Every once in a while, the quiet luxury restraint favoured by the ‘outsider’ owners of modern Goan homes is punctuated by grand maximalism — high walls to infinity pool.
Mopa serves Maharashtra more than Goa. 'Mopa is an economic engine, but 75% of the tourists who land there go to Sindhudurg,' South Goa MP Captain Viriato Fernandes said
Maybe the only way to truly police Indian men’s behaviour is to have their mothers accompany them on every trip. Should they want to approach a stranger, they must ask mummy first.
The real acrimony in Goa is against tourists and wealthy land buyers from Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru. Yet, the fury gets channelled downward against the poorest workers from the cowbelt.
Remote workers who arrived in Goa after 2020 are now leaving their sunshine dreams behind. They are questioning whether the infrastructure ever existed to sustain them in the first place.
Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the burden of the ‘greater common good’?
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.
LOL!
Even the Portugese in Portugal have moved on and don’t have ‘Portugese’ houses any more.
Break the shackles of colonial mindset, Karanjeet.