The Decameron on a Goan Beach

Fourparticipants of an international conference on "The Art ofStory-Telling"- three young persons and one not so young - prefer toremain in each other's company, decide to overstay and spend three daystogether in a beachside hotel in Goa before leaving for theirrespective home towns. While in Goa, they tell stories of their owninvention, each of them telling a story every day, thereby recreating abackdrop immortalized by the 14th century writer Giovanni Boccaccio inThe Decameron. Each of our group of four tells three stories in thecourse of three days. Some of the stories are realistic; some aremagical; some are serious and comic at the same time; some modernfables have animals as characters and some of them even make sense in acurious sort of way. One thing, however, is common about these twelvestories: they celebrate life's diversities.