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Stage Play: ON THE HOLY TRAIL
Staged By: The Mustard Seed Art Company
Where: Kala Academy - Mini Open-air Auditorium
When: Dec 20 & 21, 2007 @ 7pm
Read a Review at:
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2007-December/066558.html
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To Goanet -
That was the refrain at GMAS's anti-SEZ public meeting
yesterday. Several speakers including Manohar Parrikar
advanced the sentiment that Goa's population should be
stabilized at the current levels. This is a very welcome
policy proposal and must be vigorously pursued (and
made an electoral issue).
However, freezing the population is not possible unless you
bring down the temperature simultaneously on construction.
You can't freeze the population until you also deter ghatis
from swamping the Goanscape. These strands cannot be
isolated in any comprehensive and effective solution to
Goa's current problems. This is perhaps the final chance
for Goans to get act together and their house in order.
And one more thing - some peabrain has enthusiastically
endorsed Mopa as an airport in today's NT. Mopa will be
an unmitigated disaster for the area. Our remote villages -
Alorna, Imbrampur, Torxem, Virnoda, Dhargal, even
Korgaon - in the general area of Mopa will be destroyed.
Several of these areas are still quite rural. DLF and Co will
barge in to 'develop' the place with apartments and malls,
and ghatis will follow suit with their own slums. We don't
need a new airport. What we need is a policy to decrease
visitors to Goa. Knee-jerk ad hoc band-aid fixes will fail.
Comprehensive long term planning - completely alien to
the Goan/Indian mind - is required. That means, putting
together a team of best heads available, setting aside egos,
and getting to work (again, attributes alien to the Goan/Indian
mind).
Warm regards,
r
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