Justice Misra awfully ill-treated?
Highly condemnable is the so outrageous manner in which Justice P.K. Misra was ill-treated after relinquishing office as Goa Lokayukta on September 17. The very next day his official car was withdrawn so was his security cover and staff at his official bungalow. The outstanding 73-year -old former Chief Justice of the Patna High Court should have been treated courteously especially after the yeoman service he rendered to the State as Lokayukta and earlier as Chairman of Goa Human Rights Commission. The manner in which Justice Misra was humiliated is very revengeful but comes as no surprise being an act of ruthless politicians who cannot deal with the truth.
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In 1999 we saw how then Chief Secretary S.R.Sharma was so unceremoniously suddenly moved out of Goa. His office at the Secretariat was locked by the political masters while he was left stranded with his vehicle and even the staff at his official bungalow withdrawn.
Very sad memories also still linger of yet another very upright DGP R.S.Sahaye who was suddenly and very rudely shunted out of Goa in 2000.
An extremely heartbroken 55-year-old R.S.Sahaye returned to Delhi and soon breathed his last after a massive heart attack. I met him just before he left Goa and after a long chat with that refined officer, I could sense how bitter he was over the very shabby treatment meted out to him for refusing to toe the line and bow to the whims and fancies of the political masters.
Justice P.K.Misra will leave Goa with similar bitter memories on how he was awfully ill-treated after his retirement by a State which is otherwise known worldwide for its hospitality.
Tiny acts of kindness can yield big results. Vengeful acts can only come to haunt the wrongdoers. It’s called Karma! Sylvester Stallone, the famous actor observed ‘There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone’.
Aires Rodrigues, Ribandar
Boost tourism
Corona has dealt a serious body blow to tourism. To say that tourism is a key sector for boosting a country’s economy would be an understatement. World tourism has come a long way because tourism makes a human being modest; a tourist deciphers how small a part he is in the vast landscape of tourism. International governments always aim to infuse “responsibility” in travellers; responsible travellers, aware of their obligations towards maintaining the purity of a tourist destination, are godsend to tourism.
Genuine tourists carry more than mere memories with them; they take away loads of new culture. However, ‘mere travellers’ leave their ‘culture’ behind. To put it another way, the ugly sight of India’s rich tourism sites can be attributed to the wayward ways of the travellers. India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is contributed by tourism to the extent of nearly six percent, so tourists are a state’s assets.
Employment in India, with as much as 25 million workers earning their livelihood in the tourism industry, has nosedived. Especially when the country happens to be a fast growing tourist destination for foreigners, and in the next ten years India hopes to become the third quickest growing global tourist destination, even a season of unprecedented slackness may have long term repercussions. It is a daunting task for the government to reinvent itself to oversee the orderliness of key tourism places. The essence of “connectivity, cleanliness, certainty”, that makes a tourist place much sought after, has threatened to disintegrate subsequent to the pandemic.
Government has the responsibility to advertise the latest developments on the tourism front. Long distance tourism is yet to resume with a bang. International travel will take its time, but further opening up the skies for domestic tourism, with more balanced safety protocols, will boost tourism.
Ganapathi Bhat, Akola
Another gain for Roman script Konkani
This is in reference to the news item in Herald dated Sept 24 on “When Britain said Dev Borem Korum” and that too in Roman Script Konkani is yet another gain for Roman script Konkani which is very much ignored by the proponents of Nagri script Konkani.
These Nagrivadis whom we can count on our finger tips have done great injustice to Romi Konkani when its protagonists have played a pivotal role not only in raising the banner of Konkani high but more than that by campaigning hard to get reognition for Konkani thereby paving the way for the granting of Statehood for Goa. The sacrifices of Romi followers were so high that besides spending heavy amount of money to promote Konkani movement, more than 5 Romivadis suffered the martyrdom. Almost the entire movement of Konkani during its last phase in mid- eighties spearheaded by the Romi followers.
Inspite of this the few Nagrivadis ignored the needs and sentiments of Romivadis. Once again I indicate my disapproval over the injustice done to Romi Script Konkani.
Since the passing of the language bill there is more distance created between Romi and Nagri scripts Konkani and if this situation is not revised there is every possibility for this distance to increase more. What both the Scripts jointly can do for the cause not only of Konkani but also of Goa, individually the Nagrivadis will never be able to do. On the contrary the Nagrivadis will allow the Marathi to swallow the Nagri Script Konkani thereby creating a vacuum of official language in Goa.
In Jerusalem in “Pater Noster” Church, the prayer “Our Father…” was kept inscribed in colourful ceramic in ROMAN SCRIPT among other 150 languages. When the World gives due importance to Roman Script Konkani our own Konkanivadis are ignoring it. It is the time now for me to awaken all the concerned and many others and ask them what you have done was right?
A.Veronica Fernandes, Candolim
