PANAJI
The V M Salgaocar Foundation has selected architect, architectural historian and author Dr Vishvesh Prabhakar Kandolkar, and researcher and editor Dr Rochelle Ann Fernandes for the 2026 edition of its Scholar-in-Residence Programme. As part of the programme, the selected scholars will undertake a 30-day residency in Goa, during which they will continue work on their respective book projects. The Foundation will provide accommodation and an honorarium for the duration of the residency.
Dr Vishvesh Kandolkar currently serves as Principal of Goa College of Architecture, Panaji, Goa.
For the residency, Dr Kandolkar will work on his proposed book, An Un/Imagined Goa: Architecture, Travel Writing, Popular Culture, and Identity. The book examines how Indo-Portuguese architecture has been used to package Goa for outsiders.
Dr Rochelle Fernandes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Government College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Sanquelim, Goa.
For the residency, Dr Fernandes will work on her proposed book, Children of Charity: The Hidden History of the Goan Poskim. The book uncovers the largely forgotten history of Goa’s poskim— children who were taken into other families, often because they were orphaned, abandoned, born out of wedlock, or given away by families unable to support them.
