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Manohar Shetty

Manohar Shetty is a poet and fiction writer who lives in Goa, India. His new book is Goa Travels: Being the Accounts of Travellers from the 16th to the 21st Century.

Haut Monde

He’s not yet into botox but vain enough for a transplant on his thick head of hair to offset, he confides, the future loss twenty years on when his pate might glint like a Nikon flash on the ramp.   It was painful but worth it— these don’t fall or turn ...

Lancelot Gomes

February 14, 2014
It was Filomena Rodrigues who broke the news at the Panjim fish market. She ran into her neighbor Maravilha da Gama, who was haggling over the price of a glassy-eyed mullet with a large fisherwoman bedecked in gold necklaces which rested in serpentine spirals on her hillocky ...

Mr. Secondhand

February 13, 2014
When Cajetan Xavier sold his ten-year-old Vespa to buy a ten-year-old Maruti 800 it came as no surprise to the other residents of St. Jerome’s Colony in Dona Paula. The wiry frame of Cajetan putt-putting on his aging scooter up the steep slope before the National Institute of ...