Raison d'être.

Why bother with a subject like ‘living in Goa’? There exist countless blogs, travelogues and tourist reviews about Goa on the net. One can find a wide variety of reviews and queries about the best beaches, hotels, resorts, transportation, restaurants etc. splattered all over the net for almost all tourist destinations all over the world. In light of the above, ‘Living in Goa’ is clearly not intended to be an extended travelogue. The objective here is to do two things. First, to talk about the tasks that one must undertake in order to ‘live’ in one’s second home, especially in India. These are tasks that an average traveller does not have to undertake when he is a just a visitor. I wish to share and learn from others how does one accomplish this task without going insane.

I have another reason for this blog, which is to dwell upon the issue of what ‘living’ really means. ‘Living in Goa’ is thus also an exercise in trying to discover myself, how do I want to ‘live’. What does it really mean to live? Of course different people would have different definitions of this concept. I want to understand mine better. The issue of identity, consciousness, space, time, goals all would enter the equation and herein lies the challenge.

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

The Tortoise and other Fables

A quick note after a longish silence - as it may have been evident from my previous post - the lack of activity on this blog merely reflected lack of activity on the ground. There was nothing concrete happening on the ground! (pun intended!)  But alas, the slow and steady have finished the race, though not won it - the builder has finally decided to offer possession!!! Hence I should be traveling to Goa in later in this month of January for the paper work, and hopefully to take possession of the apartment. Now if that doesn’t stir up things on this blog then noting would. So, God willing, this blog would see a lot more activity in the coming months –– as the French say au revoir.

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