Hi Moderator,
Could you please post the appended response to Message 2 that appeared on Goanet Digest Vol 5, Issue 534. Thank you. Oscar Lobo. Dear Soter, You have given us all some food for thought about Goans who are contributing to the daily lives of Goans in Goa. I hope you are not endeavouring to hide behind your rash statement "Tarvotti and Middle East Goans have made money washing the toilets of Firangi and Arabs". In the past through your passionate postings, you have portrayed yourself as an educated Goan and always wearing your heart on your sleeves like few others we know in Goa. In that pursuit you have put up some good cases on Goanet Digest for which I thank you. I found you to be a very balanced man although sometime there were elements of tangent nature. We all make errors of judgement because we are after all human being. Your comments regarding Tarvotti and people from the Gulf was a bad taste and one below the belt! Please pause for a moment and think that the genuine interest and real difference that Goans make are those who have been Tarvotti's and those working on the sandy shores of Middle East including those in Goa. Goans in other countries have Goa in their heart and spend time giving feed back even though they are busy with their lives. Goa is facing big challenges and we should all be seen working together to avoid any more fractions between us. You may find it appropriate after pondering to take back your words which are by all means inappropriate. Thank you for your good work in the past and best wishes for the future. Oscar C. Lobo. Melbourne Message: 2 Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 23:32:00 +0530 From: "soter" <so...@bsnl.in> To: <goa...@goanet.org> Subject: [Goanet] Are Goans back home chors and white auntie hunters for some NRIs ? Message-ID: <000501cb01b4$9f4659c0$1901a...@user77948b9580> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Great to know that Tarvottis risked their lives on the seas while Gulfies slogged it out with job insecurity. All those who remain in Goa are nothing but chors and waiting for white aunties to sponsor a drink or con some NRI sponsors in the name of social work or fleece them in the Panchayats. -What about thousands of Goan fishermen who continue to risk their lives on the seas that we may have fish on our plates? What about the labour back in Goa that climb several floors on scaffoldings to construct the offices, malls and other luxuries that we enjoy? What about the coconut pluckers and others who climb heights to give us toddy for our feast sannahs and vinegar to cook our meat, tasty mangoes and the rest of delicious foods? What about those health workers who work with communicable disease patients in Goan hospitals and other health care homes? What about the farmer who works in the pouring rain, biting cold and the scorching heat to grow our food? What about the newspaper boy and milk man who brave the weather to deliver our needs at the door step in the morning? What about the air crew that fly the airplanes to ship us? What about the bus drivers and train drivers who day after day and night after night drive up and down the same route to transport us? What about our electricity lines men who climb the poles and other heavy tension lines to ensure our power supply? What about those who work on our roads and other infrastructure? What about the thousands who work in our Goan industrial estates on meagre salaries? What about the coolie at the airports, rail and bus stations, who carry our baggage? What about hundreds of activists battling it out against corruption and illegalities without public contributions? What about the sincere and honest public servants and elected representatives in our government offices, panchayats and municipalities? What about so many little people that keep our Goa going and make our life comfortable? WHO IN GOA DOES NOT RISK THEIR LIFE ? WHOSE TOMORROW IS SECURE IN GOA? -Soter