You are right; Violet was sister to Bemvinda, and the two were 1st Cousins
of my wife Germana (Diniz). Their mothers were sisters (Velho family, from
Caranzalem). Greeting to you, Maestro Victor Rangel-Ribeiro.
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
vrangel...@yahoo.comwrote:
Dear Dan,
Violet was Bemvinda`s sister, not her cousin, and either my classmate or a
year behind at St. Xavier`s College in Bombay in the 1940s.
Regards,
Victor.
From: DAN DRISCOLL driscoll@gmail.com
To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org
Sent:
I think now I recall the name---Arthur Koestler, and it would have been
somewhere in the 70 s, I think.
I can see that you must have quite a story yourself. Did you ever happen to
run into a couple by name Lannoy---Richard and Violet (Dias). They spent a
good portion of the seventies in Paris,
Mr. Pinto has given a better journalistic account than might be found in any
of the newspapers. Truly, the story must be disturbing for many of us, and
there are so many unanswered questions. But, I feel that we will be seeing
more of the same, as people begin to become accountable for their
Dan, do you, perchance, have in mind, Andre Gorz and his wife, Dorine,
co-suicides
in 2007. He was 83.
A life-long exponentt of Satre-vintage existentialism, he co-fpunded to iconic
Le Nouvelle
Observatoir, which I sold by the bundle in the Quartier Latin, dead broke in
1968,
keeping moi
