God Save Our Land "Comunidade de Jua"
I was born in 1964 after liberation, but I have the feel of comunidade and how it was working. I saw a few fottekars of my time who were enthusiastically working in the fields and the auctions taking place for sluice gates and ponds for spring vegetables. It was a beautiful sight. During the auction all the fottekars were united. Jua was a nursery for onion seedlings. Every festival was well planned and the cost was borne by the comunidade especially on the 25th of August, the day of the harvesting festival. There were beautiful names for every field, pond, place and rivulet. Our fottekars are gone but their souls haunt every Zunvenkar because all that they had created with their intelligent ideas and hard work has been destroyed and the cries of their souls are unheard. Our present sarpanch destroyed our comunidade records without taking the sessão of our gaunkars and without the order of the governor/administrator. Then some crooks entered the comunidade and sold som...