Of course, I can understand that it helps to have a "pucca" construction--a bridge, and nothing against that. But what is sad is that these same ministers can at the very least help support the skill sets of those in the interior. Those skills can be used by the wealthy, the architects, etc. Say, if you have a minister visiting from abroad, one can say this is one of my contributions. That the pace here is difference, and the life rhythms harken to our pasts, but the education, etc., looks towards the future. Besides one can always get people from outside later, and also have them as a vote bank, and more.
I feel that India in general and Goa in particular has been very nonchalant about supporting traditional Ways, to mean skills, crafts, etc. This shows a complete lack of comprehension and a complete breakdown of the self where the Particular(self) is not in harmony with the Universal (the surround, nature, others). But then we still take pride in out own angon (Tulsi chem), although it is said in Marathi, Angan dakhavte gharachi kala (Angon dakoita ghorachi kala). The state of the angan reveals the talent/skills of the house. Btw, this is why I also feel that politicians should always be heckled in their native languages. It strikes deeper. They is more opportunity for massive fallout. The nature of modernity in India has always surprised me, and now I see that these guys are complete moderns in the most brutal sense of the word; perhaps at least on a cursory level more so than in the West. First of all modern is a very complex word, that means different things to people, at various stages in their progress!! Its meaning, as applied to various subjects also gives us more to think about; although the central nothing remains similar---but within a large footprint. Modernity essentially spurns the past. In the West at least there is enough friction, to help negotiate some balance (mostly in Europe, Scandinavia).There is also a certain intelligence that seeks possibilities in many things, not only things mechanical, digital, etc., but also contemplates possibilities of preserving the past by using modern technologies (from 1700 down). That is a more pragmatic mindset, and policy planning methodology. Hence when someone puts up say a museum, someone wants ownership--a business house. They cannot stand that you have done this by yourself, nor their political minds, and certainly not the politicians. What if others get ideas of success, unity, interaction? What if a ward of villages ends up having their own smaller museums set up in five large rooms in various parts of the village, and besides sell their produce. What if people take pride in them? But all this without being beholden to the Mai Zov...'s. In this vein, we have often heard anguished cries of those who want a modern India, to mean, with certain generalities, some acceptances, and the larger visual trappings common to modernity as seen in urban spaces in most countries. We too have some, or all of that in varying degrees, but it is in enclaves, practiced in various manners, and spaces. India is Modern in its eschewing of many of its pasts, but also of dismissing those pasts, which could help in keeping the identity of many,and by extension of the political-business moderns alive. And then there are others who aggravate issues, by not seeing the nature of modernity that India has fashioned, and what the yearning is about. More often than not, it is a call for acknowledgement for the choices one has made. The response is often by way of a bad version of tough love, but also pointing to ones own listlessness. But the language of the aggrieved is is often harsh and so help in the toppling of the general idea. venantius j pinto From: "Freddy Fernandes" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: [Goanet] Sattari Still In Stone Age > > > http://www.oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Man-made-wooden-bridge-posing-threat-in > -Keri/38734.html<http://www.oheraldo.in/news/Local%20News/Man-made-wooden-bridge-posing-threat-in-Keri/38734.html> > > With reference to the above link, are we still in stone age or the 21st > century > ? A man made wooden bridge made of bamboos and coconut tree trunk still > prevails > in Goa, which is in taters at the moment and that too in the constituency > of the > former Chief Minister and present Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly > Mr. > Pratapsingh Rane. (DEL)
