Alexandre Moniz Barbosa

Barbosa has written, inter alia, for The Times of India.^[3] After a spell as assistant editor at Goa Today, he became assistant resident editor for The Times of India, Goa edition. He was editor of O Heraldo from 2018 to 2022.^{[citation needed]}

Barbosa wrote the novel Touched By The Toe (2004), set in sixteenth-century Goa, and taking its name an incident in which a Portuguese noblewoman bit off a toe from the relics of St Francis Xavier.^[4][5] He translated from Portuguese to English essays by José Inácio Candido de Loyola, as Passionate and Unrestrained (2008).^[6]

In 2011, Barbosa published the book Goa Rewound, a socio-political commentary on Goa.^[7]

In 2016 he published the novel Raw Earth, set in contemporary Goa with mining as a backdrop to the plot.^[8] Kaddio Boddio, a collection of short stories, was published in 2022.^[9] He has also written scholarly articles^[10] and short stories.^[11]