A closer look at why the Divar Church is building a parking lot will probably reveal that some church lands have changed hands with Bombay builders at enormous personal benefit to Church officials and enormous cost to the beautiful village land. The parking lot would be being the added pittance. That way the people who count in the village (those owning cars) will have the wool pulled over their near sighted eyes.
I agree with you on the beauty of the island of Divar. I have stopped the rickshaw from the ferry to the interior many a time, and climbed down into the fields, not for draining bodily fluids as the driver assumed, but to clamber onto a small hillock and watch the serene and (then) unpolluted Mandovi. Sitting on the top of the hill on the church boundaries, I would spend at least an hour looking across the water at the scenic islands of Chorao and Malhar and consider my trips to Goa fulfilled. Roland. Toronto. Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network. Envoyé sans fil par mon terminal mobile BlackBerry sur le réseau de Bell. -----Original Message----- From: "Rajan P. Parrikar" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected]: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:06:15 To: [email protected]<[email protected]> Reply-To: "Rajan P. Parrikar" <[email protected]>, "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> Subject: [Goanet] Questions about Divar To Goanet - - There is some construction going on at the area in front of the Church of Our Lady of Piedade in Divar. Doesn't look like a garden to me. It has the makings of a parking lot. Is that what it is? If yes, why not construct a drive-thru kiosk? We could have a doll of Jesus that pops up every time you drop a 5 rupee coin in a slot (accessible from the car window, of course). No need to bother actually stepping out of the car etc. I had the same proposal for the guys at the Anant temple in Savoi-Verem when I learnt they were going to destroy a beautiful green field next to the shrine to build a parking lot. - There's construction work going on along the route in Divar that leads from the ferry junction (Old Goa side) into the island interior. A wall is being erected. Now, the beauty of the routes into Divar was that you could simply hop into the adjoining fields. There were no barriers. That will now change. You will have an ugly concrete pile of sh*t to jump over. Whose rotten idea is this? And do I have to add that a colony of migrant workers has taken root. I wonder if they are already part of Madkaikar's vote bank. r --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
