Just Like That | From sartorial freedom to seafood feasts: Goa’s enduring allure

Pavan K Varma is author, diplomat, and former Member of Parliament. Still, a meal of fresh seafood in the many legendary shacks on the coastline, while sipping a glass of the local brew Feni, while dipping the local Poi bread in a mouthwatering Goan prawn curry, remains, as always, a memorable experience. I don’t know if others feel it, but I am overcome by a sense of soporific abandon every time I land in Goa, as I recently did on a short visit. In the balmy breeze of the winter months, when cities like Delhi are freezing and under a pall of smog and pollution, Goa is like an oasis of warmth, clean air and cavalier nonchalance. PREMIUM **EDS: SCREENSHOT VIA PTI VIDEOS** Calangute : Tourists at a sea beach during 'tourism season', in north Goa's Calangute, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.