[1] Tony de Sa: Mapusa reeks like a pig sty and is in a total shambles. From being North Goa's premier shopping/ bazaar town, it has descended to becoming a ghanti town. The problem with Mapusa is the same as what ails most of Goan towns. Please don't glorify them by calling them cities.
[2] Selma to Tony: The truth of the matter is 50 years after Liberation, the townships have been made unfit for human habitation. If you think Mapusa is a ghanti town, then a visit to Margao will make you feel considerably better in living on that side of the Zuari. [3] Floriano Lobo to Manohar Parrikar: (about a decade ago) The Kadamba Bus terminus is an open toilet. The World Famous and Touristic attraction, the Mapusa Market is a MESS in CAPITAL LETTERS. Our Mapusa river is being polluted with raw sewage of entire Mapusa and it is poisoned already. Please attend to these three things on priority basis and do yourself a favour. [4] Manohar Parrikar (reportedly) to Floriano: Florian-bab, you can expect vast changes in Mapusa before Christmas. [5] Floriano Lobo to Manohar Parrikar: (AFTER that Christmas - about a decade ago) pray which Christmas did you mean??? ----------- "no further word from Manohar Parrikar" ------------- [6] Rajan Parrikar to Floriano Lobo I, too, have been let down my Manohar-bab in the past. what is more important NOW is the expectation going forward. The whole of Goa has decayed into a ghati town. Give them (the CM and the Dy CM) some time (100-150 days, say). COMMENT: As a son-in-law of Bardez, I have had the good fortune of going to the Mapuca market on more days than just Fridays. Got to know a number of the long-time shop-keepers. Apparently, it was a really clean and organised market with some nice shops. And then, the 'ghatification' (that Rajan repeatedly refers to) followed. I believe the politically correct term for that is 'Librashun'. Sorry to say this but I just cannot see how food items could be sold (and purchased) under conditions which are so filthy. Goans are probably liberated from their senses. IMO It is better to have a simple but clean life than one which is filthy rich, as in rich but filthy. In any event, this 'filthification' process did not start with Parrikar, and the problems are not simple, their solutions neither. Let us remember that the BJP contested this election on the platform of their manifesto. So, as Rajan rightly says: Give them some time wrt to non-manifesto items. jc --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------