I follow the news in Goa from Goanet and from other sources.
I was completely flummoxed by the glowing tributes paid to MS after his death.
Why, I asked myself, did I not read even one percent of the praise showered on
him after his death, while he was still living.
If he was really the man he is made out to be, why did not the people who came
out of the woodwork with glowing paens, even people who had never written on
Goanet before singing his alleluias on the site, not whistle a single note
about his work when he was a living, breathing human being.
What I mostly remember reading about MS over the years was how he had turned
into an opportunist once he entered politics and how he was a major
disappointment to people who had high hopes for him after the Ramponkar
struggle and the Metastrips agitation.
I have no problem with the good they say about him now. I do have one with why
they didn't say it before.
One day Eugene too will be singing Floriano's hit parade of road maps for Goa,
instead of writing him off as a party chief who never won any seat or had a
shot at winning one. Contingent of course on Eugene outlasting Floriano.
Roland.
Roland Francis
416-453-3371
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