Skin, a diasporic novel, moves from a bar in California to life in a Goan village and has formed part of the post-colonial academic discourse around the world since it was published by Penguin in 2001.

Skin has been described as a "story of a contemporary woman who traces her cross-continental family diaspora which originates with the Portuguese slave trade in India in the 17th century.

[2] The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos was selected for the Indie Next List[6] and was a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick in 2009.

In the mid-2000s, Mascarenhas began a mailing list with Wendell Rodricks, urging citizens to report cases of lack of waste management in Goa.

But my purpose in doing it in collaboration with Broadway and Goa,1556 is to highlight the nexus between literature and art and to promote Goa-based writers and artists/art photographers.