Since I returned from Kuwait for good, it is 6 months now. During this period with a Lantern in my hand I was moving all around Goa during day time when the Sun was directly overhead, in search of top ex Kuwait Goans who were boasting of their top money power, top job power, top business power, top social power and everything top. In reality they were top in Kuwait and because they were top they were acting like Goan Maharajas in Kuwait among the idiot Goans since they were like one eyed Goans among the blind Goans. Overwhelming majority of Goans in Kuwait is like one eyed men though they may think otherwise. Good that in Kuwait in reality the holders of Indian Passports are treated with disdain and without much respect otherwise the so called top Goans in Kuwait would even wear the robes of Sheikhs and act as feudal lords.
Where are these so called top Kuwait Goans gone now? Are they gone underground for fear of reprisal by their opponents whom they treated badly in Kuwait? Are they feeling shy now in Goa for being non entities and as such they are hiding from public view being unable to accept the status of non entities? Where are all those Goans who were holding executive posts in their boastful social and sporting associations gone now in Goa? Why their show making photos are not appearing in the local dailies as they were appearing in Kuwait? Why they cannot involve in the activities in Goa as they used to do in Kuwait?
Where are those so called top Goans holding top positions in Kuwait and also boasting of same as if they reached to the Moon on top? I don’t encounter any of them anywhere in Goa in public forums where I am involving since I returned for good. By chance recently I met one of such cheap characters in Panjim and after exchanging some pleasantries he invited me to his place by describing his location with pompous address saying: “Next to the Church there is my big posh Bungalow of 3 Storey and on the ground floor you will see parked there my Red Mercedes Car”. Then he went further saying: “You come on Sunday for a Lunch with your wife because we prepare Buffet on every Sunday since I have a special cook whom I pay handsomely every month”.
This man is a son of a Pedru inheriting all the cheap qualities of his father craving for importance in life and that it is so one can know from the way he gave me his invitation. In fact it was not an invitation but the show of his wealth which he acquired from Kuwait not only thru fair means but also thru unfair means. When he was in Kuwait he was boasting of his Supervisory job which used to fetch him handsome salary though it was the job meant for an idiot in Goa. In Kuwait to get a handsome job you need to have luck or influence or “chamchagiri” and not necessarily educational and professional background.
Because of being unwanted and unrecognized in Goa many of our ex-Kuwait Goans are undergoing mental crisis, they feel hurt to accept the fact that nobody cares them in Goa inspite of having so much of money. But they fail to realise that the money they have is big for them only because when they went to Kuwait they were suffering from abject poverty. During those days their poverty was such that they could not taste Chicken, Pomfrets and Lobsters which finally they tasted only in Kuwait. Once they reached Kuwait and made some money they thought the world should come to their knees but the real reality in life they realized only when they came back to Goa for good where nobody cares for them. Some of them to get cheap prominence have joined the Church groups otherwise they are not interested in God.
For this reason, many of them are hiding from advanced society where money power is not counted but only the intellectual power. The cheap prominence our Goan stalwarts were getting in Kuwait must be treated as a dream gone forever especially for those who were boasting of their presidency of Goan associations and managerial and supervisory positions. The importance they got in life in Kuwait they will never get again in Goa and precisely because of this they are lost in Goa. Yes, “Te Sanddleat”.
Candolim,
Goa.