This is start of the book" The Songbirds they have all learnt to Sing" ---- proverbial  (I would love all your comments...)   Chapter 1 Coming Home  Where is my ‘Heimat’? (in German home/origins). Single, thirty-two years old and never visited Goa.  Simon Kika born   on the   5 th of August 1950, took the name of his Grandfather who   died before   he was born    but had the same birthday as him,   and was   called after him. His father and mother Alex, and Laura    had two other younger children,   the girl Averill, and   the boy Trevor. All   three were born in Bombay. Previously, Goa was still a Portuguese colony. India was independent and direct travel between the two was not permitted by India. After a short fight India defeated the Portuguese, and then travel was possible.      His mother had broken the good news that the two of them were going to India, and then to Goa,...