Rajan marginalized many a gifted Goan journo because he perceived them as threats to his position!

The journo simply wrote back a two-liner to declining saying that apart from the lack of time, "Rajan won't accept my name in his paper.")

Not only was one not joining the Gomantak Times, then viewed as the looming-on-the horizon competition, but also another journo was getting out of the way.

In a recent event which established the BJP-journo nexus in Sanguem, a correspondent with a Marathi newspaper and member of the Sanguem Patrakar Sangh was been unanimously elected president of the Sanguem Unit of the BJP.

And some of the more enterprising journos left their training ground and joined GT.

He took to writing more seriously after getting in touch with journos in local newsrooms.

As a rookie reporter in Mumbai in the 1990s, lesson one was about Goan journos fresh off the boat (the Bombay-Goa steamer was a recent memory then) gladly beginning at the bottom despite having done duty in one of Goa's three English-language newspapers.

In Fiji, from where the Indian population flees after every coup d'etat, journos of Goan origin move in the reverse direction.

Until recently, Karnal Singh, the chief ministers point-man in the police department, was normally the one-stop shop for journos for daily information.

It is another story that the officer Police Sub Inspector Raut Dessai, who was handling the complaint, was also duped off a few thousand rupees by the same journo.

(For more information on this issue, one could contact just about any journo from The Navhind Times) We could shift to the equation between the Police Press Relations Officer (PRO) and the media.

And then there was also the annual get-together at one of the city hotels where liquor-happy journos abounded.

Almost no journo could say no to Mr Teli.

(For more information please contact the late 'eighties and early 'nineties language-loving journo clique and primitive Margao based correspondents-cum-teachers)

A journo attached to a Marathi newspaper, who belongs to the Somnath Zuwarkar school of thought one of those few loyal sycophants who refused to turn sides in favour of Babush Monserrate was involved in an embarrassing incident a couple of years ago.

The journo is now dubbed as "Colgate" and he really does not bristle with joy when he is called by the name.

The journo 'enforced' a system where he would collect a regular hafta from the Baina police outpost, in return for blanking out any damaging news emanating from Baina.

One more nugget about Baina: a few hard-core journos based there have some commercial sex workers on call, just the way some cops do.

Here too a few journos have not lagged too far behind.

While writing this, I may appear to be very partial to the Margao journos and cops.