The East and West coasts of India come togeter in a shared history of culture, maritime history and religious iconography
By Dr. Pratima P. Kamat
Goa’s cultural experience through the ages has turned the tables on Rudyard Kipling’s oft-quoted phrase, “Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet” because in Goa the twain have met to create a hybrid heritage.My ethno archaeological research into the ‘Boat Deities’ of the Mhadei River Valley (Tarini and Tar-Vir: The Unique Boat Deities of Goa, 2008) has revealed exciting new linkages between Goa and Odisha. Certain cultural similarities are visible in the ethnographical heritage of the two maritime societies, Goan and Odia, located on opposite coasts of the Indian peninsula etched in the early medieval times.
Read about the age-old bond between Goa and Odisha in
The Navhind Times' Panorama Sunday Magazine on
The Goa-Odisha Cultural Connect
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