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 […]
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 […]
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