It seems to be raining Goa books this week with two new releases by Goa 1556.
One is is a report on Goa by a team of Swedish researchers called 'Goa: Found and Imagined - Possibilities, Potentials, Tips and Tools' by a group of Swedish researchers led by Henrietta Palmer Professor of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; and the other is a collection of poems by Antonio Gomes nemed 'Mirrored Reflections'.Here are some sneak previews. A group of Swedish researchers come to Goa as part of a study program n architecture and urban planning in 2011 which was about the time when RP 2021 was at its height. Their study involved trying to understand the local people's concern about the Regional Plan, and on their part offering their perspective on what they think Goa needs to do. Some of the findings are quite thought provoking - such as the need to move towards an economy which will exploit the resource of water. (Implicitly this means abandoning the painful and destructive practice of mining or at any rate controlling it very carefully when it does resume). I'll leave Gomes' collection of poems for later because most modern poetry written in the modern style of free verse is a bit difficult to review, but on first reading the verse seems very readable and unsentimental. Regards Augusto. -- Augusto Pinto 40, Novo Portugal Moira, Bardez Goa, India E pinto...@gmail.com P 0832-2470336 M 9881126350