THE NAVHIND CRIMES: NOT A T'H'IMBLE-FUL OF TRUST

[Pen Pricks]

Here's one more reason why you can never trust THE NEWSPAPER YOU CAN TRUST. 30,000 odd readers (kick us between our legs if this readership count sounds inflated) of The Navhind Times and the half a dozen Navprabha readers (OK…this probably compensates for any loss of accuracy vis a vis the TNT readership… joking) never got to read the story of the alleged involvement of a young scion of the mining industry, in the Marianho Mascarenhas shooting saga. Here's a newspaper, that claims it's moored on the principles of trust and yet hides news from its readers. Scan the TNT pages end to end guys, you'd never find a story about cops suggesting that Sarvesh Timble of the Timble family could be involved in the Marianho murder case. Why? Because he's family you see. Because folks who run the newspaper that you are 'supposed' to trust are related to Sarvesh Timble. Navhind's editorial director Pallavi Dempo hails from the Timble family. And Sarvesh is a very close relation. We would be in a position to confirm whether Sarvesh is her brother or cousin or second cousin tomorrow sometime. Maybe you guys could tell us that. Its not speculation we are talking of here. It's no investigative story, no shitty sting operation (which Arun Sinha seems to have an aversion for anyway), no speculative fart in the editorial, no 'off record comment'. The story has its origins in the quotes of a Goa Police Superintendent of Police (Crime) Vishram Borkar, who claimed he had recorded statements in course of investigations into the Marianho murder, where folks claim that 'young industrialist' Sarvesh Timble had a hand in the shooting. What more Sarvesh Timble's anticipatory bail application was also rejected by Sessions judge Nutan Sardessai. That means Sarvesh's name is on record in connection with the crime in two places. With the cops and with the judiciary. And yet, there's no story. Every other newspaper in Goa (perhaps Goan Observer won't) has carried the story big time, but not The Navhind Times and its lil sister. Well, on the same day, these guys have the cheek to carry a story about two minors who eloped from Bangalore being 'nabbed' at Miramar. 'Nabbed' guys, that's what they called it… And to top it all, these incompetent oafs even carried the name of this minor girl… What is this Mr Editor, don't you know, you shouldn't be naming minor girls in such stories? What do you have against minor girls Mr Sinha? And if you are convinced with what we've written out here, do call em up and speak your mind to them ask them why the story was blocked? Or you could also call them, if you want to listen to their side of the story... here are some numbers on which you could get the guys who are responsible for keeping the story from you... Arun Sinha -- Editor, The Navhind Times -- 0832-6651120 and 0832-6651123 (direct line) The Navhind Times news desk -- 0832-6651119 (Ask for Assistant Editor Arun Srivastva)
Coming up next... another TNT SHAM... we prefer to call it... "BIRDS OF THE SAME FEATHER, STUCK TOGETHER"

[Valmiki Faleiro]

Penpricks,

 

Did the kick prick or pain?

 

Whatever NT's circulation figures today (btw, does anyone really know

the printrun of Goa's dailies?), when I wrote for The Navhind Times in

the 1970s, guys like KP Nair and Balan joked that half of NT's print order

was despatched to the Dempo-Souza mines all over Goa...

 

They are not *T(h)imbles,* Penpricks, they are our own homegrown

Timblos, originally from Assolna (variously pronounced as Asshole-na),

the same Salcete village that GT Editor, Derek Almeida, hails from --

and that's where the connexion ends, if I must hasten to add.

 

The Timblo brothers, Pandurang, Gurudas and Modu, catapulted from

street hawking cloth in Assolna, to mining, thanks to the youngest,

Modubab, who gained more than mere knowledge while studying for

a Commerce degree in Bombay. Modubab was the family's catalyst.

 

Sarvesh is grandson of Gurudas Timblo, easily the best loved of the

three Timblo brothers, who I had, to my loss, no opportunity to meet or

interact. Those who were privileged to, even from Hindu social strata

not particularly enamoured by Goan Saraswats, of whom I am a *bhatil'lo*

descendant, swear Gurudasbab was a jewel of a human being.

 

So was Sarvesh's father, Satish Timblo. When one interacted with him,

it was hard to believe he hailed from a mining family -- no inhibitions,

no pretensions, no *I-am-wealthier-than-thou* airs so common among

today's neo rich. (Satishbab's brother, Prakash's daughter, incidentally,

is wife of Goa's current Health Minister, the junior Rane.)

 

Sarvesh, thus, is Gurudas Timblo's grandson by Satishbab; and Pallavi is

Gurudasbab's brother, Pandurang's grand-daughter, by Chalebab's (that's

how Margao knew Pandurang Timblo) only surviving -- of three -- sons,

Pramod. For a minor detail on how Pallavi came to marry the scion of the

Dempo clan, please read my piece on the WC Times, in Fred's compilation

titled, Voices from Goa's Press.

 

That's how Sarvesh and Pallavi are second cousins.

 

Timblos were businessmen, and businessmen don't work for charity but for

profit. By and by, like the Salgaocars, they were better of the human beings

in that tribe of mineowners. Amen.

 

v

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Pen Pricks

To: goaj...@googlegroups.com ; Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया

Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 6:11 AM

Subject: [GOAJOURNO] THE NAVHIND CRIMES: NOT A T'H'IMBLE-FUL OF TRUST

Here's one more reason why you can never trust THE NEWSPAPER YOU CAN TRUST. 30,000 odd readers (kick us between our legs if this readership count sounds inflated) 

[Valmiki Faleiro]

Oops, mea culpa! I stand corrected, Sarvesh is not the son of

Satish Timblo, as I mistakenly thought, but is, as I have now

confirmed, the son of Pramod Timblo and grandson of Pandurang

Timblo.

 

Sarvesh, thus, is not Pallavi's second cousin, but her brother,

or brother-in-law of Srinivas Dempo.

 

Sorry for the wrong info earlier.

v

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Valmiki Faleiro

To: goaj...@googlegroups.com ; Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया

Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 1:40 PM

Subject: Re: [GOAJOURNO] THE NAVHIND CRIMES: NOT A T'H'IMBLE-FUL OF TRUST

Penpricks,

 

Sarvesh, thus, is Gurudas Timblo's grandson by Satishbab; and Pallavi is

Gurudasbab's brother, Pandurang's grand-daughter, by Chalebab's (that's

how Margao knew Pandurang Timblo) only surviving -- of three -- sons,

Pramod. For a minor detail on how Pallavi came to marry the scion of the

Dempo clan, please read my piece on the WC Times, in Fred's compilation

titled, Voices from Goa's Press.

 

That's how Sarvesh and Pallavi are second cousins.