GOA DYING A SLOW DEATH.

 

Soon after my returning to Goa for good, 7 years back, one Western lady representative of Google in India, based at Bangalore called me over phone on one fine night at about 11.30 PM and asked me  a few questions on Tiatros and Tiatrists but the first question she asked was this: who was the best political singer, William de Curtorim or Kid Boxer?  I was surprised to be aware how Google knows so well the names and  the favourite topics of our Tiatrists.  Then  I came to know that Google keeps the records of all my writings and articles and reviews that I was writing from Kuwait so exhaustively.  This was the study they do in details and so minutely.  In fact both William and Kid were highly political singers, both were like prophets who were telling in advance what will happen to Goa in the  future, however Kid Boxer was far ahead of William de Curtorim in  predicting the future of Goa.  Besides,  Kid Boxer  was expert in singing songs linked with our wonderful Proverbs which if possible Tiatr Academy of Goa must collect and keep in its archives for the posterity to know the best of past Goa and Goans.

 

I was just listening to one song on UTube of William de Curtorim whose  love for Goa was extremely great and he would go to any extent to defend Goa from the Stage.  In this song titled “ROSTAD MONTRI” William tells our Goa will be destroyed by our Rostad Montri that  its identity and traces as Goa will not even be seen as if it is going to be disappeared automatically from this Planet.  It was said that our Patron Saint St. Francis Xavier said that “my Goa nobody will take away but it will disappear by itself”.  Will these statements got any linkage between the two?  Will this statement come true and when?  Is that time  approaching fast and If it is so, then do we need a messiah to alert the Goans to be careful for it? If it comes true, I only hope it will  not come true during my life time because I will not be able to see the  extinction of my beloved Goa for whose shake  I Iave done so much withinnn my capacity.  And when this is going to happen,  can I be the witness to this sad incident?.  When if this happens our and Goa’s adversaries will not be mocking at me and all my like minded Goans especially those who know our  love for Goa?.  In this song William de Curtorim openly calls by saying “Satarichea Makdda” who responsible to harass Konknni supprters and prevent recognition for Konkani.  Further let me tell you that the Sataricho ‘’Dukor” during the Konkani Language agitation giving instruction to his slavish policemen to hammer and assault the Konkani agitationist at Azad Maidan Panjim, I call him now only a “Dukor” but when time comes I will use more derogatory word because I know how he sent special policemen to asssault me mercilessly when I was participating in this movement and because I was instrumental in  sending money to Goa for Konkani movement. My shoulder is still occasionally gives me some pain due to the beatings I received from those slaves in policemen’s uniforms of Sataricho Dukor. This bloody  “dolldiro”, he always proved to be anti-Goan and even he got married to a non-Goan, a Maharastrian?  William in this song predicted that in another 10 years time Dabolim Airport will be inoperative as it is now because the Congress Ranvotti Animals namely Luizinho – Sardinha – Rane - all three of them were responsible to get the file approved in Delhi for the Mopa Airport.   So it is to be admitted now that Mopa Airport was the baby of rascal Congress Party and the three crooks have played their roles of getting it approved with the bribe of Crores of rupees.  All three should be castigated either at the hustings or eearlier otherwise these Congressmen will again fool us.  BTW Luizinho Faleiro should be kicked out from the election contest because from past experience if he gets elected his crage for the chair of CM wil again mKE him strong contender for the top post.  He did the same tamasha in the last election and in order not to give himany chance to play his dirty tricks by using the name of MADAME Sonia Gandhi to get him the CM Post.  These blooddy Congressmen are not interested in the party but on themselves.

 

To see somebody dying in front of your eyes is terrible.   During the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990, I was in Goa and during the month of November I was a witness to the dying of my mother who breathed her last on my lap.  Now in a similar manner I see the death of  my Goa. It was really terrible to see a loved one  especially like your mother whom I loved so much and she too showered her maximum love on me.  By imagining that moment I still feel terrible but I could not do anything to save her at that moment because within a moment death took her away. 

 

Now the events taking place in Goa show that Goa is on the verge of collapse.  There is nothing functioning well in Goa, there is no  system placed for anything.  If you have power of your body and you are in the company of few Bouncers, you can be the “de facto” Monarch  of your locality or tribe  as we have in Africa.  Urgently you do not find a single person of authority doing his job properly,  there is no respect for law and order because the formulators of law and implementors of the same are become corrupt that for the sake of money and illicit sex they are ready to lower themselves to any ebb. If  you observe carefully you will see in what  disastrous ways the Communidade  land are misused by the elected representatives as if Communidades are their “Paichem Bens”.  These elected rascals are responsible to use their dadagiri to grab the wealth that is entire wealth for them only withoput sharing the same with anyone not even with  their close supporters.  If you see while going to Mapusa on the way at Nagoa you see the entire area consisting of fields touching the road are taken over by private parties and converted into settlement zone where they ereated Shops.  It is a pity that in a similar manner Communidade land are taken over by private parties and also by the Migrants and in this way Migrants are becoming the owners of Goa.  When land goes into the hands of Non-Goans then they become the owners of Goa just like Jews became owners of Palestine and now the same Palestinians are crying.  Commuidade has got vast land but to take care of this vast asset of Goa,  Communidades  of Goa do not have good and upright people.  During the Portuguez rule in Goa, our Communidades dwere manned by people of calibre and people of character but now any Altu Faltu rascal  entered into the administration of Communidade  by purchasing the Shares and these rascals  some of them non-Goans by playig dirty tricks they give the Communidade land to you.  They are on the loot spree, They take  bribe from  you and give the Communidade  land to you, some of the administrators who are manning our Communidades are doing daylight robberies.  They are very selective in giving  these land to those who are their friends.  I feel very bad because in this way Goa is enterring under destruction  and thus my “Bhangarachem” Goa is dying a slow death and against my wish I  am witnessing the SLOW DEATH OF GOA..

 

 

What I noticed in Goa is this wherever there  are Non-Goans involved in our Organisations, Societies, Asociations, Church Committees, School Committees and other such Committees even Committees of small “Khuris” in our Vaddos, there is bound to be corruption.  These Non-Goans do not care for anything, their only aim is to make money thru looting, robberies and by taking bribes.  Even their wives and parents are as much corrupt as they are.   They bring lot of money thru bribe  and thru illicit manner but do their wives question them “from where you brought this money?”  No, never,  because these wives are not genuine wives  but genuine “Pampelam” .  Shameless people and  on top of it all, they move in society as if they are decent and upright people.  Such people should be excommunicated from their religions after probing their character.

 

 

The other day, one Montri got a new Car for his son but his wife like a “Rostad”  never asked from her husband  where from he  got so many lakhs of rupees to get that car.  They are shameless women living on the robberies committed by their husbands. They will be known in the history not as wives of the ministers but wives of the Chors.  If these wives were good many of their politicians and minister husbands would never become corrupt.  These ladies are not eeven having any shame to be   the spouses of   ther “Chor” men.  For this reason many of such people are cursed by defective children.

 

 

I feel pity on me because in the above mentioned  ways our Goa is getting destruction which may lead to its SLOW DEATH.

 

A.Veronica Fernandes.   

 

 

TAG COMMITTEE MEMBERS & THEIR NOMIATIONS.

After a long wait of 2 years, finally the vacancy of the presidency of Tiatr Academy  lying empty for such a long period was filled when Menino de Bhandar was appointed as president of TAG.  Then a committee was formed of 10 members by nominating the members but on what basis?  The members of this Committee known as General Council of Tiatr Academy should be a body  of experts in this field and of good  character. But  after  seeing the list of all the  nominated members of   this Council, I find at least to my knowledge some names are popularly unknown in Tiatro field, it looks they never involved in acting or  writing or organising Tiatros. It  would be nice for the president to give some  details of every member of what he has done in this field to merit him the place in the Council of Tiatr Academy.  It is better for us to know the capacity of every member now otherwise later on we should not be informed that Mr. X is unfit.   Tiatrists are on forefront to abuse and criticise those who do injustice including the Goverbment.  To match with their fight for justice and those who are spreading injustice, I hope Menino de Bandar as one of such Tiatrists will surely oblige by openly exposing details of all the members.  We want to know on what basis these members are nominated and whether their knowhow in this field merit them nomination or they are the beneficiaries of “Kumparponna“.  Kumparponna and Chamchagiri are very rampantly followed in our society and since Tiatrists are using the Stage to eradicate these Kumparponna ani Chamchagiri, I hope Menino de Bandar will do the needful.

 

Secondly if any member knowing he was guilty for committing a breach of discipline elsewhere  earlier in his individual capacity then he must voluntarily withdraw from this Council before he is openly told.  This Council is not meant for any Altu-Faltu person, this Council is meant for knowledgeable Tiatrists and persons having vast knowledge in this subject and by the way don’t we have such knowledgeable persons among us? This Council is meant also for matured and seasoned Tiatrists and such Tiatrists  are plenty among us whose vast experience in this line would be beneficial to help improvise our Tiatro Art.  People without any knowledge of this subject and those who if were castigated by the authorities for committing any fault, they should not have  a place in this Council. People of questionable character are always a curse and this curse they will carry forward in this Council also and disgrace the TAG.  At Government level we see what mess our representatives  are doing because they are not fit to do their job. TAG should not follow the example of our elected representatives. 

 

It is surprising to know how not a single female is inducted into this Council  when there are so many well experienced and seasoned so too  brainy and highly educated ladies holding top positions in their professional fields, besides they are well propped up in this field thru their Tiatrist family  tradition and also having their Tiatrists husbands from whom they gained so much of knowledge not only by acting on the stage with them but also by associating with them in the Tiatros circle. Let me make a mention of some of the vastly great and seasoned female Tiatrists: Jessy Dias, Fatima D’Souza, Sharon Mazarello, Platilda, Aplon  and Chitra. TAG will never get such knowledgeable  and experienced females, that they ignored them it self is a big blunder. But it is said in our language no that “FOKOT XETTUCH ZANNA BHANGARACHO VALOR. 

 

A.Veronica Fernandes.

  

 

 

 

TIATR ACADEMY OF GOA.

 

With much noise which reached to its crescendo within just  2 days created the 2 years pending result of the appointment  of President of Tiatr Academy of Goa.  Finally as I know the popular Tiatrist of Benaulim Menino de Bhandar was appointed as the new President of TAG. My congratulations to him.  To repeat it once again, I know Menino de Bhandar as a popular Tiatrist but I don’t know that he is the popular Administrator capable to run the   Administration of TAG.   It is not enough for anyone to get appointed as Manager  but it must be noted first that the man is suitable  to administer the administration of that organsation.  To be a successful in the management you must be first necessarily a qualified person with good educaational background and not from  the Parochial School where you are brought up by the Church Mestiri in the Church School by learning like “B A – B A = BABA; C A – C A = CACA etc.and a few necessary tips of Musical Art. 

 

A sensible man before accepting his post of a Manager he would think first whether he is fit to run his job successfully. Otherwise like an stupid Indian or double stupid Goan  will accept like an idiot that Managerial post as if it is a joke finally makinga mess of himself and of his job thus creating a very bad result on the Manageent and of the organization.  Some people are so stupid they think they can handle anything without analyzing their capacity. I will cite an example that happened on the Stage in mid sixties in Bombay for the Tiatro written and directed by one amateur Tiatriist Mr. Nazareth from Candolim who opted to do the role of an agod man.  Since it was the role of an aged man he applied an artificial little long Beard and while playing his this role opposite to Kid Boxer he faltered a bit in his talk as he looked a bit nervous mainly by being opposite to Kid Boxer it was impossible for him to be on par with Kid Boxer who noticing his nervousness,  Kid Boxer in his typicsl way made the remark thus:   ARE MOJEA BHANGARACHEA PUTA,  ITLE BHURGEPONIR  HO XEPAICHO ROLE KORPAK TUKAM K0NNE MHONNON DILO RE!!

 

With  the appointment of TAG president, one part of this noise making association is over and the second part of the Council of President comprising 9 members will be selected, they are to be selected on the basis of their long term experience in the Tiatro and in Tiatroo Art, they are selected  thru the important persons like MLA’s, Minister, ex-MLA’s etc. to give them certain weightage so that they select their own persons males/females.  I don’t know whether any Ladru Pedru type gets a place into this, I don’t know whether any molester or suspended from staging his Tiatro is  also included into this otherwise they  should voluntarily `withdraw before molesting the image of their group.  Hope all the members in this group are well experienced in the field of Tiiatro so that it does not be another  Tiatro of Nazareth where Kid Boxer made his` sarcastic remark.Then these 9 members including the President  choose the remaining 10 members including the Vice President.  Most of the rubbish  starts happening here when selecting these 10 members, most of them as per information are selected not on their merit but on their basis of Kumparponna thus some of the elected members are not even stepped up-on the Stage, some of them can be the Chamchas  of those who  recommended them in which case they will not serve the development and promotion of Konkani Stagee but they will serve their own interest and to serve their interest they will be remunerated. 

 

Was there any reason for getting the work done just in two days otherwise as per information the same work of appointment of the President of  TAG kept pending for 2 years inspite of one File kept ready in the office of the authorities concerned.  Was it because the next election is coming fast and t6 give a booster to the person concerned in his election in the South? Or to project him as the leading man in Salcette?

                                           

A.Veronica ernandes.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

WHAT AILS OUR GOA?

 

                 What ails “Amchem Bhangarachem Goem?” For every project that the Government initiates harming the interest of Goa/Goans and destroying the ecology of Goa, we the patriotic Goans have to organize Morchas and Puiblic Meetings to bring pressure on Government to halt those projects and yet the Government is reluctant to respect our feelings. Almost every   government  formed in Goa since the ouster of Portuguese from Goa was anti-Goa/Goans inspite of our voting those Governments   to power.  Why our own Governments elected by us refusing to listen to our voices when during the colonial rule our voices and grievanes were heard and accepted without any resistance even though our Portuguese rulers were foreighners and not elected by us. But now it is verver much hurting and also disgusting that our  own rulers who being  our  neighbours and relatives are refusing to accept our views and pleas.  Once our rulers are elected to rule us they  beome nobody to us, they act as if they are unkown to us,  they cut the bond of closeness with us and treat us as nobody to them.  Within no time they become Hitlerian Dictators and go on destroying our land, our houses, our fields and our means of livelihood.  What is wrong with our own people who are running our Government?

 

                First of all these leaders of ours do not indicate these projects in their manifestoes at the time of election for us to approve and get our votes and as such we are not bound to accept rverything they do.  Our elected representatives cannot  do anything without our approval, Their 5 year term is not a dictatorialterm to to act like Saddam Hussein. Some of  our Ministers are not capable to shoulder all their responsibilities, they  are good to  handle soft projects where their dividends of certain percentage  of commission are assured.  They are weak in  handling their portfolios because they are backward, not educationally qualified nor professionally, e.g.Visvajeet Rane is incapable to handle his portfolio of Health having zero knowledge of Medical Science while CM also not sufficiently qualified to disctate his terms.  Most of our Ministers are having very backward background while a few of them tasted the Chicken only when they got ministerial positions.  Precisely because of this, recently the learned Lokayukta  whose knowledge cannot be analysed by the ordinary Ladru & Pedru said that one Minister is unfit to be the Minister. If this is the case, what guarantee is there that the same Minister will not commit mistakes while handling his portfolio? If unfit Ministers are allowed to function then how  will we develop our “Bhangarachem Goem?”

 

                 The way the present Government give us troubles to fight for our rights and justice it is really unbearable because all who are raising their voices they must not stop, only thru fighting we will.a

 

                 A Veronica Fernandes.

               

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