As Lorraine Alberto begins her Portuguese class at Goa University, students from the former colony are in short supply. Only a handful of traditional homes have been earmarked for protection from development or destruction, Pandit added. At a recent outdoor concert in a coastal village, dozens of people gathered to listen to Goan singer Sonia Shirsat, an accomplished performer of traditional Portuguese fado music. Sonia Shirsat, a traditional Portuguese fado music singer, performs at a concert in Anjuna in Goa. She decided to move to Lisbon for training, becoming the first Indian to stage a solo fado concert there in 2008.
