goa means handing over Goa’s reins into the hands of genuine sons and genuine daughters of Goa and NOT into the hands of Ghantti Bharatis.
The biggest and the most powerful Goan freedom fighters were Goan Christians who showed greatest love and highest patriotism for Goa and its freedom from Portuguese rule. The love for Goan causes was better displayed by the Goan Christians because they are genuine Goans fathered by genuine Goan fathers, they are not settlers in Goa from the Ghantti lands. If you carefully analyse the movements carried in Goa in post 19th December 1961 period, be it Opinion Poll, Konkani Language Movement, Ramponkar Movement, Statehood Movement, Medium of Instruction Movement, Regional Plan Movement, in all these movements participation of Goan Christians was the most. Somehow or the other the love for Goa and Goan causes shown by Goan Christians was supreme.
Goa was never a part of British India nor of Independent India and yet Indian government at Delhi put its claim on Goa. Even some Freedom Fighters told me that they only wanted support from Bharati regime to drive away Portuguese government from Goa and not to annex Goa to Bharat. Nehru’s Congress Government has done greatest injustice on Goans by invading Goa without taking Goans into confidence properly. If Opinion Poll was taken in Goa after 19th December 1961 or earlier, overwhelming majority of Goans would opt for an independent Goa and not to be a colony of Portugal or of corrupt Bharat.
One major factor responsible for the ”SONTENAS” of Goa was the forcible annexation of it by Bharat. Among all Indians genuine Goans are the most disciplined ones with good moral character while their counterparts elsewhere in India are most corrupt. Indianness is synonym with corruption which Bharati rule implanted in Goa thru the dirty influx of Bharatis from all over Bharat. The late Dr. Jack Sequeira called the deputitionists came to Goa after 19th December 1961 as Dogs and went further by saying that “we do not want these Dogs sent by Delhi to Goa; we Goans can conduct the administration of Goa better than these Dogs”. The overwhelming Bharatis that descended on Goa following the ouster of Portuguese rule in Goa were of third grade category who were responsible to induct third grade characteristics in my first grade Goa. The first criminal who committed triple murders in Goa and later on hanged at Aguada was a third class Bharati Malyali, Kumar by name.
Bribery, corruption, chicanery, robbery, cold blooded murders, prostitution, dishonesty, insincerity, lies and cheating that we see now in Goa was the result of the influx of corrupt Bharatis in Goa from all parts of corrupted Bharat. During Portuguese rule in Goa such characteristics did not exist in Goa and even if existed it was in lesser degree. Overwhelming majority of Non-Goans settled down in Goa is corrupt and they are responsible for spreading corruption in Goa because they are born with corruption which is in their blood. During Portuguese era Goans were not corrupt as we see them now because they learnt this lesson of corruption from third class Non-Goans who are rampantly coming and settling down in Goa and spreading and increasing corruption in Goa like AIDS.
As a true and genuine Goan I feel ashamed to be an Indian a country of corruption. I feel ashamed to carry Indian Passport but I have no choice because Indian citizenship was forced on me by Bharat Serkar in 1961. I travelled to many parts of the world and while submitting my Indian Passport for Entry Stamp at the Immigration counter I noticed so many times the Officers there at the Counters looking at this Passport of corrupt country with disdain while Portuguese Passport holders and others are welcomed with broad smile. My Indian citizenship is not voluntarily acquired citizenship but forcibly imposed citizenship on me. If there is a choice I would reject this citizenship outright for Goan citizenship but I have no choice either.
India is a vast land of “Chor”, India is a land of corrupt leaders, I don’t want to bow down my head before these corrupt leaders but I am forced to do. I hate to be a colleague in citizenship of such people, it lowers my Goan dignity. It is a shame for me to accept the leaderships of Legislators and Ministers who are known to be rapists, murderers, robbers, bribe takers and such other rascals. Nowhere else in the world rascals are allowed to contest election as it is done in India and what good governance these rascals will give?
From 19th December till now Indian government treat Goa as non-Indian because in the National Anthem of India “JANA GANA MANA…” there is no mention of Goa. It even adores British Monarch but ignores Goa. Unfortunately nobody bothers to amend this National Anthem to include Goa’s name in it. When the Constitution of India can be amended a number of times then why not the National Anthem?
I told my son and daughter never to accept that Bharat has done a favour on Goans by driving out Portuguese from Goa. By driving out Portuguese from Goa, Bharat has robbed us of our golden Goa and extremely decent Goanness. Goa is immersed in big oceanic Bharat. Bharat is swallowing my Goa slowly till it is going to be liquidated of its existence, of its great history, great tradition, great culture, great language, great folklore and of all its best attributes. The changing demographic structure of Goa is converting my Goa from the “Sant Franciscachem Goem to Devcharanchem, Cheddianchem, Krimidoranchem ani Choranchem Goem”, leading to the complete “SONTENAS” of Goa.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
