So I was talking to one of my Goan friends and he happened to mention ‘ Lambada’ for some odd reason. Lambada struck me like a lightning and reminded me of those nostalgic late 80s and early 90s days in Goa. Lambada as most Goans, who lived in those times , fondly associate the term [...]
Academy award winner Ang Lee’s movie ‘Taking Woodstock’, which is a tribute to international music festival, had its India premier in Goa.
The music lovers and celebrities made their presence felt at INOX multiplex here yesterday to witness a premier of the movie which tracks down the roots of world’s one of the biggest music extravaganza [...]
Shilpgram, a project of the Goa Handicrafts Rural and Small Scale Industries Development Corporation Limited (GHRSSIDC) spread over 8,000 sq m to showcase Goan arts and crafts, is expected to be complete by mid 2010 at a cost of approximately Rs 4 crore. The project will be taken up on a public-private partnership basis, chairman [...]
Internationally renowned Goan fashion designer Wendell Rodricks will showcase his creations using ‘Ahimsa silk’-silk made of yarn derived from cocoons without killing the silkworms-on the occasion of World Ahimsa Day on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2.
Creations of several other local designers and artists using the same fabric will also be on [...]
Even as the Regional Conservation Laboratory (RCL), Mysore is set to take fifteen paintings from the Goa State Museum for restoration to Mysore due to lack of necessary facilities in Goa, M V Nair, director of the National Research Laboratory for Conservation of Cultural Property, Lucknow said on Thursday that Goa needs to utilize the [...]
The Thessaloniki international trade fair, one of the largest trade fairs in Europe, was inaugurated on 5th September at Thessaloniki Greece, wherein Goan handicrafts have been displayed as a part of Indian Pavilion. The exhibition will continue till 13th September.
The stall showcasing unique Goan handicrafts is attracting the herd of Greek art lovers, who are [...]
Everyone in Punjab wants a glimpse of their soni kudi Harleen from Love Aaj Kal in Punjab.
Giselle Monteiro
And Giselle Monteiro hearing the clamour for her in the land of the five rivers was supposed to join her director Imtiaz Ali in Chandigarh recently.
Alas, man proposes, producer disposes. Apparently the Love Aaj Kal co-producers Eros were [...]
Konkani film maker Laxmikant Shetgaonkar’s latest offering, Paltadacho Munis (The Man Beyond The Bridge), has been selected for a world premiere at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. This is first time that a Konkani film has made it so big.
The film will be shown in the ‘Discovery’ section, which showcases new and emerging filmmakers [...]
A huge dahi handi scene has been created at the Sarvajanik Ganesh mandal of Mallinath Sports club at Marcela.
Sarvajanik Ganapati at the Mapusa Police Station.
Sarvajanik Ganapati of Morjim.
Shell Ganapati of the Navelkar brothers at Marcela.
Sarvajanik Ganapati at the Pernem Police Station.
Sarvajanik Ganapati made from the different spices at the Sai Kala Mandal, Marcela.
Panchakhadya Sarvajanik Ganesh [...]
Goa has all set for celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi in the State. The 65% of the population of Goa which is the Hindu population celebratwe Ganesh Chaturthi by performing puja of Ganesh idol in the Homes. In Goa there is a practice of celebrating Sarvajanik Ganapati by big way in many Towns and Villages. In [...]
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