Wilson Mazerello while talking about special status for Goa said he does not
know why people are asking this and some one said he made fool of himself while
saying this. I feel that his answer is really sensible. We Goans including
myself have habit of talking at pubs, tintos and other places. In each village
there are several catogory of people. Some are cooks, some are coblers, todday
tappers, liquor distillers, hoteliers, etc. The older generation carried on
this job and sent their sons to schools and colleges. A cobler's son is afraid
of continuing his father's profession because he feels society has put him in a
lower class. But if he had sense he could open a small shoe shop somewhere or a
industry to make shoes he would have made lot of money. A cook;s son graduates
himself and finds no job. He will rarely take up cooking because the society
has called him a mar. Some goans went to work in the gulf there and found life
different from goa life I do not know why they thought it this way. They
migrated to other countries some had to put their professional degrees in the
garbage tin and work for something they would not do in Goa Why do goans feel
that there is nothing in goa or in india . "he shoch galat hai"non goans would
not have been here if we had to work without feeling belittled. A non goan
graduate sells vegetables in the market. He makes two to three thousand rupees
a day where as your son who is a graduate works for 8 thousand a month. What
special status willhav do ? goans want a sucegad life that is why government
employees are taking us for a ride. They get government salary and they have
private business too.
