To Goanet - Venita Coelho wrote: >FACT: The GBA includes social activist Roland Martins, who has ensured >door delivery of cooking gas and exposed many a fraud by marketing >agencies; Architect Dean D'Cruz who is a member of the TF; Soter >D'Souza who is the Director of the Centre for Panchayati Raj; Fr. >Maverick Fernandes, the Executive Secretary of CSJP; Sridhar Kamat, a >practicing Engineer and a poet; Sabina Martins, a well-known figure on >gender issues besides being a Chemistry teacher at Sharada Mandir; and >others who are established names in their chosen fields of work. > >The columnist dismisses all the above people of great personal >integrity and impeccable professional qualifications and proven track >records. His own track record makes for woeful reading.
I am mostly in agreement with the thrust of what Ms Coelho has to say in this piece. Mercenaries like Sujoy Gupta and other non-Goans skunks posing as editors are a blight on the Goan landscape. That said, the names cited above by Ms Coelho raise questions. Let us leave aside the remark about "impeccable professional qualifications" which mean nothing. (Some of the biggest crooks in America boast Harvard and Princeton pedigrees.) At least one of the fellows from her list is part of the Margao builder lobby and is playing both sides. And the amusing thing is, THIS IS NO SECRET! What in the world is Ms Coelho thinking, including this lowlife in her roster of the virtuous? Warm regards, r
