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Floriano,
I also had the pleasure of encountering 'Sacrula de Saligao the controller
of
air, water and sun' during my childhood. He used to visit St. Britto's
School and thereafter Clergy Home at Porvorim.
Your reaction only reminds me of a psssage in the gospels where the scribes
and
pharisees thought that Jesus was Belzeebub or was possessed by a demon.
So, I am happy that my appeal has made one Floriano from Moira to stand up
and think that I am gone crazy. This is exactly the state of Goans, they
think others have gone crazy. That is why Sangath Centre study reveals that
10% of Goans suffer from psychiatirc ailments. The toll may increase
shortly with the influence of Jaitley's, Gupta's and Ramani's, Goa's elite
migrants.
Luckily I do not hail from Moira or Saligao.
-soter
----- Original Message -----
From: "floriano" <floriano.l...@gmail.com>
To: "soter" <so...@bsnl.in>; "Goa's premiere mailing list,estb. 1994!"
<goanet@lists.goanet.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2009 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Shake off your masks - coward Goans
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.....................
