Chasing A Calcutta Goan

[linkenf...@gmail.com]

A couple of years ago I briefly skimmed through a brand new book, at the District Library in Navelim, by a Goan with a Calcutta connection, who seemed to have returned home recently from that city for good and was now settled in Mapusa or thereabouts. The little I gleaned from my hurried glance at the back cover seemed inviting enough for me to decide to borrow it after I had finished the book I was reading then. It was in the Goa section of fiction books in the shelves in the main library. I have not been able to find it again and I look every time I visit the library. It seemed to have been written by someone with a past in journalism or advertising. Would be obliged if anyone who may have a clue could throw some light on the book and the writer. As they say, thanks in advance.

[Frederick Noronha]

Venita Coelho? One of these?

• Whisper in the Wind — a Goa-set gothic mystery novel set partly in Portuguese-era Goa.
• The Washer of the Dead — a collection of feminist ghost stories.
• Dark Tales: Ghost Stories from India — horror and paranormal short fiction.
• Tiger by the Tail — a children’s adventure novel involving wildlife and fantasy.
• Dead as a Dodo — award-winning children’s fiction.
• Boy No. 32 — children’s/young adult fiction.
• Monkey See, Monkey Do — another children’s novel.
• All of Me — historical/psychological fiction linked to the Koh-i-Noor story.
• Dungeon Tales — fantasy stories for younger readers.
• Soap! Writing and Surviving Television in India — nonfiction based on her television industry experience. 

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On Tue, 9 Jun 2026 at 18:06, linkenf...@gmail.com <linkenf...@gmail.com> wrote:

A couple of years ago I briefly skimmed through a brand new book, at the District Library in Navelim, by a Goan with a Calcutta connection, who seemed to have returned home recently from that city for good and was now settled in Mapusa or thereabouts. The little I gleaned from my hurried glance at the back cover seemed inviting enough for me to decide to borrow it after I had finished the book I was reading then. It was in the Goa section of fiction books in the shelves in the main library. I have not been able to find it again and I look every time I visit the library. It seemed to have been written by someone with a past in journalism or advertising. Would be obliged if anyone who may have a clue could throw some light on the book and the writer. As they say, thanks in advance.

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[linkenf...@gmail.com]

Quite a collection of titles there, Fred, and thank you for the trouble you've taken to list them out. I wish I could say I recognise any as the one I glimpsed then. What I seem to recall is, the book seems to be about the guy returning for good to his village in Goa and  saying the statutory nice things about it. I was more interested, though, in his life in Calcutta and how it compared to Bombay, my own childhood haunt. I'm seriously beginning to think I may well have imagined the whole thing. Gosh, if the book really doesn't exist this could be my third or fourth glitch in the matrix, one of which I've already memorialised in a book and a parish magazine (using some three of its costly pages, which I intend to compensate for by booking its back cover some day. The least I can do, what?). Anyway.

[Venita Coelho]

Yep. Sounds like me. Calcutta connection and all. Except I shifted 25 years ago. No idea which book without further clues. 

Tell me - what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver, poet. 

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