INTRODUCTIONRegional identities have always been dominant features of the Indian cultural matrix. Goa has a unique culture. The region's literature reveals its identity. The liberation of Goa brought new vigor to its literature. The writer's contact with the reality of life has become more vivid. The Goan freedom movement and outrage over injustice, economic inequality and immigration from Goa were common themes in Goan fiction. Goans have lived through a long denationalizing colonial experience that still affects both social reality and the psyche. There is a regional consciousness in fiction. The writers portrayed the regional flavor. Significantly, Lambert Mascaren received critical acclaim for his pre-liberation socio-political novel – Sorrowing Lies My Land (1955). Diasporic novelists such as Leslie de Noronha, Peter Nazareth, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, Lino Leitao Margaret Mascarenhas and Ben Antao are internationally known. They wrote with sincerity and passion.MethodologyElements of local color literature are taken into consideration when analyzing the novel Let Me Tell You About Quinta. As Josephine Donovan has insightfully observed, "local color literature is characterized by a realistic focus on a particular geographical location, its indigenous customs, its physical and cultural environment, and its regional dialect." (European Literature in Local Color) This form of writing was dominant in American literature between the Civil War and the late 19th century. These are the distinctive features and characteristics of local color literature. The characters are marked by their adherence to old dialect habits and by a particular personality......amid the papers...is that they prefer cleaning toilets rather than cultivating the land. (Viegas, 211) This fascination of youth for the West is vividly highlighted by Viegas. The end of the novel strikes a note of despair in Preciosa's words "once they go west, they never come back." » Works cited Main sourceViegas, Savia. Let me tell you about Quinta. Penguin books, New Delhi, 2011. Print All subsequent references with page numbers are from this edition. Secondary sources Antao, Ben. Goan literature in English. Muse India, 54: March April 2014. Web. March 1, 2014 .Donovan Joséphine. "Introduction". Local European literature in colors. Bloomsbury Publishing London. 2010. Web 04/20/2103. Goa Information Bureau. Press releases. "Tales from the attic released". Savia Viegas, 2010. The web. 09/16/2013.Viegas, Savia. Biography. Savia Viegas 2010. WEB. 3/02/ 2014.