Sixty years after returning to India, Goa grapples with disappearing Portuguese legacy


By AGENCY

Tourists walk inside the premises of the Basilica of Bom Jesus which is part of a the Churches and Convents of Goa World Heritage Site in old Goa. Photo: AFP

As Lorraine Alberto begins her Portuguese class at Goa University, students from the former colony are in short supply.

Across Goa, a tiny coastal state once administered by Lisbon, there is little appetite for the territory’s 450 years of European heritage after a few short generations of Indian rule.

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