[Goanet] The Mapusa Lawyer's Office
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Convenor of Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) Dr Oscar Rebello has been nominated for CNN-IBN's Indian of the Year Award 2007 in public service category Vote for him at: http://www.cnnibnindianoftheyear.com/publicservice_voting_new.php --- I am shocked at this disclosure. Reminds me of a disgusting experience not 3 months ago. I had to visit the office of a senior advocate located a block away from the Mapusa courts. The office was shabby, cluttered and dirty. Musty files were piled in a most disorganized manner. The furniture was stained, needed repair and was of a quality more suitable for a municipal school rather than a leading legal luminary. To enter his office from the antechamber (if one were to grace it with that name), I nearly tripped over a ground level partition railing which should not have been located where it was. After some legal consultation I asked where the restroom was. It was a hot afternoon, I had some beer since I was on holiday and even though I saw some reluctance in the eyes of the secretarial assistant, I insisted on the need to go. She parted with the keys and told me that it was a common but locked facility, down the floor passage. It might as well have been a washroom out of hell. I gagged and choked and tried to hold my breath for the duration, but I was not successful. The walls were filthy, the Indian style hole in the floor was caked with a sediment that not even the coarsest acid would have cleaned and of course there was no functional flush or even at least water coming out of the tap into a discolored plastic bucket that was kept below it. If this is a washroom that a leading Mapusa lawyer uses when at his office, I can understand why there is public defecating on Panjim sands. Roland 416-453-3371 On Jan 13, 2008 8:31 PM, marie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know that many offices in Goa - where Goans spend 8 to 10 hours every day - do not have toilets ? None in the whole building ! r keeps blaming the ghantis - joeGoaUk shows us what office goers have to do to relieve themselves I, a senior citizen, have - on occasion - needed to relieve myself, and asked the office staff for directions to a toilet, only to be told that there is none in the whole building all of three stories ! The most recent incident was the Sub-Registrar's Office in Mapusa where i had to spend a couple of hours. The clerk mentioned that there existed a toilet - but it was kept locked because there was no water available ! In the building where the lawyer had his office there was no toilet at all ! If you have an office goer in Panjim, the capital city, having to go to a pavement you can imagine the situation in the rest of Goa. -- marie
Re: [Goanet] The Mapusa Lawyer's Office
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Convenor of Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) Dr Oscar Rebello has been nominated for CNN-IBN's Indian of the Year Award 2007 in public service category Vote for him at: http://www.cnnibnindianoftheyear.com/publicservice_voting_new.php --- Hi Roland Clearly, access to all of sanitation and especially of well maintained toilets in Goa is an absolute prerequisite to any discussion about Goa's advancement. On this front, women are particularly disadvantaged at present as was illustrated not that long ago when a tourist was arrested and charged for wetting a public footpath after desperately trying and failing to find a toilet for women. Cornel Roland Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I am shocked at this disclosure. Reminds me of a disgusting experience not 3 months ago.
Re: [Goanet] The Mapusa Lawyer's Office
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Convenor of Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) Dr Oscar Rebello has been nominated for CNN-IBN's Indian of the Year Award 2007 in public service category Vote for him at: http://www.cnnibnindianoftheyear.com/publicservice_voting_new.php --- Dear Joe, Rajan, Could you not extend your magnificient, tres mechant photo-exposures of the Goan filth to include the toilets-conditions obtaining in the premises such as highlighted below? Would indeed be a great service, ie if public private officials of such eminence possess any vestige of shame... We could also list publish the public offices, places of work that haveno facilities at all.. Alfred Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:02:01 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] The Mapusa Lawyer's Office --- http://www.GOANET.org --- Convenor of Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) Dr Oscar Rebello has been nominated for CNN-IBN's Indian of the Year Award 2007 in public service category Vote for him at: http://www.cnnibnindianoftheyear.com/publicservice_voting_new.php --- I am shocked at this disclosure. Reminds me of a disgusting experience not 3 months ago. I had to visit the office of a senior advocate located a block away from the Mapusa courts. The office was shabby, cluttered and dirty. Musty files were piled in a most disorganized manner. The furniture was stained, needed repair and wa s of a quality more suitable for a municipal school rather than a leading legal luminary. To enter his office from the antechamber (if one were to grace it with that name), I nearly tripped over a ground level partition railing which should not have been located where it was. After some legal consultation I asked where the restroom was. It was a hot afternoon, I had some beer since I was on holiday and even though I saw some reluctance in the eyes of the secretarial assistant, I insisted on the need to go. She parted with the keys and told me that it was a common but locked facility, down the floor passage. It might as well have been a washroom out of hell. I gagged and choked and tried to hold my breath for the duration, but I was not successful. The walls were filthy, the Indian style hole in the floor was caked with a sediment that not even the coarsest acid would have cleaned and of course there was no functional flush or even at least water coming out of the tap into a discolored plastic bucket that was kept below it. If this is a washroom that a leading Mapusa lawyer uses when at his office, I can understand why there is public defecating on Panjim sands. Roland 416-453-3371 On Jan 13, 2008 8:31 PM, marie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know that many offices in Goa - where Goans spend 8 to 10 hours every day - do not have toilets ? None in the whole building ! r keeps blaming the ghantis - joeGoaUk shows us what office goers have to do to relieve themselves I, a senior citizen, have - on occasion - needed to relieve myself, and asked the office staff for directions to a toilet, only to be told that there is none in the whole building all of three stories ! The most recent incident was the Sub-Registrar's Office in Mapusa where i had to spend a couple of hours. The clerk mentioned that there existed a toilet - but it was kept locked because there was no water avai lable ! In the building where the lawyer had his office there was no toilet at all ! If you have an office goer in Panjim, the capital city, having to go to a pavement you can imagine the situation in the rest of Goa. -- marie _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
Re: [Goanet] The Mapusa Lawyer's Office
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Convenor of Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) Dr Oscar Rebello has been nominated for CNN-IBN's Indian of the Year Award 2007 in public service category Vote for him at: http://www.cnnibnindianoftheyear.com/publicservice_voting_new.php --- --- Roland Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It might as well have been a washroom out of hell. I gagged and choked and tried to hold my breath for the duration, but I was not successful. Dear Roland, I couldn't help but laugh all the way to my restroom or as I still quaintly call it, the loo. Having lived in Dubai for the most portion of my life, where gas stations and public restrooms are made of Italian marble, a trip to an Indian public restroom is like walking on molten lava, to be undertaken only if a volcanic eruption is imminent. No puns intended. This reminds me of an afternoon, spent shopping at a quaint shop tucked in a corner of Panjim. This shop sells sumptuous fabric for upholstery and curtains, and one would presume its genteel clientele hails from the who's who list of Goa, not to mention Panjim. The shop certainly has the wherewithal to install a restroom for its customers. On that fatal afternoon, while dispensing a small fortune on draperies, urgency struck as a result of some dubious sorpatel consumed at lunchtime. The shop assistant informed us they didn't have a restroom, but the adjoining hotel did have one. One can only presume, there once must have been a white ceramic or porcelain sanitary ware in that facility, but only an excavation could have unearthed it. One couldn't tell where the brown ended and the white began. Pride goes before a fall, and it certainly goes before an intestinal emergency, so I used the restroom anyway. I then ran home soon after and literally dived into a bottle of Dettol. Moral of the story being, don't set out on a journey in Goa if one cannot locate a 5 star hotel or an aunty's house somewhere in the vicinity, which is why I have a list of relatives' houses in every nook and cranny of Goa. :-) selma Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
Re: [Goanet] The Mapusa Lawyer's Office
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Convenor of Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) Dr Oscar Rebello has been nominated for CNN-IBN's Indian of the Year Award 2007 in public service category Vote for him at: http://www.cnnibnindianoftheyear.com/publicservice_voting_new.php --- Dear Joe and Rajan, I wanted to request from you the very same thing that Alfredo requests. Therefore, I strongly second it and thank you in advance. Roland. On Jan 14, 2008 6:05 PM, Alfred de Tavares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Joe, Rajan, Could you not extend your magnificient, tres mechant photo-exposures of the Goan filth to include the toilets-conditions obtaining in the premises such as highlighted below? Would indeed be a great service, ie if public private officials of such eminence possess any vestige of shame... We could also list publish the public offices, places of work that have no facilities at all.. Alfred Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:02:01 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] The Mapusa Lawyer's Office --- http://www.GOANET.org --- Convenor of Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) Dr Oscar Rebello has been nominated for CNN-IBN's Indian of the Year Award 2007 in public service category Vote for him at: http://www.cnnibnindianoftheyear.com/publicservice_voting_new.php --- I am shocked at this disclosure. Reminds me of a disgusting experience not 3 months ago. I had to visit the office of a senior advocate located a block away from the Mapusa courts. The office was shabby, cluttered and dirty. Musty files were piled in a most disorganized manner. The furniture was stained, needed repair and was of a quality more suitable for a municipal school rather than a leading legal luminary. To enter his office from the antechamber (if one were to grace it with that name), I nearly tripped over a ground level partition railing which should not have been located where it was. After some legal consultation I asked where the restroom was. It was a hot afternoon, I had some beer since I was on holiday and even though I saw some reluctance in the eyes of the secretarial assistant, I insisted on the need to go. She parted with the keys and told me that it was a common but locked facility, down the floor passage. It might as well have been a washroom out of hell. I gagged and choked and tried to hold my breath for the duration, but I was not successful. The walls were filthy, the Indian style hole in the floor was caked with a sediment that not even the coarsest acid would have cleaned and of course there was no functional flush or even at least water coming out of the tap into a discolored plastic bucket that was kept below it. If this is a washroom that a leading Mapusa lawyer uses when at his office, I can understand why there is public defecating on Panjim sands. Roland 416-453-3371 On Jan 13, 2008 8:31 PM, marie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know that many offices in Goa - where Goans spend 8 to 10 hours every day - do not have toilets ? None in the whole building ! r keeps blaming the ghantis - joeGoaUk shows us what office goers have to do to relieve themselves I, a senior citizen, have - on occasion - needed to relieve myself, and asked the office staff for directions to a toilet, only to be told that there is none in the whole building all of three stories ! The most recent incident was the Sub-Registrar's Office in Mapusa where i had to spend a couple of hours. The clerk mentioned that there existed a toilet - but it was kept locked because there was no water available ! In the building where the lawyer had his office there was no toilet at all ! If you have an office goer in Panjim, the capital city, having to go to a pavement you can imagine the situation in the rest of Goa. -- marie Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger -- Roland Francis 416-453-3371
Re: [Goanet] The Mapusa Lawyer's Office
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Convenor of Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) Dr Oscar Rebello has been nominated for CNN-IBN's Indian of the Year Award 2007 in public service category Vote for him at: http://www.cnnibnindianoftheyear.com/publicservice_voting_new.php --- To Goanet - Alfred de Tavares wrote: Dear Joe, Rajan, Could you not extend your magnificient, tres mechant photo-exposures of the Goan filth to include the toilets-conditions obtaining in the premises such as highlighted below? Dear Alfred, In one word, no. My capacity to do work on the ground is finite. What I can, I do, in a way that best suits my limited capabilities, and I choose to address those issues that to me appear exigent and whereI think I can make a difference, however small. Roland's Mapusa Lawyer's Office story is indicative of the 1001 problems we have here in Goa. It also dramatically underscores the point I have been making all these weeks: the entire state of Goa now risks becoming like the bathroom in Roland's Mapusa Lawyer's Office thanks to the migrants descending on us in droves. The ghatis will guarantee that Goa is transformed into an outdoor commode, urinal and spittoon all in one. A Bihari or an Oriya will soon feel right at home here with the rising squalor and filth. Those comfortably ensconced in Stockholm and Houston may not have quite grasped the seriousness of it all. There are Goans who get up every morning here only to be greeted with the sight of defecating ghatis in the distance and the stench of the refuse. Staff at the Goa State Museum in Patto tell me of their woes about navigating through ghati faeces every single day on the way to their buildings. It can - and will - only get worse. What is it to you or to someone from Houston or Toronto to sit at the computer and whip out delicious sweet nothings about love for fellow human beings? Regards, r Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
Re: [Goanet] The Mapusa Lawyer's Office
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- Convenor of Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) Dr Oscar Rebello has been nominated for CNN-IBN's Indian of the Year Award 2007 in public service category Vote for him at: http://www.cnnibnindianoftheyear.com/publicservice_voting_new.php --- To Goanet - In any town there are people suffering from common cold, toothache, diarrhea and a host of other ailments. But when bubonic plague breaks out the doctors of that town would be well advised to drop their cases of common cold etc and focus on beating back the plague. Regards, r Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping
