Recently, the feast of ‘Our Lady of Vailankanni’ was celebrated across Goa. The faithful had also turned up in large numbers to pray to the Virgin Mary at the Maria Hall crossroads in Benaulim. After the feast, a large amount of trash, including snack packets, polythene bags, polystyrene cups, etc., was found strewn behind the shrine.
This not only exhibits a lack of civic sense amongst the citizenry but also amounts to the desecration of a holy place. They say, “Cleanliness is next to Godliness,” but in this case, the opposite holds true. Very sad and avoidable.
