By R. Benedito Ferrao

Issue no. 3

(Under discussion: The play No Flowers, No Wreaths by Orlando da Costa). That a Portuguese Prime Minister of Goan origin should come to the land of his father’s origin to release a play about the Indian annexation of once Portuguese Goa reverberates in No Flowers, No Wreaths’ ...

By Clifford J. Pereira.

Issue no. 3

(Under Discussion: The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M. G.  Vassanji). For Vikram Lall’s next encounter with the Goan community, Vassanji chooses Nairobi railway station where a Mr. Eddie Carvalho receives “a couple of slaps” from an African politician ...

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 3

(Under discussion: A Village Dies by Ivan Arthur). Arthur himself is a Mangalorean, a community he describes as less Portuguese than the Goans and East Indians, the ‘Lusitanian hue of their pre-Tullu days painted over with Tippu's sword and the dark Dravidian tongue’.

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 3

(Under discussion: A Passage to Kenya by Lawrence Nazareth). This notion of Asian racial superiority never subsided and it manifested most malignantly in the work place to ensure African grades were at the bottom tier.

By Christine Russon

Issue no. 2

These descriptions of Yvonne Gonsalves as the devoted wife, disregarding her status as an accomplished musician, exemplify what Fatima da Silva Gracias wrote in the introduction to her book.

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 2

The decision to marinate my characters in the brine of a Bombay Goan Catholicism was in part inevitable, because that's the culture I know best.

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 2

The declining fortunes of Portugal and the stagnant Goan economy, made an East African Goan groom a prized catch even amongst the landed gentry. Image of Ezalda Abuquerque and family courtesy Yvonne Dias.

By Christopher Larkosh

Issue no. 1
The recurrent question that current instances of engaged research present may compel us to ask once again: can we be simply be content with mediating the testimony of subaltern, silenced or suppressed cultural others ...
Image credit Frederick Noronha

By Selma Carvalho

Issue no. 1

Such barbarity barely made a dent in the Goan consciousness. Never did a protest or condemnation ensure from them on such matters.