Goa, March 22 -- Sushila Sawant Mendes

Peace times encourage growth and prosperity. Wars, riots, law and order problems, create instability and retard economic growth and foreign investment. Genocides and murders have never benefited humankind. What is deplorable is that such events are justified because of what happened three hundred or five hundred years back and passions are rekindled.

We are a democracy, but does everything in life depend only on winning elections? After the Lok Sabha elections in 2024, slogans like "Aurangzeb ki Aulad", (progeny of Aurangzeb) may have had its impact in 2025 in the Assembly elections. The Maharashtra local body elections are not far away and the sloganeering has restarted. In Goa, 2027 is just 19 mo...