‘Unexamined life is not worth living’ said Socrates. He taught that wise lived an examined life. Self knowledge is a fruit of examined life. Every human person lives at least a partially examined life and feels the challenge of expansion of the horizon of that life.We Goans also feel the imperative to examine our lives. Some teach that Indians...
Let’s stop playing ‘statue’!
In recent days we have in several ways heard the cry to return to Goa and Goan-ness. There has been a forgetting of Goa and Goan-ness that is rightly sought to overcome by these cries. This re-articulation of the primacy of Goa and Goan-ness seems to take place within the question of Justice. Maybe we are challenged to ask...
The Silence of Buddha and the Silence of the Voter in Goa
The silence of the Goan voters is loud and clear. The sound of silence is reverberating even as the votes have sealed the fate of the candidates in the EVMs. For the first time, the Goan voter seems to have gone into a silent mode. Is this silence a fatigued response to the vitriolic campaign of the national and...
Facing our Political Present – I
Present is not politically neutral but is certainly politically pregnant. Our time is intense and we have to face its political challenge. We Goans have to face an inevitable politics of the moment. The very idea of Goa brings forth politics into our living present. Goa becomes several things to several peoples. This becoming of Goa is the...
Goans on Trial
We are living in interestingly dangerous times. With the eruption of coronavirus, we have acquired the power to cough the other to death even we intending nor being conscious of this. While all forms of powers came with great responsibility, we certainly have an immense responsibility to the other as we learn to live with Covid-19. Disruption of all...
Resisting the Second Colonization of Goa
Coronavirus has bridged the gap between life and death. A distant death has become a near actuality. We are challenged to live with an imminent death. The undoing of life has entered our biological life and disrupted our ways of being human. All inequalities melt in front of covid-19. It has become like death a great equalizer. It provides...
Being a Goan at a Time of Hindutva – II
There is something unique about Goa and Goan-ness. Maybe Pandit Nehru saw a bit of it when he said ‘Ajeeb hai Goa ke log’ . ‘Abjeeb’ meant strange. Hence, his view can be interpreted pejoratively. But it can also be viewed positively meaning differently. Therefore, without taking offence to this remark, we can also look at it as our...
Coming Together for Goa
There are many groups in Goa fighting for a change (emancipation). How are we to unite them against the perpetrators of oppression, the BJP Government today? Karl Marx said that change comes when two classes fight. He thought that it is inevitable that the oppressed class will rise against the oppressing class. But this is not true. There is...
The Goa Question and its Erasures – II
It is painful to unearth pathologies of any society. Most pathologies emerge out of a sense of being put under unjust sufferings or sense of collective loss. Often these pathologies derive their legitimacy from a sense of loss recovery dynamism. The calculus of loss that a community feels is central to almost all pathological formations in most societies. Maybe...
Thinking Konkani 360 Degrees
The future of Romi script cannot be outside Konkani. Every script of Konkani has a future in the Konkani world. Although there has been a consistent effort to declare the death of Konkani in the Romi script in our days by several Konkani lovers of the nagri position, Romi Konkani has refused to die much like it did when...
