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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 [...]
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 [...]
The aam aadmi Government of Digambar Kamat is getting unhinged about policing activists and protesters against mining, even on World Environment Day. On 4th June, 2008, a busload of some 40 women and children (and some ten males) on its way from Advalpal near Assonora to Panaji was trailed by police vans up to Porvorim. [...]
Sonsoddo is Goa’s most famous garbage dumping site. It carries 40 years of accumulated waste. In the past year, some new forms of garbage are being added to the pile. Read on: The work order enabling Hyderabad-based Hyquip to takeover and manage the Sonsoddo garbage site was issued on 11 August 2006, for a total [...]