Bombay Drowning?
On Tuesdaay, July 26, 2005, I was working in South Bombay in the afternoon, when an hour's moderate rain began. To my surprise, for the first time this monsoon, the city began to get flooded and disrupted.That evening, for the first time ever, I was forced to walk the entire 8 miles distance from work to home; others had to walk even longer distances to the distant suburbs. The last time something like this happened, some five to six years ago, the trains began to function once again a few hours later, so that I completed my journey by train.
Over the following days, Bombayites were informed that an unprecedented cloudburst over the suburbs had been the culprit. However, what I failed to see and cannot see even todate is how a cloudburst over the suburbs could flood and disrupt the city, separated from the suburbs as it is, by the two branches of the Mahim ("Mithi") river cutting both ways, east to Mahul and Marol via Kurla and Chunabhati and west to Mahim via Kalina and the Airport on its north bank.
Previously, it required at least four hours of very heavy rains for such floods and disruption of the entire city. My grouse is about the speed with which the floods struck.
My suspicions that the cloudburst was not the main culprit was proven by the re-occurence of the floods and disruption again on Sunday, July 31, 2005, when again, there was only about three hours of moderate rain in the morning. Luckily, the city did not suffer as much on this day, as it was Sunday, a non-working day.
Once again, on Friday, Sept., 9, 2005, barely one hour of moderate rain in the early afternoon (beginning about 1.30 p.m.) produced the same conditions of massive floods and total disruption of rail and road traffic. After these floods had abated by early evening (5.30 p.m.) and the city and traffic had returned to normal, once again, in the night (about 3-4 a.m.), a few hours of heavy rain again caused the city to flood.
After the July floods, there was a hue and cry blaming thin plastic bags abandoned in rubbish for having choked the drains and caused the floods. I believe that the city is barking up the wrong tree.
It is conceded by all that the drains are about a hundred years old, largely inherited from the British, with little having been added since India's independence. These drains, however, are not only inadequate for the present population size, but are also not systematically cleaned. Indeed, I can safely venture that they have probably not been thoroughly cleaned-out of the silt and other debris since a few years after independence.
Aggravating this is the common practice of dumping sand and fine gravel on the streets and pavements when any construction or civil repair jobs need to be undertaken. This is nonchalantly carried out even during the rains. Much of the sand and and gravel makes its way into the sewers. This is why the sewers are unable to handle the rains and the city floods. That the problem is now critical is proven by the city getting flooded by even minor rains that did not produce the same results a few years ago.
The city is barking up the wrong tree. The plastic menace does need control, but plastics are not the main culprits. The main culprits are sand and gravel and earth dumped in the open on the streets and pavements for construction work, and which is washed down into the sewers. The city needs to ban such practices, and insist that sand, gravel and earth be bagged and kept in large containers like the rectangular garbage bins.
A few months back, I had an argument with one of the many conceited morons that dominate Wikipedia on his pretension that certain areas of Bombay city are "below sea level". In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the fate of New Orleans, a city largely below sea level, is grievous. However, there is one thing that the denizens of that city ought to be grateful for — that New Orleans is in the U.S., and not in India. If it were in India, it is very probable that the city would have been flooded and had to be abandoned for the three months of rains every year!
The government of Maharashtra has woken up after several decades to the incompetence and discrimination of the City Corporation in favor of the inner city and against the suburbs. There is now a suggestion to bifurcate and even trifurcate the corporation, with spinoff corporations for the Eastern and Western suburbs, both with problems peculiar to themselves.
Bombay was once more than one municipality. Bandra, Andheri, Borivali and other municipalities, then called Borroughs, were merged into Bombay in the 1940s, with the Bombay city limits being pushed further north in four installments until they have reached their present positions. There is no scope for further extensions as beyond them other cities have developed cheek-by-jowl with Bombay — the municipalities of Thana and Mira-Bhayandar. Instead of bifurcating or trifurcating Bombay, it would make more sense to restore the suburbs to their former separate municipal identities, following the pattern set by Margaret Thatcher in reviving the Borroughs of Greater London as separate municipalities.
Together with this restoration of the Burroughs, the municipalities should be empowered as real democracies with directly elected mayors, abolition of the position of state-appointed Municipal commissioners, and restoration of the powers of the commissioners to the mayors. Parallel to this should be the abolition of the position of Police commissioners and the restoration of these powers to the Sheriffs, who should also be directly elected.
If the Government of the State of Maharashtra should merely subdivide Bombay into several corporations and leave the present set up where the Mayor and Sheriff are ceremonial figureheads, and real power continue to be vested in state-appointed Municipal and Police Commissioners, answerable not to the city's people, but to the state government and its bureaucrats, Bombay will continue to suffer and detiorate.
The city of Bombay, or more properly, what is called the "Island City", stretching from Colaba to Mahim and Kurla, is an artificial island formed by uniting seven major islands and a few more minor islands, by the British, who demolished the hills on these islands and filled in the seas between these islands. However, Bombay's peculiar geography forces growth to be restricted to either sides of the railway lines running largely north-south into the city. There used to be a time when the main city was restricted to what is now called "Fort", Girgaum and the Bori-Bunder - Dongri - Pydhonie stretch. In the 1930s, the city began to extend into Sewri, Dadar and Mahim, which were then considered suburbs. Bandra was a far suburb, to be reached only by boat until a Parsi constructed the Mahim Causeway to facilitate easy access for pilgrims to the Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount in Bandra. Bandra was then full of large bungalows where the rich retired to let down their hair and relax.
The growth of environmental consciousness and seimology now militates against further reclamations. Bombay is separated from the mainland on its east by marshes and swamps bordering the south branch of the Ulhas River — what is called the Thana Creek. This forms a triangular area with the city of Thana at its apex, and the island of Trombay and the the Belapur peninsula at its base. Reclaiming and developing this area would integrate Bombay into the geographic mainland and greatly reduce the developmental bottleneck facing Bombay. I had recognized the potential of this area some years back, but now I realize that doing so would probably not be a good idea (Hafeez Contractor, a Bombay architect, advocates the same idea of reclaiming and developing this area, on his website).
It is improbable that the vocal and hyperactive "green lobby" of the city's population will permit the government of Maharashtra to sanction this plan, willing and eager though it is, for the financial windfall that it would bring it. At the present most of these lands are reserved as "No Development Zone", "Coastal Restricted Zone" and are swamps and marshes owned by the Government of India and leased in large patches to private individuals by the British about a hundred years ago for developing sea salt.
However, I believe that if the entire triangular area is handed over to a single professional and autonomous authority like the CIDCO, to be developed like Chandigarh or like the developments of Japan, Germany and the U.S.A., the area can be carefully developed to include townships, ports, wharfs and docks, industrial areas, several bridges to the mainland, a ring-subterranean railway system, besides parks and forests.
What is certain, however, is that there is no substantial group that has any confidence in the present setup of the Maharashtra government, whether it be the Congress-NCP coalition PDF or the Hindu fascist NDA coalition of the BJP-Shiv Sena, that they will permit an autonomous, professional and beneficient development, which is why it is better to leave the area as it is for now.
Some Good News!!
Having returned from Goa a few days back, I set out to clear the backlog of newspapers to be processed for cuttings, when I found the news that Roger of Taize was assassinated on August 22, 2005.Roger of Taize, for those who do not know him, is the founder of an 'ecumenical' community at Taize, close to the former location of Citeaux or Cistercium, the ground zero of the Cistercian Reform of the Catholic Church at a time when it was overwhelmed by immorality about a millenium ago, and a site desecrated by the French Revolution and since then degraded into use as a high security prison.
The Taize Community, indeed, can be described as the Anti-Cistercium, being the representative of all that Cistercium stood and fought against, and Roger as the Anti-Bernard.
Therefore, the unexpected news of the abortion of this evil man is music to my ears.
Alleluia! I could sing a Te Deum!
N.B.: I am opposed to the abortion of innocent babies, but certainly not to that of evildoers and wilful teachers of heresies and errors!
Schadenfreude
Speaking of Good News, I was thrilled to spot a snippet of information:The good news is double: Not only are the enemy dying, but they continue to demonstrate the same crass incompetence and stupidity that they were famous for fifty years ago!Thirty Indian Soldiers Drown
Simla: At least 30 Indian soldiers, including two engineers, were feared to have been washed away by the river Satlej at Kharo, about 220 kilometers from here, when a bridge they were erecting on the river collapsed Thursday afternoon. A team of army engineers and workmen of the Western Command had gone to Kharo from the Chandi Mandir base to construct the bridge.
When working to mobilize Goans to fight against India, I keep reminding them that the Indians, for all their loudmouthed bravado, are a bunch of cowards, who, despite the presence of very many spies in Goa, still needed 50,000 soldiers, plus another 20,000 sailors and airmen in order to invade and occupy Goa, which was defended by a mere 3,600 men. The Indians crept past Goa's frontiers trembling in fear for over ten days until, after the failure of the Goan counter-attack to clear them out of the Nizampir frontier station, they realized that the Goan soldiers were lightly armed and mainly ceremonial guards, besides utterly lacking in armour, military aircraft or ships, which is when their courage picked up and they went on to rape thousands of Goan girls and women.
Or, to put in another way, the Indians themselves recognized that one Goan soldier was equal to something like 16 Indian soldiers!
Abraham Lincoln gives us this profound advice: "The bully is the easiest to lick!".
It is warms the cockles of my heart to see some of the raping philistines and amalecites of the Indian army flushed down the sewers of Mahaan Hindoostan! May more be so "blessed"!
I have not had such happy news since the Indian Air Force MIG crashed in Vasco da Gama about a year or so back! Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam!
Philistinism As History
The DNA Newspaper of Sept., 9, 2005, has an interesting article on page 14, titled, The Cities That Nature Destroyed. DNA lists them as Atlantis, Alexandria, Troy and Mesa Verde. It is not clear who is the author of the article, for no author is named, except for the small print legend: "Source: The New York Times; Infographic: Sachin Kalbag."It is obvious that we are confronting serious ignorance of history here. I am not aware that Alexandria can be described as a city that nature destroyed — since the city has a continuous existence from its re-founding by Alexander of Macedonia till today, having passed under the Ptolemy Greeks, the Romans, the Arabs, the Turks and now part of the Arab state of Egypt.
Troy was destroyed by the Greeks. Mesa Verde does not seem to have been a city in the strict meaning of the word, although I will admit that I am not aware of its history. However, even so, it does not seem that there is conclusive evidence that Mesa Verde was destroyed by nature — there is only archaeological speculation as to the circumstances under which the community ceased to exist. (It must be pointed out, by context, that the Mayan cities of Meso-America and the cities of the Harrapa-Mohenjodaro Civilization too are speculated about in the same manner. In the case of the latter, there is strong debate over how the 'natural' destruction of these cities came about, with one party blaming the invading Aryans with having caused an ecological disaster by their overgrazing of the upper reaches of river basins, thus bringing about the flooding and siltation of these cities).
The Bible speaks of the destruction of the cities of Soddom and Gommorah, in the Dead Sea valley, as a result of incurring the wrath of God, by means that seem to be natural.
Again, the Aryan cities (villages or towns?) of the Saraswati river banks were also abandoned due to the desertification of the Saraswati basin.
When one speaks of 'cities that were destroyed by nature', however, the neighboring cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii immediately spring to the mind. Both, however, are not mentioned even in passing!
As a matter of fact, however, I believe that number of cities that were destroyed by nature, when carefully compiled, will be found to be many.
In the Tamil country, Mylapore, now represented only by the Little Mount where the martyred Apostle St. Thomas was interred, has been lost under the sea.
There are legends of other cities lost under the sea along the eastern litoral of the sub-continent.
There would possibly be cities lost to earthquakes and coastal cities lost due to major tsunamis in Far East Asia — Japan, Korea, China, etc., besides Greece (The DNA article mentions the loss due to a tsunami of the Corinthian Greek city of Helike during the lifetime of Plato and Strabo, in 373 B.C.).
[Mid-Day had published an article on remains of cities or other human constructions found deep under the seas in an article by a Graham Hancock, Jan., 29, 2005. It seems however, that Hancock is a "practitioner" of Hindu "Archaeology", which attempts to prove as true the fantastic claims made by Hinduism of mankind existing for billions of years on earth!]
Mawlana Manmohan Singh's Fatwa
DNA (Sept., 9, 2005) carried on page 15, an article, "Religious Violence, Even For Just Cause, Not Acceptable", the story of the meeting between Tony Blair, as British P.M. and Chairperson of the European Union, and Manmohan Singh, P.M. of India.That is an extremely interesting title, I must say. Immediately, my mind reacts: "Not Acceptable... except when it comes to the violence of Indian imperialism against Goa, eh?"
But more interesting is what Manmohan Singh told Tony Blair:
"I do believe that terrorism has no religion. No religion teaches violence or asks its people to kill men, women and children."Very interesting.
Recently, there has been a hullabaloo against the practice of Muslim clerics issuing fatwas or clerico-judicial rulings based on Islamic Law ("Shariat"), and the matter is now in the Indian Supreme Court, moved by a Hindu who is protesting that the voluntary Shariat Courts are illegal because they are a "parallel judiciary", implying thereby that the state must have an absolute monopoly on juridical functions. (What that would make of the Catholic Church's marriage courts is interesting to see!)
Now, here we have Manmohan Singh pontificating as to what each and every religion in the world teaches. Does this pontification meet the criteria of a fatwa?
Again, it is interesting to deduce that, given his certitude as to the ideological beliefs of every single religion in the world, the man must be in the possession of omnipotence, what?
Geographic Dislocation & Namak-Harams
As a Goan, I believed that Manguesim, or "Mangeshi" as the Indians prefer to call it, is located in Goa; I also believed that the Manguescar (or "Mangeshkar") family are Goan Hindus. Am I wrong?Seems so. It seems that Manguesim is, not in Goa, but in Maharashtra, and that the Manguescars are Marathi or Maharashtrians, not Goans or Konkani folk. Let me explain myself, before Goans get together a party to lynch me...
We are all aware that the Manguescars are famous singers. Indeed, during the campaign of intimidation and hysteria against Goa and Portugal between 1954 and 1961, the Manguescar sisters, Axa and Lata, infamously sang songs on Indian radio to 'rally and keep up the spirits' of the Indian invaders and terrorists.
Now, to clinch matters, I have before me, an interview Lata Manguescar had with DNA, published on Sept., 9, 2005, wherein she states:
It was said that songs sung by Maharashtrians smelt of daal and rice! I had to disprove them and cultivate a fine Hindustani accent.Ah! and the Bharatis have the insolence to accuse Goan patriots in Bombay of being Namak-Harams!
Cristao-anchem Hijdeponn
Like last year, this year too, the Ganapati festival coincides with the Christian festival of Our Lady of the Mount, centered on the Minor Basilica at Bandra, Sept. 8 - 18. Is this an opportunity to witness to Christ or, an opportunity to further betray Christ, aka "Ecumenism", which means, "I recognize other gods in addition to the God of Israel"? You decide.Goans and Indian Christians seem hellbent on convincing their pagan neighbors that their's is a hijdyanchi dorm. The pagans seem to be convinced already, for they flaunt the cross as a decoration even though they are not Christians and, what is worse, often when they are showing off skin or cleavage! No Christian — other than myself, apparently — finds this offensive.
As a matter of fact, I remember that a few months back, the Times of India published a page full of pictures of pagans and undressed models flaunting the cross, and no Christian protested, even as a lay Christian body loudly protested actor Amitabh Bachhan's ads for a leading detergent brand, because he is shown wearing a cassock!
Apparently, the perceived "insult" to priests and the cassock was of greater significance than the blasphemy and sacrilege against Christ and the instrument of His Redeeming Passion, the Cross, which has been adopted by the Church as the symbol of our faith, and which is used integrally in our rites of worship and of exorcism against evil spirits!
This is the extent to which Christians have been brainwashed and degraded by the New Religion!
Sept. 9's DNA carries a picture of the actresses Dimple Khanna and Twinkle Kapadia, with the latter wearing a cross. I am willing to bet that the hijdas in the "Bombay Catholic Sabha" and other self-styled and self-appointed "Catholic" bodies will continue to look benevolently upon such blasphemies and sacrileges! What sayest thou?
MicroSoft or ISKONSoft?
I am intrigued by the photograph taken by Manan Vatsyayana of AFP appearing in the DNA of Sept. 9, showing Mohit Anand, Microsoft's Division Manager for India, flanked by Jeff Hoffman, Director for Home & Entertainment Division, Asia, and Alan Bowman, General Manager, Asia Pacific, releasing in New Delhi some 12 new hardware products. What is intriguing is that both Hoffman and Bowman sport the trademark Kurta-dupatta combination of the Hare Krisna apostates. What are they trying to convey? That they are Hare Krisna apostates — or that Microsoft is eager to suck up to Indian paganism?Somethings Never Change
India's Dalit problems, it seems, never end. The Times of India, Aug., 19, 2005, has an article describing how a bright Dalit girl, Mamta Nayak of Narasinghapur village, was prohibited by "upper caste" fellow-villagers from riding the 7 kilometers to college on a bicycle, meaning that she cannot study any further. An older article from the Bombay Mirror, July 17, 2005, describes the fate of a Dalit boy, Premhansh Sah of Koudiya village in Bihar who was kidnapped and assaulted by "upper caste" fellow-villagers for daring to wear shoes, clean clothes, and riding a bicycle to college. The criminals then handed him over to the police stating that he was a Communist guerilla they had apprehended.August 15, India's Independence Day, brought mixed reports. In Central India, a Dalit woman head of a District Council was not allowed to hoist the Indian flag; counter-balancing this news is the positive news from the Andhra-Tamil border, where "upper caste" fellow-villagers insisted that a Dalit woman, Muniyammal, hoist the flag — which is progress indeed, given that the region (South India) has been another place where Dalits are brutally persecuted.
Dalits are once again in the news, with a confrontation with "upper caste" Jat peasants turning violent in Gohana, near the Haryana-Punjab border. In retaliation for the murder of a Jat youth blamed on Dalits, some 50 Dalit homes were set on fire.
The Jat-dominated governments of Haryana and Punjab have once again shown their inability to rise above caste and enforce social justice!
The De-Christianisation of Goan Christians
While in Goa, I read this article in the O Heraldo of August 30, 2005:The reason I cut out and kept this snippet is because it is symptomatic of the malaise gripping the Cristaos. We used to be part of Christian civilization, what was called "Christendom". Christendom no longer exists, being supplanted by what is called the West. Many Christians — especially outside of Europe and the Americas — make the mistake of confusing the West with Christendom. As a matter of fact, they are two opposite and contrary ideas. The West was built upon a rejection of Christianity, and the military and political overthrow and suppression of Christendom, initiated in the Deformation, the French Revolution and finally crowned by Robber-Council "Vatican II" which decreed that Catholic states, which, unlike Protestant states, still upheld the Christian principle of the responsibility of the state as much as individuals to confess the True Faith, to root out these constitutional measures and to enshrine the contrary Protestant principle of "separation of church and state".Helping Needy Is A Moral Duty: M.P.
Mandrem, Pernem, Goa, August 29: North Goa M.P., Shripad Naik, has said that a person should not forget his community ("samaj") and it is one's moral duty to strive hard for the cause of the poor and needy belonging to one's community as well as from other communities. He was speaking at the recently convened Pernem Taluka Gomantak Bhandari Samaj's "Melava" (gathering) at the community's hall in Pernem.
That is, until the Robber-Council "Vatican II" abolished the Biblical Law of God, and adopted instead the Protestant heresy of separation of church and state, most of Latin America and South-West Europe had formally included in their constitutional law the Biblical Law that the State had a duty to confess Catholicism to the exclusion of any other religion. But following "Vatican II", the Roncalli-Montini kleptocracy arm-twisted states like Venezuela and Colombia, etc., to remove these laws.
A fundamental principle of Protestantism, and therefore, also of Westernism, is the exaltation of the individual over all other values. Building on individualism is the innovation of the "nuclear family", supplanting the natural extended family sanctified by Catholicism. Under the new ideas of Westernism and individualism, the aged are considered an unnecessary burden and are shunted out into factory farms to process them — euphemistically styled "Homes for the Aged".
This is part of a larger plan by the Noahides and Freemasons to inculcate a spirit of misanthropy by dehumanising and degrading man to the level of mere farm beasts — which are disposable when they have outlived their "utility".
In sharp contrast to the de-Christianized and Westernized "Christians" of Goa, are the Hindus, who continue to hold to traditional family- and clan-unity values, which is why they have overtaken Christians in economic progress! Remember the old saw: "United we stand, divide we fall"? The Goan Cristao cannot remember! He is too hypnotized by MTV and FTV and is too busy memorising the Catechism of Westernization — Guitars, English pop music, rock and other New Age garbage!
Another article, a letter by a child, appearing in the Junior Herald supplement to the O Heraldo, supplies the perspective on the attitude of these denaturalized, de-Christianised and Westernised Cristaos of Goa:
Goa, under Portuguese auspices, had a unique institution called "Poscem". Poscem were the orphans and abandoned children that the State placed with foster parents who committed to bring them up as their own. Of course, there were abuses, as every system is capable of being misused and abused. However, on the whole, the system worked well and was a great benefit to Goan society as a whole.Love & Respect The Elderly
By Lucy Fernandes, 10 years, Gogol, Margao. Junior Herald, Sunday, August 28, 2005:
I was happy to read the article "The Grand Generation" on our elderly people, which appeared in Junior Herald of July 24, 2005. I liked the way Cosme explained why we must love our grandparents. Yes, we must love our elderly people and respect them every day, and not put them in Old Aged Homes.
My class visited two Homes for the Aged last year. I was very sad to note the sorrow on their old people's faces. They looked so sad and lonely although they laughed and clapped when we sang. I think all of them were Catholics. They had rosaries in their hands and had scapulars around their necks. Some of them had medals, crosses and holy pictures of saints. Many of them had pictures of Venerable Father Agnelo.
I was shocked and wondered why people put their elderly family members in homes for the Aged. I was shocked that Catholics also could do such things.
The Poscem system is no longer followed in Goa. However, a new phenomenon has begun among Goans, both in Goa and elsewhere. This is the Orissa maid phenomenon. Goans, who tend to be relatively better off than most Indians, have been importing girls from the tribal region of Western Orissa, Jharkhand and Chhatisgarh, mostly Christians since the last hundred years, and using them to do all the household and menial work. Frequently, these girls are minors as young as eight years or less. For their work all day, longer usually than eight or twelve hours, and being at one's beck and call, they are usually paid a pittance, if at all. What is worse is that many of them are brought in through the mediation of Goan priests and nuns posted in that tribal region.
All of this — procuring and employment of minors, etc. — is not only illegal, it is also immoral and contrary to Christianity. Christianity can only contemplate the Poscem system, which was its own creation.
Instead of welcoming in these needy — and Christian — young children into one's families and raising them as one's own, the Cristaos are exploiting them shamelessly like slaves and animals, and frequently with beatings and abuses thrown in.
The Junior Herald, again of August 28, 2005, has an article by a young Goan girl about a Orissa maid brought in to care for her lonely grandmother:
It is evident that Goans have drifted far from their moral moorings. It is astonishing that Junior Herald could publish a story like this without pointing out the violation of the laws involved. But what is more evident is that Goa urgently needs a social reform movement — a Christian movement, and not a merely secular movement — to bring Goans back to the Christian values first instilled in us by the missionaries when we first converted in the 1500s.My Friend Sonyari
By Mysia Paes, Std. 8, Bhatikar Model High School.
It happened two years ago, in the month of May. I was excited when I learnt that my grandmother had brought a girl from Jharkhand as companion. Her name is Sonyari.
She takes care of my grandmother when my aunt is not at home. She also does all the household chores systematically. Her favorite chore is to water the plants. She spends much time in doing so. She explained that there is a particular way of doing so. Whenever I help to water the plants, she tells me that I have to put a little water at a time and shows me how much to put.
She once told me that her mother named her so, because she was born on a Saturday.
Whenever I go to stay at my grandmother's house, Sonyari tells me about her life and friends in her native village. She explained that in Jharkhand things are much cheaper than here in Goa. At the same time, she disclosed that so many things available in Goa are not found in Jharkhand. She lamented the fact that Jharkhand is not as developed as Goa — in fact the villages and even the one where Sonyari lives lacks even in basic amenities. There are no proper roads, water supply and electricity. To add to their woes, they have to walk long distances to reach the nearest health center. She will go home for a holiday soon and hopes to see much improvement in her home state.
Sonyari is a plumb, fun-loving, enthusiastic and intelligent young girl. She speaks Hindi, Konkani and two other tribal languages. She often looks into the Junior Herald and asks me to tell her who has done the drawings, who has won the prize and she also tells me to tell her the stories in Hindi. Within a year of her coming to Goa, Sonyari learnt Konkani. In fact, my grandmother often tells me that Sonyari speaks Konkani better than I do. In the couple of years that she has been living with us, she has become a part of the family. She has become my friend. I like her very much.
When she goes home for the holidays next year, we will surely miss her. She has promised to return through, for she says she misses us too.
Brother Portugal, You Have A Mote In Your Eye!
As a Goan, I have always wondered at the vehemence of the Indian pretension to and over Goa. There is a big song and dance made about Ram-manohar Lohia, who agitated for India to invade and annex both Goa and Nepal, by his cultees.India was obsessed with the pretended "sad plight" of the then half-million Goans under the pretended "oppression" at the hands of the White Portuguese, but has cared a damn for the plight of the hundred of millions of its own subjects, suffering under centuries of caste oppression, degradation and dehumanisation!
It is a fact that Lohia was only bothered with coveting other people's lands, while he did zilch to improve the socio-economic situation obtaining, from his time to this day, in his native Bihar! This is the mark and measure of his hypocrisy — a point on which I am willing to challenge any comers!
Few things underline this fact than the series of reprints from "50 Years Ago" appearing in the Asian Age, Bombay, from late July 2005 to mid-August 2005, of the hysteric doings of the Indian trespassers on the Goa borders (see 1955 Encroachments).
By way of contrast, we have an interesting article appearing, again in the Asian Age, Aug., 20, 2005, L.C. Jain's "58 Years Of Freedom? Think Of The Dirt-Poor".
India is a large country, large enough to be pre-occupied with itself and its own challenges. It is not, by nature, a poor country, for it has large and extensive deposits of minerals and fossil fuels of various kinds, more than sufficient to provide it its own needs. Its forests and fields are more than enough to supply it its own foods and industrial needs. After the period of chronic wars was ended by English conquest and pacification, and large areas of abandoned lands and fields reopened to agriculture, India's population once again boomed, and continues to boom; India's population comprises large caste and clan formations, the members of which have had, for centuries, concentrated on specialized skills, crafts and arts. The education system bequeated by England produced and continues to produce millions more of educated and skilled persons: technicians, engineers, doctors, architects, scientists, entreprenuers and the like; so much more than adequate for India's needs, that they are desperate and willing to emigrate under subhuman conditions!
So large and so well-endowed a country did not need to rob and impose itself upon its tiny and inoffensive neighbor Goa or the equally tiny Sikkim or Manipur, without which it could do well without. Yet rob it did. This is because India was never self-confident and relf-reliant but has always suffered under the ideological blight of paganism and infidelity, so that it covets the resources of other peoples in order to cannibalize them for its own consumption and growth.
India is large enough and rich enough to provide every Indian with reasonable clothing, housing and employment. Yet, millions of its people have been traditionally oppressed and dehumanized in accordance with the satanic and misanthropic tenets of Hinduism, a disease which spills over to infect unwary and ill-informed Christians too! Nor is this in the past, but continues even today.
Bombay and other large cities do not need to be choked by slums. India can afford to house these people. Bombay has more than adequate land to house its population and provide for industrial and commercial space. India has the raw materials to build homes for its homeless; with an approximate 30% employment rate, overflowing granaries, and a burgeoning rural and urban population begging for employment and food, it has the manpower and resources to build homes and factories and markets and shopping arcades to house and employ its teeming masses. It has more than adequate food, which it permits to rot in its overburdened Food Corporation of India godowns and silos, even despite the intervention of the courts which ordered that the excessive foodgrains be distributed free to the poor and starving — an order that is sedulously ignored, in keeping with the tenets and principles of Hinduism!
It is small wonder then, that India is so much visited by the wrath of God. I am confident that God will deliver it once again into the arms of those who rise up against her, as He has done for ages, for her inequities abound without ceasing!
2 Nations: Marathi Gomantak vs. Concannim Goeam
An interesting article appeared in Bhailo Narayanan's "Goan Observer" of August 27 - Sept. 2, 2005, titled, "Few Takers For Marathi Schools".In the womb of Mother Goa, like in Mother Rachel's womb, two nations and two people fight and contend for supremacy. Out of Rachel's womb came the coarse and boorish Esau Edom and Israel or Jacob the Supplanter. Esau cavalierly sold his birthright to Jacob for a pot of mess. God found favor with Jacob, whom he made into Israel, the father of the nation of Israel, putting aside Esau.
In Goa, the Hindus seceded from the Christians when the Christians abandoned the grotesque barbarities and satanisms of Hindu paganism for salvation in Jesus Christ, Son of God, which He won for us, not by precious stones, gold or silver, but by pouring out His own Precious Blood in reparation for the sins of all mankind. The Hindus have always hated us since then, and plotted against us. They called us and call us "filthy", or Chee Chee, a word that they used even for the English and which has passed into the English dictionary (The Hindus consider all foreigners, and all those who abandon Hinduism, to be "Maleechas" or dirty barbarians).
Goa was the name of a city, not a land. Yet, the Hindus have fabricated unto themselves a name, Gomantak, which is the form for the name of a land or territory, not a city. This is part of their deliberate positioning of themselves as separate and distinct from us, the Christians.
As part of their secession from unity with us, they have, by and large, abandoned the Concannim tongue and have adopted the foreign Marathi language, both for religious and secular purposes. The Hindus of Goa, by and large, with small exceptions, pretend to be Marathi, not Concannim!
As a result of the invasion and occupation of Goa, the Occupation "Government" of Goa has set up Marathi-medium government schools. Despite the passage of so many years, and the passage of so many laws and language agitations, there are still no Concannim-medium schools run by the "Government" of Goa in Goa!
Re-Educating Xri Anilbab Salgaocar
The Navhind Times, Ponjhe, August 25, 2005, carried a large advertisement placed by Anil Vassudeo Salgaocar felicitating Vixwasrao Datta Chougulo on his 90th. birthday.The advertisement continued to say:
I have news for Xri Anilbab, though it may break his purulent heart. Anilbab has not been reading Bombay newspapers. He lives in a dreamworld. Goa is better of without being part of that disease called Maharashtra. Goa would have been utterly destroyed and reduced to the same condition that is barely better than that of Bangladesh if it had been absorbed into Maharashtra. Anilbab himself would have suffered greatly, along with his entire family of parasites, as would that other virulent parasite, Chougulo himself."On this auspicious day of his 90th. birthday today,
Had we shared his vision of Goa and
endeavoured ourselves to realize it,
Goa would have merged with Maharashtra.
And we would have been free from anarchy, loot and misery,
That we all Goans are now in and forever stand condemned to be."
If things were bad in Bombay and in the rest of Maharashtra state under the incompetent, malicious and greedily exclusive rule of the philistine Marathi, things went much worse on "Black Tuesday", July 26, 2005. The long-suffering inhabitants of Bombay overcame their terror of the Marathi terrorists of the Shiv Sena, declared that enough is enough and demanded that Bombay be separated from the incompetent nincompoops and cannibalizing parasites that ruled Maharashtra. Merger with Maharashtra? Hey man, wake up! Bombay wants out! And it is not only Bombay which has had enough of Maharashtrian nonsense, but even the people of the districts of Colaba and Thana, who suffered so much on that day, and who have not had any proper remedy to their sufferings and losses!
Which dreamworld are you inhabitating? Take your mug out of that pat of sacred cowdung in your profound adoration of your mother-goddess the cow and her divine arse, portal of the devas; stop inhaling those delirious parfumes and look around you. Hey man, Ramadasa and Shivaji are history; Kakodkar is spent and the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Pox, Pratapsinh Rane, Manohar Half-Ticket Parricar, etc., will be flushed down into the sewers of history soon! Wake up, man! Take a reality check!
Goan Prodigal Son: The Art Of Being
A Good, Domesticated Beggar In His Own Home!
It has been a fundamental part of the Hindu and Indian program of lies and brainwashing of the Goans, that they, the Christians, are the minority of Goa's population. I have already challenged and debunked this lie several times, and more recently, in one of my recent pages [GoanCenter Message # 813 | http://www.geocities.com/prakashjm45/goan-demographics.html]. The O Heraldo of August 29, 2005, has a statement by Francisco Sardinha, "Speaker" of the Goan Occupation "Legislative Assembly", titled "Be United, Congress Party Is With You, Speaker Tells Minorities". "Minorities" according to the Occupation Regime, included the Christian majority of Goa, while the Hindu minority is the "Majority"!
What this statement boils down to is that Goans should content themselves to be second-class citizens in Goa, and to be ruled by the usurping Hindu traitor-minority! We are being instructed that we must be "loyal" and "obedient" in our own house, towards the robbers and usurpers, our ancient enemies, in return for which, from our own food, and from our own table, crumbs will be thrown down to us!
The Serpent's Forked Tongue!
The Bombay Mirror, Sept., 2, 2005, has a statement by Manmohan Singh, P.M. of India, categorically and public assuring a delegation of Meiteis that "Manipur's boundaries can not be altered," rejecting the Naga demands that the Naga majority areas of Manipur state be merged into Nagaland state. By that he means that the Nagas have no democratic right to not be ruled by the Meiteis even in Naga majority lands and no right to be part of a united Nagaland, but must consent to be ruled by the Meiteis and to be second class citizens as a "minority"! What I cannot understand is that, if this is the public position of the Indian government, what is the purpose of the talks being held between the Naga Freedom-Fighters and the Indian invaders? The Indians are always insincere and untrustworthy, and it is high time that the Nagas realized that, gave up the fruitless process of negotiations and return to expelling the invading barbarians by armed forces. Long live Free Nagalim!Bhailem Bhailanc Dandoiteleth?
The Indians will go to any extreme to deceive Goans and to lull them into inaction. At the moment, seeing the Goans becoming uneasy and starting to mobilize, the Indians, resorting to their ancient trickery, seek to divert attention by raising the bogeys of Roman Script Concannim and the debate over the Dabolim and the proposed Mopa airports.Goans can see well enough that Indian colonists have come to outnumber them and make them socially and economically irrelevant within Goa. That is causing some Goans to mobilize. In order to divert attention, one Bhailo (Outsider), the Malabarese Rajan Narayanan, has, in his "Goan Observer" weekly, raised the bogey of Bhailem, outsiders, overwhelming Goa.
Thus, in the "cover story" of the Goan Oberver, August 20-26, Rajan Narayanan himself has authored the story of the Immigrants and the threat they pose to Goa: "Migrants Call The Tune". Watch how carefully the Bhailo picks his words; he will not call them immigrants or colonists, which is what they are, but merely "Migrants". What is a "migrant". Even a native of Goa who relocates from his native Saxti, say, to Ponjhe, is a "migrant"!
And so, what is this? A Bhailo will lead Goans in their campaign against Bhailem? Narayanan must think that we are all idiots — a illusion that many Goans have worked hard to uphold!
In a letter to the Editor, a Joel Goncalves writes of the situation in the O Heraldo of August 31, 2005:
In Orda, near Candolim in Bardez, Indian immigrants are purchasing forested hilly lands, levelling them using heavy earth-moving equipment, selling the soil and flattening the land to make way for colonies of more immigrants. This also leads to landslides. And while Goans face problems to make ration cards (a kind of social security card), immigrants are given ration cards in exchange for a promise to vote for the politician giving them the cards! Again, while immigrants are being given voter's identity cards, Goans are finding that their names have been deleted from the voters' lists!Goans have made fools of themselves, confiding themselves to the hands, honor and trust of the Bhailem, in the fond delusion that they will rescue us. Believe me, they are here, not to rescue us, but to prey upon us and, indeed, to devour us up entirely! If we permit ourselves to be decoyed once again by the Bhailem in reposing our trust in them, we will have only ourselves to blame!
"Please Don't Wake Up!"
O Heraldo on Sunday, August 28, 2005 carried a report by an Andrew Pereira, "Goa Must Know The Truth", pg. 15.It is a report on the project by a "Rishad" de Cruz of Moira, Bardez and a Bruno Varela, from European Portugal, to make a film on the Rape of Goa, or, as India and the traitors-quislings call it, the "Liberation" of Goa, December 1961.
Cruz e Varela promise an "unbiased" documentary, that will chronicle the events leading upto 1961, and each of the three viewpoints present in Goa at that time: Goans who refused to withdraw from allegiance to Lisbon; traitors who wished Goa to be occupied by India and some Goans who dreamt of an "independent Goa".
To me, what this seems to be, is merely a "requiem" for the Goa that was, and which was criminally invaded and occupied by India; it seems to be yet another request to Goans to keep on slumbering while Goa is raped and destroyed utterly!
I repeat unceasingly — Goa and Goans have only one business and one mission: Liberate Goa from India. Communidades, Bhailem, Dabolim, Roman script Concannim, etc., are all secondary issues and must be kept aside until Goa is liberated and restored to unity with Portugal. After liberation, I am willing to countenance a plebiscite whether Goa should be independent or continue to be an associate state of Portugal, though I believe that Goa has no moral or legal ground to alter this relationship or to sever it!
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