Goa Today
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Page : 606 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Goa, Daman and Diu (India)
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Author :
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Page : 606 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Goa, Daman and Diu (India)
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Publisher : EQUATIONS
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
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Author : Teotonio R. De Souza
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9788170225041
Author : David Abram
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781843530817
This guide to Goa examines India's best-known resort region. It features a colour introductory section, including photographs of the regions highlights, from enjoying the sun on Palolem Beach to browsing at Anjuna flea market. The basics section provides all the information you need to prepare your trip, including visas, inoculations, flights, insurance and safety advice. The main heart of the guide includes evocative accounts of every beach in the state, plus the region's temples, markets and wildlife sanctuaries from Panjim to Galjibag. There are also lively and reliable reviews of the best places to stay, eat, drink and party. Coverage has also been given to sights in the neighbouring state of Karnataka and the transport hub of Mumbai. Thorough background articles cover Goa's history, religion and environment furthering the reader's understanding of the region.
Author : Charles J. Borges
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9788170226598
Collection of twenty-one papers presented at an international symposium on the theme "cultural relations between Portugal and Goa" at the University of Cologne, 29 May-2 June 1996; chiefly covers the 16th-18th centuries.
Author : Maria Couto
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Goa (India : State)
ISBN : 9780143033431
In December 1961, Indian Troops Marched Into Goa Putting An End To Over 450 Years Of Portuguese Rule, The Longest Spell Of Colonialism On The Subcontinent, And Goa Became Part Of The Indian Union. In Popular Imagination, However, Goa Has Remained A Place Not Quite India, And Stereotypes About Goa And Goans Abound. Maria Aurora Couto S Unique Blend Of Biography, Memoir And Social History Brings Us The Goa Behind The Beaches And Booze Culture That Is Projected For The Tourist And Which Has Unfortunately Come To Define Goa For The Vast Majority Outside The State. Starting With An Account Of The Immediate Aftermath Of Liberation, Couto Goes Back And Forth In Time To Examine The Fundamental Transformations In Goan Society From 1510, When Afonso De Albuquerque Conquered Goa, Up To The Present. Drawing Upon The Experiences Of Her Own Family And Those Of Others, Both Hindu And Catholic, She Writes Of The Influences That Have Touched All Goans The Luso-Indian Culture; Conversion And The Inquisition; Political And Cultural Changes In Europe Such As The French Revolution And The Ideals Of Republicanism; Folk Traditions, Music And The Konkani Language; And, Ultimately, Freedom And Integration With India. In The Process She Reveals How Goa, Which Combines The Best Of Traditional And Cosmopolitan Lifestyles, Has Evolved Into India S Twenty-First-Century Model Of Economic Development And Communal Harmony. Written With Sensitivity, Insight And Scholarship, Goa: A Daughter S Story Is At Once Expansive And Intimate: A Moving Narrative About Home, The Village And The World, In Which The Author Crosses The Boundaries Between History And Memory, Truth And Imagination, To Evoke Personal And Community Experience. It Is As Much An Appraisal Of Goa S Past As It Is An Examination Of Its Present And A Vision For Its Future.
Author : José Inácio Candido de Loyola
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,71 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Goa (India : State)
ISBN : 9788170228684
Writings mainly relate to various topics on 20th century Goa; includes a brief biography of the author.
Author : Michelle Mendonça Bambawale
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9357083227
Goa’s magnetism and its promise of a relaxed, almost bohemian lifestyle, have always attracted admirers and colonizers. Before the locals could make up their minds about such interlopers, Covid-19 brought hordes of them to town—Michelle Mendonça Bambawale was one of them. In June 2020, Michelle found herself moving to the 160-year-old house she had inherited in Siolim, a village in North Goa, with her human and canine family. Having never lived in Goa before, she couldn’t help but wonder if her Goan ancestry made her an insider or if she would forever remain an outsider. In this memoir, she confronts her complex relationship with her Goan Catholic heritage and explores themes of identity, culture, migration, stereotypes and labels. She also uncovers some of the uncanniest legends that pervade Siolim, including those of St. Anthony and the Snake, Sao Joao, and the statue of Beethoven. She also takes us back to Siolim and Goa in the 1970s and 1980s, where she spent her summer vacations without paved roads or electricity, pulling water from a well. Today, she dodges reeking septic tankers, earth movers and piling plastic garbage while walking her Labrador, Haruki. Becoming Goan is a heartfelt and charming story of Michelle's love for this land that her grandparents left her. She cares deeply about Goa's biodiversity and is distraught about the environmental impact of tourism, construction and mining. Her devotion to Mother Earth deepens as she learns more about her roots, steeped as they are in syncretic traditions.
Author : Alexyz
Publisher :
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 20,92 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Goa (India : State)
ISBN : 9789384298357
Author : Katharina Kakar
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 15,66 MB
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9357080279
Many people dream of escaping the stresses and strains of urban life and moving to Goa. Katharina Kakar and her husband, the psychoanalyst and writer Sudhir Kakar, followed their dream and boldly took that plunge-buying a charming old house in a tranquil south Goa village, where they hoped to find a whole new way of living and working. Ten years later, they are still there, living the idyll-and the reality-of life in Goa. So which is the real Goa? Is it all about sun and sand, beaches and bikinis, feni and vindaloo? This book captures the allure of all these, as well as the festivals and rituals that punctuate the rhythm of village life. It portrays fascinating local characters, ranging from ageing hippies, beach boys and elusive workmen to the aristocratic residents of Goa's grand old mansions. But it also reveals lesser-known aspects of Goa: the hidden-often shocking-histories of its colonial past; and the debates and fissures that engage and divide Goan society today. In part personal memoir and travelogue, in part an insightful look at Goan history and society, this book portrays Goa with all its paradoxes and problems, its seductive pleasures and, above all, its unique and enduring charm.