> Aristo wrote: > To clarify, I have never contributed a dime towards > a Goan cause, and I > don't recall ever losing a drop of sweat for a Goan > cause.
------------------------------------------ Up until this very moment I've always been elitist enough to believe the that cure to Goa's ailments lies in producing as many Aristos as possible. Today, I realise I am wrong. Goa's Aristos will go on to have successful careers, grand weddings, beautiful wives and magnificent families. Their numbers will be small but their role in Goa is resigned to leading successful and moral, albeit nuclear lives. There is another hero in Goa mostly unrecognised and unsung. He is the shippy, the houseboy of Kuwait, the one-man contracting company, the waiter at resort hotels, the singer at the wedding band, the family-run caterer at the posh wedding, the patron of the tiatre, the traveler on the morning Kadamba shuttle, the sponsor of the village festa raffle and the winner of the jive competition held that same evening. It is he who takes to the streets when his mother-tongue is threatened, it is he who makes big-business socially responsible for proper waste disposal, who complains vociferously when the stench of sprawling slums and garbage overpowers his nostrils and when the new flag of Goan leadership is finally unfurled, it will be Kaetan carrying it. The cure to Goa's ailments lies in channeling Kaetan's righteous indignation into peaceful civil action. selma ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goanet supports BMX, the alumni network of Britto's, St Mary's and Xavier's -- three prominent institutions in Mapusa, Goa. Events scheduled from Dec 16 to 21, 2006 For more details visit http://www.bmxgoa.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------
