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Sangath, www.sangath.com, is one of Goa's leading NGOs.
Sangath is looking to build a centre for services, training and research
and is looking to buy land of approx 1500 to 2000 sq mtrs
betweeen Mapusa and Bambolim and surrounding rural areas
If you have land to sell, please contact:
[email protected] or [email protected] or phone +91-9881499458
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2009-July/180028.html
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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:46:29 +0530 (IST)
From: Bernice Pereira <[email protected]>
Mario, I'm certainly not in any way suggesting that we return to the 5-star
lifestyle of the past, but only stating the fact that Goans (and specially,?
the elitist ones you describe of the older generation) have been subjected to a
lot of changes post liberation.? No doubt, by and large most of? the changes
have been for the better viz. better roads, sanitation, education, job
opportunities etc.? I believe, there was a time, students had to go to Mumbai
to answer their SSC exam paper.? Every country in the world has to pay a price
in the interests of progress and Goans too have gone throgh this transition.?
The only worm in the can is that Goa has also become a breeding ground for all
kinds of unhealthy elements, for which there is no restraint at all.? This
will? be a threat to its culture and environment. ?
Mario responds:
I agree with you. The biggest problem I see in Goa is the election and
re-election of corrupt politicians.
Unfortunately, Goa was far too powerful a magnet for other Indians - and
foreigners as well - to be able to maintain its culture and identity. But the
ugly and untrammeled, often illegal, building development, which makes an
engineer and part-time Ponjekar like me cringe, could have been controlled -
other places have done it - with zoning laws that are enforced, if not for the
ever-present corruption which makes a mockery of the existing laws.
