2008/6/24 Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What seems like a very rationale plea has to be seen vis-a-vis the > backdrop against which it is made. A campaign against mining has > heated up in Goa, the Leader of the Opposition suggests some involved > with this campaign might be violent Naxalites, and the Navhind Times > of which Sinha is editor is owned by a prominent mining empire here. > > By starting off on an evocative note, the editor makes the reader > believe that he thinks just like you or me. That's nice! Yet, by > solidly supporting every ruling dispensation in Goa over the past 15 > years, the newspaper and its editor cannot absolve themselves of all > responsibility. Or simply blame someone else for having "stolen my > beloved Mandovi".
RESPONSE: Add to that the C.M.'s exhortation, in a manner of fact way, that the mining industry is the life line of Goa. Yesterday BHP Billiton agreed to a hundred percent Price increase with the Chinese for iron ore. Apparently even at these high rates they are loosing money because of the high costs of transport. Seems, only the oil sheiks are minting. That aside, it is now abundantly clear why the whole of Goa will be mined for whatever iron is available, including one's own backyard. The power and greed of the miners should not be underestimated. They have both the Government and the opposition in their pockets. Yes, you have exposed: the Emperor who has no clothes on. On another matter, I looked in vain in the Dictionary and I also Googled, two new words that came up in today's posts; namely Parrikaresque and Marioesque, :-)) - this followed Mervyn's Pythonesque. The poor man must be thinking what the 'F'esque, is this all about. Would it be true to state that one's man's embarrassment is another man's pleasure? -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England