Kabeer Sharma
Goa had the right idea about casino tourism until a series of killjoy measures came to spoil the party.
By an uncanny coincidence, both Prabuddha Dasgupta and his former protégé Bharat Sikka focused their cameras on Goa for their latest photo exhibitions. But while Dasgupta discovers a community teetering in cultural limbo, Sikka finds a very rooted place.
Murders and bomb blasts, it seems, can do little to jolt this sunny state out of its complacency. Such is life here.