By Pamela D’Mello 2 January 2023 / Mongabay Among three major projects planned in Panjim are repurposing of the Campal children’s park, a passenger rope-way project and leasing out of a park area for tourism purposes. Residents and NGOs claim that the projects, all of…
December 11, 2025 By Pamela D’Mello From a longer video of the Arpora Night Club Fire on the night of December 6-7 and the Goa Chief Minister’s statement, it’s clear a stray spark from pyrotechnics during a belly dancing routine, seems to have caught the…
Carving a separate niche from her more famous siblings — former Goa chief minister Dr Wilfred de Souza, and Jesuit institution builder and management educator Fr Romualdo de Souza, SJ —- Sister Noemia de Souza has walked her own impactful path. She was one of…
As central government planning and funding patterns ( implemented without citizen consent by the state government) morphs Goa — from semi urban-semi rural, human-scale charm, into city-state urbanisation —- its residents pay a heavy price in losing a way of life. A state credited for…
ANGELO DA FONSECA — the Poona-based artist, renowned for Indianising Christian icons, and painting the Madonna in the Indian revivalist neo-Bengal art styles of Santiniketan — is back in the public consciousness with two recent exhibitions of his work in Goa, and a handsome new…
BINA NAYAK — graphic designer in the Mumbai advertising world, creative director of Goa based ad-agency Slip Disc, and co-founder of the “Battle of the Bands” live rock band competition, that ran for fifteen years in North Goa —- tells Goa Journal the intriguing backstories…
27 July 2021 The Konkan Fruit Fest (KFF) is an initiative of Miguel Braganza and his team from Botanical Society of Goa, to preserve endangered food biodiversity by providing fruit growers a forum to market lesser-known fruits. KFF connects farmers, government agencies such as the…
Goa’s position as a year-long tourism hotspot has uncorked a notoriously jagged problem: alcohol bottles, carelessly tossed or dangerously smashed on beaches, highways and tourist spots. As the number of domestic visitors has gone up almost four times in a decade (2 million in 2008…
In January, the forest team located a dead tiger family of four in Goa’s Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary, suspected to have been poisoned. However, there seems to be more to the situation with suspected links to poaching. A defiant political and economic atmosphere has whittled down…
Residents of Nuvem village in South Goa are protesting the building of a highway bypass that is inundating their paddy fields with monsoon rainwater, leading to crop losses. Over 250 km of highways are being built or widened in Goa at a cost of Rs…
Many villagers in Goa have banded together to revive rice cultivation through collective mechanised sowing and transplanting. The success in several villages has now become a catalyst for others, particularly for those who want to resist real estate development. The acreage under paddy cultivation has…
A community is actively pursuing the conservation of a Portuguese-era hill top lake in north Goa. The reservoir lies in a high-value real estate area which is being eyed by developers for construction projects. In the latest progress, the citizen’s efforts have led to a…
The brakes have been put on the once-flourishing mining sector in Goa, following litigation on illegal mining of iron ore and manganese in the state. Plans to revive the sector has so far yielded no results and the fate of 6,000 workers hangs in the…
Mining is considered the major environmental issue in Goa. In the recent years there are many other issues that have potential for serious environmental consequences. There is an emphasis on road and coastal infrastructure development through the Bharatmala and Sagarmala programmes. There is also a…
The February 7 judgment of the Supreme Court cancelled 88 iron ore mining leases that were renewed by the Goa Government in 2015, to avoid the amendment to the mineral use legislation that directed auctioning of mines. While the judgment brought hope that there could…
By Pamela D’Mello 2 January 2023 / Mongabay Among three major projects planned in Panjim are repurposing of the Campal children’s park, a passenger rope-way project and leasing out of a park area for tourism purposes. Residents and NGOs claim that the projects, all of…
December 11, 2025 By Pamela D’Mello From a longer video of the Arpora Night Club Fire on the night of December 6-7 and the Goa Chief Minister’s statement, it’s clear a stray spark from pyrotechnics during a belly dancing routine, seems to have caught the…
Carving a separate niche from her more famous siblings — former Goa chief minister Dr Wilfred de Souza, and Jesuit institution builder and management educator Fr Romualdo de Souza, SJ —- Sister Noemia de Souza has walked her own impactful path. She was one of…
As central government planning and funding patterns ( implemented without citizen consent by the state government) morphs Goa — from semi urban-semi rural, human-scale charm, into city-state urbanisation —- its residents pay a heavy price in losing a way of life. A state credited for…
ANGELO DA FONSECA — the Poona-based artist, renowned for Indianising Christian icons, and painting the Madonna in the Indian revivalist neo-Bengal art styles of Santiniketan — is back in the public consciousness with two recent exhibitions of his work in Goa, and a handsome new…
BINA NAYAK — graphic designer in the Mumbai advertising world, creative director of Goa based ad-agency Slip Disc, and co-founder of the “Battle of the Bands” live rock band competition, that ran for fifteen years in North Goa —- tells Goa Journal the intriguing backstories…
27 July 2021 The Konkan Fruit Fest (KFF) is an initiative of Miguel Braganza and his team from Botanical Society of Goa, to preserve endangered food biodiversity by providing fruit growers a forum to market lesser-known fruits. KFF connects farmers, government agencies such as the…
Goa’s position as a year-long tourism hotspot has uncorked a notoriously jagged problem: alcohol bottles, carelessly tossed or dangerously smashed on beaches, highways and tourist spots. As the number of domestic visitors has gone up almost four times in a decade (2 million in 2008…
In January, the forest team located a dead tiger family of four in Goa’s Mhadei Wildlife Sanctuary, suspected to have been poisoned. However, there seems to be more to the situation with suspected links to poaching. A defiant political and economic atmosphere has whittled down…
Residents of Nuvem village in South Goa are protesting the building of a highway bypass that is inundating their paddy fields with monsoon rainwater, leading to crop losses. Over 250 km of highways are being built or widened in Goa at a cost of Rs…
Many villagers in Goa have banded together to revive rice cultivation through collective mechanised sowing and transplanting. The success in several villages has now become a catalyst for others, particularly for those who want to resist real estate development. The acreage under paddy cultivation has…
A community is actively pursuing the conservation of a Portuguese-era hill top lake in north Goa. The reservoir lies in a high-value real estate area which is being eyed by developers for construction projects. In the latest progress, the citizen’s efforts have led to a…
The brakes have been put on the once-flourishing mining sector in Goa, following litigation on illegal mining of iron ore and manganese in the state. Plans to revive the sector has so far yielded no results and the fate of 6,000 workers hangs in the…
Mining is considered the major environmental issue in Goa. In the recent years there are many other issues that have potential for serious environmental consequences. There is an emphasis on road and coastal infrastructure development through the Bharatmala and Sagarmala programmes. There is also a…
The February 7 judgment of the Supreme Court cancelled 88 iron ore mining leases that were renewed by the Goa Government in 2015, to avoid the amendment to the mineral use legislation that directed auctioning of mines. While the judgment brought hope that there could…