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On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, O filho de Albuquerque wrote:
Bravo FN !!
Indeed Bandodkar was a crook !!
In fact the was the first and the worst among the lot , and a puppet
of the Maratha
imperialists !
Good to see the moderator call the bluff !
I wonder that the Pro-Maharashtra Poodles on Goa net have to say on this .
Viva Goa !
Please, could someone explain to me: what exactly was the vision of Dayanand "Bhausaheb" Bandodkar? This claim gets repeated a number of times, and after a while comes to be taken as truth.
Dear "Filho de Albuquerque":
Yours is too simplistic a viewpoint, and does serious injustice to the issue being debated. Dismissing anyone as a "crook" hardly explains the complex issues involved. More so, as we all know that in the 'sixties (compared to the current day) people hardly entered politics as a source of making a fast buck.
Whether it was Dayanand Bandodkar or Jack Sequeira, both firmly believed that they were in politics for deeper reasons. They believed in an ideology, even if you didn't agree with it! In Bandodkar's case, this would have been ushering a capitalist revolution (as against the semi-feudal strongly stratified society prevalent) and affecting a structural change in shifting power away from the traditional elites towards those in the middle of the structure (defined both in caste and communal terms, even if somewhat simplistically and camouflaged under broad terms like the 'Bahujan Samaj').
All that I have argued in my earlier post is that I disagree strongly with claims that Bandodkar had any grand vision for Goa or was a statesman (as gets widely accepted in today's political discourse). But to argue that he was "Bandodkar D' Bandido" as your subject-line simplistically puts it, is far from reality. I guess you didn't like Bandodkar's politics... and probably never understood it.
BTW, I'm reverting back to the earlier subject-line of this thread, to avert another thread-hijacking attempt, and ensure against further slander-by-selecting-changing-of-subject-line ;-)
Even the modern day political robber-barons are playing a political role in terms of allowing one or the other business lobbies to get a foothold and grow in Goa. Take the case of many of the 'nineties politicians, who filled their own pockets while allowing real estate to drastically change the skyline and economics of Goa. Even Parrikar's rule, while many of us may see it merely as a communally-defined gambit, is attempting a redefinition of power-sharing within Hindu Goa.
BTW, I was intrigued by your nome d'guerre. Is your dad 500+ years old? You do seem to sound like someone I know... and so is your modus operandi ;-) FN
