Cheers urrak, photos on Goa is susegad reputation | Photo credit: Ashok Malkarnekar
In the olden days it was summer when one left Goa. Old Portuguese houses were stifling without air conditioning, foreigners were returning home, parties stopped and markets closed.
I’ve lived here since the early 2000s and I’ve moved further and further away from the hippie haunts of my 20s (they no longer exist) and closer to the Goa of the Goans. Now, decades later, I live in a small, hidden vaddo, or neighborhood, whose name is shared by all its inhabitants (except mine). Elaine, my neighbor, knows the trees on my property better than I do (her house has been in her family since 1871), I never lock the door, poi-man leaves bread at my door – whether I pay him or not – every day, and my cat is fed and my garden is watered by Bani next door (because I gave her son my old guitar).
Urrak, summer drink
Urrak: Goa’s Liquid Summer Soul | Video Credit: The Hindu
Published – May 2, 2026 06:06 IST
