To Goanet -
Bernice Pereira wrote: >Right you are!!People who come here draped as tourists are disgusting with the >most obvious behavioural patterns. Recently I was travelling in a metro in >Dubai and in walked two Guju couples. From the time they got in the train to >the time they disembarked, they behaved as if they owned the train - speaking >in > >the loudest voice, screeching on the phone. This brand of individuals make me >ashamed of being an Indian. Bernice Pereira What is stopping Goans from instituting public rules and regulations that would inhibit public display of boorishness endemic in Indians? And enforcing those rules? The loud blaring of music from the Panjim cruise ships and the attendant display of coarse behavior are not matter of my private opinion. It is a public nuisance that intrudes on the lives of Panjim residents. For 4 years I have fought this menace with the authorities (Environmental Pollution Board, Collector etc). There would be a week or two of lull and then the whole cycle would begin anew, with the connivance of the authorities and the police. Only one other Panjim resident - Wilfred Coutinho - had joined hands to combat this; the rest couldn't be bothered. I could recount my experience with Swapnil Naik who was the collector (or something) at the time. A more helpless public official would be hard to find. He well knew what was going on but didn't have the stomach to take on the more powerful interests. I think he has now moved up the govt babu chain. One of the cruise ship owners was a 'core' member of the bogus Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA). When I once mentioned this issue to him his response was, "Oh my boats don't play loud music." End of story, change of topic. On the campus of the Old Goa monuments you don't have to wait long to experience extreme uncouth behavior from visiting Indian tourists. The ghati guards will swoop on you if you carry a tripod, but you can lavish the place with your litter, spit & shit, you can talk loudly and create a racket - that is perfectly fine. The Archbishop can put a stop to all this if he grows a spine. So as to keep this 'secular' and provide 'balance', I should point out that Mangueshi has also become another ghati town like Old Goa. These are both, for want of a better term, religious brothels now. And as we all know, our beaches are the ultimate trash cans for the rest of the world. In just over a week (Dec 31), Sharma-jis and Chatterjees and Iyengar-jis will descend on Goa, trash the place, and leave. Goans will have to clean up after the fact, but of course, we have the people from the bhangi colony to do the dirty work. We Goans want to eat some bangddo and go sleep, man. Regards, r
