To Goanet - Dear Valmiki,
You may be right about the coconut heist and its link to that douchebag par excellence Partap Singh Gill. It has been so many years. I am sure if I bother a couple of folks in Goa (then PWD engineers in charge of Cabo maintenance) they will be able to furnish all the dirt on S.K. Banerji's heroics while in residence. When I think of S.K. Banerji, I usually associate him with the pre-1990 cast of the Governors' rogue's gallery. The post-1990 fellows took it up several notches and were certifiable criminals. Amid this dismal cast there was the rare exception, such as I.H. Latif. But he was doing double duty here (his prime appointment was as Gov of Maharashtra, I think). I remember running into him on several windswept evenings in Miramar during the monsoons, strolling with his wife Bilkees. And I recall the informal brief chats with him saying that he had never seen a place as magical as Goa. But that was a very different Miramar and Goa. Why do Goans still behave obsequiously towards these scofflaws deputed as Governors? r
