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NEW BOOK: 'PATRIOTISM IN ACTION: Goans in Indias Defence Services'
With Foreword by Gen SF Rodrigues, PVSM, VSM, ADC (retd)
former Chief of Indian Army Staff
and Governor, Punjab & Administrator, Chandigarh UT
Copies now available at:
GOA: Literati (2277740), Other India (2263306), Broadway (6647038),
Mandovi (2427904), Noel DSilva & Associates (9823120454 / 9096781714),
Confidant / Golden Heart Emp (2732450), David & Co (2730326), Vardaan
(9527463684)
SERV / RETD Def Offrs in Goa: O/o Sainik Co-op Hse Bldg Sty, Def Col, Porvorim
(2417288)
MUMBAI: David & Co (22019010)
PUNE: Manneys (26131683), Popular (25678327)
BENGALURU: Narayan (22865800)
DELHI: Ritana (24617278)
ONLINE (worldwide delivery): http://www.ritanabooks.com,
http://goa1556.goa-india.org
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Goan music lovers will be pleased to hear that the contribution made by
Goans in the Nairobi orchestra.
has now been well documented in a recently-published book, "*QUAVERS NEAR
THE EQUATOR",*
by Richard(Dick) Moss - player, conductor and 'general dogsbody' who has
been associated with the
orchestra for 50 years.(although I have never met Dick personally, we have
corresponded over the
years and have mutual friends in the classical music world. But for a
message from my good friend,
Cynthia Salvadori, I might have missed this gem).
Among the many Goans featured in the book are my late friends Tony
Alvares & Oboe Noronha. Others
who feature in this masterly volume include:
Aires Campos
A Mr. DeSouza
Diana DeSouza
Walter Fernandes
Prashant Fernandes
Rudolf Gonsalves
Ilda Noronha(nee Rodrigues)
Luis Pires
Gillio Pires
Albert, Braz & Kirk Rodrigues
Leandro Saldanha and
A Mr. Vas
Without in any way wishing to minimise the part played by other Goans
mentioned in the book, I'd like to, if I may,
quote from a brief tribute to my friend Tony Alvares:
*"On his first day as a Civil Servant, he(Tony) was introduced to
his boss(the Chief Native Commissioner*
** at the Secretariat), who haughtily announced,
"we have a violinist as our Registry Clerk -has my section been up-graded?"
These, and many glowing tributes are paid to Tony and others while the Goan
Institute and Dr. Ribeiro's Goan School
are also mentioned.
The book, priced at £20 would make an ideal late Christmas present;
details ISBN 978-9966-05-261-5
Published in 2010 in England.
Mervyn Maciel
