Navelim Salcette is a village that gave to Goa great sons, two of them were Dr. Francisco Luis Gomes and Cardinal Gracias. Some years back Alfred D’Cruz a renowned Goan journalist employed at local ‘Kuwait Times’ Daily Newspaper had with him a research work on Dr. Francisco Luis Gomes and the same he wanted to publish in a small booklet form. For this purpose he approached me to approach the local stalwarts of Navelim village Association which I did. Unfortunately, to my regret I found none among Navelim people whom I approached knew about Dr. Francisco Luis Gomes and the worst part of it was that they laughed at me for soliciting their support for this cause of their own villager who brought great honour for Goa and India. It was sad to note at that time that how ignorant people were they whom I approached. It was not only in Navelim circle but almost every Goan association in Kuwait we have more ignorant idiots than intellectuals. Some of our associations are headed by people who are fit for nothing but only fit to make a big show of them. I feel ashamed to see them in such positions. They are giving a very poor image of Goa and Goans in Kuwait.
Recently we noticed the news item saying that Churchill Alemao during his recent visit to Kuwait gave a Cheque equivalent to Indian Rupees One Lakh to Navelim Youth Centre – Kuwait, to organise a Seven-Side-Side Memorial Soccer Tournament in memory of his late murdered brother Alvernaz Alemao. That Churchill Bros. are known to be the great supporters and promoters of Soccer is a known fact and their late brother Alvernaz as a member of Churchil Bros. has also played a role in the promotion of Soccer is also a known fact. In such a situation his memory should be deservingly kept alive. Persons who did something for the cause of Soccer deserve such honour after their deaths but surely not Kids who have never even kicked a football and inspite of this fact some idiots in Kuwait organised memorial soccer tournaments in memory of their late children. By doing such things the idiotic minded Goans in Kuwait displayed not their wisdom and intellect but their money power and ignorance.
While appreciating Navelim Youth Center – Kuwait to organise Alvernaz Memorial Soccer Tournament in Kuwait and thereby honour not a Navelkar but a Varcakar, however, on the contrary I fail to understand why this same Navelim Youth Center-Kuwait is not organising till now the memorial soccer tournament in memory of their late own Navelim son Custodio Fernandes who was one of the very responsible Goans in Kuwait in starting competitive soccer tournaments in Kuwait for Goans in particular and Indians in general in 1979? The late Custodio Fernandes popularly known at that time as ‘Castro’ played a very good role with his other colleagues in United Goans Football Centre in initiating our soccer activities at Sour Ground. He was not a businessman but yet he used to spend money from his own pocket for this cause and also spend lot of his time for running about. While in this process, he faced lot of obstacles, humiliations and even insults but never gave up. His efforts in promoting our soccer in Kuwait was great. I am yet to see such an encouraging and dynamic Navelkar in Kuwait. Custodio Fernandes never craved for cheap publicity but craved for doing something for the cause of Goans in Kuwait.
That Varkenkar Alvernaz Alemao contributed well for the cause of soccer in Goa is a true fact but Navelkar Custodio Fernandes helped in giving birth to our competitive soccer in Kuwait and thereby united Goans in Kuwait is an undeniable fact and for this great Navelkar cannot his villagers in Kuwait, do anything? Or do the Navelkars in Kuwait love Goan politicians proposals to promote their interest? Are we Goans in Kuwait suffering from ancestral inferiority complex by shamelessly bowing down to the wishes of visiting Goan politicians? Are we so poor intellectually to take pleasure in displaying our photographs with the anti-Goan policy followers of visiting politicians as if it is a big honour? Big honour only for Goans suffering from inferiority complex. While honouring their neighbour, Navelkars should also rightly honour their own son and if possible honouring “Ghaum Bhau” should take priority.
Recently I have noticed lot of Goan politicians queuing up to visit Kuwait as Chief Guests and as Guests of Honour for unrecognised by Kuwaiti authorities Soccer Matches and for Tiatros. Some of those involved in promoting Mickey Pacheco in Kuwait are very much dejected that Pacheco was dethroned from his ministerial portfolio. For these people there was none besides Pacheco to be proud of because for these people Pacheco means Emperor. When recently Pacheco’s Empire collapsed, his supporters in Kuwait also collapsed. I pity them. In the bargain, Mickey Pacheo’s forthcoming visit to Kuwait for the next week’s Tiatro ‘Advogad’ also collapsed.
Goan politicians are ‘XIMBRE’, ‘BEIMAN’ and ‘GHATKI’. They need Kuwait only for their own promotion and for their own benefits. During the time of invasion of Kuwait, none of the Goan politicians openly supported us in our movement under Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Center, in our Public Meetings and Rallies in support of the liberation of Kuwait. Most of them were mocking and laughing at us for organsing this movement for the cause of Kuwait because they never expected Kuwait to be liberated. But some of these shameless politicians are now licking the boots of Kuwaitis and sucking the excreta of Kuwait. I don’t understand why there is sudden craze for Goan politicians in visiting Kuwait very often. Is it true that some of them visiting Kuwait to meet their concubines like many of the visiting priests? The urge to visit Kuwait for our politicians is such that they volunteer even to pay their own airfares and of their accompanying delegations comprising even their mistresses. Good that their contribution in our movement in support of Kuwait during the invasion of Kuwait is MINUS ZERO otherwise they would even hijack Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Center from our hands and declare to Kuwaitis loudly that they were the makers of the movement under Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Center in Goa. And some of their Kuwait based Goans whose contribution in our movement is also Minus Zero would support them because these Kuwait Goans are cheap for publicity. I have already spoken to many influential Kuwaitis informing them that Goan politicians especially those frequenting Kuwait regularly have never supported Kuwait in our movement for the cause of Kuwait. These politicians are TRAITORS TO KUWAIT and those Kuwait Goans who support these TRAITORS and their activities in Kuwait are double TRAITORS TO KUWAIT. Promoting visiting Goan traitors in Kuwait who betrayed Kuwait with a Judas Kiss is an anti-Kuwait act. All Kuwaiti patriots should know this.
Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwai.
June 17, 2010
June 16, 2010
StyleSpeak: Stockholm Syndrome
In response to:
Message: 10
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:22:01 -0400
From: Wendell Rodricks <wendellrodricks@gmail.com>
Subject: [Goanet] StyleSpeak: Stockholm Syndrome
Wendell has very nicely knitted the past and the present, the way he does his finery for the fashion shows and without doubt he is a master craftsman, what he says in his post is mostly true. We have elected our politicians, hence they are public servants who have to be accountable to us and have to respect us as citizens of the state and not override us with their pathetic corrupt ideologies.
Our politicians sure do not care to improve their image by a change in attitude but on the contrary they do everything possible to justify themselves for the depravity that not just flows but gushes out of them. We may be surely suffering from what Wendell calls "Stockholm syndrome" as even after all the degeneracy and decadence that they have managed to burry us in, we still like to honour them to no ends, the "Stockholm syndrome" is definitely evident in some, if not most of our Goans in Goa and in Diaspora. We just seem to be blind, dumb and deaf to their regressive and appalling behaviour and ideologies.
I do admire Wendell for his views on Goa, his outspokenness and his fondness for the Goa of old, we all know the nostalgic feeling when we look back at the good old days but there are a few things I do not agree with his line of thinking:
When Wendell say that he does keep the professional affliction of the politicians from their persona as fellow humans, is amazing but I would like to add that as an icon of modern Goa along with Remo and Hema, should by all means stand for what they believe and tell our politicians so, on the face, without malice, it is not enough to write or tell others what rascals our politicians have been, these monumental monuments of cacophony should be washed and humiliated at every opportunity to show the quantum of our disgust for these besmirched species.
I also do not agree with Goans submission to the "Lima syndrome", because so far we have been the patients of both "Stockholm syndrome" and the "Lima syndrome" for too long a time and that's the reason, that we are where we are today, in no man's land caught between the conniving despoiled politicians and our dreams for a better future for Goa and Goans. What indeed Goa needs right now is the "Maoist syndrome". I am sure all will understand what I mean by "Maoist syndrome". If you look at history, it's only a popular uprising that has brought down Governments to their knees and change of ideologies. If we have to wait for Digu and his thirty nine thieves to be compassionate to the "Lima syndrome" of Goans, we may have to wait for eternity, victims of "phantasm syndrome". What's that ? This syndrome is a hallucination that makes people believe that the impossible will be possible.
Asking Digu to show us his heart is useless, I am sure all our politicians must have kept their tender hearts in some vaults in Switzerland and they would in no way let us have a glance at that and what they have in their chest and on person is not worth looking at because it's worse that Mahim sewer of Mumbai.
Freddy Agnelo Fernandes
Dubai - UAE
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:22:01 -0400
From: Wendell Rodricks <wendellrodricks@gmail.com>
Subject: [Goanet] StyleSpeak: Stockholm Syndrome
Wendell has very nicely knitted the past and the present, the way he does his finery for the fashion shows and without doubt he is a master craftsman, what he says in his post is mostly true. We have elected our politicians, hence they are public servants who have to be accountable to us and have to respect us as citizens of the state and not override us with their pathetic corrupt ideologies.
Our politicians sure do not care to improve their image by a change in attitude but on the contrary they do everything possible to justify themselves for the depravity that not just flows but gushes out of them. We may be surely suffering from what Wendell calls "Stockholm syndrome" as even after all the degeneracy and decadence that they have managed to burry us in, we still like to honour them to no ends, the "Stockholm syndrome" is definitely evident in some, if not most of our Goans in Goa and in Diaspora. We just seem to be blind, dumb and deaf to their regressive and appalling behaviour and ideologies.
I do admire Wendell for his views on Goa, his outspokenness and his fondness for the Goa of old, we all know the nostalgic feeling when we look back at the good old days but there are a few things I do not agree with his line of thinking:
When Wendell say that he does keep the professional affliction of the politicians from their persona as fellow humans, is amazing but I would like to add that as an icon of modern Goa along with Remo and Hema, should by all means stand for what they believe and tell our politicians so, on the face, without malice, it is not enough to write or tell others what rascals our politicians have been, these monumental monuments of cacophony should be washed and humiliated at every opportunity to show the quantum of our disgust for these besmirched species.
I also do not agree with Goans submission to the "Lima syndrome", because so far we have been the patients of both "Stockholm syndrome" and the "Lima syndrome" for too long a time and that's the reason, that we are where we are today, in no man's land caught between the conniving despoiled politicians and our dreams for a better future for Goa and Goans. What indeed Goa needs right now is the "Maoist syndrome". I am sure all will understand what I mean by "Maoist syndrome". If you look at history, it's only a popular uprising that has brought down Governments to their knees and change of ideologies. If we have to wait for Digu and his thirty nine thieves to be compassionate to the "Lima syndrome" of Goans, we may have to wait for eternity, victims of "phantasm syndrome". What's that ? This syndrome is a hallucination that makes people believe that the impossible will be possible.
Asking Digu to show us his heart is useless, I am sure all our politicians must have kept their tender hearts in some vaults in Switzerland and they would in no way let us have a glance at that and what they have in their chest and on person is not worth looking at because it's worse that Mahim sewer of Mumbai.
Freddy Agnelo Fernandes
Dubai - UAE
The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. Get busy.
Goan Politicians Should Get Gold Medals For Denying
"I did not call Goans squealing pigs, I said, even in case of "developmental" projects our NGO's squeal, like pigs do, even when they are taken for other than killing" was the clarification made by our esteemed PWD Minister, he further says that if any can prove that he called Goans squealing pigs he would resign. Damage control at it's best, has any Ministers actually resigned for their follies in Goa before, even after all the scams ? Some of them who did, were forced to resign. By the way which NGO's is he talking about, which NGO is opposing the Raheja's "developmental" project, if our esteemed Minister say so ? Raheja's "developmental" project is opposed by the very residents headed by Orlando who is infact fighting against the illegalities in the project, I sure hope our esteemed Minister knows the difference between opposing "developmental" project and fighting against illegalities in a project. Just because he, a Minister, scribbles a note on his letter pad does not make illegalities legal. He should know better or does he think that the Law starts and ends with him in Goa ?
In India we all know how very easily evidence can be cooked up as well as be destroyed, it's been more than three weeks for the incident and he asks for a proof now ? On second thoughts he most probably did not say that the Raheja's "developmental" projects would create employment opportunities for Goans as "watchmen" too, it was just his opponent from Navelim who is trying to defame him and put him down in the eyes of Goans. All the problems he has had with building of his bridges, his developmental mega housing projects, his widening of the NH and may be even the MOPA project must be the handiwork of his opponent from Navelim. Is Churchill suffering for "the Navelim opponent" phobia or is he scared of his very own shadow ?
When will Churchill and his thirty nine rotten collogues understand that the Goan people who had elected them are opposing not the "developmental" projects but those projects that are illegal and those that are detrimental to the progress of Goa and Goans. All these mega projects have made the lives of Goans even more difficult, with the woes of the common men ever increasing. Water in the taps is a rare phenomena, electricity more often than not does the disappearing act, garbage is still a monstrous issue, sewage has always been an overflowing glitch, in a situation like this what does our esteemed Minister expects Goans to do ? Sit back and get ourselves run over by the wealthy non-Goans and the migrants ?
There is a new flagship that the Minister has started to revive his drooping image, it's called the BPL carrier, the vote bank accumulation scheme, I do ask the esteemed Minister to give us the statistics of how many Goans and how many migrants from his Navelim constituency have benefited from this scheme ?
Our esteemed Minister also said that his and his family's sacrifices for Konkanni are unmatched and that people will remember his good deeds only after his death. Does it mean we will have to wait for his "Beatification" or his "canonization" ? In life while he has been portraying himself well, as the man of the masses, he has been the one back-stabbing us Goans, for his own personal gains, he has been a thorn in the side of Goans ever since the Konkanni movement. If he has so much love for our mother tongue why are we still fighting for Romi Konkanni to be given equal status ? If he has done so much to stop MOPA and save Dabolim, why is MOPA still going ahead ? Goans are certainly not fools enough to be fooled all the time. Your time is up Mr Churchill Almeao and please don't even think of getting a ticket for your daughter, right now we Goans would rather have pigs on our menu than Alemao's for the next election.
Freddy Agnelo Fernandes
Dubai - UAE
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