My heart cries out that Goa the land of Sex, Drugs, Music, the once land of the hippies and lost Gods, had to be brought under the crime radar as a threat. Although I am partial in judging Goa, the land I spent my childhood and almost every other summer, it was not until the Scarlett murder, the conspiracy within and that odd feeling of lost sense of security in a familiar land, not only for foreigners but for the ‘other’ Indians alike has awakened the reality in this matter, losing ‘this once paradise’.
Colrama blogs about why ‘It is time to wake up’ at Citizens Alliance, giving sketches about the Scarlett murder.
The latest incident of Scarlett Keeling, a British teenager whose body was found on the beach in Goa has been added to the list of tragic incidents that have marred the tourist circuit in India. The sad fact is that the Goa police who claim “Improving police - community relations is another thrust area…..This can happen only if we are able to perform not only on the law & order and crime front, but also in our public dealings by our helpful and sympathetic behavior towards people who come to us in their moment of distress. ……..Cases where women, children and the elderly are victims of crime should always receive our prompt attention” did not respond appropriately in the Scarlett Keeling case.
The actions of the local police to brush under the carpet what was obviously a homicide have not helped. Insistence by the mother of the victim who claimed her daughter was raped and murdered and demanded a second autopsy was casually brushed aside by the local police.
Colrama goes on to add why Goa seems to be losing its lustre and is no more a pristine tourist paradise it once was. In a recent post he has quotes from the Goan Chief Minister, Kamat, blaming Scarlett’s mother for the murder and thus trying to evade responsibility.
Kamat held Scarlett’s mother, Fiona equally responsible for her daughter’s death. “How can a mother, let her minor daughter go out so late in the night?” said Kamat.
“Tourists should take care of themselves.” he added.
Laz has taken this situation to another level; she is questioning God.
My co-worker’s revelation was met with the sadness and bile that gorge up upon hearing of tragedies like these. One of our numbers astutely pointed out that there are “sick people everywhere” and not so astutely proclaimed that this is further proof that God does not exist.
Yes, he knows that God does not exist because if there was a God he would have stopped this injustice.
What I do know is that the irrationality that such inanities betray is as much an indicator of fallen humanity’s depravity as the things that were done to this girl.
‘The Ying has settled on Goa’s Yang’ say the Happy Shiny Bloggers,
Goa, the Hippie Mecca in the late 1960's and early 1970's, gave rise to a musical culture that embedded with the spiritual culture of India to give us Goa trance.
…But if this is what you know Goa for, she houses dancers no more; Goa has been case of a 15-year old Scarlett Keeling. For those who do not know, Scarlett's body was washed upon the shore of Anjuna Beach, the place which is coincidentally the epicenter of the peace and love culture, and its night-long parties.
The Happy Shiny Bloggers are questioning why Goa has become the hide-out for the Russian Mafia. They go on to question the happy state of the locals.
Where is Goa now? With the Russian mafia using it as their hideout to launder billions of dollars, do arms deals, run prostitution rackets, real estate deals and things we may not possibly incur in our day-to-day life. Pedophiles seem to be everywhere with poor families from neighboring states selling their children to tourists, ominous signs in hotel lobbies warn clients not to take children up to their rooms…
..are the Goans happy with the last draft regional plan announced more than a year ago proposing to open 80% of agricultural and forest land for commercial exploitation. Apparently not, the current scenarios have given birth to websites like Save Goa. Fueling the Goans fury is that the police and politicians that are frequently accused of abetting crime and receiving money.
Oh wake up Goa, wake up, from being the creator of spirituality for lost souls around the world, to become the taker of souls, who would have seen. With corruption and greed fueling your streets and murdered bodies lying on your beach.
A Russian drug-dealer, Anjuna Atala explains the corruption in the Goan police system, in this YouTube clip.
Meldreth from the United Kingdom, is asking the question out loud, is the world safe? In his blog post “Asking for Trouble”.
In the UK, common sense and logic has it that you just don't accept a ride in a private vehicle from a stranger. At times, this may seem like an over the top piece of parental advice, but is usually regarded as a sound tactic. Overseas, however, we lose this common sense for some reason.
Case in point: Scarlet Keeling, a Devon teenager living in India with her family, accepted a lift home from a stranger and wound up dead on a beach. Goa, India, where Keeling lived with her mother and siblings, is no London or Liverpool, but as a city of 1.5 million, similar precautions should be taken there as you might expect in the UK. However, as I can attest to, exotic countries can nullify one's sense of judgment. For example, when I was living in Nanjing, China, I thought nothing of flagging down a black cab. Well not nothing. I thought they were a cheaper alternative to licensed taxis. Granted I am a 16 year old male and Keeling was a 15 year old female, but the start of the sequence was the same. Whilst I usually traveled with several of my equally male friends, none of us were experts on the local road map and so could easily have been led into uncomfortable situations. Nothing untoward ever happened, but looking back, I was probably a bit foolish.
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Just to let you know Javits, I wasn’t so much trying to say the world is unsafe, more that common sense should not be dependent on location, that people should keep their wits about them, where-ever they are. The funny thing is, I had no idea of Goa’s hippy culture, the naive teenager that I am, so thanks for that extra nugget of knowledge!
I am from Goa and would like to share a few thoughts..
What has happened to Scarlet Keeling was unfortunate but this incident should be an eye-opener to the many tourists from all over the world.. This could happen anywhere.. dont tell me that women are not raped in other parts of the world..
It appears that Scarlet was born to a family of gypsies, where school education is not important. Children are brought up by parents who are themselves drug-addicts, alchoholics, etc.. and therefore, like Scarlet has been brought up by parents that have no moral upbringing themselves.
I have been in the travel Industry now for aver 20 years, and had been handling charters especially from the UK. During ny stint, I notice that some of the British that visit India do not know to respect people and their culture. Many of them walk around the streets of Goa in Bikinis and the men bare bodied.. I often wonder if these very same people would be allowed to walk the streets of London bare-bodied or in bikinis… Who then gave them the right to assume that their behaviour is acceptable here in Goa?
Scarlet, as we all know, was ONLY 15 years old.. a minor for God’s sake.. who we are told was permitted to live with her boyfriend (boyfriend?? at the age of 15 yrs??) If I had a daughter who was a minor, Id ensure she was under my protection 24 x 7.. and if she insisted in having a boyfriend, leave alone living with him, Id have belted the daylights out of her.. as long as she is under my roof, and eating out of my palms, she follows my rules… BUT in the case of Scarlet.. her mother had no control whatsoever.. who thought that she could leave her young daughter in a den of wolves.. and oh yeah.. she thought her daughter was safe.. cos she was sure her daughter was a good girl.. I think Fiona doesnt have an inkling of what it takes to be good.. if screwing around at the age of 15 years is being good.. then I am sure Fiona’s morals need to be questioned..
Scarlet was drunk and drugged before she came to that Lui’s restaurant.. totally vulnerable.. and at an unearthly time of 3.30am.. I ask you people.. in which country would such a woman be spared? She was already asking for trouble.. dont tell me that she would have been spared in the streets of UK by the British men..
So then who is to blame for Scarlet’s death? Here is a young girl of 15 years, sort of abandoned by her mother, and was left to be screwed by her so called boyfriend.. while her mother was probably having fun on some other beach.. And then this GOOD girl, is drinking and taking drugs till the wee hours of the morning.. get herself so spaced out of her mind.. and goes to a Bar… making it obvious that she is all alone.. unable to get home.. Ofcourse she was inviting someone to rape her..
There are women drom the UK that come here to Goa leaving their husbands in UK.. and they are here in Goa, to entice the young men here by lavishing them with money for sexual gratifcation… They end up with those beach bums that are eveready to provide that sexual gratification in exchange for gifts and money.
So when these British women are so wantonly looking out for sex.. its only natural that opportunities that have been provided by girls like scarlet are taken by those wolves that wait for their prey to fall on their laps without making an effort.
Dont blame the people here for the unfortunate incident.. blame Scarlet and her mother.. and blame the trash that come to Goa to extinguish their flames of LUST
@ Johan
Yes, the safety of our surroundings depends on our ‘common sense where-ever we are’ like you simply put it. Glad you got to know a tad bit more about Goa.
@ Mossy
Before I start with a reply, you should know that although I live oceans apart from Goa, Goa still is a major part of me and my family who’ve lived there for over 5 decades.
No one is blaming the people of Goa. But since you beg this question, what have the people of Goa done to prevent any of these? All we do is drink our Cashew Finny and let Russians rule our backyard. We’ve made our lands prostitutes to foreign drug-dealers, let alone our non-responsive attitude to a messy political stage. We have sold our children to sex mongers, we’ve opened nudist with open arms even before your’20 years’ of travel industry experience began. We’ve survived as a community on this foreign experience for a longer time than our blames can extend.
It’s not the character of Scarlett or her mother; it’s not their foreign culture that saddens my heart, but the rotten perspectives we’ve fallen into, this hostile, non-host like attitude towards any situation. Why do we let ourselves be enticed? Why do we let them even ignite a flame in our beaches in the first place? We have let them do this, we have opened this door, we have provided them with drugs, and everything else they need, and now at the wake of an international event, how can one sit back and say it has nothing to do with us?
We are if not equally, more to be blamed. All we do is criticize and shout at the world for talking about issues like these, rather than take a step towards realizing what we can possibly do to change our Goa into better place to live in.
i agree javit to yr comments to mossy. yes, fiona shaould have acted more intelligent and all that stuff; but why are drugs landing up on our beaches? One friend, when i spoke to him of this, said… “we know nothing of this… it is not related to locals; it is about foriegners…”. Not related to this? the drug supplier and the rapists were our own goan men. Because drugs are available here, we get people who are hooked to these. we need to clean up and majorly.
Ok, I have never been to Goa, though of course, have heard lots of it. In my college, its a tradition to go to Goa with your friends in your final year, to booze or whatever… (I stay in Gujarat, so the boozing is quite enticing for most) Anyway, despite being a teetotaler, I am still all excited for my trip next year. Goa’s supposed to be paradise for all looking for pure unadulterated fun… Dil Chahta Hai kind of reinforced this beilief… But now, after the keeling case, one is sure to take notice of the ugly underbelly of the place.. I dunno if I’m even gng to get permission for my “trip” now!!
Talking of the case in particular, though not being in the know of all facts, it seems the blame game will go on for quite some time now.. The goans’ pride seems to have been hurt by all the accusations flying about.. The police, whatever anyone says, deserves the brickbats… Can’t comment on Scarlett’s family, its their personal matter. But I would like to say something on the topic of girls being alone. Its widely accepted that girls are supposed to take precautions in whatever we do. But then, the rebel says, why only us?? Then the voice of reason chides, be practical. So what is a girl supposed to do?? Never have the independence to do as she pleases?? I am not saying what Scarlett’s supposed to have done was wise; no, it was truly stupid, but it does bring to light the fact that whenever something untoward happens to a girl, she is the one to be blamed. Can that mentality be changed?? Just answer one question of mine, something that’s been bothering me for long. WHY ARE GUYS USUALLY SO PEVERTED????
Please dont get me wrong guys.. I do not absolve the rapists of their crime.. neither to a condone the lapses of the police or the Government.. I also do agree with you that the drug mafia does exist.. and that dome of the Goans have actually sold the land to to the so called drug mobs.. What I had tried to convey was that the foreign tourists do not respect our cultures.. they walk the streets (mind you, I have not said beaches… but the streets of town) barebodied.. or in skimpy bikinis.. I wonder if they would walk the streets in UK dressed the way they do here in Goa.. or if they would permit us Indians to walk their streets in the UK in similar attire… I also wonder if Scarlet had to walk the streets of London at 3am totally drunk & drugged and then make it known that she was alone, I wonder if the British men would keep their hands off her.. I mind you.. the Goan men are not the only men in the world
get enticed when an opportunity comes their way..
And coming to Mansha’s query.. women are not always blamed when untoward incidences happen.. Its when they behave stupidly in a manner that attracts uneccessary attention viz wearing provocative clothing, or behave in an inappropriate manner.. thats the time they need ot be blamed.. because they have not acted responsibly.
@Moosey
I am frankly appalled at your comments. I too come from a conservative Chinese culture where we disapprove of women strolling around town in bikinis. Despite that, we do not see skimpy dressing, or lustful behaviour as invitation to or justification for rape.
Judging by your comments and your eagerness to cast blame on the victim, you apparently do.
This is not an issue about respect for foreign cultures. Fair enough, I accept that their behaviour and dressing is inappropriate in a Goan’s eyes. It does not however excuse what was done to that poor girl, nor of the Goan police’s sad attempts to cover up the mess by lying through their teeth.
I sincerely hope your beliefs are not representative of the average Goan male.
My deepest sympathy to Fiona. This definitely sounds antagonistic! Instead of bringing out the nexus between the police, drug mafia, and politicians, we are making this issue into a my-mom-is-better-than-yours debate. Fiona, regardless of her lifestyle is a brave mother who is fighting it out with the lowlives of Indian society – the police and the politicians. Drugs should not be there in the first place – that’s the police’s job in which they failed miserably. Corrupt and scheming politicians – we the people of this country elect them. So, in a way you and I are both responsible for Scarlet Keeling’s sad demise and NOT her mother, Fiona.
@ Gon
Sorry to tell you this - but Mossey’s views are pretty much what most Indians think.
Goans are relatively better off compared to the rest of India - which is what made Goa such a tourist paradise. But not different by much.
Mossey is not supporting the rape or murder. That is clear. But the same arguments are used by rapists across India to justify what they did. This is a blog, things are read by people. So everyone is careful in what they say.
But in their own private gatherings, most Indians (and Goans) would use the same arguments. They would say, see what she was doing, see what she was wearing, see how wasted she was - is it any surprise that she was raped. In a crowd which they consider safe, they would even plead for lower punishments for the guilty as they were tempted - and when tempted, what do men so!
You would also notice something else that is interesting. Mossey has been in the travel industry for 20 years. And then he is saying this. So basically people like him are fine and dandy with eating the fruits of what they do, but refuse to take the blame.
So it is always SOME goans who sell their land to the mafia, not the decent ones. There are SOME who sell drugs. There are SOME who sell their children. There are SOME who rape.
But those SOME and the nice guys like Mossey use the same reasoning.
let me explain something to those who talk about the culture of Goa.
Goa is bikinis. Goa is nudity. Goa is drugs. Goa is freaking out. Goa is celebrating.
Goa is NOT konkani language or culture.
Oh get all upset. But thing is, the tourist GOA — whose benefits you all reap, whose dirty money you all eat - is what you have asked for.
The Goa you want - all that tourist money and local culture - is a pipedream. Never gonna happen. Goa may die, but your Konkani cultural sweet Goa is not ever going to come back.
That is the price you pay to have a so-called tourist paradise. If you dont want it, stop selling Goa tourism. Eat coconuts, fish and live happily ever after.
Hello Javits,
Im glad to see my voice here, im the happy shiny blogger, more importantly im glad to see people discussing the issue here.
Mossey my friend, do not be influenced by the media in India, there is no Journalism, they media protects the government and has done everything to safegauard the tourism industry. What happend was wrong, if you read the second autopsy report, she dint drown, she had sand stuffed in her mouth till she died…i dont know if drownings better…but it was covered up.
It was never really brought out by the media here was it? I hate that, i studied journalism, educations a farce, corporations are a farce, what is reality? You really gotta dig deep to know.
But i am glad that you talk abt it, im glad that nuts over here talks abt the true goa vibe, bikinis…people have been skinny dipping there since the 50’s 60’s so ur culture n stuff is not happening…
My roots are from goa, i am a goan born and brought up in bombay. Have been visiting goa, well often enough to have sucked up a lot that the state has to offer, there is always more everytime i go.
But i feel it dying in me the urge to go to goa, over the lastfew years….iv made my shortest trips to goa…this was all bound to happen i feel…anyway
Cheers guys :)
I am appalled at Mossy (moosey?)’s comments, but am afraid they represent opinions that are all too common. (Blame the victim…western women are looking for sex…etc).
Well.. seems everybody out here is missing the point..
I have said that I do not absolve the rapists of their crime, I have said that I do not condone the government of their lapses.. I would always add that its unfortunate that a child of 15 yrs was raped due to the mis-doings of her mother..
In the first place, Fiona until now hasnt mentioned anything against the barman not her new-found boyfriend with whom she had left her daughter. She insists that there is an involvement of the drug mafia.. how does she know? why has she left her 15 yr daughter on 6 occassions and visited a neighbouring state witht he remaining children? why did the British national that claims to have been the witness, runaway from Goa? he claims that he was there for three hours.. why didnt he call the police? why is it that his deposition does not coroborate the evidence given by others? Fiona was herself involved in the drug trade and it is believed that the drug mafia was out to give Fiona a chilling message. It is believed that Fiona was using her kids to transport drugs to the beaches from the neighbouring state? How else was she supporting 7 children on a holiday in India when she lived in Devon in a caravan?
There is more to it that meets the eye.. I dont believe that the barman had even raped the girl.. it was probably the member of the drug mafia that did it.. cos the girl was seen by the Briton at the parking lot trying to revive her from her stupor and when he saw someone approach abandoned and fled.. the girl was then found in the shallow waters of the beach.. probably raped and then held under the water with the intenetion to kill.
Moosey, I heard the same story from a friend of mine who got back from Goa. It seems Fiona is a cocaine peddler. I do not know if her children were peddling, but what we have here is a full blown failure of the government.
The murder was covered up not to protect the tourism industry but to protect the drug mafia. There was no liquid found in the girls lungs for it to be a drowning issue.
In the second autoposy they found sand stuffed in her mouth. Anyway, its pretty crazy, even if Fiona was involved in the drug trained so are the cops and so is the government. Justice for murder has nothing to do with it, what she is doing peddling is against the law, but what is the law? Is there any law? I dont know…
Cheers,
Clyde
hi everybody.
i stay in goa for up to 8 months of the year, i have a small flat on the back road to mapusa, which i share with my boyfriend and our small boy, we only moved there recently, before that we lived in anjuna, the side nearest to assagao, we have been staying in goa for a few years and my mum started going to india in the early 1980’s and is a divotee in gujarat, we also lived in delhi for several months. i would like to inform you all i do not do drugs and only wear my bakini on the beach, we have many goan friends and try our hardest not to offend the native population, i go to my auntie sunanda’s and help cook ( if she lets me) go to weddings etc, not all foreigners are bad and some genuinely want to live in goa and blend the best we can, although its been made very hard with all the buying and visas stuff. i want to live in goa and send my baboo to school there because education is more valid and respected, it is a nicer, safer, friendlier and healthier environment than uk, especially london where i stay in uk, also your culture loves children which is evident to me, wich is why fiona probably felt it was ok to let scarlett go back from gokarna with julio, also scarlett was ment to stay in soilim wich as im sure you all know is far more conservative than anjuna.i also find some tourist behavior appalling, mainly in calengute and bagga with two week package holiday types as its probably their first time and it could be aiya nappa or ibiza for all they care, i was also raised in a similar way to fionas own children and can assure you all that its not immoral, we also lived in busses and caravans, kept livestock etc, me and my brother were home educated, then when i was a bit older than scarlett i went straight into college to do my exams and went on to further education and left with distinction and merrit in everything, my brother has a good job, also my mum and dad have been married for 25 years successfully. i can assure that its a better life than to live in london in a house only to become involved in crime, gun coulture and gangs as many of the youth here is, just read some english press!
slaine elvign, 22 years
REPLY to Moosy:
Hi Mossy ,
I feel that your argument for the rape and murder of Scarlet is neither too complicated nor so deeply intricate the no one can understand you, the real concern is that the way you seem to justify layers of facts (comparing with peoples behaviour from other parts of the world) surrounding her death seems rather hopeless and more serious , dangerous.
Lets try to accept one very simple stuff, Indians in general has the least respect for womens (younger) yet practice the most brutal hypocrisies of niceness in the world. Don’t you ever seen how school –college girls are irritated and muled over the roads , over buses? Don’t you observe the eve teasing rampart at every corner of the streets? Don’t you accept that foreigners are harassed and hacked ultimately by street vendors, cab drivers, auto drivers and worst Policeman? (Come one now don’t cite that Look its also happenes in Uganda, it does also happens in Ethiopia.. its also happens there so does it LEGALIZE to happen in INDIA? I mean why we for ages trying to tame the snake under our bed saying that’s its nothing more than a piece of rope.
You accept it or not, it’s a FACT, India is not a safe place … not for INDIAN ladies at all , leave aside any foreign teenager. Why are there scores of molestation reports on almost every day basis attacking the foreign tourist? What is the government , the police , the so called social workers doing to prevent it? Scarlet’s mother is to blame for leaving the teen daughter alone , Scarlet had already a spoiled moral character, Scarlet is drug and alcohol addicted …. Sorry to say, DOESTNOT mean that INDIANs have then the right to rape and kill her. If that seems the causal explanation, then I beg to say the lets stop all this blog coz it really doesn’t sees the root cause, Indians by general are highly ill-mannered (not to their own relatives or cousins ofcourse !) and absolutely hypocrites, who can talk lectures on women respect , worship women Goddess and still sees womens as an entity of lust and sex ( don’t show the exception of fews, that’s the real world in India).
The way the Goa police tried to doze the story from Rape to drowning is sufficient to say that there is some thing absolutely serious about the whole administration and law.Our womens can walk more free and more safe surely on the streets of NewYork, Boston , Chicago or California. I seriously doubt how safe they are over the streets of Delhi, Kolkata , Allahabad or Mumbai? Ask yourself ? Can you or me let our ladies leave all alone by even 7 PM night ???They aren’t at all. So lets try to mend the real problem, because till we cant agree to accept that we are really making the worst environment for our ladies , in our own country, Scarlet in some form or other, will be continued to get raped, molestated and killed and will would keep telling the world ( telling lies) that its her morale that punished her, and she would have the same fate even if she were in UK streets ! Else you wont see about 80 peoples hackling two NRI on the NewYear Eve? Whats that then ? Are those two NRI ladies drug addicted too ! The more we try to blame the word for our sins; we realize that our own women’s are losing their battle to sex manic perverted wolfs roaming in absolutely innumerable numbers as gentle mans on Indian streets. Lets fix our problems before blaming others. Its already terribly late…. Worst it would be irreversible soon.
@Subhradip
Agree with you 100%. India is not a safe place - for male or for female. Legal system is non-existent in India.
India unsafe?? Ok, where have i heard that before? Yes, simply everywhere. But who’s responsible for it? Aren’t we just as guilty in keeping India this way by being mere by-standers in the current situation? I agree the appalling state of various cities in India is the result of the prevalent mindset of the average Indian roadside male. Am myself a middle-class Indian girl, and yes, have seen the bad state of women sometimes, eve-teasing et al. But we also have the public that ensures women are respected. I am still given a seat in the general compartment of a train if I am the only female standing. Men sometimes think twice before talking rudely to me, or any other girl for that matter, which they would have done gladly if there had been a guy in my place. So, why not cultivate that sort of an attitude?
Can’t the Indian youth make a change?? It is said that youth is the most idealistic age, so why not capitalise on that and make our country a better place for all?? If we stand together, we can oh-so-definitely make a change. Our previous generations ensured we have a stable country to live in, so it now becomes our responsibility to make sure we hand over a safer place to our future generations. It may sound a lot like idealistic bullshit, but this constant whimpering about India being so unsafe, when most of us are ensconced in our cocoons, really irritates me. Wake up fellow Indians!! Be the change you want…
REPLY to Mansha:
I truly agree that youths in India should bring the change, but trust me , it’s above all the a) Up-bringing from home right from the childhood b)The LAW system, that matters and the two that can do the best. I don’t mean to disappoint you, but somewhere the two systems are miserably faulty or leaky in India. Yes we are taught to be co-cordial to women’s, but then this knowledge somehow remains restricted and reserved only for the immediate relatives and friends, the global feeling is still largely missing.(Else one wont see the highest rate of women harassments in this country; 27 foreigners had died in Goa this year alone! list is endless) And the law, well that’s a fairy tale ! (this country of billions know who murdered JESSICA LALL, still its powerless against a single MLA !! isn’t that an irony?) LAW in India is still the delicious commodity only for the riches and well connected, its barely poor for middle-class like you or me.. and that’s the worst, coz we now know that well, and hence so, we bend, twist and torn the system, so as to survive and thus the cycle goes on and on. Unless some one assures us of a fair game, every bit of corruption will breed happily within our little bit of selfish need, and still hypocrisy will continue.
I once asked several of my women colleagues/friends /relatives what they think would do when in danger on Indian roads? none of more than 30 replied dialing 100; they say that’s the last priority.Thats the law prevalent here.
It’s a pleasure to know that there are still some people who offer ladies seats, but ask yourself, those numbers are vanishingly small, so that stands as a mere exception, and that doesn’t project INDIA anyway.
I just like to comment that our previous generations really weren’t too successful in making stable as you wrote, in fact they deserve more of a blame than praise. Dowry, ignorance towards female educations, restriction of females only to household activities, terrible sharp demarcation between males and females(that’s the dangerous most) and what not… are needless to say our previous generation humble gift, that we are reaping the fruits now and so, you are right again, the present day youths have to make the change as of now. But the real dogma is “ who would bell the cat” and from where should it begin?
What is pertinent is that poor Scarlett’s death also revealed the shoddy state of politics in our beloved Goa. The autopsy, the missing organs, the blame game … Oh My God, do these politicians think that the Goan public is full of fools. Goans, sensitive lovely Goans, rise. We need to do some soul searching and drive out all this sleaze from our beloved land.
Oh wonderful goa! you deserve honest politician, non-corrupt police, more enviromental friendly tourist and its own citizen, polite and reasonable taxi and auto-rikshaw driver, non polluted beaches without murderous jet-skis, banana rides, para -gliding boats without their no lisence holding hooligan boys from neboring karnataka boys who attack in groups on tourists.
Oh goa you deseve non chating kashmiris and Gujtatis and lambanis who ask 10 time more price of their rotten goods and later on sale it 10 times less price.
My dear Goa, you need better roads, footpaths for pedestrians, clean waters and toilets for immgrant workers in order to not find dirt on one’s own door steps.
Oh god and nature blessed Goa you need no land and drug mafia but you need hard working goans who want to make a honest living but not alchohal guzzling young genneration becoming fat, ugly and aggressive.
sooner the beeter!
Dear Kamal Gaur
What you have written is so TRUE and so REAL, we do really need that Goa, for that matter we need that every cities does and be that way in India, I agree your views completely
Great Posting !
GOA IS NATURES GIFT TO GOANS AND INDIANS. IN LAST 25 YEARS GOA IS GRADUALLY DESTROYED BY HUMAN GREED MANLY BY CONSTRCTION AND CORRUPTION.
BUT STILL THERE IS HOPE. NOT ONLY GOAN BUT INDIANS TOO HAVE TO SHARE A RESPONSIBILITY TO SAVE GOA FROM DISTRUCTION.
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT ARE YOU LISTENING? DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM. COSTAL BELT PROTECTION AGENCIES OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT(CAUSE GOAN GOVERNMENT AND ITS MACHINARY HAS MISERABLY FAILD SO FAR) INDIAN MINISTRY OF ENVIROMENT TO SAVE GOA FROM MINING MAFIA.
BIG QUESTIONS.
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