------------------------------------------------------- CONVENTION OF THE GOAN DIASPORA FROM GOA INTO THE WORLD Lisbon, Portugal June 15-17, 2007 Details at: http://www.goacom.org/casa-de-goa/noticias.html -------------------------------------------------------
Dears, Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches...and even s/he sometimes does not know how to prevent a shoe-bite. That is the predicament of the communities during orchestrated communal violence. Is eve-teasing terrible only when it is inter community. Is it okay for a hindu boy to eve-tease a hindu girl, a catholic boy to eve-tease a catholic girl and a muslim boy to tease a muslim girl? Is eve-teasing a crime or only cross-community eve-teasing a crime? Lindalifa Gonsalves, the daughter of a Policeman from Saligao committed suicide because of eve-teasing in a bus. In the almost two decades that have passed since, the culprits were not arrested and charged with abetting suicide...let alone being convicted of the crime. Bus conductors continue to abuse girls and women, not wear uniforms and over-crowd buses. Do we see any political party taking up the cause of these hapless travellers. So what was special about this girl....or the timing of the rioting and forcible shut-down of the market. ELECTIONS...it gives them the fever! Mog asundi. Miguel Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:12:52 +0530 From: Sachin Phadte In his first report on the incident, Godfrey seemed to have given an impression that the BJP had tried to take advantage of the incident. However, in the second report, it seems to me that the brother of the victim of eve-teasing was deliberately attacked by the alleged eve-teaser. It seems to me to be a clear case of an anti-social behaviour than any communal angle. Can Godfredy give some more information? Sachin Phadte. ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:50:39 +0530 Sachin Phadte < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote I had sent the earlier message before I read Clinton's message.Sachin Phadte. ______________________________ Message: 10 Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:30:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Carvalho < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Margao Riots and Navhind Times and secular extremists --- Clinton Vaz < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday morning, a simple fight in Margao, was > unnecessarily built up and communalized by the saffron party. --------------------------------------------- There is something really wrong in a society that believes it has to victimise people because of their religious leanings. Where is the moral leadership in situations like this? Will leading Hindu politicos come out in public and decry it? Will the police arrest those responsible and bring them to justice? Or will they be let out within the hour to rein havoc without penalty? Have your own spiritual beliefs, worship your Gods in your house, pray that your mancurads ripen, your visa to the Gulf comes through, your daughter marries an NRI, but try to form public opinion with your mumbo jumbo, and you should be shut down with the force of a tornado. selma