Author : Fiona Caulfield
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 2014-12
Category : Goa (India : State)
ISBN : 9788191024869
This guide to Goa is packed with savvy insider knowledge. The best experiences are hidden in the narrow lanes of the old city where the five-star chef eats on his day off. They are in the home studios of designers and the workshops of seventh generation craftsmen.
Author : Cleo Odzer
Publisher : Blue Moon Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : David Abram
Publisher : Rough Guides
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 30,67 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 : Michelle Mendonça Bambawale
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 17,53 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 : Maria Couto
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
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 : Katharina Kakar
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 29,55 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.
Author : Shivya Nath
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9353052653
Shivya Nath quit her corporate job at age twenty-three to travel the world. She gave up her home and the need for a permanent address, sold most of her possessions and embarked on a nomadic journey that has taken her everywhere from remote Himalayan villages to the Amazon rainforests of Ecuador. Along the way, she lived with an indigenous Mayan community in Guatemala, hiked alone in the Ecuadorian Andes, got mugged in Costa Rica, swam across the border from Costa Rica to Panama, slept under a meteor shower in the cracked salt desert of Gujarat and learnt to conquer her deepest fears. With its vivid descriptions, cinematic landscapes, moving encounters and uplifting adventures, The Shooting Star is a travel memoir that maps not just the world but the human spirit.
Author : Niranjan Doshi
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1638065462
Silvio Kovac, a Croat; Sethu Jeysingham, a Sri Lankan; and Sivan Barz, an Iraqi Kurd – all victims of ethnic wars in their countries and now in Germany under political asylum – make an odd combo. The common draw between them is their past woes and burning desire for revenge. Silvio, during his stint in Goa, a tourist haven on the western coast of India, while employed with Luftaer of Germany, meets the ravishingly beautiful Nada Simic, a Croat now settled in Paris, visiting India with her paramour who happens to be a high-level dignitary with the Indian Government. Through her, Silvio learns of a plan for the conference of heads of commonwealth countries to be held in Goa and, with the help of his buddies, plots to kidnap these heads for a fabulous ransom. They succeed in kidnapping the whole lot of VIPs in their hired yacht but would they be able to execute the ransom demand totaling one hundred million dollars?
Author : Grant Buday
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1550224123
Recounting the author’s travels in India by paralleling them with those of 16th-century Portuguese soldier and poet Luis de Camoens—author of the Portuguese national epic The Lusiads—this magical, exquisite narrative, reminiscent journeys to the island of Diu, won by the Portuguese from the navy of Suleiman the Magnificent. Visiting Goa, the author meets the Rodrigues family, people who inhabit a two-hundred-year-old house full of history and rats. Throughout his travels, he encounters those who wish the Portuguese would come back—and those who are very glad they're gone.
Author : Ramanlal Morarjee
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release : 2012-01-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1456786911
The story is set in the Gujarat State of India and S. W. London. The predominant bright colours of Gujarat are reflected by the people's dresses and the cultural activities.There is a mixture of spicy and sweet smells on one hand and dusty and unpleasant smells on the other in the air.This is a story about the harrowing and tension-filled life events of my heroine 'RAKHI', based on real life experiences.
