[Goanet] Aaron Lobo

[Rochelle Pinto]

Thanks for posting these informed and enjoyable articles.

Rochelle Pinto

Re: [Goanet] [Goanet-News] At 92, it cannot but be a very happy birthday

[Rochelle Pinto]

Many good wishes to Victor Rangel Ribeiro. Enjoyed *Tivolem* when I first
read it many years ago. Thanks, Frederick, for the bibliography.

best wishes,
Rochelle

On 3 October 2017 at 21:01, Frederick Noronha 
wrote:

> Here's wishing a very happy birthday indeed to Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, who
> turns a grand (and very productive) 92 years old today. When we last spoke,
> he was simultaneously working on three books, and was making suggestions
> for another!
>
> Thanks to Goanet, I first met VRR (as I call him) some two decades ago. At
> that stage, he was 70+ and just embarking on the launch of his novel
> Tivolem, in Goa. It was a function at the Mandovi's.
>
> Since then, he has helped mentor the GoaWriters group, and build a lot of
> useful bridges with Goa. Here's wishing him many more productive times
> ahead.
>
> FN
> 9822122436
>
> Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
> From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
> 
> 
>
> *Victor Rangel-Ribeiro* (born Goa 
> 1925)
> is a writer.
>
> His is most noted as the author of *Tivolem* (1998), whose writing was
> funded by a New York Foundation for the Arts
>  Fiction
> Fellowship (awarded 1991), and which was awarded the Milkweed National
> Fiction Prize
>  and
> shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award
> .
>
> Contents  [hide]
>
>- 1Biography
>
>- 2Works 
>   - 2.1Novels
>   
>   - 2.2Short Stories
>   
>   - 2.3Music  Music>
>- 3References
>
>
> Biography[edit source
>  Ribeiro=edit=1=Template:BLP_editintro>
> ]
>
> Born in Goa, counting Konkani, Portuguese, and English as his three mother
> tongues,[1]
>  he moved
> to Mumbai  in 1939 and took his BA
> from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
>  in 1945.
> After a short spell teaching at high school, he moved into journalism. The
> 1940s already saw a number of his English-language short stories appearing
> in British Indian publications. After independence, he became assistant
> editor and music critic of the *National Standard*, Sunday editor for the
> Calcutta edition of the *Times of India* (1953), and a literary editor for
> the *Illustrated Weekly*. In 1956 emigrated to the United States, along
> with his wife, Lea, and worked part-time as a music critic for the *New
> York Times* and as the first Indian copy chief for the advertising agency
> J.
> Walter Thompson . From
> 1964-73 he ran a music antiquariat, became director of the New York
> Beethoven Society (overseeing its entry into the Lincoln Center for the
> Performing Arts
>  >).[2]
> 
>
> In 1983 he took an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University
> ,
> taught for a time in private and public schools, and then became involved
> in co-ordinating adult literacy teaching.[3]
> 
>
> He and Lea have two children.[4]
> 
> Works[edit source
>  Ribeiro=edit=2=Template:BLP_editintro>
> ]
>
> This is a partial bibliography.
> Novels[edit source
>  Ribeiro=edit=3=Template:BLP_editintro>
> ]
>
>- *Tivolem* (Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1998)
>
> Short Stories[edit source
>  Ribeiro=edit=4=Template:BLP_editintro>
> ]
>
>- 'The Miscreant', *The Iowa Review* 20.2 (1990): 52-65,
>http://ir.uiowa.edu/iowareview/vol20/iss2/19
>- 'Madonna of the Raindrops' and 'Day of the Baptist', *Literary
> Review*,
>39.4 (1998)
>- 'Senhor Eusebio Builds his Dream House' and 'Angel Wings', in *Ferry
>Crossing: Short Stories from Goa*, ed. by Manohar Shetty (New Delhi:
>Penguin, 1998)
>- *Loving Ayesha and Other Tales from Near and 

Re: [Goanet] Goa news for September 21, 2008

[rochelle pinto]

Would like to know if there is a follow-up to the case of the student who was 
humiliated along with his parents for being critical about his professor on a 
personal blog. Is anyone defending him?

Rochelle

Re: [Goanet] AUTHOR PROFILE: Dr Teresa Albuquerque

[rochelle pinto]

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It would be nice if Dr. Albuquerque could also start a research library in 
Goa - attached to the journalism school.