Fifty Six golden years of Liberation? Very shortly, the one-time very beautiful state of Goa will be celebrating so called fifty six golden years of liberation and as I am looking forward for this great day, a thought comes in my mind, has Goa gained, lost or miserably lost in this fifty six years of liberation? On this great day, useless speeches will be delivered by Goa’s useless foting politicians, Country’s sacred flag will be hoisted through the dirty hands of Goa’s dirty politicians, they will speak about Swach Bharat,Nitoll Goem when they themselves has created mountains of garbage in this one time garbage-free Goa.They will speak about tree plantation, they will distribute free samplings and some of us will receive them, praise them by forgetting that thousands of coconut trees were cut to make way for a Beer factory when Goa had sufficient Beer. They even went to the extent of passing a bill to get rid of these sacred trees. Fortunately the tree got back its status but what about the killing of those thousands of trees? Anyway, thy who played with the sacred tree will face the consequences one day,someday. The destructors razed hundreds of old aged beautiful trees on the Verna-Cortalim stretch just before the Zuari bridge to make way for another bridge and what not. I am personally not against the bridges, motorways or the express ways but do this worth by destructing the natural beauty gifted by the creator? People in power failed to understand the simple difference between development and destruction. When a poor farmer tries to erect a decent shelter over his family, the poor fellow has to run from pillar to post to get the paper work done but acres of agricultural land been converted within a night, the rich and powerful are busy erecting buildings on the Orchid land and nothing happens. The rich and the powerful have got their own rules and laws. There was a time when people from all around the world were coming to see Goa, the land of sun,sea,sand,football, definitely not forgetting the fenni and today unfortunately the same old golden land of mine is very well known to the world for Sex,drugs and all sort of ugly activities. The sun today has turned out to be very hot, the sea changed her behavior and as we all know where we stand when it comes to Football and Fenni? My Goa been used as a brand name with regard to Football and Fenni with no goan flavor existing in both of them. If some goes by the Police records, there were times when not even a murder was reported in a year but today thing have changed. They should have changed from good to best but sadly they are changing for bad to worst. Our elected government has always turned out to be the worst enemy for Goa and Niz Goemkars since the liberation. The first elected government had plans to sell Goa for all to Maharashtra but few daring sons of mai Goa fought from the heart as a result of which our identity is still alive. Then came the people whose party’s name starts with letter “C” and according to me ’C’ stands for corruption.Yes,corruption at a massive scale. To get rid of this corruption, We all supported Manhorar Parikkar and company to save the little remains of Goem,Goemkar,Goemkarponn for our future generations who are yet to see the light of this world but sadly he just followed and following the footsteps of corrupt Congress. These elected people in power as agents are supporting the coal mafia who wants to convert our green Goa into a Coal hub. These politicians are the same people who opposed the coal when out of power. It’s only we as Goemkars can save what little good is remaining to carry our identity forward and together we can do it and if we cannot, then our generations who are yet to come in this world will curse us and our souls will never ever Rest in peace. Last but not the least, for all those politicians who speaks about Goem,Goemkar,Goemkaronn,we Goemkars are straight forward, peace loving, sincere souls. We will never lie and at no cost can be power-hungry. We love our Goa and will go to any extent to prevent from getting converted from green to total dirty,polluted Black in the name of coal. For a niz Goemkar,Goem is our mai and Goemkarponn is our religion and please don’t take us lightly.To all my lovely susegadd brothers and sisters it’s time to wake up from the siesta. Together we can move a mountain and let’s do it.Viva! Joel MoraisP.O.Cuncolim,Bencleamvaddo,Salcette,Goa.Mob-9970561727 Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
