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On 3 January 2011 03:42, Rajan P. Parrikar <[email protected]> wrote:
[1] The standards of public hygiene in what are today considered clean
and hygiene-conscious countries of Europe and the West WERE
sordid in the past.
[2] (The) rich housewives in Mumbai are known to offload garbage from
their plush Breach Candy apartments onto the streets below.
[3] And let me guess - it is the Goans who should assume the blame for
not anticipating the bowel movement needs of the Patna Express crowd.
[4] Finally, I leave you with this sequence -
http://www.parrikar.org/images/ghatification/slides/panjim-06.html
http://www.parrikar.org/images/ghatification/slides/panjim-07.html
http://www.parrikar.org/images/ghatification/slides/panjim-08.html
jc's comment:
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Rajan's pictures
are worth an entire sewer system.
To those who refer us to books by Goa historians and the unhygienic
conditions in Goa from 1510 to 1961, I'd say the following:
a: That is a 450 year spread. What was the situation in 1961?
b: Please see [1] above from Rajan
c: Please see [4] above from Rajan
d: With due respect to the Goa historians, was the situation in Goa
1961 akin to [4] above from Rajan
e: Are not apples different from oranges?
f: The noise apart, do you see an amelioration/worsening of the
situation with new constructions (and new 'ghatis') in the pipeline?
Perhaps, the one 'beneficial' part to all this may be organic fish and
vegetable farming. Who needs those artificially fed farm coriander,
fish and prawns when so much organic farming wealth is being donated
by our visitors.
Yuck!!
jc
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