Over six years, the purposefully small, rigorously independent and non-profit Goa Arts + Literature Festival has attracted an extraordinary series of exclusive intenational debuts and launches from authors like Teju Cole, Jerry Pinto, Amruta Patil, Meena Kandasamy, Ranjit Hoskote, and Bilal Tanweer.
GALF2015 similarly hosted the exclusive launch of Vivek Shanbag's 'Ghachar Ghochar' (translated from Kannada) which has steadily earned terrific reviews as one of the best new books to come from India in many years. Girish Karnad ---> "This is a novel with a lightness of touch rarely found in our fiction."http://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/books/ghachar-ghochar-book-review-living-in-present-tense/ Nilanjana Roy ---> "Ghachar Ghochar is one of the most striking novels you'll read this decade - don't miss its persuasive, slowly unsettling world." http://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/bring-up-the-bodies-116011501204_1.html Prajwal Parajuly ---> "Very rarely a book comes along that you want to thrust in the hands of everyone—readers and non-readers. Ghachar Ghochar is one such book." http://www.hindustantimes.com/books/ghachar-ghochar-book-review-a-simple-portrayal-of-life-s-tangled-mess/story-f5SjyH9W3obwakjfkJ2PhP.html GALF2015 VIDEO of 'Ghachar Ghochar' launch featuring the author Vivek Shanbag in conversation with Jayant Kaikini and Mahesh Rao https://youtu.be/21ci9DcP81A
