Review by Selma Carvalho

From Goa comes a delicious (if you’ll pardon the wordplay) anthology titled “Appetite,” from the pens of the Goawriters collective and published by Penguin, India. As I first browse through it hurriedly, other adjectives crowd my mind—profoundly moving, deeply perspective, a triumph. Yes, this indeed is a glorious celebration of that experiment we call “Goa” –India’s smallest state, a constantly evolving experiment which like the sea that girdles it, claims diversity, divergence, and the painful debris of our lives, and renews itself at every turn.