A well-researched, rock-solid documentation written by a writer who knows his ammo. For anyone interested in Goan history, culture, social life, architecture, cuisine, stories from Goa and stories about Goa, I suggest you read the Political Timeline carefully. It is a summary of the history of Goa and helps us understand the backdrop against which all the action that happened prior to and in 1961.

We have been subjected to history that has always come from top down. Now comes the time to look at our own history from bottom up....

Manu S Pillai’s book must be read from Introduction to Epilogue. When you read how the various rulers in India travelled to England with...

Manohar Shetty is spot-on when he tells us, in the Introduction, how “a small state like Goa”...“has produced a disproportionate number...

I started my writing career in Goa with writing reviews for the Navhind Times. It helped me understand the land of my adoption and her...

When I first came to Goa I would visit the churches in Old Goa, like everyone else. On every visit to the Sé Cathedral, apart from the...

When I first came to live in the house in Saligão, I was warned never to raise the height of the compound wall to more than 3 feet. “Our...