Where is my ‘Heimat’? (in German home/origins). Single, thirty-two years old. Simon Kika had never visited Goa.  He was born on the 5 th of August 1950. He took the name of his grandfather who died before he was born but had the same birth date as him. His father and mother were Alex, and Laura had two other younger children, the girl Averill, and the boy Trevor. All three were born in Bombay. Laura said to her three children, “ Would you three like to come on holiday to India and Goa?” “ Mum,” Simon replied, “ That is great, what have we done to merit this holiday?” Averill and Trevor were not too enthusiastic, as each had planned their own holiday with their friends. His mother had broken the good news that the two of them were going to India, and then to Goa, for the exposition of the body of Saint Francis Xavier. Sadly, Alex had passed away a few years earlier. Simon was thirty years old and loved the Goan tradition. Averill and...