Since I returned from
Kuwait for good, it is 6 months now.
During this period with a Lantern in my hand I was moving all around Goa
during day time when the Sun was directly overhead, in search of top ex Kuwait
Goans who were boasting of their top money power, top job power, top business
power, top social power and everything top. In reality they were top in Kuwait
and because they were top they were acting like Goan Maharajas in Kuwait among
the idiot Goans since they were like one eyed Goans among the blind Goans. Overwhelming
majority of Goans in Kuwait is like one eyed men though they may think
otherwise. Good that in Kuwait in reality the holders of Indian Passports are
treated with disdain and without much respect otherwise the so called top Goans
in Kuwait would even wear the robes of Sheikhs and act as feudal lords.
Where are these so
called top Kuwait Goans gone now? Are
they gone underground for fear of reprisal by their opponents whom they treated
badly in Kuwait? Are they feeling shy
now in Goa for being non entities and as such they are hiding from public view
being unable to accept the status of non entities? Where are all those Goans
who were holding executive posts in their boastful social and sporting associations
gone now in Goa? Why their show making
photos are not appearing in the local dailies as they were appearing in Kuwait?
Why they cannot involve in the activities in Goa as they used to do in Kuwait?
Where are those so
called top Goans holding top positions in Kuwait and also boasting of same as
if they reached to the Moon on top? I
don’t encounter any of them anywhere in Goa in public forums where I am
involving since I returned for good. By
chance recently I met one of such cheap characters in Panjim and after
exchanging some pleasantries he invited me to his place by describing his
location with pompous address saying: “Next to the Church there is my big posh
Bungalow of 3 Storey and on the ground floor you will see parked there my Red
Mercedes Car”. Then he went further
saying: “You come on Sunday for a Lunch with your wife because we prepare
Buffet on every Sunday since I have a special cook whom I pay handsomely every month”.
This man is a son of a
Pedru inheriting all the cheap qualities of his father craving for importance
in life and that it is so one can know from the way he gave me his invitation. In
fact it was not an invitation but the show of his wealth which he acquired from
Kuwait not only thru fair means but also thru unfair means. When he was in
Kuwait he was boasting of his Supervisory job which used to fetch him handsome
salary though it was the job meant for an idiot in Goa. In Kuwait to get a handsome job you need to
have luck or influence or “chamchagiri” and not necessarily educational and
professional background.
Because of being
unwanted and unrecognized in Goa many of our ex-Kuwait Goans are undergoing
mental crisis, they feel hurt to accept the fact that nobody cares them in Goa
inspite of having so much of money. But
they fail to realise that the money they have is big for them only because when
they went to Kuwait they were suffering from abject poverty. During those days their poverty was such that
they could not taste Chicken, Pomfrets and Lobsters which finally they tasted only
in Kuwait. Once they reached Kuwait and
made some money they thought the world should come to their knees but the real
reality in life they realized only when they came back to Goa for good where
nobody cares for them. Some of them to get cheap prominence have joined the
Church groups otherwise they are not interested in God.
For this reason, many
of them are hiding from advanced society where money power is not counted but
only the intellectual power. The cheap prominence our Goan stalwarts were getting
in Kuwait must be treated as a dream gone forever especially for those who were
boasting of their presidency of Goan associations and managerial and
supervisory positions. The importance they got in life in Kuwait they will
never get again in Goa and precisely because of this they are lost in Goa. Yes, “Te Sanddleat”.
Candolim,
Goa.
