The NCP’s Fermeena Khaunte, aspiring for a ticket from Porvorim, feels she deserves to be given a chance as she has worked hard and “saved the party”.

MANY YEARS ago, it used to be said that “cricket is a game where eleven fools play and eleven thousand fools watch”. That is now a cliché from a bygone era. Today, it’s the same eleven fools, but it’s probably a million odd fools who watch on the grounds and on television. And the eleven fools who play do so for a million bucks compared to the hundred odd bucks that players from the bygone era earned.

By Tara Narayan
ONE MORE for life and times in Mumbai, but no more medical and waste management system of the human body talk! As far as I am concerned, the best way to keep your waste management system in pristine condition is to eat as close to Mother Earth as possible and clear your stomach […]

By Nida Sayed
IN OLDEN days, taverns and private houses where beer or wine could be bought had a branch or bunch of ivy hung up outside, ivy being sacred to Bacchus, the god of wine in Greek mythology. Sometimes shops that sold wine had a picture of a bush outside. However, the saying went, if […]

How often do you hear people grumble about being “packed like sardines” in a bus? Who is to be blamed?

Seamen aboard the ill-fated Costa Concordia speak to GO on their return home.

AND a few more stray thoughts and a few more observations for yet another Sunday. For a Sunday following the week when I realised that getting out of Goa by air is far more easier than getting into Goa because all of Mumbai wants to go to Goa every time there is a long weekend. For a Sunday following the week when the Election Commission’s decision to appoint an all-women team of observers drew flak from male bureaucrats. For a Sunday following the week when Manohar Parrikar, emulating the example of Digamber Kamat, is involved in appeasing slum colonies. For a Sunday following the week when Goa’s politicians were lobbying for tickets not only for themselves, but their relatives and friends.

The Congress bungling of the Regional Plan 2021 and medium of instruction in primary schools could cost the party in the forthcoming Legislative Assembly elections.
THE CONGRESS government in Goa depends heavily on Christian and Muslim minority votes during elections. It is especially the monolithic and centripetal voting behaviour of religious minorities in Goa that has […]

AS I am convalescing in Mumbai from major surgery to repair my waste management system, I’ve been getting messages from my friends in Goa asking me to liberate Goa from the chaalis chor or 40 thieves. Architect Dean D’Cruz, to whom I have sent a copy of my book on liberation, has replied with a message “Now that you have written a book on the liberation of Goa, can you get down to writing a book on how Goans can liberate Goa from the chaalis chor who form the Legislative Assembly of the state of Goa.” In the run up to the Assembly elections to be held on March 3, 2012, I can understand the agitation of my fellow Goans and their murderous rage or kolaveri over the choices on offer to them in the forthcoming elections.
The choice before the Goan electorate appears to be between a party now headed by communal ego maniac Manohar Parrikar, who is being projected as the leader of the BJP Legislative Party, and the caretaker chief minister the spineless Digamber Kamat. During the current tenure of the Legislative Assembly, Manohar Parrikar sought to polarise Goans on communal lines. Manohar Parrikar, whose party colleagues have been responsible for genocide in Gujarat and protecting fundamentalist lunatics like the Sri Ram Sene in Bangalore, has been indicted by the magisterial enquiry in the first ever communal riots that took place in Curchorem in 2005. Manohar Parrikar is a self-professed admirer of the butcher of Gujarat, Narendra Modi.

REGINALD LOURENCO told Gary Azavedo that he doesn’t think the public’s disillusionment with the Congress over allegations of corruption will cost them come election time.