goenkar anik goenkarpon: December 2018

Tourists in Goa say bye bye to 2018 with beach fireworks

Activist, travel guide and Goa crusader: Charles De Silva talks about hi...

Oscar Martins cry foul, blames Cuncolim Union officials Prakash Dessai, ...

Goa crusaders: Oscar Martins on Cuncolim corruption and industrial pollu...

Cuncolim Union Sports a White elephant, waste of Rs.3 crore govt funds b...

Interviews with Goa crusaders: Lorna Fernandes

Cuncolim gets its digital library in #goa #india

view of Goa fromthe sky #india

Goa: inter school handball match action from #fatorda #margao #india

Lorna sings as Margao city dazzles ahead of Christmas celebrations in #G...

Catholic community in Qatar gets ready for Christmas celebrations

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Goa's coin and note collector talks about his long journey during an exh...

Yet another migrant hawker yet another sad story of migration in #Margao...

Hawkers from all over India flock to #goa to sell Xmas deco

Margao garbage: A grownup calf continues its bond with mother

Doha Metro trial ride caught on camera #Qatar

Trouble in Goa as migrant take over all business establishments in Benau...

Goans denied space in Gandhi market margao as migrant take over it

'Miracle wine cure' sans alcohol on sale in #Goa #farmers market #India

Russian dancer riases heat at music session in Goa #india

El Shaddai Charitable Trust in Margao all set for Xmas #goa #iindia

Electrical fixtures: Down and out at Margao market

Breakfast with Sandesh B Dessai Librarian, Goa College of Engineering #i...

Lunch with Carlos Fernandes curator of the State Central Library

Vijay Mallaya spotted in #Goa #India

Grannies from Europe shake a leg in #Goa #india to Indian classic music

Breakfast with Sandesh B Dessai Librarian, Goa College of Engineering #i...

Lunch with Carlos Fernandes curator of the State Central Library

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Electrical fixtures: Down and out at Margao market

Goa second liberation can it happen

Cows feed on garbage in Margao city in #india

Charlie set the Xmas mood with Goan Lampaio (latern)

Fatorda stadium ahead of Indian Super league match in #goa #india

Non-hygenic food outside Fatorda Stadium IN #Goa #India

Goa far behind in National Games preperation #india #NG2018

Vijaya Mallaya legacy in Goa: The King of Good Times

Here’s a question for you: What do you think of as “home”?

For some, it’s the place they grew up; or, if their early years were a bit more geographically diverse, the childhood home they spent the most time in, or have the happiest memories of. For some, it’s where family is—parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles. For some, it’s a place they’ve settled and made their own. For some, like me, home is wherever you happen to be living, with maybe a little family that’s come together (comprising beasts both two-legged and four).

Today’s story is the second in our December series, Going Home. A little more than a week ago, I was talking to Prem Panicker, the author of this piece and a widely respected thinker and writer, with about three decades of experience as a professional journalist (having been, among other things, part of the founding team of Rediff and managing editor of Yahoo India). “I was thinking of writing about home in the sense that, well, I wake up this year and suddenly realise I don’t really have a home,” he said. He has no idea what to say when someone asks him for that most Indian identification of home—a permanent address.

Prem takes us through a series of homes—some happy, some not, some memorable, some not—from grandparents and a home full of family in Calicut (or Kozhikode) in Kerala to parents dreaming of a home of their own in Chennai (then Madras). Through years spent suffocating in the urban middle-class dream, through years quickly gone by in Delhi, Mumbai, New York.

It’s a story of roots and rootlessness. Of nostalgia mixed with pain. Read here: https://the-ken.com/story/prem-panicker-going-home/