Sure this post took eight years coming. Too bad the book, whose excerpts we have quoted from, was only published in the year 2007 or something. In a way, this story is a logical extension of the series of posts <http://penpricks.blogspot.com/2008/03/robbing-peter-to-pay-paul-hmm-think-we.html>which we put up following Preetu Nair's startling observation<http://penpricks.blogspot.com/2008/03/gomantak-times-plug-and-play-service.html>. Here's what Preetu had stated in her response to Miguel Braganza. "Fortunately, readers are quick to realize that much of what goes on in the tourist paradise of Goa goes unreported because a few local journos and their editors play host to the corrupt system." We wonder now if Arun Saldanha's book Psychedelic White -- Goa Trance and the Viscosity of Race puts Preetu's comment in perspective. So what does Arun Saldanha say... for more read http://penpricks.blogspot.com
