Goa, March 9 -- It was not so long ago, but few people like to remember the magnificent Old Goa Medical College building on the Mandovi riverfront was given to Delhi-based realtors in 2007 to remake into "an upscale shopping mall." This was done at the behest and with the blessings of Manohar Parrikar, the late chief minister and longstanding MLA of Panjim, who had revamped the heritage precinct to host the International Film Festival of India three years earlier, but now insisted the sprawling 19th-century premises would be best used for peddling luxury goods to tourists. And that is precisely what would have happened except for an unlikely activist intervention in the form of Aparanta, an art exhibition curated by Ranjit Hoskote and mou...