March 14, 2023Popular Essays Missing the (burning) forest for the trees By AMITA KANEKAR What’s responsible for the fires burning all over Goa today? You only have to check the fate of any […]
February 14, 2023February 15, 2023Popular Essays Let us remember actual destruction, not alleged ones By AMITA KANEKAR The Chief Minister recently made a surprising announcement: that he will build a memorial for the ‘thousand temples destroyed […]
January 28, 2023Popular Essays What Destroys Goan Agriculture?: Some Thoughts By ALBERTINA ALMEIDA There is much that one comes across about the schemes available for agriculture. But even before one can begin […]
January 15, 2023Popular Essays Goa’s taxis: Scapegoats for a hyper-elitist transport model By AMITA KANEKAR India needs to focus on ease of travel, declared Prime Minister Modi while inaugurating Goa’s new airport last month. […]
December 14, 2022Popular Essays Plotting for a Catholic Politics in Goa By JASON KEITH FERNANDES Some months ago, I became aware of a curious trend on local social media. It appeared that there […]
December 10, 2022Popular Essays This time Kashmir flies high By ALBERTINA ALMEIDA Most people in Goa are only too aware of the great many problems resulting from Goa being a tourist […]
December 10, 2022Popular Essays Toxic Tourism Goa-Style By AMITA KANEKAR Aren’t the casinos enough? Apparently, no. According to A Study on Human Trafficking in Vulnerable Districts in India, a […]
November 14, 2022Popular Essays Dadu Mandrekar’s Constitution versus the EWS quota By AMITA KANEKAR It is two years this month since Dadu Mandrekar passed away. He died on 28th November, which is Constitution […]
November 1, 2022Popular Essays Now What Will be the Next New Bottle for the ‘Development’ Wine? By ALBERTINA ALMEIDA When the news first broke out about proposed amendments to the Goa Land Development and Building Regulation, 2010, it […]
November 1, 2022Popular Essays The (real) scandal of government employment By AMITA KANEKAR So Goa is among the states with the highest number of government employees per capita of its population – […]