Patrao. The Portuguese word for boss, it is now used casually when talking to someone you don't know too well, but also as a mark of kind respect. A shopkeeper at a Goan flea market might solicit you by saying, “Patrao, how much you want to pay?”
Used during shigmo festivities certainly seen and heard the sounds of these Goan traditional musical instruments that are so essential to creating an up beat mood filling the dancers and spectators with an energy that makes it such a lively celebration.
Ghode Modni is a folk dance performed in some talukas of Goa - Bicholim, Pernem and Sattari, which lie along the northern boundary of Goa. It is a dance where the dancers have an effigy of a horse attached to their waists to make it appear as if they are riding the horses. The dancer holds the bridle in one…
Gumot or Ghumat is a membranophone instrument from [Goa], India. Ghumat is a percussion instrument of earthen vessel having both sides open; on the bigger opening a leather (drum membrane) of monitor lizard is mounted. Generally ghumat is accompanied by 'shamel', another traditional instrument with wooden drum and goat leather mount. This instrument is still very popular amongst by the…
Used during shigmo festivities certainly seen and heard the sounds of these Goan traditional musical instruments that are so essential to creating an up beat mood filling the dancers and spectators with an energy that makes it such a lively celebration.
Depicting an essential character in any local market on the Coaster. The nustekan or fisherwoman. Typical Goan Scene, an image of a woman in a Goa village with a net basket filled with fish, is depicted on Coaster
Depicting an essential character in any local market on the Coaster. The nustekan or fisherwoman. Typical Goan Scene, an image of a woman in a Goa village with a net basket filled with fish, is depicted on Coaster
The 'poder' is a very important part of Goan life. People who make and bake bread are called poders. Today, more commonly, the breadman who delivers bread is called a poder. Do u love Goan bread? Which one is your favourite- undo, katre pao, kankonn, poiee?