As three more youth in their teens get swallowed by the tempting seas and two more youth are arrested for dacoities, a woman jumps in the Mandovi and here body recovered near marriott, there is only one thing that keeps coming back to my mind again and again. The nature is no more going to be tolerant and benevolent to us the ungrateful Goan people. Our ancestors have always shared a very deep bond with the nature around and though illiterate they had a wisdom that far surpassed our present day PhDs. They treated their surroundings as living beings. They just had one principle 'Live and Let Live'. We the so called over enlightened and technologically advanced generations have not acknowledged this fact and have traded our lands, hills and waters for prostitution and vice. All this just for that extra jingle tingle in our pockets. We cheer the real estate sharks demanding industries to employ our so believed rising unemployed professionals senselessly churned out from Colleges. On the other hand, Mr. Ralph D'Souza of TTAG cries that there are no Goan youth coming forward to work in the tourism industry. It's all about Jingle Tingle glamopur economy and easy multiplication of wealth that determines development. We have angered the nature Gods and they will be unforgiving. All our jingle tingle will vanish in the upkeep of security guards and lifeguards but we shall not have peace until we fall on our knees and undo the wrongs. Goa will no more be Goa. It will just be reduced to a can of avarice, lust, conspiracy, mental illnesses and the likes. The party of Peace for which the hippies thronged to Goa's shores is over, henceforth it wil be the party of Death. We are already a suicide point along India's coast. Our rivers will die, the seas will engulf us, the hills will tremor and disease will flourish. Long live the development by Goan crabs and conspirators. On one hand we destroy our 'Special Abode' while on the other we prepare the grounds for 'Special Status', only till the next elections I suppose.
-Soter D'Souza
