If you're in the mood to learn more about the history of Goa, here's a wonderful way to do so through the medium of art. Drop into Museum of Goa, Pilerne to view the ongoing exhibition ‘Histories of Goa. The exhibition which occupies two floors of the museum, intends to have artistic conversations and collaborations with different facets of Goa’s ethos. It includes works of 22 artists from India and abroad including Nandesha Shanti Prakash, Sanjeev Khandekar and Vaishali Narkar, Subodh Kerkar, Viraj Naik, Waswo X Waswo and Rajesh Soni, Sweety Joshi, Nuno de Campos, Esther Shalev-Gerz, Savia Viegas, Vitesh Naik, Santosh Morajkar, Siddharth Kerkar etc Apart from being an artistic exercise, this exhibition is a unique pedagogical experiment of narrating history through a contemporary idiom. It stirs up histories, digs into the recesses of historical archives, memory and celebrates the ‘connectedness of cultures.
Pocket money tales
Goa University in Bambolim where I am pursuing my MSc in zoology. Since I live in a hostel, I get a weekly allowance of Rs 1000 a week. Most of this, I spend on food and movies. SushmitaDebnath, 18, Margao I get around 500 to 1000 per day which goes hangouts with friends, gym food like protein shakes, and into clothes and notes. Ajay Yadav, 23, Vasco
