Emigrating from Goa to the four corners of the earth has been going on for many, many years.
Yet love of the land and the people who inhabit it has always been as strong if not stronger in the Goan heart than any other Indian. But this does not seem to have kept people from fleeing, yes fleeing the place whether to nearby Bombay to to far away California. To die in a place other than your own for the oft-repeated of: To give my children a shot at a better life. I know the simple and apparently obvious reasons are: No employment available locally. No land available to sustain generations. Colonial disregard for well being or Indian love for corruption that ultimately leads to displacement. But are there other reasons that are not so obvious, that play a powerful part in separating the Goan from his land? Roland. Toronto.
