It was a very enlightening meeting today with Goa’s new Governor Satya Pal Malik at the Raj Bhavan. In our 30 minute frank and extremely very cordial interaction, I found our Governor to be very modest, practical and someone who believes in delivering good governance to the poorest of the poor. A gregarious personality with […]
Month: November 2019
AM NO STRANGER TO GOA RAJ BHAVAN
Will be paying a courtesy call on our new Governor Satya Pal Malik tomorrow on 15th November at noon. Recalling my first visit to the Goa Raj Bhavan (Cabo Raj Niwas, as it was then known) which was in 1971 at the age of 11 to meet the then Lt. Governor Nakul Sen with a […]
THE ERA OF SECRECY AT THE SUPREME COURT NOW ENDS AND IT MUST WALK THE TALK
The five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi has rightly held that the office of the Chief Justice of India is a Public Authority and comes within the ambit of the Right to Information Act. It was upsetting that the Supreme Court which over the years issued numerous directions for transparency and accountability in […]
HIGH SECURITY PLATE OR A MEGA FRAUD?
The so called High Security Registration Plate (HSRP) is yet another mega fraud on the vehicle owners and must be scrapped forthwith. The perpetrators of this scam must be brought to book. As there is neither a GPS chip nor any tracking device what is the high Security behind these sham number plates? The government […]
TIME FOR MR PROPERTY SAWANT TO PAVE WAY FOR GOA TO GET AN HONEST AND CAPABLE CM
Goa’s accidental Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has been a proven total failure on all fronts. He has displayed himself as a man of hollow and loose talk with no tangible action whatsoever. From Mining, to Mhadei and the Casinos he has been hoodwinking gullible Goans on every issue all along. But fortunately the people […]
MAY OUR NATION BE A SECULAR EXEMPLARY TO ALL MANKIND
Let us all solemnly vow to ensure that our India remains absolutely secular and very tolerant to all faiths and beliefs. We must always firmly believe that Temples, Mosques and the Churches besides other places of worship should be our focal points to unite diverse communities instead of creating rifts amongst us. We are after all children of that […]
PRAKASH JAVADEKAR SHOULD STOP PLAYING CAT AND MOUSE
It is absolutely outrageous and highly condemnable on the part of Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar for having feigned ignorance over the approval given by his Ministry to Karnataka for the project diverting water from the Mhadei. Javadekar had advance notice as to why the all party delegation from Goa was coming so it was […]
GOA IS EMBROILED IN AN ADMINISTRATIVE MESS UP
Very retrograde and skewed is the decision of the Goa Cabinet to relax the minimum educational qualification of Officers on Special duty (OSDs) to Ministers. With these OSDs being paid close to a lakh a month from the State coffers, the public are entitled to have well educated and qualified persons appointed to the post […]
GOA HAS LANDED FROM THE FRYING PAN INTO THE FIRE
With the exit of Governor Mridula Sinha after having stonewalled the RTI Act at the Goa Raj Bhavan denying transparency and accountability, we felt that with the appointment of Satya Pal Malik our State would see better days. But with the announcement now that our Raj Bhavan would be closed to the public for six […]
GOA LOSES AN INTELLECTUAL ICON
With the death of Fr. Romuald D’Souza, Goa stands academically and intellectually impoverished. He was a great Goan who excelled in his vision to enhance the educational levels in our State and the country. A very unassuming tall personality he always was, ever so candid and never minced words in all that he had to […]