I know that 'I can't sleep' would normally be an extremely inane subject line in a letter to any mailing list, but in the present instance there is a point that I'm trying to make.
A nearby temple has been blasting music from a loudspeaker all night. It's now past 5 o'clock in the morning this Diwali day and it is still going on. Obviously the police (there is an outpost less than 2 kms away) has decided to go deaf. Obviously all the laws regarding sound pollution have gone for a toss. If it was just going to be a one night thing then, like the woman being raped was allegedly advised before the act, I'd just lie back and enjoy it. I only hope that this gross disregard for the law is just a one night thing. I only hope that this is not the case that a point is being made that if people don the garb of religion they can do whatever they like without having to be bothered about the laws of the land. I only hope that this aberration is confined to just the nearby village of Nachinola and not to every other place in Goa - thereby indicating a pattern to the act. Augusto