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(From The Statesman (India))
Goa: A Daughter's Story By Maria Aurora Couto Viking Penguin 436pp, Rs 495 Behind the charter tourism-inspired images of sun-kissed beaches and swaying palms dotting a land overflowing with booze, paraphrasable as fun, fish, feni and football, peopled by cooks, butlers, musicians, women of loose character and other layabouts, lies a pastoral society with a rich and variegated history and culture that barely peeps through the morass of such caricatured mass media hype and Hindi film stereotype.
Maria Aurora Couto's book systematically peels off the layers of these stereotypes in a detailed, mature, sensitive and elegantly written exposition of the life and times of this tiny but popular corner of the Indian union and …