Goa Carnival

Carnival in Goa is a non-stop 3-day festival of colour, song and music, delivering a favourable entertainment for all, young and old. The Goa Carnival is an integral component of the Portuguese social of the declare, which was a dominion of Portugal till 1961. Celebrated couple days after Easter, the Goa carnival requires that A King of Chaos is elected, summoned King "Momo". He presides through the three-day festivities, which attract tenants from all through India and abroad.Street Plays, songs, dances, and unrehearsed farces deriding the establishment are implemented in the past an intense, responsive audience. King Momo distributes the prizes to the winners.The contestants wear threadbare colourful costumes and extend masks. Amidst the outrageous sarongs supposed on the thoroughfare are numerous organised of sheer, transparent polythene.

In the fun-filled ambience, population smear colour on each other, instead of the flour, eggs, fruit and water .Fierce (mock) battles are waged in the thoroughfares, with plaster-of-Paris eggs, wax lemons, corncobs and beans. Blows were dealt out liberally, with brooms and wooden spoons. It was also an occasion for unchecked eating. People gorged on affluent food at lavish feasts, and convents dispersed cakes and pastries. Though celebrated for simply three days, the preparations for the festival would take many days, and amass to a frenetic sound by the eve of the carnival.

In Goan townships, however, the festivities have a more indigenous flavour. Though celebrated by the Christian population of Goa, the carnival's relevance to Christianity is that it is celebrated in the past Lent. The festival today has no pastoral undertones and has emerged as the cultural focal point of the state.Religion has simply no meaning in today's globalized times and it finds little or no mention in festivities.