I definitely endorse the view of JC that the media also has a significant role in abetting the crimes on Goa. The media dictates the agenda according to whose interests have to be served. But the media is owned by the very Goan industrialists who keep these political puppets floating. Goans prefer to buy and believe gossip every weekend which is produced by a keralite settler controlled by the pwoers that be. In Goa we do not need BJP to muzzle the press, the publishers themselves will do it. But again, like the rest of Goan society the press persons take all this lying down because they will say it is their bread and butter. If everyone is concerned about bread and butter who will be left to save Goa? You also asked whether these problems existed before. They could not exist because our ancestors were not greedy. They were producers not consumers. They had natural wisdom. I would say that the problems of today are a manifestation of what went horribly wrong politically, economically and socially from 1961 to 1990. Like drug addiction, materialism is a progressive disease.
-Soter
