Serendipity Arts Festival | Counting Panaji’s historic buildings
This year’s Serendipity Arts Festival (SAF) was significant in showing people who came from outside the State — ‘the outsiders’ — what Panaji is, in its best parts. The multi-disciplinary festival, at 14 locations, across a 5-kilometre area, brought together 1,800 visual and performing artists and artisans from across India and some from abroad, to exhibit, perform, workshop, and talk about their work last month.

The best way to get from one festival location to the other was on foot, taking a few moments to sit on the parapet to look at the Mandovi — the water and the floating casinos. The next best was the shuttle car (with poetry readers in some cars).

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