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Vasco Silveira at the Horseshoe restaurant (Photo: Assvari Kulkarni)

Goa’s best chef is a secret

10 min read . 18 Jan 2020

In large pockets of India, hundreds of millions continue to suffer from the worst drought in memory, while other parts witness record levels of rainfall. (Photo: PTI)

A climate manifesto for the India of 2040

10 min read . 29 Dec 2019

Animal-derived protein supplements have been standard cattle feed components 'since time immemorial' (iStock)

The curious case of Goa’s meat-eating cows

8 min read . 30 Oct 2019

Policy initiatives to control air pollution in London are drawing the rapt attention of every urban planner and city administrator on the planet. Photo: iStock

Lessons from London's pollution revolution

9 min read . 14 Oct 2019

Residents row through a flooded area of Kochi in Kerala, which has been hit by floods for the second year in a row. The states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab have also been affected by floods this year. nithin rk/min (Photo: Nithin RK/Mint)

Living on the edge in India’s coastlines

9 min read . 20 Aug 2019

The airy, open feel of Panaji’s Kala Academy is enhanced by its dramatic location by the Mandovi river. (Photo: Fabian Franco)

Trashing the magic of Charles Correa

8 min read . 02 Aug 2019

Panaji’s Our Lady of Immaculate Conception church. (Photo: Alamy)

Panaji’s place in the sun

9 min read . 18 May 2019

Experts claim that the airport site is ‘a place of ecological and cultural significance’ where scientists ‘found leopards, otters, sambar deers, and the occasional tiger’ (Aparna Sanjay/ Rainbow Warriors)

Goa turbulence throws light on mega projects

9 min read . 25 Apr 2019

Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of independent Kenya, on the day Kenya gained independence in 1963. (Getty Images)

The in-between world of the African Goans

12 min read . 19 Apr 2019

Parrikar drew immediate national attention for his technocratic approach, hard work and casual mastery of subject material (AFP)

Opinion: The legacies of an uncomplicated Manohar Parrikar

2 min read . 19 Mar 2019

The Saligao Blues: Goa’s global village

The Saligao Blues: Goa’s global village

9 min read . 22 Feb 2019

Nirav Modi placed big artists and their artworks up front in his story of simple-living millionaire boy turned ultra-cosmopolitan billionaire. Both “Souza’s” at his elbows are fakes.

Fraudulence framed: What’s with this picture?

10 min read . 12 Nov 2018

Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar inspecting the arrangements of International Film Festival of India in 2004. Photo: India Today

Inside Manohar Parrikar’s Goa

9 min read . 20 Sep 2018

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul. Photo: Getty Images

V.S. Naipaul, and his conflicted relationship with India

10 min read . 14 Aug 2018

Like most ills that plague the contemporary subcontinent, the fundamental underlying problem in Goa is disgraceful politics. Photo: iStock

Something is fishy in the state of Goa

9 min read . 02 Aug 2018

Traditional Goan architecture of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

A Goan’s guide to Goa

14 min read . 16 Dec 2017

The fort at Corjuem. Photo: Alamy

Travel Special: Ilhas de Goa

4 min read . 11 Nov 2017

Illustration: Jayachandran/Mint

This is my island in the Sun

8 min read . 10 Nov 2017

Ghum station in Darjeeling in West Bengal. Photo: Hindustan Times

The downhill journey of Indian travel writing

9 min read . 03 Nov 2017

Illustration by Jayachandran/Mint

Konkani: a language in crisis

11 min read . 13 Sep 2017