September 4, 2022Popular Essays Thinking NOIDA Twin Tower Judgement, Thinking Goa By ALBERTINA ALMEIDA In the background of the NOIDA Twin Tower demolition, it is important to look at what is happening in […]
September 2, 2022Books, Reviews, Talks A Shortcut to Tipperary Review By JASON KEITH FERNANDES Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great pleasure for me to release A Shortcut to Tipperary […]
August 21, 2022August 21, 2022Popular Essays Independence as a long work-in-progress By AMITA KANEKAR The declaration by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant during the Independence Day celebrations, that the Portuguese looted Goa for 400 […]
August 12, 2022Popular Essays Dreaming Dignified Public Transport I resume this column after a gap of six years, three of which – thanks to the pandemic which prevented smooth international […]
August 8, 2022Popular Essays Code of Convenience: Politics of Uniform Civil Code By ALBERTINA ALMEIDA Goa’s ‘Uniform” Civil Code or the expression ‘uniform civil code’ seems to be bandied about by the ruling dispensation […]
July 9, 2022Popular Essays In the Absence of a Democratic Culture By AMITA KANEKAR The sociologist Dipankar Gupta recounts an amusing anecdote from the UK in his 2004 book, ‘Mistaken Modernity: India between […]
July 5, 2022Interventions, Talks What’s going on in India? Contemporary perspectives from Portuguese India By Jason Keith Fernandes Overview India seems to be scarily slipping into outright majoritarian rule where an apparent secular liberal democracy is transforming into a Hindu […]
June 14, 2022Al-Zulaij Exclusive The arrest of Pastor Dominic The spectre of ‘forced conversions’, the unfortunate and dubious legacy of the Niyogi Committee (1954), has begun to haunt Goa. On the […]
June 8, 2022Books Citizenship in a Caste Polity: Religion, Language and Belonging in Goa wins the Selva J Raj book award The Al-Zulaij Collective takes great pride in announcing that its member, Dr. Jason Keith Fernandes has been awarded the Selva J. Raj […]