Essa antiga tradição é, sem dúvida, um dos espectáculos mais comoventes do calendário religioso e cultural da minha cidade, Pangim.

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They wend their way through the streets of Panjim and are among the most moving spectacles in the city's religious and cultural calendar.

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To insinuate that Catholics, followers of a monotheistic religion, worship indiscriminately, is a slur on their character.

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In those days, if we won a match, we would at the most get bhaji puri and tea; but now it's quite different: you get paid a lot of money!

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No afrouxar forçado dos meses da covid-19, voltei a descobrir o rosto da minha cidade. Se em tempos nos faltavam coisas que os outros tinham em abundância, hoje, sentindo novamente aquela calma e doçura, simplicidade e decoro, vejo que nos não faltara nada…. Não admira, pois, que Pangim tivesse sido sempre a menina dos olhos de todos os que se prezavam de ser goeses!

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Goa é ao mesmo tempo terra e estado de espírito. Enquanto cantamos os louvores à identidade goesa, urge reconhecer as novas realidades.

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Antony Hutt's volume on Goa could well be called a serious work written for the casual traveller. All in all, an impressive volume.

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There were jeers as well as cheers when the last Portuguese Governor-General Vassalo e Silva was on a visit to Goa on the occasion of the fourth death centenary of Camoes in June 1980.

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