CASTEISM IN INDIA.

 

                           Referring to the rape case of a 19 year old Dalit girl by the 4 high caste youth  and  torturing her, broke her backbone and even cut her tongue, this is one of the worst  incidents that the Caste people committed on the poor Dalit girl from UP recently.  Besides, the rapists with their political clout manged to cremate her body in the dead of the night  without even getting permission of her elders. Why this was done at night time when usualy the cremations are done during the day time?.  This indicates without any doubt that the Government and its machinery are involved at least clandestinely to support the caste rapists. See how in India people are treated by their elected Government.  The value of human beings is become zero, the dogs and cats of ministers carry better respects but not the ordinary human being.  I think we in Goa are not far from that point unless in the coming election we dethrone BJP.                                          

 

                           I don’t understand the logic of the High Caste people in India, many of them do not  even touch the low caste people and some of them not even allow Dalits’ shadow to fall on them but when the matter of Sex is concerned  those shameless casteists immediately  ignore their casteisms. At the time of indulging in Sex with Dalit there is no caste superiority of theirs and caste inferiority of the Dalits? See the logic of these Caste Bastards.  Because of Caste system India is too much devided, even in Goa this caste system is too rigidly followed by too many people. Even in our Churches and Chapels caste system was practiced when it is against Christian doctrine to practice  discriminations. Our Goan society suffered too much because of caste system that we followed rigidly.  I think because of this many of our girls elope with Ghannttis  who know how to handle our girls.

 

                                       

                                         I remember one hard core casteist incident in Madras witnessed by  Dr. Ambedkar who was wating for the Bus where one Shoe Polish boy was approached by one Brahmin who wanted to polish his Chappals but refusing to talk directly to that Harizan Shoe Polish boy asking him how much he will charge for polishing his Chappals because communicating directly with harijan boy was like a sin for him.  Hnece, he saw one stone in front of the Harijan boy and started talking thru this stone to that boy thus: “Stone God, ask the Polish Boy how much he will charge me to polish my  Chappals?” The Harijan boy replied in a similar manner saying “Stone God, tell Brahmin Sahib I will charge him one Anna.

                                               

                                        When such filhy incidents are taking place in India, how can this country come up? Our countrymen will go on fighting only among themselves for equality thus weakening the fabrics of our unity.

 

                                         A.Veronica Fernandes,

ESCAPING OF PRISONERS OF WAR.

 

This is regarding the escaping of prisoners from the newly built Colvale Prison which according to the concerned authorities was  constructed  with all the modern amenities to prevent the prisoners from escaping and yet surprisingly the prisoners are escaping with regular intervals indicating  something is wrong with the security system or security personnel whose hand in allowing the prisoners to escape, I suspect because in India anything bad can happen.  Don’t we remember how in Delhi some years back a few Atomic Scientists passed on to our enemies Atomic secrets? 

 

Escaping of prisoners from the prison is not new in Goa.  I remember somewhere in 1958,  2 Pakle prisoners escaped from the very tight security prison of Aguada.  According to the information given then, 2 Pakle prisoners were lodged in one room and having seen one wall of their prison a bit weak, they both started urinating on the weaker area of that wall till it collapsed on one fine late evening paving them the way to flee, but where? To Portugal?  Then manhunt started all over Sinquerim and even in Candolim reaching even to my place, by the different teams of security personnel comprising one Paklo from Aguada  and one Goan Policeman.

 

So far three prisoners have escaped from the Colvale Prison thus making a mockery of the security system of India, the third is the recent one named as Yallapa surprising the prison authorities to ponder how he could jumped over the tall prison walls?  It looks to me  that he must have been an expert in climbing over the tall walls of the prison just as Jean Valgean the prisoner escaped by climbing  the prison wall as depicted in his great epic Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.  Jean Valgean had expertise in climbing the tall walls by crawling on the walls  with his back to the walls. May be Yallapa is having such an expertise.

 

A.Veronica Fernandes.

KONKANI IN ROMAN SCRIPT AND ITS BETRAYAL. BY NAGRIVADS.

           This I am writing with reference to the news appeared in the local media  which said that in Britain they came out with a novel way of thanking all those Front Line Fighers against Corona Virus – COVID - 19 by saying to every major linguistic community THANK YOU in their respective languages.  One of the  languages is Konkani and that too in Roman Script Konkani saying ”DEV BOREM KORUM”.  The tinpot Nagrivadis whose numerical strength is so low that we can easily count them on our finger tips have not only  denied the Romi Script Kokani its due recognition but they have robbed us of our right to have Romi Script Konkani recognized as one of the Official Languages of Goa. But, no, these very few Nagrivadis had no Balls in their Pants to display the sense of justice towards the Romivadis.  If it was not for the Romivadis, the movement for the cause of Konkani would fizzle out and collapse like a pack of cards.  In the Rallies organized in Panjim from Azad Maidan and the public meetings at Azad Maidan only, the attendees were 90% the followers of Romi Script Konkani.  The fund almost 90% sent and given for this purpose came from the Romi Script Konkani followers who were also on forefront under Konkani Porjecho Avaz to campaign for the recognition of KonkanI. Even the naming of KPA as KONKANI Porjecho Avaz and not as KONKNNI Porejcho Avaz was to fool the Romivadis by giving them false impression to protect their  interest  and their wish will be taken care of.  This is the cunning idea it looks to me.

 

          In fact, the sacrifices of Romi Konkani followers  were so high that  besides spending heavy amount of money to promote Konkani movement, more than 5 Romivadis suffered the martyrdom while none of the Nagrivadis faced such tragedies, they enjoyed all the facilities on Silver platter.  Almost the entire movement of Konkani during its last phase in mid eighties  spearheaded  by the Romi followers.  Inspite of this the few  Nagrivadis ignored the needs and sentiments of Romivadis.  Once again I indicate my disapproval over the injustice done to Romi Script Konkani and I strongly condemn those responsible for denying Romi Konkani its due place along with Nagri Script Konkani. 

 

              Since the passing of the language bill making Konkani in Nagri  Script as Official Language of Goa and giving almost equal status to Marathi but nothing for Romi Script Konkani is the great setback not only for Romi Konkani but Konkani as a whole.  It was the greatest tragedy of the last century. Because of this tragedy there is more distance occurred  between Romi and Nagri scripts Konkani and if this situation is not revised there is every possibility for this distance to increase more.  What both the Scripts jointly can do for the cause not only of Konkani but also of Goa, individually the Nagrivadis  will never be able to do.  On the contrary on one fine day we will be surprised to see that the Nagrivadis abdicate their responsibility in favour of Marathi because of their traditional and historical closeness with Marathi allowing Marathi to swallow the Nagri Script Konknni and Marathi to accept as by De Factp official language of Goa..  

 

As a matter of interest, In Jerusalem in  “Pater Noster” Church, the prayer “Our Father…” was kept inscribed in colourful Ceramic  in ROMAN SCRIPT among other World major 150 languages.  When the World  gives due importance and recognition to Roman Script Konkani our own Konkanivadis are ignoring it in the very  land of its own. It is time now for me to  awaken all the Mauzos, Bhembros,  Shivdases, Pundaliks, Naiks and many others and ask them what you have done was right?  Future generation of Romi Konkani will curse you for betraying Romi Konkani with a Judas Kiss. And in history this betrayal will be kept written in black capital letters.

 

A.Veronica Fernandes.