its long sandy strand is backed with old houses, restaurants and craft shops. Traffic on the beach road is light and music levels are low in the bars. Ahilya by the Sea is perched above Goa’s ...
and 3,500 houses — the Portuguese occupied only about a quarter of them — that formed the city’s prominent landmarks. Old Goa, perhaps the first city of the medieval period displaying ...
For months now, Goa has been spinning in a vortex of competing narratives ... In the streets that I have walked about for more than three years, I’ve often seen a symbol on the facades of old houses: ...