Azad fokot chorpak. Before the ill fated 61 I believe that the place was called Prasa Afonso de Albquerque. The bharats came and called it Azad Maidan and constructed a monument in memory of those who wasted their lives. May be the place should now be named Azar Maidan. BC
One glance at Panaji's iconic Azad Maidan is enough to see everything that has gone terribly wrong with Goa. The famous grounds - as old as the capital city itself - lies torn to pieces. Massive mounds of rubble and mud cover its once-pleasant expanse. A large portion of its attractive, quasi-European black metal railing has been bludgeoned away, and is now being replaced by horrendous monstrosity, exactly resembling the worst of Bollywood crudity. Worst by far, the beautiful, ethereal neo-classical monument at centre - sacred resting place for Goa's seminal nationalist - is dominated by a freakishly large, extraordinarily ill-conceived toilet.
