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Socorro socio art and cultural association, Porvorim celebrate the Patoienchem Fest on 15th August for the pass 5 years .Its a crowd funded event with dance, music , art and free food. Its also unique as there are no chief guest, no sponsors, no prizes, no competition instead plenty of participation and sharing of skills.

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An ex Guirim boy Felix but known locally as Tattu is a multifaceted person. He is credited in bringing hockey to the Island of Divar with his friends in the early 70's and in later years he has been culturally active be it at carnival or Bonderam. Today he can be seen at the Divar Tinto doing brisk business with a smile.

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The Festival of goan Cashews was celebrated in Arao, Pomburpa. There was a live demonstration of the distillation of the cashew juice into alcohol, also Cashew apples were served with a dash of local salt and old games of cashew seeds were played.

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Legendary Divarkar and his family been in the business of delivering newspapers for over 70 years.

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One of its most famous sons and a mine of information on anything Divar, is our longtime friend, and locally known simply as Bhaie. The delivery of newspapers started by his family in the early 50's around the island of Divar and carried on to this day with Bhaie's at the helm. 
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