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Xavier Center of Historical Research presents HISTORY HOUR
TOPIC: Waste Wise - An Interactive Awareness Presentation
on Waste Management in Goa
SPEAKER: Clinton Vaz - November 16, 2007 - 5:30pm
VISIT: http://tinyurl.com/222757
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Hi RKN: I was referring to the 'Western' ability to grab large chunks
of landmass and then fence themselves out in islands of prosperity
while consuming 50 times what an average Indian does (even if many of
us are not average, average!). But your point is valid indeed. One day
we might become as dirty as them, the current problems with toilets
notwithstanding. FN
On 15/11/2007, Radhakrishnan Nair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <<Fred to Selma: What you're used to in the West would probably not be
> attained even in our dreams here.>>
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> Don't be so diffident, Fred. Since when have the Westerners become so
> conscious of hygiene? In the 18th and 19th centuries American farms
> were malodorous pigsties. Indeed, in the early days of the railways in
> Britain, even Her Majesty the Queen on her journeys to Wales and
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