I refuse to see this as a Digu-versus-Manohar Parrikar thing. There is little or no difference between the duo, though we might like to image there is. How can two individuals who do business with one another, rule jointly for years (even though their "ideology" won no mandate), then take up very similar policies (just the business lobbies catered to can be marginally different... but compare their stands on, say, mining) be posited as the options to one another?
This is a false dichotomy which one mustn't fall for. Rajendra Kakodkar has made some very insightful and interesting points, noting that Goa's concerns go far, far beyond a meaningless BJP-versus-Congress divide. We have little reason to believe that the mainstream politicial "choices" on offer are anything of a "solution". Even if the media and a few hyperactive individuals in cyberspace would like to polarise things towards this end. FN On 31 July 2010 21:47, Rajan P. Parrikar <[email protected]> wrote: > You are perhaps new to the boards. The way it works is, you are free > to start a new thread on issues you care about, on issues you deem > important. After all, priorities vary. Admin Noronha does not believe > that the builders are doing a number of Goa. He has been denying > and/or downplaying the havoc wrought by construction. He would have > thought differently if Manohar was in power, but all this destruction under > his benevolent prasad-distributor Digu deserves a pass. For 'prasad' > always has a sweet smell and it is always secular. > When I was investigating the building violations, land conversions etc > 3 years ago (on my own nickel and time), his job was to spread the lie > that this was a secret BJP operation to discredit his beloved Kangress. > He claimed that I had assumed a 'green garb' for the purpose. > His tactics are well-known: if you focus your energies battling an issue X, > Admin Noronha will come along and ask why you are not doing anything > about Y. He tried hard with to smear my telephoto lens but alas, the muck > stuck to him instead. He then wept like a baby that I was deflowering his > beloved Goanet. But the other mods thought otherwise. > So if you must ask the kinds of questions you have above, feel free to > direct them to the lying hypocrite Frederick Noronha. You could start by > asking him who is subsidizing him to deny the construction madness > currently underway in Goa. Turn his own wink-wink-nudge-nudge > old maid ways on him, and you will do just fine. * * * Encounter hints (and more) of the Goan life in Zanzibar, Poona, Mombasa, Basra, Dubai, and even Nuvem and Colva, Sanvordem and colonial Goa. Learn of experiences that shaped Goans worldwide. Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* now available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Ask a friend to buy it, before it gets sold out. Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
