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As PJ has said they are also Victorian in design. I agree about lack of updating, garbage disposal etc. Shoddy building causing collapse. People suffer every year.

But you can hardly compare London with the amount of monsoon rainfall, (about 3'+ in one day in 2005), high tides, low land etc. and yes the increase in general population and squatters is vast.

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Goa has 90,000 Russian tourists a year

14 Mar. Russian and India report. The Russian Federal Agency for Tourism, together with the Russian Travel Association World Without Borders, represented Russia in Mumbai as an attractive tourist destination. Russian Consul in Mumbai, expressed concern that far fewer Indians are coming to Russia than Russians visiting India. “Goa alone has about 90,000 Russian tourists a year. And we had just 50,000 Indian visitors last year, of whom only 5,000 were tourists.


Go to Goa!
14 Mar: Business Review India, Fondly referred to as ahippie beach-joint, Goa is more than just sun, sand and sea. The seductive state offers exotic flora and fauna, thrilling adventure sports, rich historical sites, wild nightlife, excellent shopping experience and great food …

www.goanvoice.org.uk.

p.s. If you ever find the magnificent shopping Malls in Panjim, as advertised 18 years ago in a travel book, please let me know.

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I would not call it magnificent but the shopping mall that opened a year ago in Panjim has a few good shops in it, lifts, toilets and a place to eat (it is also next door to KFC), only thing is they have decided to extend up another two floors and judging by the huge cracks opening up in the walls it may not take the weight.

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*WARNING* not for the faint hearted, filthy India in pictures :ohmy:

http://www.chinasmack.com/2010/pictu...reactions.html

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:ohmy: Awful - my pet hate, is the spitting that really repulses me.
"The Goan Gob" Ugh" I have seen Dr. Dukles telling locals off for doing it outside his hospital.

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Agree it is an awful habit not seen in 'polite society'. I personally can't remember particularly seeing women spitting whatever their social group. Others may have.

That person writing the clip must have spent a long time getting the worst photos from Varanasi. We went there some years ago to put ashes, and I was not looking forward to it. However out in the boat in the evening with the fires burning in the distance it seemed calm and peaceful and somehow 'right'.

There were plenty of fish in the river.

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I don't think I would eat the fish or drink the water there though - I never did like the taste of offal !

It does seem like the guy writing the article has a hannibalistic and morbid fascination for photographing corpses - his point was made after about two of them - so I find it rather worrying that he appears to have spent a large portion of his holiday searching for rotting dead things - a bit psycho if you ask me - Clarice!!!

Dread - x

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

Black market gangs join the iPad stampede to ship tablets to India (as enterprising teen, 16, jumps back 14 spots in queue for £300)

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India in uproar over death of Baby Falak – an unwanted child handed into hospital covered with HUMAN BITE MARKS
A child abuse case that has gripped India for months took a tragic turn last night, with the death of an abandoned baby girl. Doctors in Delhi said the battered two-year-old suffered a fatal heart attack.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ITE-MARKS.html

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Utter b******s!

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From Daily Mail 19.3.2012 - Aid to India to be axed


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...n-handout.html

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... but not yet!

AndyD 8-)₹₹

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http://zeenews.india.com/news/goa/cc...on_764936.html

Panaji: Over three dozen CCTV cameras will soon start capturing all the movements and activities on Goa's crowded beaches, as part of state government's nitiative in curbing illegalities on the shores.

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I see they have got that b**tard in France who killed the school kids and the 3 soldiers.He claims he acted for Al Quada. He is surrounded in a house in Toulouse and has already shot two coppers who knocked on his door !

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17456541

Mohammed Merah, the man believed to be the gunman on a scooter who killed seven people in south-western France,

France gunman 'set to kill again'
French prosecutors say the Toulouse shooting suspect, now surrounded in his flat, planned more killings and admits being trained by al-Qaeda