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|  | | Mango Mood by Sharmila Kamat
The story of Goa, India's beach paradise told tongue-in-cheek. Using gentle satire, it covers men, matters and headliners in the part of India that once spoke with a Portuguese accent.
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Tspan style="font-family: Georgia">his/span>span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 26pt"> /span>span style="font-family: Georgia">book chronicles the story of Goa, and India, in its recent past, as retold by a bemused, yet indulgent, Goan. Using mostly gentle, sometimes hard-hitting, insightful, satire, it leads the reader through headline-grabbing incidents in recent times through the medium of 60 short satirical pieces. o:p>/o:p>/span>
p style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 18.7pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">span style="font-family: Georgia">o:p | |  | | Short Takes Long Memories by Sharmila Kamat and Prabhakar Kamat
A ringside view of the passage to India of Goa from prized jewel in the Ultramar Português. It chronicles the tale of a land caught between free India and Salazarist Portugal based on the reminiscences of a civil servant and diplomat.
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A span lang="EN-GB"> ringside view of an eventful period in Goa’s history – its transition from being a Portuguese colony to becoming Indian, this is a tale of a land caught between the irresistible pull of India and the immovable object that was the inflexible colonial regime. The book is based on the reminiscences of a career diplomat.o:p>/o:p>/span>
p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"> span lang="EN-GB">In the late 1940s, the narrator abandons the somnolence of Goa to travel by sea to Europe for higher studies. In Li |
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