1975: Moonlit shores of Goa’s Anjuna Beach teem with sunburnt seekers. Runaways, hippies, mystics, dropouts — singed by Western materialism and looking to transcend — mill around handcrafted wooden stages amid a cocktail of incense, hashish and possibility. Soon after tambourines and sitars ignite the mood, basslines from makeshift sound systems and patched-together tape decks come alive. Psychedelic music washes over the land of feni.

Through the night, flowing kurtas, beaded necklaces, mirrored sunglasses and matted dreadlocks pulsate with freedom; their altered states fused by LSD, a powerful drug now banned. Acid rock and proto-electronica stir a generation into spiritual awakening. Psychedelia becomes a genre as well as a gateway.

Fast-forward 50 years later. Psychedelia is witnessi

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