“No fighting about religion in Goa,” called our driver over his shoulder as we bounced down a rutted road to the beach in this tiny state in southwest India. We’d remarked about the number of churches ...
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 ...
In 1975, Anjuna beach in Goa was transcendent with hippies. Many of them left a mark on the village’s history, and even culinary scene. One of them, “Tarot” Ray Selby wrote his name into posterity by ...
GOA, India -- The tie-dyed billboard states in swirled paint: "Welcome to the Mother of All Indian Night Markets." Inside the market, at twilight, Neil Young's bohemian mantra "Rockin' in the Free ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With 100 miles of coastline and a laid-back attitude, Goa has been a tourist hotspot since the Sixties - Necip Yanmaz Think of ...
Opinion

Losing Goa

For decades, Goa occupied a singular place in the global imagination. It was not merely a beach destination, but a cultural mood ~ inexpensive, unhurried, and faintly detached from the commercial ...
The downtown Anjuna, once a quiet beach village ‘discovered’ by the hippies, is consumed by real estate sharks. Fontainhas, Goa’s 18th-century Latin quarter, has been remodelled into a Chinatown to ...