Artists Milan Khanolkar and Priya Kamat spent 6 days working on the walls of a day-care center at the Goa University. The duo worked their way up, from ground to the ceiling, bringing the blank concrete to life with colour and facinating characters. This, they tell me, was a labour of love.
On a bright September day, a group of students and university professors from Nara, Japan got together with a group of students from Goa University, Goa, India for a one day cross-cultural interaction. And a fine day it was!
A large number of old Goan homes today stand abandoned, in varying stages of neglect and decay. Many of these, have already succumbed to the ravages of time or the bulldozer’s claws, only to metamorph into modern monstrosities that go by names like “exclusive villas” and gated societies.
Given a chance, what would the house have to say of its illustrous past and the people who lived within its bosom and then abandoned it?
Children are meant to be in schools, playing with friends, growing up. The street is no place for them. Yet many in India have lost their childhood, earning for their supper. And we call our selves an emerging super-power!