Imagine Goa, Fifty Years Hence. “Goa 2075”

‘Goa 2075’ is the first attempt in India at writing a live, bilingual novel and in the process, creating a new writing and publishing genre. The novel spans four segments – each segment reflects key issues currently impacting Goa, like the land resource crunch, environmental and social degradation, corruption, politics, etc.

“Goa 2075” is dystopian. As a state run by a ‘democratic’ corporation, instead of an elected government. As a state where the population is divided into two classes, the Overlords, who can afford a licenced privilege to live on the surface and the Subterraneans, the underprivileged mass, shepherded into underground cavernous colonies. As a state with extensive manicured landscaping, it is the beacon of global tourism and has India’s most expensive acreage, but at the cost of its forest cover, with climate change already whittling away at its beaches. As a state where a Board of Directors has replaced the Council of Ministers and where even Goa’s nomenclature has been changed to Go-aah as part of a commercial branding exercise. And as a state whose last living tigress is about to be hunted to clear off a patch of forests to make way for another luxurious villa enclave.

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