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Beyond beaches: Couto's essays on Goa's complex cultural identity

Maria Aurora Couto's last book is an elegy for a more inclusive Goa, and confronts its modern challenges, such as corruption

Beyond beaches: Couto’s essays on Goa’s complex cultural identity
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At Home in Two Worlds: Essays on Goa
Author: Maria Aurora Couto
Publisher: Speaking Tiger
Pages: 214
Price: Rs 499
  My earliest impressions of Goa are etched with images of colourful caricatures personifying life there by the famous Mario Miranda, who belonged to the coastal state. The country’s quintessential Sunshine State, Goa has over a period of time become a kind of escape from reality for millions of Indians. With idyllic palm-fringed beaches, exotic casinos and tropical climate, it’s the hedonistic paradise, particularly for those residing in congested metropolitan cities. When we first took our (then) five-year old daughter for a vacation to Goa,

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