The POT says: “liberation”, the KETTLE wonders!
(An extract from my book: “SIMPLY MY WAY”) www.bennetpaes.com
Quote:
From the days of Mahatma Gandhi’s tryst with freedom, one prerequisite to be a
‘freedom fighter’ came to be accepted as a short adventure in an Indian jail.
Critics then called it a ‘picnic inprison’. On the other hand, Portuguese jails
were far removed from the romance of a Presley’s ‘Jailhouse Rock’. They were
exactly what lawbreakers deserved to be in. Discipline was what they exacted
out of an erring ‘rocker’, and the stick did the trick.
Nevertheless, having been influenced by Gandhi’s struggle for freedom, a path
hugely accentuated by his courtship with prison-cells, some Goan machos also
developed an appetite for ‘freedom of sorts’, although what was under suspicion
was their determination to fight for it. They tried to emulate the great
Mahatma in so far as his sit-in’s were concerned. But his fasts-unto-death
dreaded them as death itself. The group that I came to be associated with,
would hardly miss a morsel for any cause on earth, least of allfreedom.
Much credit goes to those Goans who put their lives on the block in their
pursuit of freedom. However, what became debatable to right thinking men and
women in Goa was, whether their motive was to oust one occupier and make way
for another; or to take over the reins themselves and let the U.N. declare an
addition to the family of nations. But soon their intentions were laid bare.
Jawaharlal Nehru’s‘Operation Vijay’ sealed the fate of Goans forever.
Unquote.
And now, the question:
If it took troops to liberate Goa, what stops liberating POK (Pakistan Occupied
Kashmir)?
Bennet Paes
Assolna, Goa
[email protected]
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