A Journey,Collectively Curated
An interactive space unearthing forgotten histories, amplifying local voices, and celebrating community culture from Bombay to Goa.
Enter the archiveToo often, Goa is reduced to a mere postcard and Bombay, just noise.
We archive, preserve and share the authentic soul of both places: forgotten histories and verbal stories set beside the living traditions and everyday life that keep them alive.
Through features, interviews and listings, we uncover the people, places and experiences worth knowing, and give the local communities who hold this culture a place to be found.
Where the road starts, and where most of the people on it were leaving from.
The first long stop. Every bus that ran this route stopped here, and every driver knew which dhaba.
The Vashishti, and the town that rebuilt itself around a river that keeps rising.
Alphonso country. Fish drying on roofs, and a port that was busy before the highway existed.
The end of the road, and the beginning of the part everybody photographs.
The living archive.
Enter the archive
You do not come for the chai. You come to be left alone, kindly, for an hour.Farhad Sidhwa · Kyani & Co., Fort
Voices, not attractions.
The draughtsman who drew Bombay's everyday theatre, and Goa's, into the same wry, generous frame.
On Mario de Miranda
Also in the record: Asha (poder (baker)), Aslam (taxi driver), Custódio (taverna keeper), and many more.
Meet everyone
Beyond the usual.
Where locals actually go: the old bars, the homestays, the nights worth staying up for.
Have a story, or a place worth knowing?
A memory to share or a local business to list: it reaches us directly, and someone from the team follows up personally.