There is a controversy over the 16th-century Pelourinho Novo (“New Pillory”) pillar in Old Goa after the Goa government ...

Hindu Raksha Maha Aghadi has called for scientific excavation at church sites in Goa, stating that evidence should be ...

Some historians in Goa, the former Portuguese colony on India’s west coast, oppose the state government’s moves to officially refer to a Portuguese-era pillar as “a pillar where hands were cut,” ...

The BJP-led state government has renamed a 16th-century pillar to make it a symbol of Hindu victims of the Inquisition. For scholar Frazer Andrade, the new name is misleading, lacking any verifiable ...