To Goanet - Question: What do names like Puttaraju, Ahmad Morad, Manoj Shrivastava, Rina Rai, Sujay Gupta, Arun Sinha and suchlike have in common?
Answer: One, they are all outsiders who have been imported into Goa by the Goan political and/or business establishment and given plum positions. Two, they are all uniformly third-raters - mediocrities who shouldn't have been given charge of anything in the first place. They shouldn't have been here in Goa in the first place. Yet these fellows today, or have in the past, wielded enormous influence in Goa. This has been the story of Goa post-Liberation with outsiders of dubious intellectual and moral fibre brought in by powerful Goans to lord over ordinary Goans. This is above and beyond the 10th-rate scum that Delhi deputes to Goa. It is not hard to understand the rationale: hiring a fellow Goan can prove to be costly and dangerous. After all, the Goan is inherently a 'xapoter' and you never know when he might rebel and go rogue on you. Whereas the third-rate outsider is happy kissing his master's behind every single day so long as his little nest egg is assured. The third-rate outsider has it real good in Goa, which he will not anywhere else India. It is a mutually beneficial existence for the Goan master and the third-rate outsider. Now, it follows from the foregoing that Goan paymasters would never hire a first-rate outsider. For first-raters, regardless of their place of origin, tend to have independent minds and that is a dangerous prospect for the Goan elites. All this is of academic interest, for Goa is now in a deep dive from which recovery is not possible. I will have a little more to say on next in my next post. Regards, r
