MOI Credit Should Go Only To The Parents In my young days I was told, the Cuckoo was a very devious bird, that it does not incubate it’s own eggs but conveniently destroys the crow’s eggs and leave it’s own eggs in the crow’s nest, and the crow without knowing rears Cuckoos, is this ingenuity or just plain natures progression ? Who will be the judge ? Perhaps the Ornithologists could tell us !
In Goa a distinct similarity to the Cuckoo’s deceit and ingenuity is observed. A few weeks ago the local dailies in Goa were full of congratulatory messages, congratulating our ever conniving politicians for the success of the Medium of Instruction movement for grants to English medium Schools. A battle started, fought and won by the parents. Most of these congratulatory messages were dedicated to our flamboyant Benaulim and Navelim MLA’s, ironically both uneducated. I wonder if even half of those who congratulated the MLA’s were parents of affected students, we have lots of chamchas who like to appease their demigods for favours in cash and kind. If these useless politicians were responsible for the victory, why did the people have to take to the streets ? In Goa has any problem of the people been solved without the people taking to the streets ? The efficiency of the governances is evident when the problems of the people are solved without bringing the people to the streets, this has been very much lacking in Goa for a long time now. Our politicians are very good in taking credit when it’s not theirs for the taking. My humble prayer to all Goans, please do let these conniving politicians use us to rear their credit, like the deceitful cuckoo. Let’s give credit where it is due and the credit for the success of the MOI movement goes only to the parents and not to anyone else. Freddy Agnelo Fernandes