Mrs Suares is a sprightly 92 year-old Goan lady of education and culture. She was a schoolteacher, like her late husband. He won many awards for his teaching of Portugese and I wish I had asked her to recite me some verses from the Portugese Shakespeare, Camoes, who came to Goa in 1553. RED rose […] Read more
January 2013
It’s not just in Britain that young people full of energy and vision are launching cafes and restaurants to excite the palate and provide social hubs buzzing with interest. I found one in Goa. Chris Agha Bee, half Iranian and half Goan, has created an oasis in the middle of a culinary desert in North […] Read more
Agonda Beach The sound of surf is ever present and soon becomes part of my heartbeat. I don’t hear the roar as separate from my circulation until I move away from the shore- and then it’s absent like a friend who’s gone somewhere else. I listen to the waves boom, braking the limit of their […] Read more
A small metalled road leads from Morjim village to the beach, which under a decade ago was the one of the most tranquil stretch of sand and coconut palms in Goa. Today the area is known as “Little Moscow.” I entered a huge bamboo and palm shack full of nut-brown lounging Russians and found the […] Read more
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