Drugs at Sunburn obvious
Jan 9th, 2010 | Category: UncensoredYOU DO not have to be a doctor or a cop to know that the people who patronised the Sunburn festival were high on illegal substances. One could openly see young girls and boys struggling unstably to reach their cars and lying down in piles near the Candolim beach. No normal music-loving person could tolerate such distortion of sound. The sound itself is a clue that drugs are involved. Why do only trance/rave festivals attract drugs and not classical or jazz festivals? Reports in dailies state that such sound can be endured only by an intoxicated mind. Like the Mumbai police, the Goa police should have conducted saliva detection tests at the venue and cracked down on the Sunburn social networking site. Dillydallying by the Goa police and government officials in this matter put the children and youth of Candolim in a precarious position.
This is more than a case of noise pollution. One life has already been lost, perhaps they are waiting for some more of our own children to die or become drug addicts and peddlers to permanently shut down this rave party.
Walter De Mello,
Mumbai.
PRICE RISE
In just a few months after the general elections, the prices of all essential commodities have gone up steeply. There is no hue or cry from any quarter, except for some news item and unnoticed morcha at two-three places. One can recollect the issue was blown out of proportion when the onion price went up. Even the governments of some states fell and, now, all limits are broken and still everybody is calm as if nothing has happened. Most of the essential items have touched the hundred mark and other items will follow it shortly. The Agriculture Minister himself is advocating and supporting the price rise, or rather giving hints to hoarders that they are free to go on increasing the prices. The government is now planning to recover tax (new) retrospectively.
We are a unique breed in this country; we have brought the same group to power, who is now free to do anything for the next five years. We have to blame ourselves for this mess and not those politicians, who have got every right to enjoy at our cost. We were not interested in big concessions in lakes, and are happy with some minor provisions of few thousands here and there.
It is time to wake up and act strongly or pretend to remain dormant, saying some one else is responsible and he will fight for us!
B V S Priolkar,
Margao.
OPEN LETTER TO CM
On January 16, 2010 Goa will commemorate the 43rd anniversary of the Opinion Poll as the "Goycho Osmitai Dis" (Goan Identity Day).Nowadays there seems to be change in the tendencies of Goans and everybody seems to be waking up from deep sleep and often found worried about the identity of Goans. Yes we were very much concerned when the issue of Regional Plan 2011 and SEZ propped up. These obnoxious issues would have reduced Goans as minority beings in our own land.It was because of the grand work of the first opposition leader in the legislature Assembly late Dr Jack de Sequeira, who had laid down a very strong foundation by defeating the pro-mergers faces and winning the country’s first opinion poll in 1967, that had automatically settled the issues of Goan Identity. I remember that one of our organisations from Merces Civic and Consumer Forum had submitted the first memorandum on December 30, 2005 to the Government of Goa asking for a life size statue of our late Dr Jack de Sequeira and to include his name in the history books, but till date nothing has been done. It seems that our ministers and MLAs have not taken the necessary steps to implement their own resolution that was passed by former MLAs in the Legislative Assembly on March 18, 1994.Our late J B Gonsalves and late Anant Narcinva Naik were the architects to pass the resolution but our present politicians think otherwise as they have failed to understand that it was Dr Jack de Sequeira who provided them the opportunity to represent them in the Legislative Assembly. Today, Goa would have been a small district of Maharashtra if the result of the Opinion Poll did not go the way of maintaining the unique identity of Goans. None of the ministers or MLAs bother to do some thing and keep Dr Sequeira’s image alive.On behalf of our organisation "Goykaranchi Konkani Bhas, Songit Kala ani Sonskrutai Kendr" Merces-Goy, I would once again urge the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Goa to honour the service of the First Opposition Leader in the Legislative Assembly by installing the statue of the Father of Opinion Poll late Dr Jack de Sequeira.We request our aam aadmi government to honour it’s assurance in letter and spirit.
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