Children's Court and other fascinating poems from Snehal Busa

CHILDREN'S COURT 

Our principal did bad things 
With me and my friends 
I told my mother 
That would be in school ,her end 
We fought in a court 
Which is made for a child 
We went in police station and a case we filed 
I wish she go soon in prison 
That is also with a big reason 
Then she'll feel the pain she gave a child 
In school 
It was her mistake and she was a big fool 
I thank the children court 
To fight for my right 
And my parents too 
Who made my life light .

Snehal Busa
(This poem I had written in march And this all I had written was true. My principal really tortured me )



GARDEN 

I have a big garden 
Anything can be hidden 
It has beautiful flowers 
And water that showers

My garden has many trees 
Thats why there is cool breeze 
The grass is so thick 
That my cat plays hide and sick 

Garden garden 
My fancy garden 
Without you 
My life is barren 
And I can't live life
which is forbidden.

Snehal Busa
                            

GOLD FISH 

In our aquarium we have goldfish 
Long back in my dreams I had wish 
It made me so happy 
And no more snappy 
I have kept it in the hall 
And in an aquarium which is in a shape of ball
I am happy withy gold 
And I will never give it to any one 
Because I know they'll turn it 
Into a dish.

Snehal Busa
             

MY MOTHER'S SHAWL 

 My mother's beautiful shawl ,
When she wears it ,she look like a beautiful doll
The shawl is so thick ,
So my mother doesn't fall sick .

She wears it when she goes out ,
But if we play with it,she shouts .

My mother's beautiful shawl ,
Was hung in glass cupboard for all to see .

Once she  kept it in front of a kitty ,
Later she draped it for a party.
When she spotted in it a big hole ,
It pained my mother's soul .

Mother cried ,"my beautiful shawl."
Father said ,"we'll purchase another one from caculo mall."

Snehal Busa
                                               

WHAT HAPPEN IF WE SMILE

Always smile 
And be happy to do 
For a while 
Not forcingly too .
You are happy 
You never know 
Not too snappy like 
A little snow 
It will melt fast 
Into a liquid 
The sadness will be last 
That will turn happiness solid.

Snehal Busa
      

SQUIRREL 

I saw squirrel near my house 
Running away looking the clouds .
It had a long tail
I didn't know  its a male or female 
It rained very heavily 
Then it cleaned itself nicely 
It ran here it ran there 
At last I didn't know it was where 


Snehal Busa


SITTING OUTSIDE

 Sitting outside I was thinking 
Of taking fresh air 
I saw a flower suddenly 
Which was very rare 

I handed it to my sister 
She loved it very much 
She wanted some more 
She said ,"will you please search ?"

I said to her,"no."
As no more would be 
It was the only one 
That I could see.

Snehal Busa


SHADOW

 Shadow shadow my own shadow 
Are you a good friend or a for 
I know you are my reflection 
So same will be our intention .
Shadow shadow my own shadow 
I have a question to ask you 
Why is that you can't be seen at night ?
Is that you are visible only in bright ?

Shadow shadow my own shadow 
I am very upset ,I want to share 
Because you invisible ,I can't bare 
Are you a ghost ?
That will kill me with cosh ?

Shadow shadow my own once 
I want my answer you are quite 
                       
Snehal Busa


QUESTION ANSWERS

Why can't we survive in space ?
As there is less oxygen my teacher says 
 Why can't I ride a bike ,I doubt ?
Because you are yet 18 ,my mom shouts 
Why can't I call Mr as miss ?
As she is not he my sister whispers 
And why she is not he I questioned ?
As she is said for a girl 
And he is said for a boy my friend replied 
Why can't .... Was the last question 
Before I ask my father something 
But I had to answer now 
As my father asked me a question 
What about you my dear how are you feeling now ?
After questioning so many questions 
Didn't your head go round and round ?
I had a answer ,so what to do of my questions ?
Yes ,my father said 
These all while you asked question 
And now you have given an answer to a question 
But I said ,"dad don't think my answer was a question ?.
                                                 
Snehal Busa


CRONY

when my life was gunge 
I was totally muzzy .
When I was dopey 
You would flick it away .
When I went haywire 
And in murk 
You mad me understand 
In harmony .
But I would be churlish 
And huzard for you and others .
BUT,
It is all changed now 
I have found the bliss in me 
And become indispensable  for me 
As you are my grief and 
And you are my crony .
                       
Snehal Busa

PHANTOM 

 Don't live it all scrappy 
Listen what it want to say 
If so ,really very shoddy 
And still don't stops ,then it will get shirty .
It should not simply be scapegoat .
Its just a scraggy abiotic 
Scarcely ,not that good looking 
But can be a friendly phantom .
          
Snehal Busa

A RAINY NIGHT

You tried to break my heart 
With your pin drops 
Passing from my roof to me 
You filed up the alley with your cry 
You defeated the street lights with 
Your lights 
Your dark faces turned my eyes blear 
My voice was quite when you thundered 
And then after sometime you stopped your jiggery Pokery 
Behavior .
And went to sleep like 
Every year .
           
Snehal Busa

WHY DON'T THE CLOCK STOP ? 

My life has stopped with nothing 
I cry at night why don't the clock stop?
Why has the time left me alone ?
To the unknown and strange world 
Why can't it walk together ?
To the straights and to the molds
I always desire for it to stop 
But the ears are deaf and mouth is dump
Of the clock 
I wish and I wish 
Let the clock stop 
Though it ignores 
I'll always questions 
Why don't the clock stop?

Snehal Busa

TEARS 

How many tears have I lost ?
I didn't ever count them 
It was a big loss of tears 
I think I have now built up a dam 
They so precious to me 
Why had I neglected ?
I don't want them artificial or to be paid 
Why didn't I make them my collection?
Why didn't I do so ?
I just uncared my tears 
And always let them flow .
        
Snehal Busa

     

WILL THERE BE CHANGE IN LIFE ?

No jokers I found in life 
No warriors yet 
Whom should I trust 
I couldn't get .
My prediction ,sometimes is right 
Sometimes wrong 
So stop to think ,
I shout very strong .
I don't know to speak to someone 
I don't know to keep quiet 
The only difference I don't understand
Is what is wrong what is right .
Faces keeps on changing 
But the climate doesn't change 
What is wrong what is right I couldn't range 
Life is a puzzle for me 
Sometimes me myself 
Want to be huge a times 
Sometimes a tiny moon calf .
No matter how long it takes 
To develop from a hamlet 
To a city 
Life may change 
Life may not 
Its little bit twisty.
        
Snehal Busa

THE PORTALS OF SUCCESS

I was too far from 
The portals of success 
Where failure was my companion 
Many hurdles I found on way 
I Saw no night no day 
Through the crooked road 
I was close to my destiny .
Success and only success would lead 
Me nowhere 
I was now very close 
To the portals of success.

Snehal Busa

                    

Snehal Busa's Poetry of Protest

She is Snehal Busa became part of protest that her dad waged in the form of 100 days hunger strike against education department of Goa. She along with her sister and mother were bared bare heat of sun to make their point on injustice she and her family suffered. She as latched inside the washroom and then made to eat her food near the toilet with foul smell everywhere few years ago in Talegao school. Her protest against headmistress went in vain and after sharing with parents she found stream of support. 

While press and public is well aware of her support to her dad's hunger strike outside education department what is not known are her poetic instincts. Here we share three of her fascinating poems here. 'Daddy' is poem she writes to her own dad Balkrishna Busa who carried on 100 days hunger strike, fitting salutation. 

'Ghost' is poem that reflects reactions to her natural black complexion from fellow students in school. Its also sharp critic of racists bias in our minds. Fantastic combat. 

"Being touch" is a poem among other things expresses abandonment by friends in the path of struggle she is walking. All three are fabulous poems. Goa can be proud for having such a Poet amidst us though a growing child still.

Poems are fit to go into school syllabus. On our part we make them public with gratitude Snehal Busa, her mother Geeta Busa and father Balkrishna Busa.

DADDY 
Terrific, dad's don't grow on trees 
Shopping shows don't carry them 
Nor come to you by mail or any kind of sale 
They don't fall from sky 
you can't pull them from magic hats 
no matter how much you try 
In fact, you could look high and low 
And search the whole world through 
But you'd never find another dad 
Who's half as great as you . 



GHOST
Once I saw a Ghost,
I felt he will turn me into a toast,
He had red eyes
He will eat me if I tell lies
I saw it and screamed
I woke up and found,
it was just a dream. 


BEING TOUCH
What a bad luck
I heard them calling me a duck!
My friends didn't support,
Felt like appealing in Principal's Court,
To make me happy, they fell pleading on the floor,
But I got angry and closed the door.

Controversy of caste based harassment at School in Talegao

Here in public interest we share order on harassment of students decreed by Goa State Commission for Protection of Child Rights Chairperson Samira Kazi dated 25/8/2014. There are allegations and counter allegations of harassment of students, and judgement indicting school management of harassing students referring to their caste as SC/ST/OBC. The School in question is located in Talegaon, Tiswadi, Goa and alleged perpetrator is headmistress herself. BMM finds this whole episode bizarre yet deeply disturbing. 

Why should the head of the institution herself indulge in long term abuse of students referring to them on their caste or caste category as OBC? In fact origin of categorising certain jatis as OBC is in Article 340 of the Constitution of India and we fail to understand as to why this has to become subject of derogatory treatment from the headmistress of the school Mariazita Afonso as recorded in the above order. It is likely that headmistress as well as students are unaware of the history of Article 340, 341 and 342 of the Indian constitution and has got into degenerated thinking about these articles as means of identity formations. In this case awareness programs needs to be organised for this purpose. 

Dr. Ambedkar has included these articles with an intention of liberation of India's native people. As per Mandal Commission report OBCs constitute 52% of India's population. To use insulting words against OBCs amounts to insulting majority of India. Headmistress, teachers as well as students must be aware of this implication before speaking in public. 

Recently in order to protest against this harassment Blakrishna Busa carried on 100 days hunger strike in front of education department, Porvorim and concluded at Azad Maidan, Panjim. Here is our posting for your reference. Click here.

Goa Education in Crisis: Balkrishna Busa hunger strike completes 99 days

Balarishna Busa hunger strike has compelted 99 days today. Above picture today is from Azad Maidan Panjim. Busa is accompanied by his wife and two daughters. They alledge abuse of school students by headmistress of one High School in Taleigao on March 03, 2014 and are seeking her auster. They have petioned various authorites not only in Goa but also Prime Minister and the President of India and received their responses. They also posess Ministerial notings from Manohar Parrikar to take action against the headmistress. Nature of abuse is detailed in the complaint to Panjim Police Station.

Busa like many other parents has got thier children out from the controversiol school in Taleigaon and are studying in other schools in Tiswadi Taluka. One of Busa's daughters was found to be tortured in March 2014. It is alleged that headmistress locked the child in toilet for many hours and then forced her to take her lunch outside the toilet in the vicinity of foul smell. Although number of State agencies are aware of this situation yet no action seems to be forth coming even though tomorrow hunger strike completes 100 days most of which were in front of Education department in Porvorim.

Busa informed that Headmistress continues to harrass his daughter on road even though his daughters are no longer studying in controversial Taleigao School. Education in Goa has hit crisis state and non other than Education Minister of the illegitimate government of Goa is responsible for this sad state of affairs in India. How long will this go on? Why? Is this Bamon Raj?

Hand shake

My right hand I extend

Awaits you to reciprocate

A friendship in struggle

On the banks of Zuari River

Struggle is on

Battle lines drawn

On one side are fisher people

On the opposite side are trawler owners

On the one side are fisher people

On the opposite hand are Luxury hotels:

Grand Hyatt and Aldeia de Goa.

On the one side are fisher people

On the opposite side are Marinas.

They all battle for land

On the banks of River Zuari

They all battle for space on river water for fishing

They battle technology and echelons of power

How long, how far

The battle is to spark fire?

How wide, how deep

Trawlers are to play havoc with ecology?

How long State is to condone the damage?

The land that hosts Goa University

Tribal people cultivated cucumber, chilies and more

People displaced to build Goa University

People forced to get into fishing.

And now it’s new breaking news:

Marina in Nauxim

Marina in Sancoale

Fishermen from close and far

Sought to be pushed to periphery

Marinas needed to boost high end tourism

Fisher people but pushed to dead end.

Once Goa University kicked out tribal people

And they turned into fishermen of Zuari River.

Now MPT kicks them second time

And they are to turn into burning coal.

Logic of the system pretty simple and clear

Kick everyone who is not a Brahmin

So don’t worry we are still friends

And I extend my hand for a hand shake.

Sebastian Rodrigues

Parents wake up as there is risk for life of your child at school

Bharat Mukti Morcha takes strong objections to the Goa Police proposal to induct School and Higher Secondary students in Goa as Police informers. Goa’s Inspector General of Police (IGP) Sunil Garg has announced the concept of ‘little police’ on 22^nd July 2015 and aired on T.V. Channel ‘Goa 365’. The ‘Little Police’ concept involves as per Sunil Garg taking students out of classrooms into Police Stations and training sensitizing students to the cyber crime, traffic management, drug trafficking, and other crimes. The concept further involves recruiting students as ‘Police informers’ and providing ‘police identity cards’ to the recruited students. IGP perhaps thinks that this will improve the image of Goa Police amongst public for which he is wrong. Students cannot be used for this purpose. They go to school to study only and not to become little police informers.

The solution suggesting to combat crime is worst than the malady. The malady is bad image of the Goa Police amongst members of public. The bad image has developed due to number cases of police excesses such as custodial death of Khan Abdul Gafar Khan and Cyprian Fernandes, Illegal detention and Custodial torture of Babi Gaonkar from Sirgaon at Bicholim Police station, biased framing of cases and targeted arrests and torture of muslims like Naveed Sheikh at Vasco police station, Police torture of student leader Moses Fernades and arbitrary and deceitful arrest of Adv. Ajitsingh Rane. In Bambolim Police Inspector Devendra Gad beat up fishermen Vishnu Kankonkar on Bambolim beach to uphold interests of Hotel Grand Hyatt.

IGP does not seem to have been ceased with these root cause for continues damage to public image of Goa Police. The police have gone down so much that they are with the MLAs and Ministers over ruling the Panchayat and supporting all the Corporate for whom they illegally arrest and create fear for the locals who are opposing the projects. The examples are plenty in mining belt like Colamb, Rivona, Ambaulim, Cavrem, Advalpal, Sirgaon, Mayem, Naveli,  etc where police engaged in repression against public in order to protect the mining interests of Vedanta, Sesa Goa, Chowgules, Fomentos, Timblos, Salgaoncars etc. More examples are of Vanxim where few bus loads of police were brought in for Gram Sabha of Sao Mathias Panchayat to frighten people and later on four ladies were arrested. In Tiracol Bouncers who are a goonda force of Leading Hotels Private Limited attacked the villagers on three occasions and police has not arrested single bouncer so far leave alone charge-sheeting. In Keri, Ponda Goa Police shot dead young boy Nilesh Naik protesting against Nylon 6,6.

While root cause has been ignored, and school and higher secondary campuses are sought to be involved for the greater betterment of the Goa Police image. This initiative of Goa Police is destined to create dangerous implications both for the students as well as parents of little police informers. The students engaged in role of ‘police informers’ as the eyes and ears of police would certainly be under great risk from the gangsters of narcotics illicit trade and their organised ring leaders with well established political patronage. Students will come under increased gangster attacks thereby jeopardizing their studies. Parents are not sending their children to school for the purpose of improving the image of Goa police by risking their children’s lives.

In case state government decides to allocate the responsibility of political policing of tracking the people whose views are contrary to the ruling party then it may well be the case of famous George Orwell’s novel titled as ‘1984’ whereby children spy parents and siblings and reporting to the police department. This could be the gloomy reality waiting for us in case little police idea of Goa Police is implemented. It is indeed very dangerous that Home Ministry should exercise its authority in this form of little police concept over school students. Moreover it is well established fact that police informers and interlopers face double risks – firstly from the gangsters and, secondly from the police themselves.

Bharat Mukti Morcha has discussed with students, parents, school and higher secondary authorities for Children’s future is at stake. We asses that ruling Bamons of Goa are feeling increasing insecure over retaining their positions as exploiters of society and that’s reason this little police concept is initiated so that campus is vitiated and gang wars marks entry in the on  campuses and homes. In a bid to improve the image of Goa Police school students must not be destroyed in this manner. This type of idea is a product of devious brain of India’s defence minister Manohar Parrikar, a Bamon from Goa who has entire cabinet of Goa as his puppet.

The concerned parents must come forward and abolish this little police policy of Goa government de facto headed by the Defense Minister of India Manohar Parrikar. It is high time for all the parents to rise up against this policy and have safe schooling for their children including the Higher Secondary. Now is the time, dear parents, wake up and save your child. Now is the time dear students wake up for the injustice thrown upon your shoulders. Now is the time for the entire Parent – Teacher’s Associations to rise up against transforming students into police informers. The manager, the management of the schools and the entire authorities also wake up and do not get fooled with the little police concept as in case anything happens to the students entire management of the school will be held responsible and the poor parent will loose their child. So wake up with commitment to save the student.

The police must be responsible and committed to serve with dedication the responsibilities given to them and do not burden the upcoming student who has loads of home work plus the studies. Let the students bloom into excelling buds. Let the parents be at peace to see their child studying without being police informers.

The very concept of little police informers as eyes and ears of police denotes that currently police are blind and deaf. It’s a shame to use innocent students for intelligence gathering for police. They are paid to do their duties. Let the students study peacefully at schools. There should not be any additional burden given by the Home Ministry to the students as school is meant to study and not to be generating little police informers.