Eight Finger Eddie’s time had come and gone. When the 85-year-old, touted as the godfather of Goa’s hippie scene, died last week in a beachside village in Goa, the west coast Indian state he had ...

Goa has been indelibly shaped by its 450 years of Portuguese rule, followed by an influx of hippies in the 1960s. Today, it’s the smallest state in India. A tropical paradise just an hour’s flight ...

I am writing this column from Goa, where my family and I escape every winter, when Delhi is shrouded in smog and biting cold, for a few days of relief. Here, the skies are blue, the air is clean, and ...