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Filomena’s Journeys is a daughter’s moving tribute to the mother who held her world, and that of her six siblings, together through long years of insecurity and hardship. It is also an often heartbreaking attempt to come to terms with the painful memories of her father.
In 1935, Filomena Borges, aged twenty-six, married for love and moved from her grandmother’s village, Raia-where she had arrived as an orphaned child-to one of Goa’s most ...
In December 1961, Indian troops marched into Goa putting an end to over 450 years of Portuguese rule, and Goa became part of the Indian Union. In popular imagination, however, Goa has remained a place not quite India, and stereotypes about Goa and Goans abound. Maria Aurora Couto’s unique blend of biography, memoir and social history brings us the Goa behind the beaches and booze culture that is projected for the tourist. Couto goes back and forth in time to ...