Goa Diary

Minority face dumps RSSThe anti-Pope visit campaign by Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh had none other than form...

Minority face dumps RSS
The anti-Pope visit campaign by Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh had none other than former advocate general of Goa, Joaquim Dias, as its mascot. As president of VHP’s Sanskriti Raksha Mandal, Dias was presented as the main voice behind the demand for a Papal apology for the Portuguese inquisition.

Unfortunately for the Saffron forces the Goa-Delhi rathyatra was a damp squib except for some attention from the Western media. Even in Goa, the RSS machinery could not muster more than thousand supporters for their maiden rally. And to add insult to injury, even Dias turned against the RSS and accused it of `brainwashing’ him into supporting the yatra.

Dias who is in his 80s and ailing accused the RSS of dragging him from his sickbed to fulfill their agenda. Even their mascot turned his back on the loud demands of the RSS.

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CM’s pipedream
Goa Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro is desperately trying to imitate his Andhra counterpart Chandrababu Naidu. Last week Faleiro took the first steps to link every village of Goa by satellite, so that electronic governance can be implemented in the State.

The statewide area network proposed to be implemented in co-ordination with NASSCOM will however cost the cash-strapped State Government a few hundred crore rupees.

Naturally the bureaucracy which has been asked to arrange for the money is not happy at the least.

One senior bureaucrat was heard muttering that Luizinho Faleiro has finally lost touch with reality.

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Goa, a psychedellic haven?
Goa may be the susegad land of fun and feni for Indians, but the firangs know how to carry things far.

Type `Goa Party’ on any search engine on the internet and receive loads of party invites all over Europe, Asia and America. The highly illegal Goa trance parties are venues to experiment with mind altering drugs and some shedding of inhibitions.

By the way the mascots of the Goa trance parties are psychedellic `OM’s and dancing Ganeshas. Try banning them? Even Scotland Yard has failed.