Goa 2075 | Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Xavier Centre of Historical Research
XCHR CONVERSATIONS
Goa < 2075
As a state run by a ‘democratic’ corporation, instead of an elected government. As a state where the population is divided into two classes, the Overlords, a rich numerical minority, who can afford a licenced privilege to live on the surface and the Subterraneans, the underprivileged mass, shepherded into underground cavernous colonies. As a state with extensive manicured landscaping, it is the beacon of global tourism and has India’s most expensive acreage, but at the cost of its forest cover, with climate change already whittling away at its beaches. As a state where a Board of Directors has replaced the Council of Ministers and where even Goa’s nomenclature has been changed to Go-aah as part of a commercial branding exercise. And as a state whose last living tigress is about to be hunted to clear off a patch of forests to make way for another luxurious villa enclave.
Emboldened by their success in avenging their friend’s murder, the five friends expand the ambit of their vigilante justice to include the Board of Directors, responsible for the state’s destruction and brutal subjugation of the Subterraneans. Mayabhushan Nagvenkar“It took me 26 years as a journalist to realise that the domain is divided into left and right ideological silos, with little to no room to manoeuvre for those who are critical of both thoughts. So f... that. In other news, I have co-authored the biography of former Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar. Another nonfiction book on urban crime is scheduled to be published later this year. I was born in Mumbai, and until some years ago, I was glad to have grown up in Goa. That's about the gist of it.” Gerard de SouzaGerard de Souza is a journalist working as the Goa Correspondent for Hindustan Times. A journalist for the last 16 years editing and reporting on a wide range of issues concerning Goa, its people and environment across a range of local publications including Gomantak Times, O Heraldo and The Goan Everyday. He is also the author of the recently published book, Crimes of Passion, that chronicles a series of 11 crimes spurned by love and rejection. When not writing and reporting, he is busy fishing for clams, hunting for the best cashew feni (or urrak) or tending to his mango orchard.
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