Dear Valmiki,
I have some material on Mr. D'Abreo buried deep in my files. I shall have to
look for them and send the same to Fr. Mascarenhas and also post the same
on Goa-Net. Please give me till the weekend.
Warm regards,
Michael
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In every way, the Goans of Bombay were part of the great melee that was this
metropolis, distinct perhaps in the way communities often are, holding on to
their own traditions but merging slowly nonetheless and forming the thin thread
of nationhood that would eventually become India. -- Selma Carvalho, in *Into
the Goan Diaspora Wilderness*. Available at Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph
+91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295.
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