Goa, Aug. 30 -- BY INVITATIONVivek Menezes

All this week, as Goa's already-harried civil society erupted righteously about the proposed Prohibition of Unlawful Conversions of Religion Bill, the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison's acutely insightful 1975 lecture about intolerance kept resurfacing in my mind

The crackpot nature of Goa's contemporary politics is aptly encapsulated by the huge bhagwa dhwaj fluttering ostentatiously from the most vulgarly named floating casino in the Mandovi, with the giant statue of Lord Parashurama looking on from the riverbank. For many years, RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat has reiterated the assertions of his predecessors K B Hegdewar and MS Golwalkar about the saffron flag as "the role model" and "symbol of our p...