Losing Goa
For decades, Goa occupied a singular place in the global imagination. It was not merely a beach destination, but a cultural mood ~ inexpensive, unhurried, and faintly detached from the commercial anxieties of modern tourism.
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who was being treated in a US hospital for advanced pancreatic cancer since more than three months now, returned to India on Thursday afternoon and is expected to arrive in Goa later this evening, a BJP leader said.
Parrikar, accompanied by members of his family, a medical team and officials of the Chief Minister’s Office, flew from US to Mumbai, from where he will be taking a connecting flight to Goa, a party official said.
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Additional police personnel have been deployed at Dabolim International Airport ahead of the Chief Minister’s return.
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Parrikar is expected to chair a meeting of the state’s council of ministers on Friday.
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