panaji portugal prime minister antonio costa said his visit to goa besides being an official one was a very emotional and personal one as well no flowers no wreaths the english translation of his father orlando da costas play in three acts sem flores nem coroas is set on the night of the end of portuguese rule in goa in 1961 it has been translated by isabel de santa rita vas and published by goa 1556 costa said it was his fathers passion for portuguese literature that took him to lisbon he studied at the university there and not in mumbai where his father wanted him to from that moment my father made the portuguese language is own my father never left goa because goa never left him the novels he wrote from o signo da ira to o ltimo olhar de man miranda goa was always present in his work in konkani he only taught me two wordsbabush and babulo my father used these when he talked to me and my brother we also got the scent of the beedi he smoked and the taste of sorpotel he said wherever i go or wherever im taken to i will always be in my homeland he said quoting from the book the sign of wrath the english translation of o signo da ira considered orlando da costas magnum opus was presented to antonio da costa early this week by prime minister narendra modi