Music is profoundly synodal. It makes us listen, perform and belong together. Music emerges from lived experience and makes our life livable. Sonic phenomena have been part of life at least from the time we offered the first music of our cry as a way of announcing our arrival in the world as infants. Sound thus, became a first...
Levinas, Lacan, Jouissance and the Market
How do we think Emanuel Levinas through Jouissance ( enjoyment) of Lacan? Is it at all possible to Lacanize Levinas? Maybe it is possible. Let us strive at it here. Levinas in Lacanian sense is telling us that we enjoy and bathe in what is directly accessible and not in what transcends us. This is the carnal critique that...
The Spectres of the Flawed Hero
Who is the one who invited the Portuguese to Goa? Does he has the burden of history? Where is he hiding? Why are we creating villains out the victims of colonization today? If colonization was the darkest era of Goa, if it was a time of denationalization then those who invited the Portuguese cannot be forgotten. No Ideology calls...
Theologizing with our Face Facing Goa
The coming of the ordinary jubilee in 2025 is a great opportunity to ‘immanentize eschaton’. It is an opportunity to live the dangerous memory of Jesus. We in Goa do need to access the dangerous memory of Jesus as theologized by German catholic theologian Johann Baptist Metz. While opening us to the dangerous memory of Jesus , we have...
The Case of Goa —Between two Nationalisms
The journey of a small piece of land that we call Goa and its people is deeply complex. We are certainly in post-colonial times but with the end of colonialism we cannot certainly say that imperialism has come to an end. We can notice that places that were former colonies are not free from coloniality. Relations of colonization have...
(Dis)mantling the Goa vs India Binary
Goa cannot forget that it was axis mundi of the Portuguese Estado da India. As axis mundi, it is hailed as the Rome of the East in the Christian world. We have to bear in mind the locus of Goa under colonization and do not just view Goa from a position of Independent India. When we expand our vision...
The Boiling Point of Goan Blood
Why Goans are angry? it seems that Goans are entering the civilization where as small people are not invited to the celebration of life. This feeling uninvited for the celebration of life has compounded over years. It has made us become alienated humans of promise. We have dreams to live for. We have promises to keep. But the we...
The Exposition of the Sacred Relics of St. Francis Xavier: Door to Divine Abundance
Goa is a place blessed with great beauty of nature. It is a place of abundance. Everyone feels a welcome in Goa. God’s welcome is enshrined into Goa and Goans. The serenity, peace and sense of freedom one feels in Goa bring people from all over the world. The sense of welcome that people feel stays away and beyond...
Reverse Orientalism
How does someone become a Goan? I have been saying it is in goanizing of the Goans that Goa and Goans simultaneously come to be. To a Goan, his /her goanizing is the way of being-in-the-world. It is this distinct way of being-in-the-world that dynamically coproduced Goa, Goan-ness and Goans. When this dynamism weakens, we will find that Goa,...
The Power of Controlling Images and Politics in Goa
Intersection of oppression of caste, class, gender, sexuality etc., is normalized and rendered innocent by masking it into ideologies that hide them. This is often achieved by mechanism named as controlling images by a black feminist thinker Patricia Hills Collins. Goans are assaulted with several negative images. We can try to transpose this notion controlling images to explore how...
