To Goanet - Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: > As usual, when you don't have anything really meaningful to say, > the strategy is clear -- engage in invective, ridicule, labelling > and ad hominem attacks.
Let's clarify this a bit: I rubbish the Comrade's piffle and he cries foul about my manner. When Dr. Virgincar makes his case in the most courteous manner possible, he declaims it as a "whitewash." Only the Marxists can attempt this - point fingers at others for doing something they themselves habitually practice. Months ago, when I first talked on Goanet about the corrosive ghati menace in Panjim (and Goa), Gadgil sauntered in peddling his obscurantist apologia. In the months since, the mythology he had imagined for the ghati hordes has been decisively busted. So what does he do now? Why, look to slay the familiar bugbear Manohar Parrikar, of course. Ghatis swamp Panjim, defecate & urinate on the footpaths, encroach & squat on pavements, and while all this is happening the CCP goes AWOL. According to Gadgil, it's Manohar Parrikar's fault that the CCP is not doing its job. Someone has a bout of indigestion - target Parrikar. The high humidity right now - oh, Parrikar is to blame. But all this is beside the point. The provenance of the latest round of whingeing is "generally known" to those who know the ways of the Indian Marxists. It is the realization that the days of unfettered and unchallenged shoveling of sludge about Hindus, Hindu politics and "communalism" (by which he means Hindu communalism) on Goanet are numbered. That Goan Hindus like I are not going to play possum. The anti-Hindu Marxist brigade had calculated - correctly - that it takes only a few chosen keywords such as RSS, Modi, Hindutva, with an arrow pointing towards BJP, to stoke Catholic anxiety and incite minority fears. This patronising bhailo, cleverly pressing his Hindu name to advantage, posturing as the conscientious self-critical Hindu, knew he would find an appreciative Catholic audience nodding agreeably at his caricature and demonization of the Hindu Right. All was going well until this pesky Parrikar fellow, who had been away from Goa, showed up and turned into a party-pooper. That's all there is to this Marxist tiatr. Warm regards, r
