After my interaction with different communities and nationalities, my conclusion is that we Goan community is the best culturally, traditionally and historically though due to the swallowing of Goa by Bharat in December 1961 Goa is changed a lot. This change came because of the influx of non-Goans from Bharat into our Goa with their harsh and dirty cultural, traditional and historical habits. This foreign culture is called “SALA BANCHOT”culture implanted on Goa on the very first day when uninvited Bharati troops without consulting us ousted Portuguese from Goa. The first Bharatis who entered Goa came by uttering all the vulgar and rough words and harsh statements, main being “Sala Banchot”. When those Bharatis uttered this statement it created a chilling effect and negative energy all around Goa.
The early Bharati teachers in the post December 1961 period who came to Goa as teachers in English schools from other parts of Bharat brought this Sala Banchot culture in Goa and passed it on to Goan students. When Fr. Mendonca the then principal of Arpora School noticed this from one Malyali Hindi teacher in 1963, he terminated his service and said Arpora school should not recruit any such teachers because they are spoiling our Goan students who are culturally very rich. Moreover, said Fr. Mendonca the accent of Malyalis being unEnglish our Goan students get confused to follow their teaching. If you carefully observe the discipline and character of the Goans born and brought up after 1961 December, you will see them having lot of vulgar and harsh Bharati habits which are foreign to Goa.
A few days back a small Goan boy who was a student of primary school while discussing something with his colleague when they were going to school, without any shame loudly uttered a statement saying “You Sala Banchot”. This Goan boy is studying in the same school where “Ghantti” students outnumber Goans because in that locality there reside many Ghanttis and they enrolled their children in the Church run school in that locality. These Ghantti students by virtue of being Ghanttis are known for their bad habits and rough terminology which our Goan students also learn and acquire from them to use as routine thereby prostituting decent Goan culture.
It is a pity that our children are become victims of the bad habits of Ghanttis. Culturally compared to Goans, Ghanttis are very backward but unfortunately by acquiring their bad habits our Goan children also become bad and for this reason the Goan generation developed after the exit of Portuguese from Goa are totally different in character from those Goans developed earlier.
Even many of the priests born and brought up after December 1961 are harsh and corrupt compared to those of earlier period. Because they are so, they misuse their priestly facilities by indulging themselves in corruption and many times vomiting Serpentine venom from the Altar as if the holy Altar is the kingdom of Satan. They are Satanic priests.
Many of the Goan parents of school going children where Ghantti students are also studying, are in a rude shock to see their children acquiring all the bad habits of Ghantti children and a few of the parent are even thinking to remove their children from the present schools and enroll them elsewhere. But where else they will find Ghantti – free schools in Goa? Almost all the schools in the villages are filled with Ghantti children and their money power is greater than that of Goans. Not only Goan schools are filled with Ghantti students but also Goa is filled with Ghanttis. Not only this, even the air Goans inhale in Goa is filled with Ghantti smell. Goa is Ghantti-ised with a SALA BANCHOT CULTURE.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Candolim,Goa.