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How Goa's Chitari art preserved itself by changing

short by / on Sunday, 13 September, 2026
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.
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