AMKAM ZAI FOKOT NACHONK.
In Kuwait we have number of our Associations. To further their activities, they regularly organize their functions in the form of Tiatro and Ballroom dancing. Tiatro and what is connected with Konkani is a part of our culture but Ballroom dancing is not, even though some depict it as a part of Goan culture. When we organize Dance we don’t care for anything. Many of our Goans promote it as if it is our life and death and thru this many of our people erroneously show ballroom dancing as a Goan way of life. Currently this item is taking precedence over everything else because it has its own physical amorous charm and monetarily good income. A few years back, during one such function in one of the city hotel’s ballroom, one prominent Goan journalist representing one of the local English dailies, while attending this function suddenly got a massive heart attack and collapsed. When he collapsed still people were busy in dancing only oblivious of what has happened below their own noses. Even the Goan organizers were least bothered to take care of the collapsed Goan journalist. None really bothered to take note of this calamity. For every one of them this was nothing because they believed in one Konkani proverb “Kunkodd Melem Funkot Gelem” because “Amkam Zai Fokot Nachonk”.
That particular journalist was a great lover of Goa and Goan causes and thru his press coverage many of our functions got publicity. And for such a man to ignore by the organizers and others is like a crime!! But we prefer such crimes because we love dancing and that too ballroom dancing because “Amkam Zai Fokot Nachonk”. Finally, with the initiative of one or two Bom Samaritans, our Goan journalist was rushed to the hospital but unfortunately for him, he was declared as dead on the way to the hospital itself. If the Goan oganisers of that function were quick enough to rush him to the hospital may be his life would have been saved. But no, because we are more interested in dancing than in saving the precious life of a Goan. And yet we call ourselves as advanced Goans. Advanced in what? In ballroom dancing? Those who are involved in organizing ballroom dancing are mostly idiotic minded Goans because in their minds there is nothing but ballroom dancing. For the good cause of Goa and Goans they don’t have power to think high. Most of them back at home are coming from hoi-polloi circle, rejected by the intellectually advanced society. In order to overcome this deficiency they involve in ballroom dancing thereby pshychologically elevating them to the westernized culture as if western culture is superior to our own great culture. They are very cheap people seeking cheap prominence.
December is the month for our people to organize more socials and more functions to mark the Christmas festivities. In last December in one of the Star Hotels, one Goan Association organized its Social comprising ballroom dancing. In order to make hay while shine shines, to make maximum profit for their show, the organisers sold entry tickets to any “altu-faltu” person including some Pakistanis and other non-Goans. Our ways are totally different from many of the other Indians and also from Pakistanis. Our ways are more open while theirs are more closed. When they see our girls dancing with men holding each other they feel our girls and females are cheap. Taking advantage of the liberal sale of tickets, these males with their closed door ways entered the ballroom and started taking advantage of our girls, some of them even started misbehaving with our females. There was fist fights also in the ballroom. Some of our females are also guilty for associating with such rowdy non-Goan young boys. Partly our females are responsible for bringing such animals in our midst for our functions because many of them are “Cheddio” and being such they like all vulgarity only.
Regarding the attitude of our “Cheddio”, some years back when Fr. Gabriel was conducting Night Vigil in the City Church, he noticed that many females not only spinsters but also married ladies used to come to the Church with the excuse of attending Night Vigil. Their husbands and fathers used to drop them for the Night Vigil near the Church at 8.00 p.m. and go home and return back to pick them up again on the next day early in the morning at 6.00 after finishing the Night Vigil. The modus operandi of these Catholic “Chedio” was like this: Once they are dropped by their husbands and male parents from their cars in front of the Church, then immediately their boyfriends mainly “katres” awaiting them near the Church only, pick them and take them to their flats and enjoy with them for the whole night. While these Catholic females enjoyed illicit sex with their “Katre” boyfriends, their husbands and parents at home thought their wives and daughters are attending the Night Vigil. No, they were not attending Night Vigil in the Church but they were attending illicit Sex Vigil somewhere else in the name of Night Vigil. When Fr. Gabriel came to know of this, he personally took interest in what was happening outside the Church. He alerted the concerned persons in the Church circle and saw to it that both the main gates of the Church are closed at 8.00 p.m. till 6.00 am on the following day. In between once you are inside the Church, you were not allowed to leave the Church. Not only this, he even covered the compound wall with curtains so that nobody could see who is inside and who is outside.
Coming back to the ballroom dancing in one of the star hotels in last December as indicated above, due to rowdism created by non-Goans there was chaos and total break down in the discipline in the ballroom leading to the hotel management to switch off the lights and stop the function temporarily. The hotel management became so angry that they have now decided never to allow Goan function to be held in their premises. They have dubbed Goans as cheap, vulgar and rowdies. They did not know who is behind this indiscipline but they know only one thing, that is, the Goan community has organized that function which created nothing but vulgarity, rowdism and indiscipline. Who is responsible for this? Are not our own Goan organizers? And yet they boast of the superiority of their “Chaddo” caste. Superiority in what way? In digging the graves of already buried Catholics in an unchristian manner and boasting over it in Kuwait? They are shameless Goans. They are not Chadde but worst than “Madde”. No, sorry, Madde are far superior but not these Chadde. They are a shame on Goans and Goan Catholicsm. Superiority in what way? In establishing independent Church in Goa under the late Fr. Alvito Vaz to promote their own brand of Catholicsm and boasting over it in Kuwait saying we belonged to that particular area in Goa? Superiority in what way? In facilitating doling of our females to non-Goans for the sake of making money? These are “Vollkott” Goans who bring the fair image of genuine Goans into disrepute. And all those who are keeping their silence on this type of happenings are equally guilty.
I admire all those decent Goans for boycotting such dirty and vulgar functions. Regretably, many times such functions are attended even by our religious leaders and religious “gurus” thereby sanctifying illicit happenings which give a booster for the organizers to go ahead in organizing un-Christian functions. Fr. Gabriel once gave a strong call for the Catholics to boycott such functions because as he rightly said then that such ballroom functions are the source of temptation for sin which we must avoid by all means. Unfortunately, we don’t have another Fr. Gabriel in our midst to protect our interest and that of our community for this reason vulgarity in the community is on the rampage. Fr. Gabriel’s call came when Goan Welfare Society organized Goa Day function created total chaos in the premises of Indian Arts Circle at Funaitees where vulgarity, drunkardness. rowdism and indiscipline disgraced not only the good image of Goan community but also of their religion. For this reason, many people with discipline, character and decency do not patronize Goa Day Function organized by GWS. Mostly third class Goans patronize such functions and who they are one can easily notice. The main person who was responsible for organizing that function at Funaitees is the one who demanded sexual favour from the girls for providing jobs to them. Along with 2 others, he is also involved in duping Goans of KD 30 thousand dinars of their association and yet he is moving in society without any shame because those who support and associate with him are equally shamelessl Goans. His photo has already appeared in the press and cyberspace recently along with “Navelimchem Robonn” during the soccer match. Young ladies should be very careful of this man. So also the parents of young girls.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
February 13, 2008
February 11, 2008
CONDOLENCES
RALPH GONSALVESCalata-Majorda, Goa
(Ex-Student of United Indian School Abbasiya-Kuwait)
Born:11th JULY 1987
Expired on 10th February 2008 in Pune under tragic circumstances
Beloved son of ROQUE (National Bank of Kuwait) and JOYCE GONSALVES, Brother/Brother-in-Law of JENESSA (WP Engineering Co.-Kuwait)/NAZARIUS AZAVEDO (Hussam Sultan Co.-Kuwait), RUSSELL and uncle of baby NARISSA.
Funeral cortege will leave his residence (Calata-Majorda) on Tuesday, 12th February 2008 at 4:00 p.m to Mae De Deus Church, Majorda, Salcette-Goa
for Eucharistic Celebrations and Burial.
Relatives and friends kindly accept this as the only intimation.
February 7, 2008
PRAY FOR CHURCHILL ALEMAO.
PRAY FOR CHURCHILL ALEMAO.
After my last article “Are Goan Voters Ghantta Boil?”, I received lot of emails in support of it; most of the emails are from Navelim village in particular and Navelim constituency in general. Major portion of those who sent me their support are females. All of them have shown their total disgust for Churchill Alemao for leaving SGF and cunningly joining unpredictable Congress of Italian Sonia Gandhi.
Like any other unprincipled Goan politician, Churchill Alemao is also of same category and because of this he is flying like a butterfly from one plant to another only to chew honey for his personal greed. As a man he is nice and affable person. He knows the hardships in life as he himself undergone the pangs in life. My contact with him became strong when we brought him first time to Kuwait as a chief guest in late eighties for our Tiatro staged by the late Rex de Bardez under the banner of Goa Cultural Association. I was given the task of escorting him everywhere for the functions he attended as the Chief Guest and also I was entrusted with the task of giving him press coverage of his tour. Somehow or the other because of his the then sincerity, straight forwardness, principled stand and moreover because of his strong support for the cause of Konkani and thru Konkani for the cause of Goa, I supported him very much and that too blindly. I was very much instrumental among others to make his visit to Kuwait a very comfortable and memorable. And moreover, thru this visit I was very instrumental from Kuwait to make him known better in the Goan community. In some segments among Goans in Kuwait including the Church under Bishop Francis Mechallef, Churchill was considered as terrorist but to clear this misconception wrongly ingrained into the minds of idiots including the idiotic minded Bishop Mechallef, I had to fight with everyone with my verbal arguments and written statements in the press.
Churchill Alemao according to information was just an ordinary “Tarvotti”. He no doubt has gigantic physique but lacked gigantic intellectual capacity. Yet he did what others could not do in such circumstances and succeeded in getting into the public life of Goa with tremendous speed and with great success. Konkani language and fight for its cause was the main reason to get him into the foothold of public life in Goa. He should be grateful to Konkani and all the supporters of Konkani, including me, for giving him a chance to be what he is now. I am a staunch supporter of Konkani and a strong lover of Goa. Since Churchill also had the same likings, we matched very well in our approach for the twin causes of Goa, that is, recognition of Konkani and Statehood for Goa. Churchill fought very well for the cause of Konkani even to the extent of putting his life into peril. So much so, Prataphsingh Raoji Rane and his Government during the language agitation tried to liquidate him from this planet. For this reason Churchill Alemao had to go underground for so many days. All these hardships he had to undergo only because of Konkani and Goa. If Konkani was recognized yesterday as an official language paving the way of conferring Statehood on Goa, it was partly because of the strong campaign and movement made by Churchill Alemao and all his family members especially his brothers who were also persecuted by the Rane Government at that time.
The recognition for Konkani was not the sole accomplishment only of Konkani Porjecho Avaz headed by Nagrivadi Pundalik Naik and among others also supported by his equally anti-Romi colleagues. The recognition of Konkani was also due to the tremendous efforts put in by Konkani supporters not only from Goa but also from outside Goa, especially from Kuwait. In this category, I can rightly say that my efforts were not less. No expatriate Goan has done what I have done for the cause of Konkani by being in Kuwait. Nagrivadis are reaping the fruits of our hard labour and denying us our rights to have recognition for Romi script Konkani. Churchill Alemao then was very vocal in support of Romi Konkani but gradually he slowed down in his approach to this issue. Occasionally like a lion he roars in support of Romi Konkani but it is only a political gimmick because he knows his voters are Romi supporters. Churchill is now become a pure corrupt Indian politician. Earlier he was uncorrupt and virgin for this reason upright Goans like me were behind him. But now, upright Goans like me are rightly rejecting him and day by day his support will diminish because he is betraying the trust in his supporters. Navelim constituency people are getting negative feelings against him for betraying them. According to reliable information his own village Varca people are having negative opinion on him. For this reason, it looks that he avoided Benaulim constituency in which Varca falls and jumped into Navelim constituency. Navelim constituency voters must accept the responsibility of the ill doings of Churchill Alemao in political arena.
With all my negative feelings on Churchill Alemao I still feel there is a need of him in Goan public life. He, by nature, is a great lover of Goa and Konkani but greed for power and money made him bend his natural principles. We in Goa need such a personality and mighty man to support many of our causes. Besides, we need his natural humility which is disappearing from him leading him to distance himself from genuine Goans. He is gaining a habit of behaving like a Maharaja thereby alienating himself from the masses Goan politicians are like hardcore criminals because they have criminalized Goan politics. Churchill Alemao is one of them. We have to get him out of this rot by all means because he served Goa and Konkani very well once. We cannot forget the sacrifices he made for the cause of Goa and Konkani. . In appreciation of what good he did for Goa we have to woo him towards goodness. This we can do as a last resort only thru PRAYERS. All other means to bring him on right path have failed. He does not care for anything. If a person becomes hard and stubborn then nature takes care of him in different ways. We don’t want nature to reprimand him and to punish him for breaking the laws of nature thru his selfishness.
In view of this, we, the Goa lover Goans spread all around the globe must start praying for him to change his unprincipled and selfish stand. The parties that he changes every now and then is creating a bad fellow in him and thereby making fools of his supporters. He is a Christian and that too a Catholic. He goes to Vailankani and believes in the power of Mother Mary of Vailankani though he disgraces his Christianity and faith in Mother Mary by swearing on the Coconut and in the Temple purely in a Hindu ritual which goes against Christianity. This he did at the time of formation of PDF Government initiated by him by aligning with anti-Goan and anti-Konkani MGP. It is not only an ordinary sin but a big sacrilege for a Catholic to adore and embrace Hindu rituals. The Church in Goa and especially Varca Church must hold special prayers to enlighten him in the right direction because we need him to protect our interest. We need a leader to protect our interests otherwise Parrikar and his BJP will swallow us. If thru our prayers Churchill Alemao can become a good leader of Goa to protect our interest and not his selfish interest then we must not waste more time. In Kuwait many people agreed to pray for his change and I think it will come otherwise by hurting people and his supporters he will face his doom. History tells us that those who defy people’s goodwill are bound to fail. History tells us that those who hurt people’s sentiments are bound to disappear like an ether. We don’t want this to happen to our Churchill Alemao. For this reason, I plead with Goa lover Goans to pray for him to change his political lifestyle. Dayananda Bandodkar with his political, financial and muscle power of his MGP supporters was defying everyone, he was hurting every genuine Goan and every true lover of Goa and Konkani. Finally, what has happened to him on one fine evening while playing Ping-Pong at Kampal? Was he assassinated by anyone? No! He was assassinated by the power of the nature. The law of nature rules supreme. We must know this very well and pay obeisance to it.
Prayer is a power. Fervent prayer can even bring heaven to the earth. The power of prayer is more powerful than the power of mighty Atom and Hydrogen Bombs. Prayer can create miracles as we never saw before. In the Biblical book of Joshua, young Prophet Joshua wanted to win his battle over his enemies. To win this battle he needed Sun Light which was falling. If Sun sets then darkness would envelope the earth in which case there was the possibility for Joshua to lose his battle. Hence, in order to delay the Sun from setting and thereby keeping the Sun light intact, Joshua knelt down and fervently pleaded with God in a most powerful prayer to stop the Sun from moving further. He prayed to keep the Sun erect without moving. And miraculously thru the mighty power of Joshua’s prayer, Sun in fact remained erect for a whole day without moving an inch further till Joshua won his battle against his enemies. This truth was finally acknowledged as a genuine happening when the Apollo Mission went deep into this research from the Moon and thru its research the Apollo Astronaut and Nasa confirmed in its report that in reality and in fact Sun Did Not Fall once in the history.
This is the power of the prayer. So, let us now pray for the change in our Churchill Bab which will surely help not only for Goa and Goans but also for him and all his family members.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
After my last article “Are Goan Voters Ghantta Boil?”, I received lot of emails in support of it; most of the emails are from Navelim village in particular and Navelim constituency in general. Major portion of those who sent me their support are females. All of them have shown their total disgust for Churchill Alemao for leaving SGF and cunningly joining unpredictable Congress of Italian Sonia Gandhi.
Like any other unprincipled Goan politician, Churchill Alemao is also of same category and because of this he is flying like a butterfly from one plant to another only to chew honey for his personal greed. As a man he is nice and affable person. He knows the hardships in life as he himself undergone the pangs in life. My contact with him became strong when we brought him first time to Kuwait as a chief guest in late eighties for our Tiatro staged by the late Rex de Bardez under the banner of Goa Cultural Association. I was given the task of escorting him everywhere for the functions he attended as the Chief Guest and also I was entrusted with the task of giving him press coverage of his tour. Somehow or the other because of his the then sincerity, straight forwardness, principled stand and moreover because of his strong support for the cause of Konkani and thru Konkani for the cause of Goa, I supported him very much and that too blindly. I was very much instrumental among others to make his visit to Kuwait a very comfortable and memorable. And moreover, thru this visit I was very instrumental from Kuwait to make him known better in the Goan community. In some segments among Goans in Kuwait including the Church under Bishop Francis Mechallef, Churchill was considered as terrorist but to clear this misconception wrongly ingrained into the minds of idiots including the idiotic minded Bishop Mechallef, I had to fight with everyone with my verbal arguments and written statements in the press.
Churchill Alemao according to information was just an ordinary “Tarvotti”. He no doubt has gigantic physique but lacked gigantic intellectual capacity. Yet he did what others could not do in such circumstances and succeeded in getting into the public life of Goa with tremendous speed and with great success. Konkani language and fight for its cause was the main reason to get him into the foothold of public life in Goa. He should be grateful to Konkani and all the supporters of Konkani, including me, for giving him a chance to be what he is now. I am a staunch supporter of Konkani and a strong lover of Goa. Since Churchill also had the same likings, we matched very well in our approach for the twin causes of Goa, that is, recognition of Konkani and Statehood for Goa. Churchill fought very well for the cause of Konkani even to the extent of putting his life into peril. So much so, Prataphsingh Raoji Rane and his Government during the language agitation tried to liquidate him from this planet. For this reason Churchill Alemao had to go underground for so many days. All these hardships he had to undergo only because of Konkani and Goa. If Konkani was recognized yesterday as an official language paving the way of conferring Statehood on Goa, it was partly because of the strong campaign and movement made by Churchill Alemao and all his family members especially his brothers who were also persecuted by the Rane Government at that time.
The recognition for Konkani was not the sole accomplishment only of Konkani Porjecho Avaz headed by Nagrivadi Pundalik Naik and among others also supported by his equally anti-Romi colleagues. The recognition of Konkani was also due to the tremendous efforts put in by Konkani supporters not only from Goa but also from outside Goa, especially from Kuwait. In this category, I can rightly say that my efforts were not less. No expatriate Goan has done what I have done for the cause of Konkani by being in Kuwait. Nagrivadis are reaping the fruits of our hard labour and denying us our rights to have recognition for Romi script Konkani. Churchill Alemao then was very vocal in support of Romi Konkani but gradually he slowed down in his approach to this issue. Occasionally like a lion he roars in support of Romi Konkani but it is only a political gimmick because he knows his voters are Romi supporters. Churchill is now become a pure corrupt Indian politician. Earlier he was uncorrupt and virgin for this reason upright Goans like me were behind him. But now, upright Goans like me are rightly rejecting him and day by day his support will diminish because he is betraying the trust in his supporters. Navelim constituency people are getting negative feelings against him for betraying them. According to reliable information his own village Varca people are having negative opinion on him. For this reason, it looks that he avoided Benaulim constituency in which Varca falls and jumped into Navelim constituency. Navelim constituency voters must accept the responsibility of the ill doings of Churchill Alemao in political arena.
With all my negative feelings on Churchill Alemao I still feel there is a need of him in Goan public life. He, by nature, is a great lover of Goa and Konkani but greed for power and money made him bend his natural principles. We in Goa need such a personality and mighty man to support many of our causes. Besides, we need his natural humility which is disappearing from him leading him to distance himself from genuine Goans. He is gaining a habit of behaving like a Maharaja thereby alienating himself from the masses Goan politicians are like hardcore criminals because they have criminalized Goan politics. Churchill Alemao is one of them. We have to get him out of this rot by all means because he served Goa and Konkani very well once. We cannot forget the sacrifices he made for the cause of Goa and Konkani. . In appreciation of what good he did for Goa we have to woo him towards goodness. This we can do as a last resort only thru PRAYERS. All other means to bring him on right path have failed. He does not care for anything. If a person becomes hard and stubborn then nature takes care of him in different ways. We don’t want nature to reprimand him and to punish him for breaking the laws of nature thru his selfishness.
In view of this, we, the Goa lover Goans spread all around the globe must start praying for him to change his unprincipled and selfish stand. The parties that he changes every now and then is creating a bad fellow in him and thereby making fools of his supporters. He is a Christian and that too a Catholic. He goes to Vailankani and believes in the power of Mother Mary of Vailankani though he disgraces his Christianity and faith in Mother Mary by swearing on the Coconut and in the Temple purely in a Hindu ritual which goes against Christianity. This he did at the time of formation of PDF Government initiated by him by aligning with anti-Goan and anti-Konkani MGP. It is not only an ordinary sin but a big sacrilege for a Catholic to adore and embrace Hindu rituals. The Church in Goa and especially Varca Church must hold special prayers to enlighten him in the right direction because we need him to protect our interest. We need a leader to protect our interests otherwise Parrikar and his BJP will swallow us. If thru our prayers Churchill Alemao can become a good leader of Goa to protect our interest and not his selfish interest then we must not waste more time. In Kuwait many people agreed to pray for his change and I think it will come otherwise by hurting people and his supporters he will face his doom. History tells us that those who defy people’s goodwill are bound to fail. History tells us that those who hurt people’s sentiments are bound to disappear like an ether. We don’t want this to happen to our Churchill Alemao. For this reason, I plead with Goa lover Goans to pray for him to change his political lifestyle. Dayananda Bandodkar with his political, financial and muscle power of his MGP supporters was defying everyone, he was hurting every genuine Goan and every true lover of Goa and Konkani. Finally, what has happened to him on one fine evening while playing Ping-Pong at Kampal? Was he assassinated by anyone? No! He was assassinated by the power of the nature. The law of nature rules supreme. We must know this very well and pay obeisance to it.
Prayer is a power. Fervent prayer can even bring heaven to the earth. The power of prayer is more powerful than the power of mighty Atom and Hydrogen Bombs. Prayer can create miracles as we never saw before. In the Biblical book of Joshua, young Prophet Joshua wanted to win his battle over his enemies. To win this battle he needed Sun Light which was falling. If Sun sets then darkness would envelope the earth in which case there was the possibility for Joshua to lose his battle. Hence, in order to delay the Sun from setting and thereby keeping the Sun light intact, Joshua knelt down and fervently pleaded with God in a most powerful prayer to stop the Sun from moving further. He prayed to keep the Sun erect without moving. And miraculously thru the mighty power of Joshua’s prayer, Sun in fact remained erect for a whole day without moving an inch further till Joshua won his battle against his enemies. This truth was finally acknowledged as a genuine happening when the Apollo Mission went deep into this research from the Moon and thru its research the Apollo Astronaut and Nasa confirmed in its report that in reality and in fact Sun Did Not Fall once in the history.
This is the power of the prayer. So, let us now pray for the change in our Churchill Bab which will surely help not only for Goa and Goans but also for him and all his family members.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
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