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+ Goa's thriving cultural spirit has attracted yet another world-renowned musician. Gazelle Mehta discovers the talented Delia Varga. She first heard of Goa in Nocturno Indiano, a novel by Antonio Tabucchi, about a man who sets out to find a lost friend and ends up finding himself in Goa. Delia was born in the north of Romania and began playing piano at the age of six. (GT) ------------ I remember having received Tabucchi at the Xavier Centre in 1983, then still located at Miramar. I had not realized at that time who Tabucchi was or that he was preparing his *Notturno Indiano*. In a typical post-modern fashion of distorting and mixing reality and phantasy, I became the guardian of the jesuit library, an old man of 73, and who smiled moving his head ("mi fece grandi sorrisi dondolando la testa"). For an interesting analysis of the novel and for a reference to this my encounter with Tabucchi in Goa, read Thomas Strater, "From Peregrination to Pilgrimage: Tabucchi's Notturno Indiano", in *Goa and Portugal: Their Cultural Links*, eds Charles Borges and Helmut Feldmann, New Delhi, Concept Publications, 1997, pp. 251-260.