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+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ || The site for reviews of just about any Goa book. Reviews and books for | || reviews are welcome here. Send in your submissions to fred (at) | || bytesforall.org. Reviews of Goa-related books published elsewhere can be| || reproduced, subject to permission and suitability. We do not trade | || positive write-ups in exchange for payment or advertising. This is a | || volunteer-driven, unfunded site maintained by Frederick Noronha. EmailFN| || Your support (non-financial!) is welcome. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * In black and white... a tiny region's encounter with the printed word * Can Goan writers make it globally? (By Victor Rangel-Ribeiro) * Other India Bookstore, Mail order service from Mapusa * Alternative book store earns laurels, Inter-Press Service, 1998 * Books Galore, But Who Really Knows? (September 1998) * Goan writing in English, a cursory review * Old books being sold online... at a steep premium * Step-motherly deal for Goa's libraries
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NEW RELEASES
+------------------------------------------------------------------------- | The Sixth Night, || Mando Souvenir, 2004 || Goa, Beyond Sun and | | Silviano Barbosa || || Sand, CEC | +------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Goa Yellow Pages | Delights From Goa | +------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Frank Simoes' Goa | Konkani vocabulary, | English translation| | (new edition) | Devnagari script | after a century | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Goa books ... via Finland * Online links to Goa book reviews * GoaCom's bibliography of books related to Goa and Goans * Goa-related links on Amazon.com Not just books! * Portuguese foundation supports publishing of Goa books (May 2000) * Looking at the Christian role, a directory of institutions (July 2000)
IN BRIEF: BOOK NEWS
* TSKK's 16th century Goycho Saib in Devanagari * New book in the West on a prominent Goan jeweller, Shinde (Oct 2004) * Dalgado Konkani Akademi announces plans to come out with 10 books (Oct 2004) * Edward D'Lima's Common Errors by Indian Students (Sept 2004) * Marathi booklet on gram sabhas (village council meetings, Sept 2004) * Konkani play 'Futt' comes out in a printed form (Aug 2004) * Touched By The Toe (Alexander Barbosa), release announcement, March 2004 * The Transforming of Goa (Norman Dantas), release announcement, 1999
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SPECIFIC REVIEWS
* A trading family in colonial Goa, the Mhamais (review: Dr Teotonio R de Souza) * Goa Goana ... voices waiting to be heard (Critique of Seminar's Amchem Goem 2004) * Frank Simoes got there first (Vivek Menezes on a new edition) * Vishram Gupte's Marathi book set in Saudi Arabia (Review: Nandkumar Kamat) * 200 pages that everyone loves to hate (Ramnath G Naik) * Collection of essays, on an expat's trip home (Lino Leitao reviews Ben Antao's book) * Curious themes like an 'ultimate locator' * New book on 'Spoken Portuguese' * Two books of touristic relevance, c2004 * Bombay, Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai (Penguin, 2003) * The late Dr Cleo Odzer's Goa Freaks, an insightful book into Hippy Goa * An unusual map... looking down at Goa from the skies * Music ...from the pen of a priest * In Goa, East and West met the first (Churches of Goa, by Dr Jose Pereira) * Tales of another kind * Maps for Goa * Stories from Assagao, Salvador-do-Mundo, "Ponchivaddy"... (Goan Whoopee) * Goan food... and all that (The Essential Goa Cookbook, MT Menezes) * Goa Church needs to change fast, says book * Mando, unable to battle turbulent times (Dr Jose Pereira's series, 2003) * A doctor lives on, in her writing (November 2002) * INTERVIEW Touching on a touchy topic: conversions in colonial Goa * Salesians, making a dent in Goa, after reaching here accidentally * Goa: Continuity and Change. Wagle & Coehlo, eds * Culture, colonialism over the centuries. Interview Dr Charles Borges * Goa, a melting-pot of many streams and ethnic stocks * Washington Post A New View of Kenya's "Asians". March 2000. * Goans played unrecognised, big role in Mozambique * Clement Vaz: Profiles of Eminent Goans * Goans not only initiated the Westernisation of Indian music... -- Dr Jose Pereira
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INTERVIEWS: RESEARCHERS, AUTHORS AND WRITERS
* After a long stint, the Portuguese left a colourful trail in stamps * Dr Mike N Pearson: Goa could be a useful case-study
* Olivinho Gomes: Camoes probably wrote a substantial part of his epic in Goa
* Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes: studying a century and more of migration
* Lino Leitao: It can be hard for a Goan writer to get published...
* Vikram Patel: Staying sane in a crazy world
* Naresh Fernandes: Meri Jaan Bombay... through Goan eyes
* Culture, colonialism over the centuries (Dr Charles J Borges)
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VIDEO FILMS, ETC
* Fly by Goa, studying the changes that have taken place post 1960s * When film-making gets bigoted... Goa's anti-colonial stir retold (2004)
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