ARE WE IN INDIA RULED BY THE JUNGLE LAW?

When President of USA, the late John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lev Oswald and while the Security was escorting him to the judiciary, an unknown person Ruby shot him dead. thus closing the real secret of this crime since the provider of first hand information of the persons/nations was liquidated before he could divulge all the facts to the proper authority. It was then understood that the alleged hands of Soviet Russia and Cuban Fidel Castro were involved in this gruesome murder. Oswald was equipped with lot of information  to get the identity of those involved in liquidating President Kennedy. Since the major actors in this scene did not want to be known, they used Ruby to liquidate Oswald.

I think there is some similarity between the killing of the President of USA and the cold blooded killing of the recent 4 alleged rapists of the Hyderabadi girl especially when one observes that one alleged rapist was marking her carefully where she was parking her Two Wheeler.   Since this young girl was a good looker, I feel one Romeo must be prowling on her and who must have used that boy who offered her help in repairing her Bike (the tyre).  I am sure, the person who was keeping his passionate eyes on her must have raped her at least first, and then handed her over into the hands of 4 others to do what they wanted to do which they did without any fear of Law nor of God. Hence, to cover up the whole episode and to protect the real culprit from getting exposed who I am sure must be highly influential with regards to money and political power, the Police Force was put to liquidate all the four alleged rapists.  They may all be innocents because they were not given an opportunity neither to deny nor to accept their guilt but the brute Police force killed the truth before it could be ascertained.

The theory that all the four ran to snatch the Gun from the Police looks very weak, if they had to rush sprintingly to the Police which they must have done,  they would surely stop at least one of them from getting killed.  But, no, the Police came with the intention to kill them only as per the pre plan they had to liquidate all the four alleged rapists to destroy the real information. I am firm about my opinion that the Indian police force is so corrupt that many of them for the sake of money may even do the most nasty things.  

When I was travelling first time to Kuwait, at Santa Cruz Airport in Bombay, after completing my Immigration formalities, a few notes of 100 Rupees came out of my pocket after I put my hand in the right pocket of my Pant.  There were 3 security personnel there equipped with Guns ready to shoot and when they saw it, they came running to me telling me forcefully that “ I cannot carry Indian currency like this abroad and  threatening me most cunningly, they shamelessly started demanding these few notes totaling hardly 3 to 4 hundred. When I remained silent, they said you give these notes to us or else we will stop you from going to your destination. Observing this whole tamasha I said to myself ”what a great fall we Goa had when we fell into the hands of this bloody corrupt and disgraceful country, called Bharat, officially on 19^th December 1961 and unofficially on 18^th of that month. What is the quality of this country where it produces none other than the corrupt people and corrupt superiors wielding power.  Why our new generation will come up with good discipline and upright system when the millions of this generation are developing by witnessing everything bad in and around them?  When any Indian Child is brought up in such a filthy and faulty atmosphere, that child will surely grow up as corrupt thus creating one corrupt citizen who will be an addition to the level of corruption.  In this way by producing corrupt citizens we will never build our nation strongly.  Hence, India in general and Goa in particular will go on producing corrupt administrators, corrupt politicians and corrupt public figures. For this reason, we don’t have now in  my once “Bhangaracvhem Goem ” a single public figure, a single good person neither in my home nor in my Vaddo nor in my village, not in my Constituency nor in my Goa, not in my village school nor in my village Deu Mandir.  Our parents are become corrupt, our elders are also become corrupt, our priests and nuns are become corrupt, our religious leaders are become corrupt, our elected representatives from Panchayat, Legislative Assembly and Parliament are totally become “ordinar” because they won their Seats thru “ordinar” actions and to survive on their Chairs as MLA’s and Ministers and MP’s they still are doing ordinar actions as shamelessly as ever otherwise my Goa would have been a “Bhangarachem Goem” only.  See our elected representative, he does not even care for doing his duty, if he had to care he would have put things into order in our constituency where Roads are totally spoiled with such big holes because of which so many accidents take place killing so many innocent people and he does not care for this.  It looks such type of people are not brought up under the care and discipline of their mothers but by their Timanas and Mauximanas. What good we will receive from such representatives?  They are like hardened criminals immune to the cries of the people who voted them to power and finally they act as Sheikhs and Kings.  Can such people render good governance? When they perform their duties as Ladru and Pedru type of people, what benefit we will get from their corrupt governance? Their governance is of Ladru-Pedru type governance.     

      

While condemning the murder of this Hyderabadi girl, I strongly oppose the method used by the Police Force to liquidate the 4 alleged rapists.  Can the Police Force take law into their own hands and kill the 4 innocent people? I call them innocent and will also call them as such until they are proved guilty.  Is the Police Force given the authority to judge the 4 persons and pass the verdict to kill them ?  What a shame it is for the nation to have such a disgraceful Policemen in its department?  If this nation of Bharat is inhabited by the people with little more intelligence and a bit of concern for the justice, yesterday and today would be demonstrations on every nook and corner of the roads in India demanding proper justice to the 4 alleged rapists and thus put an end to this type of revenge killings as we have in remote parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan and elsewhere.  Today it is for the 4 people but tomorrow it can be for me and you too because power is going into the hands of rascals who are ready to do anything to protect them and their interest.  We cannot be the silent spectators to the dangerous events taking place in front of our eyes.   Are we from a civilized society to perpetuate this type of jungle rule?

A.Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel:7507394349.

          

ON THE DEATH OF THE LATE TIATRIST MASTER VAZ.

On behalf of myself and all the like minded Goans especially the Tiatro lovers, I express my deep feeling of regret over the news of the sad demise of one of the pillars of yesteryear Tiatrists, the late Jose Lawrence Vaz popularly known as Master Vaz in the Tiatro world, on 12^th of this month, he was in his nineties.

Master Vaz was the youngest Tiatrist during those days to  participate in the Tiatros and precisely because of this he was named as MASTER Vaz, this name he finally will carry to his grave tomorrow.  He was the most faithful lieutenant of the legendary Minguel Rod who stood by Rod even though Rod was wrong at times especially when Rod betrayed other two colleagues of his Trio, namely Kid Boxer & Young Menezes  and formed a Quarter comprising the great Alexinho de Candolim – C. Alvares – Jacinto Vaz – Minguel Rod, only to see him returning back afterawhile to the original Trio known as Kid-Young Rod. Minguel  Rod once told my father who was a close friend of Rod that “I will never find another jewel of a person in my life like my Kumpar” meaning Master Vaz, “who remained faithful to me thru thick and thin like Eva Braun remained faithful to Hitler”. Master Vaz to build his relationship with Minguel Rod on strong footing, made Rod his Kumpar by naming one of his siblings after him. Being his closest friend and colleague, Master was in his own handwriting scripted a few of Rod’s Tiatros of course dictated by Minguel Rod and being so he made by-heart many of Rod’s Tiatros. It so happened once while going to stage his Tiatro “Lembddo Santan” at P.T. Bhangwaddy, Bombay, Minguel Rod carrying the script of the Tiatro got drunk on the way and having lost his strength to walk any further, he slept there only on “Cross Maidan”  at Dhobitalao while Master Vaz and other artistes were eagerly awaiting the script.  Having no sign of the director who slept well there but awakened at dawn by some of the Tiatro goers who were returning home after watching the said Tiatro which was successfully staged under the direction of Master Vaz who knowing the whole script by-heart prompted it to each artiste successfully.  Such was the genius of this great Tiatrist who is one of the last vestiges of the first batch of the Tiarists.

A  few years back his Tiatrist son Marcus Vaz brought him to Kuwait to participate in his Tiatro  staged in Kuwait and when he came to know that the visiting artistes from Goa were accommodated at my place in Kuwait city, he was overwhelmed and showered fabulous praises on me not only for this gesture but more than that in his own words “for helping and promoting our Tiatros in Kuwait” and concluding thus, “please consider this Tiatro as yours too”.  We have felicitated him during the Tiatro in front of Hall packed audience who in unison gave him standing ovation.

Earlier, from mid sixties he was a strong member of Young Stars of Goa troupe where he was also playing the role of a female. I can still remember the short role he played then in Nelson Afonso’s highly political Tiatro “Nationalist”, of an innocent and ignorant person keeping the Bomb on the roadside on the command of Agente Monteiro where his trembling hands and terrorized eyes by the worst “Paklo” Agente Monteiro created fear into the minds and hearts of the audience.     

While concluding, I pray to Heavenly Father to take care of the soul of our dear Master Vaz who served Konkani Stage for such a long period and offer my heartfelt condolences to all his family members.

 

May the soul of Master Vaz rest in peace.

A.Veronica Fernandes.

IS THE DEATH OF TIATRO NEARING?

 This is on the current state of affairs of our Tiatros. It is sickening to see the vulgarity in our Tiatros increasing by leaps and bounds, this sickening state is brought by the few vulgar comedians who are responsible to desecrate the otherwise decent Konkani Stage. I have seen with my own eyes so many times some of the families attending the Tiatros, in order to prevent their children from watching the dirty and vulgar comedy instead walked out from the hall in the middle of the Tiatros.  After my interaction with many Tiatro goers, I got information that many of the regular Tiatro goers  are refusing to patronise  these because of cheap vulgar comedy and hence there is a boycott going on our Tiatros.  I was informed thru telephonic conversation recently by one Priest stationed in UK to do something to stop this vulgarity leading to sin. My reply to that Goan priest was simple that I am doing whatever best I can to hammer into the minds of these few comedians to read the writings on the wall, that is overwhelming majority of the Tiatro goers comprising the decent ones are opposing the vulgarity in any form in our Tiatros leading to the downfall of this over 125 years old beautiful art. Some of these guilty comedians are boasting saying they are in demand because audience like this type of comedy.  But let me ask these comedians, which is that audience?  What is their class and quality?  They are equally worst as these vulgarists are.  In view of this, what good they can perform to improve the quality of our Tiatros? These cheap comedians even in UK during their Shows disgraced the fair image of our Tiatros by performing vulgar comedy of course to the chagrin of the decent attendees. Though I am doing whatever I can to stop this vulgarity thru my writings but one man cannot control the world.  There should be unified efforts from all the like minded writers and activists to campaign very hard against this vulgarity because the vulgarity in our Tiatros will surely kill our Tiatros. In order to save our Tiatros we must put an end to vulgarity in our Tiatros otherwise vulgarity in our Tiatros will put end to our Tiatros.  As it is the level of our Tiatrtos is gone down very much, most of the recent Tiatros are "pochpochit", to pen down a good Tiatro you need lot of knowledge and to acquire it you have to have time.  Now we see some directors are staging two Tiatros per year without applying their minds seriously to dish out something extra ordinary. These tin pot writers and directors are only interested in fattening the number of their productions but not on the quality of their Tiatros.  

I am one of the admirers of yesteryear Tiatrists who wrote and staged best of Tiatros of which type none of the present, the so called self titled super stars, super directors and super Tiatrists could stage. Most of the Tiatrists with whom I have interacted are "Nal" Tiatrists, there is nothing extra ordinary in their "Bezo", they are only interested in making money.  The yesteryear Tiatrists never raced after money, they were interested in dishing qualitative Tiatros and because they were doing so our Tiatros are still surviving.  Not the current tin pot directors are responsible to keep the Tiatro art alive till now. If it was not for the earlier Tiatrists' the current Tiatrists will never survive but they are surviving only because of the time the elder tiatrists  took to write qualitative  Tiatros that put a  strong base for our Tiatros.     

Recently in Mapusa  one Tiatro of the topmost Tiatrist was cancelled at the last minute because hardly 50 tickets were sold, then on the next day for the Tiatro of another top Tiatrist, only half the hall attended and for another Tiatro of another top director hardly 25 attendees watched this Tiatro. If this trend continues then the future of our Tiatros is precarious and the government wants this only to happen because Tiatrists are exposing  the misdeeds of the government. To curtail the power of the Tiatrists, the government according to my observation has with silly excuse of repairs, the Kala Academy Hall stopped for renting for Tiatros.  If this hall was in such a dangerous condition, how the government gave it for IFFI programme? 

Now is the right time all the Tiatrists in unison must take up this issue with the concerned authority while Tiatr Academy of Goa must not ignore it because of the doles it is getting from the government..   

A.Veronica Fernandes..