Stop blowing your history trumpet. Tell these current strangers to give Goa water and electricity 24x7. BC The Portuguese will not to be the last in the series of strangers who sought to make Goa their home.
As Goa prepares to commemorate 50 years of its liberation from Portuguese colonial rule, we need to reflect more calmly from this distance in time, on what Goa has gained from the many strangers that arrived in Goa, stayed in Goa, left Goa or died in Goa. Goa: a history of many liberations By Prof. Teotonio R. de Souza In a recent intervention at King?s College in London, where an international conference was held to study the Asian Ports of Europe, I availed of the opportunity to present the case of Goa as a home for strangers and where strangers felt at home.
