Come over here. They only detain those who are going to the South Zone beaches.

Four years ago, I was at the beach with my son, and he was learning how to swim in this relatively soft surf of the Delaware beaches.

The so called arrastões, which translates as dragnet , dates back to the 1990s and are an old grievance of Rio's beachgoers.

When the Portuguese showed up at the end of the fifteenth century in the beginning of the sixteenth century, the Swahili societies from Mogadishu all the way to Kilwa off the coast of Mozambique were at the height of their history in terms of their commercial civilization to the point that the Portuguese sailors looked at these coastal towns bustling with economic activity and they felt that, you know,

landed on the shores of Kerala, my home state, somewhere around 52 A.D., he was welcomed on shore by a flute playing Jewish girl.

First, deposited as a clutch of leathery, ping pong ball sized eggs into a nesting pit dug by its mother high on the beach, of the 50 to 200 eggs laid, roughly 20 percent will never hatch.

In fact, legend has is that when Doubting Thomas, the Apostle, Saint Thomas, landed on the shores of Kerala, my home state, somewhere around 52 A.D., he was welcomed on shore by a flute playing Jewish girl.