Reflected in Water

"Reflected in Water" is a collection of essays, poems, stories and extracts from published works that bring to life both the natural beauty and the changing social and political ethos of India's smallest state, Goa. From Mario Cabrale Sa's delightful take on the earliest Portuguese women to come to India to Gita Mehta's description of hippies at Calangute, from Alexander Frater's mesmerizing account of Goa in the monsoon to Manohar Malgonkar's ode to the Mangeshi temple, this anthology celebrates the irreverent and the sacred in equal measure. Insightful essays, intense poetry and evocative fiction, as alluring as the place they describe, make "Reflected in Water" redolent of the very essence of Goa.