Opinion: Goa beach bikini ban a bizarre suggestion Goa: India’s smallest state Goa has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, the recent sexual attack on a 9-year-old Russian girl in Morjim village has resonated far beyond the beaches of this former Portuguese colony till 1961. Foreign journalists have picked up a quote from here and there and the stray incidents of rape to create an element of sensation for their story. They cannot be faulted on that count. It’s their job. Controversy sells and the Goa politicians and tourism officials have provided enough fodder for the news corps. But is Goa the place where ‘free love’ thrives. And is it the Rape capital of India, as it is made out to be by provincial minster for Tourism Micky Pacheco For a native Goan, the place still retains the old charm, minus all the vices of tourism, which a small segment of the Goans and Indian have become addicted to.
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