Goa Gil takes centre stage. The sixty-year-old man sets up the altar, sprinkles holy water and chants the mantras, as he has done for the last so many decades. He offers the music and the ‘party’ to ...

Paliencar said he has now written to the prime minister, revealing the names of politicians allegedly involved in protecting the drug trade. Trance music is the music of demons and should be banned in ...

PANAJI: Weeks ahead of one of Goa’s largest EDM festivals, Siolim MLA and former minister Vinod Paliencar alleged that trance music was played by demons during the Hindu mythological war Samudra ...

From flamethrowers and pyro guns to belly dancers and Bollywood music, Goa’s nightclubs now sell entertainment as spectacle ...

The first time I went to Goa with friends was back in 2017. A huge group of us were going for the reowned Hilltop Festival, which is a psychedelic trance music festival organised by Starling D’Souza ...

Shop quintessential bohemian wear, plus printed shirts, embroidered scarves, Goa trance music CDs, Indian handicrafts, spiritual paraphernalia and essential oils. What I love about the markets in Goa ...

As the GoAir flight from Mumbai starts its descent towards Goa's Dabolim Airport, located in scenic Vasco, I'm overcome by an almost overwhelming feeling of nostalgia. This is not my native state, I ...