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'Paradise lost': British tourist opens up on Gokarna
The Morning Standard
|January 10, 2026
IT is paradise lost for this British woman, who has been visiting Gokarna every year for the last 46 years.
Now 90 years old, Antonia Chetwynd says that her age doesn’t not permit her to visit the best place for her in the whole world and she calls it paradise.
She came here for the first time in 1976 with a troupe of musicians from Arambol Goa, performing during Mahashivaratri. She had never imagined that she would develop a lifelong bonding with the town in just five days.
Hailing from England, this mother of five said over the decades, this abode of spiritualism, serenity and peace, which hosts the Atma Linga, has metamorphosed.
This story is from the January 10, 2026 edition of The Morning Standard.
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