20 June 2022

Outlook Magazine - 20 June 2022

The idea of Goa—free-spirited, all-embracing, bountiful—is disintegrating rapidly. How did the state, a jewel in India’s crown, lose its shine? The story of the coastal state, through ground reports and opinion pieces.

COVER STORY
We Are The Whipping Boys Now: Sanatan Sanstha National Spokesperson Chetan Rajhans
The Sanatan Sanstha has been in the dock over the controversial murders of rationalists and in the spotlight for bomb attacks in Maharashtra and Pune. But its national spokesperson, Chetan Rajhans, tells Outlook that the Sanstha has emerged as the new whipping boy for its detractors because it’s still a small organisation and their original target, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, is a much more powerful entity now.
BY Chinki Sinha 20 June 2022

Goa's Battle Against The Ills Of Global Warming And Indiscrete Concretisation
By 2050, sea level rise is expected to inundate 40 per cent of Goa’s low-lying areas, ravaging the state’s popular beaches by draining the sand along its 105-km coastline.
BY Paul Fernandes 20 June 2022
The Green Corridors: Can Goa's Khazans Mitigate The Effects Of Climate Change?
As Goa faces climate change threats from rising sea levels and extreme tidal events, its age-old khazans could come to the rescue
BY Elsa Fernandes 20 June 2022
Drug Traffickers, Land Sharks And Other Lumpen Elements Now Rule The Roost In Goa
‘From the time I entered public life until now, I cannot seem to recognise the Goa I once knew’, says former Union minister Ramakant Khalap as he laments the moral degradation of the state’s new generation.
BY Ramakant Khalap 20 June 2022
India’s Goa, Goa’s Portugal: Bonds Of History As Strong As Before
Goans continue to take advantage of Portuguese citizenship laws, as India hopes to strengthen its ties with the European Union via the Iberian country’s PM with Goan roots
BY Seema Guha 20 June 2022
Dum Maro Dum: A Bombay Goan Recollects Her First Brush With Goan Culture
Naked hippies on beach, ‘adult movies’ with U certificate -- what Goa was like in the swinging seventies through the naughty nineties
BY Bina Nayak 20 June 2022
Printing From The Margin Of Margins: Can Goa Retrieve Its Rich History In Publishing?
Why books minus touristy cliches, voices from outside the metros, and inexpensive printing options in small states like Goa are the needs of the hour
BY Frederick Noronha 20 June 2022
Tears Of The Mermaid: The Melancholy Of Goa
The story of Goa is in many ways our story. And we decided to tell its story from the point of view of an old mermaid. We decided to make the mermaid speak to us.
BY Chinki Sinha 20 June 2022
Syrena’s Elegy: Goa As An Allegory Of A Mermaid
A tale of a sensuous mermaid through her blithe adolescence, meditative adulthood and grim old age—that's the story of Goa too
BY Mayabhushan Nagvenkar 20 June 2022
A Story And A Recipe Frozen In Time, From The Idylls Of Goa's Khazans
Friendship, romance and a pint of urrack. A bitter-sweet story from the banks of River Zuari.
BY Sharon Fernandes 20 June 2022

Goa's Battle Against The Ills Of Global Warming And Indiscrete Concretisation
By 2050, sea level rise is expected to inundate 40 per cent of Goa’s low-lying areas, ravaging the state’s popular beaches by draining the sand along its 105-km coastline.
BY Paul Fernandes 20 June 2022
The Green Corridors: Can Goa's Khazans Mitigate The Effects Of Climate Change?
As Goa faces climate change threats from rising sea levels and extreme tidal events, its age-old khazans could come to the rescue
BY Elsa Fernandes 20 June 2022
Drug Traffickers, Land Sharks And Other Lumpen Elements Now Rule The Roost In Goa
‘From the time I entered public life until now, I cannot seem to recognise the Goa I once knew’, says former Union minister Ramakant Khalap as he laments the moral degradation of the state’s new generation.
BY Ramakant Khalap 20 June 2022
India’s Goa, Goa’s Portugal: Bonds Of History As Strong As Before
Goans continue to take advantage of Portuguese citizenship laws, as India hopes to strengthen its ties with the European Union via the Iberian country’s PM with Goan roots
BY Seema Guha 20 June 2022
Dum Maro Dum: A Bombay Goan Recollects Her First Brush With Goan Culture
Naked hippies on beach, ‘adult movies’ with U certificate -- what Goa was like in the swinging seventies through the naughty nineties
BY Bina Nayak 20 June 2022
Printing From The Margin Of Margins: Can Goa Retrieve Its Rich History In Publishing?
Why books minus touristy cliches, voices from outside the metros, and inexpensive printing options in small states like Goa are the needs of the hour
BY Frederick Noronha 20 June 2022
Tears Of The Mermaid: The Melancholy Of Goa
The story of Goa is in many ways our story. And we decided to tell its story from the point of view of an old mermaid. We decided to make the mermaid speak to us.
BY Chinki Sinha 20 June 2022
Syrena’s Elegy: Goa As An Allegory Of A Mermaid
A tale of a sensuous mermaid through her blithe adolescence, meditative adulthood and grim old age—that's the story of Goa too
BY Mayabhushan Nagvenkar 20 June 2022
A Story And A Recipe Frozen In Time, From The Idylls Of Goa's Khazans
Friendship, romance and a pint of urrack. A bitter-sweet story from the banks of River Zuari.
BY Sharon Fernandes 20 June 2022

OTHER OUTLOOK MAGAZINE STORIES

Temple Run: Clash Of History And Faith Threatens Age-old Communal Harmony In Goa
For generations now, absence of consistent and rigorous public discourse about Goa’s colonial history had led to a tentatively harmonious co-existence of Hindus, Catholics and Muslims. But the state’s rapidly changing demography due to in and out-migration patterns, as well as the consolidation of the Hindu right-wing in positions of authority, have led to questions being asked about history.
BY Mayabhushan Nagvenkar 20 June 2022
What Drives Sanatan Sanstha, The Controversial Hindu Right-wing Organisation?
Founded in 1990 by Dr Jayant Balaji Atavale, a hypnotherapist, the Sanatan Sanstha is registered as a charitable organisation. A few people linked to the killing of four well-known rationalists and bomb blasts in Goa and Maharashtra were allegedly members of the Sanstha. However, their Sanstha membership has not been proved conclusively. There is very little information about its membership policy, and the locals are not allowed into the ashram.
BY Haima Deshpande 20 June 2022
Whose Pão Is it: Into The World Of Goa’s Famed Bread
A new fiction film on the business of baking bread highlights Goa’s desire to hold on to adlear tempar or ‘the way things were’, gauged through the everyday functioning of a traditional bakery
BY Sonia Filinto 20 June 2022
Reviving A Checked Past With Goa’s Gawda Kapodd
The Gawda kapodd, evolved as the Kunbi weave, has crossed the boundaries of caste, religion and region, but care must be taken to preserve and keep it in circulation
BY Pritha Sardessai 20 June 2022
Music Without Borders: How Sonia Shirsat Is Reviving The Fado Song
The effort is to have the next generation take over and ensure that the Fado has a secure future in Goa as well as India in the times to come.
BY Sonia Shirsat 20 June 2022
A Look At The Funny Side Of Life, Through Poems And Cartoons
Hardened truths delivered under the guise of melodic verse, combined with a lively sketch by Goa-based cartoonist and author Alex Fernandes
BY Ornella D'souza 20 June 2022
Goa Diary: Believe It Or Not, I Am Goan
Three of my grandparents were Goans and Catholic by religious orientation. That is often the long-winded explanation I have to offer in order to justify my culturally diverse lineage, especially to those who tend to caricature Goa and its denizens based on loosely crafted characters in movies and in popular media.
BY Jack Ajit Sukhija 20 June 2022

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