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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The New Goenche Saibs
By AMITA KANEKAR To take up cudgels against the latest Hindutva offensive against the Catholic community, on why S. Francis Xavier’s popular […]
Ep 8 | The Goa Inquisition: New Scholarship on the State and Religious Violence
The Trial of Catarina da Orta on two Continents
Ep 7 | The Goa Inquisition: New Scholarship on the State and Religious Violence
Slaves under Trial: Asians and Africans
Ep 6 | The Goa Inquisition: New Scholarship on the State and Religious Violence
Religious Orders and the Goa Inquisition