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In my younger days, and before liberation, there was an eccentric man
hailing from Saligao who called himself Sacru de Saligao. He used to wear a
dark brown monastic habit of the monks replete with beaded waist band, a
sizeable wooden cross and a stool to stand up on. And he used to give his
weighty sermons by the road-sides, anywhere and everywhere. His mode of
travel was a bicycle. As kids, we used to run behind his bicycle to make him
stop, set-up shop and start his harangue. It was quite some entertainment
for us kids apart from road football, koine bal and godde since ther was no
electricity and therefore nothing, not even a radio.
I feel that Soter should follow in Sacru de Saligao's foot-steps and whip-up
the revolution that Goa deserves.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj
----- Original Message -----
From: "soter" <so...@bsnl.in>
To: <goa...@goanet.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 9:03 AM
Subject: [Goanet] Shake off your masks - coward Goans
There are some Goans, some of whom are reputed journalists, who exhort
everyone to be optimistic while analysing the progress in Goa. Those who
keep reflecting the shameful and horrific events are branded as negative.
After the recent murders of 4 women, 2 children and one man in Goa, and
after the bomb explosion in Margao on the eve of Diwali that took the
lives of two of the accused, can Goans still continue to deny that nothing
is seriously wrong in Goa and there is a lot to be still proud about and
marketed to the outside world? Mahanand managed to extinguish the lives of
16 women over the last ten years without being detected and the hundreds
of thefts like snatching women's mangalsutras, house burglaries, murders
and what not are reported almost everyday in the local newspapers. Yet,
should we continue to sing praises, make music and dance in front of the
Art and Culture department or the NRI Commission about how Goa is
progressing? To add insult, this cruel game of pa
inting a rosy picture about a speedily deteriorating society gets endorsed
as a matter of perception. Do we have something called a conscience or are
we Goans filled with just dollars and rupees in its
place.....................
