> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 06:02:38 -0700> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:
> [email protected]> Subject: [Goanet] Pandora's last box> > > A battered
> woman stays on with her husband because of the shame of having failed and the
> hope that things will change. We are now in a battered wife relationship with
> India. We bear the unbearable shame of knowing that collectively as a society
> we have failed and yet as human beings, we cling to the hope that things will
> change. Hope was after all the last box Pandora opened.> > But even hope must
> be occasionally ameliorated, assuaged and given wings to fly. We belong to a
> country that refuses to learn the lessons of history. We held our breath
> after the Masjid Bahri mosque, we held our breath again after the Gujarat
> riots. Hoping against hope that such atrocities would not be repeated in our
> lifetime. Yet, they have only gained in momentum. Edna Fernandes writes, in
> her book Holy Warriors, that most of those who court the Hindutva ideology
> are young men. They are not the same men nursing the bitterness and pain of
> Partition. This is a new generation of Hindu Raj ideologues. Twenty years of
> prosperity has not been successful in developing a social conscience. Neither
> has this prosperity percolated to the ghettoized Muslim, which makes them
> feel more alienated. They, in turn, cling to archaic paradigms that don’t
> serve them well in a modern, secular world. > > India has shown no resolve
> whatsoever to deal with the contentious issue of Kashmir, an albatross
> hanging around our necks. Nor has she shown any will to tackle the corruption
> that bottle-necks and strangulates our governments into non-governance. India
> has become a country that robs her citizens of every ounce of their dignity
> and worth and gives little in return. The only reason, we still cling to her
> and owe it allegiance is because we haven’t yet stopped hoping nor have we
> stopped calling her “amma”.> > selma> > > > > Ene of end of times, young
> Bess? Do you hear the apocayptian hoofs so banefully?
& if INDIA's albatross is sweet Kashmir, Goa's is the horrendous River
Princess, the
bastard, discarded orphan of MLA Anil Salgaokar.
He has neither self-dignity nor a fraction of it that his worthy father, VM, so
well
possessed & displayed.
That the manifestly emasculated "government" of blighted Goa so ditheringly
wallows
in his wake is pukeable.
Alfred de Tavares
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