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With the influx of tourists, visitors and guests hailing from wealthier countries, greed or concupiscence sometimes flared = thefts and robberies were committed, or harassments motivated by sexual urges which archaic models could no longer suppress.

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In our human existences, adolescence is a period of vital and physical intensities which tend to dominate one’s consciousness; with the increasing influence of the medias and the apparition on the market of more accessible technologies, the temptation to resort to noise, rhythm and movement made no distinction between those of Her city and their neighbors. The sale of liquor is permitted in the State of Pondicherry and the rate of alcoholism was and remains very high amongst the villagers. The circulation of “soft” drugs was also becoming more common in the region. A kind of social habit or custom – imported from the West, the moralists would claim – regained some vigor with the necessity of channeling these confused vital energies that get hold of the few years of transition between childhood and young adulthood = the night parties. Attraction spots, such occasions to give expression to this diffuse vitality acted like magnets for a horizontal culture free of borders as of altitudes, which contributed to leveling, and also weakening, the collective physical consciousness. How to treat the possibilities of disorder and confusion?

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