November 23, 2017

Memoir: Once Upon a Christmas

November 23, 2017

By Reena Martins

Issue no. 6

While the older ones rolled out the pastry, the “experts” filled and sealed the neureos (pastry stuffed filled with sweetened coconut). The lady of the house then skilfully deep fried them. The sweets were put away in large tins and not touched till Christmas day.

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November 9, 2017

East African Goan History

Bras Sousa: Goan Portuguese Consul in Zanzibar, 1892

Selma Carvalho

November 9, 2017

East African Goan History

Bras Sousa: Goan Portuguese Consul in Zanzibar, 1892

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 6

By every definition, elite Goans were what the Portuguese called assimilado. Except for their skin colour, they were bourgeois, metropolitan Portuguese who profoundly believed in the glory of Portugal.

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November 9, 2017

The Gates of Chorao

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November 9, 2017

By Salil Chaturvedi

Issue no. 6

A photo-essay narrated through 17 spectacular photographs capturing the gates of Chorao. Including lyrical prose by the poet on what gates mean to him.

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November 9, 2017

Of Crioulos and Poskim

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November 9, 2017

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 6

(Under discussion: Poskem; Goans in the Shadows). It is interesting how over time 'crioulos' a word linked to slavery and African heritage, and mired in race miscegenation transformed to mean 'adopted' in the Goan context.

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November 9, 2017

short story

Victor Rangel-Ribeiro & The Short Story

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November 9, 2017

short story

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 6

Accustomed as I am to reading widely, I cannot readily bring to mind a contemporary Goan writer who can muster at their fingertips the sort of literary imagery which pours out of Victor Rangel-Ribeiro's pen.

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November 8, 2017

Interview with Bazil Mota

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November 8, 2017

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 6

Bazil Mota is a young Goan artist whose primary choice of medium is watercolour. In this interview we find out more about what informs Mota's work, the artists who have influenced him and why he paints in watercolours.

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September 2, 2017

Goan Tailors: Excluded Lives

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September 2, 2017

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 5

(Under discussion: Book Beneath the African Sun). Ironically, written records dating back to 1900 reveal just how racist Goans themselves were towards African populations.

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September 2, 2017

Travelogue: Dockside Farewells, the Goan Abroad.

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September 2, 2017

Travelogue: Dockside Farewells, the Goan Abroad.

By Clifford J. Pereira

Issue no. 5

One thing is for sure, the further from Goa I am in generational terms rather than in geography, the less Goan I understandably feel.

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September 2, 2017

Travelogue: A Goan in Macau

Selma Carvalho

September 2, 2017

By Jessica Faleiro

Issue no. 5

Built in 1874, the brick and stone, neo-classical edifice was constructed to accommodate an Indian regiment from Goa appointed to reinforce Macau's police force.

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September 2, 2017

Travelogue: Status: Unknowable

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September 2, 2017

By R. Benedito Ferrao

Issue no. 5

At the gate, as I count down the time to my flight, I shall pull out the book that I always carry with me when I fly. Its title is innocuous, its cover non-descript, its content never actually consumed.

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September 2, 2017

Travelogue: Dublin's Literature of the Subversive

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September 2, 2017

Travelogue: Dublin's Literature of the Subversive

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 5

Oscar Wilde, this man of almost ethereal beauty and grace, of wit and wisdom, of words and letters, spent two years in an English prison for his sexuality.

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September 2, 2017

'Souza Painted Hell': A Review of his Legacy

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September 2, 2017

'Souza Painted Hell': A Review of his Legacy

By Jugneeta Sudan

Issue no. 5

Sartre said, 'Hell is other people,' but Souza's art laid bare the hell inside human beings.

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September 2, 2017

Left with a husk called Mumbai

Selma Carvalho

September 2, 2017

Interview with Gautam Benegal

Issue no. 5

In 1993, the meaninglessness, amorality and sordidness of lesser men leached the colour from the city, robbed it of its magic and left us with a husk called Mumbai.

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May 12, 2017

Childhood memories of East Africa

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May 12, 2017

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 4

Video clip. 3.40 min. Featuring a cross-generation of East African Goans recalling memories of Mombasa, Masaka, Katesh and Nakuru.

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May 10, 2017

Colonial Panjim: From Bogland to Capital

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May 10, 2017

Colonial Panjim: From Bogland to Capital

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 4

Under discussion: Anatomy of a Colonial Capital: Panjim by Celsa Pinto. All around them, Panjim residents would have seen the flourishing of a city which increasingly mirrored Eurocentric architecture ...

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May 10, 2017

The Blood is on All our Hands

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May 10, 2017

By R. Benedito Ferrao

Issue no. 4

In conversation with Karishma D'Souza exhibiting at Xippas Gallery, Paris. India at the moment is a culmination of desperation, as laws are systematically derailed and lie un-enforced. It's a nation on a disastrous track of homogeneity.

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May 9, 2017

Vamona Navelcar, uma Pessoa: The Poet in the Painter

Selma Carvalho

May 9, 2017

Vamona Navelcar, uma Pessoa: The Poet in the Painter

By Vishvesh Kandolkar

Issue no. 4

Navelcar is aware of this complexity and therefore remains proud of his multiple experiences of places across continents. He claims to be at once European, African, and Goan, just as many other Goans of his generation might ...

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May 9, 2017

Mohan Naik: The Man & his Muse

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May 9, 2017

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 4

In conversation with Mohan Naik finds out why the artist, despite earlier experiments, has not yielded to any particular style ...

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May 8, 2017

Memoir: The Menino will come Tonight

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May 8, 2017

By Fatima M Noronha

Issue no. 4

For Des and me, that was the last Christmas of our childhood, we with our parents, all of us warm together in that coldest winter.

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March 12, 2017

Sem Flores, Nem Coroas: New Flowers, Old Wrangles

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March 12, 2017

Sem Flores, Nem Coroas: New Flowers, Old Wrangles

By R. Benedito Ferrao

Issue no. 3

(Under discussion: The play No Flowers, No Wreaths by Orlando da Costa). That a Portuguese Prime Minister of Goan origin should come to the land of his father’s origin to release a play about the Indian annexation of once Portuguese Goa reverberates in No Flowers, No Wreaths’ ...