It is puzzling watching Goans exult over the THIRD bridge over the Mandovi. Hasn’t anyone noticed - it is the THIRD (as in THREE) strip of concrete over just a kilometre’s span of water where just ONE would suffice.
Have Goans no sense of shame? Even a desperate, impoverished sub-Saharan African country would shrug this off as meh. Yet Goans preen as if it is a great engineering feat. If you truly want to see an impressive feat of engineering, you don’t have to go far. Just look down towards Ribandar and you will see PONTE DE LIÑHARES, built in the 17th C during the Portuguese era. THAT was a tour-de-force of engineering. Not this second-rate Third World turd touted by the Eye-Eye-Tee genius. Look closely at the construction and it screams Third World. Has the debris underneath the pillars been cleared? I doubt it. The hallmark of any Indian construction project is to leave behind unfinished business. There’ll be mounds of dirt and debris and garbage all around. This bridge ought not to be a source of pride. Instead it is a monument to corruption, to incompetence, to an utter lack of engineering standards. But standards and Indians don’t belong in the same sentence, and since Goa is now part of the Indian sewer…
