[Goanet] Re: kingfisher airlines ad
Perhaps one of the online newspapers will have the advertisement in the earler issues[ 16 to 19 August]. Can someone send an attachment? Open soliciting has hit the streets of Panaji and Mapusa already. Who needs Baina now. Saw some bar girl types in local hotels, too. The motorcycle pilots seem to be doing the pimpingor perhaps the pimps have hired the yellow mud-guard motorcycles. All they have to do is to work on the good times! .. From: Eugene Correia [EMAIL PROTECTED] I could not find the ad for the kingfisher airlines on the company website, and would be happy if someone sends me a link or posts it on the forum. In the current controversy, the NGOs and individuals may be fighting the sublimal message in the Kingfisher Airlines ad. As far as I can see, Goa's image isn't soiled. Such ads only create some frills, but visitors would be losers if they come for sex tourism. I can believe that call-girl rackets are existing in Goa but open soliciting as done on Dubai streets may not be taking place. That Goa had or still has a red light district is enough to convince the global traveller that the state is hot. I would hold rest of my comments till I see the Kingfisher Airlines ad. If someone could post me privately the ad, I would be thankful. Eugene Correia . The Kingfisher advertisement has since been withdrawn. There may still be a price to pay. there is a 90 day period for a case under the Press Council of India Regulations. The Advertising Standards Council of India's role is unfortunately restricted to withdrawing offensive advertisements. that has been achieved through an order issued by the District Collector of South Goa under Indecent Representation of Women Act. In the meanwhile, Vijay Mallya, the Kingfisher baron , has installed a Ganapathy in his liquor factory at Bethora, Ponda. Goa's Chief Minister Pratapsingh Rane and the local MLA, Subhash Shirodkar graced the installation function. Perhaps the Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav will be sponsorred by McDowell Signature this year. Kingfisher already sponsors the carnival and church fetes in Goa. Alcohol is a great unifying spirit. Pity it cannot win Vijay Mallya's Janata Party a seat in any assembly so far. May be he should buy a seat as he is reported to have allegedly done for the Parliament [Rajya Sabha] seat for himself from the Karnataka Assembly. For the last assembly bye-elections the JP could not even find a candidate to file nominations. The attempt with Nilkant Bhomkar did not end in 'vijay' but literally 'bombed' at the Collector's office. Viva Goa. Miguel
[Goanet] Re: kingfisher airlines ad
I could not find the ad for the kingfisher airlines on the company website, and would be happy if someone sends me a link or posts it on the forum. Scantily-clad girls promoting tourist destinations is not new. It seems the old controversy of the billboard that was outside the Dabolim airport has been reignited. I think it was the billboar welcoming visitors to Goa to a place where anything goes, maybe I am not using the exact words. In the current controversy, the NGOs and individuals may be fighting the sublimal message in the Kingfisher Airlines ad. Whether we like it or not, Goa has attained fame (or to those who look at the other side, infamy) as a fun place. Maybe this is the hangover from the hippie days. I doubt, however, Goa is looked at as a sin city in the manner such as Bangkok. The paedophile image created with the arrest of Freddy Peats and the reopening of the issue with Peats's associate in the child-sex ring now brought to Goa will put the spotlight back on Goa. Kerala offers almost equivalent or better scenic delights as Goa, but its tourist image is much cleaner than Goa's. Once an image is created, it persists. As far as I can see, Goa's image isn't soiled. Such ads only create some frills, but visitors would be losers if they come for sex tourism. In this not-so-subtle ads, Goa can come to be projected as a better nightspot than the rest of India, though frankly the nightlife in some metropolitcan cities, particularly Mumbai, is much more tempting to those who seek such pleasures. In new tourist places such as Dubai, which is promoted as very liberal compared to other cities in the Middle East, there is what one would call underground tourism. The word sex is taboo. I can believe that call-girl rackets are existing in Goa but open soliciting as done on Dubai streets may not be taking place. That Goa had or still has a red light district is enough to convince the global traveller that the state is hot. I read an article on Goa's tourism in the current issue of Goa Today, but I don't remember reading anything on sex being one of the magnets, rest being sun, sea and feni, attracting tourists, foreign and domestic, to Goa. I would hold rest of my comments till I see the Kingfisher Airlines ad. If someone could post me privately the ad, I would be thankful. Eugene Correia Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
