Is there anything like Goan philosophy? Before answering this question may be we have the challenge to answer another question. Is there anything like philosophy of a territory? Does philosophy unlike mathematics and science has local features? I think there is some connection between philosophy and territory. Geographical boundaries do characterize ways of thinking. Gilles Deleuze teaches that thinking...
Ethics of Sharing
Emanuel Levinas begins his ethics basing himself on call of the Other. Martin Heidegger seems to start the same from the deep inner voice of conscience that calls the falling-self back to authentic life. Away from this two approaches, Jean-Luc Nancy has a starting point in the potentiality of relationality. Rather than starting with the primacy of the Other...
Death as Dying-with
We think a community as a full presence without any outside. What is outside is not in full communion. It is an outside that can only be antagonistic to the community. Such a community is constructed through the narration of the fundamental myth or myths. These fully self-present communities have produced foundational myths which are continuously told and retold...
Administrating Fear and the Plight of Goa
Goans are experiencing a profound fear of a loss. It is an imminent fear of Goacide. It is not just fear of degoanization of Goa. It is more. It is the fear of the coming death of Goa. In several ways, we can notice that the Government is producing this fear. The so-called development that it is promoting is...
The Last Goan
Do we have to think of Goans atomisticaly? Goans are literally on the extinct. Is Goa a atomistic society? Most atomistic society are individually oriented and do not value communities or collectivities. Goans are not really individualistic in nature. Therefore, we may have to ask: With the dying Goans, will Goa also be extinguished? Are Goans dissociable from Goa?...
Between Intimacy and Extimacy
What is intimacy? We can be intimate with someone or something. Intimacy is inseparable from the appearance of a crack within one’s interiority. A sense of loss draws us to intimacy. Every genuine Goan or even Indian is feeling a troubled to the depths of one’s being regarding the state of affairs of our society. A sense of loss...
Thinking Loss of Sense: Sensing Being Indians
It appears that we seem to be facing a general sense of loss of sense. This loss of sense is a loss of what matters to us to day. Sense points to meaning, value and direction. Sense enable us to think, philosophize and ideate. Hence, with a kind of death of sense, we might even say that we are...
Thinking in the Dark
What do we do when we are left in the dark? Perhaps, we have to learn to be in the dark. We may have to learn to think in the dark by stretching ourselves, touching our surroundings and embrace a thinking that is tentative and tactile. We have this challenge to make sense of the sudden silence and deathliness...
Double Colonization and the Sancoale Question
Temples in Goa are not just religious sites. They are sites of practices of caste. Historians of upper caste have presented them as sites of resistance to conversion as well as colonization but have largely remained quite about them as sites of caste assertion. This is why for the sake of Goa and its rich past, we have to...
The Silenced Past and the Sancoale Question
The question of caste is related to temple privilege, marriage, employment, and even inheritance. These relations did not remain static . They changed as caste identities negotiated changed social , economic and political situations. The encounter with the colonizers brought about a remarkable change in these relations. This means the complex dynamism of caste identities is located in a...
