[Goanet]Re: Critical of IFFI
## # Goanetters-2004 meet in Goa. Dec 21, Tuesday. 12 noon to 2 pm. # # Clube Vasco, Near Municipal Garden, Panjim. Pass the word around! # ## Hi Philip, Thank you for correcting me. Now that you have shown that you are smarter than me, why don't you spearhead the analysis. Call it what you want. But let's have an educated presentation. Or are your smarts just in trying to put down another Goan? Regards, GL An educated presentation? On what, for whom and to what end? Btw, your presentations are fine. Just had a few questions about it, that's all .. for Goa's sake! Until next time. :)
[Goanet]Re: Critical of IFFI
## # Goanetters-2004 meet in Goa. Dec 21, Tuesday. 12 noon to 2 pm. # # Clube Vasco, Near Municipal Garden, Panjim. Pass the word around! # ## 1. Re: Philip Thomas comments, postmortem may be a term to be used. Though as we all know, it is done on someone who is dead. IFFI with a budget outlay of 75 crore is too important to be bogged down in semantics. Like it or lump it, postmortem is a legitimate term used in new product development. Btw, you dont do pretty badly with semantics yourself. Have fun.:) 2.Do we know the exact number of tourists that came for the event and the tax- and other receipts generated during these two weeks? And this would be only the start! We should directly weigh the financial cost against the financial gains. We should weigh cultural costs against the cultural gains. And this should go down the line comparing /weighing apples with apples and oranges with oranges. Etc. While weighing one against the other are there OPPORTUNITIES where they can be structured/ formatted to complement each other? Now you seem to be doing a COST-BENEFIT analsysis and not a SWOT analysis as originally advised! How come? Just throwing the word opportunity into the talk doesn make it a SWOT analysis! Better luck next time!
Re: [Goanet]Re: Critical of IFFI
## # Goanetters-2004 meet in Goa. Dec 21, Tuesday. 12 noon to 2 pm. # # Clube Vasco, Near Municipal Garden, Panjim. Pass the word around! # ## Dear George, And we at Goa Su-Raj thought that none of our Goemkars in the cyberfora and diaspora would come out with SWOT analysis. As far as IFFI is concerned, it is the last thing that Goa needs. Manohar Parrikar seems to be a pussy cat, in that, he does not know what ticks IFF in the first place. He does not know that it is a film bazaar, a market place to sell films. Therefore the best of films of the best producers are put on display. Constracts are signed, film rights etc are transfered. Let Parrikar tell us how many films were sold or contracted for during this Panjim extravaganza. He, being the kattar RSS, has always deplored Goa's long standing Carnaval Fiesta. He is trying to replace it with IFFI. Will someone give him a good knock on his stupid head and tell him that the street shows and Miramar beach screening of films, the food festival etc is not an integral part of IFFI, and that too at the tax-payer's cost?? He has blown off Goa's vital monetary resources on flunkies (whom we call 'funkot choddus'), wined and dined them, transported them to and fro all for a pat on his back. Rajan Narayan has portrayed him as a peacock. I fully stand by Rajan on that. And some flunkies call him the Best CM of Goa. What a load of bull. He has been able to get away with it temporarily because we have more spineless flunkies sitting in the opposition and eating out of Parrikar's hand. Floriano goasuraj. - Original Message - From: George Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 2:26 AM Subject: [Goanet]Re: Critical of IFFI --- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think now is the time for Goans, the press, their elected representatives, bureaucrats and Mr. Parrikar to do the well accepted SWOT analysis of IFFI. [SWOT] stands for: Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats. I think Gilbert must have missed the ongoing SWOT analysis of IFFI in Goan cyberfora. To summarize: STRENGTHS: Goa's image WEAKNESSES: Goa's image Excessive cost subsidies at Goan taxpayer's expense Wrong priorities for Goa Government should not be in the IFFI business Lack of transparency Lack of accountability Lack of benefits for locals Lack of Konkani films Lack of good films So-called Bollywood tourists did not pay for their stay Consumerism Exploitive capitalism Cultural imperialism Traffic congestion/bridge closure OPPORTUNITIES: Use the time and money instead to take care of Goa's basic needs: infrastructure, health care, education Focus on Goan entertainment instead (e.g. mando festivals) Focus on entertainment accessible to the masses THREATS: Another opportunity for corruption Adding to the state's fiscal woes and deficit Distraction from Goa's real problems If the question is What does Goa need, the answer is not IFFI. Some have suggested improving the IFFI next year. Seems odd. If a cancer is present, it should be treated/removed or the patient dies. Better to encourage instead the many other suggested healthy alternatives. Regards, George
[Goanet]Re: Critical of IFFI
## # Goanetters-2004 meet in Goa. Dec 21, Tuesday. 12 noon to 2 pm. # # Clube Vasco, Near Municipal Garden, Panjim. Pass the word around! # ## Hi George, Thanks for the response, analysis and the feed-back. I hope the following advances the dialogue. I did not see any 'quantifiable end-points' in your presentation and in those of others. All we have in Goan cyberspace are opinions (INCLUDING MINE). People in the know and those directly involved are not talking or writing. And that is something that is always a drawback. Do we know the exact number of tourists that came for the event and the tax- and other receipts generated during these two weeks? And this would be only the start! We should directly weigh the financial cost against the financial gains. We should weigh cultural costs against the cultural gains. And this should go down the line comparing /weighing apples with apples and oranges with oranges. Etc. While weighing one against the other are there OPPORTUNITIES where they can be structured/ formatted to complement each other? Goans have fifty weeks in a year to celebrate and expand our Konkan and Goan culture. But we complain about the two weeks of Cultural imperialism. Similar objections occur about our language. BTW the notion of Cultural imperialism applied to European culture in Asia and other colonies. It appears definitions are changing. :=)) Is there any evidence that IFFI prevented Goans from the gorrment services / weakness you describe? Was there transparency before? Or are there other factors in this equation. If no! Why they were not accomplished in the last 40 years? Is IFFI a zero sum cost and gain? Or is there / can be a win-win situation? How does San Francisco have both ani tea bhair more? Keeping with medical analogies, because childbirth has severe pains, ruins her figure, and starts other problems and issues, that does not stop the mother, father ani society from having more children. Re: Philip Thomas comments, postmortem may be a term to be used. Though as we all know, it is done on someone who is dead. IFFI with a budget outlay of 75 crore is too important to be bogged down in semantics. IMHO deliberations in Goan cyberfora on this topic, including mine, have to date added-up to be some feijoada. :=)) And we love feijoada. Thanks for the comments and the participation. Regards Gilbert George Pinto: I think Gilbert must have missed the ongoing SWOT analysis of IFFI in Goan cyberfora. To summarize: STRENGTHS: Goa's image WEAKNESSES: Goa's image Excessive cost subsidies at Goan taxpayer's expense Wrong priorities for Goa Government should not be in the IFFI business Lack of transparency Lack of accountability Lack of benefits for locals Lack of Konkani films Lack of good films So-called Bollywood tourists did not pay for their stay Consumerism Exploitive capitalism Cultural imperialism Traffic congestion/bridge closure OPPORTUNITIES: Use the time and money instead to take care of Goa's basic needs: infrastructure, health care, education Focus on Goan entertainment instead (e.g. mando festivals) Focus on entertainment accessible to the masses THREATS: Another opportunity for corruption Adding to the state's fiscal woes and deficit Distraction from Goa's real problems If the question is What does Goa need, the answer is not IFFI. Some have suggested improving the IFFI next year. Seems odd. If a cancer is present, it should be treated/ removed or the patient dies. Better to encourage instead the many other suggested healthy alternatives. Regards, George Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think now is the time for Goans, the press, their elected representatives, bureaucrats and Mr. Parrikar to do the well accepted SWOT analysis of IFFI. [SWOT] stands for: Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats.
[Goanet]Re: Critical of IFFI
## # Goanetters-2004 meet in Goa. Dec 21, Tuesday. 12 noon to 2 pm. # # Clube Vasco, Near Municipal Garden, Panjim. Pass the word around! # ## --- Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think now is the time for Goans, the press, their elected representatives, bureaucrats and Mr. Parrikar to do the well accepted SWOT analysis of IFFI. [SWOT] stands for: Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and Threats. I think Gilbert must have missed the ongoing SWOT analysis of IFFI in Goan cyberfora. To summarize: STRENGTHS: Goa's image WEAKNESSES: Goa's image Excessive cost subsidies at Goan taxpayer's expense Wrong priorities for Goa Government should not be in the IFFI business Lack of transparency Lack of accountability Lack of benefits for locals Lack of Konkani films Lack of good films So-called Bollywood tourists did not pay for their stay Consumerism Exploitive capitalism Cultural imperialism Traffic congestion/bridge closure OPPORTUNITIES: Use the time and money instead to take care of Goa's basic needs: infrastructure, health care, education Focus on Goan entertainment instead (e.g. mando festivals) Focus on entertainment accessible to the masses THREATS: Another opportunity for corruption Adding to the state's fiscal woes and deficit Distraction from Goa's real problems If the question is What does Goa need, the answer is not IFFI. Some have suggested improving the IFFI next year. Seems odd. If a cancer is present, it should be treated/removed or the patient dies. Better to encourage instead the many other suggested healthy alternatives. Regards, George
