Some souls are not meant to live long, but to live loud. Fr Bolmax Pereira was one of them. At just fifty, he left us in the wee hours of Tuesday at GMC Bambolim. The shock has not settled, because men like him are supposed to be immortal. He wore his cassock and carried the courage of a revolutionary. He did not preach from a distance. He was on the ground. At protest sites. At hunger strikes. In villages fighting builders and bulldozers. He lent not just his prayers, but his presence, his voice, his moral force. His 'Maan ki Baat' from the pulpit was Goa's weekly dose of truth. No sugar coating. No fear. Just facts about what was being done to our motherland, and what we needed to do to save her. Fr Bolmax Pereira was Goa's conscience in a time when conscience was in short supply. You may have left us, dear Fr Bolmax but your daring stays. Your truth stays. And Goa will keep your fight alive. May your soul rest in eternal peace. Fr Bolmax you will be missed forever.
