"Mammy," said Mary, after she had come from a trip to the outstations, "it hurts my heart to see how cruel these people are.

The editorial team, bulk of which was from outstation, met frequently during those bekaar days and finally, the painful decision emerged that we tell the management to either settle the dispute with the Union or we quit en masse.

Since 1995, he has been a full-time freelance journalist, writing mainly for the outstation media, including the Indo-Asian News Service.

Resultantly, the outstation media, for instance, didn't get a clue that such questions were at all being asked in Goan society.

(Rohini is back reporting for an outstation TV network, posted in Goa.)

While the reluctance of local newspapers to rattle the ruling politicians is understandable, there is really no reason for correspondents of outstation newspapers to follow suit.

But for a couple of honorable exceptions, correspondents with outstation publications too have decided to toe the government line.

Chapter 16: An accidental Bhailo Rahul GoswamiRahul Goswami, one of Goa's most hardworking and innovative outstation correspondent, covered this state for the Business Standard, in the mid-nineties.

While editors came and went, he stayed on at the desk, at the Navhind Times and contributing to many outstation journals, as outlined towards the end of this essay.

We saw as many as four to five mainly outstation deputy editors come and go.

Soon afterward we reached one of the outstations of the huge ranch we were about to visit, and hauled up alongside the bank for the night.

"Each of the three Missions has one or more boats employed exclusively in carrying missionaries and native preachers on their trips to and from the various outstations accessible by water.