Aroon Purie,
Nice article that highlights the real current situation in Goa.
However, everyone should realize that if Goa needs to be clean, it is
just not for the benefit of tourists who want to come down and hopt to
have a great time.
Goans too like cleanliness, like it existed in the good old Portuguese
times, but most of the filth currently present in Goan beaches have been
attributed to Indian tourists. The last time my family visited Calangute
beach, we just had to retract our steps as there were all sorts of dirt
on the sand and it was just unsafe to walk amongst the debris on it. We
decided to observe for a while and clearly saw with our own eyes Indian
tourists spitting pan on the beach, throwing bottles and other rubbish
all over the place with total disregard to any civilized rules. Surely
they would never do that in their backyard, wherever they may be in
Hindustan.
Average Goans, Hippies and general Western tourists have manners and
take care wherever they go.
Perhaps the challenge would be to fine these filthy fellow citizens that
come to Goa, pollute it and then go back to their native places - only
to then comment on how bad the state of Goa is. These people should
clean up what they leave behind else they should be welcome - not - to Goa.
Goa does not need to be more 'Indianized' than already it has been. All
corruption and sleeze have been Indian imports that then allowed foreign
imports like drugs and prostitution to flourish.
On insight, if the Portuguese would have been in Goa till date, things
would definitely different today. Probably not as developed, but
definitely not as corrupt and filthy!
And these filthy Indian tourists would have accounted then for a lot of
extra revenue to the local exchequer!
JP
"The more you know, the less you know, because the more you know you
don't know". --M. Lin
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