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|February 24, 2025
The late Maria Aurora Couto's essays belong in the long Goan tradition of memoirs as cultural history
AT HOME IN TWO WORLDS
Essays on Goa
By Maria Aurora Couto
SPEAKING TIGER
₹499; 216 pages
India's smallest state brims with paradoxes, counterfactuals, and what can seem like outright contradictions, which explains why the same is true of the life of Maria Aurora Couto (1937-2022), whose posthumously published At Home in Two Worlds is both her best book and the finest explainer of Goa's history and culture.
This story is from the February 24, 2025 edition of India Today.
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