How Goa's Chitari art preserved itself by changing

Chitari, a 400-year-old Goan art form, is surviving by doing something seemingly counterintuitive: changing. From pigments to watercolours and hand tools to machines, the Chitari family is reinventing the craft to keep its history alive. Be it tabul phale, an 18th-century Goan board game, or Ganpathi paath, the craft has preserved itself without losing its soul.

Load More