According to Calangute MLA Michael Lobo nearly 20,000 Goan youths are running 'matka' in open market. For some 'matka' is poor people's entertainment and a small business for earning daily bread, but is it really so? Every matka agent's bosses daily routine includes delivering haftas to avert arrest. What is bad is bad even if you decorate it with flowers, glitters, agarbathis, pen, note book , tables and ladies as customers. Hard earned money and money earned through matka has a heaven and hell difference. If we believe in blessings and curses then definitely we will focus on hard earned money. Easy earned money prompts youth into drugs, gambling, prostitution, liquor, illicit relationships, violence, etc. Ask those 20.000 youths who are in this business to work in shifts in industrial estate jobs for 8 hours, would they be ready to do so ? No because they believe in easy money that matters. They want to build Rome overnight. Who raised the question is also important, check his past. Intellectuals, writers, psychologists, social transformers, teachers must speak up. Let's build up society of blessings.
