Lambert is a freedom fighter. In 1961 his band of "troops" had their priorities misplaced. Today he rue's the fact that Goa has been screwed by bharatis. Unfortunately he does not accept the fact that he was the cause of all this problems in Goa.
On Misplaced Priorities What is this news on June 8 of New Delhi talking about Goa being a venue for India's International Film Festival and the earlier news of the Goa government dispatching a delegation to Cannes with a view of replicating a smaller version of the Cannes Film Festival in Goa? And why this silence from the Congress party, the people in general and from the ever-active, strident letter writers in the newspapers over this affront on Goa and Goans who seem to have been taken for granted by not being consulted or their opinion sought? When there are deaths almost every day on the streets of Goa due to accidents, when people have to keep their house doors in the villages shut for fear of thefts and murders, when a number of young Goans are, like in Portuguese days, leaving Goa to seek employment in the rest of India and abroad, when prices of daily necessities are escalating and life in Goa generally is becoming difficult, the cheek of the central government and state government of transforming Goa into a Las Vegas or Pleasure Hunt already converted as such by the highly exaggerated concept of tourism as though it is the be-all end-all of Goa, is highly shocking and therefore unacceptable. I hereby appeal to my freedom-fighter colleagues to raise their voices against these tourist-drawing configurations designed to turn Goa into non-Goa. The cities of Margao and Vasco are already un-Goan. The Chief Minister must now tell us if by his blind assent to New Delhi's agendas and his own presumed clever prescriptions, he is trying to turn Goa into that 'ideal state' as claimed by his government and some Union ministers. LAMBERT MASCARENHAS, Dona Paula, in a Letter to the Editor, The Navhind Times 18th June 2003; page 10 __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/yplus/yoffer.html ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
