Manuel (Eddie) bab, I refer here to your mail to Arwinbab. It is interesting the amount of WAKE UP CALLS BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE to the goans in Goa I regularly see in Goanet, and no signs of them waking up at all! Did it occur to you that Goans are not turning up to vote perhaps because there is no one worth voting for? All they have is the same politicians over and over again like a broken old record, playing the same old out of tune lament.....the problem is that when some of them wake up they take measures which are seriously questionable like for example getting rid of one of the best hopes for Goa, the honorable Dr Oscar Rebelo!
And Manuel bab, also it is worth keeping in mind that there is a problem of limitations of vocabulary knowledge among our politicians in Goa - they don't know the meaning of words like honorable, transparency, audit and prosecution of politicians and government officials , governance....they don't exist in their dictionaries. Those guys are in power just to enriching themselves, and they don't have a clue about anything else because most of them lack basic education. I wonder sometimes if they are even remotely aware of the tremendous longterm damage they are causing to Goa pursuing misguided ideas of development and progress. Finally in my modest opinion, we should really find a concrete way to give some hands-on help to our fellow goans in Goa, instead of just endless and ineffective wake up calls and advice and suggestions. I found that our sleeping goans in Goa get most irritated by the wake calls, and think what is hapening in Goa is their business and they know better, and who are we goans abroad to think we can give them any advise!? I have the feeling that most goans in Goa have given up, and are just sleepwalking with their eyes wide open into a situation they will soon regret. They are just going with the flow, as it is easier than fighting to save Goa. Perhaps they don't think Goa needs to be saved, as they think everything is hanky-dory....who knows?!!! Best wishes Carmen Miranda * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Goa-launch of the well-received *Into The Diaspora Wilderness* by Selma Carvalho on Aug 29, 2010 (Sunday) at 11 am at Ravindra Bhavan, Margao. Meet the author, buy a signed copy (only Rs 295 in Goa till stock lasts). http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/
