Re: [Goanet] Vikram Seth... on future nostalgias...

2006-12-27 Thread Nasci Caldeira
--- "Frederick \"FN\" Noronha" wrote: > Could you elaborate on how this would vary? Would it > be true to say > that the 'nostalgia' of second- or third-generation > expats reflects > more the realities of the Goa of the 1940s and the > 1950s, then say, > the Goa of the 1980s or 1990s? > Nasci re

Re: [Goanet] Vikram Seth... on future nostalgias...

2006-12-26 Thread Frederick \"FN\" Noronha
Could you elaborate on how this would vary? Would it be true to say that the 'nostalgia' of second- or third-generation expats reflects more the realities of the Goa of the 1940s and the 1950s, then say, the Goa of the 1980s or 1990s? For instance, my folks, returning the the 1960s struggled for

Re: [Goanet] Vikram Seth... on future nostalgias...

2006-12-26 Thread Nasci Caldeira
Yes I agree! However the 'Nostalgia' of persons born and bred in India/Goa and then 'Settles' abroad is very different from an Indian just 'Wandering' and has not really changed his abode for long. Just my opinion! Nasci Caldeira Melbourne, Down Under. --- "Frederick \"FN\" Noronha" <[EMAIL PROTE

[Goanet] Vikram Seth... on future nostalgias...

2006-12-26 Thread Frederick \"FN\" Noronha
In his travel writing "From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet", Indian novelist Vikram Seth makes this interesting comment about "the reality and effect of living abroad — though not in particular of being in Diaspora — a theme which arises in his poetry but nowhere in his fiction":