The Goan cover story last week highlighted the Goa government’s negligence towards its own Law Commission report to save land, which is the state establishment’s prime concern for wanting to attain the special status. But In its political zeal for the status, the state seems to have forgotten few ground truths. Yatish Naik writes as to why Goa apart from being emotional about the whole issue also needs to pitch, before the Centre, facets which are peculiar to it like the institution of Communidades and the Portuguese Civil Code in orcer to achieve the goal