Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 03:00:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Obviously you are unaware that hundreds of laws exist in India and in Goa, but the problem is none of these are adhered. > Mario responds: > I'm not sure whom you think you are helping with yet another dismissive statement which falsely suggests that there are anything like zoning laws in Goa. > Selma wrote: > Now, coming you your assertion that I am in tacit approval of a Marxist, separatist state, obviously you have not been reading my posts or preferring not to understand the content of them. I have never embraced Marxist ideology nor called for the seceding of Goa. I am a Nehruvian nationalist.
> Mario responds: > Nehru should have stopped at being a nationalist. If he had turned right instead of left in 1947, as Japan did after WW-II, India would have been a superpower by now. > I never said you were a closet Marxist - I simply said that I did not see from you any strenuous objections to the suggestions for authoritarian separatist Marxist policies in Goa - at the same time you were dismissing the policies that have worked well in every developed country to control economic development. I see you seem to have finally woken up to that fact. > Selma wrote: > Secondly I have never been what is popularly refered to in Goa as "anti-development". > Mario responds: > Making dismissive comments about the west being "solid" and western zoning policies being unlikely to work in Goa due to "ground realities" is a strange way to show that you are pro-rational-development. Without the kinds of rational zoning laws I am proposing the local Goans have no alternative but to OBSTRUCT development, and, based on Gadgil's reporting they are finally beginning to make some headway. > Selma wrote: > Goans have to compromise, they have to recognise what is a true investment opportunity and what is not. > Mario responds: > There is too much money to be made in Goa right now for the developers to be "rational". They are in the business of making money, not in the business of being "rational". The ugly results are there for everyone to see through the lens of Rajan Parrikar. > Only the local residents through their Panchayats and Gram Sabhas can turn things around - the politicians at the upper levels cannot be relied upon to lead the charge - though they should be doing so. > Tell all your friends in Goa to go see Rajan's exhibit in Panjim next week, The Rape of Goa - it may open their eyes and their brains. >
