re: Valmiki Faleiro's Public Sins, Private Lucre, Goa Damned

comment by Dr. Francisco Colaço

Mr. Valmiki Faleiro’s "Public Sins, Private Lucre, Goa Damned”, aptly describes the awful stench of corruption in public life today. It has truly reached Himalayan heights!

What is happening here in Goa is simply disgraceful and pathetic.
Nobody will listen. And, seized with a feeling of frustration, many are in a state of despair.

As Valmiki rightly says, our politicians, bureaucrats and even citizens who abet evil practices, ought to know that “History tell us that when corruption peaked in the polity of time, our once proud capital, Cidade de Goa was devastated”.

One would think that only an unprecedented disaster will now be able to stem the rot. Unfortunately, when such great calamities happen, the innocent too have to suffer side-by-side with the perpetrators of evil. It would appear that even God while we live may not have a fool-proof method of selectively targeting evil-doers.

True justice will nevertheless catch up with each one of us at least in the afterlife!

Dr. Francisco Colaço
Margao, Goa
October 1, 2006

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