Dea Ms. Carvalho, we seem to be the only ones to notice. Well, liberal is good when communities understand and respect the definition of 'freedom'. Unfortunately, the 'new green' is very oppressive and freedom, is a word they never heard of. Or rather, the freedom is to do as they please in a land so blessed by nature, to over run your culture, to drive one in the corner till you can live and breath no mo.
There is the lot that organizes the Vascu marathon (aai-hai, the lovely Gul Pang running tru Bina gets the back of my little brain fluttering) have this slogan...'beautifying Vascu'. Do these f*cks ever get out of their air conditioned cars or wot? This city is disease....imagine, the first planned city on free fall!! Yes indeed, having lived here way before the P*rtuguese left....one has recently changed the lock on the front door. The front door has never been locked and there was a time when foxes and wild cats roamed the hill (and often raided the hen house)! The other Mrs. Carvalho may not have known but the area below Alto Brito (now known as Bina road) had families from Afgin*stan and a clan of pathans (one of them played for the fammed Vascu club)...and their festivities, their food are fresh in ones memory. They considered themselves local, they spoke Concani, they were part of the community. There was a welcome and openness in the way they went about their daily lives. Ones parents would be mortified if they heard one speaks a word against the 'green'. But this is a different lot, a lot that has no rules, not a sense of community, a culture of wrecking. Its the new 'green'. Something like the ghettos of Birmingham or for that matter, Rexdale in Toronto. Its 'we are here' so deal with the rut, our violence, on our terms, play by our rules. One remembers quotes from the clever Dr. Jack Straw, a former UK minister who famously refused to treat patients with their head covered and told the newcomers in public....you are in the UK, deal with our culture or... We don't have a politician with a little sause ** ***lls to say this!! Different times, troubling times and everyone is fighting for a ticket, to make a quick buck. Then what? On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Carvalho <[email protected]> wrote: > > Pandu lampioa wrote: > The 'greening' of Goa has reached a point of no return and what you > said in your post is right there for all to see. Nothing against any > community but a mass influx is unhealthy. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Dear Pandu, > If it comes as a surprise that fairly liberal people like you and me, turn > violently conservative and anti-migrant, it is because we have to live in > that hell-hole, wholesale brothel otherwise known as Vascu. By the time you > reach St Andrews Church the last vestige of its former glory standing against > the onslaught of mindless insanity, those of us who grew up in Salcete, fall > on us knees and pray to St. Andrews that such a horrific plague of > destruction never visits Salcete. Alas, Margao is already beset with a > similar plague. > > If anyone wants a look into Goa's future, I advise them like Pandu says, to > take a bus to Vascu and stare it squarely into its face. Incidentally, I > don't see any hope for the slumification of Goa being reversed. That door was > sealed the day Goa became part of India. We can only hope now that someone > will make a film of Goa's slums 50 years from now and we'll have Goans > writing paeans in the New Yorker telling us how wonderful and productive life > actually is in a slum like Goa-Darawi. If there is one thing Indians are > extraordinarily good at it is slummifying every city, town or living area > they set foot in. For proof, visit cities in London which are Indian > strongholds. > > Best, > selma --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
