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THE ESTEVES FAMILY -- GENEALOGY/ROOTS Welcome! This website was created on 04 May 2017 and last updated on 06 Jun 2017. There are 48 names in this family tree.The webmaster of this site is Anish Esteves. Please click here if you have any comments or feedback. https://esteves.tribalpages.com/ GUIRIM BOYS: Past pupils of Monte de Guirim's St Anthony's at Goa: http://godwin-lobo.tripod.com/pplist.htm FROM BINA NAYAK, LINKS TO ART WORK: http://www.binanayak.com/pen-ink-mix-media.html I often illustrate for work projects or just for fun. I have created entire advertising campaigns with Illustrations, and I’m adept at drawing with the mouse as I am with the mouse/ track pen. Given below are some samples of my various works and styles of illustration. http://www.binanayak.com/pen-ink-mix-media.html LOCAL FRUIT (IN GOA) -- AVOCADOS: Yes, avocados do grow in Goa. Buy your home-grown, organic stock from Riza 0832-2409490 (Saligao). Also available in Saligao, tasty Hilario mangos from Dr Oswald oswalddsouz...@gmail.com Call 9822128931. COCONUT WATER is the latest battleground between Pepsi and Coca Cola. Via Hugh Harries: https://in.finance.yahoo.com/news/coconut-water-latest-battleground-between- 175249354.html KONKANI PODCASTS, including one on anger: http://www.faithworks.co.in/podcast.php?l=k NEW BOOK on Konkani sayings, by Prof Edward De Lima (Rs 400 in Goa): https://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/34379842824/in/dateposted/ Available in Porvorim via delimaedw...@gmail.com WENDELL RODRICKS' new book: Poskem https://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/34837195950/in/dateposted/ The author said via the Goa-Book-Club: "It's fiction ....based on fact." SEEN AT THE DEEJAY ELECTRONICS, a small but well-stocked outlet in Mapusa, near the post office: "How to be happy -- Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much, sing often, pray always. Fill your life with love, scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. These are the tried links to Contentment's golden chain." Thanks for a thought-provoking share. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Some links to recent writing on Goa (Goa Univ): -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Performing change: theatre in three Asian cultures Maria Isabel Santa Rita Vas http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/3684 Marathi literature in Goa: Kiran Budkuley http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/2133 Goa in the literary imagination: Nina Caldeira http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/2136 Narritivising the colonial history of Goa http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/2452 Folkloric intertexuality of Goa novels http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/548 Ferry crossings from Goa: A Vaishishta http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/1060 Historicity, syncretism, identity in folk practice: musoll khell in Goa Nina Caldeira http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/2303 Cultural manifestations of the Christian community: AR Fernandes http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/3615 Goan literature in English: Nina Caldeira http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/2134 Shenoy Gomebab: His life and his works (Kiran Budkuley) http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/1507 In search of redemption: essay on Violet Lannoy Dias, a Goan novelist A Vashishta http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/269 >From cerebral archives into settled rhythms (Essay on Dom Moraes) Vashishta, A. http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/365 Devotee of the Desirable [English Translation of Dilip Borkar's Shreyarthee] Budkuley, K. http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/2449 Creative and Critical Writings of Armando Menezes D'lima, Edward Joachim http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/3674 Tiatro: A Critical Study Fernandes, A.R. http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/3676 A Comparative Linguistic and Cultural Study of Lexical Influences on Konkani Sardesai, M. http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/3681 My song: Ma chanson; O Meu Canto [Compilation of poems of Manhoharrai Sardessai (Translation of one article and five poems into French)] Caldeira, N. http://irgu.unigoa.ac.in/drs/handle/unigoa/2132 BRIEF REVIEWS: Goa ----------------------- Violet Dias Lannoy, *Pears from the Willow Tree*. C.L. Innes, ed. Washington, D.C. Three Continents. 1989. xxxiv + 248 pages, ill. 828 ($14.50 paper). Violet Dias Lannoy led a cosmopolitan life. She taught school and consulted on educational policy in India, England, France, and East Africa. Most of her fiction portrays school life, where teachers, pupils, and administrators struggle towards intellectual integrity in a confusion of conflicting religions and philosophies. Her novel *Pears from the Willow Tree* takes its title from an Indian proverb: "When a man is confused he expects pears from the willow tree." Lannoy was a free thinker, an idealist who realistically faced and wrote of many conflicting beliefs. She never embraced in toto her Christian upbringing, the Hindu religion of her first husband, or the total nonviolence and sexual abstinence of the Gandhian precepts she followed as she worked towards Indian independence. Neither could the existentialism and social realism dominant among the Paris intellectuals with whom she work be sufficient for her. Her many concerns are reflected in her fiction. *Pears from the Willow Tree* is an affirmation of the intellect. It belongs to the literary genre of the English school novel, although set in Goa of her family origin. Seb, a "lost generation" idealist, becomes a teacher in an elite progressive secondary school. He hopes to find and follow the inspiring master teacher Sikanda. Lannoy's deliberate, evocative style, narrating Seb's search for the ultimate, the redemption by education and not by traditionalism, is similar to that of Anita Desai's *In Custody*. Seb's solitary, almost blind struggle to preserve integriy in a corrupt, materialistic society is comparable to that of "the man" in Ayi Kwei Armah's classic, *The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born*. Seb's assignment is to reach the pupils of The Dump, who have failed the system. He years to inspire the brilliant rebel Ashok, to raise the "outcast" Goba to acceptance by his peers. The Dump class does react to Seb's understanding, his concern for them, his innovative methods. The faculty believe that Seb will become the school's headmaster, replacing Sikanda, who had died before Seb's arrival. Ultimately, however, Seb's success is flawed, his hopes shattered. The all-wise guru ensures the prosperity of the school, not its educational goals, by appointing as headmaster the owner of the property on which the school is located. Seb catches the attention of Ashok, but not his alleigance. Goha, though accepted, remains a dolt. In his disappointment at losing the anticipated promotion, Seb discovers he was not as selfless as he had thought. He feels his integrity may have been tainted by ambition. Lannoy's ironic skill shines throughout: "The teachers would seek refuge in the bamboo-plastered huts to cook, bathe, eat, resist the mother-in-law, subdue the wife, thus confirming the existence of that authority, which was so severely threatened in the classroom." Though the setting of the novel is distant and the school system not our own, much here is applicable to our own probing of our educational purposes. How do we reach our at-risk children? Should our academic policy be set by tradition, by business interest, or by elitist snobbery? Is integrity possible for a scholar who wishes to effect policy changes? The questions Lannoy raises are one for us to ponder here and now. The author's husband Richard furnishes a biographical introduction, and the Goan-born critic Peter Nazareth provides a critical afterword. A glossary is also appended. Charlotte H Bruner Iowa State University World Literature Today, 1990. Reviewed Work: Pears from the Willow Tree by Violet Dias Lannoy, C. L. 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