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Tears of Salt
From gourmet meals in the plush five-star
hotels to the humble fish curry and rice in every home in Goa, no dish would
be worth its salt without – salt! The great Mahatma organized the famous Dandi
March to safeguard the interest of salt pan workers. “You are the salt of the
earth” says the Bible elevating this simple chemical compound Sodium Chloride
into a virtue of self giving. “Salt is born of the purest of parents: the sun
and the sea.” said Greek philosopher Pythagoras. But for the ordinary men and
women who toil in the salt pans in Goa no one will give a salty grain of
thought.
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Today saltpan workers have been
reduced to practical oblivion – an oddity for tourists at best. So dismal is
their condition, so uncertain their future that many who have known no other
occupation for decades are today considering giving up their ancestral
occupation.
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