Dear Sir/s Attn : Mr Raul Fernandes. It appears “ Herald “ which once was considered the Voice of Goa has long lost its steam and glory and is today batting for causes around the globe except of course of Goa. Look at Herald of 22nd and 23rd January, 2014. The headline on the front page on 22nd Jan, is on Kejrival dharna in New Delhi and this is also bagged with an editorial on Delhi episode. It seems Goans have abandoned reading of Herald! To top it the two main articles on the editorial page are on the Sacred Mountains of Korea and the other boring article on Dolphins in Ganges River. Sadly the incompetent editorial staff has run out of issues connected and concerning Goa. Our rivers are polluted and our marine biodiversity is at stake. Our forests are dwindling and tigers fast depleting. Garbage and Sewage affecting Goa is far more important to Goans than the ecosystem in the Brahmaputra appearing in the Herald pages. Raul Fernandes the Owner and Managing Editor must shake up the sleepy Editor in charge at Herald and order him to take up Goa centric issues of saving our monitor lizards, which are considered basic to our “gumot” where our musicians can play and entertain the Goan crowd. The disappearances of leopards and panthers will boars in Goan forests and the deteriorating standards of our traditional Feni are issues in question.
Wake up Herald interact and infuse Goans to write on issues now threaten the Goan identity if you truly are the Voice of Goa. In fact I am deeply concern with Herald because this paper was read by my father and I continue to read it as I have some soft corner for this paper and I am reading for the last 55 years or so, I decided to convince the Owner of Herald to tune up the staff working in Editorial page and see that his paper is improved. The Manager is not been able to manage well I believe. Your sad reader, who took Herald always, in high esteem, Stephen Dias, D.Paula
