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Dotor Willy is getting Old and Frayed?? Any one would take a second good look at me if I were to say the above. The question that would be silently raging in the listener's mind is "How dare you" And, for sure, this would be justified. Nay, more than justified. For, Dr. Wilfred D'Souza has not only been an accomplished medical surgeon but he has been considered as the one and only Goa's 'Political Guru' - a 'SCIENTIST' really, capable of landing the Nobel prize. And many a times, when some of my close friends who are close to the good Doctor politically or otherwise, tell me that I don't understand his brains, I have gone on record to tell them that the only mistake that the great scientist is making is that he writes his formulae, mostly political in nature, on very small pieces of paper. In the bargain, half the formulae having remained on the writing desks, he has not been able to sit on the coveted chair of the Chief Minister for long. But that is altogether another point which is irrelevant to the topic I decided to write on. Since a few days ago, I was bugged with the news of our government wanting to paint the Saligao Church at the tax-payer's cost. And this decision of the Manohar Parrikar government was considered as a decision to belittle our good old Saligao fox. Knowing the Doctor well, along with many prominent Saligaokars, who have pride more than egos, I was expecting a strong rebuff, a ridicule, to come forth from them to belittle Manohar Parrikar for once and cut him short on this one. Not being able to digest absolute silence on the topic from our good Saligao friends, I decided to call up the good Doctor himself to find out if there was a catch 22 in all this acute silence. The conversation on the phone went on like this: 17.11.04 21.15 hours Ring Ring. Doc- Hal'lo Flo- Good evening Dotor, kosso assai tum? (how are you?). Florian speaking. Doc- Yes Florian, I am fine. Sang, kitem zalam? ( tell me, what is the problem?) Flo- Dotor, the reason I called you is that I expected you Saligaokars to refuse to allow Manohar Parrikar to paint (white wash) your Church. I am worried that nothing is forthcoming from you Saligaokars. Doc- Why should we refuse? You must understand what this is all about. Let me explain. You see, the government has illuminated the Saligao Church and it is plastering its photos in the tourism brochures world-wide. Even the Russians are asking to see the Church. So why should the government not paint it? Flo- If you like to argue that way, let me ask you a question. Why should a Moidekar pay to paint your Saligao Church? Doc- If that is your complaint, then ask the government to paint your church too. Flo- Dotor, if that is your argument, then all you Saligaokars have your houses painted by the government too, why only the Church? We Moidekars sacked the parish priest who wanted to build the extension to our Cemetery through MPLAD (MP's funds) and have built the same at the cost of Rs. 25 lacs from our own community subscriptions. I still say that you Saligaokars should refuse to have your church painted by the government. Doc- You shut up. Shut up. Errrrrrrr. . (the phone goes dead) End of a lively conversation. PS. I always had the nagging feeling that this scientist was colluding with Manohar Parrikar to play his own games. He had colluded with him to sit on the gaddhi once. I had called him a Judas and more when he had taken the Deputy Chairmanship of the Planning Commission. He had even justified that move by showing me the letter written to him by Manohar Parrikar and his reply to the letter. And I had drilled holes in both those letters in the presence of Alexio Sequeira in Doctor's living room in Saligao. The good Doctor sacrificed this very post during the parliamentary elections, trying to score a point on us gullible goans, to say that he is against Manohar Parrikar.He made sure he got the North Goa seat somehow. He lost to the BJP by 50,000 votes plus. By doing this, did he not help Manohar Parrikar retai n his hold on Goa? The good doctor said a lot of things during Poinguinim bye elections. But Isidore Fernandes (BJP) wins by 2500 + votes. How do you like that? My above conversation has touched a sore point in the good old doctor. He has been exposed. If he didn't ask me to shut up, I don't know what else he could have said. And I for one am a true Moidekar. I shall never call back to say "Dotor, I am sorry, if I have ruffled your feathers" On the contrary, I shall let him live with those stern words. And I am sure, that he will be hearing the echos of those words, come morning, come afternoon and come evening, whenever he hears the sound of the phone ringing. Dotor, sad to say, but it took a Moidekar to make you lose your balance. Go on Dotor, do you remember a similar telephone conversation when I had told you that Moidekars will never be your whores? To sleep one day with Narvekar's, and the other day with Rane or whoever? How true I was then, even before Goa Su-Raj was registered. Today, you have been caught sleeping on Manohar Parrikar's bed, Doctor. And do you know what word I sent back to you when you had sent a word to me through a mutual friend that I could use Rajiv Congress Party instead of going to the trouble of registering Goa Su-Raj Party? That it was so very difficult to register political parties? And if the mutual friend never got around to telling you what I asked him to tell you, then hear it now. "Tell Dotor to heat up the frying pan. Fry the Rajiv Congress Party on the one side. Then turn it the other side. When it is well done, have it for breakfast. So long doctor. Au revoir. Floriano Lobo A real Moidekar. Unlike the Saligaokars.