On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 12:48:28 +0530, goasuraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
TidBits - Two Pertinent Questions ?? There are two questions which have become a nagging bother to me. Not that, answering them or getting some plausible answers to them would make a lot of difference to me or even perhaps change my life. But if we could find acceptable answers, both could save a lot of lives. The first question is a home grown one. And it propped up in my mind as I was seated at the Menezes Braganza Hall listening first to Dr. P.S. Pasricha, the Mumbai traffic cop, and then Mr. Jagdish Wagh delivering their Sunday addresses at the 'MARG" organised Convention on "Safety on Roads". Both the speakers heavily indicted the citizens for not being responsible drivers/riders and/or road users. What bothers me is not how soon citizens of Goa will become responsible drivers, riders or plain road users but how many years it would take for them to become responsible citizens when it comes to using the roads. As I see it, if it is left for the common citizens to graduate to become responsible citizens, it would take perhaps a thousand years or more. This calculation is based on the premise that a citizen, however educated s/he may be, left to his/her own convenience, and in the absence of a whip (read governance), will want to relieve himself/herself in the middle of the road. For, we must not forget that we are a "convenience" driven people and things must not be left to our convenience. Either the governance must shape up or get out. The second question that bugs me is the issue of Sonia Gandhi's foreign origin being made an election plank by the RSS-BJP. And right enough, the Congress-wallas are retaliating with the foreign origin of Lal Krishna Advani. The question is: which of the two are a potential danger to the Nation? The ordinary Italian house-wife turned Indian, turned President of the Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi seems to be as harmless as a domestic cat, unless otherwise antagonised, perhaps. But a Pakistani turned RSS turned Union Home Minister and the 2nd in command of our dear Country could be very very dangerous if he was a "SPY WHO CAME IN FROM PAKISTAN" I never did get a chance to really sit and watch the movie "The Spy who Came in from the Cold" , but I would like to see it now, somehow. I will be able to see how Pakistan could have nursed a viper in its bosom, trained and cultivated and sent it accross the border into India to become its number 2 and perhaps a number 1, Inshah Allah!l It must be true. Otherwise, Pakistan wouldn't dare come miles away of our august Parliament House, far less attack it in broad daylight. Cheers Floriano Lobo goasuraj ########################################################################## # 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 # ##########################################################################
