Why I grieve for Brazil

I was equally distressed last year, when flames consumed that country’s oldest and most important historical and scientific museum.


Pastor’s Day Musings

Curiously, despite the passage of years, the idea of a Priest that first pops up in my mind is the very same one that I gathered from my father half a century…


Dr Adélia Costa: Goa’s angel of mental health

She was Goa’s best known neuropsychiatrist. The first to turn the spotlight on mental health in our land, she served the community professionally for half a…


Breadcrumbs and Raindrops

There’s no scorching summer or any disturbing drought, yet a water crisis of sorts.


Ontem estive na Madragoa…

From now on this line is gonna be on the lips of music aficionados: ‘I was at Madragoa yesterday…’


Blessed by the Star

It is not right to assume that India's Independence Day was timed to coincide with the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven.


Celebrating Braz and Jazz

"Raga Rock" was a much-deserved tribute to Goa-born Braz Gonsalves.


Three Founders in a Row

It struck me that we have three Saint founders of religious congregations whose feasts we celebrate.