Came across this link in GoanVoiceUK newsletter:
http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/search/story.aspx?brand=Northlondon24&category=fscolumnists&itemid=WeED06%20Feb%202006%2009:48:14:607&tBrand=Northlondon24&tCategory=search
I am quoting a few paragraphs only:
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Peter Forrest: View from the Hill
03 February 2006
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No, the main reason we now go to Goa year-after-year, 'back-to-back', is
the people. Granted, our hotel is pretty civilised but Indian beach life is
a real eye-opener. Many of the beach sellers are either quite young widows
making ends meet - better than 50p a day working in the paddy fields
up-state or in some sweat-shop in Mumbai - or women trying to hold their
family together whilst the often violent, unemployed and parasitical
husband is permanently blotto on the local moonshine called fenni.
The other beach sellers are young boys and girls whose main wares are saris
and silks - a pleasant change from West Africa where their equivalents are
often young bucks trying (very trying!) to pick up western women.
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Goan youngsters' linguistic skills make me very envious. Often with no
formal education, they all speak three or four languages and have even
picked up Russian, now that Muscovites have discovered Goa as a bolt-hole
from the privations of the Russian winter.
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I doubt the writer is describing native Goans.
Cheers!
Cecil
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