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 ...

Trance music is the music of demons and should be banned in Goa as it may lead the youth astray says former state minister Vinoda Paliencar whose constituency covering Anjuna and Siolim is home to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Goa has always sold a fantasy, and for decades, it worked. It was a fantasy of escape: foreign backpackers sought cheap beach shacks, trance music, and ...