Here is the beginning of the most expected Corporate Gospel productions of Sujoy Gupta in what is claimed to be the Goan mouthpiece 'Herald', at least of the cristaos if not the others. Today we have the development gospel according to Blaise Costa Bir. The rest of goans who curse and swear against what is happening to Goa are all pessimists. They have to adopt the perspective of the chambers of commerce and industry. Only then will they understand what development means. If not, it looks like destruction as in Afghanistan or Iraq. So today we have been introduced to the first dose of developmental education by Blaise Costa Bir who is claimed to be one of the few Goans who has looked differently from 500 well wishers of Herald. For him Goa is shinning due to increased air traffic, roads and mobile phone technology. Communication has improved and so Goa is shinning. That's what sums up the entire opinion. He is now advocating for more mobile towers, probably to jam the hearts and minds of Goans to prevent them from thinking straight. The high rise mega projects seem not enough. For those whose perspective of Goa is limited to feni, women and song, Goa is definitely shinning. It is an exciting place to be in because Goans swallow anything and everything presented to then in their newspaper at the breakfast table. Some Goans think you have been appropriated by the system if your letter to editor and opinions are not seen published for over 3 months. Goans are yet to know that inconvenient truths just get blanked out from the editor's page as if they do not exist, and a dose of feni helps Goans blank out the persisting problems that just refuse to disappear at the end of the day. You can also be given the title of an accidental activist and accidental columnist if you join the right club. So we hear. "Goa ka log ajeeb hai !" "Goa to shinning lagta hai !" "Goa to Feni aur ladkiyom ki desh hai, bhaiyya !" "Goa ki logom ko kuch bi chalta hai!" For those who do attend glamour shows and get intoxicated at the end of the day, Goa becomes a horrifying place to live in. Can't just help being a compulsive pessimist. With power supply failing countless times a day, water taps trickling once in two days, dacoits lurking merrily, phones crackling, heavy machinery scooping out the hill sides on saturday and sunday, dust clouds rising from zooming trucks filling up a low lying paddy field, internet signals fluctuating, public buses crawling, mosquitoes buzzing, garbage flying all over, and .....,Goa can afford you a creepy and nightmarish experience. This is the story that needs to get told, again and again. Kuch kuch to hota hi hai ! Or else, everything is reduced to 'Chaka Chak' in Amchem Goa by corporate agents in media.
-soter
