FRIDAY, 4 SEPTEMBER 2026
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Save Goa’s culture, heritage instead of making speeches

On Goa’s Statehood Day both President Droupadi Murmu and PM Narendra Modi spoke about Goa’s rich culture as India’s pride and need for its preservation.  The reality is the local BJP Goa Government in partnership with the Central BJP govt and crony capitalists and many other wealthy non Goans across the coal, real estate industry are busy destroying, concretizing, polluting Goa and its environment, hills, water bodies, destroying thousand of trees including heritage +300-500 year old trees, forcing thousands of Goans to leave Goa due to massive unemployment, intolerable levels of high corruption; all of which is destroying the very things these leaders are talking about.  I request President Murmu and PM Modi to please ensure that the BJP party (Central and Goa) take urgent steps to  protect Goa’s culture, heritage instead of just making hypocritical speeches about it.



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Dangerous hypocrisy polarising the world

JOHN ERIC GOMES, Porvorim
Published Jun 2, 2025, 8:11 PM IST
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After the Holocaust of Hitler and end of World War II by the atom bomb on Hiroshima, the world vowed never again! Towards this end the UN was created to ensure universal justice, human rights, stop/mediate in conflicts, utilize human resources for the benefit of all mankind. But today the whole world is in turmoil, wars everywhere have become absolutely destructive, inhumane, where might is right with the UN rendered impotent. In India we have just stepped back from the…

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