Rajan wrote: One of our hallowed traditions, the pre-monsoon Purumetachem fest
has run into trouble this year as the CCP has asked our traditional Goan
vendors to get lost. The CCP, however, will continue to roll out the red carpet
to the foothpath-encroaching, hafta-paying ghati panwallahs, bhelpuriwallahs,
sugarcane juicewallahs etc.
RESPONSE:
I hardly get into Panaji and when I do, I take the waterfront road.
But yesterday, while sipping tea with my wife at Kamat's,
I asked her whether the pre-monsoon Purument-achem fest
had wound up, save a lone Khajjem stall.
After all she had just picked up her annual stocks
of onions, tamarinds and the like, just the previous day.
She told me that they were PUT up in a narrow connecting lane
THIS IS RIDICULOUS!
I share Rajan's indignation.
The CCP has to be confronted on this issue.
They of the footpath-encroacher-enabling tribe
have no reason to deny a seasonal tradition
which caters to the culinary-cultural needs of Goans.
And Goans need to ensure that this worthy tradition
is not lost at the altar of supermarkets and malls.
- Pravin
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