http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/UK/VIEW_FROM_LONDON_Time_for_Goa_to_ban_the_backpacker_save_image/articleshow/2850318.cms > Some excerpts from this "View from London" > Now that Goa's enforcers of law and order are arguably shown up as liars and cheats, murdered British teenager Scarlett Keeling's heavily-tattooed mother is able triumphantly to claim she was right after all, is it time to rebrand the world's hippie capital? > Her naked body was found on the edge of the ocean three weeks ago. However bourgeois the prejudices sparked by the appearances of her mother, with her apparent unconcern about leaving a young daughter alone in Goa, the hippie paradise is suddenly beset by a bad press. The famously shrill British media is in full cry. > Each and every death diminishes us. But it savages Goa with its reputation as a singularly sunny place safely to be spaced out. Is it a coincidence that the British foreign office does not list Goa at all in its tally of "top five experiences" on the Indian sub-continent?
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