HETA PANDIT

Heta Pandit first “real job” was with famed ethologist Dr Jane Goodall on a chimpanzee research station in Tanzania, East Africa. On her return to India in 1983, Heta volunteered with Bombay Environmental Action Group and initiated several heritage preservation projects through the Indian Heritage Society, Bombay Chapter. Traumatized by the riots in 1993 in her beloved Bombay, she left the city for Munnar at first and then Goa putting all her energies into the preservation of Goan houses.

 

She has written 11 books on Goan heritage.

Heta is a Homi Bhabha Fellow and a co-founder of Heritage First Goa, aimed at creating multimodal education and learning initiatives about Goa’s built, natural and cultural heritage. She is currently working on a book titled Objects and Memories from Goa. She lives in Saligao Goa with her dogs Goru, Potyo and Vahiti.