To Goanet - The Oriya migrants want to build a Jagannath temple in Goa. Legally they cannot be prevented so long as they buy their own land, comply with all the regulations (i.e. bribe the ministers), and fund their own construction.
But now word is that they have gone to Digu with a begging bowl asking for a grant from the Goa govt to build the temple. Like all good Indians, they know how to ask and suck somebody else's resources, resources they did not help build or pay for. The money of the Goan taxpayer should not go to fund new temples, churches, or mosques. There is a side issue, too: Goa is the last place in India where the temples - our Goan Hindu temples - have retained a sense of spiritual integrity (this, despite all the degradation, and the rotters in the temple committees). Many of our temple spaces still afford a relatively clean atmosphere of calm and beauty, and you are not harassed by the temple priests. I do not wish that the Oriyas, Biharis, UPwallahs and other riffraff transplant their temple squalor to Goa. Regards, r
