[Goanet] Preview of book and book release
Dear members, It gives me great pleasure to release issue no. 10 of the Joao Roque Literary Journal. This issue allows you to preview our print anthology to be released at GALF 2018 on 8 December at 1240. https://www.joaoroqueliteraryjournal.com/ Best wishes, Selma
[Goanet] BOOK LAUNCH: The Brave New World of Goan Writing 2018
Dear all, We warmly invite you to the book launch of the anthology 'The Brave New World of Goan Writing 2018' (Bombaykala Publishers). 8 December at ICG, Dona Paula, Goa. 12:40 pm - 1:15 pm | Exclusive Launch: Joao Roque Lit Journal's print anthology Novelist Victor Rangel-Ribeiro will release the book followed by reading and panel discussion led by author Jessica Faleiro. On the panel will be poet Salil Chaturvedi, and writers Jugneeta Sudan and Fatima M. Noronha. The anthology comprises of 20 odd writers and includes short stories, poems, memoir, travelogues and literary essays. It will be an ideal Christmas gift. All best, Selma Carvalho
[Goanet] The Joao Roque Literary Journal 2018 awards
We have had a marvellous year and it has been very difficult indeed to choose the shortlist for the 2018 JRLJ awards. The submissions until December 2018 having been closed and deliberated on, we are pleased to announce our shortlist as follows, in no particular order. The winners will be declared in early November 2018, the prize being adjudicated by award winning authors Victor Rangel-Ribeiro and Roanna Gonsalves, and scholar Cielo G. Festino of the Universidade Paulista, São Paulo. The two winners will receive a cash prize of Rs 10,000 each and an invitation to attend a presentation at GALF 2018. One winner will be published in The Goan newspaper. All shortlisted submissions will feature in the print anthology 2018 or subsequent editions. JRLJ reserves the right to alter the outcomes should circumstances change. Please note some of these articles will not appear online but only in the print anthology. Brief extracts will appear in the December issue 2018. You can view the shortlisted writers here: https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/ The Joao-Roque Literary Journal nurtures and provides a platform for Goan and Goa-centric short and longform narrative writing. You can write to me to find out how you can support this important platform. Best wishes, Selma Carvalho Editor
[Goanet] The ridiculously fantastic September issue of the Joao Roque Literary Journal
Dear colleagues and members, I am so proud to release this issue curated and edited by Rochelle Potkar. The fact that our content page is now a double-bar is testimony to how far we’ve come from having floated our first issue in Jan 2017, which Rochelle and I filled up with our own writing to make up for content. Jessica Faleiro joins us as commission editor as of this issue and has already brought a new vitality to the journal. Please do not miss perusing this issue which features regional, national and international writers. Full issue here: https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/ Fiction A Taste For The Exotic By Ulrike Rodrigues Poetry Three Haibuns: Unlost By Paresh Tiwari Two Poems: The Sea Knows the Itinerary of Pain By Saina Afreen Two Poems: To Monsoon Butterflies By Joseph Furtado Five Poems: A New Ministry By Mrinalini Harchandrai Five Poems: Cottage Industry By Manohar Shetty What Shall I Wear to Work Today? By Roanna Gonsalves Five Poems: Tea in Panaji By Sarabjeet Garcha Five Poems: Ebb Tide On the Zuari By Brian Mendonça A Drunken Poet By Gouthami Non-Fiction Interview: Schulen Fernandes Head Creative Designer at Wendell Rodricks Collections Photo Essay: The Narks By Salil Chaturvedi Caste in the Kitchen By Malavika Neurekar How F. N. Souza Got His Name By Selma Carvalho Short Memoir: 1950, A Journey From Goa to Bombay By Anthony Gomes The Literary Maladies of Diaspora Goans By Ben Antao Book Review The Baptism of Tony Calangute By Stanley Coutinho Paper Asylum By Siddharth Dasgupta The Delicate Balance of Little Lives By Cielo G. Festino Art Gallery A peek inside the Carpe Diem Gallery, Majorda, Goa. We curate the best in Goan and Goa-centric short and long-form narrative writing. We appreciate respectful discussions on anything we publish. Happy reading, Selma Carvalho Editor
[Goanet] A beautiful short memoir set in Bombay by Ahmed Bunglowala
Growing up in the company of nubile women by Ahmed Bunglowala For a small town guy, St. Xavier’s was a testing place for the first six months. The young men and women—strutting their designer clothes and attitude in the gargoyle-festooned quadrangle — made me very self-conscious of the two pairs of shirt and trouser my mother had put together from her meagre earnings as a part-time seamstress. The Xavier’s quadrangle, as it turned out, was the best ‘classroom’ in the college. Here you could observe the foibles and frailties of human nature on glorious display! Inside the classrooms, we had a widely varying quality of faculty—the good, the mediocre and the egotistical. Apart from the quadrangle, the college canteen became, for me, the next best growing-up experience. It was here that I first met Edwina and Vijaya (my future wife) over some excellent beef chilly fry that the place used to dish out in those days. All the waiters were Goan — Dominic, Savio or Peter — living within walking distance in Dhobi Talao, known, then, as the Little Goa of Bombay; now being rapidly gentrified into a mini Connaught Place. I was introduced to the two young women by a mutual acquaintance whose name I can’t remember. Edwina was bluff and friendly as usual but Vijaya was plainly sceptical of a small-town johnnie plying his charms in the college canteen. Anyway, we got to know one another better as the second semester waned. By the beginning of the second year, I became a permanent fixture around Edwina and Vijaya. They didn’t seem to mind my innocuous presence; at times I was a reassuring male figure at the bus stop waiting with them to board their busses — Edwina to Colaba, Vijaya to distant Chembur (and I to Nagpada, last). Read full text here: https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/2018/3/20/short-memoir-growing-up-in-the-company-of-nubile-women Best wishes, selma
[Goanet] A memoir of a Goan childhood in Nairobi
By J. Lawrence Nazareth. My earliest recollection is that of being seated on a hardwood floor and peering down into a darkened hole in a floor-board when I was little more than a year old. It is more a presence, or should I say a pre-sense, a memory of something that may not have happened. For me, however, it is real, my sole link to the “wood-and-iron” house of my birth --- “wood” because that was the material of its construction and “iron” because its roof was made from corrugated sheets of that metal. Shortly before my second birthday, my parents were fortunate enough to be able to move to a small stone bungalow about half a mile down the road, away from this wood-and-iron house in which they had lived in the first years of their marriage along with my father’s unmarried sister, the widow of my father’s eldest brother and her children and, at one time or another, two other brothers, one of them newly married. Houses were scarce in the years immediately following World War II. The wood-and-iron house has long since disappeared though I remember walking past a similar structure as a child with my younger sister and brother on our way to church. Read full text here: https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/2018/4/7/young-under-the-apple-boughs Best wishes, Editor, Joao Roque Literary Journal
[Goanet] Announcement about Joao Roque Literary Journal Anthology
The Joao Roque Literary Journal hopes to release its first print anthology by December 2018. The writings to be featured will be selected from those published on the journal during 2017/18, and will consist of a combination of established writers and emerging voices. Although every piece we publish is of excellent quality, the anthology will aspire to overall cohesion. Pieces which advance our understanding of Goan issues, which best reflect Goa’s pluralistic heritage, and show a felicity of literary style will be prioritised. Selected writers will be notified by July 2018. We are still accepting submissions for consideration, so do send us your best unpublished writing. The anthology will be made available for public sale, archived at leading libraries in Goa, and gifted to GALF 2018 delegates. We retain the right to cancel the project if circumstances force us to do so. Best wishes, Selma Carvalho and Rochelle Potkar Editors, Joao Roque Literary Journal
Re: [Goanet] Some outstanding pieces of writing in the March issue of the Joao Roque Literary Journal
Correction: 'A Dolphin in the Ganges' is a fictional tale set on the River Ganges. Best, Selma On Wed, 28/2/18, joao roque literary journal wrote: Subject: Some outstanding pieces of writing in the March issue of the Joao Roque Literary Journal To: "Goanet" Date: Wednesday, 28 February, 2018, 16:46 The March issue of the JRLJ journal, edited by novelist Jessica Faleiro and academic R. Benedito Ferrao, is now out. It contains some outstanding writing from Goans based all over the world but in particular Australia. Read Steve Pereira's story about his sexual encounters on the River Ganges. https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/fiction/2018/2/9/a-dolphin-in-the-ganges Yvonee Vaz Ezdani's writing on the historical connection between Goa and Burmese-Portuguese community. https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/2018/2/6/the-baying-people-of-burma The young poet Rochelle Silva's interview with Jessica Faleiro on her new book When Home is an Idea.https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/2018/2/7/when-home-is-an-idea Cliff Pereira's impressions of South Africa from the point of an ex-Kenyan.https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/2018/2/12/excursions-to-the-south Peter Nazareth's play including a new introduction by him.https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/fiction/2018/2/17/52wsdo8gsjn94k9dp6mebess2ejlwl And much more. Best wishes,Selma CarvalhoEditor
[Goanet] Some outstanding pieces of writing in the March issue of the Joao Roque Literary Journal
The March issue of the JRLJ journal, edited by novelist Jessica Faleiro and academic R. Benedito Ferrao, is now out. It contains some outstanding writing from Goans based all over the world but in particular Australia. Read Steve Pereira's story about his sexual encounters on the River Ganges. https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/fiction/2018/2/9/a-dolphin-in-the-ganges Yvonee Vaz Ezdani's writing on the historical connection between Goa and Burmese-Portuguese community. https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/2018/2/6/the-baying-people-of-burma The young poet Rochelle Silva's interview with Jessica Faleiro on her new book When Home is an Idea.https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/2018/2/7/when-home-is-an-idea Cliff Pereira's impressions of South Africa from the point of an ex-Kenyan.https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/2018/2/12/excursions-to-the-south Peter Nazareth's play including a new introduction by him.https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/fiction/2018/2/17/52wsdo8gsjn94k9dp6mebess2ejlwl And much more. Best wishes,Selma CarvalhoEditor
[Goanet] Fw: Prize sponsorship Joao Roque Literary Journal
What's happening at the Joao Roque Literary Journal for the year 2018. The award of Rs 10,000 for best in fiction will be sponsored by the Goan Association UK. The award of Rs 10,000 for best in non-fiction will be sponsored by the Joao Roque Literary Journal. (Non-fiction is limited to short memoir, travelogue, review, art essays and photo essays with accompanying narrative) Let's get writing. Best wishes,SelmaEditor
[Goanet] Submission for the Sept/Oct issue of Joao Roque Literary Journal
Dear members, Submissions for the Mar/Apr and the May/Jun issues of the Joao Roque Literary Journal are closed. We are now reading for Sept/Oct and Dec/Jan issues. Remember every original and unpublished story/narrative fiction piece submitted to the Joao Roque Literary Journal is eligible for the annual award of Rs 10,000. We are getting busy so do submit as early as possible. Get your inspiration hats on and submit spectacular works of writing to our audiences in India, Britain, America, Canada, Kenya and Portugal. Submissions must be of high quality to be accepted. Best wishes,Selma
[Goanet] Submission call for Short Memoir writing
Dear Members, The Joao Roque Literary Journal completes its first year with 11,000 visits and 23,000 page views. This is most encouraging for a journal which is Goa-centric and dedicated to narrative writing. Our statistics also tell us that the Non-Fiction category is formidable. And this year we want to encourage it even more, so we are increasing the award money for the 'Best in Non-Fiction 2018' to Rs 10,000. Within this category we want to seriously encourage the short memoir (also called life writing). The short memoir is making a comeback in the literary world. It is not an easy genre and requires crafting similar to a short story but it must work harder to create a sense of time and place. And because it is a piece of revelatory discourse it calls for careful examination and introspection of yourself and the spaces that you inhabit. We want to encourage the short memoir and hope to feature at least one sample work per issue. A fantastic example of this genre is 'Best in Non-Fiction 2017' winner Fatima M. Noronha's piece, 'The Menino Will Come Tonight.' You can read it here: https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/2017/5/6/memoir The Joao Roque Literary Journal is open to all other submissions throughout the year. Best wishes,Editorial team
[Goanet] The Menino Will Come Tonight published on The Goan
As part of the collaboration between the Joao Roque Literary Journal and the Goan newspaper the best in Non-Fiction 2017 winning piece 'The Menino Will Come Tonight' by Fatima M. Noroha was published in print on the Goan today. http://epaper.thegoan.net/1469798/Sunday-suppliment/Sunday#page/3/2 Best wishes,Editor
[Goanet] Vamona Exhibition between 12 Dec - 12 Jan 2018
If you are in Goa between 12 Dec - 12 Jan 2018, do visit the exquisite exhibition at the Fundacao Oriente curated by R. Benedito Ferrao, lecturer at College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA. Best wishes,EditorJoao Roque Literary Journal
[Goanet] Fw: Goan Christmas Traditions by Reena Martins
The link is as follows: https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-2/ Best,Editorial Team On Thursday, 23 November 2017, 12:49, joao roque literary journal wrote: Folks, we are in for a real Christmas treat. A delicious memoir piece written by Reena Martins reminisces on the Christmas traditions of Bombay Goans. Included are beautiful pictures of food, Christmas stars and a sumptuous table setting. "The well-heeled Menezes family (their bungalow on the leafy Wellesley Road was rented from the father of industrialist, Azim Premji) was one of the few Goans at the time to own an oven. It was a British made Belling which baked the Christmas fruitcake and New Year’s bebinca. But cakes were hardly regular fare in traditional Goan homes in the Sixties and Seventies. The few households that did bake, took their batters to neighbourhood bakeries.Our family's batega pronounced in Goa as batk (coconut cake) and the little ribbon cake were baked in the blazing ovens of Persian Bakery in Poona’s Kolsa Galli, the blacksmith’s hub. But while the coconut in the batega on the aluminium platter survived the savage heat and the cake came out a beautiful golden brown, the ribbon cake bore deep scars." Read full article here:Memoir: Once Upon a Christmas | | | | || | | | | | Memoir: Once Upon a Christmas By Reena Martins Issue no. 6 While the older ones rolled out the pastry, the “experts” filled and sealed the neu... | | | | Best wishes,Editorial Team
[Goanet] Goan Christmas Traditions by Reena Martins
Folks, we are in for a real Christmas treat. A delicious memoir piece written by Reena Martins reminisces on the Christmas traditions of Bombay Goans. Included are beautiful pictures of food, Christmas stars and a sumptuous table setting. "The well-heeled Menezes family (their bungalow on the leafy Wellesley Road was rented from the father of industrialist, Azim Premji) was one of the few Goans at the time to own an oven. It was a British made Belling which baked the Christmas fruitcake and New Year’s bebinca. But cakes were hardly regular fare in traditional Goan homes in the Sixties and Seventies. The few households that did bake, took their batters to neighbourhood bakeries.Our family's batega pronounced in Goa as batk (coconut cake) and the little ribbon cake were baked in the blazing ovens of Persian Bakery in Poona’s Kolsa Galli, the blacksmith’s hub. But while the coconut in the batega on the aluminium platter survived the savage heat and the cake came out a beautiful golden brown, the ribbon cake bore deep scars." Read full article here:Memoir: Once Upon a Christmas | | | | || | | | | | Memoir: Once Upon a Christmas By Reena Martins Issue no. 6 While the older ones rolled out the pastry, the “experts” filled and sealed the neu... | | | | Best wishes,Editorial Team
[Goanet] The winners of the Joao Roque Literary Journal awards 2017
Have been announced on our website. Find out who they are by clicking here. https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/ Best wishes,Editorial team
[Goanet] Submission call open for the June issue 2018
Dear all, Submissions for the March issue of the Joao Roque Literary Journal are closed. It will be guest-edited by novelist Jessica Faleiro and R. Benedito Ferrao, lecturer at College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA. We are reading for the June 2018 issue. We are looking for quality short stories, poems, memoir, travel writing, book reviews, art essays and photo-essay. Goans and those residing in Goa may submit on any theme. Non-Goans submitting are encouraged to explore Goa related issues. Exceptions can be made. Writing must be of sufficiently good quality to be accepted for publication. Best wishes,Editorial Team
[Goanet] 'Sisters' a short story by Linken Fernandes
I saw the notice for the third anniversary mass two weeks too late. It stared at me from the newspaper wrapped around the savouries from the local Udipi. I couldn’t believe it: not just the fact that it was already three years since Greg had passed on, but to actually see a mass announced on his behalf. I had not visited Greg’s home in Sonora even once after the condolence meeting, a secular one I might stress, which was held in Margao town soon after the news of his demise reached Goa. It was here that I had made the foolish promise to his sisters that I would drop in on them soon. Foolish because I made the promise provoked by the emotion of the moment rather than because it was expected of me; I barely knew Hannah and Sylvia. Read full text here: https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/fiction/2017/9/20/sisters Best,Editorial team
[Goanet] Of Crioulos and Poskem (Book discussion of Wendell Rodrick's book)
The word ‘crioulo’, Melo informs, has a conflicted history, and ‘disparate usage across geographies.’ Most likely derived from the Latin root ‘creare’ to ‘create’ and the related Portuguese verb ‘criar’ to ‘raise or bring up’, in its initial usage 'crioulo' referred to black slaves born in the Americas, a word used to differentiate them from slaves brought over from Africa. But what did the word mean in Goa? Luis Cabral de Olivier, left this entry for the word ‘crioulo’ in a dictionary of ‘imperial’ Portuguese terms: ‘The term crioulo was used in Goa in a sense different to the one it is usually associated. The word served to designate either an adopted child or a servant close to the family raised at home from childhood.’ It interesting how over time 'crioulos' a word linked to slavery and African heritage, and mired in race miscegenation transformed to mean 'adopted' in the Goan context. Many a ‘crioulo’ in Goa, did indeed have African heritage. Goans who had migrated to Africa, at times, returned with indigenous African servants who might have been in their employ there. Fatima Gracias hypothesises that freed slaves, after the abolition of slavery within the Portuguese empire, might have been adopted. Given that the Santa Casa had in their custody abandoned slaves as well as orphans, it is hardly a stretch to assume that the Santa Casa would have encouraged people to adopt slaves, no doubt as labour rather than as children to cherish. And finally, there were African troops stationed in Goa; anecdotal evidence tells us there were illegitimate children of biracial Goan-African stock who were adopted by families. Read full text here:https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/2017/10/7/of-crioulos-and-poskim Best,Editorial team
[Goanet] Short Story 'Penny' by novelist Jessica Faleiro
Enjoy a delightful short story by novelist Jessica Faleiro. Sunny Pereira’s obliging voice crested over the neatly upholstered antique Portuguese furniture, slid across the living room, drifted upstairs, and seeped through the crack under Penny’s door to where Penny sat at her desk writing. She’d been wondering about the frangipani tree outside her window, distracted by its fragrance and making notes about it when Sunny’s recognisable tone diverted her attention. Penny rose from her chair and stretched her stiff joints. She put down her pen, opened her bedroom door, and sat at the top of the stairs listening.Sunny had stopped talking and her mother had filled the gap in the conversation without missing a beat, as she usually did.‘I saw your mother just the other day in the market, you know. She looked like she had put on some weight, so I told her to drink warm water with a bit of lemon and honey every morning . . . to clear the digestive system, you know? I’ve started doing it every morning and see, I’ve lost two kilos. Just like that! So simple! You should try it too. You’ve put on quite a bit of weight since I last saw you. Aren’t the kids keeping you busy?’ Read full text here:https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/fiction/2017/9/26/penny Best,Editorial team
[Goanet] The Gates of Chorao (a slide-show presentation)
The Gates of Chorao is a photo-essay with 17 photographs of Goan gates taken by poet Salil Chaturvedi. This breathtaking slide-show presentation is not to be missed. https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-2/ Joao Roque Literary JournalEditorial team
[Goanet] December 2017 issue of the Joao Roque Literary Journal is out
The exquisite December issue of the Joao Roque Literary Journal is out. Enjoy short stories by Manohar Shetty, Pundalik Naik as translated from the Konkani by Vidya Pai, Jessica Faleiro and Linken Fernandes. There's poetry by Rochelle Pinto and a photo-poem by American poet Abeer Hoque. I urge our readers to visit each section offering a wealth of imagery in its varied forms, either through words or art or photography. Do not miss the opportunity to view the slideshows and exhibitions on display in this issue from poet Salil Chaturvedi's essay on the Gates of Chorao, to Bazil Mota's impressionist-inspired watercolour paintings, and our art gallery which features a Goa exhibition entitled Exposição de Arte dating back to 1941. In the non-fiction section is a discussion on Wendell Rodrick's book Poskem and a look at Victor Rangel-Ribeiro and the short story. Please enjoy this issue. The cover itself is worth a visit. A picture of a Goan gate shot by poet Salil Chaturvedi. https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/ Best wishes,Selma CarvalhoEditor
[Goanet] Award winning novel Victor Rangel-Ribeiro, adjudicator of shortlist
Do not miss the opportunity to have your work read and assessed by the most prominent thinkers and literary writers of our times. Award winning novelist Victor Rangel-Ribeiro will be adjudicating the shortlist for both the fiction category and the narrative non-fiction category of the Joao Roque Literary Journal. You can read more about Victor Rangel Ribeiro's bio here.http://www.victorrangel-ribeiro.com/ The winning entry in both categories will be decided by illustrator, artist, filmmaker, writer and political commentator Gautam Benegal. You can read more about Benegal's bio here.https://gautambenegal.wordpress.com/2011/12/06/gautam-benegal-profile/ The shortlist will be published in the December issue of the Joao Roque Literary Journal. You still have time to be submit your piece for consideration.You can view the current issue of Joao Roque Literary Journal here.https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/ Best wishes,Editorial team
[Goanet] Dockside Farewells, The Goan Abroad by Cliff Pereira
Soon Kenya would be independent and her comfort-zone of the Goan railway community at Makupa on Mombasa Island would vaporise as more people would leave for Goa, or move inland into the formally 'White Highlands'. Her new family would end up across the country and 1700 meters (5,577 ft) up in the Western Highlands. Gone were her familiar Goan families, the social centres of the local Makupa church in Mombasa and the Goan Club that her father co-founded, the Star of the Sea School that her cousins taught at, and the local market. Gone were the pillion rides on her husband’s scooter as they crossed the floating pontoon Nyali Bridge to picnics on the white sand beaches of the north coast. Then communication with Goa was by Aerogram letters sent from the small five-street town of Kisii that took up to two weeks to get to Goa. This was Kisii “post-Maciel”. That is, shortly after the town described so vividly by Meryvn Maciel in his book Bwana Karani (Merlin; 1985). For mother there was no electricity, and food was cooked on a cast iron oven made in Newcastle that ran on firewood (kuni) cut from the surrounding forest by prisoners! Hurricane lamps provided light and food was kept in a meat safe. But, for a few years at least, there were some other Goans, a tiny red brick Catholic Church with Sunday English services in EkeGusii and Kiswahili, and the club that was for the few Goans, Seychellois and the Europeans - as all white people were called. Mombasa was recreated in miniature. Read full text here:https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/2017/6/27/memoir Joao Roque Literary Journal
[Goanet] A Goan in Macau by Jessica Faleiro
In Sun After Dark (Bloomsbury; 2005), Pico Iyer writers, 'The modern, shifting world has brought disorientation home to us, and mystery and strangeness; even in the most familiar places we may come upon something unsettling ...' As I walk through the streets of modernised Macau, I recall these lines from one of my favourite travel writers, and I realise that I am confronted with the opposite. This Special Administrated Region (SAR) of China was administered by Portugal from the mid-1500s to 1999, after which it was 'handed back' to the Chinese government. All around me, I can hear what I guess is Cantonese, but every now and then, a Portuguese word or two drifts to my ears and I turn around in search of the speaker, in vain. It seems as if familiar ghosts of the past are haunting me in this remote Far East Asian territory. Read full text here:https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/2017/7/18/travelogue-a-goan-in-macau Joao Roque Literary Journal
[Goanet] Goan Tailors: Excluded lives
What should have been the pivot of Sabby’s interior monologue is the painful exclusion of the tailoring community from the lives of elite Goans. But this is addressed only peripherally (pp 100-102). In actual fact, a collection of oral histories of former East African Goans deposited with the British Library (Kings Cross) reveals the extent of the discriminatory practices faced by this community. The founding constitution of the Nairobi Goan Institute put in place in 1905, had as its guiding principle that ‘no other than a member of the Goan community of good social repute shall be eligible to the membership of the institute.’ Throughout the townships of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika (now Tanzania), tailors continued to be excluded well into the 1950s, from the privileged social institutes Goans fostered. Only in Malawi where numbers were considerably low did some sort of solidarity exist which allowed tailors to be members of the Malawi Goan Social Club. The irony was, many of these tailors with thriving businesses of their own, were financially far better off than civil service clerks. Read full text here https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-2/ Do check out our other titles and writing by novelist Jessica Faleiro, historical researcher Clifford J. Pereira and lecturer and writer R. Benedito Ferrao. In the fiction section there is a one-act play by Isabel Santa Rita Vas, and short fiction by novelist Ivan Arthur and newcomer Ayesha Souza. The Editorial TeamJoao Roque Literary Journal
[Goanet] Colonial Panjim: From Bogland to Capital
"This flourishing however was not to be reflected in the intellectual lives of the general population. An insightful comparative table plots trends over half a century; while there were 14 doctors in Panjim in 1864, by 1921 there were still only 22 doctors. A similar trend was noted in almost every profession, with there being just one engineer in the city by 1922. " To read full text click here. https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/2017/5/1/colonial-panjim Joao Roque Literary Journal
