Whoever Godfrey Pereira is, we Goans need to either give him an award, or pin a medal on his Bleddy East Indian chest.
Godfrey Pereira, a journalist who once worked with Sunday magazine Kolkotta and India Today wrote a “no holds barred” piece on the Goanet chastising the laid-back Goans and literally tearing them to pieces in the same fashion as the mine owners are tearing up the rich Goan soil mindless of the destruction that is caused all around. (more…)
I suppose there must be hundreds of people like me who add 2 and 2 together and never get 4. Among the many things I do not have a head for, figures would top the list. I believe now that I am not on the job market,
I can publicly confess that I was not being sent up by my school for my matriculation examination because my marks in mathematics never reached two digit figures. (more…)
I am sure there is nobody on the planet that does not have reservations.
Having participated in competitive sports till the age of 40, some cricket and a great deal of hockey, I carry broken fingers and damaged cartilages and ligaments as my old age baggage, and I have serious reservations about the state of these sports in my country.
More than 33 percent I can assure you. (more…)
I just celebrated my 80th birthday a few months ago, regrettably in a hospital bed.
It took me 80 long years to really experience being operated upon. I have been inside a hospital lots of times. As a Management consultant, to conduct training progammes , to donate blood which is no different from Management consultancy with a little difference. In the case of Blood donation you know or hope some one will benefit. (more…)
