November 9, 2017

Of Crioulos and Poskim

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.

Selma Carvalho

November 9, 2017

short story

Victor Rangel-Ribeiro & The Short Story

Selma Carvalho

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.

Selma Carvalho

November 8, 2017

Interview with Bazil Mota

Selma Carvalho

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.

Selma Carvalho

September 2, 2017

Goan Tailors: Excluded Lives

Selma Carvalho

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.

Selma Carvalho

September 2, 2017

Travelogue: Dockside Farewells, the Goan Abroad.

Selma Carvalho

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.

Selma Carvalho

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.

Selma Carvalho

September 2, 2017

Travelogue: Status: Unknowable

Selma Carvalho

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.

Selma Carvalho

September 2, 2017

Travelogue: Dublin's Literature of the Subversive

Selma Carvalho

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.

Selma Carvalho

September 2, 2017

'Souza Painted Hell': A Review of his Legacy

Selma Carvalho

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.

Selma Carvalho

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.

Selma Carvalho

May 12, 2017

Childhood memories of East Africa

Selma Carvalho

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.

Selma Carvalho

May 10, 2017

Colonial Panjim: From Bogland to Capital

Selma Carvalho

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 ...

Selma Carvalho

May 10, 2017

The Blood is on All our Hands

Selma Carvalho

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.

Selma Carvalho

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 ...

Selma Carvalho

May 9, 2017

Mohan Naik: The Man & his Muse

Selma Carvalho

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 ...

Selma Carvalho

May 8, 2017

Memoir: The Menino will come Tonight

Selma Carvalho

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.

Selma Carvalho

March 12, 2017

Sem Flores, Nem Coroas: New Flowers, Old Wrangles

Selma Carvalho

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’ ...

Selma Carvalho

March 10, 2017

The Goan Portuguese Novel

Selma Carvalho

March 10, 2017

By Cielo G. Festino

Issue no. 3

(Under discussion: Preia-Mar by Epitacio Pais). This new Goa that Pais illustrates contains traces of the discourse of both worlds not in isolation by deeply intertwined.

Selma Carvalho

March 10, 2017

The Fallacy of Vassanji's Goans

Selma Carvalho

March 10, 2017

By Clifford J. Pereira.

Issue no. 3

(Under Discussion: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M. G. Vassanji). For Vikram Lall’s next encounter with the Goan community, Vassanji chooses Nairobi railway station where a Mr. Eddie Carvalho receives “a couple of slaps” from an African politician ...

Selma Carvalho

March 10, 2017

A village Dies: East Indians, Goans and Mangaloreans

Selma Carvalho

March 10, 2017

A village Dies: East Indians, Goans and Mangaloreans

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 3

(Under discussion: A Village Dies by Ivan Arthur). Arthur himself is a Mangalorean, a community he describes as less Portuguese than the Goans and East Indians, the ‘Lusitanian hue of their pre-Tullu days painted over with Tippu's sword and the dark Dravidian tongue’.