The curse of dust for the revellers in the most polluted “Smart City’’. In Panaji this year, Holi was no less than a festival of dust with a familiar rust colour, blowing in all directions, not the multi-colours of Holi that we are used to. Will Shigmo be any different? And if it rains (as is being forecast), the city will end up hosting a Chikal Kalo, a monsoon mud festival celebrated at Marcel in the middle of the Monsoons.
Wrestling between the politicians responsible for this mess and their incompetent contractors that they are hand in glove with to wrestle away the maximum from the rapidly emptying coffers in the name of creating a ‘Smart City’. Wrestling for the suffering people of Panaji having to wrestle between their health and safety and illness and inconvenience.
