{"id":830,"date":"2016-07-03T21:24:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T21:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=830"},"modified":"2016-07-03T21:24:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T21:24:37","slug":"goa-assembly-election-2017-aap-corruption-drugs-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"AAP Gaye, Gore Rahe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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he elections are over and the country can now collectively exhale. While the rest of India is still reeling from how the BJP won UP, all I am only relieved about is how the AAP didn\u2019t win Goa. Relieved would be an understatement. I\u2019m fucking thrilled. I have spent the last week in a state of utter fear and unease that AAP might come to power in Goa \u2013 and worse, deliver on its election promise to weed out corruption and everything else that\u2019s wrong with Goa. \n\nBut let\u2019s be honest, we love everything that\u2019s wrong with Goa. The drugs. The raves. The riding-around-drunk-without-helmets. The no-holds-barred fun and the nude beaches with almost zero fucks given by the authorities. We all know that it\u2019s not the open-mindedness of the authorities that is the enabler for all this. Corruption is. And \u2013 don\u2019t get me wrong \u2013 but where Goa is concerned, we need corruption. Let me explain. \n\nGoa is our cheapest foreign destination. After the end of 450 years of Portuguese reign, Goa remained with India for a few years until the advent of Goa Trance in the early \u201990s. At this point, we gradually lost Goa to Russia. It may be because of this history, that it offers us the complete foreign experience \u2013 right from menu cards you can\u2019t read to white people walking around with a sense of entitlement, treating you like second-rate citizens. Even Indians look down upon Indians in Goa. \u201cArre, udhar nahin. Indians se bhari huyi hain,\u201d is what you often hear and say when planning your day. One also tends to worry less while scoring drugs from a white person in Goa because for some strange reason, a dangerous, Krav Maga black-belt-holding drug peddler appears less dangerous than his potbellied Indian counterpart. \n\nIf there is a clampdown on corruption in Goa and the government flushes out the drugs into the sea, then Goa won\u2019t be Goa anymore. With the drugs gone, the rave parties will end, the foreigners will stop, and with it will go the only beach destination in the country where women walk around in bikinis, thereby encouraging other women to do so. It\u2019s strange that the liberation and freedom of women directly depends on corruption and drugs, but it\u2019s true. With the end of these bikini ladies will be the advent of lecherous and Lux Cozy body-hugging banian-wearing gents who just make for poor visual scenery.\n\n

Goa is like that reckless friend you have during your college years who is in a band, lives life to the fullest and does risky shit all the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nLet\u2019s be honest here. I don\u2019t think we mind being treated as second-rate citizens in our own country, mostly by our own countrymen, if we can have a peaceful vacation that involves clean beaches, beers on said beaches, a little recreational stuff, and most importantly, where our ladies can actually wear beachwear on a beach! I know, I am being mighty unfair to the Goans who want to reclaim their state from the Russian mafia who control the lands and its rules through the cash they supply to the local politicians, but Goa is that necessary evil we need in our country to normalise the concept of absolute personal freedom.\n\nGoa is like that reckless friend you have during your college years who is in a band, lives life to the fullest and does risky shit all the time. You like him. You yearn for his company every once in a while to forget your boring, mundane life. Your parents warned you against being friends with him. They told you that he\u2019s having way too much fun now, but later life will catch up with him. \n\nBut years later when you meet him, he has adulted. He has got his act together, mellowed down and reformed his ways to deal with life and you\u2019re a little heartbroken. You still want that old, reckless friend in your life to stay reckless a little while longer so you can turn to him for distraction when life gets too real. \n\nSo when AAP decided to reform Goa, I was apprehensive. I didn\u2019t want to lose another friend to adulting. I cheered when AAP lost. May it go on to win in other states and purify the rest of the country. Just leave Goa alone because we all need the party to go on, a little while longer.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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