Today we have several indices that enable us to calculate human development in our society. Goa is regarded as the best and the fastest developing small states in our country. But still have many reasons to be concerned as the so-called development continues to leave several Goans (if not all) behind as it marches ahead in triumph on our...
Goans and Human Development – II
There is a spirit of Goa that animates Goans and their goanising everywhere. It is both within and outside Goans and embedded everywhere in Goa. It populates everything that we are and do and becomes glue that gives meaning to our life as Goans. While the spirit of Goa is undying, it seems to be steadily losing its grip...
Goa and Human Development
Most humans are narcissistic and easily fall prey to identity politics. Narcissism becomes visible particularly in the face of the other and his/ her otherness. The self and its other relationship is very central to any politics of identity. We often see the other from the lens of the sameness of self. This reduction of the otherness to sameness...
