Floriano has written:
"Come election time 2012 does Soter have any plausible solutions?
Or are we going to harangue the same ugly yet again, and even more so, from
2012 to 2017 without even trying to get even with them for the
wrong-doings?"
Comment:
Floriano bab, not only Soter but there are many in Goa and outside who have
plausible solutions for Goans. But the question is, who the hell is in the
mood of listening? Rome was not built in one day.With this pathetic state of
social and political collapse within the goan community, efforts for
elections in 2012 will draw a blank.
Goa's case is about a willing mind but a weak body that bows before those
pieces of printed paper from RBI. We have enough entertainment to distract
the public. We need the very same politicians whom we curse and the
visionless and planted leaders to decorate our social movement platforms.
people who label Gram Sabhas as anarchist. What else can one expect? Where
is that 'izaat' (self-respect). Personally, I do not think that the middle
class goan has any of it left in them. The Portuguese had cultivated this
vital commodity but with liberation it seems to have thinned away before
what the Indian government calls development. It is rare today and traces of
it may still be found in remote areas of Canacona, Sattari and Pernem. We
are made to believe that Bihar election results is a vote for development,
not the self-respect of Biharis. Some prominent student activists of the
seventies and eighties are now agents of the mining lobby and builders or
are busy cleansing the sea with holy water at Khariwada in Vasco. Others are
reaping the benefits in politics and corruption.
So what more can one expect of this generation?
-Soter
