Full-page advertisements in national dailies promise beaches, greenery, quietude and everything else that is associated with susegad, the easy Goan way of life. But Goans themselves aren’t quite so sure what they have got left to offer.

Decades of property developers carving up Goa have resulted in lasting damage to the state’s sylvan character. So large, however, is nature’s bounty bestowed on Goa that even after plunder much exists. But the question Goans are asking is, for how long?