A VERONICA;S REQUEST,

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With all my humility I can rightly say that the activities and the movements I did from Kuwait for the cause of Goa and Goans, none among the Kuwait Goans has done, not even among  the expatriate Goans anywhere in the World, though to embark on such a path was not unusual nor new to me earlier because in Goa before coming to Kuwait I was deeply involved in my locality in organising activities be it on sporting arena or political field or social activities.  The affairs of my village and locality went into  the  hands of stupid and selfish people  only after I left my village and went to Kuwait.  However, fortunately for me, whatever  movement or activity I started, initiated and supported there was a mass support.  The main reason for such a strong and the big support was the confidence people had in me, first to work till success is  attained and secondly there was not a single paisa of misappropriation.

The major part of the strength for my movements was the people and  my supporters, even my enemies supported my movements knowing that my movements are for good cause. If it was not for the support of my supporters, friends and colleagues, I would not be successful in organising so many powerful movements such as Konkani Movement, Novem Goem Daily Movement which I started when hardly I had a proper job, Konkani Heritage Kuwait Movement to unify all the Konkani people residing in Kuwait and to help the repatriation of maids, Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Center Movement to raise our voice against the invasion of Kuwait and to demand liberation for Kuwait, Freedom for the Kuwait’s POW’s Movement, for this I personally went to Delhi and personally met all the top leaders of the top countries and the top World organisations and submitted them the Memoranda requesting them to make some extra efforts by putting pressure on Saddam Hussein to release the Kuwait’s POW’s.  All these superlative efforts I did on my own initiative and on behalf of Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Center.  Then for the direct Goa-Kuwait-Goa flight I even went to Delhi on my own initiative and brought to the notice of the Central Government leaders the necessity of introducing this flight and for the promotion of our competitive soccer at Sour Grounds I left no stone unturned. Besides, I have done so many movements and activities at smaller scale level.

lf by going back to three decades and think for a while how I managed  to do so much when I had so many drawbacks, so many hurdles and so many deficiencies, I cannot get proper answer yet I get the conclusion that my success was only and ONLY DUE TO THE STRONG SUPPORT I HAD FROM ALL MY FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES, ASSOCIATES AND SUPPORTERS, very many of them are still in Kuwait. And by personally phoning me occasionally and others regularly they enquire about my health and well being. This  is something great that they still remember me and the days we spent together in organising different movements.

  

Four years back when I published and released my book “FROM COCONUT TREES TO OIL WELLS”, all my friends and former colleagues who were still working in Kuwait, spontaneously and very much voluntarily communicated to me asking me to reserve them their copies or send thru anyone.  They all indicated their love and affection to me by voluntarily purchasing my book and promptly effecting the payment knowing very well the amount I spent to prepare this book for which once again I profusely thank them expecting the same type of support this time too.  And above all I must salute a few more individuals namely Domnick Araujo and Gasper Crasto who spared no efforts to sell my  book in big number and because of their tremendous efforts I managed to sell over 300 copies of my last book in Kuwait alone that made my position very comfortable.

In the light of the past benevolence, once again I request my friends and colleagues who helped me earlier, please again this time too  help me. The price of this book is 250/- Rupees and to send by post another Rs. 50/-.  We will start selling this book immediately after the Lockdown period is over.  This book is written by A.  Veronica Fernandes original in English and transliterated and edited by Valley Quadros from Mangalore and published by Konkonngar Prokoxon, at Candolim, Araddy, Bardez, Goa.

A.Veroica Fernandes.   

In the light of the past benevolence, once again I request my friends and colleagues who helped me earlier, please again this time too  help me. The price of this book is 250/- Rupees and to send by post another Rs. 50/-.  We will start selling this book immediately after the Lockdown period is over.  This book is written by A.  Veronica Fernandes original in English and transliterated and edited by Valley Quadros from Mangalore and published by Konkonngar Prokoxon, at Candolim, Araddy, Bardez, Goa.

A.Veroica Fernandes.   

A.VERONICA'S NEW BOOK RELEASED IN KONKANI.

                                                                            AVF seen above with his book.

                                                            

I am sure many of the Goans and non Goans too must have noticed and seen and even read my book that I wrote and published in 2016, the title of the book is “FROM  COCONUT  TREES  TO  OIL  WELLS” The book revolves around Goan community’s migration to Kuwait, their stay there, their employment there, their hardships there their agonizing seconds – minutes – hours – days – months and years they spent there, the most foul treatment meted out to our sisters and mothers there by the nasty Kuwaiti Muslim Arabs who are not only a disgrace on Arabs but worse than that they are a shame  on their Islam about which they boast of so much.  Their treatment to our maids, the very poor and neglected and deserted by everyone even the Labour Law properly,  bring shame on them. In the Gulf countries the oil rich Muslim Arabs are making a mockery of Islam by misbehaving with the poor expatriate females and by meting out a very low  treatment to the expatriates especially from the Asian ccountries.  In Kuwait the local act too discriminatory as if they are come from Heaven..

And finally in this book you get full day to day details of the Gulf War first waged by that bloody rascal Muslim Arab Saddam Hussein by invading Kuwait against all the prinnciples of UNO,NAM-ARAB LEAGUE-ORGANISATION OF ISLAMIC COUNTRIES.  The last one came into being to protect the interest and security of Islamic member countries but ironically by invading Kuwait by Iraq the dictator  Saddam Hussein trampled under his left foot the greatness of the Islamic prinsiples of OIC.  Who cares for Islam in the Arab World which is filled with innumerable Muslims but not with Islam. The UNO was formed by the Christin Nations and finally this UNO formed by the Christians came to the rescue of Islamic country Kuwait to liberate it from the jaws of Muslim Leader Saddam Hussein of Islamic country Iraq.  Jews are better than all the Muslim leaders who refrained from  openly condemn the  Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.  

It is indicated in this book how we Goans mainly the Kuwqit returnees organized a big movement in Goa to oppose the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and demanded liberation for Kuwait.  In this context we brought heavy pressure from Goa thrunour our activities like public rallies and meetings held in Panjim to make our voice and opinion audible in Dehi and finally with due respect to the UNO and the the 3 main countries USA-France - UK Kuwait was liberated.  We proved to the Kuwaitis too that we worked in Kuwait and earned good money and suffered lot of humiliation and persecution there from many of the Kuwaitis but at last we boldy came to their rescue and support in whatever way we can but others who enjoyed their doles and benefits never even looked at them when the Kuwwaitis were crying but we took courage and wiped their tears even though they must have humiliated and insulted us saying “HINDI MUSKIN” but these Hindi Muskin alone stood by them when they were facing difficult time.  By doing this we who were on forefront did not gain anything and we did not expect also anything from them. We are happy that they are finally along with Kuwait are liberated.

The same book is now translated into Konkani in three different scripts namely ROMAN, DEVANAGRI AND KANNADA and in a grand function organized at Hotel  Goan Heritage – Calangute, in the presence of  renowned Konnkanivadis such as Writers, Poets, Journalists, Sahitya Academy Award Winners  & orators, this book titled “MADDA THAUN TELAKHONNI PORIANT” was released on 01.03.20. Among others who spoke there were the author, Damodar Mauzo, Shivdas Naik, Elvino Rodrigues, Valley Quadros who shouldered major responsibility for translating this book into Konkani etc.