Alfred Chacha One of the sidelights of the GBC meet on translation was the appearance of the veteran Goan journalist Alfred de Tavares, with whom Prof Afonso in particular was delighted to renew acquaintance. He reminsced with Alfred Chacha, as he is fondly called online, about the All Fools Club which they had formed when they were students. Alfred was here on holiday from Sweden, with his daughter or was it granddaughter?
The Case of the Plagiarised Self-Improvement Books I chatted with Khalil Mohammed of Broadway Book House about the case of the plagiarised self-improvement books and its author. He was quite put out with this case. He fumed:"You don't know what a loss I suffered. I went and shredded all those books. That person tried to give some excuse that it was a mistake... He is a Ph.D... How could he not have known..." I think Khalil will be a bit more careful now about which books he accepts to publish. Shell Windows One of the best books that Broadway Book House has published along with Fundacao Oriente is a collection of short stories called Shell Windows. It is consists of the best short stories from a short story competition conducted by FO in 2011. It consists of 22 short stories. Among the writers featured are Manohar Shetty, Ahmed Bungalowalla, Aldina Braganza e Gomes, Prashanti Talpankar, Belinda Viegas, Marilia Fernades, Ramnath Gaude, Cordelia Francis, Bevinda Collaco, Sheela Jaywant and Fatima Noronha. Many of them are Goa Book Club members. Congratulations to all. Cheerio Augusto -- Augusto Pinto 40, Novo Portugal Moira, Bardez Goa, India E pinto...@gmail.com P 0832-2470336 M 9881126350
