Goa, Aug. 3 -- Lord Parashurama's looming statue has a more direct vantage upon the barely-floating casinos that crowd the Mandovi river at Panjim, but it is Goencho Saib's intercession being invoked in the poignant and sorrowing artwork by Loretti Pinto that accompanies this column. Either way or even conjoined, it is painfully clear no divine forces have yet acted against their profane excesses. Earlier this week, there was yet another reminder of just how cheaply Goa has sold its own best interests away, when the chief minister told the legislature the state earned a grand total of 1661 crores over the past five years from licensed onshore and offshore casinos. That is a shockingly inconsequential sum - just 332 crores annually - addin...