(Please ignore earlier post. Resubmitting after correcting a few typos - r)
To Goanet - Refer to this post - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GoenchimXapotam/message/18692 This is an outrage. The Chimbel ghatis are to get free flats from the Goa govt, the Davorlim ghatis may come into the same windfall. Meanwhile, the Goan poor is left to hang dry. In no other state would this be tolerated. There would have been riots (*). Why don't we simply hand over Goa to the ghatis? They are taking over it anyway. Let's be done with it. Margao & surrounds, Vasco & surrounds, and several other strips of Goa no longer look or feel like Goa anymore. Goa land is inexorably being ursurped by ghatis at one end and bought out by rich bhaile at the other end. Every single water body in Goa today is a public toilet for ghatis and a receptacle of industrial effluents. I shall have more to say on the ghatis in a few days. The level of passivity in Goans is astonishing. What would it take for Goans to arise from their slumber? Right now we are being defecated upon by our elected pols and their vote-bank ghatis but even that does not seem to stir the Goan. Why and for whom are we asking for 'Special Status'? For the ghatis? For Sharma-ji-Varma-ji? (*) This should not be taken as a call to violence. But if your house is being taken over and you face imminent eviction (through traitors within your own ranks), it is your dharma to fight tooth and nail to protect what is rightfully yours. r