The recent late night brutal attack on a God fearing lady while she was stepping into the building on the way up to her flat in the St Tome Ward behind Panaji Post office is an indication of the spiraling crime in the State. If this could happen in the heart of Goa’s Capital, one only […]
NEED TO CURB ACCIDENTS
The death of Cyprus Mistry should enlighten us not to over speed and to always wear seat belts. Everything possible needs to be done to curb the growing number of accidents and save precious lives. We need to be cautious while driving with zero tolerance to over speeding. All the rules of the Highway Code […]
HAVE THE EIGHT GREEDY SOULS LANDED THEMSELVES IN A POLITICAL HELL?
Those eight Congress MLAs joining the BJP was a daylight political dacoity befitting only gutter creatures. From six of them it could be expected, but from Aleixo Sequeira and Sankalp Amonkar this treachery was unforeseen. That the Nuvem MLA stooped so low and into the gutter, in his political twilight, and that Sankalp Amonkar who […]
INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT PERSONAL FREEDOM IS WORTH NOTHING
Independence has to be a reality and not a mere illusion. Speaking from the heart and with a fearless mind in tune with the current sordid ground reality, we could in fact celebrate that historic 15th August only when we are once again truly and factually independent being free from a dictatorial and despotic regime. […]
GOA’S NEW BREED OF “DEVIL”
Devils quoting the Holy Scriptures is old hat, a species that we had all heard of. But DEVILS seeking and getting God’s counsel and backing is a new breed altogether, emerging on the blessed soil of Goa. Digambar Kamat — “our” Digu who seems to be in the direct line of evolution from Luciferus of […]
JUDICIARY IS OUR LAST HOPE
With the fabric and integrity of political masters in Power awfully corroded and amidst a very dysfunctional politically manipulated Executive, the Judiciary plays a very crucial role in delivering Justice against skewed government decisions and awfully flawed legislations. Judiciary has had to take charge of Goa’s governance to a large extent in cracking the whip […]
PRAMOD SAWANT OWES HIS CM’S THRONE TO SUDIP TAMHANKAR
On 20th February 2017, Sudip Tamhankar had filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Branch against Pramod Sawant, the then Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly and Chairman of Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) alleging his acquisition of disproportionate assets, cheating, criminal breach of trust and criminal conspiracy. In that extensively documented complaint, Pramod Sawant […]
SIT DRAGGING ITS FEET IN LAND GRABBING BY JIT AROLKAR
Like that Special Investigation Team (SIT) which probed illegal mining, the current one inquiring into land grabbing is also ending up being another farce. This SIT has conveniently for over two months been dozing off on the complaint filed against Mandrem MLA Jit Vinayak Arolkar for having illegal grabbed and fraudulently sold property admeasuring 1,48,800.00 […]
NEED OF A SINCERE AND SUSTAINED WAR AGAINST DRUGS
The Haryana BJP leader Sonali Phogat’s death caused after being drugged has again brought into focus the malaise of the freely available drugs in the State. The drug trade in Goa has spread its tentacles very deep to every nook and corner across the State. What was earlier only in the beach belt has today […]
FROM SILLY SOULS TO NOW BLATANTLY LYING ONES
The Silly Souls imbroglio has rightly generated a lot of interest amongst the public, more particularly within our Goans across the globe. In the first week of June this year I got many calls from residents of Assagao that they were being disturbed with very loud music being regularly played at Silly Souls Café & Bar […]