To Goanet -

You find them everywhere these days. By everywhere I mean not just in Goa but in all the Indian metros. Young men from Bihar, Jharkhand, and UP dressed in

uniforms and posted as guards. They mill around apartment complexes, malls, banks, offices - they are everywhere.

In Gurgaon where I lived at the beginning of this year, and in Bangalore where I currently live, it is a full-fledged orchestra at any major gated complex. One fellow to peer into the car (to be joined by the rest of the orchestra if the occupant happens to be a lady), another to query the driver, the third to say, no, you can't go in, which is at once sorted out when you, the imperious Indian sahib, assume your airs and threaten dire consequences. Tattered registers are brought out, names & numbers jotted down (all by different fellows), and finally, an order is issued in chorus to the final member, the technical expert, to push the gate lever. The icing on the cake is, whenever a major theft occurs within the complex, complicity of the guards is the first thing to be suspected. I haven't yet seen this level of absurdity in Goa but we are getting there quickly.

The security guard provides you anything but security. His primary function is to snore his nights away and while his days chatting with a fellow non-uniformed ghatis - there is always at least one on offer, loitering around. I see it at my Panjim bank all the time, even at nights. Translated into plain English, the guard is simply a bum fouling Goan space, making money for his security agency as a billable body. There are so many of them now that Yatin Parekh and his cohorts must have already worked out their vote bank calculus.


Warm regards,


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  • [G... Rajan P. Parrikar
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