With the summer heat wave in full swing and power cuts and whatnot I wish no one else is going to start a religious and political fire. No, this is not puja.
Religious beliefs are absurd even though mine look like miracles and yours nonsense. I am reminded of a story our world history teacher taught us and probably the most important lesson I have learnt while I was in school A Chinese was going to put some rice on his friend’s grave when he met a Christian who was taking some flowers to the cemetery. When is your friend coming to eat the rice asked the Christian. The Chinese smiled and replied his friend would come to eat the rice when the Christian’s friend comes to smell the flowers. That’s religion for you! Hindus revere the cow. As a Goan I have a special reverence for the pig as these animals took care of human waste in Goa for centuries if not millennia. A temple for the pig? Francisco Xavier has been chosen as the patron saint of Goa and Hindus, Roman Catholics and Muslims worship him as a saint. Allow them their rights, too. Mr Velingkar do not be ego-centric as other people have rights as much as you do and so please don’t pollute the air any further. Live and let live!
