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MARGAO: Miscreants once again vandalized the famous statue installation at the Bolshere-Bigfoot circle located on the eastern bypass in Gogol, Margao on Monday. The landmark, comprising statues of four men from different faiths, had been vandalized earlier and was only recently replaced with the same characters in a new avatar. One of the statues was again vandalized.
“Somebody cut off the hand. Again,” exclaimed a shocked Karishma Alvares when contacted by Herald. Alvares is the creator of the statue, which incidentally held flowers in one hand and board on his chest and artwork that said, ‘Make peace, not war.’
A police complaint filed in 2011 saw no headway in the case and Gogol residents don’t expect the police to solve it this time around as well.
It was a little less than a year ago, in July 2014, that Gogol got back its landmark. Its earlier landmark ‘the newspaper-reading man’ circle was demolished to make way for a high-mast lamp.
In November 2011, miscreants vandalized the circle and damaged the statues. In July 2011, Alvares, owner of the Big Foot in Lotoulim and artist/sculptor of the original figures put up a new installation at the high-mast that portrayed four men from different faiths sitting around a clock tower. Through the sketches, it essentially concentrated on the propagation of communal harmony.
The concept behind the circle was based on a Mario Miranda sketch of the more prominent villagers of Lotoulim sitting near the church around a ‘ped’ – a sit-out at the local sundial.
