ON ELECTION RESULT.

Congratulations to BJP not only for winning the election but winning it more handsomely with clear majority and thereby lending a strong credibility to the prediction made by the Exit Polls. Congress Party in its defeat was decimated not only from the Parliament but also from the Indian political scene. Only Indira Gandhi must come out from the dead to revive it. Otherwise it looks R.I.P. Congress Party at the Centre.  Unless Congress Party is liquidated completely from the Indian political scene there will never be cleanliness in Indian politics. This time people’s mandate in favour of BJP was not for the love of BJP but more for the hatred for Congress because Congress Party government was filled with scams and corruptions at all levels during the last one full decade.

Since independence Congress Party ruled India almost for 5 decades of which 3 decades uninterrupted and during this long period Congress could have done wonders for India and Indians but instead Congress promoted corruption, scams and bad governance with the help of corrupt Congressmen.  Congress Party converted Congressmen into Maharajas and Monarchs who led the life of feudal lords resulting in the revolt by the voters as witnessed in this election. Even minorities who were afraid of BJP voted against Congress. So much is the anger of the voters against Congress Party and of course deservingly.

No doubt I accept the verdict in favour of BJP yet I am more afraid of Modi now because in this victory he came out more powerful and with the help of this power he may turn into a monster with his RSS linkage and supported by RSS elements in BJP.  I only hope he maintains his balance well as per his victory speech. More than development in India we need life security for the minorities and Modi should give this life security to all the minorities.  He should follow the example of Morarjee Desai as premier and stop being revengeful against those whom he thinks his opponents. He should give a feeling that all Indians whether from the minorities or majority communities are equal. He must accept the fact that India belongs not only to the majority community only but also to the minorities.

In the defeat of both the Congress candidates in Goa, once again Goan voters indicated their hatred for the mismanaged Congress Party in Goa. The gain of BJP in the South Goa was the result of the big mistake of Congress Party of refusing the party ticket to the MP Sardinha. Congress High Command in Delhi must accept the blame for this goof.  John Fernandes has to do a lot to revamp the party in Goa by eliminating all the party rebels and corrupt. The loss of Congress in the North though expected was due to the very bad image of Ravi Naik associated with some corrupt elements accompanying in his campaign.

Finally, let us all pray to God to give wisdom to the BJP leadership to govern the country well to the satisfaction of all especially of the minorities.

A.    Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim,
Goa.
Tel: 7507394349.

         

TIATRO - NOURO.

 

On Sunday, 11^th of this month, starting at 10.30 AM,  I watched the new Tiatro “NOURO” staged at Hanuman Theater Hall, Mapusa, by Peter Roshan. It was nice to see this Tiatro starting exactly in time but it was thinly attended by the audience, of course unexpectedly.

Though the story in the  beginning is not very encouraging yet the last part especially the ending scene was very interesting revolving around Biblical term of forgiveness for the Nouro for his earlier mistake towards his first fiancée whose role was played by Roshan.

 

One of the scenes

 

 

Roshan’s role as a blind was more or less similar to the role played earlier in late sixties by the great Ophelia Cabral in genius C. Alvares’ excellent Tiatro “Kedna Udetelo To Dis” where C. Alvares was at his best with excellent script, excellent direction and excellent depiction.  For this reason Tiatro audience is still remembering C. Alvares and his excellent cast. Many of the current directors though they try to plagarise C. Alvares yet they remain very far from him. For this reason C. Alvares remained unique. He knew whom to entrust what role and at his disposal he had all the best artistes, such artistes are not in existence now. He knew what dress code an artiste to use for certain roles and precisely because of this Ophelia gained great limelight in her role as “Kuddem Anita” in his most memorable Tiatro “Kedna Udetolo To Dis”.  C. Alvares was a perfect and seasoned director. Today’s directors cannot emulate him, either in script or in direction.

 

Peter - Roshan singing a duet 

 

It is a pity that today we don’t have great script writers and directors for this reason this Tiatro art is gone into the hands of tin - pot writers and directors whose only motto is to gain commercial benefit.  For this reason without proper home work and research many of the present day directors come out with new – new Tiatros in new – new seasons. And by the way, how many among the present directors are real script writers?

Roshan & Clara sing on Antonette de Calangute

The Tiatro “Nouro” lacked serenity normally associated with the traditional Tiatro, it was more of chaotic where unnecessary screaming played a major role because of which it sounded disturbing to the ears and hence tasteless. The Band consisting of 6 instruments also played very loud music thereby preventing some in the audience to lose the track of the words rendered by the singers. The musical feeling played during the play was disturbing. The comedy part was handled by comedian Brian and his partner. It was nice to see him back on the Stage after his accident. May God help him to recover completely without any defect.

The Side Show songs failed to elevate the level of this Tiatro though one song on the late Antonette de Calangute rendered by Roshan and veteran Clara was superb and it is worth listening. Both the solos rendered by youngster Brandon were good, incidentally he is the son of Peter – Roshan. The political duet rendered by Peter and Roshan on election and Parrikar was beautiful.     

 A.    Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim,

Goa.

Tel: 7507394349.

CONDEMNING ABDUCTION OF SCHOOL GIRLS.

It is really disgusting to see the 200 + school children abducted by the Boro Islamist group in Nigeria are still not released even after 3 weeks. The Pope at Vatican has already indicated his concern, so also some Western leaders including President Obama and just 2 days back Mrs. Obama expressed her motherly sentiments and while condemning this incident pleaded for the release of these innocent students.

Islam is a great religion of justice and compassion but those Islamists who abducted the students in Nigeria are doing a great disservice to the Islamic doctrine of justice and compassion by doing injustice to these students and not showing compassion at this hour to them.

By abducting these students the Boro Islamist group is creating a very bad image of Islam thereby giving an opportunity to the enemies of Islam to create a distorted image of it.  If today the enemies of Islam are harping against Islam, it is only because of the Boro type of Islamists who are creating a bad image of this great religion.  The real enemies of Islam are not Jews as Muslims believe but  these Boro type of Islamists who instead of brightening the image of Islam are blackening it by taking young students as hostage. Islam does not say to commit such horrible acts in its name.  Such acts are forbidden in Islam and on top of it this Boro group is functioning in the name of Islam. Shame on them for putting the genuine Muslims into a shame.

Abducting the students is one sin but on top of it threatening to sell them to the terrorists is the worst sin. Are these students commodities to sell them in the market of terrorists? Are these abductors heartless people? Don’t they have children for them?   Why they don’t show compassion as indicated in Islam and release these students? Even Prophet Mohammed showed compassion to the captured Jewish soldiers and commanded to release them without doing any bodily harm to them.

It is surprising to note that there is not much campaign in the Islamic world for the release of these students. It looks the top Muslim leaders are silently watching this incident instead of condemning it and demanding immediate release of these young girls. Where Muslim world remained silent, Christian world under its Christian leaders made awakening by taking concrete steps to fight for justice for these young students. After all Justice is the central idea of Islam and ironically Christians are fighting for this Justice even though the central idea of Christianity is Love.

 

A.    Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim,
Goa.
Tel:7507394349.