Goa, Sept. 18 -- MARIAN PINHEIRO

There is a question increas ingly heard in conversa tions across Goa-some times with anger, sometimes with helplessness and increas ingly with urgency: Who will save Goa? It is a disturbing question be cause Goa is not facing merely an environmental problem. What many Goans fear is be ing lost is something far larger: the character of its villages, its landscape, its cultural distinc tiveness, the affordability of its land and homes, the sustaina bility of its economy, confidence in its institutions and, above all, the belief that ordinary citizens still have some control over the future of their State. For a State measuring only 3,702 square kilometres, every hill, wetland, agricultural field, forest pat...