"In 2017, on his 75th birthday, my father sat down with his three children and started narrating the story of his life, his childhood in Goa, India in-depth, what life was like under the grip of Portuguese colonialism in the region," the artist wrote in a piece for the Brooklyn Museum.
The occupation lasted for more than 450 years. Born in 1942, the Sanzgiri's father witnessed both the independence and subsequent partition of India by the British- and the eventual liberation of Goa from Portugal in 1961.
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