Sex tourism is here...

[Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया]

Not that we didn't know this, but it's surprising how blatant this
gets. Please check out this site:

http://www.sexygoa.com/

QUOTE:

Welcome! Sexy Goa is a site for glamorous nude young teens snapped
while going wild in Goa! This site offers downloadable, full length HD
videos and 4000px photos of sexy Goa teens. Sexy Goa is your dreams of
luscious, liberated, nude teens made real. Taking stunning young teen
ladies to Goa and following them as they discover their inner sexual
self, we deliver the results to you as breathtaking hi-def videos and
4000px photos of unquestionable artistic and erotic value. Aren't you
willing to find out what's so special about sandy beaches, sultry sun
and striking nature that makes these sizzling sexy teen beauties turn
into young goddesses of love? Take a tour around SexyGoa and start
your endlessly erotic Goa vacation right now!

UNQUOTE.

Might make an interesting story for someone to follow-up. There seem
to be a number of hotel and other locations where these photographs
were shot. FN

[Mayabhushan]

How the govt squeezes the press

BS Bureau
When Indira Gandhi wanted to hit at Ram Nath Goenka,
who owned the generally critical Indian Express, she
squeezed him financially and tried to destroy his
business. Government-owned banks denied him credit
that had already been approved, his jute company was
nationalised, government advertising was withdrawn and
his printing machinery was sought to be seized.

In Rajiv Gandhi's time, Vijaypat Singhania, publisher
of The Indian Post -- a shortlived newspaper in Mumbai
that had limited damage potential -- was threatened
with dire consequences because of what his paper was
writing, so much so that he sold the paper and got out
of the publishing business altogether.

More recently, during Mr Vajpayee's tenure as prime
minister, there were tax raids on the owners of
Outlook magazine, which was seen as being unfriendly
to the National Democratic Alliance.

Now it is the turn of Ramoji Rao, who owns Eenadu, the
leading Telugu newspaper which has been aligned for
the past quarter century with the Telugu Desam and
which ran a series of reports on the Congress chief
minister of Andhra Pradesh, Y Rajshekhar Reddy's land
deals. The chosen response is the same: work the
economic levers and coerce.

Coincidentally or not, the first shot was fired by the
Reserve Bank, which stopped Mr Rao from accepting
deposits from the public, and left him to find ways to
return the money that had already been taken. Mr Rao
sought to get out of the consequential liquidity
crunch by raising money through other sources, namely
by selling shares to Blackstone, the private equity
investor.

This required the approval of the Foreign Investment
Promotion Board, which sat on the issue for a few
months but finally approved it. That however was not
the end of the story, for the issue also needed
clearance by a Cabinet committee -- and the finance
minister or ministry has apparently been asking a
series of questions and holding up the approval
process for yet more months.

Allegations have been made quite openly that political
pressure has been applied to make sure Mr Rao does not
get his money and defaults on repaying his depositors.
In a country that prides itself on its free press and
due processes in government dealings, this is a
scandalous sequence of events, and a thinly disguised
assault on the press.

If press freedom is not to be treated as sacrosanct
when the press is critical of the government, and if
the only freedom available is to be a cheer-leader,
that is not press freedom at all.

This is not very different from Mr Putin's Russia
(where Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who chose to politically
challenge Mr Putin, was thrown into jail, and his
Yukos stripped of its assets, broken up and sold),
except that Indian publishers don't get sent
arbitrarily to jail.

Still, most businessmen, including those who are not
in publishing, will not openly cross swords with the
government, and will make their political donations
covertly; they know that the state has all manner of
weapons and harassment methods in its armoury, which
it will not hesitate to use if provoked.

What is worth noting is the use of financial levers to
circumscribe a Constitutionally guaranteed right.
Indira Gandhi tried the trick too, when she tried to
force a ridiculous page-price schedule on the press;
fortunately, the Supreme Court struck that down.

The levers being used now are more covert and devious,
and therefore more difficult to challenge. But no one
is fooled -- and that too is perhaps the intention.
Which newspaper in Andhra Pradesh will look at Mr
Reddy's land deals, if the great Eenadu can be brought
to its knees?

And, as a footnote, with what face can the government
invite international investors to bring foreign direct
investment into the country?

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