The collective wisdom of the society in what it decides to keep and what it decides to discard is facinating. People of diverse backgrounds with different lived experiences accept certain aspects of history while discarding the rest. The role of politics, popular culture, patriarchy and the macro economic situation all have to be factored in understanding these decisions.   Heritage thrives on recoginition and these recoginitons are perosonal and also as a society. In todays context of tourism and its impact on the economy, heritage becomes a very important tool in development.  In this blog we dwell upon this thread - "heritage as a tool of development." to understand Heritage as well as how it will help in development  Last year post the Pandemic while the whole world began traveling again, some 78 lakh people visited the louvre Museum in Paris. This is one Museum and it is emphasised here because of the next statistic that we present to you. In the entire state of Goa in