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Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kudos to the Herald for getting its front page editorial "Tackle Terrorists with Iron Hand" spot on. Those who spoke out against extremism by Right- wing Hindu outfits were often accused of being anti-Hindu or pseudo-secular. I wonder what the sympathizers of such groups will have to say now; now that the ugly face of one such orthodox Hindu group, the Sanatan Saunstha is out in the open; now that their skeletons are tumbling out of the closet and the chickens coming home to roost. Had the Goa Government acted promptly earlier; and nipped the communal practices and the menace posed by such groups in the bud, things would not have come to pass this far now. A Chief Minister is supposed to be a leader who firmly upholds the principles enshrined in the Constitution. But Digamber with his “Please-all” policy did nothing while Goa was slowly and steadily being turned into a communal cauldron. He played the fiddle while the Sanatan were gradually lighting the flames to destroy our beautiful state. That Digamber Kamat has so far proved to be a spineless leader goes without saying. Last year, during ‘IFFI 08’, when a handful of members of the Sanatan Saunstha protested against the screening of Hussain’s Award winning documentary Film “Through the eyes of the Painter”, the Goa CM virtually crawled when he was expected to walk straight. Buckling needlessly under their pressure, he directed the organizers to withhold the screening of documentary, and had to do a turn-around only after eminent personalities like Shyam Benegal and a few others furiously protested against this decision. On various other occasions too, the CM gave the kid-glove treatment to this radical group, the most recent incident being when Goan Artist Subodh Kerkar was asked to curtail his Ganesha exhibition. Now that the complicity of this Hindu right-wing group is evident, now that there is prima facie evidence of their involvement in the blasts that were supposed to take off in 4 different locations with intentions to create communal disturbances in the State, it remains to be seen what kind of action the State will contemplate against this group. All the top leaders of this Right-wing outfit need to be detained for questioning. This must include the ‘Hindu Janajagruti Samiti’ also, since this group too is nothing but an offshoot of the Sanatan. The more restrained the State is in tackling fundamentalist elements of the society, the more aggressive these elements become. Will the Government act firmly and boldly at least now, or will Digamber Kamat act like a leader without a spine once again? Please show some spine Mr. Digamber, or else fundamentalism will prevail over secularism! warm regards, Sandeep
