Where has the old Goa gone?
February 6, 2021, 12:39 PM IST
Shobhaa De in Straight Talk, Lifestyle,
TOI [The Times of India]
One of India's most popular
writers, Shobhaa De has seen it
all: life as a model, a
copywriter, a journalist, a
socialite, a scriptwriter, a
bestselling novelist and a busy
+ 1 to what George wrote.
We can count on Ms De to bring us 'breaking news' from 15 years ago.
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George Pinto georgejpinto at yahoo.com wrote:
Shohbaa De should tell us something we don't know. Too late now. Goans are
primarily to blame for the devastation.
How Goa was lost to non-Goans:
T
Dear Goanetters,
I have read the blog by Ms Shobhaa De with interest. She has written the truth
and the whole truth, as regards the “invasion from the North”.
I am reminded of a Seminar that our office held in a hotel in Calangute not too
long ago. Just out side the hotel was an eating place wi
But how can all this be true? Way back in 2007/2008 the renowned
cut-and-paste maestro Frederick Noronha had informed us right here on
Goanet that it is all an "exaggeration." The real villains, he had
suggested, were guys like me and my reality-distorting lens. Wanting Goa to
remain Goan rendered
Shohbaa De should tell us something we don't know. Too late now. Goans are
primarily to blame for the devastation.
How Goa was lost to non-Goans:
The 1990s Maharashtrian recipe of agricultural land conversion to
non-agricultural land was applied to Goa in high-steroid fashion. This model
allowe
gullies of
> > Matharpakhadi, shamelessly rescuing lit cigarette butts from the street
> > floor and smoking them in the corners of side-gullies. Other gory
> details
> > of this brat's scandalous childhood in an expose to come by and by (don't
> > pin me dow
Shoba De had a short sojourn in Goa and went back to Mumbai feeling
recharged which is good for her life and we who read her. She does not
have to do something for Goa. As a journalist and writer and Indian
citizen she has a right to her views.
On 2/7/21, George Pinto wrote:
> Shohbaa De should t
See link below to Rajan's 2008 Documentary "Rape of Goa" warning of the sorry
state of Goa then and prescient of much worse to come.
https://www.parrikar.org/misc/rape-of-goa.mov
It is now 2021 and things have become a 100 times worse, making 2008 seem like
the good old days. If 2008 was the