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A primary source record of Goa at this historical moment. Conversations, transcripts, and thematic connections — built to be useful to researchers, educators, and future Goans.
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Thematic pathways
Pathway 01
Who Keeps the Knowledge
On custodianship — the people and institutions that decide what survives and what disappears.
Vithai Zaraunker — oral tradition
Sujata Noronha — the library
What connects them: both have spent decades building systems to hold what formal institutions overlooked. One through song, one through books. The question underneath both conversations is the same — who decides what a community remembers?
Pathway 02
Language as Survival
On the political life of language — what is at stake when a tongue is threatened, and what it costs to defend it.
Vithai Zaraunker — Velip oral tradition
Tomazinho Cardozo — Konkani activism
What connects them: both have fought for languages that the state did not protect and the market did not reward. One inside the legislature, one outside it entirely. Together they reveal that language survival is never only a cultural question — it is always also a political one.
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Society2
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Knowledge1
Civic life 1
Public life 1
Inner Life—
Guest archetypes
Custodian of memoryCivic builderMaker of symbolic worldsTranslator between worldsWitness to Transformation
Emotional Register
WonderLossHopeBelongingResistanceJoyConflictUncertaintyTransformationResistance
Time Periods
Pre-Portuguese GoaPortuguese Goa1961 Liberation1970s Goa1980s GoaPost Liberalisation2000s Goa2010s GoaCovid EraContemporary GoaFuture Goa
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Themes active in the archive
LibrariesChildhoodMigrationVillage IdentityMiningTourismPublic HealthWaterLand RightsEducationTraditional KnowledgeUrbanisationLanguageArchivesHousingOccupationsAgeingTechnologyPublic SpaceOral TraditionsCasteReligionCraftsThe Arts
Greyed themes enter the archive as conversations that anchor them are recorded and transcribed. The full taxonomy is defined in the archive governance document.
Conversations
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Founding director, Bookworm Trust
“A library is not a collection of books. It is a declaration that thinking matters here.”
KnowledgeCivic lifeChildrenInstitution
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Playwright, Konkani activist, former Speaker
“When I fight for Konkani, I am not fighting for a language. I am fighting for a way of seeing the world.”
LanguagePublic lifeKonkaniTheatre
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Scholar of Velip oral tradition
“The song doesn’t just carry the story. The song is the evidence.”
MemoryLanguageOral traditionArchive
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