By I Moraes
ON my occasional visit to Colva beach, what do I see? Young people from other states coming there by the busloads with stars in their eyes to admire beautiful Goa. Often you hear them sing, �Gova! Gova! Gova Meri Hai!� as they drum the bus seats. Their youthful exuberance is both, enviable and infectious. Invariably, it is the beach that they love most.
It is easy to tell that most of these young people are students; medics in the making, engineers to be, software experts and others. But when they start wading into the water, they are one in their innocence. Frolicking among the waves they present a happy, and sometimes funny, picture.
You also see young lovers strolling hand-in-hand building castles in the air while children work to build theirs in the sand. Old people sit and relax in the glow of the setting sun and when it dips into the ocean, some are known to make a wish.
Many people relish the hot corncobs roasted on live coal and spiced with chilly powder as well as popcorn and peanuts. Then there is Softy ice cream, piping hot pakodas, samosas and even slices of cool watermelon and pineapple. But the fun gets out of hand when young boys, unaware of the dangers, drink beer or hard drinks and venture into the water.
The sea is a dangerous beast that you cannot fool around with. Every now and then, it attracts young people into its embracing waves, then devours them like a hungry beast. After a day or two, it throws back the lifeless and grossly bloated body on its shore.
But you need not be drunk to fall prey to the sea. Sober men, strong swimmers at that, are known to have perished before its fatal charms as if they were paper dolls. In this sense, man may never really master the sea. It is simply too vast and powerful.
It is also very intelligent. Advanced as man is in science, the sea is far more fastidious in its neatness. All the rubbish that we dump into the sea, it throws right back on the beach sooner then later. Oil from tankers comes back in the form of tar, empty plastic bags of milk, rags and all the other garbage comes back to shore. And so do the decomposed bodies of unknown men.
From time to time, a lifeguard or a tourist saves a drowning person from the clutches of the sea. That rescued person appreciates truly, that alongside the mystical magic of the ocean, resides its insurmountable majesty and might.
(courtesy: The Navhind Times)
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