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The Rape of Goa - A photo documentary by Rajan P. Parrikar Venue: Menezes Braganza Art Gallery, Panjim, May 21-24, 2008 http://www.parrikar.org/misc/doc-notice.pdf --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 16:05:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This post is only to prove how convoluted our thinking has become. > Mario responds: > We will see many examples of convoluted thinking in more detail below. > Selma wrote: > And oh yes, the government should give-away 10 computers to every village to surf the net in the time not spent harvesting water or tending to the fields. > Mario responds: > Most of what Wendell suggested was citizen self-help at the village Panchayat level. > What he suggested was for the local Panchayat to buy computers for use by the local villagers and a website for each village. > Nothing convoluted about this. > Selma writes: > Goans have repulsed every suggested industry and investment project, which ironically makes land the only viable commodity left for sale. > Mario asks: > Is this convoluted thinking, or just hyperbole? The word hy-per-bo-le is defined as "extravagant exaggeration." Read the sentence again, s-l-o-w-l-y. > "GOANS HAVE REPULSED EVERY SUGGESTED INDUSTRY AND INVESTMENT PROJECT..." ?????????????????????? > Is Selma talking about the same Goa that is on the west coast of India, some 450 miles south of Mumbai? This sounds like someone who has not been to Goa For the last fifteen years, and has not looked at a single picture posted by Rajan. > Selma wrote: > The entity that pays for education, health-care, water and electricity, low cost housing, roads and every other infrastructural need, is called The State and it does this most effectively by taxing industry. You can't have one without the other. > Mario responds: > Is a village Panchayat made up of villagers and elected by villagers tantamount to "the State" ?????????????????? > Once again, we see Selma deflecting attention from the primary discussion, at least from my point of view, which is economic development that is compatible with the local environment and ambience as determined by the local citizens. > In other posts Selma has supported the State as represented by Digambar Kamath and his cronies over the local citizens and the Panchayats that represent them. > Do these quotes from Wendell sound like socialism? > "Goans mistakenly imagine that their job is done once the ballot has been cast. No!! On many instances I have pushed the Sarpanch and the Panchayat to act." > "Our lazy, fat, corrupt ministers need to be voted out for not addressing the garbage needs of a paltry 1.3 million persons. But forget about the government. If they are so insensitive and stupid, it's time that concerned citizens took the garbage issue in their hands and did it themselves." > "I hope every village takes in on itself to plan for the future. With the land sharks eating away at our land and Goans selling out their ancestral properties, it is imperative that we plan for our village spaces." > Somehow, the pictures of Rajan Parrikar, which clearly show that Goa's untrammelled and uncontrolled development, with many projects approved by corrupt means, is defacing Goa beyond repair, have made no impression on her and her staunch defense of the status quo that has created the unsightly mess that is so obvious to most of us. > It is truly amazing that someone who has lived in the US and England has been unable to see or is unable to grasp that economic development can be compatible with aesthetics, and understand how this is done in actual practice in these basically capitalist countries. >