'Eat Dust: Mining and Greed in Goa' is one courageous book
HINDUSTAN TIMES | 09 January 2016 17:13 IST
When ethical and moral values are abandoned in favour of crass consumerism, immersion in total entertainment becomes the new normal.
No wonder then that those who throng the not-so-serene beaches to de-stress rarely realize that the country’s pimple, as Nehru would call Goa, has been mercilessly squeezed of its natural assets. CLICK TO READ MORE
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