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New shack policy by July end: Goa CM

7 Jun: Times of India. Chief minister Manohar Parrikar said the government will come out with a new shack policy for the state by the end of July . The state government allows around 336 shacks across the 105km coast line

Politicians inspect a dirty Calangute beach

7 Jun: Times of India. Following a report on the filthy garbage conditions on Calangute beach tourism minister Dilip Parulekar immediately phoned Calangute MLA Michael Lobo to get more details and later visited the beach to see for himself the garbage situation in Calangute and find a solution to the problem… The government is considering a proposal for a 3m wide walking pathway on the entire beach stretch to enable tourists to access changing rooms, toilets and showers

wonder how long they will keep the showers and toilets clean!


Regional Plan 2021 to be complete in 6 months: Goa chief minister
7 Jun: Times of India. Chief minister Manohar Parrikar said that formulation of the new Regional Plan 2021 would be completed within six months. He said "Before December, I will finalize it for the state."

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Forced marriages are illegal in India.
In our community the families are always well known in an 'arrangement' or matchmaking, in fact it it is more a case of 'family joining'. It is great fun for mothers to gossip in a kitchen about 'where the boys are'.
In the last few years all the marriages in our very orthodox family have been 'love marriages' .
The last arrangement was about 5 years ago, after some years of girl turning down too fat, too short, etc. etc finally agreed to G. They are the most devoted couple I know.
I could tell so many romantic stories of apparent arrangements but not quite so, girls are girls.

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Sorry do not agree with you! (what a surprise) I am sure you do not mix with all castes, like we do. Your views are very insular, within your higher caste family. We stay and eat in the villages with friends and also visit and eat with the "posh" ones. They all come and visit us.

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Noni "caste" is not a word used in our family. What do you mean "do not agree with you" are you saying my descriptions of family life are not true?.

We of course mix with all 'walks of life'. Helpers are part of the family, many neighbours are very poor. We are part of their lives and they ours, for many most of their lives (OH is in his 70s now).

Noni the next time we are both in India please come and visit us in Karwar and see family life of richer and poor outside Goa, (including Muslims). Karwar is very cosmopolitan, Hindu, Muslim and Christian all get on together. You will be very welcome.

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...w/13877653.cms

love the comments. so true.

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No, your descriptions of your family life I believe. I also believe that you do not have the diverse conception of Goan life we do, you may have staff, but do you go home with them like I do, to be welcomed into what we would call (disrespectfully) a hovel share they food and hospitality. But these are the dear people who helped me most last season. They asked for nothing, it was done with love for me and OH. I think you are sheltered from what is "real Goan life! I do not mean to offend.

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I totally agree with the idea that the shack owners are made responsible for keeping the area around their shack totally free of garbage.
How nice it would be to see the beaches properly cleaned and all the rubbish removed.

Also hope that if they do build public toilets and changing rooms on beaches they have the good sense to have attendants to keep them clean. Otherwise there is little point in bothering as they will just become filthy health hazards like any unattended places of this nature

Dread - x

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I loved the title of the article :rofl::rofl::rofl:


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Made me almost PMSL too :hysterical::hysterical::tape::egyptian:
So much so I sent it to my brother who as a journo is also peeing hiself laughing !1

Dread - x

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Can anybody honestly see it being kept clean by the "Indians" and a few foreigners. I can't.

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Or the Ruskies if some of their habits are anything to go by - some of the low rent Russians will probably use them for having sex in !!! :ohmy::ohmy:

Dread

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Noni don't wan't to make this a competition:) Karwar is quite a poor city nowadays. There are plenty of hovels.
We don't have 'staff' a neighbour keeps an eye on (what is now a holiday house) and cooks for us, of course we visit her house. Her sense of hygiene is nil. We accept her as she is. We grumble but none of us have caught anything yet:fingerscrossed:

Another lady (as a teenager she cooked for parents in law) walks 3 miles to clean for us and water the garden. Her 'house' has no electricity, a shared outside loo. (Drunkard husband). At least she gets some food at our house. We visit her house and politely eat as little as poss. (not to take from her).

There are many other neighbours. For most, their lives have improved over the 40 years + we have known them.

Come and see for yourself when you come.

PS our community is of Goan origin centuries ago. Many are still there or moved back.

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Like to stories of the hotel, just before you come into Candolim from the Panjim road! Sex everywhere, even on the balconies, by the Russian P's there for other residence to watch. Disgusting, thank God we do not rent there, especially when family and chldren visit.

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Bipat = No competition - But I will not have you saying that I disrespect my Goan Friends, I have asked you what to call "Indians! not to offend you.
True, Indians, Goans I hold in high esteem. Lying cheating taxi drivers, cheating shop keepers, shack owners, Newtons, Indians piddling on the road, Indians craping by the roadside, out of station indians who are rude and have dirty habits, brown undie bragade, leering indians, those who cheat tourist whatever colour and creed I have no time for, they make me feel uncomfortable and lower the tone of Goa, these people I will not trade or bother with.

You cannot deny this is wide spread in both Goa and India. Saw so much of the way Indians conned tourists last year when we went to Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, the worst was at the Taj, etc. etc.

Find me one Goan I have disrespected and not opened my home too! AND even given a bed for a few nights too. Not many would do that.

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Noni ? what have I said?? I have not suggested you disrespect your Goan friends. Why do you say this?.