Amhi Kai retaan? Where do we live?

March 29, 2021.Reading time 7 minutes.

Mumbai, Raigad and Vasai are dotted by many East Indian villages and urban villages. Here’s where you can find your nearest one.

Culture and the Next Gen

November 7, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

Children are natural explorers. Use these helpful resources to explore your heritage with them and nurture their cultural knowledge.

EI Culture Watch: Nirapradh Gunhegar

April 11, 2018.Reading time 2 minutes.

A glimpse into Roman Catholic North Vasai and Nirapradh Gunhegar – a Lenten play that’s very popular among the Marathi-speaking East Indians.

Lugra Legends: Cecilia Coutinho

March 29, 2018.Reading time 10 minutes.

Amboli’s Cecilia Aunty loves to wear lugras and enjoys draping them too. Read her story – the first in EIMC’s Lugra Legends series.

Grace’s Benemerenti

March 6, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

To me she was a larger than life grandma. To others, Garashi Bai was a social worker, seamstress, a font of local knowledge, and also famous for being a recipient for the prestigious Benemerenti Medal.

EI Love Stories: Rose & Edwin

February 14, 2018.Reading time 16 minutes.

Rose and Edwin’s love bloomed in pre-Independence India. They represented Bombay for the very first time in the Republic Day Parade at Delhi in 1950.

The ‘Political’ East Indian

January 3, 2018.Reading time 5 minutes.

Whichever country we choose to live in, the East Indians of Bombay, Salsette and Bassein cannot afford to ignore politics. We stand to lose much more as minorities and indigenous peoples and we must ally with other minority communities to strive for a better society.