In recent years, Mumbai officials creatively hit upon the idea of using the Koli's phenomenal swimming skills and make them lifeguards on the city's beaches.
(One woman is in fact suing the city because her 19-year-old son drowned at an unofficial beach in 2004, but the issue is that it was a popular beach with hundreds of bathers and fast-food shacks that the city had allowed to operate for years without any official lifeguards or warning signs.
Just as important, they're largely seasonal positions targeted specifically at teenagers camp counselors, lifeguards, landscaping workers, amusement park attendants, and so on.
Can the Bank of England's intrepid lifeguards rescue the economy from the financial storm that broke six months ago?The central bank's monetary-policy committee (MPC) took its time last year, flinging its first lifebuoy into the water in December when the base rate fell from 5.75%—its level since July to 5.5%.
IMAGINE the agony of a drowning man who watches a group of lifeguards repeatedly pick up and drop a life-belt.
After defending King Louis XVI at Versailles in October 1789 as one of the king's lifeguards at the start of the French Revolution, Maine de Biran retired to his own estate at Grateloup, near Bergerac, to study philosophy and mathematics.
Saying she had received no reports of women and families feeling too afraid to swim, she added: "We do not want individuals to come in and act as lifeguards – that is our job".
I don't know what sort of authority the lifeguards have but they would need to close the beaches across the whole region to all swimmers if any of the nasty ones came along".
But Question 52 asked students about "crimes of omission", posing scenarios including lifeguards failing to save a drowning child, a husband deciding not to rescue his wife during divorce proceedings, and someone letting friends drink poisoned coffee.
Swim with others, preferably somewhere with lifeguards if you're inexperienced, or with other regular cold water swimmers who know what they're doing.
Please don't blame IndyBest if any lifeguards don't see the funny side.
