A long-form conversation and archive project
Long conversations with the people
who carry Goa's knowledge.
Goa,
in its own
words.
We are making a record of a place changing faster than it can understand itself. Not through spectacle, outrage, or nostalgia — but through the act of listening.
Pilot season — conversations
Scholar of Velip oral tradition, Goa. On what happens when a language carries its last living speakers.
Oral traditionMemoryLanguage
Founding director of Bookworm Trust, Panaji. On building an institution around the right of children to encounter books.
KnowledgeCivic imaginationChildren
Playwright, Konkani activist, former Speaker of the Goa Legislative Assembly. On language as political act and personal inheritance.
The tinto was never only a place of buying and selling. It was a commons — where the fisherman, priest, teacher, activist, migrant worker, and politician occupied the same space. The Village Tinto extends that gathering into the archive.