The annual popular Sao Joao festival was celebrated with great enthusiasm and fervour across the state on Tuesday June 24. The festival is better known for the jumping of people into the local village wells. The jumping act symbolizes St John Baptist’s leaping in his mother Elizabeth’s womb when visited by Mary who was expecting […]
Goa is a land of festivities. All religions celebrate their festivals with absolute communal harmony. Amona village of Bicholim taluka is one of the villages of Goa which celebrates lots of festivals through out the year. Today the festival of Joy, gay and devotion called Vodle Dev is being celebrated.
Tarang of Shri Dev Betal and […]
March 30, 2008 – 10:23 pm
After many days of bad press, Goa was back in a festive mood with the famous Shigmo festival, which depicts the state’s folk culture. The festival is also popularly known as the Carnival.
IT’S PARTY TIME FOLKS! The famous Shigmo festival depicts Goa’s folk culture.
“This festival takes us back to our culture. Many tourists come […]
Pre-monsoon showers in the state filled the vacuum and added that extra charm in the holi celebration across the state on Saturday March 22. It was just when hundreds of small/big groups had stepped out of their houses with a single aim of playing holi to its peak that pre-monsoon showers started with lightning and […]
The procession of Black Caps, one of the rarest in the world was observed and celebrated on Good Friday in the Se Cathedral church at Old Goa. The procession of Black caps is also known as Procession of Tails and the same is locally known as ‘Xepdeanchem Pursao’. The mass and the procession proceeding was […]
March 15, 2008 – 11:23 pm
It has also decided to hold a documentary film festival in collaboration with National Film Archives of India and a Children’s Film Festival in association with Children’s Film Society of India…
Goa government has decided to set up a Film Library and Archives of ancient and contemporary cinema classics in the Entertainment Society Complex here.
It has […]
October 19, 2007 – 4:18 pm
Once limited to Bengal, Mumbai and Gujarat, Navaratri celebrations, which is the lead up to the Durga Puja festival on Dussehra, have caught Goans on in a big way.
The 10-day celebrations feature cultural programmes, folk dances, discourse, one act plays etc, though the highlight is dandiya and garba.
In Panjim, puja is organised at a few […]
October 15, 2007 – 5:00 pm
Muslims in Goa celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr with great pomp and gaiety all over the state. Prayers were offered in mosques and Idgahs followed by exchanging of sweets with their brethren from other faiths.
The Imam of Jama Masjid, Maulana Muhammad Ali Kadri appealed to the Muslims to be tolerant and maintain peace and communal harmony “as this […]
September 30, 2007 – 12:32 pm
To commemorate St Francis Xavier’s 500th birth anniversary, Bom Jesus Basilica director has decided to approach the government with a proposal to erect a life-size statue of the saint at Old Goa.
It has been a long pending demand of parishioners and public at large to have such a statue in honour of this great saint.
Fr […]
September 18, 2007 – 8:05 pm
The first phase of ‘visarjan’ (immersion) ceremony of a day-and-a-half Ganesh was carried out with great enthusiasm across the state on Sunday night.
The next Visarjan will be held on the 5th day, then on the 7th day, then 9th, 11th and 21st day of the Ganesh Chaturthi celebration.
At most of the Sarvajanik Ganapati Mandals, Visarjan […]
