By engaging with the critical lens of Kavish Chetty, a scholar whose work interrogates the assumptions and contradictions of decolonial theory, we can reframe Goan identity—or “Goan-ness”—not as a rigid construct bound by the prescriptive frameworks of decoloniality, but as a dynamic, lived experience that defies the policing tendencies of other decolonial projects. Chetty’s critiques, particularly his skepticism of...
