Goa, July 11 -- Agnelo Billy Pereira, Billy to all, sits on his easy chair on his balcao in Utorda not far from the Nossa Senhora de Lourdes Igreja em Utorda (The Lady of Lourdes Church). His mind traces back to the days of the Konkan Railway agitation against the proposed alignment of the new railway line named after the linguistic region they chose to serve.
About three decades later, the same Konkani speaking people living along the tracks of the Konkan Railway and South Western Railway in coastal Salcete and Mormugao, are bracing themselves by gearing up to fight against the triple jeopardy, the double tracking of the existing South Western line, to basically allow wagons to carry coal of big daddy industrialists who support the govern...