WHY THE WEST SWETTLED GOANS ACTING AS UNGOAN?

25th of the last month, September 2021, Goans spread in many parts of the World celebrated the Goa Day. The idea to mark Goa Day was initiated in Kuwait by Kuwait Goans since it has to be understood well the issues of Goa’s concern are initiated and supported ..by Gulf Goans in general and Kuwait Goans in` particular. That was the quality, love & affection and patriotism of Goans in Kuwait towards their beloved GOA, its culture, tradition, history and everything that is attached to Goa however, all these attributes, if not all then most of them with the exception of Gulf Goans,, are lacking in the Goans spread all around the globe where the Goa Day is celebrated with pomp and luxury.

Some years back before the advent of the Goa Day, I read in Goa Today Monthly Magazine that UK Goans brought the Goa flavour alive when that year they celebrated the Feast of St. Francis Xavier on 3rd December first by attending the Mass in the morning and then followed by the Dinner Party with the Ballroom Dance entertainment. These events were organised under the auspices of Goan Overseas Assoociation. Further, that news item said the people enjoyed the dance very much and as told to me by somebody that especially those very moments towards the end of holding “your wife in my arms and my wife in yours, just as Ladru’s sister in Pedru’s arms and Pedru’s sister in Ladru’s” and in one word “it was free for all”. Though I found it difficult to accept it but still in a free society anything is possible. Then before saying “Deu Bori Rat Diunk” oh, I am sorry, it was “Good Night and Not ‘Deu Bori Rat Diunk’ because Konkani terminology had no place there even though Konkani Goenkar were there. It is ridiculous to accept a Goan without the soul of Goa but in the midern world anything is possible. And finally at the Buffet Table it said that they went for the most precious and delicious dish called Goan Sorpotel and off they went home’ still having somebody’s wife in the arms of yet another somebody. In this way they made this memorable day, a holy day of the holy saint nothing but “A Sorpotel Day” as we say in one of our Sayings “Khuim Gheloi Khuim Na ani Kitem Addleim Kaim Na. Soglem Mellub DDo DDo Fog'.

The concept of Goa Day is very good but in the land it was initiated it failed to take firm roots because the organisers themselves failed the people just as our politicians have failed us in our Politics and just because of this we are suffering from the hands of our politicians. It was a great idea to have Goa Day and in the name of Goa Day it was an opportunity for the Goans to congregate in a big number and here the organisers could float some ideas or proposals to do something productive for the Goans in Goa. For example, we from Kuwait floated the idea of promotion of Gulf Goans Hotels Company to construct Hotels in Goa and to generate employment for Goans and on the other side to generate funds in the form of Dividends for the owners or Share holders of the Company. We the Kuwaitcars already have one such Hotel erected in Calangute some years back known as “Hotel Goan Heritage”

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The way we Kuwaitcars did why cannot the West settled Goans could not do? They could jointly come forward and start one Bank of expatriate Goans or any other venture. Now there are so many Goans settled in UK and they are more Goa conscious, they must create a public opinion in support of such ventures. Besides there are so many prominent Tiatrists and they can create public opinion from the Stage there in support of such ideas. And by the way tiatrists themselves could join together and form their own group and do something jointly in Goa and thereby indicate how cooperstive and progressive are the Tiatrists instead of having that archaic and traditional Tag mark sayng Tiatrists are "Duspotti, kaim kamanche nhoi te, Kulleam porim eka mekaak sokol uddoupi"

I think they by being a bit progressive can do wonders.

What precious time in the past lost is lost forever and there is no time to cry over it but now at least they must join together, organise themselves on the basis of their common liking and common ideas, purchase land in Goa even in their own villages even thw "PADD ZOMIN" and keep the possession of Goan land in their own hands instead of going it into the hands of Non-Goans mainly from Delhi. In USA and in many parts of Europe there are Goans, they must join together and implement this idea. Goans who are abroad are financially better than Goans permanently settld in Goa., individually it will not be possible. In this way these Goans can bring about a change economically for the benefits of resident Goans in Goa first and also for themselves.Please do not send your hard earned money for for Padris ani Madris to construct Churches, Convents and Schools, it will not give you any dividends, it will go into the wrong hands for the wrong purpose. During our haydays in Kuwait and elsewhere in the Gulf we could have built empires with gold but we forgot our needs and like mad embarkwd on giving donations to different causes but none of those Bastards whp received our donations in lakhs of rupees supported us with their physical presence by swelling our Public Rallies on the Streets of Panjim followed by Pubic Meetings at Azad Maidan in Panjm and elsewhere, during our movement in 1990/91, during the invasion of Kuwait when we came, at least many of us as beggars. The greatest BEIMAN was the Goa Church and the Padris and Masdris who were the recipients of doles from Kuwait.Church. For so many months we ran our movement an activities but none of those who were direet beneficiaries to our charities supported us, on the contrary they spoke ill of us, There were no politicians and no prominent Tiatrists associated with us otherwise they gained so much from us.Please do nit send money to the political parties, you utilise your hard earned money for your own development otherwise these poli5icians by putting your money they will convert it into UZO. earlier money sent by us from Kuwait for the Goan politicians were totaally misused. Once money sent by us for politiians were used against our community only thus making its utility one sided..

on the cotrsry they mocked at us by seeing our plight and misery.

Western Goans are not known much to help the Goan causes in Goa, even at the time of Konkani agitation movement their contribution was nothing, for such causes they feel shy to come forward thereby the pressure for so many good and Goa benefit causes fell on our shoulders. West settled Goans as Goans must accept their responsibilities and do something now only because outsiders are desparately tying to own even a piece of one square metre of land. They want to deGoanise Goa from their hands. It is last chance for the expatriate Goans to think of their Goa otherwise celebrating of Goa Day will remain in our history books as nothing but “SORPOTEL GOANS DAY”