Strange and as always pro bharat writers refer the pre 61 as nostalgia, faint memories etc. Besides this writer has no guts to write about the colonization taking place post 61 'liberation', instead uses polite terms to refer the current disaster of Goa. BC Which leaves the first generation immigrants who migrated out of Goa. They are fiercely loyal to Goa, but their loyalties are tied into nostalgia, faint memories of how Goa used to be prior to Liberation and all the Catholic attachment or prejudice their upbringing in Colonial Goa engendered. Of its present reality, and its evolution since Liberation they are ill-informed about. But herein lies an unopened Pandora's box. Poised at the brink of this historic move, lies an opportunity for grass-root movements to find support in the Goans of the Diaspora. A ground-swell of support can be galvanized if regional movements are smart enough to make themselves heard abroad. The springing up of regional movements is not a sign of a successful democracy. It doesn't engender a sense of nationhood but the Centre in India has failed to prove itself insightful into regional affairs, sensibilities and they have failed particularly with Goa, refusing to understand the absolute need for her environmental and cultural preservation. The thought that Goa is in a state of evolution, that it is no more or no less disadvantaged that other states, is scant consolation. Progress doesn't always take place in a linear progression. There are times in history when societies actually regress and just such a regression is happening in Goa in terms of its polity. The fact that the State polity is completely incapable of either moral or any other form of leadership is a frightening omen.
