(Posted on Goanet 8/4/2011)
What are Goans creeping about? Their women being depicted in bad light?
The primary symptom of Addiction is 'Denial' that screws up hopes for a
recovery. Are Goans in a denial mode?
Is it a case of Goans enjoying and relishing the pie of tourism and then
complaining about indigestion?
Ban alcohol, drugs and sex trade in Goa, will this scale of tourism
survive? At one time you could distinguish a sex worker from another woman.
Today the bright jazzy coloured sarees and the tonnes of lipstick have
dissappeared. It has transformed into jeans and sober designer blouses
adorning young lasses and the trade flourishes over the mobile. The
organised sex worker no more avails of the services of Government STD
clinics. It is hard to tell who is in the trade and who is not. Is she a
sober college girl or is she........? Difficult to say for those who have
worked in the community.
In the early seventies, the drug parties took place on a fool moon night.
Today it is 24X7 in what is legally called shack, sun burn, night club,
...........
So what are Goans trying to cover up? Admitting that they have a serious
problem?
After all which human being wants to admit he/she has a problem? All the
more for a society that has a history of dumping problems in the closet to
keep it away from the eyes and ears of the neighbour.
Is alcohol a problem for Goans? Oh, never! They know how to drink. It is
always the ghantti and tourist that does not know the controls of this most
depressing drug. By yet when one goes to the villages and towns, one sees
the plight of women and children battling with this scourge of a drunken
father.
We are making a hue and cry about the movie depicting Goa in bad light. But
take a round along our coastline? What do we see? Traditional Goan values?
Model behaviours? Worship of the Woman as a Goddess? Utmost respect for
human rights?
But yet we turn around and claim that the movies are portraying Goans in bad
light.
Making money at any cost has become the mantra. There is no woman or child,
it is just money. There is no wife and husband, all is fair in the trade.
But yet we will turn around and ask, is it so bad?
And the blessed blind Goan will turn around and now question me as to
whether I had a bad experience in the tourism belt. They will ask: "what
makes you so negative?"
I can understand that part of society is sick and in a denial mode. But,
what about the remaining? Are they so doused with the whiff of the Goan
spirits and the smoke of the chillum that they cannot discern and 'Ace' from
a 'Joker'?
Goa today survives on promoting 'Sin'. It is sin money that circulates,
attracting a curse on to its generations. This we call progress and
development.
Goa mein kuch bi chalega. Learn to booze, chase, shoot and screw, the deshi
school is in Goa.
DUM MARO DUM must be an opportunity for us Goans to do a soul search rather
than bury our head in the sand and pretend that nothing exists. The mafia
would like the truth to be concealed.
Let Dum maro Dum roll on. If you do not like it, do not watch it. As simple
as that.
-Soter
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