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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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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. 

Differently abled bamboo artist Premanand Satarkar with some of his amazing works which will feature at this years Patoienchem Fest in Socorro on 15th august 2017.

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This over fifty year old jackfruit tree has in recent years been giving us a bumper harvest. Our friends and neighbours are astonished to see so many jackfruits. My theory is that this tree loves to rock, as our FM Radio is on all day near this tree. I have no other explanation as we do not water it or put any manure etc.

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My fifteen minutes of fame in the oHeraldo written with great patience by Dolcy D'cruz.

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Introduction to the Blog.

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Welcome to my Blog, I will be posting about my unique travels around Goa featuring its traditional cuisine and its people. This blog will also be narrating my personal experience of organising low cost, diverse eco-friendly festivals.