Saving Snakes in Goa They’re are not all bad
He was riding a bike in Mapusa when the rescued Spectacled Cobra slithered out of its sack. With its hood fanned wide,nurse the snake stared straight into his face. Rahul…
Mittoo and the case of his missing daughter
A disabled six-year-old vanishes, but police wonder if she even exists A six-year-old girl is reported missing for two months. And the police aren’t willing to look because her parents…
Goa, the last Hippie bastion
Goa became famous as a hippie destination in the 1960s. Most hippies around the world went on to different things, for sale like raising families or joining politics or playing…
2013: What Goa needs to do
As we ring in the New Year, treatment will Goa have what it takes to fix its most pressing problems? Will our roads be wide enough to handle the influx…
India Boils Over Rape Will change come now?
As a woman, treat you know what it feels like. Or, cheap perhaps you understand as a father, a brother or a lover the angst that a woman feels when…
Poached pear and an Italian song
If food were a song, Cantare could run for the Grammy. Cantare, which means “to sing” in Italian, gets high marks for both its food and ambience. Camouflaged deep inside…
Two families, one accident and a dead girl
She was young and beautiful. He, shop tall, lanky and fun-loving. Both 15 years old, they decided to ditch their tutoring sessions one evening and go for a joy ride.…
Firangis as hard-boiled hagglers
Over dinner a while back, hospital Katrin Eberhare, a German tourist, could not hide her grin. The 22-year-old had just returned from a haggling bout with a trinket seller at…
The Green Room
When I first heard that Wendell Rodricks had written a book, cost to be honest, I quickly wrote it off even without knowing the title. My bias was that given…