LIBERATION OF GOA IS A BIG JOKE.

·                      1 8.12.61 at about 5.45 AM,  close to our house and next to the main road while going to Aguada, my father a fair like a Portuguez “Paklo”, wearing a “Cheddi” and Banyan, was  adjusting the water flow in our field unaware of the presence of Indian Military marching  on Goan soil. While my father busy in doing his job in our field, he was surprised to see a Convoy of Military vehicles namely Tanks, Jeeps transporting Indian Military personnel to capture the Portuguese citadel at Aguada. On this date at the United Nations Security Council acting on the complaint of Portugal passed a resolution by the majority member nations including USA, UK, France, Turkey, China and others declaring the annexation of Goa by India as illegal and called for the cessation of hostilities, withdrawal of Indian forces from Goa and settle their differences between them peacefully. However, this majority decision was defeated by the one vote called Veto by the Soviet Russia giving legality for India to acquire Goa by force.  But with the annexation of Goa by military force the image of India in the World as a peaceful country disappeared.  US President immediately commented on India “Why you are fooling the World since last 14 years in  the name of Non-Violence when you used the same violence to acquire Goa?  It looks the Pastor is caught  coming out of brothel buttoning his Pant”.

While Indian Military was annexing Goa with a claim that due to the geographical affinity of Goa to Bharat and also  Goa being  situated in the sub-continent, it becomes the part of Bharat for which the World answered to India saying if this is the case then all the nations in the sub – continent becomes a  part of Bharat. There were blames on Portuguese for its conversion process of Goans and that the Portuguese came to Goa uninvited. It must be noted well that the Portuguese were brought to Goa thru the invitation by one Goan Hindu  called Timoja to liberate Goa from the tyranny of Muslim leader Yusuf Adil Shah.  I don’t remember having read  or heard any official invitation was given to India on behalf of all the Goans to liberate Goa. Hence, the Military action taken by India on Goa looks unilateral.  That the Portuguese had to leave from Goa is tta sure fact and if they had been there in Goa when I attained the proper age of a well grown –up boy, I would definitely join the Freedom for Goa movement but surely first I will  make them understand the writing on the walls.  I never heard a top Brahmin Bhattkar and any Hindu Negociante mainly from the Brahmin caste, any time discussed this topic with the Governador Geral of Goa requesting him to speak to Salazar to give our Goa in our hands in a true sense of Liberation?  But no, these so called elite Goans were acted like Chamchas and Slaves of Portuguez.  Being the best of Portugues Chamchas they alone got the better benefits of Portuguese. Due to their closeness to Portuguese especially the nominated members of Legislative Council, they should have brought this  topic to the notice of the Portuguese rulers. If we had to get some sort of freedpom  then. now we would not have  been facing the difficulties that we are facing  where our existence as Goans is in peril. In few years time the way  things are moving in Goa, we the genuine Goans would lose everything such as our language, our culture, our history, our tradition, our folks tales and folk songs, our houses, and properties In one word the outsiders will totally dominate over every apeect of our  life, they will treat us ruthlessly without any pity nor compassion because they are very hard hearted, they have no softness in their hearts.  And the Governments in Goa as well as in Delhi will do nothing because every successive Government in Goa proved to be anti Goan and anti-Goa just like the Delhi government whichever it may be. In Delhi ww have no weight because no body wants us withour two members of Lokh Sabah.  I  feel pity for me now because during the next few yeara if I survive and to my children too realising how   they will face the tormenting life for all Goans in few years from now  this whatThinking all these I feel like asking the Freesom Fightrs: is this the Liberation you were asking and our Freedom Fighters were fighting by facing the bullets and cruel beatings of the  Portuguese? And if it is yes thn Shame on you.  Your are partly responaible for our sufferings today because once the Portuguese were ousted from Goa, you went to sleep  never even bothered to check the injustice happening on Goans.  I accuse you for being responsible for what tragedies are happening in Goa.  It was your duty ff to raise your voices agaiinst what is going wrong in Goa but you did noting of that sort because you are given  Tamraptra as an honour and Pension.  Shame on you specially on those whose Tamrapatras gives an odour of blood of innocent Goans whom the freedom fighters killed example Goan Regidor from Siolim who was mercilessly murdered.

Coming back to my father in our field, suddenly the top man sitting in the front vehicle spotted my father in the field and be stopped his vehicle leading all the remaining vehicles following him also to halt.  Then the Military man called my father thus, “Hey, what are you doing there?”, my father replied “I am adjusting the water flow”.  The Indian Military man suspecting my father a Portuguese Paklo because of his fair skin, asked my father “whose field is that? My father replied as “mine” . Then he asked “why you are wearing  this poor Cheddi and Banyan” for which my father replied “because I am poor”, for this the Military man retorted “I know, the Portuguez have purposely kept you poor, henceforth you will NOT REMAIN  POOR but ALL GOANS WILL  BE RICH”. Then he asked, “what is the distance from here  to Aguada, how many soldiers are there ?”.

Then my father all exited sprinted home giving slogans  ”Jai Hind, Nehru Zindabad” whereas  while going to our field my father was saying “Viva Portugal, Salazar Zindabad”. Within a few days, all his expectations disappeared with the wind because he never thought the life in Goa would be so corrupt, so insecure, so bad in all respects. With disgust he died as disappointed man expecting Heavenly Mannas which never came as promised on 18.12.61.  Is this the LIBERATION?  Surely not because this type of freedom we were not expecting.  I decline this Liberation because  it is a fake Liberation and and as a real son of Goa I regret to accept this as a Liberation.  And in reality can it be called a real Liberation?  Some  political scientists called it as Invaaaion while Supreme Court of India while delivering the judgement on Pe. Chico Monteiro as “Connquest”.  In the name of this Liberation we Goans were fooled, cheated and robbed us of everything Goan we had.

 

A.Veronica Fernandes.

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.