Dears, Just saw the gory visuals on PRUDENT Media with its Editor, Sandesh Prabhudesai, at his theatrical best ...as if he was anchoring a discussion on global warming and the ice melting in far away Greenland. The only person who looked cooler that him was Dr. Pravin Togadia on Goa 365 saying that the Bajrang Dal and VHP had nothing to do with the violence against Christians in Kandhamal-Orissa or in and around Mangalore in Karnataka since end August and 14 September, 2008, respectively. He laid the blame on Pakistan and SIMI.
The damage to Adv. Aires Rodrigues is very targeted from the looks of it. The index fingers on both the arms have been sliced off at the first joint at the stump end. The two finges have been completely severed and I do not know if there is any surgeon in Goa who can restore mobility to these fingers, so damaged. Dr. Oscar Rebello was at hand outside CAMPAL CLINIC, Miramar, to brief Prudent Media on the status of Adv. Aires and Prajal. They are "clinically stable" he said, but the actual condition will be known after scanning. Oscar rightly stated that no one expected the actions to reach "such a low level" as to become physically violent. Like Oscar, many of us do not appreciate the style of activism that Aires resorts to, but this is no way to respond to him. There are legal and social options, which need to be exercised in a civilized society. Prajal has a bleeding wound near his right ear. He seems to have been punched and battered as his nostrils and lips showed congealed blood. He was conscious and able to speak. One could hear him asking for his wife, Anju, after he finished answering Sandesh's questions on camera. The behaviour of the authorities at CAMPAL CLINIC left much to be desired in terms of "customer care". An injured Prajal bbeing interviewed is bad enough, PRUDENT Media team was apparently allowed access to the Operation Theatre to film an unconscous Adv. Aires awaiting the attention of a surgeon. I do hope the nurses in the OT do not wear infection carriers like bangles as did the para-medics attending to a bleeding Prajal in a casualty room. Adv. Jatin Naik, who was with Adv. Aires and Prajal at Ashok Bar & Restaurant behind GPO, Panaji [between Rua de Ourem and San Tome road], not far from HERALD office, was clearly distraught. Ashok is a favourite place for chicken xacuti, but some one in the background while Jatin was being interviewed on PRUDENT Media, was insistent on getting an aswer to his Question "Is it a hotel or a bar?" Great sensitivity ...and journalistic skills, indeed! According to Jatin, he had just moved away for a moment when all hell broke loose at about 10.20 P.M. on Monday night at "Ashok" The men were wearing "burkha" [possibly black hoods] and could not be identified. They carried knives and assaulted the two [Prajal and Aires] with Aires clearly being identified as the target. there were half a dozen of them, possibly seven, according to Jatin. Prajal was clearly dazed. He thought some of them carried something like a machine gun. It seems unlikely, though not impossible. SP North Goa, Bosco George, was unruffled by the incident. Neither were Dy. S.P. Deu Banaulikar [holding charge in Vasco and Panaji, while a Police Medal winner like Dy. S.P. Sammy Tavares is twiddling his toes without a posting, according to HERALD's Tomcat] and Panaji P.I. Francis Corte were equally cool. They know too well where the enthusiasm of SP Thakur[?], Dy. S.P. Mohan Naik and P.I. Naik landed them after 18 February, 2008, hungama ...and the GRP is not such an exciting posting. They will play it by the ear. In the meanwhile, do not rush thinking that Babush is to blame as PRUDENT Media editor seems to be imprudently doing. After the "due course of law" the blame could fall on anyone ...even you! If an 80 year old lady and a not-so-young priest of Don Bosco school in Sulcorna can be charged with "criminal intimidation" of drivers of iron-ore laden trucks, .... who assaulted the activists at Colomb-Sanguem on Saturday ... anything is possible. WAIT AND WATCH. Mog asundi Miguel --- On Tue, 14/10/08, Miguel Braganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Miguel Braganza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Prajal Sakhardande, Aires Rodrigues assaulted, hospitalised. > To: "Goanet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tuesday, 14 October, 2008, 1:32 AM > Dears, > At 18 minutes past midnight [0018 hours] on Tuesday 14 > October, 2008, Digital News flashed news that will send a > shiver down every activist's spine. It read thus: > SOCIAL ACTIVISTS AIRES RODRIGUES AND PRAJAL SAKHARDANDE > MERCILESSLY BEATEN UP BY A MASKED GANG LATE NIGHT IN A > PANAJI HOTEL. ADMITTED IN HOSPITAL. > > Lecturer in history at Dhempe College-Miramar and GHAG as > well as UTTH GOENKARA activist, Mr Prajal Sakhardande; UTTH > GOENKARA spokesman and lawyer Adv. Mr Aires Rodrigues, and > another three persons were at a restaurant in Panaji-Goa > when a gang of seven to eight people attacked them with > weapons. > Adv Aires Rodrigues and Prajal Sakhardande have been > admitted to a city hospital. Mr Rodrigues was operated as one his > fingers was badly injured. > The minister is an obvious suspect in the assault on the > activists that could have been carried out by anyone to > defame him in this politically volatile period. He was the > prime accused in the Regional Plan 2011 ...but the work of > "development" has continued unabashedly even while > he resigned the post of TCP minister on 06 January, 2007.... > almost two years ago. Almost every minister has his fingers > in the builder's pie and their pockets are filled with > iron ore! To top it all we have a Manohar v/s Manohar drama > in the chai shop with one Manohar charging at the Gram > Sabhas like a dhirio bull in a China shop. > > Dista toxem asso-na tem; dongor pois suttiant sazre, lagim > suttiant kazre! > > We need to see how the political drama unfolds. > > Watch this space ...... and protect your back, unless it is > already against the wall! > > It is all about money, honey. > > Mog asundi. > > Miguel > > > > > > > Get your own website and domain for just > Rs.1,999/year.* Go to http://in.business.yahoo.com/ Get your own website and domain for just Rs.1,999/year.* Go to http://in.business.yahoo.com/
