Margao: Noted classical vocalist and veteran Marathi theatre artiste Ramdas Kamat passed away in Mumbai on Saturday night. He was 90.Kamat is among the few Goans who has been credited with reviving ...

Chief minister Manohar Parrikar announced a host of proposals claiming to boost regional languages Konkani and Marathi. Devanagari shorthand and typing classes for government servants have been ...

The digital platform has broadened the scope for a number of newcomers in the entertainment industry. In fact, OTT has given opportunities to budding actors to showcase their talent from different ...

The Goa I was born in had a starkly different cultural landscape than today. It was in the mid-1940s when Goa was under Portuguese rule, facing stringent censorship on freedom of speech. For this ...

Not only did Father Thomas Stephens – an English Jesuit – spend his entire life in Goa, he also wrote the first Konkani grammar book and an epic 11,000-line Marathi poem, now regarded as a classic.

A Hindu writer in Goa, India, has written a book to clear misconceptions that Christians in the former Portuguese colony were "pro-Portuguese and anti-national." Manohar Hirba Sardessai said he ...

A Portuguese colony for more than 400 years, Goa's history has been shaped by the Indian Ocean.(Cycling man, Flickr.com, CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0) Goa has done for India what November does to the jacaranda ...