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The usage of the phrase Flying circuses is inaccurate in the Goan context,
and will always be. They are not capable of any circus, perhaps some khel,
not even a Flying tiatr.
What is supremely appropriate: Chiklant lollnare amughele. (Ours (insert
favorite collective)--rolling in the muck). They are indeed our leading
pigs (and no one dare insert another animal here), running through our
spaces, and the spaces of the Goan minds, including those afar.
Unless you wish to say: Udhnareo circuseo ani aand naslele. (Flying
circuses and those minus testicles).
Seriously, what happened to the political variant of kator re bhaji (one j
is enough). Sureak kapad kelli? (Castrated the knife?). Language has to
pierce and pierces in the colloquial. You would not affront / heckle an ass
who speaks in Gujrati in English, but in Gujrati. (Get it?). Umtea kouxear
udhik?!
venantius j pinto
Message: 6
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 04:47:45 +
From: D'Souza, Avelino adso...@kockw.com
To: (goa...@goanet.org) goa...@goanet.org
Subject: [Goanet] Land acquisition, flying circus and more...
Lion Roars
Mopa(ian) size land acquisition in the offing?
Goanspirit learns that there is a written proposal in the in tray in the
office of the Collector, north Goa, put there by the Padmashri Vamanrao
Sardesai Trust which wants land for its proposed Vedanta Institute. No,
this is not that Vedanta that plunders Mother Earth to make its billions,
but an institute which fosters the propagation of Vedas. What is worrisome
to GS is that this government will acquire someone's land somewhere, as we
learn that the proposal is being deliberated on by it. So, land owners,
brace yourselves for yet another grab on your land. And say a quick prayer
in the interim that this latest requirement will not be of a Mopa-ian size
land grab.
Flying circus is back
Successive governments in Goa have been known for two things, arbitrary
acquisition of people's land and for its ministers and officials travelling
abroad on junkets. They have this obtuse way of brazening it out, but the
depressing factor is, they are junkets any which way you look at it. This
is the black box revelation of flights recorded and made by officials of
the Tourism Department and Goa Tourism Development Corporation (GTDC)
between March 2012 and 28 February 2013.
The department's assistant director Rajesh Kale and Tallabathulla
Ravishankar, a consultant, flew out to visit the ITB, Berlin 2012 from
March 7-11. In the days March 21-24, Milin Chodankar, information
assistant took off to the MITT, Moscow 2012. The deputy director of
tourism, Pamela Mascarenhenas and assistant tourist officer Ganesh Teli
flew closer home to the Indian Crafts Festival at Kathmandu, Nepal from
April 27-May, 2012. Teli next took off to attend the ITB, Singapore 2012
along with Gajanan Mahale, information assistant, from October 17-19. If
you wonder why GS has not given an account of their undoubtedly heavy
expenditure, it is only because these flight happy officials have not had
the time to submit their travel and allowance bills. But be assured that
all of the 2012-13 budget of Rs 8,75,000 allotted to the Department of
Tourism and all of the Rs 6,00,00,000 allotted to GTDC will be wiped clean
by the end of the fiscal.
They are getting there already. GTDC went a full mach ahead flying Vasco
MLA Nilesh Cabral and the corporation's chairman to Lisbon and Portugal
between October 8-13 spending a cool Rs 4,32,203 of your tax money. For
company, he took along the MD Nikhil Desai (expenditure: Rs 1,86,765) and
Deepak Narvekar, its public relations officer (expenditure: Rs 2,13,005).
A month later, Desai jetted off to London for eight days spending Rs
2,05,422 of your hard earned tax monies.
Earlier that year, GTDC's previous MD Melvyn Vaz flew to Berlin and
Germany for nine days (March 5-13) blowing up Rs 2,84,455 of that hard
earned money again. The free-spending corporation increased its carbon
footprint sending Bernadetta De Souza, general manager-administration to
Moscow between September 18-22 (expenditure: Rs 2,83,069) along with Thelma
Moses, executive aide to the MD (expenditure: Rs 1,98,111). That's a total
of Rs 10,37,395 and mounting.
More at:
http://www.goanspirit.com/index.php/bits-bytes/253-lion-roars
~Avelino
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