By Aires Rodrigues

This is how Mr. Kurupati Dwarkanath Row, the new Chairman of Goa Public Service Commission is related to Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar. Kurupati Dwarkanath Row’s wife was a Dharwadkar (before marriage to him). Her brother Girish is the co-brother (saddu) of Chief Minister’s brother Avdhoot Parrikar. Avdhoot Parrikar’s wife and Girish Dharwadkar’s wife are sisters of the Caro family. Their third sister is married to Dr Vinay Prabhu Desai, whose daughter is engaged to Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s younger son Abhijaat Manohar Parrikar.

This could be the only reason the entire selection process of Kurupati Dwarkanath Row to the very high constitutional post of Chairman of Goa Public Service Commission took less than 8 hours.

A note was moved by the Personnel department at the Secretariat on 27th February this year that Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had recommended and suggested the name of Kurapati Dwarakanath Row for the post of Chairman of Goa Public Service Commission. The note was approved by the Under Secretary, Additional Secretary, Chief Secretary and the Chief Minister on the same day. The proposal was also approved by the Cabinet meeting held on that very same day. The Supreme Court will now take a call on whether Row’s appointment was in accordance with law.

I have nothing against Kurupati Dwarkanath Row. Infact I remember with nostalgic memories in the late 70’s buying chunky beef from Kurupati Dwarkanath Row’s mother who then ran a thriving beef shop (BEEF STEAK) adjacent to the Main post office in Panaji. The quality of beef was remarkable. In those days there was no Goa Meat Complex. And Dr. Manohar Parrikar was also not around to advise us on health grounds not to eat beef. That his hidden anti- beef agenda as advisor of Govansh Raksha Abhiyan (GRA), has now been exposed is another issue.

By Nisser Dias

Step-motherly treatment to health care in Goa

Decades back the basic needs of a human being was ‘roti, kapda aur makhan’, today with the evolution of time and modernity two more basic needs have been added to that list. And that is education and health care. Many a countries in the world including India has made these two requirements of modern day life freely available to its citizens, sadly in India it largely remains as desire of the people. To some extent the Centre through the state governments have reached out to students to attract them to attend school to eradicate illiteracy, healthcare has suffered badly because of the apathy of the political class of people who seem to be more interested in letting private players in the health sector to flourish.

It will require reams and reams of papers if we try to compile medical negligence in government hospitals and neglect of government hospitals all over the country. So at the moment let me concentrate or rather focus on the neglect of government hospitals in our own state. A state that is said to be forward looking with a different outlook compared to the rest of the country, advanced state in contrast to other states. A world famous tourist destination and yet successive governments have not been able to establish a robust government healthcare system where its people can get quality medical treatment for free.

Of course in 2002 during the first tenure of Manohar Parrikar as chief minister a survey was conducted by a reputed national new magazine and Goa did stand among the first five in healthcare. But the parameters then were based on the number of primary health centres, sub centres and government hospitals. So also it was based on the number of people visiting these hospitals. But the mystery still remains whether the journalists conducted survey by actually visiting these centres (health) and observing its functioning or whether the information sought by them was provided by the government officials in their hotel rooms?

Nonetheless Goa was projected in the top five in health-care in the country but we all know the ground realities are quite different. A visit at any health centre or sub-centre or hospital including government Goa Medical College (GMC) will indicate that the authorities are not bothered about the hygiene and upkeep of the centres and hospitals.

Recently the false ceiling of the Out Going Patient (OPD) at GMC had collapsed due to leakage of rainwater. Fire had also erupted in the complex, there are many more examples to show that successive Health minister lack the will and the zeal to bring about revolutionary change in the public health care.

Hospicio is yet another story of neglect and disregard. It has become a sort of a tradition that upon taking oath the newly ordained minister visits this hospital based in the commercial city of Margao and is a nodal hospital for south Goa. But successive governments have conveniently ignored to cater to its requirements. The word hygiene had taken leave of absence in this hospital years ago. The staff including the doctors posted at this hospital must be using the word sanitisation only while advising the patients because I do not think the hospital was ever sanitized. Of course I do not blame the doctors and the staff because it is the duty of the government to provide the equipment and chemicals to do it. It is our bad omen that the successive governments have even failed to provide adequate beds and bedsheets due which patients have to share a bed and that too without a bed cover and bed sheet. Family members or relatives have to be content sleeping on the floor.

The morgue at Hospicio is yet another issue. Over the decades the capacity of the morgue has not been increased and there have times when even two corpses were accommodated in once space. Infact some years back reacting to my news item on the mortuary I was invited to visit the morgue. The contention of the in-charge was that it was maintained and the dead persons were given the due respect. To his bad luck a dead body was kept on the floor outside the cold storage and he had to apologize to me. Subsequently chief medical officer posted at Hospicio decided to build another morgue at Leprosy hospital inspite of resistance from the morgue incharge. Couple of years later it was closed down because of inconvenience. Lakhs and lakhs of rupees down the drain.

The leprosy hospital in Margao at the Monte hill is another case neglect. Yes, we have the infrastructure in place in terms of buildings, plenty of space around it and qualified staff but to my utter dismay the government does not have the resolve and determination to maintain it and run it smoothly like private hospitals.

Similar treatment is also being dished out to hospitals in the pipeline. Digambar Kamat government has poured in crores of rupees in the new district hospital project on the outskirts of Margao. Today all the works on the promising project has come to a standstill as the current government is not making the funds available for its completion. Initially Health minister Laxmikant Parsekar made tall promises of completing the project so that it would be a big asset to the state and a facility to the people of south Goa. One and half year down the line the project stands abutting the national highway as a ghostly, ugly structure.

The government showed great interest completing the imposing South Goa Collectorate even after cribbing that its maintenance would be a financial burden on the government treasury year after year. But similar enthusiasm is lacking in this case. The question is why. If the government does have the finance due various factors like stopping of mining, servicing of various populist schemes then why does the chief minister keeps on promising financial assistance at every public function he attends. The idea should have been to complete public amenities already underway and then take up new ones. But it has become our government’s agenda to give step-motherly treatment to most of the public amenities including health care.

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By Aires Rodrigues

Every paisa of the tax payer has to be judiciously and thoughtfully spent, more so when the State is currently going through difficult financial times. It is therefore outrageous and despicable that despite the coffers of the Corporation of City of Panaji (CCP) being empty, Mayor Surendra Furtado has had the audacity to seek for himself a new Toyota Innova at a whopping cost of Rs 14, 20,643. The reason cited for opting for a plush new car is that on health grounds the Mayor has been medically advised not to travel in his current official car, a Volkswagon Vento Sedan which is just two years old.

What a cruel joke on the people of Panaji. If the Mayor is not well, then what he needs is walking around for exercise and talking less for rest. As the Mayor has to move around only in Panaji, a Nano would suffice in troubled economic times being faced by the CCP. Worse come to worst buy an ambulance. The CCP has a hearse already.

Surendra Furtado had promised a Parivartan in Panaji. He is three months in office and has been unable to even clean up the filth at the Panaji market..

And let us hope that the four garbage trucks donated this week to the CCP by some of the city builders is not laying of the stage to facilitate the further concretization of Panaji..

Yet one more Konkani VCD “Simran” is on sale in Kuwait city now and as usual it is sold very cheaply. It is Nevile Pereira’s third presentation in which some of the top Konkani Stage artistes namely Annie Quadros, Diana, Cyriaco Dias, Comedians Mathew and Supremo Humbert, Anil Pednekar, Sheikh Amir and Sucurro de St Cruz participate.

In the cover page the names and identifications are not given and because of this it becomes difficult to identify the names of all the participants.

Evergreen and seasoned artiste Annie Quadros plays a stellar role in this film while new comedian Mathew gives an added colour to this film. Comedian Humbert plays his role well. Anil Pednekar with his youthful and handsome looks plays his role very well along with his female partner. After a very long gap veteran actor Cyriaco Dias is seen in this film playing a very good role of which type present generation artistes cannot play and will never be able to do.

Videography is excellent. Lot of priests are seen acting in this film.

The theme of the film is Anti Abortion in deference to the Church Doctrine.

It is worth watching this Film available in Kuwait city.

A well written story and well directed film by producer Nevile Pereira.

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Kuwait.

By Aires Rodrigues.

Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has finally publicly confessed that he had indeed gone to ‘Walking Street’ in Pattaya. My source in the Secretariat has revealed that Manohar Parrikar told a delegation of the RTI forum yesterday that he did not go there for sex but did only enjoy two Thai massages.

The four member RTI forum delegation that called on the Chief Minister at the Secretariat yesterday afternoon comprised of Dr Dattaram Desai, Ganpat Kuttikar, Devidas Amonkar and Srikant Barve.

Manohar Parrikar also told the delegation that he did not have to go so far for sex. What the Chief Minister meant only he would know. Does he want us to imply that he has many Monica Lewinsky’s at hand?

One’s private life should be nobody’s concern. But once you are a Public servant, your public as well as private life is liable to be under the public scanner.Travels to dubious and infamous destinations, cannot be masked as a 'yatra' for enlightenment.

The Chief Minister further told the delegation that his visit to Pattaya was as he had promised to take seven others on the trip. Hope Manohar Parrikar has shown the expenses of this fun making jaunt on his tax returns. If it was sponsored by the Casino or mining lobby, it would be interesting to know the name of the sponsor and also the names of the six others besides Atmaram Nadkarni who were part of this high powered adventure.

I am told that the Chief Minister yesterday spent over 20 mins of the half an hour meeting with the RTI delegation taking pot shots at me. May be the Chief Minister lost track that the meeting was to discuss about the appointment of the Chief Information Commissioner and State Information Commissioner. What a waste of time by the Honourable Chief Minister.

Mr. Chief Minister, for the last over four decades I have had to face the bashing and brick-bats of Goa’s every Chief Minister. You are just one of them and your successor may also be no different. All this only strengthens my resolve to continue my mission against corruption, nepotism and mal administration till my very last. "Satyameva Jayate".

Among the expatriate Goans, Kuwait Goans are known to be more noise making Goans of their power and position in Kuwait because overwhelming majority of them are of hoi-polloi family category. In Kuwait there are innumerable Goan associations and clubs manned by their presidents and other office bearers. Many of them are known to make a big show of them as if they are leading personalities in the world even though no expatriate associations are recognised by the local government. Our associations are our own dominions known to us only. Local authorities are least interested in our associations and our activities. Our associations and our activities are unknown to them.

During my last so many years of residence in Kuwait I saw so many presidents and other office bearers who were acting as if they were powerful Goans. Watching from their style of behaving, talking and acting many times I got an impression that they were Devine creatures come from Heaven to represent Divinity. But in reality within myself internally I laughed at them as if they were big jokers and in fact they were big jokers. For them their world was only around their own circles, clubs and associations. Job wise they may be good in their trade and professions but as human beings they were idiots of first grade. They din’t integrate with intellectually high calibre society because intellectually they were bankrupt, they din’t act big for the cause of Goa and Goans because they din’t have big brain power, they were afraid of smart people because they were not smart since they were suffering from ancestral inferiority complex. Many of them got girls to marry only because they were working in Kuwait.

All the so called top Kuwait Goans who were dominating Goan scenes in Kuwait and acting as Lords in Kuwait and now living retired life in Goa are living as unknown entities. Nobody knows of their presence in Goa as it was in Kuwait. They are visible only in the Churches attending the Church services regularly in their own localities. The way they were active in Kuwait it looked they would dominate not only their village level activities but also at Goa level as well. But NO! They are all lost in Goa making people like us to ask “WHERE ARE THEY NOW IN GOA?” Why they are living like unknown Cockroaches inspite of having vast experience in doing activities in Kuwait backed by their financial resources?

Where are all the presidents and other office bearers of Kuwait Goan associations gone now? Where they are hiding now from public life? Where are all the Goan Managers gone now especially those who were harassing Goan staff working under them? Are they hiding somewhere under the Petticoats of their wives for fear of reprisal for the sins they did against Goans in Kuwait during their hey days of power, position and money? Can they play the same arrogance and same ”Dadagiri” in Goa as they used to play in Kuwait? No, never, for this reason they are hiding from public galore and they will remain there thus till they die.

To do public activities in Kuwait in your community is easy because in your community especially in Goan community the leaders are like one eyed men among all his blind followers. These Goan leaders can handle only the cheap activities where you can get lot of cheap prominence. You can see such people on the surface in foot-ball circle, Church circle and Dance circle. Some of the cheap Goan leaders you will find in these circles only doing cheap activities. In current Goa such Kuwaitkars have no place to survive.

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Kuwait.

A thousand “Porbim” Bab Veronica for you for writing such a bold and correctly worded article “Where are they now in Goa?”, in goa-kranti dated 24.07.13. Before I never saw you writing such a wonderful article on such an important subject. During my last so many years of stay in Kuwait I saw our Kuwaitkars what they can do, they are only after cheap publicity with their names mentioned as Presidents, Gen. Secs. and so on. And those who give such cheap people cheap publicity are also become cheap. Veronic Bab, there is no journalist in Kuwait like you who can analyse the situation rightly and write correctly.

None of the Goan presidents and other office bearers of Kuwait Goan Associations are capable to motivate and unite people for the Goan cause either in Kuwait or in Goa except you Veronic Bab. If it was not for your intelligence and drive Konkani movement would not have come into existence in Kuwait and in Goa paving the way for the grand finale for the recognition of Konkani.

If it was not for your initiative Goa-Kuwait Solidarity Centre movement would never come into being. How greatly beneficial this movement proved to be for Kuwait Goans?

Besides you have immensely promoted the causes of Hotel Goan Heritage at Calangute, Direct Flight Movement, Konkani Martyrs Fund movement, Novem Goem Movement, Sour ground Kuwait football movement, Release of Kuwait’s POW’s movement and so many other movements.

While doing these movements there were so many so called Goan stalwarts including 4 Millionaires but all remained dormant putting onus on you Veronic Bab to give the lead for all these movements for the cause of Goa. And as a matter of fact if these movements had been initiated by any other Goan, I am sure none would support because besides you Veronic Bab people would not trust any other Goan such as Alex Wilson Coelho who robbed Kuwait Goan Evacuees Fund and demanded sex for job.

There is no Goan in Kuwait who can match with your knowledge, wisdom, drive and leadership. This is the hard fact one has to accept whether one likes it or not. But facts are facts. Your plus point Veronic Bab is your perfect character of which type none of the well-known Goans among Kuwaitkars display.

There are so many prominent ex-Kuwaitkars rotting in Goa but none among them show any interest in Goan causes in Goa Where is A.B. Fernandes gone and why he is hiding from public view? When in Kuwait as GM of Bahar he was shaking Kuwait but now become a cockroach. What Alexandre Fernades ex president of Colva Kuwait doing now in Goa? Hiding under the petticoat of his wife? In Kuwait he was making a big show but now in Colva sleeping. Where is Alex Wilson Coelho now? In Kuwait he was acting like Sarpanch but now no news. May be thinking on new strategy to rob Goan Welfare Society’s funds as he did earlier of Kuwait Goan Evacuees Society fund.

IDENTITY WITHELD ON REQUEST.

Do all the expatriates make good money by working in Kuwait? The answer is a big NO.All expatriates are earning money is a sure fact but not all are earning to live a reasonably good life. Then how all of them send reasonable remittances to their home countries to have a reasonable saving and reasonable standard of living for their dependents back at their home countries?

As a matter of fact basically Kuwait is a place meant for the poor and economically low level expatriates who by making maximum of sacrifices save their money to their maximum by spending minimum only for their bare necessities. By doing such sacrifices they build their empires back at home to give a decent life for their dependents. The little empires that they build in their countries are big for their standard but surely not as per the Kuwait standard.

Overwhelming majority of expatriates working in Kuwait are single ones whom we call here as bachelors. According to the local standard their average salary is very low to live a decent life. For this reason they make maximum of sacrifices to survive and save some amount to send back at home. They stay as pay in guests in small rooms with 3 to 4 other persons where there is no freedom even to cough though it is good for maintaining good health. When you stay like this you have to sacrifice your privacy but pay less and save little more which is abundant for the poor expatriates coming from economically low standard level.

Besides to save something little more he has to spend less on comfortable traveling, delicious eating, decent dressing and other amenities and requirements for leading a normal life. Hence, by undergoing enormous sacrifices, an expatriate can survive here and save something. However the results of these tremendous sacrifices create very bad effect on their health at the later stage especially at the old age stage.

I know a maid some years back on every Sunday from Fahaheel walking to Ahmadi Church for the weekly Mass covering one hour distance on foot thereby saving half a Dinar her Madame was giving her for transport. Thus she was saving 2 Kuwaiti Dinars a month to send to her home. For her standard these 2 KD were very big amount for her requirement when converted into Indian Rupees. With her very mediocre monthly salary plus the weekly and monthly tips she was getting, she got her two children educated up to graduation with a semi luxurious life and constructed a small but decent house. By seeing these, her neighbours said she was earning a lot in Kuwait but actually she was not earning a lot but sacrificing a lot which she invested in her children education and her house construction.

The result of her precious sacrifices was such that finally she expired in Kuwait only due to Pneumonia and was buried here in Kuwait only denying her children a last opportunity to cast their glance on their dearest mother. Otherwise Maids and other domestics in Kuwait are worked more and paid less but their sacrifices are tremendous.

Many times when the situation goes out of their hands, many single expatriate ladies to protect their jobs safely and residence permits provided by the locals even has to make sacrifices of their bodies. This is the worst sacrifice females many times have to undergo against their will. It is not only a sacrifice but it is also a torture.

In Kuwait very few expatriates are drawing 4 figure salaries and to earn the so low salaries they have to make so great sacrifices. The greatest sacrifice they make in Kuwait is the sacrifice of acceptance of humiliation and discrimination they face almost at every level against their wishes and if they are from the third world countries having non-white skin, then they are not treated as full-fledged human beings. In the eyes of law you are treated here as equal with others but in reality and practically it is not.

The low treatment some nationalities are getting here is so bad that it looks apartheid still exists not in Rhodesia or South Africa but below our own eyes. Because of this discriminatory treatment one feels he is a sub-human being and if he has to survive he has to accept this type of treatment. To accept such a treatment one has to perform a great sacrifice and many expatriates like dumb Goats are undergoing such a sacrifice for the benefit of their survival in this part of the world. To treat people like this is against the commandment of God. But some expatriates working here had to bear this lowliness only to earn a mediocre remuneration thereby undergoing the greatest sacrifices.

To run the economy of this country and to develop it, expatriates are doing lot of sacrifices. These sacrifices are of their sweat and blood. Hence, they should be treated with respect and dignity befitting their human nature. Even if they are wrong they should be treated humanely as human beings and as children of the same God.

When Kuwait was invaded on 2^nd August 1990 many of these expatriates opposed this invasion by organising protest meetings and rallies in their countries and also by praying to God to help liberate Kuwait. This kind and generous gesture of expatriates cannot be ignored and cannot be forgotten. This was not a paid gesture but spontaneous one for the love of Kuwait and to get justice for Kuwait.

A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.

Stop! please if you have no knowledge, don't do it. learn a little bit of cinema no need to be a pro. please do not mock whatever is remaining. it's become a fashion to make a film and see 'makers' name on it and count themselves as film makers.

i'll tell you the plot.

there are main actors who basically speak north goan and there are few jerks who are south goans. this cannot be reverted as its become a trademark from the ages of dramas. our makers are not creative enough to come up with new ideas.

lets talk about the latest CD films.

there is jannet, selvy, agustin, selly, anita, all these so called comedians are having a south goan tongue. i hardly saw them playing a bardez character. they don't have it in them? or our directors are outdated? to get it out from them? viseversa the bardez actors never speak sasti. whats going on?? than there are some songs pushed in between where it looks like they are been shot live.

well, there is a difference between audio and video shoot. video is not only to show the face of the singer and some backgrounds, you can do lot more with it. just because we are buying, you are not suppose to make anything.

it's high time to be creative. you don't do what C D'siva did or what M Boyer did. come up with your ideas. watch movies. different language movies. learn the technique. Konkani is not dead yet but your effort of killing it is appreciable. this one from telaulim, that one from tivim, that one from savordem.. ain't we all goan? so keep your village to yourself.

lets come to the song's. you copy desi tunes, old konkani tunes, hollywood tunes, and dump some stinky music in it. can you do anything of your own? if you are a good composer that doesn't mean you gotta sing your own song. that's not your job if you don't have it in you. there are brilliant singers let them do it for you. keep your nose for yourself.
now you say i have big mouth and you want me to do it if i can. who are you to tell me that?? i buy your shit so don't talk to me like that. improve your work and impress me. there is no censor board for KONKANI Cd films? any body can come out with any thing? as well upload it on you tube rather than selling your trial and error basis work. than you say the budget is not there. with less than what you spend, you can do a class job.

this cheap films make my mind sour to buy the movies from top makers too.

message: please do not spoil whatever is left. let's try and build it.

Reproduced from a post by: Jack Thechla Rodrigues

By Aires Rodrigues

Today Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar stands totally exposed on his so called hoax mantra of Special Status for Goa by having gone out of the way to usher in another migrant Leena Mehandale as the Chief Information Commissioner of Goa. Her selection was a foregone conclusion and that mere formality by the Selection committee today was a sheer farce.

Our friend Late Matanhy Saldanha must be rolling in his grave seeing that his once trusted friend is going back on what he had promised him and had even vowed over his grave to protect Goa for Goans.

It is now apparent that Manohar Parrikar has lost is all. His so called love for Goa and all his tall promises now stand vanquished.

All he now cares is his Almighty Chair. But how long will all that last you, Mr. Chief Minister??

Second of August will be remembered in the history as the most brutal day since on this date in 1990 worst incident took place, that was, Kuwait was invaded by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Invasion is always bad and Kuwait’s invasion was not an exception.

My beloved Goa was also invaded by the Indian Government of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on 19^th December 1961 without our consent inflicting heavy damages on Goa and since then Goa is suffering from innumerable ills making genuine Goans as strangers in their own land. Goa's invasion was welcomed in Goa by the robbers, cheats, criminals and other such Goans of ill repute with big celebrations on the streets by welcoming invading army while those opponents of good repute remained silent, they should have at least come out on to the streets with Black Flags thereby openly opposing Indian intervention in Goa as if Goa was Nehru's father's property. At that time I was very young boy otherwise I would do that.

Every invasion keeps the invaded country and its people under its bondage, so Kuwait too and its people were kept totally under Iraq’s bondage. The entire country came to an abrupt halt and we as expatriates were terrified, trembling with fear knowing not what will happen to us. We as expatriates came to Kuwait to earn our livelihood but in the bargain we became victims of this brutal invasion for no fault of ours.

No doubt we were as we are now working very hard in Kuwait under very harsh circumstances because of our financial stringency. When we work very hard in this country then only we get our daily bread, Heavenly Manna are not falling for us to feed our bellies.

India is a rich country but unfortunately inhabited by poor people and ruled by the most corrupt rulers available on this planet. The major portion of India’s wealth is cornered by the corrupt politicians and their families thereby denying to major portion of Indians their share of wealth. India has vast wealth but its distribution is not done properly for this reason inequality exists in India. The poor are becoming poorer while the rich are becoming richer because there is no proper system of economic governance in India. For this reason to acquire little more wealth Indians migrate to outside for greener pastures and in the bargain they suffer as they suffered in the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

We Goans started coming to Kuwait since 1950 and since then the flow of Goans into Kuwait continues though it is very much thinning now. When we come to Kuwait we come not because we are beggars in Goa but only to enhance our economic conditions.

When Iraq invaded Kuwait on 2^ndAugust in 1990 we were caught totally unaware and when I witnessed this invasion on that day early in the morning then and there I took a decision to fight against this invasion on ideological ground and on gratitude ground; ideological because my ideology told me what Iraq did was wrong and as such we must fight to right it and on gratitude ground because we have gratitude to this country for giving us an opportunity to earn our sustenance even though we don’t get excellent treatment in this country from many of the locals who are known to “judge the contents of the letter by looking at its envelope”.

I said to myself that I will not remain silent to this invasion as my elders remained in Goa when Goa was invaded by India in 1961. I vowed to show our Opposition to Iraq for illegally invading Kuwait and this was what I did in Goa in support of Kuwait against Iraq, of course with the support of our community members.

As unexpectedly to many in India, Kuwait and elsewhere, under my initiative and stewardship after our returning to Goa from invaded Kuwait, we Goans joined together and formed an organisation in Goa called GOA-KUWAIT SOLIDARITY CENTER” to raise our voice from Goa against this brutal invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. Because of this movement there was heavy pressure on the government of India in Delhi to change its stance in support of Kuwait’s liberation. Otherwise in the beginning Indian government was playing the game of hide and seek.

From Panjim Goa in front of the multitude of people and on behalf of them, I gave a threat to Indian government in Delhi that if Indian government does not support Kuwait’s liberation movement we from Goa in thousands will march to Delhi and ”gherao” the Parliament House forcing Indian government to openly support Kuwait and condemn Iraq for illegally invading Kuwait.

Saddam Hussein in Iraq was alerted of our movement in which we organised in Goa public meetings and public rallies which were covered even by the international media including CNN. Saddam Hussein was annoyed because he was expecting India would support him, so also some top Indian “Chamchas” of Iraq stationed in Delhi but our movement proved otherwise; Feelers started pouring in for me with inducement and also with threats to stop this movement. But I was defying as my inner circle colleagues.

Then on the eve of our first Public Rally followed by Public Meeting in Panjim - the capital city of Goa, which was attended even by the Kuwaitis, three young Arab possibly the emissaries of Saddam Hussein met me with a request to cancel the scheduled Rally and Meeting with a promise to me of a Signed Blank Cheque – the amount to be filled in by me. But again I was defying and refusing the offer, politely. Surprised as they were for my negative response, they turned back with a threat to my life, to my wife and to my two children who were young then.

By the grace of God till today no Satanic power succeeded in executing threats against me and my family. God is protecting us because I am doing nothing with ulterior motives and for selfish ends. Without expecting any personal gains in return, we went ahead in organising our movement with the help and participation of our supporters very successfully in support of Kuwait’s liberation.

Our movement was the movement of Kuwait’s expatriates who received no financial assistance from Kuwait to organise such a massive movement for the benefit of Kuwait. In this movement we Goans only spent our own money and I spent my own money without expecting anything from Kuwait because this was not my motto. If money was my motto, I would have been a Millionaire by accepting that Signed Blank Cheque.

I am an expatriate in Kuwait and as an expatriate I expect nothing extra from Kuwait expect good treatment as a Human being. As an expatriate I am not a beggar in Kuwait and I resent treating me as such. As an expatriate worker I am selling my services for a price. This is only a commercial transaction and NOT A BEGGARY NOR A SLAVERY.

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Kuwait.

Mornam amchim kallzam sodanch dukhoitat and jedna amcho ek bhau Tiatrist Luciano Dias 3 dis fattim somplo mhonn gomtoch majea kallzak khup dukh bhogli. Tachea mornan aniek palkacho khambo umttun poddlo.

Taka anvem poiloch palkar pollelo sumar 1959 vorsa amchea ghanvant "SOTH BHAVARTACHEM" hea Tiatran zacho boroinar ani director zaun also tacho vhoddlo bhau Shri Airestedes Dias. Tedna Luciano Dias ekdom torno also ani rupanui ekdom suropi distalo, tacho tallo ekdom ruchik ani to ghit ghaitana ruchin aikonk distalem. Palkar ghit ghaunk etana ou partin kam kortana tachem nhesop ekdom janot astalem. Mattvan aslolim tornattim cheddvam tacher apli mitti martoch astalim.

Uprant rokhddoch 1959 vorsa anvem taka C.Alvares hachea tiatran dheklo, tea tiatrachem naum zaun aslem "AXEA", hoi tiatro anvem amchea ghanvantuch pollelolo, C. Alvares tedna kherit aplo pongodd Bombaim thaun Goyam gheun ailolo. Hea tiatran Luciano Diasan ek ekdom sobit ani "romantic" duet ghailolem sobit sundori Bai Violet hachea sangtak. Tedna tanchem zoddem ekdom sundor distalem karann tim dogaim rupan ekdom sundor aslint dhekun. Tiatrachea Mattvan tedna khobro choltaleot ki Luciano Dias Bai Violeta laguim kazar zavpacho assa mhonn. Pun toxem ghoddlena tem.

Uprant Portugez Raj Goenchem somptoch anvem taka sabar tiatrani dheklo chodd korun tachea bhavachea Airestedes hachea. Te dogui bhau zaite pavtt duo ghaitalet ani he duo aikonk ekdom borem distalem. Luciano Dias hachim ghitam ghor-sonvsaravoir astalim toxench ghorabea voir ani chedde cheddvamche soirigoti voir. Tachem ek duet assam tachem naum ‘Koxebhair Kazar’ itlem sobit ki tem aikotana jiv sarko pisso zatalo ani dolleantlean dhukam passun bhair sortalim. Hem duet mog kornara voir aslem.

Tiatrist makam sodanch laguim ani aum tankaim laguim. Moje zaite ixtt zaun assat tiatrist chedde ani cheddvam, ostoreo ani dadle. Tankam mojo zaito kog ani makaim tancho khub mog ani moipas. Somplolo Rosary Ferns mozo ek boro ixtt ani to Kuwaitak astana tanne khup Tiaro boroilet and Kuwaitchea palkar dakoilet. Hea tachea vavran taka tachea vhoddlea bhavan mhonnchem Fidelis Fernandesan khup aplo sohokar dila, tech porim moje kuveti pormonne anvenui dila. Rosary Ferns hanga aple Show korpak Goyam ani Bombay than zaiteam tiatristank haddtalo apleam Showani nachpak. Ek pavtt sumar 10 -12 vorsam fattim Rosary Fernsan Luciano Dias hakai hanga haddlolo and to tedna 6 dis Kuwait also ani mojea ghoran to Kuwaitak ravtalo her soire tiatristam sangata.

Oxe porim amguer astana Luciano Dias hachi ani moji ixttagoth khup choddli, Aum hangasor ravon jem boroup kortalom tacher to khup chotrai ditalo ani unch dhorjeacheo khobro aikonk to aple Kan fuloun ravtalo. Soimban to khup lhanvikaeco aslo, kitt-kitt ani duspott taka mandounasli, apun itlea unch dhorjeacho tiatrist astana passun taka vhoddpon naslem. Amchea ghorant to ravlolo tedna to ekdom respedan astalo kiteak to zaun aslo ek respedacho munis ani apleak hench zai ani tench zai oxem kednach sango naslo, dita tem ghetalo ani sangta tem kortalo.

Tachea ghitani kitem tori unch guinean ghevpa sarkem astalem, tachim ghitam unch moralachim astalim. To Hindi Filmantleam ghitanchi copy marinaslo pun apli khud "originality" dakhotalo. Tachea rogtan Goykarponn aslem tem to apleam ghitani dakhoitalo ani oxem korun lokanchi kallzam jhikun ghetalo. Kuwaitak ailolo tedna Kuwaitcheam tiatro pollenarani taka bhorbur aplo eukar ani abru dilolo ani hem polloun to khup khuxeal zalolo.

Tachea mornan ek zago rito zala to konn tori dusro tiatrist bhorun khaddit gai? Makam dissona karann aiche pillgeche tiatrist kallche pillgechea tiatristank sor zata toxem kainch korinant. Kalche pillgeche tiarist tiatristponan ghuirest aslet pun aiche pillgeche nhoi.

Mojea navan ani her mojea Kuwaitche sangati hancheam navan aum Bab Luciano Dias hachea othmeank sorginchem raj magtam ani tache dhukest familik buzvonn.

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Kuwait.

Mr. Veronica, wonderful article on the late Tiatrist Luciano Dias. Your Konkani writing is as excellent as English. In Luciano article you showed hstory and lot of information of late Luciano Dias, on Tiatro history and the events during Portuguese time in Goa. I don't think any other Goan journalist can write like this and I dont think anybody got such a vast knowledge on Tiatros and elder Tiatrists as you have. For Goans you are a source of information.

Keep it up Mr. Veronica, as a Goan and a Tiatr lover, I am proud of you.

Let us all pray for the soul of late Luciano Dias. May his soul Rest In Peace.

A. M. Fernandes,

Margao, Goa.

Ratan Tata and The flat tyre‏

Forwarded by: Veronica Fernandes, Mumbai.

Too good message – very inspirational.

One of Mr. Ratan N. Tata's first assignments was the stewardship ofthe ailing electronics company in the Tata portfolio - Nelco.

Story goes that a team of senior managers from Nelco was driving to Nasikalong with RNT. Halfway into the journey, the car had a flat tyre, and as thedriver pulled up, the occupants - including Mr. Tata - got off for a comfort break, leaving the driver to replace the tyre.

Some of the managers welcomed the forced break, as it allowed them a much-neededchance to light up a cigarette. Some used the opportunity to stretch, and smile, andshare a joke. And then, one of them suddenly noticed that Mr. Tata was not to be seen,and wondered aloud where Ratan Tata might have vanished.

· Was he behind some bush?
· Had he wandered off inside the roadside dhaba for a quick cup of tea?
· Or was he mingling with some passer-bys, listening to their stories?

None of these, in fact while his colleagues were taking a break, Ratan Tata was busyhelping the driver change tyres. Sleeves rolled up, tie swatted away over the shoulder,the hands expertly working the jack and the spanner, bouncing the spare tyre to checkif the tyre pressure was ok. Droplets of sweat on the brow, and a smile on the face.

In that moment, the managers accompanying Ratan Tata got a master class inleadership they haven't forgotten.

And that's a moment that the driver of that car probably hasn't forgotten either.

Questions to ask:

When was the last time I rolled up my sleeves to do a task much below my hierarchy?
Do I wait for the big opportunity to showcase my leadership?
Is that big opportunity ever going to come?
Am I trying to manage upwards so much that I’ve lost the feel of the field?

Ideas for action:

· Humility is the essence of success. Be humble and even teach your children to be so.
· To reach the top and remain there, always start from the bottom, else your days at the top will not last long..
· Practice leadership in small things instead of waiting for the big crisis or a major product launch.
· Seek to find opportunities to lead in everyday moments.
· Build your leadership skills one baby step at a time.

· Good day!!

"It is not how much you do, but how much love you put in the doing."

According to the media reports from India, 4 days back at the LOC Kashmir border of India and Pakistan, some 20 Pakistani terrorists dressed in Uniforms as Pakistani soldiers, crossed into Indian Territory and killed 5 Indian Jawans protecting the Indian borders.

This act of Pakistanis is condemnable and I condemn it. In these cold blooded murders of 5 Indian soldiers, 5 precious lives were lost which may not be a great loss numerically to India but surely it is a great loss to their families.In these deaths some must have lost their husbands while others their sons and still others their brothers. What a pity it is !! How India will compensate their losses?

Is India first of all really bothered of their deaths? If these killings had to happen to Pakistanis, there would be demonstrations all over Pakistan against India but India as a whole is in a relaxed mood. Only few are making noise and that too a little which will evaporate soon. Besides, even after 4 days of their killings there is no word from Indian Premier or any government official offering condolences on behalf of the government of India to the families of the 5 killed Jawans, leave aside the offer of financial assistance to the families of 5 Jawans. I only hope they don't fall on the road.

This is not the first time that the Pakistanis have infiltrated into India and committed such heinous crimes against Indians. We still very well remember the Mumbai attack where hundreds of innocent Mumbaikars were killed though Pakistani government denied its involvement in all these attacks including that in 4 days back.

India is an atomic giant having sophisticated techniques and sophisticated instruments and weapons to check and detect the enemy advances and infiltrations and yet still how Pakistanis are infiltrating into Indian territories? Were our border security guards sleeping whole day and night when Pakistani infiltrators making their way into Indian territories thru land and sea? This is a big question.

If tomorrow war breaks out between India and Pakistan, I am sure India will face lot of troubles from Pakistan. The current Pakistan is not what it was during the Bangladesh liberation war. The current Pakistan is an Atomic Pakistan supported by the deadly Islamic terrorists and they all are in position to play havoc with Indians.

Many of India’s top people are bribe able commodities whom Pakistan and Al Qaeda people can easily purchase because they are less patriotic to India while Pakistanis are more patriotic to their nation Pakistan.

One thing India must know for sure that Pakistan will never give peace to India because India has destroyed Pakistan’s peace by humiliating Pakistan in East Pakistan. The war India fought against Pakistan for the liberation of Bangladesh was a big scar on Pakistan’s body. For this war Pakistan will always have revenge against India and as a revenge Pakistan will always give sleepless nights to India and India will have to suffer the consequences of this revenge.

If India wants to live in peace with Pakistan and Pakistanis, India must stop retaliatory measures against Pakistan in any form and provocative actions should be stopped. Now in the next month there is a scheduled meet between the Premiers of India and Pakistan in New York.Instead of listening to the vociferous demands in India to cancel this meet, I strongly urge India to allow its Premier to have this meet and discuss with Pakistani Premier this topic of killing 5 Indian Jawans.

In a clash between India and Pakistan, India stands to lose more than Pakistan, Pakistan is already a defeated nation and it will not mind facing more defeats because Pakistan as it looks is a failed State. India is advancing and fast developing country with more decency and as such India by creating clash with Pakistan cannot afford to slow down its growth and development.

Because of the past three wars with Pakistan India’s growth has been much hampered.To overcome the current crisis with Pakistan, cautious diplomacy is the only solution.

. A. Veronica Fernandes,

Kuwait.

There is a commotion in India now regarding the contradictory statements issued by the Malyali Defense Minister of India, Antony. First he said the Pakistani terrorists crossed Indian border wearing Military Uniforms giving an impression that they are Pakistani Military personnel and when there was furor in India over this statement glorifying Pakistan as innocent, he later on clarified his statement in the Lokh Sabah stating just the opposite and temporarily calmed down the prevailing noise in India. When things are at this boiling point, Sardarji Premier of India is keeping his stoic silence when he should not as the leader of the government. Is he fit to be the Premier of India? He is fit to be a very good soldier but surely not a very good commander.

Earlier in 1962 during the Chinese war with India in which India suffered a humiliating defeat, another Malyali Defense Minister of India at that time, Krishna Menon was also issuing such contradictory statements as if he was supporting China just as Antony doing as if he is supporting Pakistan. The whole of India at that time accused Menon of telling lies and because of him as a weak Defense Minister, India suffered a humiliating defeat from the hands of China, that was the first defeat India suffered in its lifetime. Then there was a heavy pressure on the then Indian Premier Nehru to sack him from the Cabinet and succumbing to the mood of the people and his Congress colleagues, Nehru unceremoniously dismissed Menon from his ministry.

Is it not the turn now of the current Defense Minister of India to get a kick from the Cabinet for his leaning towards Pakistan? It is time now for the Indian public and all the Congressmen to demand dismissal from the Cabinet of Antony before he enters into another goof whose knowledge of war and defense strategy is minus Zero.

Similarly, earlier in 1961 December, to invade Goa, the same Krishna Menon told lies to Nehru and the Cabinet so as to get the green signal for him to invade Goa against the wishes of overwhelming majority of Goans. Even now if opinion poll is held in Goa, surely Goans will reject Indian involvement in Goa and opt for Independent sovereign Goa, that includes me as well because Indian Raj is the Raj of Chor, corrupt leaders and maladministration.

Even if Pakistani terrorists came disguised as Military personnel, why Indian border security guards could not repel them or shoot them to death instead of allowing them to kill 5 Indian Jawans?At the border post there should be sophisticated instruments to detect enemy incursion. Was there no such facility at the India’s border? Good that Bin Laden was killed by the Americans otherwise he and his Al Qaeda band would destroy India as he did in America.

In this connection, I would like to share with the readers one incident occurred about 50 years back. Cold war between the two Super Powers was at its pedestal and both the USA ad USSR were living in fear of each other. At Alaska where Americans were having its base, on the Radar it showed innumerable objects like Fighter Jet Planes coming towards USA. Within a few seconds an alert was sounded by the Americans and Americans readied for a war with USSR assuming that Russians were coming to bomb America.

While Americans were readying to defend itself, within another few seconds another alert came saying the first Alarm was wrong and it was given on fallacious observation by the American security at Alaska. In fact what the Americans noticed were not the Russian Bombers but migratory Birds. This is the alertness of USA where American security guarding its borders are kept on their toes constantly while our border security guards are taking time off to rest and to sleep as it looks from the current situation.

Terrorists faking as local Military personnel disguised in local Military Uniforms is common everywhere. Even yesterday in Yemen Al Qaeda terrorists were planning to wear Uniforms of the type local Military personnel wear and attack western interest in Yemen.

Somewhere in 1959 it happened in Goa too. Some Goan terrorists in the garb of Goan Freedom Fighters fighting against the Portuguese Rule in Goa, dressed as local Policemen came to the house of the Regidor of Siolim Bardez at about 9.00 PM, asking him to come to Mapusa Police Station where there is an immediate summon for him at Mapusa Police Station for one urgent criminal case. Regidor dressed and went with the fake Policemen thinking they were genuine Policemen came with genuine summon. After 10 minutes of drive and seeing outside in the darkness, Regidor noticed the vehicle in which he was traveling along with those fake Policemen, was not going to Mapusa Road but different. Immediately he realized the conspiracy to liquidate him. He was taken to a lonely place near the River in Siolim only and killed him. His body was next day found near the River. He was killed because he was considered as “Chamcha” of Portuguese regime in Goa.

In fact during those days, every Regidor of Goa was a “Chamcha” of Portuguese regime whether he was a Christian or a Hindu and unless he is a “Chamcha” he would not be appointed a Regidor in Goa.

Meantime what will be the compensation paid to the families of the 5 dead Jawans who laid their young and precious lives in the service of the nation? Where are the Indian Millionaires and Business Magnates now? Why they are silent? Can’t they afford to help financially the family members of the dead Jawans? Where are the Millionaire Indian Cricketers gone now? Can’t they organize benefit matches in aid of the family members of the 5 dead Jawans? State Honours and other such official ceremonies is a big joke. What are required now are financial doles for the decent sustenance of the families of the 5 dead Jawans because they lost their bread winners.

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Kuwait.

By Aires Rodrigues

A very sad day for Goa. The monstrous Casino ‘M.V. Horseshoe’ begins operating today with a ‘soft opening’. We would now just have to keep count of how many more Goan families will be wrecked with this new added menace in the River Mandovi. Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar had publicly vowed that he had rejected their application and that he would not allow it. What backdoor manoeurves? Is he their sleeping partner? Trust him to pull more wool on our eyes.

It is appalling that to help his friend Jaydev Mody, the Chief Minister Mr. Manohar Parrikar has overlooked the best interests of the State. The M.V. Horseshoe is owned by business tycoon Jaydev Mody who is the son-in-law of former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee. It may not be just a coincidence that Soli Sorabjee was the Chairman of the Jury that selected Manohar Parrikar last December for the CNN-IBN Indian of the Year award in Politics? We also all saw Jaydev Mody prominently seated at Manohar

Parrikar’s swearing in ceremony on March 9^th last year at SAG grounds in Campal. You can fool some people some time, but cannot fool all the people all the time!

Some may feel that I only criticize the government. But that has been my mission for the last over three decades. I have taken on the illegalities committed by successive governments.

While as the Leader of Opposition Manohar Parrikar had consistently vehemently opposed the Casinos branding them as a social evil and had vowed to throw them out of the River Mandovi if he came to power. I was part of the demonstrations he then led in Panaji. After his coming to power, I was hoping that I would be able to commend Manohar Parrikar at least on the Casino issue. But not surprisingly Manohar Parrikar has jumped right on to the ship and is firmly aboard in love with the Casino brigade.

Manohar Parrikar’s claim that casinos will bring in much needed revenue for the State is outrageous and no justification. There are many more dishounourable means of collecting revenue. But surely, they cannot be used as justifications for collecting revenue. Mr. Chief Minister you have a lot to explain on your U turn vis a vis the Casinos. Has the colour of money, turned Manohar Parrikar a shade more different or just exposed his inner hidden shade?

The arrest of Tiatrist Francis de Tuem by the Hitlerian Goa police of Verna is a condemnable act and from Kuwait I and on behalf of all my likeminded friends and colleagues, condemn it in the strongest terms. It is a rape of freedom of speech given to Indians by the constitution; such a rape was not done by the Portuguese government in Goa even though we accuse Portuguese government of being the government of dictatorship while the democratic system of India is found dead killed by the Goa government under BJP Parrikar. BJP at the Centre is accusing Uttar Pradesh government of trampling justice under its feet by undemocratically sacking Durga Shakti but in Goa BJP does worst undemocratic act.

Portuguese may be bad in some aspects but it always permitted Tiatrists to criticize anyone from the Stage rightly except Portuguese government and that also if it was done maliciously and wrongly. The little restriction lawfully applied by the Portuguese government to Tiatrists was inflated by the local Goan Regidores to prove their super affiliation to the ruling regime. When Portuguese government asked the Goan Regidores to bend down, they stooped down shamelessly. Portuguese government may be bad but surely our Regidores were the worst who were responsible to create a bad image of Portguese rule in Goa.

By arresting Francis de Tuem under the instigation of Mickey Pacheco, the Goa government enhanced the ratings of Tuem and gave an added booster to the might of the Tiatrists. It is once again proved that how powerful Tiatro and Tiatrists are become in Goa. During powerfully aristocratic Bandodkar’s rule in Goa, Bandodkar was not afraid of 12 Opposition MLA’s of powerful UG but terribly afraid of Trio Kings of Tiatrists Conception-Nelson-Anthony and to woo them in his side he was ready to do anything for them but they never bowed down because they were the real sons of their real fathers.

Singing political songs, reprimanding Tiatrists and arresting them for criticizing government, its wrong policies and its leaders is not the first time in Tuem’s arrest. About 80 years back Goa government imposed tax on “Renders” for the Coconut Trees they used for extracting Toddy. To oppose this, all the Toddy Tappers from Agacaim joined together and put a boycott on extracting Toddy any further. One Render defied this boycott by refusing to toe the line of his other colleagues. Hence, on one fine evening he was shot dead while he was extracting Toddy on top of the Coconut Tree. He was shot dead by one of the boycotters Render but none divulged his name to the Panjim Police when they were summoned for questioning. Government wanted to suppress this news from spreading beyond Ilhas but within a week or so at Anjuna in a traditional “Zagor” one singer rendered a beautiful solo on the beats of “Gumott, Madyem and Kansaem”. One verse of this song I quote hereunder:

“JANERACHEA PIRMERAK DHORUN VHELET RENDRANK,

ANI PONJE VHORON PIREZ KELET KHUIM TEAM AGXIKARANK,

HE BHAXEN VINCHAR KELO TANCHE LAGUIM SERKARAN,

KI HI BUDH KONNE DILEA TI SANGAT MHONON JURAMENTAN

AGXIKARANIM SANGLEM AMI AZIR MHONN MORNANK

PUNNI ZAMNNO ANINK KEDINCH GHALCHENAUM MADDANK

AGXI EKLEAN MADD DOVORLOLE TAKA JITOCH MARLO FARAN,

TACHO DEMAN CHOLTA ATAM PONJE SERKARAN.

Because of its matter and catchy tune the popularity of this song spread far and wide. Immediately the local Regidor summoned the singer to his house and gave him verbal bashing. The effect of this reprimanding was so great on the singer that thenceforth the poor guy stoped acting in Zagor.

KID Boxer was the first known professional Tiatrist to be arrested in Bombay by the government of India, somewhere in 1958 for singing a song against Indian government’s faulty policies towards Goa.In this song he opposed India’s annexation of Goa. Immediately he was arrested, tortured in prison and after imprisonment deported to Goa where he was open heartedly welcomed by the Portuguese government of Goa and offered a very lucrative job as a Konkani artiste at the Emisora de Goa for a very handsome salary of Rps. 400/- which was highest among all the artistes then.

Following the invasion of Goa, there was a Tiatro at Mapusa, first time under Indian regime. In this Tiatro there were 2 political songs against Bharat; one from the Trio Kings and the other from Kid Boxer. Immediately when Tiatro was still in progress they were arrested, Kid Boxer before the completion of his song in which he curses Bharat for invading Goa against the wishes of majority of Goans. A few lines of this song I quote hereunder:

“TUM BHITOR SORLAI CHUKON, MORTOLOI SUKON, DUSREACHO DESH POCHONA, (Referring to Bharat for illegally invading Goa)

TUM PAN POTTI KHATAI ANI POCHHU KORUN THUKTAI, LOZUI KAIM DISSONA (Referring to Indian Ghanttis)

TUM NESTAI FOKOT VALO ANI KHATAI FOKOT PALO(Referring to dress code and eating habits of Bharati people).

Then again in mid-sixties Kid Boxer was arrested in Bombay for singing a solo against wrong policies of government of India and he was sentenced by the Bombay Court to undergo 6 months imprisonment at Nashik High Risk Prison where he wrote his Tiatro “Somzonen Zatoch Chukh”. In this Tiatro he rendered one beautiful song reprimanding Indian government for curtailing freedom of speech. Further in this song he says sarcastically that:

“AUM SOU MHOINE NASHIK CONVETAN RAVON AILAM PUN KAINCH MUDAR ZAUNKNA”.

William de Curtorim was another noted political singer whose hard hitting political solos directly attacking the politicians created so much of uproar in Goa that once about 8 years back he was summoned to Mapusa Police Station for reprimanding him for singing a solo against Rane. For the next Show William invited Dayananda Narvenkar as a chief guest at the same Mapusa venue where in his speech Narvenkar lashed out Mapusa Police for suppressing democratic rights of Tiatrist William de Curtorim.

Comig back to the unwarranted and undemocratically arrest of Tiatrist Francis de Tuem, I say it was the malicious act of Mickey Pacheco and clandestinely supported by Parrikar. Do not except anything good from Parrikar, he is acting worst than a dictator. He thinks he is too smart, too intelligent and too educated. My foot! If Congressmen were good, people in Goa would never elect him and his BJP. Today he is ok playing his "dadagiri" but tomorrow he will face the consequences of his misdeeds.

Baba Francis de Tuem we are all with you at this hour of your arrest, don’t think that you are alone, we are not going to leave you alone into the hands of vultures of Parrikar. Be strong and remain cool and calm in these crises. You are not wrong, you are right in all aspects and because you are right they got you arrested. They are afraid of you because you are exposing their misdeeds. Treat this arrest as a joke.

They want to silence your voice by putting you into prison. But remember well, the prison that they put you will never be a prison Cell for you even though it is built of concrete walls with Iron Door as long as you have freedom of mind to think free. By putting you in prison they may stop you physically from moving an inch further but they will never stop you from thinking further. This is your freedom even though you are physically imprisoned.

A. VERONICA FERNANDES,

KUWAIT.

The silence of Goa’s Tiatro Academy till now 11^th August 2013, Kuwait time 1.00 Noon, over the arrest of Tiatrist Francis de Tuem is very intriguing. Since Tuem belongs to the Tiatro and Tiatrists fraternity, Goa Tiatro Academy should have openly supported their arrested colleague by openly lodging a protest against the authority that arrested Tuem.

“My enemy is within me’, goes the saying and it looks Tuem’s enemy is within him only. “When I laugh the whole world laughs with me but when I cry I cry alone because at that time no friends and colleagues of mine come to clean my eyes fully wet with tears”.

Goa Tiatro Academy’s protest over Tuem’s arrest would surely be a booster towards fight for justice for Tuem. Goa Tiatro Academy is an authority and as such its action will carry weight. When one of our Tiatrist colleagues is facing injustice, we and other Tiatrists cannot sit in silence saying “MAKA KITEAK PODDLAM TEM?” Makaim poddonk na ani tukai poddonkna, tor konnank poddlam? Today it is for Tuem but tomorrow it can be for me or for any one of us and it may be in a different direction.

Mohammad Prophet when once asked “when there will be justice in this world”, He replied saying “When everyone of us would gather courage to fight against the injustice committed on to others as if that injustice has been committed on to us only”, then only there will be justice in this world.

Some prominent people in Tiiatro fraternity internally must have been happy to see what has been happened to Tuem because there are many in Tiatro fraternity who are very jealous of Tuem’s popularity in singing extra ordinary songs on politics, especially on Goan politics.

“One’s dirty Linen should not be washed publicly”, said one person to me today morning after reading in this forum my yesterday’s article on this subject. But first of all one should not dirty his Linen publicly thereby drawing public attention to react. The sins of public figures should be exposed publicly only so that others do not follow their bad examples. Mickey Pacheco is a public figure and as such he should be a role model for others by observing certain decorum in his discipline and morality. Some of his acts do not befit his official status. He lives the life of a rowdy for this reason he had to cool his dirty feet in the Prison Cell at Calangute. He gives bad example to others. Unfortunately, we have more rowdy public figures in Goa for this reason Goa is going to the dogs.

Tiatro came into existence to clean the society of its dirt from different segments of Goan society, namely Caste segment, Bhatkar-Mundkar segment, rich –poor segment and clergy segment as well. In these segments lot of ills going on and many or most of these ills were cleaned and eradicated by the Tiatro and Tiatriists. The legendary Minguel Rod played a major role in this cleaning in the second quarter of the last century.

Political cleaning from the Stage of the Goan politicos came into existence with the advent of the Bharati Raj in Goa where politics gone into the hands of “Rostad” politicians who without basic knowledge started to rule Goa starting from Dayananda Bandodkar. In this cleaning of Rostad politicians active role was played from the Stage by Kid Boxer, Conception-Nelson-Anthony, M. Dod de Verna, M. Boyer, William de Curtorim, Tomazinho Cardodoso, Felix de Divar and Francis de Tuem to name a few known figures.

In Goan community, there are two segments where there is too much of jealousy of each other and one another. One segment is of politicians and the other is Tiatrists fraternity. When Kid Boxer was arrested for the second time in Bombay because of his political song, very few Bombay based Tiatrists stood by him while others applauded his arrest silently from a distance saying “AMKAM KITEAK PODDLAM?”because they were jealous of Kid Boxer’s popularity.

When William de Curtorim was summoned to Mapusa Police Station for singing a political solo exposing misdeeds of Rane, overwhelming number of Goan Tiatrists internally showed their happiness saying “BORENCH ZALEM” because they were jealous of William’s popularity in Goa.

Again when William de Curtorim was assaulted at Saligao on the road by halting the Bus in which he was travelling along with his other colleagues, even his own colleagues remained dormant instead of providing helping hand to William at that critical time. William was coming home in a Micro Bus carrying all Tiatrist after finishing their Tiatro at Candolim where he rendered a solo against the misdeeds of a Candolim politician whose supporters did the assault on William.

When Francis de Tuem was arrested at the entrance of the Tiatro Hall, why not a single person from the hall packed audience intervened while the same audience applauds each and every sentence of Tuem’s songs? What prevented the other Tiatrists busy dressing behind the curtain from challenging the brute and undemocratic might of two policemen who arrested Francis de Tuem?

A. Veronica Fernandes,

Kuwait.

Keep up the good work Kranti

Hi Veronica

Read your articles about Francis de Tuem with great interest. Thanks for raising the important issue. Keep up the good work

Please publish this as soon as possible.

Robert Martins

It is really surprising to see that the Konkani artistes in Kuwait are remaining mum over the arrest of Francis de Tuem.

This very artistes brag about their contribution to konkani theatre and now suddenly they have fallen silent.

They misuse Kranti to promote themselves and their work but when the need for standing up for their colleague arose they put their tail in between legs and beat a hasty retreat. It is really disgusting to say the least.

As fellow artistes who have acted with Francis de Tuem in Kuwait and elsewhere, they should have expressed their solidarity. But alas this crab mentality among Goans exists in every segment of the society. By keeping silent on this issue, these tiatrists in Kuwait have shown that they are rostads.

Keep up the good work Veronica. More power to you.

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CCP COFFERS EMPTY BUT MAYOR WANTS A PLUSH NEW CAR.

KONKANI FILM “SIMRAN” IN KUWAIT.

CHIEF MINISTER MANOHAR PARRIKAR’S STARTLING REVELATION

WHERE ARE THEY NOW IN GOA??

REPLY TO "WHERE ARE THEY NOW IN GOA??"

SACRIFICES OF EXPATRIATES IN KUWAIT.

Konkani CD films

CM PARRIKAR SAYS SPECIAL STATUS FOR GOA, BUT WELCOMES ONE MORE MIGRANT

SADDAM'S BRIBE REJECTED BY KUWAIT GOANS.

SOMPLOLO TIATRIST LUCIANO DIAS.

RESPONSE TO VERONICA'S ARTICLE ON LATE TIATRIST LUCIANO DIAS

VERY RICH HUMILIITY BY A VERY RICH MAN - RATAN TATA.

Ratan Tata and The flat tyre‏

INDIA - PAKISTAN CONFLICT.

TERRORISTS DESGUISE IN MILITARY UNIFORMS.

IN ANOTHER U TURN THE CM NOW GIVES M.V.HORSESHOE HIS GREEN SIGNAL

CONDEMNING ARREST OF TIATRIST FRANCIS DE TUEM.

WHERE IS TIATRO ACADEMY GONE NOW? WHY SILENCE ON TUEM'S ARREST?

PRAISES TO A.VERONICA FOR SUPPORTING FRANCIS DE TUEM.

Keep up the good work Kranti