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There is a saying: if you eat something and it does you good, it is an elixir; but if it kills you instead, it is nothing but a poison. We are no longer certain today whether “development” is an elixir or a poison. Are present developments going to eat up Goa or will Goa emerge […]
One feature of our present-day lives and shopping habits is the almost universal tendency to go for food with bright colours. Vivid colour and shininess influence buying choice. Where there is demand for such glitter, supply is immediate. So we have uniformly yellow mangoes (fumigated with calcium carbide). Or bright red chillies, coated with a […]
The roti is the most popular bread in the world and a billion Indians (men and women) are good bakers in that respect. In my own house, the pile of rotis we have consumed in one life-time would stretch to the moon. One of my childhood memories in Khotachiwadi (in Mumbai) in the fifties is […]
I’ve seen some chatty newspaper columns with the title, “Wake up and smell the coffee!” Ever notice why they only ask you to smell the coffee and not drink it as well? I’m obviously pulling your leg. After all, every one smells good coffee before drinking it. That’s part of the gift of good coffee. […]
Some events stay with you always, however old you get. Both my grandmother and mother used haldi ‘fingers’ when preparing their masalas. I still recall bashing up the small, dull-looking, haldi sticks on a stone first as we prepared to grind the recipe of the day. The crushed haldi gave off a distinct aroma. Everyone […]
We Don’t Need No Education CLAUDE ALVARES TALKED TO SEE GOA ON A HOST OF ISSUES. Claude Alvares wears many hats, all for the cause of a natural way of life that will keep the planet and its bounties safe for generations to come. If Goa is not to become a concrete jungle, it will […]
For the purpose of this article I shall focus on only two aspects of modern science, which I, like several others, find particularly revolting and unacceptable. One is the mindless overt violence associated with the practice of modern science. This is not an unintended feature. The second is its capacity for causing large-scale ecosystem distress, […]
The Goa Foundation left the Sonsoddo garbage dumping yard two years ago. Its staff had worked there for 18 months. When we had originally been handed over the site, we had physically not been able to enter it very easily because the garbage had accumulated upto the gate and had completely submerged the existing internal […]
The rains have commenced. As every Goan knows, this is the time for work in the fields. Ploughs are dragged out. Oxen get extra rations. Women covered in plastic sheets gear up to plant paddy, working ankle deep in water without complaint. Goans revel at the sight of farmers ploughing fields as they pass them […]
Here’s a video that was aired on CNN IBN and now posted on the web.