Before the arrival of the Sharada Bandar High School, Miramar in 1968, the Portuguese colonial yoke had planted Caju trees along the coastline, Miramar until Caranzalem. Then came the liberators of Goa with great knowledge in development and destroyed the plantations (for housing). Besides producing the best booze the tree also helps in soil erosion. Now there is no booze nor soil containment along the coast, but large waves to decapitate any structure that comes in its way. BC---------------- On the same night outside my home next to Miramar beach in Goa, on the Konkan coastline of western India, powerful ocean waves crashed to their previous highest ingress, just metres from our compound wall. What had happened only once before, during an unprecedented cyclone, has now occurred in the first week of this monsoon.
