Goa, June 13 -- The blessings of divine forces have generally been kind to Goa. Nature's fury has escaped us, natural and ecological disasters have not touched us and when through the month of April and early May, Goa inched towards a zero case situation, attention turned to same divine forces which have blessed Goa - the forever presence of our divine Saint Francis Xavier and that of Lord Parshuram, who is believed to have created Goa by shooting an arrow from the Sahyadri mountains.

With the Sahyadri (meaning benevolent mountain) range serving as a fortress, Goa stood protected against any disaster by man, nature or virus

When Goa turned green with no cases of Coronavirus, its government probably felt that the benevolence of the forces ...