--- On Sun, 6/22/08, Chris Vaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
the preservation of Goa from
> the exploiters who
> promised us "freedom" and are now engaged with
> obvious connivance of our
> ghaunti politicians to sell Goa to the highest bidder
> regardless of the
> consequences.
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Dear Chris,
J K Rowlings, had good advice in her address to Harvard's graduation class, the
time to stop blaming your parents is when you can take charge of the steering
wheel yourself. So the first thing to do is to realise that Goa is a grown-up
and to stop blaming, this so-called entity that promised us freedom and is now
engaged" in selling Goa. There is no us and them, there is only us.
Secondly, let's not be naive in thinking that Goa can be saved if only our
politicians were stripped of their power or if only the bhaile went away and
left us alone. Then we could go back to our humdrum lives and live exactly as
we did, 5000 years ago, before civilisation began. The door on Edenesque
paradise is firmly shut, now we have to move forward with the knowledge that
Goa has a young and thriving population who are screaming out for the sort of
opportunities their counterparts in Mumbai and Bangalore take for granted.
Capitalistic appetites are a very good indicator of a society's aspirations.
With that in mind, let's be crystal clear Goa needs investment, and that the
bulk of that investment will come from India. What we can manage is the how,
how much, where and what-for of development. What we cannot and should not do
is duck for cover in a haze of xenophobic dust spread by the myopia of
so-called Niz Goenkarponn.
selma
