Gabe and Freddy in below posts which make very interesting read, have exposed the hyporcricy of BBSM leaders who organised the recent Goa bandh. Yes these hypocrites preach one thing and practice another. They would like to enjoy the benefits of education their family membersin English while deprive the others from it. Goans can easily see their game and teach these leaders and their parties by never voting for them and never allowing them to impose their views by force on them. Camilo Fernandes From: Gabe Menezes <[email protected]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Subject: [Goanet] Yes my grandaughter goes to an English MOI school, but yours should not
Yes my grandaughter goes to an English MOI school, but yours should not 2011-06-18 Parents are aghast at the hypocrisy of the Bharatiya Bhasha Suraksha Manch leaders. It was an open secret that most of them have happily put their children and grandchildren into English medium primary schools. It was only when the fiery Adv Radharao Gracias made a public statement to the press exposing the hypocrisy of the BBSM leaders that more and more Goans are getting an idea of the real truth. Shashikala Kakodkar sent her son to an English Medium School - to a hated Christian institution like Don Bosco's no less! Her grandchildren are studying in Sharada Mandir where the donations to get one's child in allegedly go into thousands. Uday Bhembre confessed to *Herald* reporters that Radharao was right that his grandchildren go to an English medium primary school. He also said he could not interfere since he was not the parent of the children only the grandparent. "I don?t decide the future of my granddaughter. It is not right for me to decide her future," Bhembre is quoted to have said. He has no qualms however of deciding the futures of lakhs of children from middle and lower income families. Kiran Naik's child must be terribly confused now. Junior Naik has been pulled out of a Konkani MOI school and put into Bhatikar's English medium school. Yes Bhatikar is also one of the leaders of BBSM and yes he runs an English medium primary school. Now after the furore, Naik has taken his child out of Bhatikar's and is enrolling the child into Popular School, Margao. http://www.targetgoa.com/newsd-Yes-my-grandaughter-goes-to-an-English-MOI-school-but-yours-should-not-2520 From: Freddy Fernandes <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Subject: [Goanet] Botak Zai Tedna Omas Botak Zai Tedna Omas The article "Grandchild Studying in English : Bhembre" on Herald dated 19th June'11, makes an interesting read. Advocate and one of the stalwarts of the Konkani movement in the mid eighties says that the future of his grandchild is not his prerogative since he is not the child's parent and the decision is entirely of the parents, who are his son and daughter in-law. To me this sounds like "botak zai tendna omas" If Advocate Uday Bhembre has no right to decide his own grandchild's MOI, which constitution on earth has given him or Shashikala the right to decide my grandchild's MOI ? Is it only Advocate Uday Bhembre and his family the recipient of the democratic norms of this country and we are not ? Advocate Uday Bhembre, has exercised his democratic right of the MOI when he educated his children in the MOI of his choice and now his own son exercised his right to the MOI of his child and it is this very same right that the parents in Goa are fighting for. So as citizens of democratic India aren't all Goans entitled to this divine right ? Senior Uday Bhembre being an advocated should know the advocacies of democracy better than any lay man or even a woman like Shashikala Kakodkar who at her age could be suffering from amnesia. Freddy Agnelo Fernandes
