rico, i really liked your crisp report on the mandar killing at vasco.
i read your piece this morning on VU. the questions you raise are so pertinent. your reader-friendly take off point with riza, the fact that mandar was a DJ, the headlines in konkani . . . made me, sitting in delhi, feel as if i was on NH 17 - on the bus as it were, participating in an avid discussion among the passengers . . . Allow me to itemize the issues you articulate so eloquently: 1. 'But is it an indicator of a society in turmoil, unable to cope with change, struggling to cope with affluence?' 2. 'As we move from our outdated traditional value-system are we caught in a vacuum till we find new ones?' 3. 'Is this just a story of who killed whom and why, or a wider one of where our society is going wrong?' 4. '[Have]we fail[ed] to build the coping mechanisms? 5. 'Why in the rush for "excellence" our institutions are failing to take care of the very people [they create]' 6. ' . . . who don't need to wait till they commit a murder to get some meaning out of an often meaningless life.' if goanetters can post some reactions to these issues point-wise our search will have begun. if i can help in any way to assist our search as we grope for answers . . . on this sad day . . . my poem, 'Good Friday in Cuncolim' came to mind where Gina Peters commits suicide in Cuncolim by burning herself (?). death comes in various guises . . . but today brutus has his day. let caesar rest now. brian new delhi _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
