Have you come across a place where you see many ancestral houses abandoned, trees growing through the roofs, landed properties kept open and unattended and encroachments not noticed by the land owners. Even when these encroachments are reported to them, there is no reaction from them, leave alone any action.
All this at a time when real estate is the most valuable asset. Well that strange place is Goa and the strange people are naturally Goans.
Seriously we need to realise that the Goa of today is not the Goa of yesteryear.
There are plenty of land grabbers and fraudsters now. I believe our ancestors left behind properties be maintained and passed on to our next generation. If for some genuine reason, we are not able to do so, it is sensible to dispose off them or at least give them in charity to deserving institutions. Leaving them in a state of total neglect is only inviting fraudsters and land grabbers to swallow them free.
RODNEY DE SOUZA, Assagao
