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 US and Israel’s assassinations of Iranian leadership ended up bestowing martyrdom on those killed. Shias saw the deaths as a continuity of martyrdom from the Battle of Karbala.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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