and its so boring to read about sainiks from one limited place to another wanting to create identities amongst their own people - India. so by far and large is losing Her 'unity in diversity' culture to destructive human viruses, pervading in the guise of religion, caste, community and class ... a general malfunction of our elected dinosuars.
hate in Maharashtra via via the sainiks can be understood myopically, but, i lived it more recently in GOA, (the land of sun and all things exciting for the senses) is a cultivated thing of the past. Goans prefer being Portuguese as everything Indian. every regression that infrastructure and development ( aka population) brings to Goa ...its pointed as an Indian thing - outsiders.
When i did a programme on AIDS and how its inviegled its way into the middle class homes and the young generation (109 full blown deaths bet 2005 to 2008 ) - everyone pointed out to the Migrant labourers. did they like understand my question or subject or have the migrant labourers reached their homes and hearth?
what about the paedophilia and prostitution rackets that has overtaken goa in the name of tourism? is that an indian thing or foreign or once again a migrant affliction? methinks and knows it all Goan and just that!
and thats not all..... the susegaad goans believe that 500 years of the portuguese slavery here was much better than getting their independent status as Indians. ' i speak portuguese...i am learning a foreigh language 'portuguese'... am off to a foreign country this vacation - portugal... no, i dont speak hindi' is common.
all these things get vocal when you live there ...if you are holidaying, you would only be aware of how much they fleece you and nothing more. its all there until you decide to take off your rose tinted glasses about goa and you will see it even as you decide to swim the clear waters of ths beautifully stagnant place. needless to say i love goa .... even now. ok ok... i did meet a lot of wonderful people too and most of them have taken off for elsewhere. they know about their society and would rather hide in their shells.
i got sick of it all their dulplicity and crab mentality but mostly their unpatriotic attitude. and then if i have to get back to the rest of the other indians ....hate is still seeping in but its more political. it will not really really reach our hearths (touchwood!)
till then ... for the Mh situation and hindu human bomb squads, the leaders voicing it should know ' charity begins at home'.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
About Me
- controverShe
- journalist .... an unlucky one at that, for most of the reasons - but am honest about everything i do and state. i dont take money to publish stories like some others of my fraternity do...and i dont steal ideas for a mere story that might be news only for soem minutes over friendship,and yes, largely I am not afraid. i work for a whole lot of foreign media companies - american, british and european. am not always the reporter, but i also work as a fixer, local producer and as a translator.