The Nainital littering incident shows that many tourists can’t manage the simple act of putting their rubbish where it belongs. Their trash is a signature that reads—‘tourists were here’
This is the 5th cleanliness survey since 2016 and has covered 4,242 cities in 28 days with the help of digitised and paperless feedback from over 1.9 crore citizens.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
They should ban tourists forever. Not just in Mawlynnong but in the entire state of Meghalaya.
I have been to the state twice – the first time as a tourist in the 2000s and then my husband was posted in Shillong for 3 years – 2006 to 2009.
What I saw and heard made me sick. The native Khasis referred to us non-tribals as ‘Dkhars’ – a pejorative. And they took every opportunity to make it clear that we were unwanted and unwelcome. The students union KSU would regularly indulge in thuggery and vandalism targeting non-tribals and their businesses. Even Durga Puja had to be celebrated with a lot of security force deployment and with lots of conditions such as closing of Puja pandals at 11pm. We lived in fear – there was an actual ‘darr ka mahaul’ – one that Ravish Kumar will never talk about. I always prayed for my family’s safety and security.
I have seen and heard too much to believe in the rosy stories painted by clever media outfits like ThePrint.
They should ban tourists forever. Not just in Mawlynnong but in the entire state of Meghalaya.
I have been to the state twice – the first time as a tourist in the 2000s and then my husband was posted in Shillong for 3 years – 2006 to 2009.
What I saw and heard made me sick. The native Khasis referred to us non-tribals as ‘Dkhars’ – a pejorative. And they took every opportunity to make it clear that we were unwanted and unwelcome. The students union KSU would regularly indulge in thuggery and vandalism targeting non-tribals and their businesses. Even Durga Puja had to be celebrated with a lot of security force deployment and with lots of conditions such as closing of Puja pandals at 11pm. We lived in fear – there was an actual ‘darr ka mahaul’ – one that Ravish Kumar will never talk about. I always prayed for my family’s safety and security.
I have seen and heard too much to believe in the rosy stories painted by clever media outfits like ThePrint.