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NEW BOOK: 'PATRIOTISM IN ACTION: Goans in Indias Defence Services'
With Foreword by Gen SF Rodrigues, PVSM, VSM, ADC (retd)
former Chief of Indian Army Staff
and Governor, Punjab & Administrator, Chandigarh UT
Copies now available at:
GOA: Literati (2277740), Other India (2263306), Broadway (6647038),
Mandovi (2427904), Noel DSilva & Associates (9823120454 / 9096781714),
Confidant / Golden Heart Emp (2732450), David & Co (2730326), Vardaan
(9527463684)
SERV / RETD Def Offrs in Goa: O/o Sainik Co-op Hse Bldg Sty, Def Col, Porvorim
(2417288)
MUMBAI: David & Co (22019010)
PUNE: Manneys (26131683), Popular (25678327)
BENGALURU: Narayan (22865800)
DELHI: Ritana (24617278)
ONLINE (worldwide delivery): http://www.ritanabooks.com,
http://goa1556.goa-india.org
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As the Year 2010 draws to a close, it is a moment to do some stock taking
on where goans stand after all the noises, voices and protests since 2006.
Whether any of the much publicised issues have been mitigated or whether
they have only been compounded.
1. The monstrous Regional Plan continues to haunt goans much to the cheer
of real estate and politicians.
2. Mining continues to devastate the Western Ghats despite all claims of
the Environment Ministry's crack-down.
3. Goa's Food security is dropping to zero.
4. Goa's Water security is halved.
5. Goans physical security has dropped to 60 percent.
6. Vices and intoxication are legal fund raisers for government.
7. Garbage piles up at every street corner.
8. Slums and stinking drains are the greatest acheivement of liberation.
9. Goan markets colonised by migrants and its opinion remains enslaved to
the chambers of industry.
10. A significant number of Goa's thinkers, artistes and writers are
domesticated by politicians and corporates.
11. Social work is fast deteriorating into an industry. Lacks
accountability and ethics.
12. Corruption rules at all levels.
13. 'Liberation and Power to the Goan People' remains a distant dream.
BEST WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR
2011
