People Who Shaped the Shore

To celebrate International Women's Day, we present this lecture about the stories and contributions of Konkani Catholics in Old Bombay, with a specific focus on stories of women from the community.

ABOUT THE LECTURE

The Catholic community from the Konkan region has played an instrumental role in building, shaping, and reimagining the city.

Through Soboicar, an oral history project (conducted in partnership with The Citizens’ Archive of India) that documents the lives of people who migrated from the Konkan to South Mumbai, Jane Borges hopes to map and explore how this community interacted, integrated, and engaged with other Indian communities in Mumbai, and how they shaped many neighbourhoods that are slowly vanishing from the city’s consciousness.

With March 8 being observed as Women’s Day, the lecture will highlight the contributions of many women of the community, among others, through material gathered from the oral history interviews.

Borges will also showcase the entire gamut of her work and how oral histories have shaped and influenced her own fiction writing, especially her upcoming novel, which has a Konkani title Mog Asundi (Let Love Remain Between Us).

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Jane Borges is an independent journalist, novelist, and oral historian. Her work has appeared in publications such as Mumbai Mirror, Sunday Mid-Day, New Lines Magazine, Scroll, The Swaddle, The Asian Age, and Muscat Daily. In 2022, she received the RedInk Journalism Award.

Her debut novel, Bombay Balchão (2019), was shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puruskar and the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Book Prize. She has also co-authored the non-fiction book Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Stories of Women from the Ganglands (2011), a chapter of which was adapted into Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Bollywood film Gangubai Kathiawadi (2022).

Borges leads Soboicar, an oral history project documenting the lives of Catholics who migrated from the Konkan to South Mumbai (in partnership with The Citizens' Archive of India). In early 2025, she was the visiting Charles Wallace Fellow at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Her second novel, Mog Asundi, is scheduled for release in 2026.

She lives in Mumbai.

WHAT TO EXPECT

🎤 60 minute session about the Stories and Contributions of Konkani Catholics in Old Bombay, with a Specific Focus on Women

🗒️ 30 minutes of interactive Q&A with the speaker

👋 30 minute mixer with the speaker and other participants

🍺 One complimentary alcoholic beverage (beer) OR non alcoholic beverage (lime soda/ ice tea) is included with your ticket

Pint of View Mumbai is inspired by the Lectures on Tap and Pint of Science communities, and we're taking this format across 10+ major cities in India and counting! It’s where big ideas meet bar tables.

EVENT DETAILS

Title: People Who Shaped the Shore

Speaker: Jane Borges

Day: Sunday

Date: March 8th 2026

Time: 5 pm to 7 pm (Gates open at 4:30 pm)

Venue: Woodside Inn Bandra

Disclaimer: Ticket holders must be of legal drinking age (21 and above).

At Pint of View Mumbai, curious minds gather over drinks to explore cutting-edge ideas and to unravel the threads of human culture. It’s the perfect way to spend your weekend - stimulating your mind, meeting people who think like you (or challenge how you think), and learning something you’ll definitely talk about all week.

See you at the lecture!

Warmly,

Diya and Abhishek

Curators, Pint of View Mumbai

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