Learn why Goa remained a ‘colonial pimple’ on the face of India, to borrow Jawaharlal Nehru’s felicitous choice of words, long after India became independent and other colonial powers had followed Britain in booking a one-way ticket out of the subcontinent.
Though Benjamin Franklin was quick to pronounce, "Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days," the Portuguese strongman- Antonio Salazar, just would not take the hint
An eyewitness account of Growing up Goan in a land caught between the irresistible pull of free India and the immovable object that was the obduracy of the Portuguese authoritarian regime.