The once thriving village, home to several temples and archaeological finds, comes alive for its annual temple festival between April and June It is a blistering, hot April day in Goa and the sun is merciless. We have just arrived in Curdi..
.the submerged village that emerges only between April and June every year. I look down at my feet and see deep, gaping cracks fanning out on the dry and arid land.
It looks parched. As a reprieve from the overbearing heat, sweet strains of music cut through the sultry heat and seem to travel to us from far away. We listen rapt.
“The music ceremony has begun in the temple,” announces Pankaj Kamble, our young and raring-to-go storyteller cum tour ambassador from Soul Travelling. His stories about Curdi are plentiful. Looking around, he points to the home of renowned classical vocalist Mogubai Kurdikar, born here in 1904, also known as the mother of the well-known singer Kishori Amonkar.
“Curdi was a thriving, bustling village and the inhabitants, now displaced, come visiting their lost homeland every year in the summer months,” says Pankaj. Soul Travelling has been conducting storied trails around this village every Sunday during the summer, and there has been a rising popularity, thanks to social media. Visitors exploring Curdi| Photo Credit:Soul Travelling Today, there is a buzz as we see cars stopping by and people spilling out in droves.
The temple is at a distance, but the colourful festoons surrounding it, make it look ceremon.
