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'Mathematical Enquiry' for a 'BETTER GOA' ! Goa, from an independent and non-partisan, citizen's view. 📧 : goa99@pm.me
Jun 6 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Severe soil erosion at Murdi-Khandepar sparks flooding fears in village.

The Fact of Matter is : All the ILLEGAL Sand Mining is done by Local Native Goan Patrem and Patraos.

If you have to see, one Disaster; it is at Keri Ferry Point at Tiracol. Entire Beach has washed off. Image There used to be a Beach at Keri Ferry Point; now over the Years it has vanished.

This is the Spot where Tiracol meets the Arabian Sea.
On a Good evening, you would find at least 50 Anglers and Small Round net Fishermen; including "yours truly".
Jun 6 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Civic Sense, like Rest of #India ; is hugely absent in #Goa also Sadly.

Mostly because of Huge Demographic Shift that #Goa has seen in over a decade.
You can never make a BIMARU +Jharkhand + Orissa State BHAIYA understand. #Plastic is their Birthright after Purchase. Image But Over the Course of so many Years, I have found Native Goans also as much of a Culprit. No one moves out of a Cloth or Nylon Bag.

Use a different bag for Fish. A different one for Bread and slightly bigger one for Grocery & Vegetables.

But PLASTIC is their entitlement.
Jun 4 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
🤡 ANECDOTE 🤡

Travelled to SAWANTWADI (Dist: Sindhudurg) today early morning on ESCORT DUTY. Sawantwadi Town, to be precise.

While lots of things to mention; but there was 1 Thing which brought Tears to my eyes.

About 1200 Metres North from ST Bus Stand; Saw 2 Linesman of MAHAVITARAN or MSEDCL in Crisp Khaaki Uniform, with Emblem stitched .

They were working beneath Electricity Poles; and both were wearing HEAVY DUTY SAFETY GLOVES. The Kind of which Linesman wears. You can touch a 440 V charged live wire wearing them and nothing would happen.
Jun 2 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
#JEEAdvanced2025 #JEEAdvanced

Minimum Cut-Off Subject-Wise and Aggregate-Wise.

For SC & ST, Cut-Off is half of GEN. But, when they get admitted to the same Course at same IIT; the Curriculum and Passing Marks of All Exams Remains The Same.

And then, We Talk Ragging & Suicides Image In Today's World, where everyone having a Rs.5K Smartphone has the best of the best Courses and Materials available for FREE on Internet for each Subject; this is absolutely foolish and stupid to get students admitted "EASILY" and then torture them with EQUAL RIGOUR Curriculum.
May 30 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The point of matter is that, with the changing weather patterns; No 30 footer or for that matter any Trawler ventures out to the Sea on 1st of August.

Have seen the days, when Boats were brought down early, late of July.

We have also gone out in June. But those years are gone. Image For the likes of us, those who go out on 30-footer with Twin 9.9 HP Motors; Safety is the Biggest Concern.

In late August also, We face 7-8 Bumps with "Incline" almost ranging to 60 to 70 degrees at Bow, in ingress.

But, its not Ingress; It's the Egress, which is terrifying.
May 21 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
To Sir Jayant Narlikar, With Love !

#Pune University has several exits, besides the Main Gate on Ganeshkhind Road Junction.

One of the Exit, is at Khadki Cantt end. It's where Khadki Cantt ends after you cross Paraplegic Rehab Centre of #IndianArmy .

From there one can walk Image into Campus and just after a short distance lies, The World Famous IUCAA. Perhaps one of the most prettiest scientific institutions.

In Summer, when you did not have anything to do, one can just walk through and lie in the grass there under shade of botanical trees.
Mar 30 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Bomb threat at #Goa DGP’s office declared hoax after massive search by cops.

EMAIL Sent at : 9⃣ . 0⃣ 9⃣ AM . Amazing !

First of all, not even a die-hard lunatic would try to use a Peroxide based IED in this state. That too, in this weather. Just trying to sound sophisticated. Image A cursory search query reveals that last instance of Peroxide based IEDs being used was in 2015.

Also, The Sent Email is so hilarious. It mentions "IEDs" which means there were supposed to be multiple IED rigged, that too at #GoaPolice HQs ? Also, advising what to do 🤣🤣
Mar 24 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Last Year ie 2024 production was itself almost 50% less than the previous year.

This Year it is again 40% less than previous year. It is so starkly visible to all those of us, who live close to Cashew Orchards. There are hardly any fruits; and in an Orchard selective trees bear Image fruits; which is quite surprising.

While this time of year, the air used to be filled with aroma of #Cashew ; even driving through lonely stretches where still some Orchards are left; the air is blank.

And absurd #climate has to be blamed. People are not cleaning Orchards only.
Mar 22 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Hughes Precision manufactures small caliber ammunition to NATO Standards; but the storage of Explosives is to the standards of #Rampur .

More over that, The Stupid Company Officials said, "It was a spontaneous combustion" of 14.5 Tonnes of Gunpowder.

Who are these Charlies? Image You take an empty Match-Box container; it would probably at max contain 20 Gms of GunPowder.

Try to light it, with a Match-Stick and see what happens...

These effing Charlies should be made to do this, with 100 Gms of Gunpowder, with their own hands. Lets see.
Mar 6 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Exactly 3⃣ MONTHS for the Arrival of #Monsoon in #Goa .

How we are going to weather this insane weather, is anybody's guess. Foggy Mornings. High Sun post 1100 hrs; and then just too hot beyond 1400 till 1730 hrs.

Humidity & Heat has driven away most of the foreigners already. Only solace is that barely handful of Foreign Tourists left and no arrivals; the consumption of water would be way far less and hopefully the alternate-day-4-hour-water-supply shall remain till Lord Indra blesses #Goa .

The Tankers which started flying mid-Feb, not to be seen.
Mar 2 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
ONE PAGE dedicated to Tuesday's fiasco, when many parts of #Goa went DATA DARK due to an Executive Engineer of Electricity Department; who should be rather transferred to Kashi.

NOT A WORD ON HOW RENT Of POLES ARE CALCULATED AND METHODOLOGY?

Seems Bhabhi Shetye calculates it? Image Since #Goa ED has to calculate the rent on poles from ISP, basis on Area Covered by each one. All they have to do is to ask their "Operational Map".

I hope they know the number of poles and their locations in that geography. And then it just becomes a simple arithmetic problem.
Feb 27 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
While the Owner of the Rent-A-Cab would extract a hefty amount from Chawla and buy a new vehicle using it as down-payment; he would also get his damaged vehicle repaired with Insurance money.

A Mother and Kid are suffering now; along with their family & friends. Exam Time. Image This stretch is so perilous dangerous and has seen innumerable accidents, just because of the drivers who were driving recklessly, despite never have been on this route.

2, 4 and 6-Wheelers alike; putting others lives in danger.

In fact, entire #Siolim - #Marna is perilous now
Feb 19 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The 350 Pages Judgement Order is an EPIC Read in the #DanielleMcLaughlin Trial which just finished.

The Panch Witnesses and how they stood firm (well, most of them).

And despite of such corroborative evidence, the Case lingered on for 7 Years and 11 Months. Deadlines Extended. The Judges, all of a sudden suspend hearings, despite looming deadlines. And, it happened after High Court Order.

Till Dec 2024, it looked like Trial would be over by 1st Feb. By 28th of Jan 2024, #DanielleMcLaughlin Trial looked as if it would take another 3 Months at least.
Feb 6 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
There has been a lot of Questions being raised about C-17 #Deportation to #India .

Lets do some elementary arithmetic...

The distance between West Coast #UnitedStates and #India is about 7,750 Miles through Air.

Non-Stop Flight Time of C-17 would be about 15 Hours. Total Fuel Consumed by C-17 during this 15 Hours would be 47,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel.

Currently, Jet Fuel Cost in #UnitedStates is $6.30 per Gallon.

So, just the Fuel Cost would be $296,000/-

Let's round it off to $300,000/- to account for not being a direct flight.
Feb 2 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Have been saying this since Day 1; if #Charas is not sold at #Arambol and #Mandrem general area; hardly anyone would come from #HimachalPradesh to #Goa to either Work or establish any tourism related business, including sub-let Shacks.

This is just the tip of the ice-berg. Image Every shack run by buggers from #HimachalPradesh in #Mandrem General Area; indulge in selling #Charas . Till last year, there were shacks at such obscure places on the coast; which seems non-sensical . A front Shop for everything #Charas related and other sundry drugs.
Jan 29 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The most amazing piece of Journalism to come from #Goa in 29 days of this year.

This "Manuel Fernandes" who is being quoted by @oheraldogoa here in this report; is the one who owned that Shack and then sub-let it to a #HimachalPradesh guy and then crying Crocodile Tears. #Goa Image It's such a good business in #Goa .
Being an aboriginal, you pay paltry sum of Rs.3-4 Lac for "Official Shack" lottery. Add, Rs.2 to 3 Lac more for bribes to Government and Local Officials.

If you let out the Shack, for Rs.30 Lac. Do the Math. You dont have to do anything.
Jan 28 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
#SITREP #ARAMBOL

Very surprising to see PI #Mandrem #GoaPolice at beach today, with some of his staff.

Sky Blue Half-Sleeve Shirt, Black Trousers and Black shoes; don't think "Janaab" was quite enjoying the sunset.

I don't think he would have to personally come again, 2 days. The infamous Shack Sea Lounge was obviously shut, with nearby Shacks open.

Till, just about dark none of the Shacks nearby had put the tables out. But obviously.

PI and his team left before Last Light, and so did I; so possibly after that they would have put.
Jan 25 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Shri Shri Laxmikant Parsekar Ex-CM of #Goa is desperately clinging on parents of the wards studying in his educational institutions and his Co-operative Bank depositors.

For someone who can't run his educational institutions with perfection, now want to resurrect his politics Image The HSC result of his famed School can be found out on the website of Education Department of #Goa .

Specially the Science Stream. Computer Science is taught with presentations, Blackboard with Code being written by Students by hand.

The Lab is non-functional. This is Ex-CM.
Jan 18 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Anytime you go past Terekhol Coastal Police Station ; you won't see more than 2 Scooters parked outside, ie if you are lucky.

Probably one belongs to Wireless Operator; and the other of his Buddy. Which means entire #GoaPolice staff of their is out on the field. #Goa Like any other Coastal Police Station of #GoaPolice; there are no Patrol Boats.

Oh, Wait a minute; there is 1; which has junked and piered to the small floating Jetty.

Btw, even the brave DGP of #GoaPolice Keshto Kumar cannot dare to put foot on the rusted pathway to Jetty.
Jan 14 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The very fact that, other Hotlines of #Goa Government like the CHILD Helpline do not know this alternate number; is amazing !

About two weeks back, a neighbour Tourist's 1 Year and 2 month old Kid was running high fever and having convulsions.

He panicked and came to me. I tried calling 108 and call was immediately getting dropped.

We tried and tried, from different numbers, but every call was dropping. This is while, the Child was inconsolably crying.

The father was in panic. I offered to drive him, but he wanted the Ambulance, in case
Jan 3 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
#LIVE (Deferred) #Goa

Long 127 Kms drive from #Mandrem to #Mopa to "General Area" of Chief Minister; and back.

This is considerable distance, when length of the state itself is barely 100 Kms.

Many things visible during journey.

1⃣ Roads are way better in "that" North Goa. That's expected because the "General Area" of the 2⃣ Heavyweights of #Goa #Politics .

Absolute pleasure to drive through those roads.

2⃣ . One can really appreciate beauty of #Goa Forest and Hills there; even though its kind of "dry" now; but still very beautiful. Green Green.