>projects. As the 42-year-old retailer Rohan Govenkar put it >rather pithily on Facebook a couple of days ago: “All you >expressing shock…
(rest of Shri Govenkar’s ‘thoughts’ filed away in the Library of Congress archives) I skimmed through Vivek-bab’s column and the above passage quoting Shri Govenkar caught my eye. I’m afraid it is hard to take seriously Shri Govenkar and his kind of, what is known as, Facebook activism (aka virtue signaling from the comfort of one’s home). I recall an episode from years ago. After a long flight from California I had just arrived in Iceland, weary and jet lagged. I was about to catch some shut eye when I received a message from the said Govenkar about some issue he said they were agitating for in Goa. I forget the details now, but he wanted data/information from me. Against my better judgement, I stayed up, foregoing badly needed sleep, and sent him the material. After that I heard nothing. As someone who put in a lot of time, effort, and coin into fighting for Panjim’s civic health, I know this breed only too well. In one word, they are USELESS. When Manohar Parrikar had real power to affect positive change for Panjim - but instead did absolutely nothing except the bidding of the casino & builders mafia - these chumps stood on the sidelines singing bhajans to Bhai. Now they feign outrage and preen on social media. The Goanet Archive has a good record (of my posts) of the past 15 years on the many critical issues pertaining to Panjim (and Goa). To those who have been living on this planet, "Goa's Road to Ruin" has been under construction for quite a while now. Best regards, r
