THIS IS from Jose F P Lourenco's *Amazing Goa* set of cards. Jose dipped into my home-collection of Goa-related books a bit, to scour for some "amazing" facts. Incidentally, my Goa-books collection used to be 600-strong, when I stopped counting about a decade back. But I know at least one Goanetter who has three times that size a collection. Guess who? Dunno if I'm allowed to spill the beans on this; we Goans can be notorious book-borrowers...
While on this note, I would like to encourage every reader to collect books on Goa. It not only builds our own awareness, helps us understand our home more deeper, but also helps to encourage the writer. While wishing my friend and ex-colleague Tony Martin well with his Goan international writers plan, one initiative could be to make Goa books available via networks like Project Gutenberg (http://gutenberg.net), thus making them available to posterity... In the last two months, we managed putting up two books there. Volunteers needed to identify interesting copyright-expired books, or even new titles, where the author is willing to also make the same available in public domain. FN Which literary work by Konkani writer Naguesh Karmali won him the Sahitya Akademi award? [Nakshtranchem Dennem (poetry)] What is the architectural style of the St Francis of Assisi Church, Old Goa, and the Holy Spirit Church, Margao? [Neo-Roman Baroque, built in the 17th century] Which Bombay-based football players scored a hat-trick at the 1956 Olympics at Melbourne? Meville D'Souza (Assagao) According to the Census of 1940, how many women in Goa had 15 to 18 children each? [64] What does the name of the *Boca de Vaca* fountain in Panaji mean? [Mouth of a Cow] [197] ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
