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Abstracts CONTENTS Language Dynamics in the Classroom: the Agency of the Teacher and Language Planning AFONSO BOTELHO Rosary College of Commerce and Arts, Navelim, Goa Vistas on the Road from Portuguese Civil Code to Family Laws of Goa ALBERTINA ALMEIDA Advocate and Independent Researcher, Goa Soiled Blood: Indigeneity, Hybridity and the Portuguese Eurasians in Malaysia ALBERTO GOMES La Trobe University, Australia Moving the Self through Post-Colonial Spaces: the Gaude Jagor ALEXANDER HENN School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies, Arizona State University, USA Economic Transitions – Financial Growth and Consumption Outcomes AMITHA SHANBHOGUE, VISHAL CHARI, APARNA LOLAYEKAR, PRANAB MUKHOPADHYAY S.S Dempo College of Commerce and Economics, Panaji, Goa MES, College of Arts and Commerce, Zuarinagar, Goa D.M’s College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Assagao, Goa Department of Economics, Goa University, Goa Recreation and Memory: Goa, an Inexpugnable Place ANABELA MENDES Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, Portugal Past is Always Present: History and Identity in Post-Colonial Goa ÂNGELA BARRETO XAVIER Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Margins of Desire: Sexuality, Historiography, Goa ANJALI ARONDEKAR Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, USA Conversion, Trauma and Memory Loss: Cultural Complexes in Contemporary Goa ANJALI D’SOUZA The Jung Center, Bangalore How Different are Goa’s Politics? ARTHUR G. RUBINOFF Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada Dichotomy of the Representation: a Study of Historical Narratives of Goa BHAVESH KUMAR Research Scholar, EFL University, Hyderabad Evolution and Growth of Trade Unions in Goa during the Post Liberation Period BLANCHE MASCARENHAS St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa Development of Self-determination? How to decolonize the past without recolonizing the future BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS Director, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal Jurisdiction and Ownership of Communidade Lands: Threats and Challenges CAJETAN RAPOSO St. Xavier’s College, Mapusa, Goa Buried Heritage of Civil Law Traditions in Goa: Vision for 2011 and Beyond CARMO DE SOUSA Honorary Director, Ismilda Research Consultancy, Goa Caste and Post Colonialism – Comparing the Gaudde in Contemporary Goa and in “Signo da Ira” CLÁUDIA PEREIRA Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal Into the Mainstream: “Goa Lusophona” CONSTANTINO XAVIER Johns Hopkins University, USA Beyond Predicaments: Goan Writings on Identity and History CRISTIANA BASTOS Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal Goa and Satyagraha DALILA CABRITA MATEUS IHC [FCSH – New University of Lisbon] Researcher, Portugal How Liberated is Goan Literature? DAMODAR MOUZO Writer, Goa Does Goa have the Potential to Become the Future Excellence Hub in Asia for Learning and Teaching Portuguese? DELFIM CORREIA DA SILVA Department of Portuguese, Goa University, Goa Women’s Voices after 1961 EDITH MELO FURTADO Department of French, Goa University, Goa Postcolonial Studies and Goan Literature in Portuguese: Limits and Challenges EVERTON V. MACHADO Centre for Comparative Studies – Faculty of Letters – University of Lisbon - Alameda da Universidade, Lisbon, Portugal Elephant Imaginaries: Where the Wind Blows Stronger FELICIANO JOSÉ BORRALHO DE MIRA Researcher, Portugal Writing from many Frontiers: José Gerson da Cunha’s Historical and Journalistic Approaches to Past and Present Colonialisms (1870-1900) FILIPA LOWNDES VICENTE Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal Goa and its Elites: New and Old – a Look at how the Media has Built and Unbuilt Elite Perceptions in the Last Five Decades FREDERICK NORONHA Journalist and Publisher, Goa Pinking of Higher Education FREDA A. TAVARES Student of Sociology, Goa University, Goa Postcolonial and Gender Iconographies in the Goa Cartoons of Mario de Miranda GEORGE MATHEW P.G and Research Dept of English, Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum, Kerala The Language Issue in Post-Colonial Goa: from the Standpoint of Modern Japanese Experience GIRI SUZUKI Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan Goa Em 1956: Colonial Resi-Stances and Contrapuntal De/Colonization Hi/Story GITIKA GUPTA Ph D Student, Institute of Portuguese Language and Literature of the Arts Faculty, University of Coimbra Title not mentioned ISABEL DE NORONHA Goan Tiatr and Macanese Theatre in Patuá: the Persistence and Resurgence of Popular Theatre in Contemporary India and China ISABEL MARIA DA COSTA MORAIS Coordinator for CHERISH ( Center for Heritage and History Studies), University of Saint Joseph, Macau Fisheries Development in Goa: Transformation of Traditional Fishing Communities over 50 years JANET A. RUBINOFF York University, Canada Spices, not Christians JASON KEITH FERNANDES Department of Anthropology, ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute, Portugal Goan Literature in Portuguese: Consolidation, Resistance, Activism and Contaminations JOANA PASSOS Investigadora Auxiliar, Campus Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, Universitário de Gualtar, Braga To be submitted KEKI DARUWALLA Poet and Author, Delhi Being “Intimate Other” to Antagonistic Other: Reflections on Contemporary Goan Social Reality KOSHY THARAKAN & ALITO SIQUEIRA Department of Philosophy, Goa University Department of Sociology, Goa University Title not mentioned LEONARDO AVRITZER Department of Political Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil Lazy Reasoning and the Waste of Local Experience: Apprehending Indigenous Dissensus in Educational and Language Policy in Brazil LYNN MARIO T. MENEZES DE SOUZA Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, São Paulo, Brazil The Europes that Goa and the Rest of India Saw MADHAVAN K. PALAT Former National Fellow, IIAS, Shimla and Chief Editor of Nehru’s Collected Works, Nehru Trust The Konkani - Marathi Conflict and its Impact on the Standardization of Konkani MADHAVI SARDESAI Department of Konkani, Goa University Goa’s Experience of Sugar Development MAHESH D. BAKRE Ph.D Student, Department of Political Science, Goa University Goa and Portugal: their Musical Links (During the Twentieth Century) MANISHA PAL Exemplarr Worldwide, Kottivakam, Chennai East African Goan Perspectives on ‘Goa 1961’ MARGRET FRENZ University of Leicester, Leicester, UK The Politics of Erasures MARIA AURORA COUTO Writer, Goa Dr. Salazar’s Attempts to Recover Goa MARIA DE LOURDES BRAVO DA COSTA RODRIGUES Senior Librarian, Central Library, Goa A Kind of a Low Silence: Narratives of Nationalist Struggle in 1961 Mozambique MARIA PAULA MENESES Center for Social Sciences, Coimbra University, Portugal From Silence to Rhetoric MICHELLE CAHILL Poet, Editor– Mascara Literary Review, Australia 1961: The Year that Trembled the Portuguese Dictatorship MIGUEL CARDINA Researcher, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal Liberation v/s Armed Aggression: the Media Response to Operation Vijay NISHTHA DESAI Director, Children's Rights in Goa (NGO), Goa Changing Markets in Land, its Impact on Politics and the Idea of Village and Belonging PAMELA D'MELLO Journalist, Goa Departures and Arrivals: “The Portuguese Soldier’s Return” by Lambert Mascarenhas and “Um Português em Baga” by Epitácio Pais PAUL MELO E CASTRO Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Leeds, UK Rise of the Little Selves: Bahujan Samaj and the Political Space in Postcolonial Goa, 1961-2011 PARAG D. PAROBO Department of History, Goa University Does Goa Listen to Tribal Women’s Voices? PRIYANKA VELIP Project Fellow, Centre for Women’s Studies, Goa University The Portuguese Past in Contemporary Mumbai Heritage Villages and Futuristic Slums: a Perspective from Urban Planning MATIAS ECHANOVE & RAHUL SRIVASTAVA Institute of Urbanology, Aldona, Goa The Many Africas of Goa: Liberation and Literature in the Making of Subjectivity R. BENEDITO FERRAO Ph.D. Candidate , Birkbeck College – Department of English, University of London, UK Articulating Tourism: State Formation in Post-Liberation Goa RAGHURAMAN S. TRICHUR Department of Anthropology, California State University, Sacramento, USA The Story of Goa’s Land Reforms Since Liberation: 1961 REMY DIAS Deputy Directory of Higher Education (Government of Goa) and Government College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Quepem, Goa The Goa That Never Was: Jose Saramago’s Counterfactual Narrative RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Negotiating Male Migration: the Experience of Women in Goa SACHIN SAVIO MORAES Smt. Parvatibai Chowgule College of Arts and Science, Margao, Goa The Geographic Conceptualization and a Strategic Engagement with the Past of Goa In Koṃkaṇākhyāna SAMMIT KHANDEPARKAR Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University, USA Angelo da Fonseca: the Making of the Indigene Artist SAVIA VIEGAS Independent Researcher and Curator, Goa Spatial Contestations: Emergence of Fundamentalist Forms of Christianity in Post-Colonial Goa SAVIO ABREU Director, Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Alto-Porvorim, Goa New and Old Ideas for Old Goa: the Gracias / Vassalo e Silva Conservation and Musealization Plan of 1960 and its Aftermath SIDH MENDIRATTA Departamento de Arquitectura, Univeridade de Coimbra, Portugal Making the Nation Habitable SHAHID AMIN Delhi University and co-founder of Subaltern Studies Dynamics of Tourism Development and the Status of Women in Goa SHAILA DE SOUZA Centre for Women’s Studies, Goa University Politico–Ecclesiastical Metamorphosis of the Church in Goa after Liberation SHARON BRAGANÇA SOUSA CES College of Arts and Commerce, Cuncolim, Goa The Forgotten Portuguese of Mirpur, A study on their ‘Paribartan’ (transformation) SHUBHRO MICHAEL GOMES Colombo Plan Lecturer, Gaeddu College of Business Studies, Gedu, Chukha, Bhutan To be submitted SHIV VISHVANATHAN Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat The Role of Portuguese and British Colonialism in the Migration and Settlement of Goans in Britain STELLA MASCARENHAS-KEYES Senior Social Researcher and Policy Adviser, Department for Education, UK Voices in the Classroom: Whose and Why? SUJATA NORONHA Independent Educational Researcher, Goa Displacement and the Sacred: the Re-Membered Village VENISHA FERNANDES Project Fellow, Centre for Women’s Studies, Goa University Music, Conflict and Conciliation Rethinking some Postcolonial Approaches Through the Case of Music in Goa SUSANA SARDO Universidade de Aveiro / INET-MD, Portugal The Afterlife of Colonialism and the Condition of Inter-Religious Harmony in Goa VICTOR FERRAO Co-ordinator of Special Study Centre, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Rachol Seminary The Liberation of the Colonial Mind in Goa, and the Literature that is Flowing from it VICTOR RANGEL-RIBEIRO Writer, Goa Absence of an ‘Exile’ at the Centre of Goan Literature: Some Problematic Issues VISHRAM GUPTE Writer, Goa -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. NOTE: The conference "Goa 1961 and after" is organised by Indian Institute of Advanced Studies Shimla, CES of the University of Coimbra, and Goa University. Abstracts of some conference papers are available at http://iias.org/goa/index.html The three day conference from Dec 18 to 20 is open to all by registration. Registration is free of cost and can be done by sending in the prescribed form to goa1...@gmail.com on or before Dec 12, 2011. http://iias.org/goa/contents.html Abstracts CONTENTS Language Dynamics in the Classroom: the Agency of the Teacher and Language Planning AFONSO BOTELHO Rosary College of Commerce and Arts, Navelim, Goa Vistas on the Road from Portuguese Civil Code to Family Laws of Goa ALBERTINA ALMEIDA Advocate and Independent Researcher, Goa Soiled Blood: Indigeneity, Hybridity and the Portuguese Eurasians in Malaysia ALBERTO GOMES La Trobe University, Australia Moving the Self through Post-Colonial Spaces: the Gaude Jagor ALEXANDER HENN School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies, Arizona State University, USA Economic Transitions – Financial Growth and Consumption Outcomes AMITHA SHANBHOGUE, VISHAL CHARI, APARNA LOLAYEKAR, PRANAB MUKHOPADHYAY S.S Dempo College of Commerce and Economics, Panaji, Goa MES, College of Arts and Commerce, Zuarinagar, Goa D.M’s College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Assagao, Goa Department of Economics, Goa University, Goa Recreation and Memory: Goa, an Inexpugnable Place ANABELA MENDES Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Alameda da Universidade, Portugal Past is Always Present: History and Identity in Post-Colonial Goa ÂNGELA BARRETO XAVIER Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Margins of Desire: Sexuality, Historiography, Goa ANJALI ARONDEKAR Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, USA Conversion, Trauma and Memory Loss: Cultural Complexes in Contemporary Goa ANJALI D’SOUZA The Jung Center, Bangalore How Different are Goa’s Politics? ARTHUR G. RUBINOFF Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada Dichotomy of the Representation: a Study of Historical Narratives of Goa BHAVESH KUMAR Research Scholar, EFL University, Hyderabad Evolution and Growth of Trade Unions in Goa during the Post Liberation Period BLANCHE MASCARENHAS St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa Development of Self-determination? How to decolonize the past without recolonizing the future BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS Director, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal Jurisdiction and Ownership of Communidade Lands: Threats and Challenges CAJETAN RAPOSO St. Xavier’s College, Mapusa, Goa Buried Heritage of Civil Law Traditions in Goa: Vision for 2011 and Beyond CARMO DE SOUSA Honorary Director, Ismilda Research Consultancy, Goa Caste and Post Colonialism – Comparing the Gaudde in Contemporary Goa and in “Signo da Ira” CLÁUDIA PEREIRA Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES-IUL), Lisboa, Portugal Into the Mainstream: “Goa Lusophona” CONSTANTINO XAVIER Johns Hopkins University, USA Beyond Predicaments: Goan Writings on Identity and History CRISTIANA BASTOS Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal Goa and Satyagraha DALILA CABRITA MATEUS IHC [FCSH – New University of Lisbon] Researcher, Portugal How Liberated is Goan Literature? DAMODAR MOUZO Writer, Goa Does Goa have the Potential to Become the Future Excellence Hub in Asia for Learning and Teaching Portuguese? DELFIM CORREIA DA SILVA Department of Portuguese, Goa University, Goa Women’s Voices after 1961 EDITH MELO FURTADO Department of French, Goa University, Goa Postcolonial Studies and Goan Literature in Portuguese: Limits and Challenges EVERTON V. MACHADO Centre for Comparative Studies – Faculty of Letters – University of Lisbon - Alameda da Universidade, Lisbon, Portugal Elephant Imaginaries: Where the Wind Blows Stronger FELICIANO JOSÉ BORRALHO DE MIRA Researcher, Portugal Writing from many Frontiers: José Gerson da Cunha’s Historical and Journalistic Approaches to Past and Present Colonialisms (1870-1900) FILIPA LOWNDES VICENTE Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal Goa and its Elites: New and Old – a Look at how the Media has Built and Unbuilt Elite Perceptions in the Last Five Decades FREDERICK NORONHA Journalist and Publisher, Goa Pinking of Higher Education FREDA A. TAVARES Student of Sociology, Goa University, Goa Postcolonial and Gender Iconographies in the Goa Cartoons of Mario de Miranda GEORGE MATHEW P.G and Research Dept of English, Mar Ivanios College, Trivandrum, Kerala The Language Issue in Post-Colonial Goa: from the Standpoint of Modern Japanese Experience GIRI SUZUKI Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan Goa Em 1956: Colonial Resi-Stances and Contrapuntal De/Colonization Hi/Story GITIKA GUPTA Ph D Student, Institute of Portuguese Language and Literature of the Arts Faculty, University of Coimbra Title not mentioned ISABEL DE NORONHA Goan Tiatr and Macanese Theatre in Patuá: the Persistence and Resurgence of Popular Theatre in Contemporary India and China ISABEL MARIA DA COSTA MORAIS Coordinator for CHERISH ( Center for Heritage and History Studies), University of Saint Joseph, Macau Fisheries Development in Goa: Transformation of Traditional Fishing Communities over 50 years JANET A. RUBINOFF York University, Canada Spices, not Christians JASON KEITH FERNANDES Department of Anthropology, ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute, Portugal Goan Literature in Portuguese: Consolidation, Resistance, Activism and Contaminations JOANA PASSOS Investigadora Auxiliar, Campus Centro de Estudos Humanísticos, Universitário de Gualtar, Braga To be submitted KEKI DARUWALLA Poet and Author, Delhi Being “Intimate Other” to Antagonistic Other: Reflections on Contemporary Goan Social Reality KOSHY THARAKAN & ALITO SIQUEIRA Department of Philosophy, Goa University Department of Sociology, Goa University Title not mentioned LEONARDO AVRITZER Department of Political Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil Lazy Reasoning and the Waste of Local Experience: Apprehending Indigenous Dissensus in Educational and Language Policy in Brazil LYNN MARIO T. MENEZES DE SOUZA Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas, São Paulo, Brazil The Europes that Goa and the Rest of India Saw MADHAVAN K. PALAT Former National Fellow, IIAS, Shimla and Chief Editor of Nehru’s Collected Works, Nehru Trust The Konkani - Marathi Conflict and its Impact on the Standardization of Konkani MADHAVI SARDESAI Department of Konkani, Goa University Goa’s Experience of Sugar Development MAHESH D. BAKRE Ph.D Student, Department of Political Science, Goa University Goa and Portugal: their Musical Links (During the Twentieth Century) MANISHA PAL Exemplarr Worldwide, Kottivakam, Chennai East African Goan Perspectives on ‘Goa 1961’ MARGRET FRENZ University of Leicester, Leicester, UK The Politics of Erasures MARIA AURORA COUTO Writer, Goa Dr. Salazar’s Attempts to Recover Goa MARIA DE LOURDES BRAVO DA COSTA RODRIGUES Senior Librarian, Central Library, Goa A Kind of a Low Silence: Narratives of Nationalist Struggle in 1961 Mozambique MARIA PAULA MENESES Center for Social Sciences, Coimbra University, Portugal From Silence to Rhetoric MICHELLE CAHILL Poet, Editor– Mascara Literary Review, Australia 1961: The Year that Trembled the Portuguese Dictatorship MIGUEL CARDINA Researcher, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal Liberation v/s Armed Aggression: the Media Response to Operation Vijay NISHTHA DESAI Director, Children's Rights in Goa (NGO), Goa Changing Markets in Land, its Impact on Politics and the Idea of Village and Belonging PAMELA D'MELLO Journalist, Goa Departures and Arrivals: “The Portuguese Soldier’s Return” by Lambert Mascarenhas and “Um Português em Baga” by Epitácio Pais PAUL MELO E CASTRO Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, University of Leeds, UK Rise of the Little Selves: Bahujan Samaj and the Political Space in Postcolonial Goa, 1961-2011 PARAG D. PAROBO Department of History, Goa University Does Goa Listen to Tribal Women’s Voices? PRIYANKA VELIP Project Fellow, Centre for Women’s Studies, Goa University The Portuguese Past in Contemporary Mumbai Heritage Villages and Futuristic Slums: a Perspective from Urban Planning MATIAS ECHANOVE & RAHUL SRIVASTAVA Institute of Urbanology, Aldona, Goa The Many Africas of Goa: Liberation and Literature in the Making of Subjectivity R. BENEDITO FERRAO Ph.D. Candidate , Birkbeck College – Department of English, University of London, UK Articulating Tourism: State Formation in Post-Liberation Goa RAGHURAMAN S. TRICHUR Department of Anthropology, California State University, Sacramento, USA The Story of Goa’s Land Reforms Since Liberation: 1961 REMY DIAS Deputy Directory of Higher Education (Government of Goa) and Government College of Arts, Science & Commerce, Quepem, Goa The Goa That Never Was: Jose Saramago’s Counterfactual Narrative RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi Negotiating Male Migration: the Experience of Women in Goa SACHIN SAVIO MORAES Smt. Parvatibai Chowgule College of Arts and Science, Margao, Goa The Geographic Conceptualization and a Strategic Engagement with the Past of Goa In Koṃkaṇākhyāna SAMMIT KHANDEPARKAR Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University, USA Angelo da Fonseca: the Making of the Indigene Artist SAVIA VIEGAS Independent Researcher and Curator, Goa Spatial Contestations: Emergence of Fundamentalist Forms of Christianity in Post-Colonial Goa SAVIO ABREU Director, Xavier Centre of Historical Research, Alto-Porvorim, Goa New and Old Ideas for Old Goa: the Gracias / Vassalo e Silva Conservation and Musealization Plan of 1960 and its Aftermath SIDH MENDIRATTA Departamento de Arquitectura, Univeridade de Coimbra, Portugal Making the Nation Habitable SHAHID AMIN Delhi University and co-founder of Subaltern Studies Dynamics of Tourism Development and the Status of Women in Goa SHAILA DE SOUZA Centre for Women’s Studies, Goa University Politico–Ecclesiastical Metamorphosis of the Church in Goa after Liberation SHARON BRAGANÇA SOUSA CES College of Arts and Commerce, Cuncolim, Goa The Forgotten Portuguese of Mirpur, A study on their ‘Paribartan’ (transformation) SHUBHRO MICHAEL GOMES Colombo Plan Lecturer, Gaeddu College of Business Studies, Gedu, Chukha, Bhutan To be submitted SHIV VISHVANATHAN Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat The Role of Portuguese and British Colonialism in the Migration and Settlement of Goans in Britain STELLA MASCARENHAS-KEYES Senior Social Researcher and Policy Adviser, Department for Education, UK Voices in the Classroom: Whose and Why? SUJATA NORONHA Independent Educational Researcher, Goa Displacement and the Sacred: the Re-Membered Village VENISHA FERNANDES Project Fellow, Centre for Women’s Studies, Goa University Music, Conflict and Conciliation Rethinking some Postcolonial Approaches Through the Case of Music in Goa SUSANA SARDO Universidade de Aveiro / INET-MD, Portugal The Afterlife of Colonialism and the Condition of Inter-Religious Harmony in Goa VICTOR FERRAO Co-ordinator of Special Study Centre, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Rachol Seminary The Liberation of the Colonial Mind in Goa, and the Literature that is Flowing from it VICTOR RANGEL-RIBEIRO Writer, Goa Absence of an ‘Exile’ at the Centre of Goan Literature: Some Problematic Issues VISHRAM GUPTE Writer, Goa -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. NOTE: The conference "Goa 1961 and after" is organised by Indian Institute of Advanced Studies Shimla, CES of the University of Coimbra, and Goa University. 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