Fragments of a New World

Abstract

A photograph of Sita Valles dressed in a paisley blue miniskirt with a hand on her hip, leaning against a glossy red car, has made the young revolutionary an icon. It appears on book covers, posters, and a mural in Panjim, the capital of Goa, India. In Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?), a film by the Goan-American artist Suneil Sanzgiri recently on view at the Brooklyn Museum, Sita's brother Edgar Valles, a lawyer living in Portugal, tells her story.