TUESDAY, 25 AUGUST 2026

Job push for Goans: Genuine plea or self-serving agenda?

Three BJP legislators from Mormugao taluka, namely Mauvin Godinho, Krishna Salkar, and Sankalp Amonkar, reportedly met Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL) CMD Brijesh Upadhyay on Friday to demand employment for Goans, with a preference for people from Mormugao taluka. While speaking to reporters after the meeting, one of them, namely Godinho, said that such a request would also be made to other central organisations in Mormugao taluka, like the Airports Authority of India, Mormugao Port Authority, Indian Navy, and others.

Well, it looks like these three BJP legislators went to Goa Shipyard Limited not to demand employment for Goans or to give preference to people from Mormugao taluka (as being hyped through the local media) but to have a discussion/fix the rate of their own commission for successfully employing non-Goans and keeping Goans out of all such central organisations for many years in Goa.

The three BJP legislators (who are pretending to have suddenly woken up) should therefore stop this cheap drama of requesting some central organisations to employ Goans by submitting love letters for their own self-publicity and instead should go to all the other reputed central organisations and bring out a list of (forget Goans) people from their own taluka whom they have helped or who are currently employed in all such organisations in Mormugao taluka. 

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Moral policing in art: Customs actions highlight legal issues

VINAY DWIVEDI, Benaulim
Published Oct 27, 2024, 12:52 AM IST
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Last year in Mumbai, the Indian Customs department seized three drawings by Akbar Padamse and FN Souza because it judged them to fall under the category of 'obscene material'. The lawyer representing the Customs department made a big hue and cry about maintaining public order, standards of decency, and morality. Both painters are titans of the Indian art scene, and their work is frequently displayed in galleries across the world and also at private events. By the…

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