I think this subject has been discussed earlier. Malaika definitely is not a Konkanui song. (It is like ye ye Katrina is a SriLankan song though they use its tune in SriLanka) For more on Malaika, click on below website:
http://www.dewani.ca/malaika.htm No comments on 'ex-Africander sitting in Canada writing a book on Konkani music' (Ironic, Ha!) MD. Message: 10 Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:29:03 -0800 (PST) From: Mervyn Lobo <mervynal...@yahoo.ca> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Subject: [Goanet] Malaika: A konkani Song? Message-ID: <519446.95477...@web50507.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Frederick Noronha wrote:? > Instead of seeing a threat in every situation, we need to find new > possibilities there. Before cyberspace came along in the mid-1990s, > things were far more disconnected. Today, at least you have an > ex-Africander sitting in Canada writing a book on Konkani music > (together with another Goan in Canada, one in Bahamas, and someone in > Goa poking fun and asking since when Malaika became a Konkani song, > etc).
