< My theory on what makes men and women innovative, is what my mother said, "Necessity is the Mother of Invention"....In Goa, whatever one's opinion, tourism and SEZ is presented as an answer. Those who are opposed to these have to be intellectually honest and present economic alternatives....The old saying is, "do not give someone a fish, rather teach them how to fish". And in keeping with that, education is a safe bet to help individual Goans and the society as a whole>[GL]
This is all very good in theory. But what about practice? In practice what happens in Goa is that it believes it controls the null hypothesis. It feels it has the right to say "no" to almost anything that is proposed as an alternative. It may go along with something for a while but then it lowers the boom. The capacity to "think big" -- "for Goa's sake" -- is lacking. Or else it expects a big project in one sector to be replaced by a heap of petty ones in other sectors -- "in the name of the aam ami". This is going from the sublime to the ridiculous. Those who think big make the mistake of trying to force outlandish stuff down Goa's gullible throat from Day One. This is of course immediately rejected. If you persist long enough may be they will eventually get around to living with it. But a lot of time is wasted in turning things around. I think this is what is happening with the Mopa/Dabolim project which should be a boon to Goa if properly handled. Cheers.
