Dear Frederick Thank you for your message 6 in Goanet Digest Vol 6, Issue 1121. A few sunsets and sunrises have gone since then and I do apologise that it has not been possible to acknowledge your post before now.
In England we have a rugby song that goes something like this "why were you born if you are no use to anyone, why were you born at all". I believe all of us has a purpose in life. Our people remind me of the electric train that requires the electric motive force (EMF) for it to move forward or backward. For example in magnets, like poles repel, unlike poles attract - North+North will repel and North+South will attract. My review on Sixth Night was done "on the hoof" as I enjoyed the book so much and wanted to share it with others so that they may enjoy it too. This was many years ago and, unfortunately, I do not have this review in my possession now. From memory, the book mirrored our community exactly as it was then covering attitudes to caste, jealousy and social structures which we can now understand and relate to today. If readers would like a more detailed summary may I suggest they put into their search engine "Reviews of Sixth Night by Silviano Barbosa" and it will come up with a number of them such as: Zoe Ackah in The Epoch Times 21 July 2005 Ben Antao which appeared in the Goa Observer 12-18 March 2005 Lino Leito in The Agora Prof Isabel Santa Rita Vaz 12 June 2005 Agnelo Gomes Bosco D'Mello Ives Pereira Goan Voice Canada www.goanvoice.ca Issue 6, 12 March 2011 wikimapia - shows the home of Linda Cardoso the fictional character in the Canadian/Goan novel To all goanet readers who have not yet read "Sixth Night", I strongly recommend doing so as it is a gem of a book that has an appeal to all ages. Thanks to the formation of Goa Book Club I am now proudly aware of so many unheard of authors and look forward to reading some of these books in the future. The challenge is not so much about lighting a flame for Goa products, more about ensuring that once lit it is not continually being blown out. Melvyn Fernandes Thornton Heath, Surrey, United Kingdom www.virginmedia.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------