[Goanet] Mapusa and the new dispensation
Message: 3 Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:14:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Rajan P. Parrikar parri...@yahoo.com To: goa...@goanet.org goa...@goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Mapusa and the new dispensation Message-ID: 1331511244.24832.yahoomail...@web160202.mail.bf1.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To Goanet - Tony de Sa: Mapusa is in the limelight, it being the residential town of both CM M. Parrikar and Dy CM Francis C J D'Souza. Unfortunately,? Mapusa reeks like a pig sty and is in a total shambles. Who cares?? The politicians’ cars are air-conditioned and chauffeur driven. MD --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] Mapusa and the new dispensation
To Goanet - Floriano-bab, I, too, have been let down my Manohar-bab in the past. After the release of The Rape of Goa in May 2008, I tried so hard to get him to come see it. Repeated pleas and calls, but no success. (Note that during this very time some guys here were spreading gossip that Manohar/BJP was secretly behind the making of my documentary.) Manohar finally saw the documentary in Sept 2009. Where? In Silicon Valley at an event organized by George Pinto. I don't take these things personally. At any rate, what is more important now is the expectation going forward. r From: floriano floriano.l...@gmail.com To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Cc: Rajan P. Parrikar parri...@yahoo.com; tonyde...@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Mapusa and the new dispensation When Manohar Parrikar took over the last time, I, in all sincerity had emailed him the following: Manohar-bab, you are the son of Mapusa. Don't only polish your contituency of Panjim. Also give a casual glance to your home town. Three things: 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. I got a reply: Florian-bab, you can expect vast changes in Mapusa before Christmas. My email was somewhere in September. The response was prompt. Therefore I waited until past Christmas to send him this email: Manohar-bab, With reference to your above email in response to mine, pray which Christmas did you mean??? All correspondence stop at that. This is for your kind information only. Cheers floriano goasuraj 9890470896 --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
[Goanet] Mapusa and the new dispensation
Dear Tony, My heart goes out to you because every bit of what you write is true and you have no hesitation in calling a spade a spade. You're an honest to goodness Goan, the sort of chap that works all his life and expects nothing more from the world than a quiet, clean, civil country to live in. The truth of the matter is 50 years after Liberation, the townships have been made unfit for human habitation. What makes this an absolute crime against humanity is that each of our MLAs are worth their weight in crores. An honest Goan working a lifetime cannot save a crore and believe me that applies even to NRIs, yet these men have managed to leech off the Goan blood while the townships rot. This is something the Parrikar government can certainly make a start in correcting and I hope they do, starting with Digu's own constituency Margao. 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. Best, selma --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] Mapusa and the new dispensation
[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 ---
[Goanet] Mapusa and the new dispensation
Mapusa is in the limelight, it being the residential town of both CM M. Parrikar and Dy CM Francis C J D'Souza. Unfortunately, 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. Parking is chaotic, the roads are narrow, the pavements are encroached, there is tons of garbage, real stinky garbage strewn all around. Pan splatters stain the external walls. Public amenities - toilet facilities, parks, gardens, etc are prominent by their absence. The Ravindra Bhavan which was supposed to come up was delayed because of the customary 20 percent baksheesh to the Minister for PWD (+ 2 p.c. for his agent) was not coughed up. The bus stand is in a mess and stinks more like an open sewer. The Market requires a total overhaul and the fish and vegetable markets are crying for completion. The big nullah which carries raw sewage and then empties itself into one of the creeks of the Mapusa river is a health disaster waiting to happen. Our CM and Dy CM (also the Urban Affair Minister) pass through Mapusa every day. With there be a bonanza for Mapusa in terms of real development and beautification? Last time round when Parrikar was the CM he had said that he would clean up Mapusa since he had finished with Panjim and that Mapusa was neglected. Unfortunately, the reins of Government were snatched from his hands. So will Parrikar and Francis rise to the occasion and revive the lost glory of Mapusa? -- ** Tony de Sa tonydesa at gmail dot com ** --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] Mapusa and the new dispensation
To Goanet - Tony de Sa: Mapusa is in the limelight, it being the residential town of both CM M. Parrikar and Dy CM Francis C J D'Souza. Unfortunately, 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. Parking is chaotic, the roads are narrow, the pavements are encroached, there is tons of garbage, real stinky garbage strewn all around. Pan splatters stain the external walls. Public amenities - toilet facilities, parks, gardens, etc are prominent by their absence. The Ravindra Bhavan which was supposed to come up was delayed because of the customary 20 percent baksheesh to the Minister for PWD (+ 2 p.c. for his agent) was not coughed up. The bus stand is in a mess and stinks more like an open sewer. The Market requires a total overhaul and the fish and vegetable markets are crying for completion. The big nullah which carries raw sewage and then empties itself into one of the creeks of the Mapusa river is a health disaster waiting to happen. Our CM and Dy CM (also the Urban Affair Minister) pass through Mapusa every day. With there be a bonanza for Mapusa in terms of real development and beautification? Last time round when Parrikar was the CM he had said that he would clean up Mapusa since he had finished with Panjim and that Mapusa was neglected. Unfortunately, the reins of Government were snatched from his hands. So will Parrikar and Francis rise to the occasion and revive the lost glory of Mapusa? It is not just Mapusa. The whole of Goa has decayed into a ghati town. I suggest you go meet both the CM and the Dy CM and renew your appeal verbally and through a written list. I, too, have put forth my charter of action items for Panjim (as well as Goa). Give them some time (100-150 days, say). We'll see if some of those items are addressed by then. That'll give us an indication whether the new administration means business (or not). r --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
Re: [Goanet] Mapusa and the new dispensation
When Manohar Parrikar took over the last time, I, in all sincerity had emailed him the following: Manohar-bab, you are the son of Mapusa. Don't only polish your contituency of Panjim. Also give a casual glance to your home town. Three things: 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. I got a reply: Florian-bab, you can expect vast changes in Mapusa before Christmas. My email was somewhere in September. The response was prompt. Therefore I waited until past Christmas to send him this email: Manohar-bab, With reference to your above email in response to mine, pray which Christmas did you mean??? All correspondence stop at that. This is for your kind information only. Cheers floriano goasuraj 9890470896 - Original Message - From: Rajan P. Parrikar parri...@yahoo.com To: goa...@goanet.org Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 5:44 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Mapusa and the new dispensation To Goanet - Tony de Sa: Mapusa is in the limelight, it being the residential town of both CM M. Parrikar and Dy CM Francis C J D'Souza. Unfortunately, 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. Parking is chaotic, the roads are narrow, the pavements are encroached, there is tons of garbage, real stinky garbage strewn all around. Pan splatters stain the external walls. Public amenities - toilet facilities, parks, gardens, etc are prominent by their absence. The Ravindra Bhavan which was supposed to come up was delayed because of the customary 20 percent baksheesh to the Minister for PWD (+ 2 p.c. for his agent) was not coughed up. The bus stand is in a mess and stinks more like an open sewer. The Market requires a total overhaul and the fish and vegetable markets are crying for completion. The big nullah which carries raw sewage and then empties itself into one of the creeks of the Mapusa river is a health disaster waiting to happen. Our CM and Dy CM (also the Urban Affair Minister) pass through Mapusa every day. With there be a bonanza for Mapusa in terms of real development and beautification? Last time round when Parrikar was the CM he had said that he would clean up Mapusa since he had finished with Panjim and that Mapusa was neglected. Unfortunately, the reins of Government were snatched from his hands. So will Parrikar and Francis rise to the occasion and revive the lost glory of Mapusa? It is not just Mapusa. The whole of Goa has decayed into a ghati town. I suggest you go meet both the CM and the Dy CM and renew your appeal verbally and through a written list. I, too, have put forth my charter of action items for Panjim (as well as Goa). Give them some time (100-150 days, say). We'll see if some of those items are addressed by then. That'll give us an indication whether the new administration means business (or not). r --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php --- --- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---
