When GRD Tata came to Goa for the
first time somewhere in 1973/74 to visit his newly constructed Taj Hotel at
Sinquerim, I was on the forefront with my Candolim friend Alex Pinto, to
challenge TATA by stopping his Car at Sinquerim main Road and informing him of
total dissatisfaction over the Sinquerim Taj management that instead of
employing the locals, as earlier promised by the Taj, the Taj management employed non-Goans more and that to on key
posts when our locals were available. Then a memorandum was given to Tata detailing
all the grievances of the locals. Within 24 hours Tata rattled the entire
Sinquerim Taj management and demanded that the local folks should be kept happy
and as a mark of disgust against his management of Sinquerimg Taj Hotel, he
left for Bombay within 24 hours instead of spending more days as scheduled, at Taj
Sinquerim. Goenkaranchem padd ghatlam
fokot doudirea Goenkarani ani ze konn apunn vhoddlea kastache/zatinche te ki
vhoddle doudire. Te zaun assat vhoddle
Bamonn mhontat poi te ani te tor bore zalolet zalear Goyant 451 vorsam Portuguez
raj kednanch choloichenaslet, te tea adinch Goenchi polla-poll kadtolet aslet
ani tedna tem aiz passun toxench faleam,
porvam, tervam ani sodankal tea fuddeam passun amchem bhangarachem Goem amchech
hatin poddtolem aslem. Pun Bamnani toxem
zaunk dilena, tankam Portuguezam lagchean chiri-miri zai asli ani ti chiri-miri
apleak melloupak zai mhonn tanni Portuguezanchea navan bharik lokank piddnuk
divpak survat keli, bharik lokancho kont-ixeop naslolea porim kelem ani tosleam
doudiream Bamnna modlo ek doudiro tednacho Sinquerimcho Taj Hotelacho General
Manager Lenny Menezes mhonnta poi to zaun aslo.
To apli Bamongeri soddpak kobul naslo, aplea "Avochem "Chapeau ani
Maezinhachem" Volter gheun boslolo tem soddlench na. Heach oslea polkea vhoddponnak lagon tachea
bapaik mhonnche Prof. Armando Menezesak ek khodok defeat khunchi poddli tedna
to eka Parliamenentary electionank to ubo ravlolo tedna. Team bamtteank bharik lokanchim motam zai pun
bharik lokank adhar korpak naka. Hench
oslem doudirpon to Taj hacho Gen. Manager tedna kortalo.
Then immediately locals were recruited more in the Sinquerim Hotel but in their Register as I was informed by their internal sources, the Taj Management kept written in bold capital letters that NOT only ME i.e. Antonio Veronica Fernandes BUT not even any of my blood relatives should be employed at Taj. Then after making thorough enquiry of my temparement, Taj management thought that I will always be a source of headache for them, so best thing they decided is to get rid of me from Candolim and Goa without opening their real, intention with the excuse of sending me to UK for further studies in Hotel Management however the same offer I declined politely. Then in my locality within I hour after JRD Tata was stopped, I became a hero, so much so, the top politicians started approaching me even MGP Gen. Secretary Pankar from Mapusa but I maintained my distance from them knowing their selfish culture and also knowing majority of them they are such rascals. That they are so third class you come to know the way they are defecting from one party to the other. And how worst are those who like Pimps initiate the process of defection as if they are doing a Holy job? They don’t even have shame to arrange these defections games. I see their end is nearing because they are hurting innocent Goans too much. From my past experience I have noticed that those defectors and also the originators and initiators of such defections are facing worst punishment from God such as they get deadly deseases and sicknesses, their wives leave them, their children desert them and they become the subjects of Satan because “Ghaddis” they keep by paying them enormous amount of money by hiring them from North India become masters of them and they in turn become slaves of Ghaddis and their end is decided by the Ghaddis only. During the last e;;lection for the Goa Legislattive Assembly, our Hero brought one Ghaddi to our area where Ghantees are plenty. This man is having no shame and that he was instrumental in piloting the Defection of the entire Team of bastardised Con. Legislators to the rascalised ruling party is the talk of the town. On top of it this same man roaming with his Collar up, not even ashamed to confess with pleasure that he was the architecht of the biggest ever defection. He thinks he did some extra ordinary job. Hello my friend I pity you, you have not seen the world properly yet. You are still a "bach'ya, dont think money and illicit money you made you will survive to enjoy it, it is first of all not yours and for that matter nothing in this world is yours. Dayananda Bandodcar was telling that "there is nobody greater above his head in Goa and nobody is capable to shake him an inch out from his CM'ship, Hardly a few hours finished after he spoke those prideful words, while playing the game of TING TONG no sorry it was the game of Ping Pong at Campal, he collapsed and never recovered. Your era is coming to an end. Punishment of God is coming Lamefooted but surely it is coming. Coming back to Taj, among those who were later on recruited thanked me for creating opportunities for their employment in the TAJ at Sinquerim. It was given to undertand later on that this was the first protest by the locals against the Multinationals in Goa.
Gradually in many
places in Goa people who are not fit to be decent and upright human beings started to occupy the
responsible positions meant for responsible people. But unfortunately there were no upright
people left in Goa as we had
earlier. These new figures were totally
corrupt, totally Indianised and not Goanised, they learnt in their schools and with their Indian colleagues in Schools
and Colleges all the dirty tricks and habbits,
what habbits? How to rob, how to
create disorder and confusion, how to disrespect the elders, how to amass
wealth from others and in one word how to become selfish. These people with
their worst habit of selfishness started getting opportunities to rule in our
local Organisations namely Panchayats, Sports Clubs local, our Purvonzache
Mandd, our Church related committees and many such other organisations. These people went on organizing themselves
into new groups to wield physical power in their hands acting like Goondas
spreading threats in their localities. In my village itself power physical and
political went into the hands of some of such people and the first thing they
started doing was to build their financial empire built on money illicitly
collected thru illicit means. In every
village almost these bloody rascals
young boys and young men started dominating our Panchayats occupying the
positions of Sarpanches and without having any shame started extorting money
from the locals as bribe money for the work done in the Panchayats, the work
such as getting Licences to construct new Houses, to repair old houses and many
such works. The major share was going to
the biggest “Ghauncho Chor” the Sarpanch and the rest of the Panchas includimng
the Peon also started getting some percentage of bribe money.
Furthermore, in their localities they started acting like Lords roaming in big Limousines or top luxurious cars – to buy money from where? Surely from the bribe in lakhs of rupees or gifted from the top business maganets. It said in my locality that one of such semi lords got a luxury car as a gift from one of the top Inddian business tycoons when that semi lord issued in his capacity as local leader the licence for the luxurious construction of that Indian businessman. These rascals after dominating the Panchayats and having acquired their goals of building their financial empires, they then go in search of still more greener pastures to the Legislative Assembly, to do what? Nothing good but only to rob more and more and to accumulate more and more illicit wealth for which they have all the know how. I have seen in my locality how some of this type of crooks are acting and the worst part of all this “Tamasha” was this that their wives are not even telling their crook and corrupt husbands not to commit such Sins. Some of these people are become Dadas in some of our local associations which the current heads and presidents are acting as if these village based associations are their own properties to manage the way they want and sad thing is this that nobody in the localities and villages are questioning them. Even our Purvonzache Mandd are taken over by such third rated stupid new crop of Goan leaders whose only job is to pounce on the money accumulated thru the hard work by all the earlier “Kaxttikar” members.
To be concluded.
A.Veronica Fernanbdes.
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