Why are people surprised? Here is what I wrote years ago during the Manohar Parrikar years -
January 2014: "And so, while dogs roam the corridors at Goa Medical Hospital and rats feast on rotting corpses at the hospital morgue, Parrikar and his band of yes-men go around erecting stadiums and hosting extravagant galas with crores upon crores of rupees the state cannot afford and does not have. This is their idea of “development,” the pies in the sky, all the things the favoured contractors can make a killing on..." http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2014-January/151557.html And here - January 2015: "I also took Manohar-ji to Stanford University, home to a medical school and a hospital that are among the world’s finest. On the other hand, in Manohar-ji’s Goa, the main hospital is a disaster, where dogs roam the corridors and where mice feed on the corpses in the morgue (you can’t make this up!). How tragic that only the number of airports here registered on Manohar-ji’s mental radar, not the features that would actually make a difference to the life of the ordinary Goan..." http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2015-January/158160.html Right now they are wasting 10 crores on a memorial for this guy. r
