Dear Roland,
My response to your post is not because you have mentioned my name.
It is because of the sincerity in which it is written.
Matanhy Saldanha and I were colleagues, though I started much much later
than he, he being a year younger to me.
And I have criticized him more than I have appreciated him while he was
living. This was never because I was jealous of him. It was because he
didn't do more and what was actually required to be done by personalities
like him being in the lime-light.
It is there on the net for everyone to see.
However, let me quote the famous Goan adage:
'Melele Mosik Bara Xher dud"
Having said that, I have prepared for my eventual death much much in advance
and my dear 'wife' and/or my son/daughter have been instructed accordingly
thus:
To allow each and every one who would want to say a few words (eulogize)
over my dead body to say them without let or hindrance.
To offer flowers to those criticizing my work or me openly. ( worst
criticism to get more flowers). Because what they will have said would be
absolutely true and coming directly from their hearts.
To write off those who praised me in death, or my work after I was dead.
Because these will have been utter hypocrites. Because those who would want
to praise me would have done so when I was living and facing me, eye to eye.
{for I have always culled a hypocrite from and friend]
To refuse state funeral for husband/dad even if he was the CM of Goa. [No
such illusions, though. The way I am going, it will be a wonder if I get
past 1000 votes forget about winning and election. Because winning elections
one has to lick arses. And floriano has never done that] In fact to instruct
the State authorities to use the money on things worthwhile, especially
catering to SENIOR CITIZENS IN OLD AGED HOMES.
Thank you for being straight forward, aka, not being a hypocrite.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
www.gragoa.com
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 7:51 PM
Subject: [Goanet] Matanhy Saldanha
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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