Nehru would be rolling in his grave, if he was in one. Bernice
Sent from my iPhone > On 09-Mar-2018, at 7:33 AM, Venantius J Pinto <venantius.pi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > RF: Is this what Nehru kicked out the Portuguese, to usher in into Goa? > > vip: Prolly the polly, ergo peru, excuse me … Nehru did just that! > > —Venantius J Pinto > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 7:14 PM, Roland Francis <roland.fran...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Aires Rodrigues’s very evocative phrase brings out crudely but very >> effectively the practice of sycophancy of bureaucrats and police personnel >> to the political powers-that-be. >> >> For example one cannot avoid the vision in the mind’s eye of Muktesh >> Chander (DIG) and Sharma (Chief Secretary) bobbing up and down in the cage >> with nodding head and screeching voice and feathers all ruffled when an >> aggressive MLA or the CM himself shouts at them: Polly, didn’t I tell you >> not to dirty your cage? >> >> Is this what Nehru kicked out the Portuguese, to usher in into Goa? >> >> Roland Francis >> Toronto. >> >>