Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:32:40 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rajan P. Parrikar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I understand that a storm has been kicked up in Bihar over Ravi Naik's - for once, honest - remarks that the train from Patna to Goa would bring in riffraff from Bihar into Goa in numbers that would spell disaster for the state. > I say, Goa would do well to keep the Bihar and the UP bhaiyya out of Goa. > Mario responds: > Rajan, > Kitem mhontai, re? You really disappoint me sometimes. In between your stellar actions in exposing the blight that corrupt officials and contractors are wreaking across Goa, you come up with comments such as these. As an MP Bhayya who understands Bhayyas better than almost anyone else on Goanet, I can assure you that every UP, Bihari and MP Bhayya who hears such comments is laughing their heads off, while packing their potlis and heading off for all the work they can find in Goa. > Hasn't my reminding everyone on Goanet about King Canute given all the anti-Goan Goans a clue yet? > Do you really think that cheering REMARKS about a train are going to impress any self-respecting Bhayya or make them quake in their chappals? Do you think any Bhayya CARES whether there is a direct train from Patna to Goa or Allahabad to Goa or Jamshedpur to Goa or Jabalpur to Goa? These bug...., ...er,...um, enterprising people will WALK to Goa if that's what it takes!!! > Sheesh! No wonder the local Goans cannot compete with these enterprising Indians who truly believe in free enterprise and, unlike many Goans, will do anything they have to to improve the lot of their families. Of course, many Goans do the same, even selling their ancestral properties if they have to before heading overseas, whereas the Bhayya, knowing his limits, heads for Goa. >
