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’?
In a state where hotel ownership, restaurant businesses, and even beach shack operations have increasingly moved to outside investors, the taxi sector represents one of the few industries still predominantly controlled by residents.
The myth that casino development represented some organic evolution of Goa’s character has been demolished. Now, Panjim stands alienated from itself, where even basic institutions carry the branding of private gambling operators.
Japanese bartender Hiroyasu Kayama’s interest in Goan urrak is a recognition that certain traditions carry weight in their resistance to standardisation.
Indian judiciary has a corrosive imbalance between the bar and the bench. Those who supervise the district judiciary do so without the lived experience that is essential for meaningful reform.
November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.
Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).
Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.
I would like to congratulate the author on how well assimilated she is to Goan culture! This is because, after reading this article twice, the two brothers who own the club are the only Delhi folk mentioned here…but they’re just one party to this sordid affair, literally everyone else involved – right from the village panchayay to the fire department are all local Goans, yet Ms. Kaur couldn’t help but drag Delhi into this!! Clearly she’s internalized the classic Goan response to all valid criticism – “they’re not locals, they’re outsiders”!
The columnist had covered the issue of Goa’s taxi mafia very well some time back. A jewel, which could rival the South Of France. Or at least comparable destinations in south east Asia. How can such abysmal governance, coupled with rent seeking, be condoned or accepted. Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra is four and a half times the area of Goa.
I would like to congratulate the author on how well assimilated she is to Goan culture! This is because, after reading this article twice, the two brothers who own the club are the only Delhi folk mentioned here…but they’re just one party to this sordid affair, literally everyone else involved – right from the village panchayay to the fire department are all local Goans, yet Ms. Kaur couldn’t help but drag Delhi into this!! Clearly she’s internalized the classic Goan response to all valid criticism – “they’re not locals, they’re outsiders”!
The columnist had covered the issue of Goa’s taxi mafia very well some time back. A jewel, which could rival the South Of France. Or at least comparable destinations in south east Asia. How can such abysmal governance, coupled with rent seeking, be condoned or accepted. Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra is four and a half times the area of Goa.