RESPONSE TO YOGESH MARATHE By N Fernandes, London:

Goa should be as progressive State?

**NOTE: I am mindful and aware that some commentators have remarked that replying to Yogesh Marathe is a Pointless and fruitless exercise.

I am also mindful and aware of a request by P.Cruz, for unity in the face of many evils Goa has to confront today.

In my personal opinion and evaluation and assessment, Yogesh has demonstrated and continues to demonstrate, a distorted view of history and its facts, to serve the agenda of “DARK FORCES”. My current intelligence and hunch is that he is a humble servant, fanatic and radical, of an organisation that wishes to merge Goa with Maharashtra.

He has either elected himself or been appointed by agents to come and spew utter rubbish and upset the Niz Goenkar applecart.

He uses a “carrot and stick” approach. He seems to use and exercise suspicious politeness, but below that politeness is a hidden and darker agenda.

Having read Yogesh`s response to me, I conclude that it is more than laughable as it is loaded with his personal “Historical Comedy” and interpretations of words beyond their real and true meaning.

Suggest to Yogesh that India too has committed atrocities in Kashmir, Khalistan, Assam, etc…his answer is “ this is due to anti-Indian sentiments. I suspect the Portuguese,Sikhs,Kashmiris or Goans have “no right” to have such sentiments.

His reply to my article is full of crazy contradictions.

He has chosen “Bizarre Rhetoric” instead of common-sense or diligence to argue his case and facts.

World English Dictionary

rhetoric (ˈrɛtərɪk)  — n

1. the study of the technique of using language effectively

2. the art of using speech to persuade, influence, or please; oratory

3. excessive use of ornamentation and contrivance in spoken or written discourse; bombast

4. speech or discourse that pretends to significance but lacks true meaning: all the politician says is mere rhetoric

He has chosen to wear his skateboard and skate around and justify his own versions of history. In more simplistic terms-“He beats around the bush”

I commend Yogesh`s ability to write good grammar. But the misuse of words to support his case is blatantly “Comical”. I am sure many people will agree with me that a “POND” is not the “SEA” or “OCEAN. A “motive” is not “symbolism”. One leaf (RTI) does not make a TREE”. Also, “One swallow does not make a summer”.

He is of the belief along with the FF`s that the NRP Sagres arrived in Goa uninvited, without permission, and in defiance, to land with a re-colonising motive. This is what incited the Freedom Fighters to take exception and protest.

In my view the only gain the Freedom Fighters achieved is ridicule and further distrust. It was a demonstration and protest of sheer madness.

I am sure every intelligent person knows the meaning re-enactment.

Stories from the Mahabharata are re-enacted often. So too are Shakespeare’s plays. I am also sure that everyone knows what a commemoration is. I sincerely hope there is a difference between “commemoration of a sea voyage” and “commemoration of colonisation”. Commemorations and re-enactments do not have to be date specific or are not governed by strict guidelines.

I am sure, ”IF” intelligent diplomats in New Delhi felt the ships arrival was to celebrate re-colonisation, it would have advised against such a visit and send the might of all its warships to greet it. NRP Sagres is no more than a wooden Ship of a past era. The Portuguese too would be sensitive and exercise due diligence to such an event taking place.

Who`s action is right? New Delhi, or the semi & uneducated Freedom Fighters and Goan Politicians or a comical supporter, Yogesh.

India today, along with Goa too, has good diplomatic relations with Portugal.

They are all members of the United Nations. Such a body did not exist 500 hundred years ago.Portugal supports Indias membership as a permanent member to the United Nations Security Council.

Yogesh`s initial article questioned the dis-respect shown to the Freedom Fighters in comments that were made about them. He must begin to understand that we now live in a Democracy, where some will agree with the Ships arrival and purpose and others will disagree. That is our fundamental right.

If 80% of the FF`s are fake, as per Yogesh himself, who majority views is he choosing to defend?

It was not the real Freedom Fighters that were being criticised…..it was most definitely the fakes. Most Goans have an issue about the proven fakes.

The question that Goans ask, and rightfully so is: was Liberation Good for Goa.?

As far as Yogesh is concerned….it was, as it gave us a jewel.., the RTI Act. Approx. 45 years after Liberation.

I doubt Yogesh can distinguish a difference between Civilisations of the past and civilisations present. They are both the same, based on his, prejudices jurisprudence & comical justifications.

The World 500 years ago, had no Political systems as we know it today. There were no pre-defined borders.

Rulers, 500 hundred years ago were Dynastic Emperors’, Kings & Queens, and Dictators.If anyone complained…they would be hanged, garrotted, guillotined, burnt at the stakes, or fed to the Lions.

India had a very large share of Emperors’, Kings & Queens. All, at some point in history, were at each other’s throats. All of them, colonising and invading each other’s subjects, or religious beliefs.

Nazism, as per Yogesh, I suppose, is not a form of a “Crusade”, Invasion or Ideological & doctrinal colonisation.

Every Political system, regimes, forms of governance of the past, in every country as we know it in the modern world, have had a fair share of atrocities, wars, invasions, colonisations etc. Why is Portugal only being singled out. Portugal colonised Goa…the British, the majority of India. I do not hear about protests in what was British India. Why is it so?.

Since we are all Indians now, shouldn`t we condemn and protest at both, the British and Portuguese “forever more”.  I do not hear many protests from the Indian Side (British) of the divide. Why?

Both Colonizers have left India with a huge legacy.What have the Freedom Fighters of Goa left us with?...the RTI…highlighted by Yogesh. Is that not comical, to say the least.

Portuguese Churches, which existed side by side with Goa`s Temples are World heritage sites which earn huge Tourist revenue.

What is the current motive of the Goa Freedom Fighters?...unjustified taxpayers Money, Fear, political muscle,? Hasn`t the world moved on.?...or are we living in some sort of a Freedom Fighters time warp or suspension of TIME. circa 1961

In 20 years’ time, many of the FF`…fake and real, will have died and passed away into history. Who will be protesting about the arrival of NRP Sagres, when it re-enacts a sea voyage, if ever? Perhaps Yogesh!!!

Today Goa is slowly being decimated, inch by inch, minute by minute. There is a new form of colonisation taking place, right under the eyes of the freedom fighters and right at their doorstep too.

Goa`s new colonisers are, whether Yogesh agrees or not, or again chooses to skate around the truth and beat around the bush…, are the, Corrupt Politicians, Real estate companies, mining companies, hoteliers, un-controlled migration,Ghettoes & Nagars etc.

Yogesh is more concerned about the historical crimes committed by the Portuguese than by the current and far more severe crimes committed by Goa`s Politicians’, under the questionable “Freedoms” and “Liberty” won by the FFs.

Politics in Goa today is a family run business. It is a profit & loss based business operated by the likes of Churchills, Ranes, Monserattes etc.

There is one law for the rich and mighty and another for the poor. Let’s blame it on the Portuguese, while the Freedom fighters have gone to sleep or are having a long, Political siesta.

The Governor today feels the RTI should not apply to him, but only to the Citizens he has been appointed to oversee. It could be called freedom and impunity & exemption from justice and due process of law.

Corruption, land grabbing and other nefarious activities now permeates every nook and corner of the fabric of Goa. This is of no concern to the Freedom Fighters. Burgling Churches and Temples on a daily or weekly basis is a sort of Political freedom and democratic right won by the FF`s.

Is this not another form of Colonisation?

The NRP Sagres came and went. It has sailed off into history again.

If this is all the FFs could protest about, it is rather a shame, as their liberation has brought or is bringing a slow death to Goa. Let us not blame the Freedom Fighters for their ineffectiveness, as it will upset Yogesh. Let’s blame the Portuguese.

So I hope Yogesh understands, if ever he can, that we will give respect when it is due and earned.. not when it is demanded by his comical and ridiculous historical versions.

Note: Yogesh can reply…but I have no further desire to respond to blatant fools.

Goa should be a Progressive state? Part 1,2,3 etc..Oh yes…when Yogesh Marathe takes us backwards in time….and with no consensus for the future.

Who are you fooling and deceiving Mr Yogesh Marathe? Do not try to “pull wool over our eyes”. You are no Niz-Goenkar (EDITOR TAKE NOTE).