Let me start by wishing every fellow Indian a very happy Diwali Festival,
2008.
And to make my point that the Diwali Festival is not only indigenous to the
Hindus, but universally to the Indian world over, the following is the
greeting message that has gone out from my party on this occasion:
"
On this day of Festival of Lights 2008, the Goa Su-Raj Party wishes the
Indian World over a very happy and joyous Diwali. May the intensity of the
lights be such that it does not blind certain people to the realities of
universal brotherhood.
"
Needless to say that the intensity of the Diwali Festival's light is limited
to the feebly flickering low intensity flame of the wick in a puny
earthen-wear oil-holder.
In the above context, I appreciate the stand taken by the Editor-in-Chief in
his editorial of the illustrious 'Goa Today', Shri Vinayak Naik ( October
2008 issue) captioned 'Bagging the Barbaric Badge' . We need more and more
liberal and secular minded and highly placed persons of the Hindu faith to
come out openly against the barbarity which goes on in the name of
protecting one's religion. What we see is outright 'fascism' which has been
trounced the world-over, trying to get acceptance in India, carefully
camouflaged to present it to the gullible illiterate Indian as the protector
of his religion of birth.
Furthermore, the editorial article by Pramod Khanddeparker (GT- October 27,
2008) captioned 'German minor case and HC's take', who is talking about Goa
getting a bad name across the country and abroad, makes a hit sense when he
concludes the more dedicated piece on the above captioned topic with the
following:
"
Goa is getting bad name across the country and abroad because of the
shameful incidents like sexual assaults particularly on foreigners and
attacks of the type made on Aires and Prajal. Similarly, Goans are wary of
the steady collapse of morality and social values wrought by uncontrolled
tourism and deteriorating political system.
"
That the deteriorating moral values have given birth to dirty politics is a
fact that cannot be denied. Otherwise how does one explain the pre-planned
attacks on social activists like Aires & Prajal in Panjim, C. S. Barretto at
his home the previous night of the Gram Sabha, in Assagao, The physical
removal by force by the police of Ms. Venita Coelho from the Gram Sabha in
Moira (unfortunately, my dear village)?.
When I spoke at the 'Solidarity Meet' at Azad Maidan, Panjim, on 16/Oct/08,
to condemn the vicious criminal attack on Aires & Prajal, my opening
statement was: " I am in business" .............. "to replace dirty politics
with clean politics".
But though this lone voice of the Goa Su-Raj Party will reverberate in the
labryntian consciousness of the people of Goa without having any effect for
much more time, it is hoped that in time, the consciousness will wake up to
the fact that there cannot be a change for the better unless and until the
Goan psyche is jolted into awakenness and are ready to take the first step
towards having our politics put back on a SYSTEM that we at Goa Su-Raj
Party have been shouting hoarse for the last ten years and which voice is
being echoed very very feebly by numerous others including Pramod
Khandeparkar.
If one goes to the fish market, one sees a lot of 'seeming not so fresh'
fish displayed on the fish trays of the fish vendors. No one even takes a
second look at it even though one may benefit immensely from its purchase,
but would go in for what seems to be fresh and costly (with gills brushed
with blood red fabric dye).
Pardon the rhetoric, but this is exactly what it is. The seeming not so
fresh SYSTEM of GOVERNANCE displayed on the tray is in fact the SYSTEM put
out by the Goa Su-Raj Party since the year 2000, full of very effective
cleaning agents and self-sacrifices. And it will be kept on display until
the Goan people mature to the fact that what is on display and vastly
ignored is something that can save them the load of misery that is yet to
descend on their heads from voting in for a 'NO SYSTEM' governance, again
and again.
And the general tendency that the Goans are displaying w.r.t politics which
is to 'pick up the first thing which comes knocking at our doors begging
to be picked up' may be something much more inferior or rather useless than
the one which is readily displayed in the market place, having missed out
on the opportunity to have something worthwhile just because we were
lethargic to go in search for what we actually need.
This is manifest when we hear "But they never came to us during the election
time".
floriano
goasuraj
www.goasu-raj.org
9890470896
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We need to come to terms that POLITICS,
Which acutely affects our daily lives,
Can also be CLEAN.
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We need to come to terms that POLITICS,
Which acutely affects our daily lives,
Can also be CLEAN.
