To Goanet - Yesterday on a whim I went again via Chorla ghat to Surla (my 3rd excursion this week). I took my little nephew along as I wanted to show him the deeds of his fellow Goans and countrymen (and parenthetically in my mind, to train him in "How not to be a modern Indian"). The Ladkyacho vozar (waterfall) is glorious this time of the year and is best seen from Paikacho Sado just outside the village of Surla.
We enjoyed over an hour of peace with only the sounds of nature and the view to enthrall us. Then 2 couples from Karnataka pissed on our bliss. They were loud, coarse and we saw in real time how they littered. The only people deserving of more extreme prejudice and malice are the Dilliwallahs. The men were swilling hard liquor straight out of the bottle (remember, after trashing Surla, these intoxicated guys will be driving back in dim, foggy conditions on a mountain road - a real hazard to not only their lives but the lives of other motorists and people). I spoke to the villagers in Surla and they confirm what Prof. Kamat has written in his Navhind Times piece. From their accounts, what the visitors from Karnataka have been doing amounts to sexual harassment of the village womenfolk. A short gallery is linked below (I wasn't planning to shoot the trash - I have had enough and don't do this kind of stuff any more). Finally - what is Alina Saldanha doing to do about all this? http://www.parrikar.org/images/Chorla/index.html r
