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Rajendra Kakodkar wrote: >The situation is very grim. Vulnerability has increased because Ruling and >Opposition are colluding where they see money. Should not we priortize and >allign our energies for Goa instead of diverting to distant issues? We know the situation is grim We have known about it for a long time. Check the Goanet archives of the past 3 years. You are perhaps new to the boards. The way it works is, you are free to start a new thread on issues you care about, on issues you deem important. After all, priorities vary. Admin Noronha does not believe that the builders are doing a number of Goa. He has been denying and/or downplaying the havoc wrought by construction. He would have thought differently if Manohar was in power, but all this destruction under his benevolent prasad-distributor Digu deserves a pass. For 'prasad' always has a sweet smell and it is always secular. When I was investigating the building violations, land conversions etc 3 years ago (on my own nickel and time), his job was to spread the lie that this was a secret BJP operation to discredit his beloved Kangress. He claimed that I had assumed a 'green garb' for the purpose. His tactics are well-known: if you focus your energies battling an issue X, Admin Noronha will come along and ask why you are not doing anything about Y. He tried hard with to smear my telephoto lens but alas, the muck stuck to him instead. He then wept like a baby that I was deflowering his beloved Goanet. But the other mods thought otherwise. So if you must ask the kinds of questions you have above, feel free to direct them to the lying hypocrite Frederick Noronha. You could start by asking him who is subsidizing him to deny the construction madness currently underway in Goa. Turn his own wink-wink-nudge-nudge old maid ways on him, and you will do just fine. Warm regards, r * * * Encounter hints (and more) of the Goan life in Zanzibar, Poona, Mombasa, Basra, Dubai, and even Nuvem and Colva, Sanvordem and colonial Goa. Learn of experiences that shaped Goans worldwide. Selma Carvalho's *Into the Diaspora Wilderness* now available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Ask a friend to buy it, before it gets sold out. Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *