Case 3: Looking Back in History for a Culture of the Future

Victor is the ‘museum man’ behind the establishment of Goa Chitra, Goa Chakra and Goa Cruti—three museums dedicated to the arts and history of Goa. Victor spent his early childhood mostly with his grandmother because his mother was the busy matron of Hospicio hospital in Goa. Even though his grandmother was blind, she regaled little Victor with bedtime stories about the state, its people, history, culture, tradition and livelihood. The grandmother’s personal account of the historical and cultural wonders of Goa kindled in him the need for restoration and conservation of age-old wisdom, a concept which, by all accounts, local society had branded as crazy during the earlier days.