Goa, July 7 -- The Junta House in Panjim is more than just a building, it has been, and still is, a pulsating nerve centre of Goa since it was inaugurated in August 1966.

It can be described as the veritable concrete example of Goa's post-Liberation modernisation that came to symbolise the then Union Territory's growth and development story.

It functioned, and continues to function till this day, not just as an administrative building housing numerous government offices, but also as a hub of commerce, culture, science and in decades past as residence of the administration's top bureaucrats.

So when last week, the notice from the District Collector was released, asking that the premises be vacated within 30 days, memories tumbled across...