Does Goa really want tourists to come here? On New Year’s Eve we were invited to attend a function at the Osbourne Resort Hotel in Calangute. We arrived to a very nice setting and prepared to enjoy a nice time. There were about 200 guests and guess what? The police arrived at 6.15 pm with a Court Order revoking the music license which had allowed for music to be played until midnight. What a shock to all in attendance some of whom were visiting Goa for the first time and in turn said they would not be returning to spend New Year’s Eve with no music.
It would appear that this was all due to the work of a neighbour! What a pitiful person. The Order was served after all offices were closed so there was nothing that the Management could do to rescind same. We understand that music was played in other places, between Candolim and Baga, until the early hours of the morning. What is good enough for one is surely good enough for all.
Alan Rawlinson, Calangute
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Saligao shining
In the past we had heard about the development taking place in Gujarat, about the bumper crops there, the bustling townships, smooth and broad highways well lit up , thriving industries, garbageless streets etc and now after Modi has become the PM everybody will now believe this story as this development and growth has been brought right to our doorsteps.
Infact we salute our MLA Dilip Parulekar (may his tribe increase!) for the wide broad highways, new market complex, the illumination at night, garbageless fields and roads etc which his predecessor could not achieve. Infact our previous MLA could have broadened the Mapusa to Saligao road but at that time the excuse he gave was that he will have to cut the coconut trees lining this road as he felt that it was a scenic palm-avenue as though anyone cares about the trees and the beauty! But no sooner Dilip took over he has broadened all the roads and put beautiful street lights all along just like one sees in Gujarat.
Infact now when one enters Saligao our church is obscured by these great lights which shine so bright that one truly feels like he is walking the streets of Ahmedabad or Vadnagar!
Albert B.C. D’Souza, Saligao
“PK” – A must watch movie
The Aamir Khan led Hindi movie “PK” which is currently running houseful in all the major theatres of India is one of the best sensible movie that I have come across in the recent years after “Oh My God” because it rightly shows how some people have turned our respective religions into a big money making business. This particular movie which has already gone to break all records does not target any particular religion or Gods (as being claimed by some Hindutva fanatics just to create trouble and to safeguard their own personal agendas) but rightly shows how some self-styled ‘Godmen’, ‘Baba’s’ etc are currently filling their own personal coffers by misguiding gullible people performing simple tricks to show them as miracles and taking people for a joyride.
The movie also tries to show how most people in our country go blindly wasting their precious time simply following only rituals at the behest of their religious heads and running after such self-styled ‘Godmen’ to solve their personal problems without even rationalizing things or using their own brains behaving like those dumb programmed robots.
The movie daringly goes to expose the hypocrisy/duplicity of all religious heads and even asks many unanswered questions with regards to some religious teachings. Aamir Khan as the alien “PK” has given the best performance of his life and so has Anushka Sharma as the reporter. This movie is a must watch for all those who truly believe in rationalizing things and know how to think with a positive mindset as truly normal born human beings. Three cheers to the makers of “PK” and the entire team.
Jerry Fernandes, Saligao
Invite Malala for R-Day
The US President Barak Obama has reportedly been invited to be the Chief Guest at the Republic Day parade in New Delhi this year. This is for the first time that a President of the United States of America will be chief guest for a Republic Day parade in India.
It would be in the fitness of things to invite the Nobel Peace laureate Malala from Pakistan as a guest for the Republic Day parade. This will send the right signal to Pakistan as to how much importance India attaches to peace in the region and the world at large and the need to carry forward the fight for the rights of
children.
Adelmo Fernandes, Vasco
