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

[Eugene Correia]

To add to this conversation, I visited Victor at his old house in Queens
during my visit to New York. As expected, it was full of books and, I
think, it a corner lay a grand piano.
I had read his Tivolem shortly after it was first published and I followed
it by reading Loving Ayesha. Before that, I had read his story in Ferry
Crossing, edited by Manohar Shetty
I had also visited him in his office in downtown New York when he worked
for an Indian-American magazine. I don't remember which visit came first.
Then I met him at writer/journalist Benedicat (Ben) Antao's house in
Toronto, which happens to be Ben's and my home town. Then came our meeting
at the Goanetters' organized Goan Convention in Toronto.
I must thank him for letting me write a piece for the coffee-table book,
Aparanta. Though the piece was small and focussed on Goans in Toronto, it
felt nice to be among the writers detailing their experiences in the
diaspora and at home.
One thing for sure, I must acknowledge the VRR is the epitome of what a
gentleman should be. Sadly he is alone with his loving companion, Lira, no
more. But surely he has children and grand-children and a vast circle of
friends and admirers.
May the good Lord give the grace == and the strength -- to continue his
work. Also hope the Lord allows him to complete his century, just as
Lambert Mascarenhas, another one of journalist/writer.

Eugene Correia

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 10:00 PM, colin d'cruz <colinbass...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Yes, in fact Ailleen Rangel was the first family member i introduced my
> wife Diana to, before we were married, she was in Goa around seven years
> ago, i think she stayed at your place for a while, when you have the time
> do listen/download some of my work over here: www.jazzgoa.bandcamp.com 
>
>
> 
> From: vrangel...@aol.com <vrangel...@aol.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 5:46 PM
> To: colinbass...@hotmail.com; reply.goanet.n...@gmail.com
> Cc: goa...@goanet.org
> Subject: Re: [Goanet-News] At 92, it cannot but be a very happy birthday
>
>
> Glad to know we're related, Colin! Let's keep in touch.
> Regards,
> Victor
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: colin d'cruz <colinbass...@hotmail.com>
> To: reply.goanet.news <reply.goanet.n...@gmail.com>
> Cc: goanet <goa...@goanet.org>; vrangelrib <vrangel...@aol.com>
> Sent: Wed, Oct 4, 2017 12:14 pm
> Subject: Re: [Goanet-News] At 92, it cannot but be a very happy birthday
>
> Victor is related to me from my mum's side of the family, my aunt a Rangel
> married and lived in Malawi before Idi Amin drove them off to the uk- happy
> birthday victor!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 04-Oct-2017, at 9:41 PM, Frederick Noronha <
> fredericknoron...@gmail.com<mailto:fredericknoron...@gmail.com>> 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
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#mw-head>
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#p-search>
> >
> > *Victor Rangel-Ribeiro* (born Goa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Foundation_for_the_Arts> Fiction
> > Fellowship (awarded 1991), and which was awarded the Milkweed National
> > Fiction Prize
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkweed_National_Fiction_Prize> and
> > shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword_Book_Award>.
> >
> > Contents [hide]
> >
> > - 1Biography
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Biography>
> > - 2Works <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Works>
> > - 2.1Novels
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Novels>
> > - 2.2S

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

[Gabe Menezes]

On 4 October 2017 at 17:14, colin d'cruz  wrote:

> Victor is related to me from my mum's side of the family, my aunt a Rangel
> married and lived in Malawi before Idi Amin drove them off to the uk- happy
> birthday victor!
>

Happy birthday and many more to come. Hope Victor had a wonderful day.

Don't mean to be pedantic but if it was Malawi then it was Hastings Banda,
if was Idi Amin then it was Uganda.


>
> DEV BOREM KORUM
>

Gabe Menezes.

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

[vrangel...@aol.com]

Glad to know we're related, Colin! Let's keep in touch.

Regards,
Victor





-Original Message-
From: colin d'cruz <colinbass...@hotmail.com>
To: reply.goanet.news <reply.goanet.n...@gmail.com>
Cc: goanet <goa...@goanet.org>; vrangelrib <vrangel...@aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 4, 2017 12:14 pm
Subject: Re: [Goanet-News] At 92, it cannot but be a very happy birthday

Victor is related to me from my mum's side of the family, my aunt a Rangel 
married and lived in Malawi before Idi Amin drove them off to the uk- happy 
birthday victor!

Sent from my iPhone

> On 04-Oct-2017, at 9:41 PM, Frederick Noronha <fredericknoron...@gmail.com> 
> 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
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#mw-head>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#p-search>
> 
> *Victor Rangel-Ribeiro* (born Goa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Foundation_for_the_Arts> Fiction
> Fellowship (awarded 1991), and which was awarded the Milkweed National
> Fiction Prize
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkweed_National_Fiction_Prize> and
> shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword_Book_Award>.
> 
> Contents  [hide]
> 
>   - 1Biography
>   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Biography>
>   - 2Works <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Works>
>  - 2.1Novels
>  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Novels>
>  - 2.2Short Stories
>  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Short_Stories>
>  - 2.3Music <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Music>
>   - 3References
>   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#References>
> 
> Biography[edit source
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro=edit=1=Template:BLP_editintro>
> ]
> 
> Born in Goa, counting Konkani, Portuguese, and English as his three mother
> tongues,[1]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#cite_note-1> he moved
> to Mumbai <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai> in 1939 and took his BA
> from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Xavier%27s_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 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts>).[2]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#cite_note-2>
> 
> In 1983 he took an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teachers_College,_Columbia_University>,
> taught for a time in private and public schools, and then became involved
> in co-ordinating adult literacy teaching.[3]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#cite_note-3>
> 
> He and Lea have two children.[4]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#cite_note-4>
> Works[edit source
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victor_Rangel-Ribei

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

[colin d'cruz]

Yes, in fact Ailleen Rangel was the first family member i introduced my wife 
Diana to, before we were married, she was in Goa around seven years ago, i 
think she stayed at your place for a while, when you have the time do 
listen/download some of my work over here: www.jazzgoa.bandcamp.com 



From: vrangel...@aol.com <vrangel...@aol.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 5:46 PM
To: colinbass...@hotmail.com; reply.goanet.n...@gmail.com
Cc: goa...@goanet.org
Subject: Re: [Goanet-News] At 92, it cannot but be a very happy birthday


Glad to know we're related, Colin! Let's keep in touch.
Regards,
Victor



-Original Message-
From: colin d'cruz <colinbass...@hotmail.com>
To: reply.goanet.news <reply.goanet.n...@gmail.com>
Cc: goanet <goa...@goanet.org>; vrangelrib <vrangel...@aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Oct 4, 2017 12:14 pm
Subject: Re: [Goanet-News] At 92, it cannot but be a very happy birthday

Victor is related to me from my mum's side of the family, my aunt a Rangel 
married and lived in Malawi before Idi Amin drove them off to the uk- happy 
birthday victor!

Sent from my iPhone

> On 04-Oct-2017, at 9:41 PM, Frederick Noronha 
> <fredericknoron...@gmail.com<mailto:fredericknoron...@gmail.com>> 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
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#mw-head>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#p-search>
>
> *Victor Rangel-Ribeiro* (born Goa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Foundation_for_the_Arts> Fiction
> Fellowship (awarded 1991), and which was awarded the Milkweed National
> Fiction Prize
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkweed_National_Fiction_Prize> and
> shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossword_Book_Award>.
>
> Contents [hide]
>
> - 1Biography
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Biography>
> - 2Works <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Works>
> - 2.1Novels
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Novels>
> - 2.2Short Stories
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Short_Stories>
> - 2.3Music <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#Music>
> - 3References
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#References>
>
> Biography[edit source
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro=edit=1=Template:BLP_editintro>
> ]
>
> Born in Goa, counting Konkani, Portuguese, and English as his three mother
> tongues,[1]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#cite_note-1> he moved
> to Mumbai <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumbai> in 1939 and took his BA
> from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Xavier%27s_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 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Center_for_the_Performing_Arts>).[2]
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Rangel-Ribeiro#cite_note-2>
>

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

[colin d'cruz]

Victor is related to me from my mum's side of the family, my aunt a Rangel 
married and lived in Malawi before Idi Amin drove them off to the uk- happy 
birthday victor!

Sent from my iPhone

> On 04-Oct-2017, at 9:41 PM, 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 
>   - 3References
>   
> 
> Biography[edit source
> 
> ]
> 
> 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
> 
> ]
> 
> This is a partial bibliography.
> Novels[edit source
> 
> ]
> 
>   - *Tivolem* (Minneapolis: Milkweed, 1998)
> 
> Short Stories[edit source
> 
> ]
> 
>   - '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