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References
- Young, Donna J. (2009). Mirror to Goa : Identity and the written word in a small society. Panjim, Goa: Broadway Book Centre. ISBN 9788190568210., reported in Noronha, Frederick (2010), Goa in creative writing, Google Groups [ self-published source ]