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45 persons hurt from broken glass on the beach in the Calingute area.Have a look on the India Mike site for the video.....disgusting behavior of young India on the beach.

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Agree with you disgusting New Year behaviour.
I had just been looking at the IndiaMike site, Karwar suffered the same in 2010, when many had been turned away in south Goa because of lack of accommodation, and they slept on the beach here. However when we walked next evening, beach was cleared of garbage and back to normal with just the usual local people, adults sitting talking and children playing around.

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Just watched a Kannada television news broadcast of Karwar Beach it looked Ok, nothing like what happened in Calingute though.It also said the police only reacted when they realised they were being filmed.Its illegal to bring alcohol or smoke on the beaches of Goa ! Most of them were kids too.

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Difficult to buy alcohol anywhere in Karwar only two liquor shops which sell beer and mini-gins or whiskey!!! no public bars etc.
Smoking, no rules about that. Police rarely seen, they do help people to cross the road to the beach on weekend evenings (all those wretched trucks thundering along from Goa!!!).
Seriously though the road and bridge from Goa ruined the beauty of Tagore beach, but that is progress.

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Just watched a review of the new film "Mary Kom." she is the Manipurean women who won a gold at the Olympics for India. Guess who is playing her on the silver screen courtesy of Bollywood......Pryanka Chopra, who doesnt even look like her and is an ex beauty queen contestant who won the Miss World Contest. She couldn't box her self out of a packet of Corn Flakes !:rofl:

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Not so strange I think. 1 met a guy from Bollywood at a party at Micassa Ashwem last week who told me all Bollywood is about who you are and your family is and not at all about talent so don't be surprised at this. Don't imagine Hollywood is that different though. Or even the film business in the UK. Also met a London dancer who runs a talent agency in Mumbai who basically said the same thing. Remember when I was a child in London in the 1950's at Twickenham Studios where my father worked that it was not that different even then. One example. John Mills and then Hayley????????????? What more to say.

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According to an article in today's paper: unlike India where foreigners have to jump through three hoops to get a sim card, in Sri Lanka they give you a sim card when you get your VoA at immigration.

Hello India, anyone listening?

AndyD 8-)₹

P.S. apparently not, latest news is that there are to be extra facilities at Dabolim to check for drugs arriving on charter flights.
Arriving???
... charter flights???

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"Coals to Newcastle" springs to mind.:p

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Karwar on front page of 'Times'.

Beach gradually being taken over, road widening etc. Also Seabird influence increasing.

Fishermen furious at Coast Guard action - The Times of India

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17 Indian WWI soldiers to be immortalized in stone on March 5 - The Times of India

Something to remember, regarding those from the Commonwealth who joined in the battles to keep 'Britain British'.

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Yes I agree. A very well deserved and fitting tribute to all of those who showed such courage and bravery in that dreadful carnage of WW1.

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Whilst agreeing with your sentiments and welcoming these memorials, I have to be pedantic:
There are already War Memorials throughout Britain commemorating all those who died in various WWI campaigns, including the European theatre, Gallipoli and Mesopotamia. The brave soldiers from India who are being commemorated with these stones came from the British Empire (the Commonwealth hadn't been invented), and they were fighting as British Subjects.

AndyD 8-)₹

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Yes I think you are being pedantic. Most people are aware that the countries of the Empire became Commonwealth countries.
Indian soldiers fought in WW2 also. I was surprised recently to discover that an elderly man we knew, now 'no more' flew in the Battle of Britain as a Group Captain (he survived that obviously). His widow is proud of his record.
But he and others were Indian then just as much as they are Indians now, do you really think they or the British considered them as actually rather than nominally "British Subjects"?? They didn't get British passports :lol:
However they were proud to assist the British.

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Yes, remember that MK Gandhi's genius lay in part in holding the British to their stated position.
Yes of course they did* - I thought we'd discussed this threadbare already on another forum?
* those few who got passports at all - and remember that very few people in Britain would have had passports back then; got exactly the same passports as 'white' born-in-Britain British Subjects did if issued in India.
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It was Nehru in actual charge.

I bow to your superior knowledge re passports. OH born in 1937 (I was a child bride by the way:rofl:), has no knowledge of what older relatives got as passports although some came to UK for ICS exams.etc.

My real point in the above post was that really they were Indian in their hearts not British.
Does this make their bravery less admirable ?????