The Rape of Goa by Mr. Rajan Parrikar

The more we read the more we are getting the facts right about the destruction that has been taking place in our beautiful Goa. Goa know for its renowned churches , temples beautiful beaches and breath taking sceneries and the most seeked after destinations of the travel world Today the scene in Goa is changed by the money laden outsiders who have pounced on every inch of our land right from the city ouskirts to the interiors of our peaceful villages . They have invaded the remotest of our remote village for the sole purpuse of making money and selling our beautiful motherland to the rich bold outsiders who have very little concern about Goan culture and the Goan People at large. Mr Rajan Parrikar who is a social activist has come up with a well factual information about the whole episode of destruction of our beautiful mountains and concretization of our villages. the following links will lead you to the most saddened phase of our Goanness

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where have all the GOAN Gone?

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This above titled article is written by Mr. Wendell who alike his other friends are making a strong point towards the migrant influx and how the Goan populace is reducing to a minority, according to NT (dated 12.05.08) out off 13 lakhs Goans 20 % could be the migrant community who has made Goa their home for all the unsruplous reasons. Our land has been sold to the outsiders by the greedy Goans wthout any second tought of keeping Goa for the Goans . In villages we find scores of Goans staying in rented rooms some having owned big and small properties. There is this case of a garder's family who migrated from the north of India to find a job and a rented room in Candolim. They have been working for the last few years with no change in profession but have managed to lure the landlady in selling them her small plot and not only that but have obtained loan and constructed rooms to let for foreigners .They have elevated from the profession of a garderner to a landlord and a hotelier . Howz that for a Goan tenant of the same land lady whose fate has not still changed only thing that has changed for him is that now he has got a new outsider as a batkar.
Things are changing in our small beautiful Goa and unless we start a movement of awareness about the core issues of Land for the Goans and stop the influx of migrants into GOa, we will see a time when a ghanti will call himself a Goan and the minority Goan will have to vote a migrant as a MP , a Chief minister, a local panch and so on( mind you we already have some yallapas as sarpanchas in a few panchayats.
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keep land for our future Goans

As Mr Rajan Parrikar has highlighted the migrant danger (herald dated 5th May) these are issues where in if not dealt with now, will have a greater impact on our future generations. What are we preserving and keeping for our future generations? The Rich money bags that has decended on our small Goa will eat into each and every property of our anchestors leaving the middle class man with a no land to call his and to pass on to the next generations. Our money power in no thing compared to the outsiders who have manupulated the process of land deals and are inturn are responsible for the sky rocketing of the land prices in Goa. If one sees it on a broader perpective barring a few shippy goans and NRI's the average goan does not have the capacity to buy a flat or a peice of land to call it his to pass it on to his next generation. If the politicians who are the main cause of this debuncle are not sounded now and a law passed to keep goan land for the goans we will regret the delay in the future when our comming generatiosn will ask what we have kept for them to continue as Goans in Goa densly invaded by the outsiders. appeared on herald newpaper

The Goan Identity

There has been a wave of resentment within the susegad Goankars over the last couple of months about the unabetted construction , hill cutting and destroying of our beautiful Goa.The issue of scarlet keeling , the debate on NDTV where in the media had a feast on the cost of the susegad goan and minted money to show us in bad light. Althought prominent citizens did tried to keep the balance on isssues like Goan , Non Goan and the anti Goan, it was sad the way Goans issues and identities were discussed in public and that to on a national media. I myself was born in the gulf where my father struggled to give us good and happy life, but he never kept us there to enjoy the slaveryand indiscrimination in a alien land but he brought us to Amchem Goam and gave us education and a Goan Life to the fullest. I do not regret that I dont have a permanat place to call my own as I am still living as a tenant in a land lords property but no regrets I have my idetity intact and will keep it that way And am not ashamed to be a Goan although a middle class . Just a few days back I read a reader speak(herald dated 21.04.08) where in a gentlemen who stays in Uk says he is half goan because his father married a english lady and He is ashamed to call himself even a half goan due to the bad develompments that has taking place in our beautiful Goa( more emphasising on the looting of aged UK holidaying couples by our youth) . The time has come that we view our identity in a broader format and expand our horizons where we as Goans cans be never ashamed of ourselfs and not let others take advantage of our susegadpon . Let every goan have a brighter view of the Goanidentity , lets wright our mind off and let others know what the real Goan is all about. This post is for Goans at large, He may be in any part of the world express your views here where I intend to bring together all those goans with different views but one identity Goancar. Lets hear it from you'll
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