Old Goa's famous Bom Jesus Basilica seen from the Panjim-Ponda main road.

Masked revellers at a Goa carnival, 1998.

Old modes of transport are still widely used in Goa, which large parts of the state are rural.

Boys go fishing in a village pond, at Saligao, which dries up with the onset of summer.

Interiors of one of the luxury hotels that have sprouted along the Goa coast in recent years. Incidentally, the old colonial legacy sells among tourists, as the portraits on the wall, of Portuguese conquistadors, shows.

Corridors of the Goa University, at Taleigao plateau.

Mandovi bridge at sunset.

Moonrise over Arambol beach in North Goa's Pernem taluka.

Tell-tale signs left behind after a rave party at Anjuna.

Scene along the river at Madkai village, Ponda taluka.

Extraction of sand for construction and other purposes threatens the beaches of this region.

View of the Saligao church, from another perspective.

Sunset scene along the ferry that connects Madkai with Cortalim village.

Sunset in Goa.

Rustic scene along the Colvale road, in Bardez.

Panjim jetty, with the new vessels that take tourists for rides along the Mandovi river.

Panjim at dusk.

Citizens seem to be protesting at the Carnival over the rampant rise of malaria in Goa in recent years.