This report especially in today's context is embarrassing. The sad part, to
some extent it exists even today.When I want some hard facts about Goa - its
budget or its tourism, its more likely seen in a report in a foreign magazine
write up about Goa.
Recently I asked a close relative talking to me about Goa about which auhtors
and books on Goa did he read. To my shock, he said he "did not recollect
reading any book and what he recounts to me are hearsay from conversation with
elders at social events."
Regards, GL---------------------------------------When Goan Journalism Had No
News. Only Views.
Mário Cabral e Sá
When I started out in journalism in Goa, there was no news;
there were only views. But we would have a guy to listen to
all the radio stations broadcasting from across the world,
and that was international news for us. In fact, we were so
brash about it that we would tag the news as being courtesy
and by `Radio Brazzaville', `BBC', and so on and so forth.
Everyone of us would write on the shavings of our
newsprint, and in long hand. The chief of the
compositors would come up to us (later in the day)
and say, “Aiz char columna zai,” or “Ek page zai”
(Today, we are four columns short. Or: we need a
page of content.) On the spu r of the moment, we
would fill it up, and the paper would emerge in
time for the next day.
On Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 01:07:21 AM EDT, Caetano Mascarenhas
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