Cultivating Culture in the lost Portuguese Village in Mumbai, India

Year 2021, Volume: 7 Issue: 1, 85 - 97, 01.06.2021

Sneha Kishnadwala

Abstract

Culture connects everyone actively or passively. It has evolved through generations, and the millennials are contradicting the ways of the old traditions. The new generation has begun to lose their sense of belonging to their community and place. The concept of ‘cultivating culture’ incorporates both ends of culture; the past and present; this will be understood with a case study of Ranwar village, Bandra in a suburb of Mumbai.
With time the culture of this village cultivated, that is a close-knit community from generations and some especially for local community participation, take place in the village square for events.
This paper explores how with time the sense of belonging within the community changes, where spaces is destroyed either to build skyscrapers, promising better lifestyles. Overall, it will help in understanding how culture is cultivated to protect their ‘Portuguese’ identity.

Keywords

cultivating culture, Portuguese, Adapting, development

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