Title: Goa la fantasque. By Marie-France Calle. Source: Le Figaro (France) 25 Aug 2006. 1791 words at http://www.lefigaro.fr/reportage/20060825.FIG000000005_goa_la_fantasque. html#
Machine translation at http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lefigaro.fr%2Fr eportage%2F20060825.FIG000000005_goa_la_fantasque.html%23&langpair=fr%7C en&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools Excerpts from machine translation: ... the property developers, come for the majority from north from India, threw their reserved on this old Portuguese colony for the obsolete charm. Worse, of the businessmen dream to install on the quiet coast of the call centers. The place is ideal for the delocalizations; here, the majority of people speak impeccable English, claironne a businessman of Bombay. Good-bye beautiful frontages of style Jesuit, romantic and odorous gardens? If the regional persons in charge do not take guard there, the future of Goa is extremely likely to belong to the concrete. For Frederick Noronha, independent journalist with Goa, Initially, it, drug entrusts always formed integral part of tourism with Goa. Then, it should well be known that all these festivals, these turnip-parts, today like yesterday, are a business of Westerners. If you are neither white nor Western, you do not belong to this world. Concluding: There is a true segregation in the company of Goa. It is rather strange to imagine that with a few kilometers hardly places where are held these festivals drowned in drugs prohibited in India, the police force continues to be occupied with its occupations as if nothing were not. Cleo Odzer was one of the first hippies to rejoin Goa in the years 1970. After having undergone a cure of detoxication in New York, then last its thesis, this American returned in the row. It wrote Goa Freaks, my years of hippie in India. One seizing testimony. A work whose Frederick Noronha does not hesitate to say: If you never wondered how the hippies years 1970 succeeded in leading a life apparently luxury to Goa without working only one day; if you want to know how they spent the whole months on the small beach of Anjuna and what attracted them in Goa, then it is the book which it is necessary to read. Cleo Odzer explains, inter alia, without decency, how the inhabitants of Goa were before a a whole cheap labour. Western which would deal with the household! Which amazing thing in this country where the employees are not paid very expensive, writes the ex-hippie. To live in Goa was extremely cheap. Food and the rent did not cost large-thing and I paid my maidservant 22 dollars per month for a service returned seven days over Sept. It did all. The majority of my rupees passed in drug Frederick Noronha recognizes that the book contains some passages hard to swallow, which put to you in anger. In particular when the ex-hippie tells how it nourished its shrimp dog mijotées in a sauce with the white wine, or how it bought the most beautiful (and expensive) saris to hang them with the ceiling in order to decorate its house. More seriously, Goa Freaks tells what the hippies except season with Goa did. Traffic. During monsoon, therefore. They left to resell drug with the four corners of the world, thus carrying out small sufficient savings to make them live during the winter on the beaches of the sea of Arabia. Let us say that they bought for 2.000 dollars of drug in South Asia, they resold it for more than 20.000 dollars in Canada. To only transport drug for someone else paid between 8.000 and 10.000 dollars, known as Noronha. ===================================== _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
