To Goanet - When I was in Goa recently I was amused by a news item in the Herald: some has plans to create an artificial beach in Mumbai. Why not, I thought. After all, they have now created Mumbai in Goa.
The rate of Goa's depreciation has accelerated. Panjim is now certifiably Mumbai-lite: noisy, ugly, unpleasant, and full of smelly uncouth Indians. The bhaile no doubt find Goa pleasant because they are, after all, fleeing their own toilet paradises to 'contribute' to Goa. I saw Wendell's recent account. The entire stretch of highway, from around Tivim to Colvale doesn't look like Goa anymore. It may as well be one long hovel reminiscent of Karnataka or Bengal or Jharkhand or UP. The Chapora river in Colvale is being sand-mined to death. It has already lead to an ecological disaster - the famed Colvale 'muddoshyo' (ladyfish) no longer breed here. These are the wages our own corruption, and let's not forget, of being joined to India and Indians. If we Goans had had our own house in order it would never have gotten to this. r
