*clearing my throat* Pessimistic? Where do you get that from Irmao Fred? I am optimistic: Goa is already deep in the rot and there is no reversing. Trying to save Goa is pessimistic!!
Anyways, wondering which coconut tree your claimed up to get a view of the impromptu riots that took place in '82? The reaction to Padre Dessai little protest march was impromptu. No one organized them, unless that happened a few days later when Rane with the railways arranged for trains to transport people out (his baaiko is from the neighbouring state BTW). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExDhrelBsmU&feature=related (so this guy singing is also an "pretext to go on a rampage ..... make a fast buck for.."). Good thinking. Yo, Prince Jakob, aaikotai re (he did a tiatre on the subject)? So tell me, if there is a procession in Saligao calling Goas cowards, you will sit on the balcao and continue smoking your pipe, or what ever it is you are smoking? Nice to know. Its in the constitution, the right to protest that is as it is your right to smoke in your balcony. But then, you are in Bardez and the riots took place in Salcette/Murmagao. Big difference. Today the Mangoor slum boasts of a t*mple or two or three (maybe even a m*sque that loud speakers 'the call' at an unearthly hour), all on communadade land! Say very constitutional, the right to squat. They even have a former Chief Minister as their chief guest. How legit. I know Fr. Dessai from the time he arrived and took up lodgings in the slum...he came with intentions...school, toilets for the slum dwellers, etc. He believed Goans were against the 'ghaatis' because they were afraid to fight their employers. Prior to those days, the area was from a relatively clean (Mangoor Hill), and grew to be the first slum in Goa. On communadade land. Today, a lodging in the slum can change hands for no less than 5-10-15 (take a guess), and there are a few Goan families who have moved there because they cannot afford to live elsewhere! As well, around the time Fr.Dessai arrived, the neighbouring convent even opened its doors to the afternoon free school those living in the slums, and it continues till date. The person who took a bold step was a Goan nun born in British Columbia, Kanada. That was unheard of in those days. What self-fulfilling prophecy? What Saligao weed did you put in your smoking pipe? Pandu Lampiao wrote: >The 'Goans are c****** ' was phrased by one Fr. Premand Dessai >(originally Morias of Cuncolim, a jesuit) when he did the march from >Mangor Hill in Vasco.....this lead to the "non-Goans get out of Goa" >riots of 1984 or 85 I think. Fr Kristanand Desai (not Premand) was the name, and, if I recall right, it was around 1982. The march used as a pretext to go on a rampage by ideologies and individuals who went on to make a fast buck for themselves, get elected to power, play controversial games, etc ... The march was -- again if I recall correct -- to ask for a school for the migrant poor to learn in the language of their choice. This is part of the Constitutionally-guaranteed educational rights to minorities, whether religious or linguistic. Even the Pais deploy the same for some of their educational institutions in the Udupi-Mangalore belt, and Konkani communities too have the right to ask for it if they have the numbers for a classroom or a small school. (English being squeezed out at the primary level under various pretexts in today's Goa is quite another matter.) Pandu, I think your overall pessimism could turn into a 'good' self-fulfilling prophecy! FN
