De-Konkanizing Konkani

Osmitay is an ornamental film. Its central narrative is built around several narratives that are interwoven with histories, struggles and pains of the people who speak Konkani. It scores high on its performance, music, singing and scenic display of the rich culture of the Konkani speakers. Such a film cannot be totally rational as it evokes deep emotions and...

Konkani Osmitay Cannot Divide

I was in Mangalore the other day and I got to watch the much advertised Konkani movie, Osmitay. The movie brings out several nice things about our identity (Osmitay) as Konkani speaking people. Like any good movie, it also raises several uncomfortable questions. Besides its historical inaccuracies, it makes me think that this is another propaganda movie like the...

The Goan Pedagogy of Peace

Inter-religious peace and harmony has been threatened these days in Goa. We can recount several incidents that triggered an anxiety about the possibility of collapsing peace and good will in our society. Goa that always lived a sense of unity and peace suddenly began to look like furnace of religious conflicts. Although, we in Goa have colonial wounds ,...

Dialogue and Peace for Goa

Just saw Irinev Gonsalves’ new tiatr. Kanni nhoi Ghoddnni. Many things struck me as the tiatr unfolded but the ending gave me an insight into what is happening in society, particularly, what happened with Fr. Bolmax Periera. The ending tells the story of ants. It said when the two kinds of ants (red and black )are put in a...

Goa can lead to an India to Come

We as beings in the world, actively create signification systems. By doing this we make meaning of our being in the world and become worldly. Charles Sander Pierce calls this process semiosis. This semiosis leads to what Aristotle calls mimesis. Mimesis (imitation) then, leads to poesis which is an actualization of a form or vision of being which is...

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