A mother’s womb is a sacred place for each one of us. We all lived in her womb and she took good care of us all suffering for nine long months prior to seeing the light of this earth which should be the most sacred place in the life of every human being where we begin and end our journey called life.
We all are very well aware that we are here to go. So why do most us turn out to be selfish and greedy throughout our life? It’s a very simple truth that we all depend on this planet and it’s not the other way round but sadly we have destroyed enough of this beautiful planet despite knowing that we all will leave this planet with nothing one day, some day. The way we act, it looks like we are the sole owners of this earth when there are so many other species having equal rights as humans. We even destroy their habitat and when they started to enter our boundaries, we thought of officially declaring them as vermin. We even went to the extent of allowing mafias to pollute our clean/fresh air and water, in the name of industrialisation thus proving the true qualities of us, humans.
Do well known liars ever speak the truth and stick to their word? Once termed dallals turned out to be their saviours and our politicians speak about so called word. They lie, cheat, ruin, loot and when they die, we build their samadhis and fire few gun shots in the air as a mark of respect for all their wrong doings throughout their life. Some of them speak about feelings at home when they jump from one political party to another for personal political gains. Were they staying in gutters all these past years of their respective lives? Politicians like Jack Sequeira and company of those days saved Goa from merger with Maharashtra being in opposition when the ruling headed by Bandodkar was all out for merger and our 10 former Congress MLAs say they merged themselves into BJP for the overall development of their respective constituencies.
What exactly development means? Filling of Goa’s fertile land, razing of beautiful green hills, destruction of Goa’s thick forest, allowing cutting of thousands of coconut trees to make way for a beer factory when Goa had enough beer, selling of Goa’s rivers to the centre and now selling of Goa’s coastline to the mafias, etc?
The people in power even tried to kill their own people by allowing application of formalin to the fish imported from other States when Goa has enough fish for its own consumption. The incompetent FDA director even went to the extent of saying the presence of formalin in fish is within permissible limits thus trying to support the formalin fish mafia.
People of Vasco been forced to breathe air polluted with coal dust. Coal dust deposits are witnessed in houses and our politicians speak about development. People staying around the surroundings of Sonsoddo garbage dump were forced to breathe poisonous fumes and gases due to the recent burning of the dump and nobody really cares. For ages people in power has been trying to find a solution for Sonsoddo garbage dump but sadly we the people keep on voting for the same garbage since ages. We destroyed the natural smartness of our Goa and now we are planning smart cities. Lord have mercy on us all.
