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The unprecedented Canacona flood is something many Kankonkars are very likely
to remember like a bad nightmare for the rest of their life.
Hence I do not mean to negate the intensity of the disaster for those who were
left without a roof over their head or were seriously affected in a number of
other ways.
Still the truth was somewhat like farting. Post flood many actually got
diarrhea but others were only farting. Some people farted silently without
making an exhibition of their turmoil within. Others farted openly making no
secret of their troubles so that everyone that matters should notice. There
were still others who not only farted shamelessly but held a mike to their arse
to amplify it for better effect. The worst culprits are those who faked farting
and did it so loudly that the Canacona Executive Magistrate (Mamlatdar) was too
much of a fart to suspect anything.
The response of the politicians and other opportunists to the disaster was
inconceivable, nauseating, disgusting and at the same time amusing.
One guy with his house on the Galgibaga coast who had sold his canoe a year
back filed a claim for compensation signed by two witnesses vouching for the
‘loss’.
One Prabhudesai, who managed to get Rs. 12000/-, was the first among scores of
others to get compensation merely because the rain water kissed the steps of
their business establishment or house.
Another guy EB claimed he lost 400 coconuts. How did the coconuts wash away
when the gate of his compound was securely closed? This is the obvious question
the two-penny govt. officials did not ask him.
A lady who fell at Chaudi while getting off a bus was reported by a local
English daily as the victim of the flood.
There were numerous claims of vehicle damage before the panchayat and the
mamlatdar office. Shouldn’t they be knocking the doors of the MV insurance co.
or may be the idea is to have it both ways.
Nothing has changed for the scores of houses that were left flat in the wake of
the flood but a certain former politician is taking up a bar restoration work
on war-footing.
Shame! Shame! Many stinking-rich families availed packets of 2kg rice, quarter
kg daal, quarter kg sugar, 3 potatoes 3 onions and a bar each of bath soap and
washing soap. I wish they were given a soap to scrub their unfeeling souls.
Regards
Tony martin
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