I once asked a "gaddekar" who used to pass by our house almost everyday early in the morning at about 4 o'clock why he was extracting sand from the beach. I told him it was illegal and not right. He replied that he was fully aware that it was illegal and it was not correct. But he queried ' what am I to do? ". Everybody tells me " Arre Anand, ili renv hadd num".
People wanted a little bit of sand. But sand was usually supplied in truckloads. Fortunately of late somebody has started supplying sand, etc in retail in Calangute and Porvorim. So I think and hope that Anand has stopped extracting sand from the Candolim beach. Richard