Dear Bernice and Gabriel, In my village, which is no different from most other villages, some of my neighbours take in extra boarders, in direct violation of panchayat regulations. Panchayat rules also decree that people who do this should provide ex number of toilet inside their house in proportion to the number of boarder they take in. However, the homeowners do not provide such amenities, and instead ask their boarders to go and defecate in the woods and the hill slop behind our house and other people's houses as well. While you complain about "uncouth Indian hordes", what do you think about our own Goan homeowners in the situation I have just described? What epithet would you like to use to describe them? Are we not uncouth ourselves? And if you tell me that only some of us are uncouth, I would remind you that the same applies to those we have been attacking. Only some of our visitors are uncouth, as opposed to the millions of Indians who are not. Very best regards to the two of you, and also to BC, who is probably dying to pitch in. Victor
--- On Fri, 1/4/13, Bernice Pereira <bernicepere...@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Bernice Pereira <bernicepere...@yahoo.com> Subject: [Goanet] Uncouth Indian hordes To: "Goanet" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Date: Friday, January 4, 2013, 12:12 PM "Are there any functional public toilets in the area?" by Gabriel de Figueiredo. Good question. Probably no functioning public toilets. The stinking masses that invade Goa during this time don't need functioning toilets, any place is fit to defecate...the beaches,the fields...you name it. Nobody stops or fines them you see. Bernice
