To Goanet - Yesterday I was sitting all my myself, sipping coffee, at a hotel in Bangalore when I had a chance encounter with a visiting American. He said that he had just spent a couple of days in Goa, his first time there. Then he added that while in Goa he had been offered a piece of Goan land, which he declined to buy since he found the whole transaction "very suspicious." I inquired how he could legally make the purchase when he didn't satisfy the residency requirement. He replied that the brokers "fix" that problem by procuring a 1-year residency proof. Since he had a flight to catch I didn't have time to ferret out additional details.
None of this is hot news, of course, to those of us in the know. There has been extensive land fraud in Goa right under our noses, with Westerners picking up prime plots. The question is, where are the investigations by the Goan media? It is not only our pols who are rotten. The Goan press, too, stinks to high heavens. The Goan today - i.e. you, the reader - is also a moral cretin. Warm regards, r
