The Goans Pain !

When any non-goan meets me(“Any Goan friends”), the first thing that comes to their mind is “Party, Drinks, Pub Culture(???) of goa”. Before you tell them anything about goa, they will start telling about the culture of goa, how forward the people are (some even start  arguing that its not possible to find “vir***” goans), and they will never  forget to ask about that famous “Nude Beach” of Goa. My family has been in Goa from atleast last 7 generations, but I never heard about such “Nude Beach Stories!”.

While many people feel that goans must have been holidaying in goa 365 days ssitting on beach and drinking feni. They will be taken aback if you tell that you are a Hindu, or if you talk about any temple, while once someone went to the extent of asking “Are your father and mother Indians?”, he din’t even know that “Indians” too  stay in Goa!.(Its different issues that many “Russians” already have bought land and settled in Goa, recently..).

 And worse if u tell them u don’t drink or that you are a vegetarian, they will refuse to accept it completely.  I know so many goans who don’t drink, and any way everyone has his own life. 

The identity of this misconstrued  goan, a “cool-dude” who knows only  “party”, who  hardly lives with family, who lives in very “open” society, who is supposed to enjoy the trans music(at least rock), and attend Rave-Parties on every weekends on beaches. If you don’t subscribe to any of their imagination of their (misconstrued ) Goans “, you might  be called a “Farji(Fake) Goan”.

Go to any village and ask any goan how many beaches are there in Goa(forget about those nude beaches) you will hardly find anybody giving correct answer. In my village itself, you can count so many people who had never been to the beach, while some know that there is only one beach (That is Miramar). Ask how many people go for movies (how frequently)  and how many people do go to temples(and how frequently) , you will surely get disappointed. Go to any goan village and count how many women wear only “sari” and how many college girls still don’t wear “Jeans”. 

 As far as “Openness” of goa is concerned I never found any difference between areas  of coastal states of Karnataka or Kerala from Trivendrum to Ratnagiri, like Mangalore(Karnnataka) or Kasargod(Kerala) and goa. 

Whenever I go home… I still check if my “goa” has changed … and I still don’t forget to search for that mysterious “Nude Beach” of Goa whenever i am at home…