IN CHAOTIC INDIA GOANS WILL BE THE MAJOR LOSERS.

 

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Where are we Indians heading now from the chaotic situation that is prevailing in India not excluding our so called “Bhangarachem Goem”?” I feel a huge Iceberg in front of me creating an obstacle for my ship to move ahead. This Iceberg is so huge that even it surpasses the earlier worst Iceberg that destroyed the most powerful Passenger Ship  “The Titanic” that World has ever built, preventing me  from expressing  my opinion freely on the wrong doings of certain higher-ups who are provided with all the doles by the ruling party Government.   The democratic process that we are exercising now is totally collapsed and instead it looks to me we are under the dictatorial regime. See the way our Ministers, MLA’s and even the ordinary “Chamchas” of the ruling  party  are  acting!!  They can do anything and any harm to their opponents because the law enforcers and justice deliverers are in their pockets and because they consider themselves as “de jure” masters of law enforcers and justice deliverers  and precisely because of this there are cases still remained undetected inspite of having all the evidences to catch the culprits including the  murderers of Fr. Bismarque that remained till now thoroughly  un-investigated since those who are a party to this murder of course thru remote control are having their own interest in the liquidation of Fr. Bismarque.  If you carefully analyse the whole situation you are unable to live peacefully and freely in Goa without inviting you the unnecessary problems.  This is worse than the Salazarist dictatorship because under this dictatorship at least the ordinary  individual was provided by the State full corporal protection. But after the ouster of Portuguese from Goa, even that life protection is not existing because power is gone into the  hands of “Rostad” politicians whose only motto is to fatten their Bank balance even by keeping their the next 5 generations financially secured.  

The democratic process we are exercising now in Goa as elsewhere too, is a big joke, it is controlled directly by the concerned dictatorial authorities otherwise how the clear majority of Seats winning Congress Party was denied on flimsy grounds an opportunity to form their own government and instead the current ruling party handed on silver platter privilege to  form the current government?  This is purely a robbery done  by the ruling party in connivance with the Delhi “Babus” who as informed, pressurised Goa’s Governor exactly in a Salazarian style as he used to instruct the Goa Governador from Portugal.  Both the cases are identical, one done  by the dictator Salazar from Portugal directing the Goa Governador what to do in Goa and the other from Delhi to Goa Governor to help BJP to form the Goa government.  By doing this we the Congress workers  in Goa who voted Congress Party to the clear  majority were not only robbed of our right to see Congress Party forming the Government but we were backstabbed in a form of a crime. Who on earth will believe such Governadors? 

Can in this scenario we have a democratic process In our Goa?  60 Years back in this very month our elders were taking the procession on our Roads in  Candolim and shouting slogans joyfully in praise of the victory for Democracy while elsewhere in my village at the Tinto some prominent Goans especially the Freedom Fighters praising India for inducting  Democracy in Goa. But did they ever realised that under the same Indian Government that introduced Democracy in Goa is responsible to tarnish the image of  the same Democracy and by chance or miracle If they  come back from their graves, they will repent and regret for facing innumerable hardships including the torturing  from the hands of  that deadly Portuguese Agente Monteiro to get this Democracy in Goa.

Is there any hope for our current and the next generations to live a peaceful and developed life?  I doubt because under the current de facto dictatorial system in the name of democratic process they will face more Icebergs in front of them destroying their Titanics. When they are on the verge of embarking on their future, it looks to me Goa will be just a land inhabited by all the people from all over world and not necessarily from India only but without Goans.  This will happen because our top leaders in Delhi and other suboridates from Goa or based in Goa will be working tremendously very hard liquidating and uprooting Goans fron their own anchestral Goa.  I hope I don’t live in this world to see that calamity of seeing Goa without Goans. I dont think I will be able to see that stuation "Goa minus Goans".

 

A.Veronica Fernandes.        

        

NEW KONKANI FILM "SOGLIM DHARAM BOND" BY COMEDIAN BEN IN U-TUBE.

Seen at left Ben as Rajnikant & right real Ben playing his role

A very good Video Film “soglim dharam bond” on U-Tube by the renown comedian of Konkani Stage Ben Evangelisto who is highly philosophical and very artistic minded Tiatrist.  His forte lies in playing any Character role with the perfect imitation.  Once in Kuwait in Rosary Ferns Show coming to Kuwait as a visiting artiste, he played the role of Michael Johnson so fantastic that after finishing that role somany members of the audience rushed to him behind the Stage  to have their photographs clicked with him, some of them even sent these photos to their nearest and dearest.to show that they are with Michael Jackson. Ben Evangelisto depicted in this Video Film of his which is shown on U-Tube is  an unique and the first one in Konkani where all the roles are played by lone artiste and that is none other than the script writer, director, actor and producer of this film Ben Evangelisto. What are the different roles of different persons one man Ben does and how he plays these roles?  There is no denying the facts that all the roles of the different persons, namely one of South Indian Film actor Rajnikant, then of social activist Walter Lobo from Calangute who is creating solid impact on the corrupt politicians in his U-Tube programme, it was nicely pictured how in his double  roles which look so genuine especially when Ben is facing in a dialogue himself only in the image of somebody. 

Seen as Walter Lobo at left

All who involved in doing this film have done their job well and the editing by Siddesh Naik gave a very good finishing for this film.

The film starts with a beautiful song rendered by the beautiful voice from it one can deduce that the female whose name is Sibila Rodrigues must be beautiful too, this song brings an  extra coiour to this film the story of which is concluded that when Ben Evangelisto gets up from his sleep from where he gets up all nervous after he gets a dream where he noticed all what he narrated in the prison cell where he is locked up for playing mischief as an Education Minister and confined there to rot.   After getting up from his dreamy sleep, very philosophically he laments about the punishment we are suffering now in the form of Lock-down because of Corona Virus.  He  asked “why we received it and who is responsible? Is our bad deeds responsible for it? Am I responsible for this punishment?” Then in a very philosophical way he asked forgiveness for what wrong he has done and rescue us all from this lock down which closes us all the doors including that  of Church.

                  

Seen at left is Ben in dialogue with real Ben at right

                                               Seen above is Ben in the prison

All who involved in doing this film have done their job well and the editing by Siddesh Naik gave a very good finishing for this film.

The film starts with a beautiful song rendered by the beautiful voice from it one can deduce that the female whose name is Sibila Rodrigues must be beautiful, this song brings an  extra coiour to this film the story of which is concluded that when Ben Evangelisto gets up from his sleep from where he gets up all nervous after he gets a dream where he noticed all what he narrated in the prison cell where he is locked up for playing mischief as an Education Minister and confined there to rot.   After gwtting up from his dreamy sleep, he very philosophically he laments about the punishment we are suffering now in the form of Lock-out because of Corona Virus.  He  asked “why we received it and who is responsible? Is our bad deeds responsible for it? I am responsible for this punishment?” Then in a very philosophical way he asked forgiveness for what wrong he has done and rescue us all from this lock down which closes us the doors of Church and so many other things.

 I suggest every Goan to see this interesting and  very good Film which Ben did with lot of pains single handedly.

Well done Ben.

A.Veronica Fernandes.                                                
 

FOOT-BALL - FC GOA & ISL.

·         In one of the magnificent goals scored beautifully directly from the Corner Kick  into the far right corner of the Goa goal, by Chennayin’s foreign recruit  Crivellaro on 19^th of this month putting his team ahead against the favourite FC Goa whose chances are becoming slim to move ahead in this year’s edition of ISL.  Such goals are rarity now a days because to score such goals one has to do tremendous amount of practice with long hours of toiling on the football ground with utmost dedication.  [A1] However, in the late fifties one famous Salgaocar player Eustaqio from Calangute used to score such fabulous goals directly from the Corner kicks with perfection.  He used to practice alone in their field for long hours byn yet he was atill very good.  He was the only one of that type of a player who was capable of scoring goals direct from the Corner Kicks. The other player who has perfected the art of scoring such beautiful goals directly from the  Corner Kicks was Levino who was my colleague at Sesa Goa but earler he donned to colours of Academica  Pannjim where that genius Pe. Chico Monteiro trained Levino to play attractive soccer.

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·          Coming back to the FC Goa suffering a defeat of 1-2 goals from the Chennayin FC, I must say openly and loudly that compared to the last season, this season Goa is very much weakened in the absence of their few best players namely Coro, Boumous, Mandar and others.  They are not replaceable, there is long years of hard work of torturing of their robust bodies  and also their heads which gave them the required experience to play the high level of soccer.  These attributes are not the purchasable commodities and those who got no experience of handling  such situation then  they should not run the soccer teams.  What is the quality and experience of Casinos running and the foot-ball team running?  Just because you are good in running the most sinful business of Casinos where there is nothing good but only the curses then  FC Goa will never come up. FC Goa team first of  all should not have released the mentioned players, they should have been retained by all means instead of releasing them to the FC Mumbai where even by paying more for their services they should have been retained.  Secondly, the sacking of Coach Sergio Lobero who was one of the top Coaches and  was responsible to tuning the FC Goa to the top level and when he did so much for FC Goa, his services should have been retained.  The current Coach of FC Goa looks like a Novice and a Bach’cha. The Deltin the owner of FC Goa looks not interested in the promotion of FC Goa nor development of Goan soccer, they it looks to me are interested in exploiting the name GOA only. “Ghanttiani  Goencho development kelolo mhonn adim konne tori aikolam”?  One fine morning they will abdicate their responsibilities and like Mickey Pacheco one fine morning close their operations in Goa and with it close their team too by citing financial problem.

Will we develop our soccer by allowing so many players from  outside Goa and outside India?   When this is the case our indigenous players will not get the chance to play among the first XI.  A few years back in Italy each soccer team in Serie A  competition was allowed to field 3 players recruited from outside the borders of Italy which was later on forced by the Italians to  stop it and make a law to field only two so that indigenous crop does not suffer. So by allowing such a battalion of outside players we will never develop our own indigenous talent.  Hence, we must make our voice audible to every concerned person to change its law to suit their LOCAL needs.

 

Compared to the last season, the quality of soccer in this year’s edition is vastly enhanced but brutality of foreign Coaches and that  of the Coaching Team members is too high reaching the point of saturation, that means what nonsense they commit on the side lines is not tolerated.  Who are these nonsense creators?  They are all foreign Coaches along with their coaching colleagues, they release their anger of any goof committed by the Match Referee on the field which may not be correct.  But referee is the final authority and linesmen cannot be held responsible. The way they argue and abuse the Linesmen it is unbearable.  Are they right in doing this type of Tamasha from the Sidelines?  No, they have no right to argue with the Linesmen neither they can create scene there by their robust behaviour.  It is a pity that such ugly scenes are seen created only in our land where ISL is going on under the Indian administration which the foreign Coaches and their colleagues do not pay that much of respect. These white skinners foreign Coaches if they had to face  the same type of situation in the West, would they display the calibre of their marbles by doing what they do here? I noticed there is vast improvement qualitywise but what is worst is that they argue for anything?  They will never display their  courage to argue from the Sidelines with the Linesmen.  The foreign Coaches  recognised the wekness of our “Ghanvtti” Referees who firstly  lack the proper knowledge of the rules of Soccer and secondly they are suffering from ancestral and tradional inferiority complex and thirdly they are too nervous and frightful to handle stiff situation. These bloody stupid Indian Referees are fit to be the big jokers and not the Referees, they are good to be soldiers only and not the Generals. As a whole as seen the weakness of the Indian Referees and Linesmen is too big, their quality is very low. I cannot understand how they got their Refereeing Cards and FIFA Badges. They  don’t even have the necessary personality. In this year’s edition of ISL the Refereeing is of very low standard that was very much responsible to lose the beauty of this edition.  Much of the charm and beauty of this ISL tournament matches lost because of the extremely poor Refereeing. 

Now referring to the two mighty and gigantic teams namely the Mohun Bagan and East Bengal who till recently the best teams in India and feared by all other teams from India are in ISL and are become pure coackroches where their earlier might is totally disappeared.  Earlier they were like one eyed teams among the blinds but since the starting of ISL competition and with the introduction of almost half a dozen of outstation players for each team totally changed the quality and standard of the game in India and with it the level of the players. I cannot understand the once mighty team Mohun Bagan how it has created fear complex into Goans when the darling team of Goa the famed  Vasco Sports Club played against  Mohun Bagan in the mid sixties  at Co-operage Ground which was attended by the capacity spectators where Mohun Bagan defeated Goa’s Vasco  by 1-0 to lift the Trophy, the all important winning goal was scored by their forward Khanan who incidentally gained more popularity in Goa than anyone else.  Their captain Jeirnal Singh during that time was stationed outside India representing Asia as he was the only Indian player selected to represent in the Asiad. When core committee of Mohun Bagan after studying the plus and minus points of their team, they submitted their report demanding by all means the recalling  from Asiad of Jeirnal Singh for this final because  they said in the absence of Jernail Singh, Vasco’s brilliant forward who was at his peak would make the defence of Mohun Bagan as a bunch of idiots.  In view of this, it is imperative to bring back Jernail Singh and ultimately he was brought back and he played the key role in stopping Vasco’s Andrew who being a  puny sized player played an stellar role but unfortunately could not score the much needed victory goal to bring to Goa the much admired and much popular Trophy the Rovers Cup.  In fact the battalions of Goans settled in Bombay came to watch not only the game but to see Vasco lifting the  Trophy and taking it to Goa where thousands and thousands of Vasco’s supporters were preparing themselves with Bundles and Bundles of Fire Crackers and Musicians with their musical instruments.  But alas, so many Goa based Goans who went by cars to see this final returned on the same night with tears in their eyes while in Bombay so many  Bombay based Goans not only crying but they were also sobbing and screaming.  Butt alas, Goans lost no doubt but have created an unique place into the hearts of each and everyone who attended this grand final, whether he was the supporter of Mohun or not.  The actual winner of this final was not the Mohun Bagan of Calcutta and Vasco of Goa not the loser but it was the game of soccer that

came out victorious. It was said that in the history of Bombay Gons only twice Goans  became mmore happy that was when Goa won the Opinion Poll and second time when Vasco reached to the final of this tournament.  

A.Veronica Fernandes.

they said it is imerative nting Asia

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