Today, the Editor of Navhind Times is attempting to tear down the GBA
in his article The Great Goan
Illusion-http://www.navhindtimes.com/story.php?story=2008081210 giving
analogy of children fighting in Kitchen.
coincidently the article name rhymes with article -THE GREAT GOAN
UPRISING published in Herald -
http://navendushirali.blogspot.com/2008/05/apologies-for-bad-resolution-will-try.html
Very painful to see, that the only united opposition to real estate
and illegal mining is speculated for a breaking down in eyes of
citizens.
I wonder if this was a master stroke by real estate n mining lobby,
involve the GBA in RP draft, spread the rumour of sell outs, attack
the credibility of the main leaders, result, the sharpest arrows is
now withdrawn. (Reminds me Chanakya's Arthashastra)
It's painful to see that such forums are being used to hit at each
other, personal allegations, citizens who are in Goa want to voice
out their hurt egos choose to do in open forums instead of just
speaking on face to face and settling down.
I guess such forums will soon get polarized as well. I realize we all
have differences, there is seems to be no discussion on the middle
path, we all agree on disagreements, but we also need to agree on what
all of us agree too. Our methods of fight may be different,
affiliations to political ideology might be different but our goals
must be same.
Both Jesus and Ram always stood as for Apology, restitution and love.
Somewhere there is Gandhism missing in each one of us. I hope this
forum unites in spite of all individualistic ideologies; there is a
bigger cause we need to focus on,
3 big battles awaits us, The Real Estate Lobby, SEZs that don't meet
local aspirations, and the super finals against Illegal Mining. Each
one of them becomes more powerful every time we disintegrate and tear
down credibility of each other. We know that Goa is 0.1% of India
Geographic area, for them its highest premium property, lowest cost of
minerals, and they only thing that can stop them is us, the citizens
of Goa.
Our generation, lies on threshold to see whether Citizens of Goa
remain as united as these Lobbies,
Wrong will always remain wrong, even if everyone does it. Right will
always remain right, even if no one does it.
Jai Hind,
Navendu Shirali
