Abstract:
Enjoying a high profile as an international tourist destination, Goa in recent times has often being the setting for a range of unusual or even peculiar fictional work. The region has been 'visited' by characters like Bahadur (India's attempt at building a comic super-hero) and Tintin (the reporter-adventurer whose travels across continents taught European and other children about their world at a time when formal colonialism was giving way to new relationships between nations). In the world of film too, there has been debate over how modern-day depictions shape global understanding of this region as well as local perceptions of the place.
