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The Suppression of Romi Konkani and the shaming of a people

The Suppression of Romi Konkani and the shaming of a people

By Malavika Neurekar

Issue no 18

The book is about people who want to belong and yet can't; that is to say the liminal subject. Now I know all about being the liminal subject. My mother is Mangalorean and my father was Goan, and so when I grew up in Goa, this liminality, of being not quite Goan, was an important part of my life.