The POT says: “liberation”, the KETTLE wonders!
(An extract from my book: “SIMPLY MY WAY”) www.bennetpaes.com
Quote:
From the days of Mahatma Gandhi’s tryst with freedom, one prerequisite
to be a ‘freedom fighter’ came to be accepted as a short adventure in an
Indian jail. Critics then called it a ‘picnic in prison’. On the other
hand, Portuguese jails were far removed from the romance of a Presley’s
‘Jailhouse Rock’. They were exactly what lawbreakers deserved to be in.
Discipline was what they exacted out of an erring ‘rocker’, and the
stick did the trick.
Nevertheless, having been influenced by Gandhi’s struggle for freedom, a
path hugely accentuated by his courtship with prison-cells, some Goan
machos also developed an appetite for ‘freedom of sorts’, although what
was under suspicion was their determination to fight for it. They tried
to emulate the great Mahatma in so far as his sit-in’s were concerned.
But his fasts-unto-death dreaded them as death itself. The group that I
came to be associated with, would hardly miss a morsel for any cause on
earth, least of all freedom.
Much credit goes to those Goans who put their lives on the block in
their pursuit of freedom. However, what became debatable to right
thinking men and women in Goa was, whether their motive was to oust one
occupier and make way for another; or to take over the reins themselves
and let the U.N. declare an addition to the family of nations. But soon
their intentions were laid bare. Jawaharlal Nehru’s ‘Operation Vijay’
sealed the fate of Goans forever.
Unquote.
And now, the question:
If it took troops to liberate Goa, what stops liberating POK (Pakistan
Occupied Kashmir)?
Bennet Paes
Assolna, Goa
bennetp...@yahoo.com
From: Goanet News
Goa's freedom fighters disillusioned, to boycott liberation's 50th
anniversary
Published: Friday, Dec 16, 2011, 14:03 IST
Place: Panaji | Agency: IANS
The fast-fading tribe of Goan freedom fighters is a disillusioned lot today.
At the receiving end of both the colonial Portuguese regime of yore as
well as apathy from the state government, the freedom fighters have
chosen to mourn, rather than celebrate, the 50th anniversary of Goa's
liberation by India on Dec 19, 1961.
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