Cruz, on a stint at the Taj hotels in the sunny isles of the Indian Ocean, says he plans to release two albums before the millennium. This musician with magic in his violin-plucking fingers is currently with an Indian hotel chain, the Taj, which controls two islands of the archipelago's 1190 islands, and runs luxury resorts there. In this state of small electorates, and a strictly-limited choice for the voters, elections are often fought before a single vote is cast. Politicians win and lose depending on what alliances they manage to work out, whose pledges of support they get, and who are the candidates they have to face. Maldives has been promoting another model of tourism, under which high-spending foreign tourists are attracted.
Most guests are French, Japanese, German and British.
They are very happy with our versatile music, and keep asking us from where we come. In recent years, Emiliano da Cruz and his group have been experimenting even with Hindi music, as compared to his earlier emphasis on music with a Latino and Goan flavour. In touch, across oceans Meanwhile, a new weekly newsletter called GoaNet-UK has recently been launched in Britain. Its aim is to keep expatriates there in touch with news from home and about the community. This newsletter is circulated through electronic-mail, fax and post.