DON’T ASK me how I found myself tucking into a scone (redolent of baking soda) dipped in light lashings of mascarpone cheese spiked with orange juice maybe, egg and cress sandwiches, itsy bitsy tea time cakes…homemade bottles of orange, strawberry and fig jams lined up…

SOMETIMES, my dears, I think the best thing to have happened in Digamber Kamat’s Goa in recent times is the D D Kosambi Festival of Ideas. The Directorate of Art & Culture has been doing a superb job selecting personalities who have it in them to ignite the minds of Goans - the Dinanath […]

By Tara Narayan
THE CHILL is going out of the sunshine these days, my dears, and after some lapse I went socialising, beginning with the Business Goa Awards function held at Tito’s Courtyard on February 7, 2012.
The Tito’s party complex keeps growing and growing and visiting it is an experience in going down tier after tier […]

SIGH. EVERY time I come back from Mumbai-that-was-Bombay I feel like my life is boring and as dull as ditch water in Goa. When I’m in cold, dirty, dusty, polluted Mumbai, I pine with divine discontentment to return to Goa and when I’m in Goa I pine with divine discontentment to go back to Mumbai. Life is like that only. Back in golden Goa, I try not to see the garbage heaps along the highway and take a deep breath of Goa’s still clean air with gratitude…

By Tara Narayan
ONE MORE for life and times in Mumbai, but no more medical and waste management system of the human body talk! As far as I am concerned, the best way to keep your waste management system in pristine condition is to eat as close to Mother Earth as possible and clear your stomach […]

By Tara Narayan
AFOOD for thought column this week! Life has its moments and this is one of them on the 14th floor of the P G Hinduja National Hospital at Mahim in Mumbai-which-was-Bombay. The hubby has come to big time sick city looking for solutions for his dysfunctional waste management system as he likes to […]

NEW YEAR’S come and gone and we’re in 2012, but I still feel as if some of me is still back in 2010! Funny, how folk celebrate Christmas at home but go out to celebrate New Year…in Goa everybody wants to go out on the beaches to usher in the new year to the sound of the waves and the blue stars shivering in a cold night sky.

WHAT DO we in Goa know about Chhattisgarh? Most people think that Chhattisgarh is full of prowling Naxalites or Maoists, better to stay away from such a dangerous state! But this is far from the truth, said Chhattisgarh Tourism Board General Manager, Mr P Sen Bhowmick, while speaking to media people on December 30, 2011, in Goa.

IT’S time to leave 2011 behind and look forward to a better world and better health in 2011! I didn’t do a whole lot of things over Christmas because coastal Goa becomes a free-for-all mela and it’s no point going anyway, what with Goa’s narrow country roads, traffic jams galore and drunken bhaile who come to Goa to eat, drink and be merry. What do they know or care about the life and times of Jesus Christ!

IN THIS year of Goa’s Golden Jubilee (Liberation Day), comes a touching love story. One worthy of being recounted and filmed if any filmmaker in Goa is interested! The late freedom fighter Mukund Pundalik Kamat Dhakankar‘s widow, Maria Emelia Moreira Camortim, may be 74 years old today, but she remembers her husband clearly, “He was a good man, very intelligent.”