Baby Boy With A mission

Why is a toddler so serious about his Instagram account? Armando Gonsalves unearths this quirky mystery and everyone should not only read this but follow the account too.

SOMEONE asked me the other day about how different Goa is today from the time I grew up in. I couldn’t really answer that question without getting extremely nostalgic, tad emotional and fairly angry. Why angry you might ask?! WHY NOT I ask right back! When I was growing up, Goa was possibly a thousand times greener than what it is today. We haven’t been careful with unplanned construction and the resulting deforestation. Yes Goa is still extremely stunning but can we afford to sit back and relax or take it for granted? Certainly not! Traffic on the roads is getting worse, snarls here, snarls there and snarls everywhere by the time peak tourist season is here. When I was growing up, there weren’t these many cars to start with, forget the fact there are thousand times that number driving into the state from all across the country! How are we tackling that? Waterway management is a solution but not much is happening beyond what was already there. The number of hotels, eateries, shacks, shops and all-round businesses today are way more than what we are prepared for. Imagine the garbage and overall carbon footprint that we are leaving behind for the next generation. If we don’t start acting sensibly now, and I’m certainly not the only one getting scared here, we are rapidly moving towards utter disaster.