“I guess I happened to be at the right place at the right time.” Mario Miranda (1926-2011)
Pamela D’Mello First appeared in Sunday Midday, Mumbai in February 2011, based on an interview conducted in January 2011, several months before his passing in December 2011. Reposted here on 7 May 2026, on the occasion of the Mario Miranda centenary celebrations. At a recent launch…
Panjim Waterfront: Privatising Public Spaces for Casinos/Tourism
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…
Of Nightclubs, Goa Tourism & Fire Risk
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…
Goa’s Rising Road Accident Graph
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…