INJUSTICE DONE TO COCONUT TREE.

Finally the Coconut has been axed from the family of Trees by  the   arrogant  BJP government of Parsenkar by citing that unnecessarily Coconut Trees will not be felled.  I don’t believe in any assurance from BJP government whose forte lies in taking  “U” turn in every assurance. This BJP government is the government of Liars. There is no more trust left in me of BJP government. To facilitate the Builders lobby government will allow the felling of Coconut Trees rampantly.  There is saying in Konkani, "Dev poddla boballar, hoch vogot boro Igroj nagoupak".  This is what the policy of BJP in Goa.  Since this is the only opportunity they get to loot Goa in the name of development before the election, they are making maximum use of this opportunity. 

Every BJP MLA should be held responsible for supporting this anti-Coconut legislation of BJP government in Goa including of my MLA who was elected by us to act upright and not to support any legislation of the government.  BJP may have given  him the ticket to contest the election but votes we have given him to act the way we want and not to support the wrong decisions of the government.  By blindly supporting the BJP government, the BJP MLA's are doing injustice to the upright voters who are waiting for all these BJP MLA's to teach them a very good lesson in the next election.  2017 will never be 2012 which was dominated by the Congress corruption. 

During the electioneering process for the next election, every lover of Goa and Coconut Tree must raise this issue with their BJP candidates and also with others who toed the line of the BJP government in supporting this legislation.  The next election should be treated as the battle of Waterloo for BJP for annexing the Coconut Tree against the wishes of the overwhelming majority of Goans.  The BJP MLA’s used their arrogant rights in the Assembly to act arrogant.  In the same manner we the voters reserve our rights to sensibly vote out these MLA’s from the Legislative Assembly of Goa. More than half the number of BJP MLA's will not see the Assembly Hall again because of the sins they committed against the people of Goa. 

 

A.Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel:7507394349  

DEATH OF COCONUT TREE IN GOA?

R.I.P. COCONUT in Goa?  I don’t think so since it is too early to say yes because the way campaigning is going on to oppose the government  move  to declassify Coconut Tree from the category of Trees,  it looks Coconut Tree will be brought back into the fold of Trees either tomorrow or the day-after-tomorrow.  I don’t know who is the expert in the government to declassify Coconut Tree.  Coconut Tree and Coconut are the most essential parts of the Goans.  There is a saying in Goa  “you kill one coconut and you kill the support of one Goan”, that means,  one person can survive on one Coconut.  Our elders used Coconut Trees to build houses for them to stay, Coconut to fill their stomach and its Oil for different purposes including medicinal.  No part of Coconut Tree is wasted, so important is its utility  in our life,  besides helping to fortify the environment.

 

 

It is a rubbish decision of Goa government with a stroke of a pen  to convert this mighty tree into a piece of grass when it is not.  Because it is the life of Goans, for the first Assembly election in Goa Dr. Jack Sequeira as the President of UG Party selected Coconut Tree as the Symbol of UG but for some reason Election Commission rejected it. Coconut is also used as a religious symbol and when PDF government was formed under Dr. Proto Barbosa along with the master defectors Churchill Alemao and Mauwin Godinho, as it was given to understand, the entire ruling faction of PDF took the oath of allegiance by swearing-in on the Coconut,  in one of the Temples in the North Goa. 

 

 

Though the power of Coconut is so fantastic yet its effect can turn into a big Zero when a person acts like a zero meaning “sarko Nal”.  I am sure Parsenkar government will  turn into a big “Nal” if not immediately then in the coming election for demoting Coconut Tree inspite of public outcry against the government decision.

 

 

A.Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.

Tel:7507394349.

  

THE NEW "NIRMON" FILM.

C.Alvares seen receiving his best actor award from Indira Gandhi for original Nirmon.

 

On 6^th of this month, at Marquinez Palace, Esg. Complex, Panjim, I watched the Remix “NIRMON” Konkani Picture at 6.30 PM. It was attended by a good number of attendees though the hall was not full. 

The original Nirmon picture I saw when it was released about 50 years back and during that time it created a sensation all over Goa in particular and Konkani world in general.  The quality of this Cinema was so great that finally it won the National Award which was presented in Delhi by the then premier of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi;  C.Alvares winning the best actor award.

The current Nirmon picture is worth seeing and worth admiring as it was done very well with the help of modern technology, the effects of it can be seen easily on the screen. While the original Nirmon was done by most of the top Goan Tiatrists, in the current Nirmon only a few Tiatrists acted, namely C. D’Silva playing the role of Souza Ferrao as Bebdo in the original Nirmon and comedy role of Jacinto Vaz in the original Nirmon,  is played by John D’Silva in the current Nirmon.  Bachan also played a small role in the current Nirmon.

 

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 The main substance of the original Nirmon is retained in the current Nirmon but some changes have been introduced.  In the original Nirmon the role of Rudolf as mine owner businessman played by Anthony D’Sa  is now changed to a businessman owning a Shipyard.  The song rendered by Jacinto Vaz in the original Nirmon is changed a bit in the sense the scene where Jacinto Vaz was hanging on the Bus is omitted from the current Nirmon while the song Claudia  in the current Nirmon is rendered very beautifully. Though the roles played by both the girls in the current Nirmon in place of Ophelia and Antonette were good yet the attractiveness of Antonette and Ophelia and the charm they both had was missing in the current Nirmon. The role played in the original Nirmon by C. Alvares was supreme and no one can defeat him yet this role played by the artiste in the current Nirmon was good. Alvares took his greatness along with his dead body to the grave. The role played in the current Nirmon of Shalini in the original Nirmon  is excellent, her clarity is superb, lookwise she has better attraction and her voice resembles that of Shalini but her Konkani sounds like that of a Manglori Konkani.  The roles played by the small children especially by the boy were extremely good.  They brought tears into the eyes of many in the audience.

Qualitywise this current picture is very good and it is worth watching.

A.Veronica Fernandes,

Candolim, Goa.
Tel:7507394348.