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Religious · Goa · October/November

Narkasur

On the night before Diwali, neighbourhoods parade giant effigies of the demon Narakasura they have built themselves, then burn them before dawn as homes light their akash kandil lanterns.

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Narkasur sits inside Goa's wider living culture — one date on a calendar that also holds these traditions.

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The feast of St John the Baptist at the height of the monsoon, when young men wearing crowns of leaves and flowers leap into overflowing village wells and ponds.

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Shigmoशिगमो

Goa's spring festival of the month of Phalgun, when villages take to the streets with drums, banners and folk troupes — from the small, rural Dhakto Shigmo to the big town parades of Vhodlo Shigmo.

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