Dear Anthony Veronica,
With deep interest I read your article titled 'POLITICIANS DADAGIRI IN GOA' in Goa Kranti and was shocked to know the state of Goa now. What was Goa before and what it is now and in future it will never be the same. There is too much of politics going on and it has given rise to "DADAGIRI, DUDDUGIRI AND GOONDAGARDI''.
The recent sexual harasment cases of German girl by the politicians' sons have taken Goa by strom. It is absoletely true that politcian fathers do not correct their erring sons because they want their sons to live a luxurious life and commit the same sexual crimes in their hidden private bungalows and hidden private residental houses.
This does not mean that being the son of a politician he can exploit children coming from decent family background and misusing their fathers political power. They are the sons of their fathers and mothers and they are learning all these bad habbits from their parents who instead of correcting them they leave them on their own. Hence, these erring sons take advantage of their fathers' politcal power and ill gotten financial power too. I am sorry to say that if this type of dadageri continues then Goa will no longer be a safe place to stay for goans.
Veronica, I know you from your early age as we studied at Arpora School both together in the same class. You were always a smart boy in and outside class, all our teachers including the then great principal of the School Rev. Monsg. Philip Neri Mendonca used to like you very much both for studies and for sports. In athletics you were the top in Goa unbeatable. Did your son receive any inheritance from you? I understand he is one of the best Indian football players in Kuwait.
Veronica, your article is very wisdomatic, very informative and very bold. There is lot of genuineness in your writings. Nobody amongst the expatriates writes the way you write on Goa and Goans. Thru your indepth writings you show that you are a seasoned man on Goan political affairs. Your showing openly that you are a well read man. Your article you made more beautiful by introducing beautiful Konkani Sayings. Veronica, you are the same intelligent and smart as you were at Arpora. You are the only writer currently from Apora ex-students group that create impact on society. We ex Arporites are proud of you. Because of your writings goa-kranti is become a major force and major attraction and no other goan websites or goan blogs can compete with kranti. Even goanet is gone to secondary rung since you stopped posting your articles in goanet.
My suggestion to you. It is long time you worked in Kuwait. Decide now to retire and we have our solid group in Goa and in Bardez especially. All our ex colleagues are waiting to do something for Goa and they need a good person to lead and guide them. I assure you of our total support if you decide to quit. I am also intending to quit with many of my friends and colleagues.
The other earlier article 'POWER OF CHRISTAINS' is equally powerful. God has given you power and wisdom and blessing to write such powerful articles which shakes the might of the brute. Keep on writing and be truthful and sincere and the rest leave into the hands of God who will protect you. You are the only expatriate who so ferociously fighting for the cause of Christians.May God Bless you.
Day by day your writings in goa kranti enhancing the knowledge of all kranti readers and you are coming to the level of great writers. So keep up the good work. We require good persons like you to keep Goa floating.
Hope by reading your articles on goa kranti, the people of goa becomes alert and try to make improvements ,thus saving goa from sinking.
Thanking you,
JERRYCAL
Abu Dhabi
November 7, 2008
NRIs Goa-related grievances on property and other issues
From: Joe Fernandes jfx62@yahoo.com
Date: Nov 5, 2008
Dear Sir/Madam
Greetings from Goa! This is Joaquim Fernandes, Sr Correspondent, Times of India, Goa edition.
We understand from sources in the local NRI department (headed by Mr Eduardo Faleiro) that the non-resident Indians of Goan origin, in Canada and other parts of the world, have various Goa-related grievances. These may relate to their landed properties in Goa or other issues.
We also understand that the Goa government was contemplating a bill to help NRIs sort out their property issues. This bill has reportedly been referred to a ʽselect committeeʼ which has never held a meeting.
We would like to agitate this issue by publishing an article (maybe more) on this issue of NRI grievances.
If you can provide us details about your grievances with the Goa government, either individually or collectively, it would provide us data for our article/s.
Naturally, if the matter is subjudice in court, we might not be able to write about it.
We would appreciate if you could send us your inputs in this regard. Kindly specify whether you are willing to be quoted or not. You may write back either to this address or to joaquim.fernandes@timesgroup.com
Please feel free to circulate my mail among your Goan friends.
Thanks and regards
Joaquim Fernandes
Goa
Date: Nov 5, 2008
Dear Sir/Madam
Greetings from Goa! This is Joaquim Fernandes, Sr Correspondent, Times of India, Goa edition.
We understand from sources in the local NRI department (headed by Mr Eduardo Faleiro) that the non-resident Indians of Goan origin, in Canada and other parts of the world, have various Goa-related grievances. These may relate to their landed properties in Goa or other issues.
We also understand that the Goa government was contemplating a bill to help NRIs sort out their property issues. This bill has reportedly been referred to a ʽselect committeeʼ which has never held a meeting.
We would like to agitate this issue by publishing an article (maybe more) on this issue of NRI grievances.
If you can provide us details about your grievances with the Goa government, either individually or collectively, it would provide us data for our article/s.
Naturally, if the matter is subjudice in court, we might not be able to write about it.
We would appreciate if you could send us your inputs in this regard. Kindly specify whether you are willing to be quoted or not. You may write back either to this address or to joaquim.fernandes@timesgroup.com
Please feel free to circulate my mail among your Goan friends.
Thanks and regards
Joaquim Fernandes
Goa
November 4, 2008
The American borrow and spend system - II
India, China and Japan are carrying out coordinated rate cuts. Every nation is pumping liquidity, and making sure no more banks collapse. Everybody realises the two blunders that enabled this crisis to spin out of control: the fall of Lehman Brothers, and the bankruptcy of Iceland. Since then, no other dominos have been allowed to fall. Pakistan is being bailed out by donor nations and the IMF, and now Washington has extended a $30 billion swap line to some central and eastern European nations with tight liquidity.
India was the most pro-active in making a public statement that it would vote for Pakistan at the IMF and there wasn’t even a whimper of protest in a country where Gandhi was assassinated for insisting that Pakistan be merely paid what was its share of the kitty being partitioned. Two weeks from now, heads of states and finance ministers of G-20 will gather in Washington to brainstorm a more durable solution, and to search for the lessons and correctives.
And once again, when these 40 most important people in the world meet, they will not be debating any second or third alternative. They will only be sharing their ideas on what went wrong with globalised capitalism, and how to fix it. Nobody is throwing the baby, or even the bath-water. Yes, many aspects of capitalism will be fine-tuned, modified and made less prone to shocks. One truth this crisis has brought home to the most ardent fundamentalists of market capitalism is that you cannot wish the state away even from a most pristine free market. In so many countries the state has had to step into the breach, ring-fencing its banks, buying troubled assets, even guaranteeing corporate debt. No entity other than the stable, sovereign state could have stepped in to rescue the markets — and thereby modern capitalism — like this. Even capitalist ideologues, therefore, have to now acknowledge the power and vital need of the state. Not a control-freak, interfering state, but a vigilant, paternalistic one that trusts the markets and is willing to protect them when they are threatened by their own aberrations or excesses.
All systems would have their crises. Those with in-built openness and the ability to self-correct will emerge stronger. Others, more dogmatic and closed, would go into terminal decline, and die. That is essentially what happened with socialism. Its economics died a long time back, but because socialist states owed their power to ideology, they sought answers in distortions ranging from “fixed” but mythical currency values to “dollar” shops where foreigners could buy “essential” goodies like decent coffee, cheese and cigarettes, and then use it to bribe local officials. When wet-behind-the-ears German pilot Mathias Rust landed his tiny plane at Red Square, beating the entire Soviet air defence system, the joke in Moscow was he did not have to do very much: he merely painted the logo of Marlboro on the belly of his plane and every radar controller just waved him on. The Soviet system collapsed under the weight of these contradictions.
The Chinese have done better. They were more practical, embracing pure capitalism in their economics, and retaining socialism of sorts to maintain the Communist Party’s hold over power. Inevitably, however, they have created their distortions too. For example, one-country, two-systems, when they absorbed Hong Kong, but didn’t quite do so fully, allowing it not only free economics but also politics. As they deal with Tibet in years to come, maybe it will become one-country-three-systems, and then four with Taiwan, and so on. It will get much too complicated to be sustainable. Free market without democracy is one oxymoron and if a nation embraces one and abhors the other, something will have to give. So you can see the Chinese leaders, who have enormous wisdom and foresight, beginning to democratize, make adjustments.
That is because in this world, nobody wants to rock the boat. If a bank fails in Iceland, interest rates go up in India. If a company goes bankrupt in the US, all of the world rush to their banks to pull money out and bury it under their pillows. That is why they have all got together in a global meeting of minds — and commonality of national interest — never seen before in human history.
Postscript: There has been much talk on the “exotic” financial instruments that the hot dudes of the global financial herd created and that ultimately led to this collapse. But if you look back, perhaps the most exotic financial instrument ever invented was the Soviet rouble. Officially, its supposed value in the bank was 1.6 dollars. Of course no bank in Moscow would give that to you. But in Arbat, the tony shopping street, you would get 150 roubles to a dollar. No wonder then that not even a restaurant waiter or taxi driver would accept tips in his own currency.
Mercifully, barring one or two islands of such currency curiosities now, the rest of the world has moved on.
S.G - Indian
India was the most pro-active in making a public statement that it would vote for Pakistan at the IMF and there wasn’t even a whimper of protest in a country where Gandhi was assassinated for insisting that Pakistan be merely paid what was its share of the kitty being partitioned. Two weeks from now, heads of states and finance ministers of G-20 will gather in Washington to brainstorm a more durable solution, and to search for the lessons and correctives.
And once again, when these 40 most important people in the world meet, they will not be debating any second or third alternative. They will only be sharing their ideas on what went wrong with globalised capitalism, and how to fix it. Nobody is throwing the baby, or even the bath-water. Yes, many aspects of capitalism will be fine-tuned, modified and made less prone to shocks. One truth this crisis has brought home to the most ardent fundamentalists of market capitalism is that you cannot wish the state away even from a most pristine free market. In so many countries the state has had to step into the breach, ring-fencing its banks, buying troubled assets, even guaranteeing corporate debt. No entity other than the stable, sovereign state could have stepped in to rescue the markets — and thereby modern capitalism — like this. Even capitalist ideologues, therefore, have to now acknowledge the power and vital need of the state. Not a control-freak, interfering state, but a vigilant, paternalistic one that trusts the markets and is willing to protect them when they are threatened by their own aberrations or excesses.
All systems would have their crises. Those with in-built openness and the ability to self-correct will emerge stronger. Others, more dogmatic and closed, would go into terminal decline, and die. That is essentially what happened with socialism. Its economics died a long time back, but because socialist states owed their power to ideology, they sought answers in distortions ranging from “fixed” but mythical currency values to “dollar” shops where foreigners could buy “essential” goodies like decent coffee, cheese and cigarettes, and then use it to bribe local officials. When wet-behind-the-ears German pilot Mathias Rust landed his tiny plane at Red Square, beating the entire Soviet air defence system, the joke in Moscow was he did not have to do very much: he merely painted the logo of Marlboro on the belly of his plane and every radar controller just waved him on. The Soviet system collapsed under the weight of these contradictions.
The Chinese have done better. They were more practical, embracing pure capitalism in their economics, and retaining socialism of sorts to maintain the Communist Party’s hold over power. Inevitably, however, they have created their distortions too. For example, one-country, two-systems, when they absorbed Hong Kong, but didn’t quite do so fully, allowing it not only free economics but also politics. As they deal with Tibet in years to come, maybe it will become one-country-three-systems, and then four with Taiwan, and so on. It will get much too complicated to be sustainable. Free market without democracy is one oxymoron and if a nation embraces one and abhors the other, something will have to give. So you can see the Chinese leaders, who have enormous wisdom and foresight, beginning to democratize, make adjustments.
That is because in this world, nobody wants to rock the boat. If a bank fails in Iceland, interest rates go up in India. If a company goes bankrupt in the US, all of the world rush to their banks to pull money out and bury it under their pillows. That is why they have all got together in a global meeting of minds — and commonality of national interest — never seen before in human history.
Postscript: There has been much talk on the “exotic” financial instruments that the hot dudes of the global financial herd created and that ultimately led to this collapse. But if you look back, perhaps the most exotic financial instrument ever invented was the Soviet rouble. Officially, its supposed value in the bank was 1.6 dollars. Of course no bank in Moscow would give that to you. But in Arbat, the tony shopping street, you would get 150 roubles to a dollar. No wonder then that not even a restaurant waiter or taxi driver would accept tips in his own currency.
Mercifully, barring one or two islands of such currency curiosities now, the rest of the world has moved on.
S.G - Indian
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