Goa, Sept. 3 -- Rohit Sinha

Homelessness is not a word often associated with Goa. The image of this state is painted in bright er colours - beaches, music, susegad, a place where people come to escape, not to be left adrift. Yet beneath that post card lies a quieter truth. There are people here without a roof, without the certainty of a place to sleep tomorrow, and without the social support needed to find their way back to stability. Their numbers may not com pare to India's metros, but their presence tells us something ur gent: homelessness is not just about housing. It is a symptom of many failures stitched to gether - gaps in mental health care, fragmented governance, economic displacement and the erosion of public commons that once ...