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**** Annual Goanetters Meet ****
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Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm
Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim)
Planning to attend? Send an email to [email protected] with contact details
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Good morning India! It's a brand new year.
Watching the videos of New Years' celebrations posted around Goa, we Goans have
to reconcile ourselves to the fact that the dregs of India are our chief guests
for New Years. For a culture that discovered the mando, sang the fado and
danced the dekni, we now have to listen to the techno defecation that was the
Sunburn Festival and watch the Dionysian thrashing about of solo men who
vaguely resemble, as my father would say, "showte" caught in a thin mesh net.
But if the roads clogged with traffic and the nights assaulted by an incessant
din wasn't enough, Goans woke up to this sight on New Years Day:
http://www.heraldgoa.in/
Heraldo was being euphemistic when they called it a sea of humanity. It was
more like the tsumani that hit Japan earlier this year and unlike that natural
disaster, this one apparently left their droppings for us Goans to find. Rest
assured no one is going to clean Goa's beach belt, much less lift the offending
droppings to be transported to a sewage plant. No, those will be left on the
beach for mother nature to clean up at high-tide or grazing cows to relish. No
doubt our fish will feast on them and no doubt we Goans will then buy the fish
paying a unexpected high price -in more ways than one.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Revellers-leave-litter-on-states-golden-beaches/articleshow/11331101.cms
Those old bhatkars who languished in their pyjamas mouthing merde every few
minutes could never have imagined that in a few years after Liberation, we
Goans would not only be wallowing in merde but eating it as well.
Best,
selma
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