Dear me! It was better than pulp fiction ... and in whole lot worse English language usage than Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code" !
Oh, yes! I am referring to the former Editor of GT-turned- PR agent of a family with intersets in hospitality, industry, mining .... and undermining NGO-CSO-CBO activity that is adverse to the Mango Man Sorkar. I am speaking of Sujay Gupta, who lives in what was earlier El Gazelle, behind the Directorate of Health Services at Campal, just across the road from the house of the GBA Secretary and not too far away from that of the immediate past GBA Secretary, whose presentation to the GBA finds reference in Sujay's article and space in "OPinionatED" ....by sheer coincidence! ;-) Another coincidence was Sujay Gupta's own OPinionatED [in every sense of the word] piece on 08 August got published again on 11 August, 2008 [yesterday] "NGOs: Where do you get your money from?" He hits out at Architect Gerard D' Cunha and cartoonist Mario Miranda, [without names as cowards are wont to do] in the Reis Magos Fort restoration and adaptive re-use with the Directorate of Archives & Archeology, incidentally a Babush Monserrate Dept now. Forgotten is Sujay's undisputed documentary evidence that the TRIMURTHI Mining Services, Aquem-Margao, had paid Rs.11.80 lakhs to the Varchavadda Kala ani Sanskruthi Kruthi Sangh, Advalpal, that is campaining against mining in that village. How could you forget that Sujay-da? In any case, Venita Coelho from Moira [of "Jaasi Jaisi Koyee Nahin?" fame, besides other creative productions] read the article and laughed out so loud that neighbours asked what was funny! ;-) I had a good laugh too. Rajan Narayan has quite a few followers in the GBA peripherals and GT newsdesk for his "Internutters" and "Internet Tigers" ... who are merilly at the internet like I am now ... this ex-Editor seems to have lunged headlong in this etheral world of make-believe. That is what PR [other alphabets as per your choice to complete the word/s] is all about, isn't it?? If I remember right, Oscar resigned because the GBA Core Group could not arrive at a consensus in supporting one of the four or more alternate PARTICIPATORY PLANNING processes that were presented to the GBA from 13 October, 2007 to 28 July, 2008. That the GBA has not been even formally asked tomake such a proposal to the Task Force is another issue. That the Task Force has not bothered to reply to GBA's letter dated 26 May, 2008 is a different matter. There is no dispute on the fact that the Task Force has not even issued the BIKINI Minutes [revealing everything except the essentials!] since 01 April, 2008. The bikini minutes of the Task Force meetings till end March were issued along with the Interim Report [Soter D'Souza's half hour presentation has been reduced to three lines ...that say nothing about Article 243 ZD or the 73rd and 74th Amendments of 1992, that was the main thrust of the presentation and a CD of which was presented along with a hard copy to the Task Force. I know because I was there to make the next presentation on behlf of the Botanical Society of Goa ...and received half page attention in the Appendix to the Interim Report!]. So from where does the allegation that Oscar was "forced out" come into Sujay's head? Oscar, to the best of my knowledge, has NEVER made such an allegation. He may have abused us and called us names ... apologised for that like a gentleman, too... but I do not remember him telling such a lie. Why is Sujay lying? Who is paying for him to lie so prone and prostrate? In the meanwhile there is a ridiculous claim in one newspaper today that ALL the Taluka Coordinator of GBA. I WISH THE NEWSPAPER HAD CROSS CHECKED WITH SOMEONE else IN THE GBA, if it did not trust me [I am just a weekly columnist/calumnist in that newspaper]. Why simply allege that Sabina Martins chaired a meeting when NO meeting of the GBA took place. Only Dilip Prabhudesai,Serafino Cotta [both Salcete taluka], Mohandas Lolayemkar [Canacona] and Pradeep Kakodkar [Sanguem?] were present for the presentation by Ritu Prasad and Pravin Sabnis on TCP [Amendment] Act, 2008 and discussion on it. Even Nityanand Naik and Francis Fernandes [Ponda], Minguelinho Mascarenhas and others who attended the meeting on 09 June, 2008 at BPS Club , when four models of Participatory Planning were presented, were NOT to be seen. Perhaps, the sudden switching off of the lights aka power failure during the commotion reported in the newspaper [with yours sincerely as the target that had persons milling around him like the NSG around the Prime Minister or Goa Police around our local stalwarts] dimmed my view of the Konkani Basha Mandal [the venue, not the organisation led by Prashant Naik, General Secretary of the UGDP, who had to leave the GBA because of its APOLITICAL nature. This is apparently not a probelem with the KBM or with the YUVA de GOA in January, 2007 at Lohia Maidan, Margao, as it allegedly was on 29 December, 2007, when a group of them brought a laptop to explain to me why Prashant Naik was NOT their member.] Prashant is NOT a member the GBA Core Group to raise organisational issues. GBA is not KBM. Mog asundi Miguel Braganza Pro-Goa Goan Internet Tiger aka Internutter Viva Goa. Jai Hind. -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
