------------------------------------------------------------------------ Photos from Goa's 2009 mando festival: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/sets/72157622843319441/ Event on Wed, Thurs evening from 5 pm onwards, Kala Academy, Panaji-Goa
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 19:36:50 -0800 (PST) From: Samir Kelekar <[email protected]> If you have to throw out outsiders, throw out DLF, Vedanta and the other big time costruction companies and mining companies first (There have been 111 mining leases granted in the last few years in Goa), rather than the poor migrant souls who live hand-to-mouth. Mario asks: Were these apparently LEGAL leases officially granted to the ILLEGAL mines that George was referring to? Memo to self: Check whether ILLEGAL is the new UNDESIRABLE. Who is going to replace the jobs and tax revenues from these businesses? Were these businesses LEGAL and DESIRABLE all these years under names like Salgaocar, Dempo, Chowgule, etc.? Don't some of the poor migrant souls work at these mines? Are the poor migrant souls living hand-to-mouth because they have better hand-to-bank-account-to-mouth options? Samir wrote: As I have mentioned, anyone --- Goan or non-Goan --- who is owning Vedanta or DLF (see the havoc DLF is creating by Dabolim hill-cutting) stocks are the destroyers of Goa. Mario responds: Was Carmen Miranda wrong when she said there were regulations in Goa that required rehabilitating these open face mines after the ore has been depleted?
