Anil Desai talks about my "foul" language. Can you specifiy what you are talking about ? You must be reading your buddy Rajan Parrikar's posts! Talk about hypocrisy!!!
Response: Below are the examples of what I consider to be fould language/phrases. They are bad particularly because they do not add anything to the debate that we must have. Samir: "white mans boots look better is it ?" "Rajan, the American boot licker," I hope if not you, at least some Goanetters will agree that these are not particularly nice things to say in a public forum. Samir: Here is another case of someone who has gone abroad for greener pastures, and pontificates about Goa from behind his keyboard. Response: I do not like to blow my own trumpet but apart from occasionally participating in legitimate debates about the future of Goa, like Rajan, I have always tried to do my bit for Goa. Next time you visit Goa, visit Priol and Mangeshi. There are a few Kelekars there and your ancestral house might even be there. I bought land for a school less than a mile from the ancestral houswe of Kelekars. Besides, I pay 25% of the loan that the school took for building from the dept of education. If you visit Mangeshi, you will see a brand new 18 classroom building of a secondary school witha large assembly hall that is envy of even bigger schools in major towns in Goa. Visit the school and talk to the teachers and they will explain to you what I have done for the school. They might also explain to you that apart from several lakhs donated for the building,I donated an entire computer lab with fourteen computers to this school when computers used to cost an arm and a leg and even today I pay the salary of the computer teacher at the school from my own pocket along with bills for repair, electricity, internet bills etc. Someone like you could make a positive contribution by visiting our school and talking to the kids. The language has to be moderated though. Apart from this, I am proud to have paid entire expenses for higher education for a number of doctors, engineers and even computer engineers who because of their poor background and because of their community, would have had difficulty gaining the qualifications that they have got entirely on their merit. My latest gift was a substantial gift to one such student who is now a dentist, to start a dental clinic in Calangute. Waht about the risks? I have taken risks. When I led the ati-nylon agitation, A DYSP named Suresh Raiker filed a FIR against me and thirteen others under POTA and vowed to bring me back from London. This was reported as a front page news in Gomantak.I sent a fax to the then DGP of Goa challenging him to file a charge sheet against me and promising to hand myself over if he did so. It turned out later that the DGP was on our side. I believe because the small part I made in that movement. sixty lakh square metres of pristine communidade land is still out of the clutches of destroyers of Goa. I do not want to bore you but want you to know one thing. All these things would not have been possible without the work that I do here. I am glad therefore, that rather than being a burden on Goa, I have been able to make net contribution financially as well as socially. I would not belittle others' contributions the way you tried to do mine. Everyone does their bit and we have to respect that except when their words do not match with their actions. I believe you have studied science. I am also a student of science. See how you can get into terrible mess when your basic facts are wrong. Your teachers should have taught you that. Anil Desai
