Goa - then and now

[srij]

My twenty years will probably not qualify me (even by the longest of shots) to really comment on the (subtle) changes Goa's seen. I stick to childhood nostalgia, and the primordial yearning for one's homeland (I think Goa's latest invaders?? understand "homeland" bit).

I've grown up in Bombay, with tales spun by my Nana of her life "back where we were from". The seasickness, the ferry rides, the mangoes in the summer. My own memories remind me of the village of Aldona, where I spent holidays as a child.

As I grew older though, the place has changed or did I change?...slowly I've seen Anjuna and Vagator, and with these places comes a cynical reality to contrast the idyllic childhood recollections.

I have family who live in Goa and they, like other Goans, have become weary of the constant political banter on tourism. The old argument that the locals need the tourists rings false evermore. Blaming tourism would be an easy albeit false answer to the crisis that Goa is in.

Is crisis the right word? Goa may conjure up the idea of a free for all to the occidental, but to me the native, innocent tranquility. The crisis is probably a personal one - reconciling these two together.


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