Plato understood mimesis as the engine of human culture. In the Republic, he described it as imitation: we learn by copying gestures, stories, and forms. Yet he warned that mimesis is treacherous. It produces copies of copies, shadows twice removed from truth, seducing us away from reality into illusion. Two millennia later, the anthropologist and literary theorist René Girard...
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Goycho Saib: The Open Signifier of Goan Belonging
In the sun-kissed streets of Goa, where the Arabian Sea wave whispers ancient lullabies amidst the dancing coconut palms, the name Goycho Saib rises like the gentle tide at Colva. It is not merely a phrase; it is a living invocation, a collective heartbeat that binds every Goan whether in the red laterite villages of Salcete or the bustling...
Tourism in Goa: An Invitation to the Impossible Demand of Justice
Opening to the Unconditional Call Tourism is far more than an escape or an industry. It is an opening to a call that comes from the place itself, an unconditional summons that places a demand upon every visitor and every host. This demand refuses calculation. It cannot be measured in tourist arrivals, revenue statistics, or occupancy rates. Instead, it...
The Theology of the Unconditional Gift as foundation for a Goan theology of Tourism
It is inevitable to be a Goan Christian without looking at tourism in the light of faith. Here is an effort made to theologize tourism in the light pure gift as thought by Derrida as well as the unconditonal, that interrupts and interpells us right into our ordinary life. Derrida’s Principle of the Unconditional and Its Theological Resonance At...
From Ritual-Centric Ministry to Dialogical Sacramentality
In the vibrant Catholic culture of Goa, novenas and feasts stand at the heart of communal life. The faithful crowd churches for nine days of intense prayer before the feast of a patron saint. Processions wind through the village centre around the Church with brass bands and flower-decked statues and confraria members distinctly dressed for the occasion. Pastoral programs...
The Misnaming of Old Goa’s Historic Pillar: From Pilourinho Novo to Hath Katro Khambo
In the historic quarter of Old Goa, where ancient churches and convents stand as testaments to a layered colonial past, a solitary black basalt pillar rises at a prominent crossroads near the Basilica of Bom Jesus. This unassuming yet significant monument, known officially in Portuguese records for centuries as the Pilourinho Novoor New Pillory, has in recent times been...
Dhvani, Sphota, and Rasa: The Eternal Flame of Devotion in the Poetic Odes to Goycho Saib
In the sun-kissed landscapes of Goa, where the Arabian Sea whispers ancient prayers and the red laterite soil cradles centuries of faith, the Kavi Somellon emerges as a vibrant confluence of poetic voices. On 7 April 2026, poets from across Konkani-speaking realms gather under the banner Goycho Saib Goychea Akaran 2.0, the second consecutive year of this celebration...
Dialogues of the Heart: The Evocative Power of Konkani Poetry
A poem is not a riddle. It hides no secret meaning waiting to be unlocked by the clever few. Instead, a poem is dialogical. It speaks directly to our world, inviting us into a living conversation where we bring our own lives, our doubts, our joys, and our everyday realities. Its role is evocative, not merely indicative. It does...
