Fewer and fewer are aware that the feast is also known as Touxeachem Fest.
The syncretic aspect also imparts other references. And here it is a
syncretism in anthropology.
And hardly! as presumed—as some form of a syncretism among religions.
—vjp
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Last Sunday, one of Goa’s favourite celebrations took place at the
16th century church of St. Anne, set like a massive diadem high above
paddy
